Re: bloodroot
- Subject: Re: [SG] bloodroot
- From: C* P*
- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 23:07:49 EDT
In a message dated 4/19/02 7:55:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
gkorn@BLOOMNET.COM writes:
<< Claire, my single bloodroot does not seem to be a shortlived flower. The
colony keeps getting bigger and bigger. I've never dug it or divided it or
parted company with any of it. It probably behaves a little differently in
Nebraska than it does in New York? Mine doesn't go dormant in midsummer
either. I've never felt the need to stake it either.
Very interesting. >>
Not a short lived plant, Gail, a short lived blossom. We have some in the
garden and they are very persistent, slowly making larger clumps. It is the
blossom that last for such a short time. We had woods full of them just ten
years ago and now the wood have little that is of interest.
The pH question is of interest. Whoever wrote that one could try to lime a
group and see if there is any difference in growth. Our woods containing
(once) bloodroot in abundance are acid soils with oaks and hemlocks as major
trees. At the same time there are small ferns that grow only in limestone
rock formations in these woods. Observation is a useful pastime.
Gail, I know you have daylilies. Where can one find the Pennysworth group?
Claire Peplowski
NYS z4
