Re: Dividing primulas
- Subject: Re: [SG] Dividing primulas
- From: G* K*
- Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 08:30:56 -0500
Marge, thank you!!!!! I'd begun to think I'd written with invisible
ink!! Yes, we do get hard winters with lots of freeze and thaw
usually. Well, actually, the ground doesn't freeze for winter for good
until late November here either, but you never know. November can be a
fall month or, as it was last year, a winter month.
Gail K
At 04:47 AM 9/3/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Gail,
>
>In your zone, I'd wait until early spring. Seems to me you get early
>winter and pretty hard winters, too. In my area, you can divide
>Primula in fall, but I have to have milder winters than you...I'd be
>concerned that it wouldn't have time to make much root growth and
>would get frost heaved. My ground doesn't think about freezing until
>mid or late November here.
>
>Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
>mtalt@clark.net
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> > From: Gail Korn <gkorn@BLOOMNET.COM>
> > I have one primula x p. Wanda. Can I divide it now?
> >
> > Gail Korn
> > Wayne, Nebr. Z4
