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Pulmonaria question

I was offered to take as much I want from this plant. Do you have it and is it good with Hostas? Right now it looks like a weed to me :-)


Comments (11)

  • 8 years ago

    I love it. In its glory in the spring, kinda quiet and subtle the rest of the time

    Claudia _michigan thanked oursteelers 8B PNW
  • 8 years ago

    my question would be.... how well it will transplant??? .. especially in the heat of a MI summer ...


    ken

    Claudia _michigan thanked ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
  • 8 years ago

    Hello Ken,

    thanks! I completely agree with you, but the plants will be killed today either way. At least they get a chance here.

    My friend also has “Feverfew” , but Iam most sure if this gets out of control easily.

  • 8 years ago

    Thank you outsteelers for your quick reply. I am going over to dig in 1 hour

  • 8 years ago

    its been near 100 for the last 2 weeks.. here in our MI ....


    dig a bunch ... put them in s nursery bed ... and try to nurse them along .. until fall.. when you can move them more freely ...


    the idea of a nursery.. is just to keep them all together for now.. for extra TLC .... instead of say.. having to drag the hose all over kingdom come .. and then forgetting about half of them.. since they arent hosta.. lol ...


    can i ask where you are.. big city name???


    of course you have to get some ... key word .. FREE .... lol ... and you will learn something.. even if all it is.. is dont bother transplanting in july ....


    you gotta do.. what you gotta do.. when you gotta do it .... its called a project ...


    ken

    Claudia _michigan thanked ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
  • 8 years ago

    I would dig as many as I could and keep the pieces as large as I could handle! I love this plant and its flowers. Great with hostas. It loves shade and average to moist soil.

    This is just a photo I took of my 3 inch vase with pulmonaria flowers:

  • 8 years ago

    Claudia, what Ken said and I have both. Pulmonarias are wonderful mainly for their foliage. Your particular one acts as a beautiful foil amongst other plants...like hostas. I have a sun tolerant one with thicker but long skinny leaves. Flowers in spring (like NHL’s photo shows) are beautiful and flower early.

    Feverfew is so easy to pull out ;easier than weeds! and reseeds easily but has lovely chartreuse foliage and sweet little flowers. If you want reseeding at minimum then just deadhead plants before they set seed.

    Claudia _michigan thanked josephines167 z5 ON Canada
  • 8 years ago

    Hello everyone... I just came inside thinking just a little sitting and than off to take a showe :-) but now Iam thinking I got to get that feverfew I left behind :-)

    i did get all of that pulmonaria. It does look a little different than on the picture I found online. We see how it does ... I also got a big big piece of a Hosta ... I know but I just couldn’t pass... that took me the longest to even dig out not ruining the mother plant.

    The lady would have given me more but I felt bad and at the same time I just wanted to dig away lol. I restrained myself tho


    Ken - Iam in Bloomfield / Birmingham

  • 8 years ago

    Wow a good sized division!! At first pic I was sure Brother Stefan, second pic I thought perhaps GE. GE has whiter petioles where BS has light green but the similarities are close ... based on what I have. You sure lucked in, Claudia!

    Claudia _michigan thanked josephines167 z5 ON Canada
  • 8 years ago

    I am cleaning up dried leaves in the garden and watering a bit of shaded plants. Here are the two kinds of pulmonaria I have but there are more varieties out there...this is the upright variety and very hardy and well behaved. Just cut off all the many flower stalks.

    This is a different one, a division I transplanted in the spring and one that benefits from more shade. It is just getting sunshine now close to 4 o’clock.

    Your gifted variety you received is very pretty...with or without flowers!

    Claudia _michigan thanked josephines167 z5 ON Canada
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