FW: Fw: Giant horsetail



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> From: 	Greta Crauwels Vertalingen[SMTP:gctranslations@ibm.net]
> Sent: 	Monday, November 09, 1998 12:39 PM
> To: 	seeds-list@eskimo.com
> Subject: 	Re: Fw: Giant horsetail
> 
> Hi, 
> it seems that indeed apart from ferns there are some other interesting,
> poorly understood, spore plants that can add some flavour to a garden
> (when they do not become a pest...) when you have the right conditions to
> grow them. 
> Till today I do not know of GARDENERS that have deliberately started
> mosses or liverworts from spores... 
> 
> Concerning Equisetum telmateia it is feasable to start them from spores,
> but spores must be fresh and sawn (?) on the correct soil similar to their
> natural growing conditions. (or on an artificial growing medium as is
> sometimes done for fern spores...). 
> It would be easier to obtain a part of the rhizome and grow this further.
> Do note that when it establishes itself the rhizomatous netwerk it will
> form expends very rapidly... (as with most horsetails) 
> 
> Equisetum hyemale (probably var. robustum) grows very easily and contrary
> to E.telmateia stays green in winter. I grow mine on a damp spot (in soil)
> and had to take precautions as it started to overgrow my rhododendrons
> (azalea's). The variety robustum grows indeed up to two meters high and
> forms nice black sporangiaheads. 
> Of course E. telmateia disapperas in winter but the sexual brownish
> sporangia stalks are very mysteriously when they appear in spring. 
> 
> My personal favourite is Equisetum sylvaticum, which grows like a
> miniature cypres/palm tree. 
> Do note that collecting fresh spores of Equisetums as easily done as
> collecting seeds of most plants. 
>   
>   
>   
> 
> pwoodward wrote: 
> 
>  At last someone interested in horsetails! But the real test of a
> plantsperson remains: do you like liverworts? 8-) The only horsetail I am
> deliberately growing is Equisetum hyemale. It lacks the marabou ruffs of
> E. telmateia and its kin and is a mere 1-2 metres tall. It makes elegant
> vertical bundles (eventually forests) of perennial, blue-green, bamboolike
> rods. It appears to require flowing or frequently changed fresh water. If
> you would like some spores, I can send them to you next time they're
> ready. Paige Woodward 
> pwoodwar@dowco.comon top of Chilliwack Mountain in southwestern British
> Columbia 
> Wet Zone 6Pacific Rim Native Plants 
> 44305 Old Orchard Road 
> Chilliwack, BC V2R 1A9 
> CANADA 
> Phone/fax (604) 792 1891 -----Original Message----- 
> From: Paul M. Olsson < paul.olsson@mbox305.swipnet.se> 
> To: seeds-list < seeds-list@eskimo.com> 
> Date: Sunday, November 08, 1998 1:55 PM 
> Subject: Giant horsetail 
>  I wonder if anyone has ever grown Equisetum telmatiea ( Giant Horsetail)
> from spores, and how you go about doing it ? If anybody knows a source for
> spores I would appreciate this very much as well.
> 
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