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[SG] What's Blooming

Friends,

We are having an incredible heat wave here in central New York and things are popping out all over.  I have primroses in bloom-the common Walmart kind, but very hardy and very pretty.  My Pulmonaria 'Dordogne' is in bloom as is P. saccharata 'Sissinghurst White' and a Pulmonaria seedling with red flowers!  Petasites japonica gigantea is blooming and it's a huge flower head.  I'd not had this plant before, but last summer I saw the 100-year old stand in Root Glen at Hamilton College and thought I was on Mars or Venus or somewhere else besides central New York, so I ordered and planted one.  Wow!  (I know I will need a sharp machete in a few years).  My native Hepatica acutiloba or Hepatica americana or whatever Hepatica we have growing in the forests here opened this morning with their really pretty white flowers.

El niņo may be horrible sometimes, but our spring interlude this year is really nifty.

Peace,
Steve Chamberlain
Manlius, NY
Zone 5- (except this year)
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>Subject: A "New" Pulmonaria & "Aztec" Grass
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>P. 'Pierre's Pure Pink' is in bloom today. It is really nice. It is "new" to
>me and looks good interplanted with P. 'Sissinghurst White'.
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>Also, the postrate species of Pulmonaria(angustifolia?) is in bloom. This one
>is a true ground cover, as it forms a low growing mat. Flowers are blue.
>Foliage is a very dark green. The foliage stands out if interplanted with
>Lysimachia n. 'Aurea'.
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>I believe I have solved the mystrery of "Aztec Grass." I found it for sale
>here in Indianapolis today and bougt a pot of it. This is the second nursery
>that has told me it is Liriope muscari 'Variegated'. I am still not sure of
>the correct botanic name.
>I am copying Tony Avent in hopes he can tell us. It may be variegata or
>variegatus or something else. It has a light green center and distinct white
>margins.
>Clyde Crockett z5
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