Re: Fertilize and culture
- Subject: Re: [sibrob] Fertilize and culture
- From: E* G*
- Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 21:24:12 -0700 (PDT)
--- Norma Murphy <nlmurphy@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>>> About culture, I have tried to keep my new transplants watered
and it is just that some that are treated the same start growing and
others just sit there turning brown. Do some siberians need special
conditions to make them grow? <<<<
I think it happens to all of us...oops, at least to me. Sometimes,
the most robust Sibes on arrival seem to develop an attitude a couple
of days in the ground surrounded by all the attention lavished on
them. Soil amendments, profuse watering and weeding, mulching, etc.
They sit them and seemingly look like they have given up the ghost
but don't give up on them.
My 'Orville Fay' story is one I pull out now and then..I thought he
was dead soon after arrival when he was in a pail of water (our
welcome mat). I didn't want to waste a nice garden spot on a dead
iris so I stuck him in the ground where I had naturalized some
daffodils and had dug up the soil around them. No amendments
whatsover with Orville..he was on his own..I watered him daily,
didn't mulch and pretty much forgot he was there until the next
spring when the daffs were blooming. Orville shot up and didn't bloom
the first year but was a very viable plant - he went on to bloom the
next year.
Ellen
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Ellen Gallagher / ellengalla@yahoo.com / New Hampshire's White Mountains / Zone 3
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