next message in archive
next message in thread
previous message in archive
previous message in thread
Index of Subjects
Index of Subjects Guides (I.e. Audubon) say all parts of this plant are poisonous. Birds and mammals probably avoid their seeds. If you want to try increasing your population: 1. Collect ripe berries in fall, mash them a bit and plant fresh before they have had a chance to dry out. They take at least 2 yrs to germinate. Or 2. Separate cormlets which sprout around the edges of the parent form in fall. (Both from 100 East-to-Grow Native Plants for Canadian Gardens) Nancy Sent from my iPhone On 2013-06-30, at 1:03 AM, David & Alison Webster <dwebster@glinx.com> wrote: > Dear All, June 30, 2013 > A year after I made a woods road in North Alton (about 1988) two plants of Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema stewardsonii) appeared on disturbed soil generated by pick and shovel grading; the only 'stands' in these 70 acres that I have noticed. This rises the question of seed mobility. Do Squirrels or Mice dry and store these berries ? > > One survived only a few years and the second, helped perhaps by my cutting invading shrubs back, has gradually become well established.and in recent years has had several blossoms. This year it established a new record; 8 flowers earlier and 12 at last count (June 27); five now reduced to pale husks presumably over developing berries. So to really get a firm toehold it took 25 years. > > This plant is usually found only in seasonally swampy areas but this is I think only because the loose soil generated by frost action in soil over a shallow water table enables establishment of seedlings. The most vigorous plant I have encountered (1996), easily 1 metre tall, was on a steep slope of shifting soil produced when soil from a 101 highway cut was pushed over a slope during construction (west of exit 13; about 1970?). > > Yt, Dave Webster, Kentville
next message in archive
next message in thread
previous message in archive
previous message in thread
Index of Subjects