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| Aren't these supposed to be no-brainers in my area - they're native to Michigan, after all. I don't know what the problems is - I'll get a couple seasons, maybe three, then they disappear on me. Same thing again this year - the ones I planted out last spring came back and are growing beautifully while the older clumps have no signs of life! I'm especially disappointed because I had a gorgeous drift of them that was given to me by a kind GW'er in my area about 3 years ago and looks like they decided to give up the ghost this year.
What gives!?! |
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| shhh.....don't jinx my small expanding patch....local bad luck, I hope. Really, I feel for you. I've tried three times and this is the first time I"ve seen any substantial increase. Lost one this winter. If I find a small pot on sale I buy a couple as backup. Bloodroot defines the word "ephemeral" I think the beauty is worth a yearly investment. I seek the double.... |
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- Posted by arbo_retum z5 WinchstrMA (My Page) on Sat, Apr 30, 11 at 14:54
| same experience here. I don't grow the single. the double just makes the loss more expensive sigh. The other thing is , the flowers last shorter time than any other i can think of. 3 days maybe. phoooo. just give em up i say. The End. best, mindy www.cottonarboretum.com/ |
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| The bloom time of Twin Leaf (Jeffersonia diphylla) is even shorter than that of Bloodroot. |
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| Oddly, I planted a few of those bulbs you get in little packets.... and I have Bloodroot by the bushel! My friend planted some twice and they never made it. Very strange! |
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- Posted by billjoebob va (My Page) on Sun, May 1, 11 at 14:20
| I can't kill them fast enough. They spread like a wild fire in all my beds and I'm constantly yanking them out. |
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| I lose portions of my clumps to voles fairly regularly. Do you have voles in your garden? Even with the short bloom time, my garden will never be without double bloodroot. Marie, Uncanoonuc Mtn Perennials in Goffstown has double bloodroot every year without fail. She is sold out already this year. I've gotten mine from her and many years ago purchased plants for every member of my family that gardens because I thought they were so beautiful and wanted to make sure they all had one! |
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| I had the same issue this year...still had some, but my huge drift was gone. I looked last night, and there are a lot of seedlings growing there, so hopefully my drift will be back next year. |
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| None of you who love - and have lost - sanguinaria are going to like this story, so avert your eyes. . . Twenty years ago, when I moved into a co-op in New York City, I brought Marie: one of my favorite nurseries in this tri-state area carries your Carl |
Here is a link that might be useful: Well Sweep Herb Farm
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| Carl, so does "Garden Visions" epimediums in western ma. I hope to go there this weekend for their only open nursery this spring. They carry two kinds of doubles! Don't have the catalogue right here, though to tell you the differences. Marie |
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- Posted by silvergirl426 z5 (My Page) on Wed, May 4, 11 at 18:15
| I love them too -- and I feel blessed that they love me back. I dug some out from the woods behind my stone walls for my woodland bed, and they reward me by multipying. Yes, ephemeral is thy name, bloodroot. Since I'm only at my house on the weekend, I missed a whole drift whose petals fell before I could even clap my eyes on them last week. Since they are one of the first bloomers for me in my z5 garden, I luvvvvvv them even more! |
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| I am in process of trying to get a woodland garden going. A couple years ago I planted bloodroot, and thought I lost it. But low and behold today I spied one lone flower! There are 2 more comeing.....such a small treasure, I hope they multiply. |
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| We should write a fecundity blessing for our bloodroots. Marie |
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