More pulmonaria
- To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
- Subject: More pulmonaria
- From: C* P* <E*@AOL.COM>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 00:34:51 EST
In a message dated 1/3/99 8:32:48 PM Eastern Standard Time,
ZDST49A@PRODIGY.COM writes:
<< Don't I wish this was so, but I am sorry to say, that this is one of
the new ones that I have planted, and it was a sorry wreck during
the season. >>
Bobbi,
Is your Betram Anderson a plant with leaves long and narrow resembling a
tropical dracena (sort of). I have always suspected my plant was label-
switched. I gave up the pulmonarias because of the mildew factor. Some of
them seed around and I am still pulling up babies. We have the weeks of
drought combined with cool and moist nights - bingo - mildew on all
pulmonaria.
The plant I describe may be descended from one listed as longifolia and it has
never suffered mildewing. I will look around my books for a better answer.
Claire Peplowski
East Nassau, NY
zone 4
