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Re: [SG] Vironicastrum

At 12:20 PM 7/24/98 -0400, you wrote:
>According to 'The Random House Book of Perennials' the Veronicastrum
>sibiricum is a native of Japan, Korea, N.China, Sakhalin and E. Siberia,
>it grows in grassy places in the mountains and plains, flowering in July
>-September. This is the blue flowered veronicastrum.  The Veronicastrum
>virginicum is native of E.North America, from Ontario to Manitoba south
>to Massachusetts, Alabama and Texas, growing in meadows, woods and
>scrub, flowering in June-September. This is the white veronicasturm.
>Having said that, I know personally that both have naturalized over Ohio
>and grows equally well in standing water and high up on the driest of
>clay banks.. As beautiful as they are, they multiply  themselves by
>underground runners and can become a nuisance if given half a chance.
>After a rain or gentle watering with a hose, you can pull them up by
>hand. So they are quite easy to eradicate from the flower garden. They
>have colonized lake and pond sides in our area and are quite beautiful
>in that setting.
>
>Carrie Hampton
>
>Carrie, it is definitely NOT easy to eradicate from a flower garden!  I
dig parts of clumps to pot for sales in the spring.  New crowns will form
from the broken roots and it will come up again.  Nice for the nursery
person (me :)), but maybe not for the person who wants to change the
location of the clump.

I first saw Veronicastrum virginicum at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum.
It was growing in a little clearing.  I presume that it was in shade part
of the day.  I was given the pink form, but I think it is not very pink at
all.  Is that how those of you who grow it would describe it?  Not very pink?

I do not see my plants spreading from underground runners, and I've grown
it for several years.

Gail Korn
Garden Perennials
Wayne, NE. Zone 4
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