Re: Don't shoot the messenger!
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Don't shoot the messenger!
- From: P*@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 18:14:04 EDT
Susan, I knew there was good reason why I like to eat chocolate with red
wine. You were right to put any of our uneasy minds to rest. Thanks!
And while we're on the subject of perennials, I'd like to
return to the glorious Spigelia marilandica. If The GP Co. is selling a 4"
plant for $18.00 and our own Gene who we know to be the voice of reason (not
to mention our provider of levity) is selling gallon divisions for
$9.00....what then do I charge and/or DO with the 100 plus babies I have
brought into the fold of a budding native's nursery, learning after the fact
that they don't bloom for up to three years!?!? AAGGHH! Please don't tell
me it's ditto for Hepaticas, Erythroniums, Dodecatheon and all of the other
infant natives that I jumped the gun on. [I'm grateful to you, Nan, for your
Arisaema inquiry or I'd still be in the dark. This perennial list offers some
of the best education there is!]
Shall I raise them to blooming size and
chalk it up to inexperience -- or find them good homes as they are with the
accompanying "absence-of-bloom-until" explanation? Words of Wisdom, here,
Gene? BTW --your gal. deal is a good one. A good size division like that is
usually a few plants --I often get the older, larger size of something and
divide it up to go a lot further in my garden. Now don't tell me the Spigelia
is fussy about being transplanted....
Out of curiosity, I think I'll ask The GP Co. what it tells buyers about
their 4" plants. For $18.00, I know I would expect a blooming plant ---a good
size blooming plant!
I shudder to think of all I have yet to learn*
Welcome any and all advice,
Holly
zone 7
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