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Where is a good place to purchase locally? (Raleigh Area)

Which varieties do well here?

Jo

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Jo wrote:
Where is a good place to purchase locally? (Raleigh Area)

Which varieties do well here?

Jo

My SO says to go out the farmer's market. First building on
the right coming in. They will be coming in shortly
(seasonal)if not already. They are local growers gowning
varieties that perform well here.

Craig

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We have them at Earthworks at the Farmer's Market in Raleigh. One gallon
pots are $5. Syringa 'Miss Kim'

Tony

"Jo" wrote in message
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Where is a good place to purchase locally? (Raleigh Area)

Which varieties do well here?

Jo

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Craig Watts wrote:
Jo wrote:

Where is a good place to purchase locally? (Raleigh Area)

Which varieties do well here?

Jo


My SO says to go out the farmer's market. First building on the right
coming in. They will be coming in shortly (seasonal)if not already. They
are local growers gowning varieties that perform well here.

Craig
Thanks Craig and SO!


Jo

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Tony Cottle wrote:
We have them at Earthworks at the Farmer's Market in Raleigh. One gallon
pots are $5. Syringa 'Miss Kim'

Tony

"Jo" wrote in message
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Where is a good place to purchase locally? (Raleigh Area)

Which varieties do well here?

Jo




Thanks!I will be heading over shortly!

Jo

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Actually No where - they do very poorly here in the south.

Summers too hot and winters too warm

Which is why you do not see them around in most of the garden stores.

Tomatolord

"Jo" wrote in message
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Where is a good place to purchase locally? (Raleigh Area)

Which varieties do well here?

Jo

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I found they did too well....lol
Jo, I wish you had been looking a year ago. I had to pull them out of
my yard and would have loved to have someone to give them to...sigh
A friend had given me three different varieties (all common to the
northeast US) from his grandmother's garden - white, deep lavendar and
light lavendar (sorry, don't know the varieties). I remembered their
propensity to form bushes so I paid more attention to trimming branches
rather than what they were doing within the soil. Before I knew it,
they had taken over my entire garden with runners and new shoots.
They had sun from sunrise to around 1:30 pm each day and did very well
for the few years I had them planted. So I'm not sure why Tomatolord
told you that they do poorly.
Hope you find some. My neighbors miss picking them and I sure miss
their heavenly aroma.
Mary

wrote:

Actually No where - they do very poorly here in the south.

Summers too hot and winters too warm

Which is why you do not see them around in most of the garden stores.

Tomatolord

"Jo" wrote in message
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Where is a good place to purchase locally? (Raleigh Area)

Which varieties do well here?

Jo

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Lavendar? yes... Lilacs? not so yes.

"marymind" wrote in message
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I found they did too well....lol
Jo, I wish you had been looking a year ago. I had to pull them out of my
yard and would have loved to have someone to give them to...sigh
A friend had given me three different varieties (all common to the
northeast US) from his grandmother's garden - white, deep lavendar and
light lavendar (sorry, don't know the varieties). I remembered their
propensity to form bushes so I paid more attention to trimming branches
rather than what they were doing within the soil. Before I knew it, they
had taken over my entire garden with runners and new shoots.
They had sun from sunrise to around 1:30 pm each day and did very well for
the few years I had them planted. So I'm not sure why Tomatolord told you
that they do poorly.
Hope you find some. My neighbors miss picking them and I sure miss their
heavenly aroma.
Mary

wrote:

Actually No where - they do very poorly here in the south.

Summers too hot and winters too warm

Which is why you do not see them around in most of the garden stores.

Tomatolord

"Jo" wrote in message
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Where is a good place to purchase locally? (Raleigh Area)

Which varieties do well here?

Jo

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Not Lavender, the herb....lavender the color!!
I'm so sorry you've had a bad experience with lilacs but perhaps you
didn't plant the proper variety for NC....mine did just fine.
M

wrote:
Lavendar? yes... Lilacs? not so yes.

"marymind" wrote in message
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I found they did too well....lol
Jo, I wish you had been looking a year ago. I had to pull them out of my
yard and would have loved to have someone to give them to...sigh
A friend had given me three different varieties (all common to the
northeast US) from his grandmother's garden - white, deep lavendar and
light lavendar (sorry, don't know the varieties). I remembered their
propensity to form bushes so I paid more attention to trimming branches
rather than what they were doing within the soil. Before I knew it, they
had taken over my entire garden with runners and new shoots.
They had sun from sunrise to around 1:30 pm each day and did very well for
the few years I had them planted. So I'm not sure why Tomatolord told you
that they do poorly.
Hope you find some. My neighbors miss picking them and I sure miss their
heavenly aroma.
Mary

wrote:


Actually No where - they do very poorly here in the south.

Summers too hot and winters too warm

Which is why you do not see them around in most of the garden stores.

Tomatolord

"Jo" wrote in message
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Where is a good place to purchase locally? (Raleigh Area)

Which varieties do well here?

Jo

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Jo wrote:
wrote:

Lavendar? yes... Lilacs? not so yes.

"marymind" wrote in message
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I found they did too well....lol
Jo, I wish you had been looking a year ago. I had to pull them out
of my yard and would have loved to have someone to give them to...sigh
A friend had given me three different varieties (all common to the
northeast US) from his grandmother's garden - white, deep lavendar
and light lavendar (sorry, don't know the varieties). I remembered
their propensity to form bushes so I paid more attention to trimming
branches rather than what they were doing within the soil. Before I
knew it, they had taken over my entire garden with runners and new
shoots.
They had sun from sunrise to around 1:30 pm each day and did very
well for the few years I had them planted. So I'm not sure why
Tomatolord told you that they do poorly.
Hope you find some. My neighbors miss picking them and I sure miss
their heavenly aroma.
Mary


That is a shame. I have seen them all over the place growing up tree's
and over my neghbors fence.They do take over, but we have forest behind
us and we were hoping to fill in some of the gaps with it. :)

I didn't get to go to the fairgrounds last weekend, but I will try and
get there this week and hope to find some.


Jo

Sounds ilke Wisteria to me, growing up trees, etc.

Lilacs
 

That is a shame. I have seen them all over the place growing up tree's and
over my neghbors fence.They do take over, but we have forest behind us and
we were hoping to fill in some of the gaps with it. :)
Jo

And EGregory replied:

Sounds ilke Wisteria to me, growing up trees, etc.

Sure does. Wisteria is a vine, lilac is a shrub. Please compare these
photos, Jo:

http://ken.coar.org/images/Wisteria.html
http://jardin-mundani.info/leguminosae/wisteria.jpg

http://www.velvetgreencreations.com/...ges/lilacs.jpg
http://www.ext.nodak.edu/county/cass...b/lilacmsk.JPG

The last link is a photo of the Lilac cultivar 'Miss Kim' which does very
well here. I have a huge shrub in full bloom right now.

Donna

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E Gregory wrote:
Sounds ilke Wisteria to me, growing up trees, etc.

Read this. Better yet, read it aloud. Funny!

http://www.supernet.net/~jclark/fiction/wisteria.html


Daniel B. Martin

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Daniel B. Martin wrote:
E Gregory wrote:
Sounds ilke Wisteria to me, growing up trees, etc.

Read this. Better yet, read it aloud. Funny!
http://www.supernet.net/~jclark/fiction/wisteria.html

That IS funny. Thanks for the link!

Wisteria isn't as bad as kudzu, though. :-) I recall someone
saying, years ago: "The way to deal with kudzu is this:
Hit it with a flamethrower, then salt the ground and set off
a small nuclear bomb. That won't kill the kudzu, but it will
slow it down enough to let you get away." :-)

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I had heard this too so when I saw a vendor at the Farmers Market
selling them I asked him how they would do. He said the variety he
sells will do well in our climate. He is close to middle of the market
on the fish market side. $12.00 for a 1 gallon. I have bought a great
deal of shrubs from him and they have all done well except for my
camellias which seem to be coming back a little now. Probably my fault.
Leaves turned yellow. He is a horticultural graduate from NC State and
seems to know his plants well.