Comments on: More spring carpets http://blog.blithewold.org/spring/more-spring-carpets/ a garden journal about public garden maintenance, seasonal tasks, garden events, stories about gardening, volunteers, flowers, bugs and wildlife Sat, 25 May 2013 00:22:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: val gillman http://blog.blithewold.org/spring/more-spring-carpets/comment-page-1/#comment-16295 val gillman Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:00:03 +0000 http://blog.blithewold.org/?p=6548#comment-16295 Well, don't pick on me-I have carpets of white violets under my birches. I LOVE them and it's fun to edit them while they're blooming. It's your only chance to dig up the purple plants. It's always more fun to weed things that are blooming. <em>Val, I would never pick on you for loving violets -- I love them too! And have a very hard time editing them. But I do agree - to me, editing hardly feels like weeding when a favorite "weed" is in bloom. -kris</em> Well, don’t pick on me-I have carpets of white violets under my birches. I LOVE them and it’s fun to edit them while they’re blooming. It’s your only chance to dig up the purple plants. It’s always more fun to weed things that are blooming.

Val, I would never pick on you for loving violets — I love them too! And have a very hard time editing them. But I do agree – to me, editing hardly feels like weeding when a favorite “weed” is in bloom. -kris

]]> By: Carolyn B. http://blog.blithewold.org/spring/more-spring-carpets/comment-page-1/#comment-16282 Carolyn B. Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:44:17 +0000 http://blog.blithewold.org/?p=6548#comment-16282 My favorite would be masses of scilla or chionodoxa, for a sea of blue! <em>Carolyn, I'm so excited that chionodoxa naturalizes - that's a blue that brings me to my knees. -kris</em> My favorite would be masses of scilla or chionodoxa, for a sea of blue!

Carolyn, I’m so excited that chionodoxa naturalizes – that’s a blue that brings me to my knees. -kris

]]> By: Andrew Keys http://blog.blithewold.org/spring/more-spring-carpets/comment-page-1/#comment-16279 Andrew Keys Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:43:09 +0000 http://blog.blithewold.org/?p=6548#comment-16279 I need that Bergenia, Ed. Need! <em>Me too! -kris</em> I need that Bergenia, Ed. Need!

Me too! -kris

]]> By: Ed http://blog.blithewold.org/spring/more-spring-carpets/comment-page-1/#comment-16271 Ed Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:52:50 +0000 http://blog.blithewold.org/?p=6548#comment-16271 Kris, Is it from me? Can't really tell from the pic as It could be just B. ciliata, but I'm guessing it's Bergenia pacumbis (=B. ciliata f. ligulata) which I've been pushing lately because even though it's deciduous like ciliata, it's an uber foliage thing - Rheum-esque, with long petioles and dinner plate sized leaves. Should make it easy to find, anyway! <em>Ed, it's definitely from you a few years back... and I think it must be just straight B. ciliata or else it's struggling because I wouldn't have said the leaves were dinner plate sized. Clearly we need to make another visit to your nursery soon! -kris </em> Kris,
Is it from me? Can’t really tell from the pic as It could be just B. ciliata, but I’m guessing it’s Bergenia pacumbis (=B. ciliata f. ligulata) which I’ve been pushing lately because even though it’s deciduous like ciliata, it’s an uber foliage thing – Rheum-esque, with long petioles and dinner plate sized leaves. Should make it easy to find, anyway!

Ed, it’s definitely from you a few years back… and I think it must be just straight B. ciliata or else it’s struggling because I wouldn’t have said the leaves were dinner plate sized. Clearly we need to make another visit to your nursery soon! -kris

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