On 08-16-97 MARILYN BOISSONEAULT wrote to BILL MADDUX... 
 
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 MB> BM> Been quite awhile since I've been on here, so I haven't gotten 
 MB> BM> to  talk gardening since way back in the Spring. 
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 MB> Good to see you back in the echo,  I hope you stick around and 
 MB> talk gardening some more.  I guess you're talking about the 
 MB> perennial type of dianthus. Are those the ones that smell good? i 
 MB> understand some dianthus smells real good, but what I grow 
 MB> doesn't have much smell.  I grow the annual type of dianthus, but 
 MB> I don't think the other type will grow well here in Florida.  I 
 MB> forget where you're from. 
 
   Hi Marilyn, 
     I live just minutes east of Tulsa, Oklahoma. My place is small and in a 
    run down neighborhood. Any flowers around this 'hood is a blessing. 
    Actually, I've seen some nice stuff being grown by some of the folks 
around
    here. My place has trees around it that mess up me having really nice 
garde
 
    I'd like to sell and relocate where I could really garden. 
      Dianthus is a very large genus. The list of varieties is extensive. The 
    Sweet Williams per say are most likely Dianthus barbatus. Cottage pinks 
is 
    another term that some use when referring to them. My two plants are 
    perennial. As far as fragrance goes I really haven't paid that much 
    attention. Mine grow near my Phlox divaricata plants and those usually 
    fill the Spring air with perfume. Although we don't have harsh Winters it 
    still freezes. I have this one Dianthus chinensis that I bought as a 
filler
    plant and it should have died off at the end of its first season but that 
    thing has been with me now for three years. Truth is I usually only try 
to 
    go the true variety species varieties of plants and stay clear of hybrids 
    and crossed up plants. I have this one Dianthus plant that looks like a 
    cross of barbatus and chinensis and it had three separate colors of 
flowers
    on the one plant. Now thats odd... 
                              Until we meet again...Bill M. 
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