Success with Scilla

richard xerics@cox.net
Tue, 01 Oct 2013 16:02:10 PDT
Well Steven, 
You are obviously experiencing global warming down under. We fortunate
people in the US are repeatedly reassured by leaders of the community that
such a thing does not afflict us!

-----Original Message-----
From: pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org]
On Behalf Of steven hart
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2013 3:57 PM
To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [pbs] Success with Scilla

Hello everyone, Its been a dreadful year in the garden, I went through a
warm wet winter to a hot dry summer, its getting dryer every year, even if
the rain fall keeps up.... So I got very few flowers on anything & almost no
seeds of anything... Even the biggest crinums are struggling with the dry &
many have gone semi dormant to survive ... The hippeastrums decided to
surprise me though & the soaking winter didn't stop them budding & now there
is beautiful hybred pastel pinks, a couple of reds, some cute miniatures & a
lemon in flower so far.. They are a beautiful treasure...

Despite the weather giving me some trials, I started to experiment with
small Silla this year & have successfully grown & flowered a few species
from central Turkey, I don't have their names handy but I purchased them
from Hillview nursery in  freezy Tasmania & was told I would have absolutely
no chance of growing them up here, but I have been very successful so far &
I love their very small bunches of gorgeous blue flowers, they were so cute,
even got a few seeds....

I gave them no special attention, just straight into very poor shallow soil
in a very dry rocky garden bed where oodles of leaf mulch drops & I
occasionally water them if I think of it.... Amazing !!!!

Any Aussies who like them, I think it was worth the experiment & I will
update if they survive & flower next season...

--
Steven : )
Esk Queensland Australia
Summer Zone 5  Winter Zone 10





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