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Re: [SG] Now Sax

Hi Jaime,
        The sax you are referring to as S. stolonifera is the same as the one I
was calling Strawberry Begonia. It is, indeed, and easy one to grow and
quite effective in the garden as a ground cover.
        It is the others that I an singing the blues over. The Crusted forms, the
Mossy, the ones they do not know where the hey to classify.
        Will count the hours until you return for an education in the successful
growth of Sax.
        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: jaime <jknoble@WARWICK.NET>
> To: shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
> Subject: Re: [SG] Now Sax
> Date: Monday, June 08, 1998 11:38 PM
>
> Hmm.  I saw a similar comment the other day, Gene, and I must
> confess I was surprised.  Considering the things you do grow
> that I find far more difficult ... well, it's kinda reassuring
> to know that everyone kills a plant or two once in a while.
>
> The sax I use most frequently in gardens I do for others is
> Saxifraga stolonifera, mainly because it is easy and carefree,
> inexpensive and readily found.  Once it settles in, it just
> goes.  For this baby, it gets very rich, humusy soil with very
> little sun exposure preferring shade ranging from bright to
> deep.  It likes to be moist, but will develop crown rot or
> develop a fungal infection if too wet.  In short order, the
> biggest problem with this little one is finding homes for the
> babies.  Stolonifera is an appropriate name.  I tuck these into
> small spaces in rock walls or similar spot where I know the soil
> is deep and rich.
>
> I grow a number of others myself.  They'll have to wait 'til I
> return next week.
>
> I think someone already said, Diana I believe, that they cannot
> be treated the same.  Without a doubt.  I was first introduced
> to Saxifraga in a botany class where we were studying
> wildflowers native to the northeast.  I fell in hate with them
> because identifying them was sooo difficult.  Plus they are
> categorized into those &#$% sections and series all of which
> needed to be memorized.  And there are hundreds of them.  They
> were almost as bad as the composites.  It was only later that I
> fell out of hate and in love with growing them.
>
> There are so many types and each section (or even series) grow
> in widely varying cultural conditions; from sun to shade, dry to
> moist, scree to rich humus ... you name it, there is a sax to
> fit (although lots aren't hardy above zone 5-ish).
>
> Jaime
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