Re: [SG] heuchera
- To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
- Subject: Re: [SG] heuchera
- From: P* L* K* <p*@JUNO.COM>
- Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 12:32:01 -0400
Claire: How are you handling the heucheras? Do they grow out of the
soil and
>look
>like exposed knobby roots? Mine look like pots of rhizomatous
>begonias
>crawling every which way and not attractive.
Peggy: I haven't noticed in the past years this knobby root growth. But
then, I haven't seen mine this year. I'm wondering what happened to them.
Anyone in zone 6a, have yours come up yet? Are they late starters? Or
did mine die out this past winter. I seem to have lost my bergenia
cordifolia too, possibly from dryness and stress from transplanting last
year.
Claire: >I dig them up every spring and replant lower in the ground,
spreading
>them
>about in drifts as that is how I like to plant. Have you left the
plants in place? What happens? Mine do
>not
>seem to do well undivided. The divided plants are larger of leaf and
>are
>more lush.
Peggy: I haven't transplanted them. Up until now, they were looking
fine. But then I have only had them for 2-3 years.
Should I be dividing and transplanting them?
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