Re: clumps
- Subject: Re: [sibrob] clumps
- From: E* G* <e*@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 15:50:31 -0700 (PDT)
--- Margaret Boehm <mmboehm@optonline.net> wrote:
>>> A while back Carol Warner tried to institute a
classification that would
identify the leaf patterns as straight standers and gentle
curvers and outright floppers. I don't know if that continues
but it was very helpful to me at the time since I'd been trying
for years to get some floppers to stand up and had assumed my
horticulture was at fault. <<<
Margaret, In Carol's '04 catalogue. Draycott Gardens, the
ratings continue 'but not every Siberian is rated.. I think you
are interested in the ones that are easy to divide and don't
make like a shrub when it comes time for division.
The ones you mentioned in your post are ones that I don't grow.
I have very few Sibes that I would call floppers, if any. I do
have some that have more arched foliage than others. Is that
what you mean? Carol's second number refers to foliage habit.
Carol's system only applies to plants she grows in her garden.
For instance, in my climate, I would never give 'Windwood
Spring' a 3/3/3 rating. The numbers = plant vigor and clumping
(first number); foliage habit (second number) and bloom habit
(third number). I would rate 'Windwood Spring'(at least) = 4/4/4
in Zone 3. Very hardy here and the bloom habit is wonderful.
I am most interested in the first number (as it applies to Zone
3) = vigor and clumping. Some Sibes take 3 years to bloom here
and some 2 and a very few, one. John White's 'Dirigo Ruffled
Feathers' was one that took one year to bloom. Of course, the
size and age of the division is all important in the really cold
climates.
I am pretty sure it is not the horticultural in your
garden...probably your warmer New England climate in
Connecticut.
Cheers,
Ellen (still in a little Siberian bloom.... 'Frosted Emerald'
and 'Gulls Wing' and 'Tiffany Lass' are all still putting on a
grand show, especially 'Tiffany Lass'. What a wonderful
statement in the garden. Tall, stately and very floriferous. The
blue of the flower shines across the garden. I walked over to it
(in the rain this morning) since I didn't know what that sea of
blue was next to my daylilies.
=====
Ellen Gallagher, Berlin, New Hampshire - USDA Zone 3
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