Re: Primrose Path URL was: Primroses
- To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
- Subject: Re: [SG] Primrose Path URL was: Primroses
- From: G* O*
- Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 07:54:27 -0500
Thanks, Marge. I'll try it again. (Actually, had trouble getting into your
site yesterday, durn servers!)
Gerry
At 05:22 AM 3/1/00 -0500, you wrote:
>You're welcome Gerry and thanks for the kind words. Here's my
>bookmark - works as I just went to check:
>
>http://www.theprimrosepath.com/
>
>Just checked the link on the sand bed page and it works - expect
>their server was down when you tried it before.
>
>
>Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
>mtalt@clark.net
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>> From: Gerry/Bob O'Neill <eoneill@IBM.NET>
>> Date: Thursday, February 24, 2000 7:55 AM
>>
>> Marge,
>> Thanks for sharing Martha's instructions for the wet sand bed. I
>also
>> went back and read your piece on the Primrose Path, very well done!
>> Problem is that I get an error message when I try to link to them.
>The URL
>> you gave is the same one I have bookmarked, so it's not your
>error.Do you
>> have an updated address for them?
>>
>> Gerry
>>
>> At 04:43 AM 2/24/00 -0500, you wrote:
>> >Along the lines of the buried wading pool Gene mentions, Martha
>> >Oliver, of Primrose Path Nursery, permitted me to put her
>> >instructions for building a wet sand bed for primroses online -
>they
>> >grow all theirs in wet sand beds, she says.
>> >
>> >Here's the URL: http://suite101.com/topic_page.cfm/222/266
>> >
>> >I moved all my P. japonicas to my "bog" and they seemed quite
>happy
>> >during last summer's drought, whereas they were dying like flies
>in
>> >my regular borders, no matter how much I watered them. Figured
>I'd
>> >try the wet sand bed method if the "bog" failed me:-)
>> >
>> >Might be of use to some of you who are having trouble keeping the
>> >lovely P. japonicas during hot, dry summers.
>> >
>> >Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
>
>
