Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Haves, wants for spring swap, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Hi, All-

Hey I'm finally sitting down and resting.....Been in the Garden since 11AM! Took a pain pill and just kept rolling. Now I am tired. It must have worn off.

I went sceounging for something to dig up in my neighbor's yard. Relax! No one lives there now. The house is empty and the yard/Garden is a mess. My neighbor moved into an assisted living facility last summer. Anyway----she has a lot of Nandinas (Heavenly Bamboo) growing everywhere. I thought i would dig some up and pot them in 1 gal. pots. All the dug up ones had some roots attached. Being a bamboo, they won't even blink for the disturbance. So---I will have 6 one gallon pots of Nandina. Will go and add it to my "Haves" list. I have also started about 4 Aloe clump divisions. Some of them have no roots yet, but will. I know they will root! Have done it many times. Some of them will have roots--as I plan to pull up all the other ones (3) that are still in the big pot. Will add those also to my list.

Jill----the picture of your "Rose Campions" is NOT really a Rose Campion. It is called that regionally, but the RC has different bloom shapes and also reddish stems. I had quite a discussion going last year after I returned from my trip to AK. My sister had some RC's in her yard. I took pictures and posted them and there followed quite a discussion of the differences between the two. I went looking back to all my Posts to find them and post a Hyperlink here, but that is just too tedious a project for my short attention span brain.



What you have is "Lychnis Coronaria". AKA as "Catchfly" or as I have always known it--"Corn Cockle".

This is a picture of the Rose Campion in my sister's garden.