Comments on: Hypertufa trough tapestries identified http://blog.blithewold.org/faq/hypertufa-trough-tapestries-identified/ a garden journal about public garden maintenance, seasonal tasks, garden events, stories about gardening, volunteers, flowers, bugs and wildlife Sun, 19 May 2013 12:25:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: val gillman http://blog.blithewold.org/faq/hypertufa-trough-tapestries-identified/comment-page-1/#comment-14435 val gillman Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:59:32 +0000 http://blog.blithewold.org/?p=5983#comment-14435 I'd like to find out why it's so hard for me to keep S. spathuifolium ‘Capo Blanco’alive. I thought I sited it well. My yard had perfect drainage(mostly sand)sunlight, slightly alkaline, room to grow. It was best when I planted it and went not so slowly down hill. It didn't make it till winter.Unless it doesn't like being looked at. I was infatuated with it. Part of my collection of min. semps planted near it did all right. So what does it need that I didn't have? <em>Val, It sounds like a bit of a mystery and I wish I knew how to solve it. Did you have a wet summer (like we did?) Is it possible it would rather be jammed in a crack than given room to grow? I think because you love it, you'll have to try again and I hope you have better luck this time. Also, while researching your question I discovered that I read our plant's tag wrong - It's Cape Blanco, named after its native home in OR. -kris</em> I’d like to find out why it’s so hard for me to keep S. spathuifolium ‘Capo Blanco’alive. I thought I sited it well. My yard had perfect drainage(mostly sand)sunlight, slightly alkaline, room to grow. It was best when I planted it and went not so slowly down hill. It didn’t make it till winter.Unless it doesn’t like being looked at. I was infatuated with it. Part of my collection of min. semps planted near it did all right. So what does it need that I didn’t have?

Val, It sounds like a bit of a mystery and I wish I knew how to solve it. Did you have a wet summer (like we did?) Is it possible it would rather be jammed in a crack than given room to grow? I think because you love it, you’ll have to try again and I hope you have better luck this time. Also, while researching your question I discovered that I read our plant’s tag wrong – It’s Cape Blanco, named after its native home in OR. -kris

]]> By: Louise http://blog.blithewold.org/faq/hypertufa-trough-tapestries-identified/comment-page-1/#comment-14166 Louise Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:22:13 +0000 http://blog.blithewold.org/?p=5983#comment-14166 Thanks, Kris - just what I was looking for. Now I can think about combinations and sources over the winter. I've tried blue-eyed grass before in the garden with no success - it just disappears. Maybe a trough will be the right spot for it. <em>Louise, It was a pleasure. A trough is absolutely the right place for the blue-eyed grass! That said though, we've had a patch (a bigger species - maybe angustifolia?) very tenaciously attached to one of the Rose Garden beds - I'm not sure any of us planted it there... But it sure is happy. -kris</em> Thanks, Kris – just what I was looking for. Now I can think about combinations and sources over the winter. I’ve tried blue-eyed grass before in the garden with no success – it just disappears. Maybe a trough will be the right spot for it.

Louise, It was a pleasure. A trough is absolutely the right place for the blue-eyed grass! That said though, we’ve had a patch (a bigger species – maybe angustifolia?) very tenaciously attached to one of the Rose Garden beds – I’m not sure any of us planted it there… But it sure is happy. -kris

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