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Asarums in NE Georgia

18 years ago

Anybody growing asarums in the Athens/Atlanta area? How do they do? If they do well, where do you buy them?

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sugarhill
18 years ago
I have asarum splendens. It is great. Evergreen, beautiful, flourishes on complete neglect. I've had it three years now. It's doing well. Got mine at Goodness Grows over in Lexington. I have it planted at the edge of a woodland garden. I love it. This year I'm trying to start some from seed for another woodland garden. Don't know if that will work out or not.
Iris GW
18 years ago
I have the locally native ones, Hexastylis arifolia and Hexastylis shuttleworthii. I also have the deciduous one Asarum canadense. To clarify: According to C. Ritchie Bell, author of the Flora of the Carolinas, only the deciduous species are still in the genus Asarum, the evergreen types are now placed in the genus Hexastylis.
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razorback33
18 years ago
There are about 110-120 species(opinions vary) of Asarum in the world and about half of those are easily or moderately easily cultivated in this area. I would start with some of the Eastern US natives, A. arifolium, A. shuttleworthii, var. harperi(the so-called Callaway Ginger), A. minor, A. virginicum, A. naniflorum and by all means A. speciosum, a species found only in 3 Ala. counties, that has the most spectactular flower(calyx) of any US native!
Japanese species that do well here are; A. asperum, A. caulescens(deciduous), A. costatum, A. hexalobum, A. kiusianum, A. kumageanum(1st choice for attractive leaves), A. megacalyx, A. minamitanianum, A. nipponicum, A. sakawanum, a. subglobosum, A. takaoi, A. yakusimensis & A. hirsutisepalum. Chinese species; A. splendens(mentioned above), A. maximum(Panda-faced Ginger), A. campaniforme(Hort.)(species A. campaniflorum?), A. chinensis, A. forbesii, A. delavayi, A. magnificum, A. porphyronotum, A. longerhizomatosum & A. macranthum(Tiawan). I have these, plus others in my garden and they require little or no special attention after becoming established. Largest threat to new plantings is animal curosity and being uprooted. Best trnsplanted in fall or spring, but have reset them successfully anytime during the year.
PM me for some sources of many of the mentioned species, two that are located in the metro Atlanta area.
Rb
sugarhill
18 years ago
Rb, with all those wild gingers your place must be paradise. I would love to know your sources too.
jeff_al
18 years ago
plant delights nursery has some nice wild gingers. they have the one mentioned by razorback(asarum speciosum) listed but currently out of stock. perhaps this spring they will offer it again.
here is a link to their asarum page:
http://www.plantdelights.com/Catalog/Current/page7.html

also, barry glick's sunshine farms website has some listed (see asarum and hexastylis at that site).

Here is a link that might be useful: sunshine farms
weera
17 years ago
Can anyone in this forum help me getting any Asarum species? I need this genus for some ongoing scientific research at the university of Mississippi. Thanks very much! My contact e-mail is arunaw(at)olemiss.edu

Here is a link that might be useful: Personal webpage

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