Re: [SG] Paris in the spring
- To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
- Subject: Re: [SG] Paris in the spring
- From: N* S* <s*@INTERPORT.NET>
- Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 07:58:41 -0400
Gene: Much thanks on the Paris info. If my one specimen survives the summer
slug onslaught intact, I may well try to get some more from you this fall,
assuming there are any left.
Nancy
>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)
>
>
