Re: [SG] Internet Message/ Bergenia

Hello Claire,
        I gave up on Pig Squeak a few years back. Foliage it is noted for gets hit
really hard in my garden and turns ratty during winter. Just as it normally
sends up a bloom stalk it gets hard by a freeze and all is over for another
year. I gave away all I had in the nursery and what I dug up from the
garden two years ago to a fund raiser. Hopefully someone in the city where
they can be protected better will have fun with them.
        Which brings up the performance of plants in different regions and even
different gardens in the same area of a State. Mildew is being discussed on
Pulmonarias. I do not have a problem with mine including some of the older
varieties. Others on this list do. You love Bergenia and I gave up on it.
If one truly enjoys a plant I suggest working with micro habitats until you
get it to work for you. That is what most gardening is about in any case.
Finding a place where your latest gem will sparkle.
        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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> From: Claire Peplowski <ECPep@AOL.COM>
> To: shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
> Subject: Re: [SG] Internet Message
> Date: Sunday, January 03, 1999 3:05 PM
>
> In a message dated 1/3/99 9:05:40 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> ZDST49A@PRODIGY.COM writes:
>
> << DO you think that once I get rid of it on these other plants, that it
>  will not spread?  They are not Mrs Moon, BTW, which sometimes does,
>  but several do not get it, and those that do, get it only slightly,
>  as compared with the new ones. >>
>
> Bobbi,
>
> The pulmonaria Betram Andersson (I think I am correct here) does not
mildew -
> ever.  This is the group (please someone tell us is there are more) that
have
> long narrow leaves.  When I first saw this cv Ithought it was a tropical.
 It
> somewhat resembles a sansiveria.
>
> My plant seems to be tap-rooted and difficult to divide.  BA is not
> stoloniferous and stays put in an ever widening clump.  The leaves are
> pleasantly spotted as in the other species.
>
> Thanks, Gene, for what is good advice on mildew.  We have in the
Northeast
> each summer mini-droughts that cannot be overcome with watering if your
> gardens are more than a backyard.  These pumonarias do not die, they just
go
> away until fall when they return in a smaller size.  Bergenia is a good
> substitute.  Gene, are you carrying bergenia in cv's other than
cordifolia.
> Bergenia and archangel are the two plants that will cover anything in the
> shade willingly and survive any sort of weather.  The rare bergenia
ciliata is
> a houseplant here.
>
> Claire Peplowski
> East Nassau, NY
> zone 4
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