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[Matt Demmon <mdemmon@gmail.com>]

Humidity; neglect; lots of rain. Actually, they did fine the first
year. Ones that I left out over the winter in pots died. Ones I stuck
in the basement wintered over fine, but struggled and died. The one or
two I put in the ground hung on, but died at some point.

I assumed they liked more dry. And maybe more sun and less competition.

-matt
z5 se MI

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Sarah Kehler Ewing <skkewing@yahoo.com> 
wrote:
> What happened during the downhill slide Matt?  Cold, dry, disease, etc.
>
> My seeds came from Jim Ternier of Prairie Garden Seeds and they came as a 
> package of dry loose seeds.  I grew some the first year and they were 
> amazingly easy to deal with: no damping off and they grew to 12+" in the 
> house.   Anyway, I grew plants from the same seed package the next year and 
> had the same stupendous germination and growth results in spite of the 
> extra year of drying time.
>