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Re: Oxalis Shamrock



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> From: Kareena Holloway <khollow@2xtreme.net>
> To: 'seeds-list@eskimo.com'
> Subject: Oxalis Shamrock
> Date: Tuesday, March 17, 1998 1:34 PM
> 
> Hi there!
> 
> 	Well, since I started this whole conversation, I guess I'll
> just jump right back in!  Anyway, the oxalis plant I have is a bulb
> forming plant as well.  I thought that was interesting that Dewey
> saw them growing as weeds!  I live in Northern California (that's
> Sacramento) and I don't know what zone that is.  Yesterday I put
> the plant out on the deck and a few hours later the flowers had 
> wilted!  I immediately brought it back in put it in the kitchen sill.
> Now it's all better.  When I lived in southern California there was 
> this clover growing in the front yard every spring that had little 
> yellow flowers on it.  Some people called it weeds but I loved the 
> way it looked so I would just let it grow until it died when it got hot.
> Have you ever heard of that?  I was wondering if it's some sort of 
> oxalis plant or not.  Do you think I should put my oxalis in a pot or 
> put it on the ground as ground cover?  
> 
> Kareena
> 
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> From: 	Chavez, Tim A
> Sent: 	Tuesday, March 17, 1998 10:48 AM
> To: 	'Seeds List-Propagation'
> Subject: 	FW: Oxalis?
> 
> Dewey, You must live in a warmer climate than zone 6 (such as Wichita
> Kansas). Oxalis is only a house plant here as far as I have seen. I am
> surprised that you have something like it that seeds as I have been
> hunting for seed for years. All I can find is plants and bulbs (corms?).
> What's your climate, soil and sun/shade aspect like? Do you know if the
> seeds are viable long enough to mail?
> oxalis works best as a house plant..not as a ground cover, i don't think
it would spread that much and it will be killed when winter comes.
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