Hyacinthoides non-scripta
Clayton3120 (Thu, 08 May 2008 09:43:12 PDT)

Hi, being a transplant to the west coast, from Pa, 25 years ago, I've grown
Hyacinthoides non-scripta in both places.
here in the Seattle area, we have an acidic soil, mine is somewhat sandy.
NW soils are generally somewhat deficient in Phosphorus, and this plant
thrives beyond belief.
In Pa, I planted them, got one blooming, and they dissappeared. The soil
there was definitely limestone based, with a considerably higher phosphorus
content,
and iron, if that sheds any light.
It just makes it all interesting. I never expect complete success of all
plants in all places, no matter what you do, or what you have.

----- Original Message -----
From: "J.E. Shields" <jshields@indy.net>
To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 8:39 AM
Subject: Re: [pbs] Hyacinthoides non-scripta

Hi all,

We have some Hyacinthoides (a nondescript mix of garden plants) and have
had them for several years. I'll have to see how well they bloom this
year, but they keep coming back. They are planted under rather heavy
shade
-- sugar maples and red oaks -- in bare clay-based woodland soil. Lots of
leaves fall on them in autumn, but there are no other woods nearby, so the
winter wind blows those leaves away.

If the birds nest earlier and the trees leaf out earlier, I can hope that
the spring bulbs will also come up earlier. This year, the long spell of
very cool weather has bunched things up together.

Jim Shields
in central Indiana (USA)

At 10:08 AM 5/8/2008 -0500, you wrote:

In the Chicago area we struggle with all of the Hyacinthoides taxa. They
survive for a few years (if we are lucky) and then disappear.

Boyce Tankersley
Director of Living Plant Documentation
Chicago Botanic Garden
1000 Lake Cook Road
Glencoe, IL 60022
tel: 847-835-6841
fax: 847-835-1635
email: btankers@chicagobotanic.org

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