Hello Karen,
Which Camassia are you after? Those are among my favorite native bulbs
for the edge of the shade garden or out with grasses. What are you using as
companions, or were going to use if you ordered the bulbs?
I finally did manage to remember to order some snowdrops this year.
While they were in bloom and I was thinking of it. they are in pots now
waiting for time to put them in the garden with the hellebores.
Gene E. Bush
Munchkin Nursery & Gardens, llc
www.munchkinnursery.com
genebush@munchkinnursery.com
Zone 6/5 Southern Indiana
Hi Gene -- guess what - I just realized that I have your catalog in my
collection (I have so many catalogs, that I haven't read half of them!) --
I must have gotten it at "Plant-O-Rama" which is held annually at BBG
(BklynBotGdn).
I love all the Camassias, have grown straight (blue) species, C.lechtleinii
(or however it's spelled) and the one with variegated foliage, but that
vigorous for me. Was considering getting the least expensive, C.esculenta.
Sill available, probably because not as popular as others.
I have still not ordered bulbs.... one reaons is that my garden got so
overgrown (and wonderful) this year (all that rain).. well... those tender
Salvias are still blooming, also all the other stuff too, and I don't have
the heart to rip stuff out yet, and it would be difficult to plant bulbs
amidst the jungle.
any bulbs this year?" argh. Ofcourse, I was hoping my clients would ask
me, as last year I planted 100s of bulbs! No. 1000s more likely. So I might
actually go see what's still available at van Engelen and B&Bs bulbs.
I read that Snowdrops prefer to be planted while in bloom. Did you buy them
in bloom? Do you have any special place you mail order tham from - while in
bloom I mean?. I read in a magazine about someone in upstate NY that grows
and mails out many varieties (in bloom).
karen, NJ
-- Original Message -----
From: "Gene Bush"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 6:57 AM
Subject: Re: Aster w/ no browning/ Camassia
> Hello Karen,
> Which Camassia are you after? Those are among my favorite native bulbs
> for the edge of the shade garden or out with grasses. What are you using
as
flowers,
> From: karen swaine
> I read that Snowdrops prefer to be planted while in bloom. Did you
buy them
> in bloom? Do you have any special place you mail order tham from -
while in
> bloom I mean?. I read in a magazine about someone in upstate NY
that grows
> and mails out many varieties (in bloom).
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Not Gene here, Karen, but re: the snowdrops (Galanthus spp.) It's
not that they prefer to be planted in bloom, it's that the bulbs do
not take kindly to being dried off for storage. That's why, when you
buy them dry from the assorted bulb purveyors, they often don't do
much. They respond better to being planted 'in the green' because of
that, but you can plant dormant ones; just will have better results
if they aren't dried off. That's hard for bulb companies to
accomplish, really. If you can find/remember who in NY sells them in
the green, I'd be most interested.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
Editor: Gardening in Shade
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Marge --
it's Hitch Lyman, @ Temple Nursery, PO Box 591, Trumansburg, NY 14886, no
e-mail or phone orders.
I'm also writing for a catalog or list of his stuff.
karen, NJ
> I read that Snowdrops prefer to be planted while in bloom. Did you buy
them in bloom? Do you have any special place you mail order tham from -
while in bloom I mean?. I read in a magazine about someone in upstate NY
> that grows and mails out many varieties (in bloom).
> ----------
> Not Gene here, Karen, but re: the snowdrops (Galanthus spp.) It's not
that they prefer to be planted in bloom, it's that the bulbs do not take
kindly to being dried off for storage. That's why, when you buy them dry
from the assorted bulb purveyors, they often don't do much. They respond
better to being planted 'in the green' because of
> that, but you can plant dormant ones; just will have better results if
they aren't dried off. That's hard for bulb companies to accomplish,
really. If you can find/remember who in NY sells them in the green, I'd be
most interested.
Thanks, Karen....good to know he exists even if he's not online.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
Editor: Gardening in Shade
Shadyside Garden Designs
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Current Article: Corydalis
http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/shade_gardening
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> From: karen swaine
> Marge --
> it's Hitch Lyman, @ Temple Nursery, PO Box 591, Trumansburg, NY
14886, no
