I never would have expected in a group of plant lovers and aficionados to have this kind of response...roflmao....this is just priceless...
Mr. Kyle Fletcher Baker, MCN Maine Zone 5 --- On Tue, 1/11/11, Jane McGary <[email protected]> wrote: Kyle's questions are the sort of thing that we often get asked to answer on questionnaires for societies to which we belong, and as always, they're impossible to answer. "Favorite plants" change from season to season and year to year. If you have thousands of species, as many of us do, it's like being asked to name your favorite book (unless you're one of those people who can automatically reply "the Bible"). Even defining the worst plant one ever planted is hard (though I'd probably nominate Pentaglottis sempervirens). As for "rarest plant in your collection," few of us would like to answer that one, because we would immediately get attacked by preservationists who claim that we should never have acquired seed of it in the first place -- no matter that almost all the seed of the wild population is eaten by deer and rabbits before it can propagate the species. Or by beetles -- see my other post on Lomatium. And "last plant purchased"? Who among us ever bought one at a time? If I could grow rosulate violets I would, but as Cohan mentioned, the seed is difficult to germinate (I tried a lot of tricks when I had quite a bit of it). And once you do get seedlings, they're likely to elongate into forms rarely seen in their alpine habitat, and flower miserably if at all. Cohan might have better luck with them, and also Jane Hendrix, if they stayed safely tucked under all that snow until warm days arrived. The species with which people have had the best results is the widespread Viola cotyledon, but it's relatively loose in form even in the wild. There are, however, a few annual species, such as V. frigida, and I wonder if these would be easier to grow? Jane McGary Portland, Oregon, USA At 02:48 AM 1/11/2011, you wrote: Turning to plants for a bit... 1) What is your favorite plant family? why? 2) What is your least favorite? Why? 3) Your favorite species? 4) Easiest species to grow....for you? 5) Most difficult species to grow....for you? 6) Rarest plant in your collection? 7) Most common plant in your Collection) 8) First plant you ever grew? 9) Last plant purchased? 10) The plant you would grow if you could? Mr. Kyle Fletcher Baker, MCN Maine Zone 5 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Text inserted by Panda GP 2009: This message has NOT been classified as spam. If it is unsolicited mail (spam), click on the following link to reclassify it: It is spam! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Alpine-l mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/alpine-l -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ Alpine-l mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/alpine-l
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