FW: In Bloom

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• Subject: FW: In Bloom
• From: S* C* <c*@ntx1.cso.uiuc.edu>
• Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 09:40:08 -0500

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> From: 	Susan Campanini
> Sent: 	Tuesday, May 20, 1997 4:57 PM
> To: 	'perennials'; 'gardens listserv'; 'alpine listserv'
> Subject: 	In Bloom
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> 	What a glorious spring we are having in east central Illinois!
> After the disappointment of a frost that blighted every magnolia in
> town early on, we rallied to the long cool spring that kept narcissus
> and species tulips going for five weeks with daytime Fahrenheit
> temperatures in the sixties and night time lows in the forties.
> Despite a record late frost scare last week (house plants outside
> AFTER Memorial Day this year...), we are doing very well indeed and
> gardening our heads off (not to mention backs, feet, and hands).
> 	What's in bloom now in our raised beds?
> 
> long-lasting blazes of brilliant yellow from alyssum and erysimum; 
> purples and pinks (fringed!) starting to fade on hairy clumps of
> pulsatilla;
> shining white blossoms from several species of sandworts (arenaria)
> and iberis; 
> different colors of dainty papery-flowered rock roses (helianthemum);
> tiny cushions crowded with pink blooms of dianthus;
> the pale icy blue of the phlox bifida with its finely cut flower shape
> alongside bright pink subulata;
> the last of the species tulips Lilac Wonder (is this bakeri or
> saxatilis?);
> aubrieta in many shades of purple-magenta;
> fading last blooms of white and pink arabis;
> the last blooms too on the early dwarf bearded iris; 
> lewisia "Bitteroot" just planted and blooming like crazy (can it live
> over the winter? or through the muggy summer?); 
> aquilegia flabellata nana alba, the charming dwarf Japanese columbine,
> a tiny blue and white Rocky Mountain columbine, and a dwarf version of
> the red and yellow old-fashioned kind . . .
> Oops . . . maybe I'd better continue the "in bloom" list in a later
> note--this is getting too long!
> 
> Susan Campanini
> in east central Illinois
> zone 5b, min temp -15F×
> e-mail:  campanin@uiuc.edu
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