Re: Great Plant Arisaema $$$

Marge, I can always count on you to be the fount of all knowledge, especially 
the knowledge that I am looking for! I tried to contact several Arisaema 
pages for ages, finding different paths to this and that but never succeeding 
in getting the AEG site. It was with great resignation that I gave up the 
search, believing the Arisaema cult to be defunct, nevermore. Yippee to have 
you deliver all the info, making Arisaema as close as a click away. They are 
amazing creatures, all. Thanks*                         The Great Plant Co. 
is a bit of a curiosity to me. While the set up is very enticing, the plants 
are over priced; yet the growers are very generously profiled on the site so 
that one may go directly to the source. A magnanimous retail plot?  Their 
printed catalogue has sumptuous photos. I have to say though, it's a real 
stretch to offer a 4" pot of Spiglea marilandica @ $18.00!!!  I recognized 
the photo of the owner as the B. and Langdon fellow who has been on many 
gardening programs. He has exquisite taste and prices to match.                 
                                This past weekend, Plant Delights in Raleigh, 
NC, had it's annual fall open house. If you have the PD 1999 catalogue, 
you've seen the very clever "Air- Isaema" artwork on the cover. This nursery 
is home to LOTS of exotic Arisaema. In these parts, I suppose it serves as 
the sole throne for these strange and incredible plants. (The shelf labeled 
for the Arisaema in the Greenhouse was empty. Signs had been placed along the 
row reading "SSSHH, the Arisaema are sleeping!  Please ask for assistance if 
you would like to buy one, or two.") Very cost prohibitive. Very cool. Less 
expensive and equally cool are the Sarracenia. There were some gorgeous 
hybrids in the bog garden and it was fun to peer into their open throats and 
spy all manner of insects.                                                      
            I also saw the sad, nearly burned up Brunneras for which the 
thread goes on... they looked much like mine did before it died (sniff 
sniff). They were crumpled and crisp at the edges in 4" pots for a 
hard-to-believe $20.00 each.  I refrained.               In situ, however, a 
B. macrophylla 'Langtrees' was managing quite well, though the variegation on 
this one was not what I expected. It resembled the species in color and form, 
but the markings were minimal and faint. The leaves had spaced dashes of very 
pale grey /silver within the outer margin, not at all as dramatic as I'd 
imagined it to be. (This is good, being selective builds restraint.) I should 
add that this was a young plant which may account for it's lack of 
brilliance. (This is bad. The thought will linger.)                             
                                    Nuff for now,                               
                                                                                
                                    Holly                                       
                                    Zone 7  

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