Re: [SG] Paris in the spring
- To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
- Subject: Re: [SG] Paris in the spring
- From: G* <g*@OTHERSIDE.COM>
- Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 17:12:17 -0400
Hello Nancy,
This Trillium relative is one strange - and fascinating - plant. To me it
is like a Trillium described by Edgar A. Poe after one of his pipes. It is
doing nothing unusual for you that it cannot do in other gardens. Sometime
it does sulk after disturbance. Can and will lie dormant for a season or
two then emerge. Some species have rhizomes more like a tree root in
appearance than a Trillium rhizome.
Treat just like planting a Trillium in the garden. Good, humusy soil,
relatively loose in structure and mulch with chopped leaves or something
similar and leave it alone if it is happy. It will eventually set seed as
with Trillium, but takes a long time to produce a mature plant. Thus the
price on these.
China is opening up to gardeners and plant explorers and this plant
appearing in nurseries and collectors gardens is one of the results. You
will be seeing more species appear in time in nursery catalogs. I have two
species in the garden and one in my catalog this year. Only a few, but they
are divisions of blooming size.
Congratulations on acquiring and growing a true collector's plant in your
garden.
Gene Bush Southern Indiana Zone 6a Munchkin Nursery
around the woods - around the world
genebush@otherside.com http://www.munchkinnursery.com
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> From: Nancy Stedman <stedman@INTERPORT.NET>
> Subject: [SG] Paris in the spring
> Date: Saturday, April 17, 1999 7:53 AM
>
> I'm referring to the plant Paris. Does anyone have experience with this?
I
> planted one about three falls ago and it just disappeared, then, lo and
> behold, it pops up this spring in a very shady and very humus'y area
that's
> home to ferns, asarum, liriope and jacks. Last fall I put a soaker hose
in
> this area so I expect the moisture level to be adequate during our
> predictable July drought.
> Nancy (NYC, zone 6)
