Geranium macrorrhizum, campanula

In a message dated 9/21/00 1:57:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time, LONDE@aol.com 
writes:

<< scent of the foliage, and not for the flowers.  Still, I would like for 
them 
 to bloom.  They appeared to be mature plants when I got them
 -- I would say second year.  They only get a half day of sun, but since they 
 are listed for dry shade, I have not thought that was the problem.  The soil 
 was well amended with compost and they show no signs of nutrient deficiency. 
 
 Perhaps I should feed them some phosphorous in the spring.  In the meantime, 
 does anyone have any other ideas?  >>

Hello Janis,

Germac is slow to establish.  The flowers are not the best geranium blossoms 
to be had but the foliage is fragrant and it does very well in dry soil.  All 
geraniums seem to grow up and out of the soil by fall.  Because it is cold 
here, I would not divide this plant until spring.  Perhaps you can.  The 
plant splits in several crowns and you can spread it around as you wish.  
Three plants, I think, here have now covered a ten foot square area.  I no 
longer "help" these plants.  Geranium endresssi is good also and remains 
small. I think I have that one out there, too.

Any plant that will grown in infertile or dry soil does need an assisted 
start to grow a good root system.  That is, I would water it the first season 
and give it a booster fertilizer as well.  My plants have been on a dry rocky 
slope (with that campanula punctata) for a few years.  Both are are very 
vigorous but took two or three years to make that vigorous ground cover.

Other campanulas that will grow in dry soil with some shade (not border 
plants) are c. alliarifolia, punctata, latiloba, burghalti.  This was my 
campanula year. One led to another and now there are dozens around here.

Has anyone grown campanula pyramidalis?  A source that I have been reading 
tells me that the British put it in a large pot, keep it over the winter and 
use it a giant flowering houseplant in spring.  I have one planted in a 
border and am wondering just what I should do with it.

Claire Peplowski
NYS USDA z4 upstate New York

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@mallorn.com with the
message text UNSUBSCRIBE PERENNIALS
Other Mailing lists | Author Index | Date Index | Subject Index | Thread Index