Re: columbine
- Subject: Re: [SG] columbine
- From: M* T*
- Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 03:13:51 -0400
Lucy...think your key is "old swamp bottom". Aquilegia require good
drainage - do not like to have wet feet. If you've got any high or
dry spots, try them there.
Do you mean like pocket gophers - those small ones - or big ones AKA
ground hogs? I've had the ground hogs and do not remember them
eating columbine, but have heard those small pocket gophers will eat
most anything. Probably a ground hog would, too, if sufficiently
hungry...they are good munchers.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: Lucy Kemnitzer <ritaxis@CRUZIO.COM>
> I haven't tested my soil. I do know that it is old swamp bottom
> and overlooked by the neighbors' avocado and redwood trees, which
> makes me think I have slightly acid soil. But the swamp bottom
> is watered by underground streams that pass through, among other
> things, limestone.
>
> the other things that do thrive are borage, violets, nigella,
> feverfew, and oxalis. The climate is extremely mild: no real
> killing frost most years and no really hot heat most years (two
> days ago being a remarkable exception). Dry summers, moist
> winters, some high fog in the mornings and afternoons, especially
> in the summer.
>
> do gophers like columbine?
>
> Lucy
