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~smile~ A lady after my own heart.
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I did get some may apples from a friend nearby. Do they die back in the summer? They have disappeared.
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Yes....They do go dormant until next Spring. Something to remember lest you think the area bare and plantable.
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Now you tell me.....Do cowslips go dormant? Some of my transplants are looking mighty frail. Is there such a thing as being too damp and shady?
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I planted some of the may apples alongside the edge of my pond as intended....
I then planted quite a few very young butterfly weed-Asclepias tuberosas between. I think that combo should work out quite well as the butterfly weed's slow to come out of dormancy, the may apples do their thing, then disappear just as the butterfly weeds start to take off. Right now, the echinacea and blue lobelias are taking the show, the water lilies, in full bloom with the ratibida pinnata awaiting its turn along its back side.
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That's good news. I sure hope to see them next spring.
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Caltha palustris, does tend to go dormant.
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Let us know how it turns out. I have to wonder, is swamp milkweed, A. incarnata, as slow to come out of dormancy as A. tuberosa? That might be a more viable solution for the water's edge.
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Kinda, sorta I guess because I was wondering just where they were for a long time under the lower ground cover that I have in that area.
So far the A. tuberosa I planted two years ago are surviving in the pretty moist hugulculture bed surrounding the pond. Right now the humoungus ratiba pinnata overhang it but in spring there are other varieties that will shade the mayapples. I'ts located pretty near the house so it's not in full sun all day long. Just morning pretty much as the taller things block the rays once Summers full swing. By then the mayapples are back in the ground anyway. The only thing is.....They MIGHT not be planted as deep as they should be as I hit the under laying not yet decayed logs of the hugulculturness. We'll see come Spring. That's the reason why all my chickens aren't in the same basket so to speak. I'm scattering them here and there to see what works best.
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