Re: [SG] Need Source: Bluets
- To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
- Subject: Re: [SG] Need Source: Bluets
- From: P* L* K* <p*@JUNO.COM>
- Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 19:30:06 -0400
Hi Gene,
Yes, I know about your nursery, and I have been wanting to go see it ever
since I heard you at the Wallitsch (sp) giving a wonderful lecture on the
fall bloomers. I love your website. I immediately checked your list to
see if these would grow around here, thinking we'd have pretty similar
conditions. I can't make it over before July, since I have two weeks of
vacation coming and will spend those backpacking the Shenendoah Natl.
Park in VA at the end of June. And I'll problably have another list of
plants that I want to add, by then too!
I'll need directions to get to your place. I'll e-mail you when I get
back and figure out a time to come over.
I'm disappointed that these Bluets are annuals. I'm not too good at
getting seeds to grow. I guess I'll just have to enjoy these beauties on
my trips. Thanks for the tip about getting into the archives for
Alpine-L. I assume that this is also a maelstrom. St Johns.edu list?
BTW, I dropped the WILD list in an angry gesture (at the critters that
keep eating my plants and pulling the baby plants out of the ground, not
the people on the list!). The list just too frequently focused on
wildlife rather than on the gardening aspects. There are just some
animals that I don't like to have in my garden: moles, squirrels, and
chipmunks. I just felt too hypocritical by lurking.
Peggy
On Mon, 31 May 1999 20:16:18 -0400 GeneBush <genebush@OTHERSIDE.COM>
writes:
>Hello Peggy,
> You are about 32 miles from me starting at the I 64 bridge.
>There is a
>woodland garden and a nursery display area here and a catalog with
>over 250
>different kinds of shade plants.. wildflowers both native and
>non-native.
>You are more than welcome to come by and visit the garden ... by
>appointment, please.
> I do not have the Bluets or Quaker Bonnets. There was a thread
>on Alpine-L
>recently about the plants. You may want to check it out in the
>archives.
>Lots of discussion and information. It is my understanding that this
>little
>beauty is annual or biannual. In any case, I have not been able to
>keep it
>more than one year around here and it has not come back from seed for
>me. I
>have never seen seed offered. The plant does grow around this area.
>On
>occasion I have seen it growing in old cemeteries.
> Gene Bush Southern Indiana Zone 6a Munchkin
>Nursery
> around the woods - around the world
>genebush@otherside.com http://www.munchkinnursery.com
>
>----------
>> From: Peggy L Kinnetz <pkinnetz@JUNO.COM>
>> Subject: [SG] Need Source: Bluets
>> Date: Monday, May 31, 1999 3:59 PM
>>
>> I just came back from a backpacking trip to the Smokies Nat'l. Park
>and
>> more than enough inspiration about what to add to my shadegarden!
>What a
>> trip! It was like going through spring all over again this year,
>due to
>> the higher elevation there. I'd love to add some of the bluets
>> (spelling?) that lined the paths to my garden. I'm not even sure of
>the
>> name, but this is what I was told by several persons also hiking.
>It
>> forms a low mat with very tiny (1/8")leaves with tiny sky blue
>flowers.
>> Does anyone know of a source for this plant?
>>
>> What about a good general source for woodland wildflowers? I
>usually
>> just see one or two pages in my catalogs devoted to native or wild
>> flowers, but I bet that some of you know a good source that has
>some of
>> the more obscure or less popular choices.
>>
>> Peggy
>> Louisville, zone 6a
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