Re: downy false foxglove
- To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
- Subject: Re: [SG] downy false foxglove
- From: B* B*
- Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 19:22:54 -0400
Sounds exciting Kay!
But, I would strongly advise to NOT take it from the wild...sometimes the
balance of nature is just perfect, and to move things disrupts the
environment where it is trying to thrive.
remember how excited you got finding it...and wild flowers can be just
that...so leaving it allows the next person to find and get excited...they
should be left where they are growing!
I mark things sometimes and pick a few seeds...not a lot as I want it to
self seed where it is too!
BTW, I found a small stance of WHITE lady slippers....thank goodness they
are in a patch of poison ivy <BG> so they should continue. Hardly any left
here on Cape Ann, but I have located 17 patches of pink ones on one estate.
HEAVEN!
Hope this helps,
Bobbie
Bobbie Brooks, MA zone 6.5
Gardens In An Old Fashioned Way
http://daylily.net/gardens/bobbiebrooks.htm
-----Original Message-----
From: Kay Dye <Kdye1@AOL.COM>
To: shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU <shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
Date: Thursday, August 10, 2000 4:01 PM
Subject: Re: [SG] downy false foxglove
>I was in the woods across the street from our house today and an attractive
>yellow flower caught my eye. The foilage is really nice with deep
pinnately
>lobed leaves. I got out the Field Guide to North American Wildflowers and
>found it to be a downy false foxglove. Well, of course, I want it in my
>garden. Anyone growing this, or do you know if I should wait for seeds, or
>could it be transplanted later on. It looks like there are a couple of
>plants. I will look around for more (I got so excited, I just ran in for a
>book to find out what it was). In the field guide it says it is "partly
>parasitic on the roots of oaks." I know what parasitic means, but not
>exactly what they are trying to say about the plant. Does it have to grow
on
>top of, in proximity of oaks?
>I'd appreciate any info. I will take a picture of it and post it later.
>Thanks.
>Kay Dye
