Re: Cimicifuga
- Subject: Re: Cimicifuga
- From: E*@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 17:36:23 EDT
In a message dated 9/16/02 10:15:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Meum71@aol.com
writes:
> Best to wait till spring but you can do it in the fall if you leave large
> enough pieces and mulch well for the winter. The Cimicifuga will grow into
>
> nice plants if you divide in the spring and take good care of them. Moist,
>
> well drained soils that are on the cool side in part shade.
Paul may know more about this than I but I recall that a whole lot of the
Cimicifuga with dark leaves came into this country via Dutch propagation and
they in turn blamed the poor performance on the Germans who originated the
dark leaved plants.
In any case, most of them were virused and and most of them died in past
years. Tissue cultured plants of American origin are supposed to be free of
viruses and healthy to grow. They did not seem to harm the native American
plant but did not thrive in the dark leaved forms.
For a while in the trade, it was known that these plants were trouble so some
new names have emerged. If you have had trouble with a dark leaved
Cimicifuga, you might try another in a different place. I don't tend to deal
with plants requiring damp sites so never bought this one but I remember the
discussions on importation of the orginal plants.
Someone else may remember which ones to avoid, I don't, but I remember that a
bunch were trouble for nurseries and the buyers.
Claire Peplowski
NYS z4
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