Re: [aroid-l] Symplocarpus

From: "Petra Schmidt" <petra at plantdelights.com> on 2004.04.16 at 16:44:21(11402) I've seen it growing like weeds along a creek near my home town in Wisconsin, Rand...the creek floods each spring but is otherwise narrow and shallow; the land has been owned for years by a gun club so plants are pretty much safe and have been growing nicely over the years. There's also a huge old colony over near Muckwanago (private land as well) growing along the boggy shores of a lake there. You can't quite canoe into the colony and walking in the muck is impossible...I'll bet there's dinasoar bones in the depths of those skunk cabbage roots! In Minnesota, I've seen them growing in wooded low swampy areas as well; the S. nipponicum is also hardy there. Petra +More ----- Original Message ----- To: Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 2:36 AM Subject: Re: [aroid-l] Symplocarpus > >Hi Rand > > > >I can only speak from cultivation experience of two of the four species - > >foetidus & renifolius. > >. Another thing they certainly dislike is stagnant water-logged soil > >and it seems that in a bog garden there should be some throughflow of moving > >water rather than it simply being a muddy hole! > > Here in Wisconsin, they often grow in wooded swampy areas with no > actual running stream nearby. > > -- > Don Martinson > Milwaukee, Wisconsin > Mailto:llmen@wi.rr.com > >

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