Re: Pulmonaria seeding was: Powdery Mildew
Marge, no answers from me but if you have billions of seeds would you be
prepared to do a seed swap? They sound just lovely.
I have to tell you that you sound just like me when you said you do
whatever because they get on your nerves. I just had to chuckle.
Gilly
Marge Talt wrote:
>
> Gerry,
>
> I have P. 'Mrs. Moon' covering vast tracts...seeds around like crazy
> and is a major groundcovering plant for me. I only remove the flower
> stalks on the ones near paths when they turn yellow and get on my
> nerves. Actually, end of June I often go around and cut all the
> plants near walkways back to the crown as they are pretty ratty about
> then. They put on fresh growth and look fine the rest of the season.
> They seem to have a mild dormancy period after bloom and seed set
> and start into a new growth session mid summer.
>
> Now, I cannot testify what happens to a lot of the others as I
> haven't been growing them all that long - like 'Excalibur' and the
> newer forms. Dunno if they even seed around as haven't found
> seedlings yet. Also have not whacked them back as they haven't
> seemed to need it. Others need to testify on these guys.
>
> Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
> mtalt@clark.net
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> > From: Gerry/Bob O'Neill <eoneill@IBM.NET>
> > Date: Monday, May 15, 2000 7:41 AM
> >
> > Thanks, Sheila. More good suggestions. I do mulch overwinter with
> ground
> > leaves (though here in Z7 the Pulmonarias would probably do just
> fine
> > without it) and I haven't been cleaning up the dead foliage.
> >
> > Another P. question..do most of you remove the old flower stalks,
> or do you
> > let them stay on in the hopes they will self seed? Someone on the
> list
> > said a while back that their Pulmonarias had seeded themselves
> about.
> >
> > Gerry
