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Re: Welcome

> I was interested in your statement(Lynelle) that you saw your first
> compassplant at Meadowbrook "last year".... do you mean 1996?  We had an
> almost total failure of compassplant at Meadowbrook in 1996...there were a
> very few....all at the east end.  The rest aren't dead....just didn't bloom.
> In 1995, virtually ALL bloomed- we had a terrific display of many hundreds.
> This same thing happened about 5 or 6 years ago...almost none bloomed
> anywhere in the county at that time (after a very good display the year
> before).  They must just "exhaust" themselves sometimes...anyone else notice
> this??

I remember Gerould Wilhelm (I _think_ it was him) telling me that there
is a beatle that drills into the young flowerheads on Silphium perfoliatum.
I can't remember the name of the beatle, but I do remember seeing many more
than the year before during this past summer.  Could this account for the 
reduced bloom?  Anyone know the name of the beatle?

Chris
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