Re: Germination

In a message dated 6/13/02 12:13:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
ellengalla@yahoo.com writes:

<< Many Sibs in colored bud and some in green bud...hurry up and bloom. 
Weather is cold here
 so the medians look lovely. Lilacs still (forever ?) in bloom. Even have 
some tulips
 hanging on. Only one tall bearded in bloom still and one historic, 'Mrs. 
Horace
 Darwin'..now at least women have their own names in the garden. ;-) >>

I am one zone south of you and always love your accounts as they make me feel 
absolutely southern.

As for women in the garden, I point to the essay by Eleanor Perenyi (Green 
Thoughts, a Writer in the Garden).  When men assume priority over a species 
the whole game changes, rose, daylilies, irises, hostas, etc.  Bravo to Ms. 
Darwin whoever she is.  Men being somewhat uninterested in dianthus, for 
example, have left us plants that still look like dianthus.  Consider the 
size and weight of large bearded iris.

All the lilacs froze here in the May freezes. Also the tough old spirea and I 
fear some of the Siberian buds.  Numerous shrubs have been tip frozen and 
some rhodies have opened brown frozen buds.  In addition to the May freezes, 
we also had three inches of May snow.

But the message today is division and replanting.  I have an old "red" plant, 
name forgotten, sold around the time of Eric the Red.  Of course, it is not 
red but it is vigorous old thing and grew to a size that need a change or so 
I though last spring.  It once had over two hundred flower stalks.

We, two of us, dug it up and discarded what looked like very old rhizomes.  
We added manure to the soil, chose and replanted three good divisions on the 
spot and tried to keep it watered. This spring that clump is three dumpy 
looking sprouts with a few small flowers.  I suppose it will return or maybe 
not.  

The discarded pieces were thrown on a mulch row which we do all summer 
eventually covering the messy look with wood chips.  This is occasionally 
acquired shrubbery planted along the electric fence to discourage deer from 
jumping over. mulched to keep down weeds.   Deer don't jump over tall 
shrbbery where they cannot see the landing.  (Alas life in the garden here is 
dealing with deer and voles, another story)

The shrubbery dumped divisons, not planted, just dumped from a wheelbarrow 
are blooming with exuberance amoungst the shrubs while the carefully selected 
and planted divisions look like they need some help to stay alive.

Claire Peplowski
East Nassau, NY




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