pbs Digest, Vol 14, Issue 2
Yoli (Tue, 03 Apr 2018 08:39:36 PDT)
Hello all,
A sizable colony of ants has taken residence in a big pot of well drained
sandy soil where I have some Claude Shride martagons.
How will the ants affect my bulbs?
I would prefer to leave them be unless they will hurt my lilies...
Yoli
Chevy Chase MD
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1. Re: Streptopus (Linda Foulis)
2. Re: critters again (Marianne Culver)
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Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 06:05:03 -0600
From: Linda Foulis <lmf@beautifulblooms.ab.ca>
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Subject: Re: [pbs] Streptopus
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Thank you Mark,
Hopefully this means success in the cold frame this spring, if spring ever
gets here that is.
Linda M Foulis
Leslieville, Alberta
On Apr 1, 2018, at 11:37 AM, Mark Mazer <markemazer@gmail.com> wrote:
Double dormancy... warm, cold, warm, cold, then germination.
Mark Mazer
Hertford, NC
On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 1:28 PM, Linda Foulis <lmf@beautifulblooms.ab.ca>
wrote:
Hello,
Can anyone provide tips on getting Streptopus amplexifolius to
germinate?
It grows wild here and I've found areas with fairly large populations.
I
can collect seed, and lots of it, but I've yet to be able to germinate
it.
Methods I've tried are - pot in a cold frame, direct in a marked
protected
spot in the garden (several spots), in the fridge and then in my plant
room. Also have tried with whole berries, and with cleaned seed. This
is
over a 3 year period.
The berries do persist into fall so I've not been able to determine if
they are eaten by anything and spread that way? Do they require
digestion
acids to germinate?
Linda M Foulis
Leslieville, Alberta, Canada
Zone 2-3
Trying to find the bright side of all this snow is becoming difficult.
Last year this time I was photographing beaked hazelnut flowers. Crocus
are under 2' of snow right now.
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 12:51:59 -0700
From: Marianne Culver <mpculver15@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [pbs] critters again
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Hi Kathleen,
I like your idea of mesh. Last year with adding another 6' x20' planting
area we lined it with 1/4" mesh to keep the moles/voles from digging up
underneath the bed has worked like a charm. I have considered doing lids
but the lining has decreased it so much. I got the idea from some
professional flower farmers that routines line their ditches for tulips
with steel mesh before back filling and planting bulbs densely. A 10FT
fence and the neighbors lush garden keeps the deer away. LOL
Happy Planting,
Marianne Culver.
On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 3:39 PM, Kathleen Sayce <kathleen.sayce@gmail.com>
wrote:
My spouse is building me a large wire-covered enclosure for seed pots in
my ongoing struggle with voles, etc. Actually, he is building two mesh
covers, one for an existing area that is now occupied by 3 stand-alone
mesh
sections over pots (4x4 ft), and a new area (3.5 x 8 ft) with a large
cover. I can?t wait. And after this week, I really can?t wait.
In preparation, the protective black deer-deterring mesh was taken down
over pots in another area, and all pots and planters were lifted to
break/cut tree roots that have grown up through the pavers into them.
I?ve
learned the hard way to do this by late winter or face much larger roots
growing into pots in spring. I have no illusions about the tree root
problem?it will continue in the new mesh areas, where all pots will have
to
be lifted annually so roots can be removed.
While this mesh was down, some larger animal nibbled the side of a
stem?not the top?and left the buds to die, on a pot of Fritillaria
camschatcensis. Annoyed does not begin to describe how I feel about this.
First buds to form, ever, on the pot. Highly likely to be deer from the
delicate nibble on one leaf plus just enough stem to kill the top.
Kathleen
PNW coast, where we have had 3 rounds of false spring/pre-spring/almost
spring, and then back into strafing rain/hail/near snow/snow in March, or
as a friend says, ?March comes in like a lion here, and leaves like a
lion
too.'
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