Re: A different list
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- Subject: Re: [sibrob] A different list
- From: e*@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 00:29:00 EST
In a message dated 2/23/01 11:58:32 PM Eastern Standard Time,
jandnbilson@salisbury.net writes:
<<
It is tough to make a list of but five Tets. Before I change my mind the
list is: >>
I have not had much to say in a long time but have enjoyed reading the
enthusiasm for Siberians.
If I had only one Siberian in my garden it would be Currier McEwen's old tet,
'Orville Fay'.
That plant is so superior in cold gardens - tall, bluish foliage very strong
and lasting into the late fall. It needs dividing very seldom, not at all if
you do not mind a less than perfect circular clump. The flowers are very
large, the clump is imposing. While some Siberians will not perform in dry
seasons, this one always blooms well.
Older cultivars disappear from lists and this is really a shame. Newer
gardeners do not have the choices they should have accepting that the newest
introduction is not always a superior choice.
Some Siberians tets or diploids do not divide well. You can have less when
you are finished rather than more. After many years of collecting Siberians,
I find I like to have full drifts of favored plants rather than many
cultivars.
Also for some reason I have found that I like the dwarfs. I have SIGNA seed
for dwarfs and have hopes for drifts of small and dignified Siberians
throughout the rocks on the slopes.
I suppose these are diploid, whichever, they are my newest favorites.
Claire Peplowski
NYS z4 and very cold tonight
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