If you're going to TRY and transplant a jack-in-the-pulpit, you'd better get
a lot of the surrounding dirt too. The soil acidity and other factors are
probably why the j-i-t-p is growing there, and no where else I the
flowerbed. At the least, they will need considerable shade.
Transplanting wild flowers is usually not successful due to lack of
considerations of the necessary environment. If your're going to try and
move them, take the surrounding environment too. Otherwise, bad idea.
Brian Huber
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From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of mahlon.r.haunschild@xxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, May 29, 1999 7:47 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] New macro subject
Hi, Zuiks.
So...
There I was, pulling weeds in the front yard flowerbed of my father's house
in
East Alton, Illinois....
weed... <pull>
weed... <pull>
weed... <pull>
weed... <pull>
weed... <pull>
jack-in-the-pulpit... <puWAIT A MINUTE!!!!
I kid you not, I found THREE of 'em in the flower bed! They're indigenous
to
this area of western Illinois, as we found out on the list a few weeks ago,
and
I remember as a child prowling in the woods that make up my dad's back yard
and
finding the doggone things in the undergrowth. These three plants, however,
are
growing in full sunlight in front of a wall. Weird, huh?
I started thinking about how I could get one or two of these plants home to
Florida to use as a macro subject. After all, I've got a perfectly good
Zuiko
50mm macro lens, a 25mm tube, etc. etc. etc. So , I was wondering if I
could
prey on someone here on the list who has more of a green thumb than I to
tell me
how to transplant one or two of these things. I don't think they'll last
the
summer in front of a south-facing brick wall, anyway. I also seem to
remember
that they grow from a bulb or corm of some sort. Thoughts?
regards,
Mahlon
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