Crinum in MO - replies

gentiaan bulborum bulborum@gmail.com
Sat, 05 Jun 2010 04:40:19 PDT
Hello David

Agapanthus - old wisdom, which I find true, roots have to be confined if
they're to flower.

I think they need time to flower
in the nature are no pots and they flower freely there

Roland

2010/6/5 David Pilling <pbs@pilling.demon.co.uk>:
>>       David, I'm not sure what does well in your specific climate,
>>but here they revel in summer heat ( 94 degrees today!).  Perhaps
>>someone with experience closer to him can reply.
>
> x powelii survives here, flowers, forms offsets - but not impressive.
> Ellen Bosanquet, leaves appearing now and on past form it might form a
> flower by the end of November, in time for the first frosts.
>
> I'm glad to see all the advice to plant crinum deep. There's another
> string of advice on the web which says plant them with the tops of the
> bulbs above ground, and in my experience temperatures just below zero
> will then kill them.
>
> Agapanthus - old wisdom, which I find true, roots have to be confined if
> they're to flower.
>
>
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