Re: lithospermum/ ALLIUMS
- To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
- Subject: Re: [SG] lithospermum/ ALLIUMS
- From: B* B*
- Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 10:44:33 -0400
Yes Gene, the name 'Grace Ward' does ring a bell. The foliage almost
reminded me of a prostrate rosemary. Very pretty. Hope they hybridize a
hardier one. I wonder if I should be taking cuttings? Did you try?
The other taller one, I shall stay away from! Had my experience with mint
as a ground cover when I first started gardening! Read that they were a
ground cover, but never knew that ground covers were 4 ft tall! and so
rampant!!! Of course, I have come a long way, baby, since then! LOL! STill
pulling some out!
Does anyone here use alliums, such as chives, garlic chives and another flat
leaf 'wider and shorter than garlic chives' (also sold to me as that) but
has lavender half dollar size blooms on it? Nice chunky plants that define
the entrance to paths. That last one is a doer!
Will be purchasing christophii and others again before long! Wonder how
much shade they tolerate?
Bobbie
Bobbie Brooks, MA zone 6.5
Gardens In An Old Fashioned Way
http://daylily.net/gardens/bobbiebrooks.htm
-----Original Message-----
From: GeneBush <genebush@OTHERSIDE.COM>
To: shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU <shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
Date: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 9:05 AM
Subject: Re: [SG] lithospermum
>Hello Bobbi,
> Been a while since I experimented with these.... if I remember
correctly there
>are two rockseeds out there in the market. Believe one is a cultivar called
>something like "Grace Ward", the other is a different species. The one with
a
>lady's name is border line tender here and a bit touchy to transplant.
Never had
>one survive past two years. The other get about 18 inches tall and forms a
>ground-cover. And ground cover, and groundcover... as the stems bend over
they
>touch the ground and take root.
> Have been working the past two years to rid myself of this one. It
marched
>over a log, up the hill and into the woods.The tiny blue flowers beneath a
red
>leafed Japanese maple were nice....
> Gene Bush Southern Indiana Zone 6a Munchkin Nursery
> around the woods - around the world
>genebush@otherside.com http://www.munchkinnursery.com
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Bobbi Brooks <lilylady@PRODIGY.NET>
>Subject: [SG] lithospermum
>
>
>> I have tried Lithospermum on job sites. It is gorgeous in the pot
purchased
>> wholesale, so I always ended up with non myself.
>>
>> On one job, about 30 pots. Two years old now. Some made it over the
winter
>> and some did not. I am on the ocean and sometimes this is not as good as
>> with snow cover quaranteed each year. We freeze and thaw....things to
take
>> into consideration.
>>
>> Well drained, composted loam.
>>
>> They bloomed for quite a while in the spring, this great blue color. The
>> foliage was a little stiff...needlelike almost, and very deep green.
>>
>> I would love to try it again but alas it has not been available since.
>>
>> Bobbie
>> Bobbie Brooks, MA zone 6.5
>> Gardens In An Old Fashioned Way
>> http://daylily.net/gardens/bobbiebrooks.htm
