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Re: [SG] Variegated Solomon's Seal

Interesting question. Good answer, Clyde. You have some very nice
Polygonatums in your collection. Anyone else care to comment on the
variegated varieties of Solomon's Seal? Also what species do you have in
your garden? This interesting group of plants is becoming more popular all
the time. More are coming on to the market each year as expeditions return
from China and plants and seeds find their way into collector's nurseries.
        What do all of you grow in combination with the Solomon's Seals? Two of my
favorite combinations ( using the same theme) are Creeping For-Get-Me-Not
and European Wood Anemone 'Robinsonia'. The CFMN with its blue blooms with
white eyes blooms just as the wine-red stems of the Variegated SS are
pushing up from the ground. Same with the EWA. Nice violet-blue blooms and
neat cut foliage with the wine-red. The EWA will die back and go dormant
around July, but you get to keep the SS. The CFMN is evergreen and gets to
stay there after the SS has gone dormant in the late fall.
        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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> matttrahan@ECSU.CAMPUS.MCI.NET writes:
>
> << Polygonatum odoratum is a species native to Russia and Japan.
>  >The variegated types are treated as cultivars in most of the books I
have
>  >read.
>  >So, Sheila is right again, methinks.( I count 4 variegated cultivars of
it.)
>  >
>  >Clyde Crockett
>
>  Hi Clyde,
>   Could you describe the four variegated cultivars? More specifically, is
>  there a bright white one? >>
>
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> Hi Matt:
> I can only tell you of the ones I grow=='Flore Pleno' (double
flowers--greener
> than the species); 'Gilt Edge' (leaves have a slight gold margin
---flowers
> are same as species);'Grace Barker' (white striped leaves); and, this may
be
> the one you are asking about,--- 'Variegatum' ( white flowers. Leaves
have a
> white margin.)
>
> Clyde Crockett z5
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