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General Subjects => Alpines => Topic started by: John85 on April 23, 2011, 09:20:06 AM

Title: erigeron argentatus
Post by: John85 on April 23, 2011, 09:20:06 AM

Is this a tricky plant?It looks nice but seems not to be often grown.Why?Is there somebody who grows it and has an explanation?

Title: Re: erigeron argentatus
Post by: Brian Ellis on April 23, 2011, 09:54:08 AM

I have had it two or three times and lost it.  I wish I knew what the secret was, it probably doesn't like our soil :-\

Title: Re: erigeron argentatus
Post by: John85 on April 23, 2011, 08:17:00 PM

And how is your soil?Where did you grow it?Rock garden,raised bed,border?Do you think it needs a pane of glass and that your plant died because it was too wet during the winter?

Title: Re: erigeron argentatus
Post by: Brian Ellis on April 23, 2011, 09:06:01 PM

John our soil is very free draining, I grew it in a sunny border but, as you say, it may well have been the winter wet that killed it.