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Re: [SG] intro/ Now Pulmonaria

> In a message dated 6/4/1998 11:06:38 AM Central Daylight Time,
> genebush@OTHERSIDE.COM writes:
>
> << I grow a few Lungworts and I am always trying to find a new one every year
> >>
> Gene and All,
> P. 'British Sterling, 'Roy Davidson' and 'David Ward' are nice ones.
....
> Clyde Crockett z5 Indy IN ccredux@aol.com

Indeed they are.  I saw a couple of the very new ones last week.
Lovely.  On my list just waiting for the prices to drop a tad.

I do have to relate this little story related to pulmonaria.  I
went to visit a friend last week to help her do some planting,
dividing & transplanting.  She has a shade garden that is really
not a garden at all, but is the acre around her (Frank Lloyd
Wright design) house.  Shade is created by old shagbark hickory,
oaks, a few maples and an understory of native mountain laurel
and dogwood.  She has planted it with hostas, arum, arisaema,
polygonatum, iris, woods poppy and so on.  She's also added
dwarf bamboos, some grasses and lots of pieris.  The local
wildflowers seem to have decided that this is a primo spot and
trillium, mayapples, several species of fern have made
themselves right at home.

One thing she does have a passion for (among many) are
pulmonaria.  Well, she used to have a passion for pulmonaria.
<G>  Her big "weed" problem are pulmonarias.  I couldn't believe
it.  Between every stepping stone, everywhere you look are
masses of pulmonaria.   She complained that since she can't weed
any longer they have gotten completely out of control, so she
had me pulling out clumps of them, pointing them out as she
scooted around in her cart. "Out!"  I went home with ... I can't
even count how many; I just couldn't bear to just toss them on
the compost heap as she asked.  Unbelieveable.  I should have
such weeds.
Jaime
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