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Re: [PRIMROSES] Jack in Pulpit blooming

Hi Diana,

You said:

Does anyone else on this list grow these plants?

I grow Jacks (Arisaema triphyllum) in my woodland garden.  I tried
transplanting large plants from my grandma and grandpa's woods and they
usually had a hard time adjusting.  Grandpa said it would be easier to just
scratch a hole in the ground and put the seeds in (in the fall).  I've done
that alot and have little Jacks all over the place now.  They aren't big
enough to bloom yet.  Funny, I've never noticed the bloom before on the big
plants,  just the bright red berries later.  Some of the Jacks in my
grandparent's woods are about three feet tall and very impressive!  But then,
I love the native wild flowers as much as I love hostas.

By the way, Cole Burrell's book "The Gardener's Encyclopedia of Wild Flowers"
says seedlings take several years to reach flowering size.  Did you start with
seeds or tubers.  If tubers, how did you get them? In "The Root Book" by Norma
Phillips, she writes:

   "Set Jacks in small clumps spacing clumps some distance apart as they are
subject to a virus which is easier to control when only a few grow in one
spot.  Any diseased plants should be lifted and burned (corms and tops).  Seed
grows readily, just press it into the ground in soil as above [rich, humusy,
well-drained].  Corms or tubers also make offsets which grow readily."

Cindy Johnson
White Bear Lake, MN
zone 4a
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