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Ken,

Exactly - red clay with excellent drainage makes no sense but I wanted to
describe the area like it is.  Perhaps it's a magical combination of sogg=y
and draining.  I think with marginally hardy aroids, you just have to buy
multiple ones and plant them in very different spots and see how each one
does.  I would be very nervous if I had the only specimen of something an=d
had to make that decision here in clay-heavy, humid, freezing, soil-heavi=ng
and shady zone 5.

Stacy Holtzman
Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center
Biology Dept., Jordan Hall A512
1001 E. Third St.
Bloomington, IN  47405-3700
Phone: 812-855-5782
Fax: 812-855-2577


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Aroids) [mailto:ARISAEMA-L at NIC.SURFNET.NL] On Behalf Of Ken Mosher
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To: ARISAEMA-L at NIC.SURFNET.NL
Subject: Re: Dracunculus vulgaris - first bloom

Hi Stacy,

Isn't "red clay with excellent drainage" an oxymoron? Clay pretty much
means no drainage, right?

I've wanted to grow Dracunculus in my zone 5a yard but I don't know
where to put it. I tried pots, didn't work at all. I do have a spot in a
bank with poor, very sandy soil that gets loads of sun in summer. It's
well away from the house so I don't care about bad smells. (I've been
planting that area with anything that flowers and spreads as I need to
stabilize the slope, daylily, tansy, monarda, evening primrose,
filipendula, may apples over in the shady corner.) I can't dig too deep
there, very rocky. Does that sound like a viable spot?

-Ken