Re: Goatsbeard

I'll second the question about whether they did fine the first year
and never returned...

Don't know about bare roots from Costco, but Bluestone sends (or used
to) small, liner plants who, I have found, need some time in a
holding bed or larger pots to put on some growth before planting in a
border with mature plants in it.  It's not that there's anything
wrong with their plants.  On the contrary, they've always been
healthy and growing strongly for me, but they are small plants and
easily swamped by larger, older neighbors...

It's not that you need an established huge clump to start with, but
you need to make sure that baby plants have some air space around
them.  It's so easy to lose track of them until you remember and it's
too late - all you find is a limp leaf buried under some robust
foliage belonging to someone else - or worse, a label and
nothing....been down that road several times.

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: Margot Kane <margotk@MINDSPRING.COM>
> Date: Thursday, June 01, 2000 6:34 PM
>
> Two years ago I ordered some goatsbeard from Bluestone and also
bought some
> in one of the bareroot perennial bags at Costco.  There should have
been a
> total of about 8.  I planted in the in the back of a border where I
have
> spirea, iris, hosta, daylillies, astilbe and filapendula growing
well.
> None of them have appeared to survive.  Has anyone else had any
problems?
> Do I need to start with a large established plant?
>
> Margot
> East Hampton, NY
> Zone 6/7
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