Canarina

Lee Poulsen wpoulsen@pacbell.net
Tue, 23 Jan 2018 14:42:57 PST
This is another one of those winter growing plants that does not like radiation frosts on its exposed leaves. Paramongaia weberbaueri is another. (I now mark those species with their own special label.) The bulb or tuber doesn’t mind. Being in southern California, I grow these outside, but now I always place the pots for these under some kind of overhead cover like a tree with leaves or shade cloth or the overhanging eaves of the house.

I keep it outside all summer as well with my other dormant winter growers—which is a shaded area. It doesn’t seem to mind any of the hot days we get here during the summer and they get no water from the time they go dormant until mid-autumn. They just get larger each year; I just pot them into larger pots. Otherwise they require very little care.

--Lee Poulsen
Pasadena, California, USA - USDA Zone 10a
Latitude 34°N, Altitude 1150 ft/350 m

> On Jan 23, 2018, at 1:52 PM, Matt Mattus <mmattus@charter.net> wrote:
> 
> I’ve been growing Canarina for three years now in a cold, glass greenhouse (40° F min.) as a winter growing plant, but have had little luck with it as I think it just needed to mature a bit. 
> 
> Not sure if it was too cold, or wet. This year, it emerged with great vigor and looked promising in its 12 inch clay pot but a couple weeks in early January (during the N.E. cold ‘Bomb Cyclone’) the greenhouse must have dipped down colder near the glass and it is now frozen. I am guessing that the roots are still OK, but I am not expecting blossoms this year.
> 
> That said, all of the tuberous tropaeolum species survived as did most plants (aside from a bonsai Jade Plant) which led me to think that the Canarina was tender.
> 
> Matt Mattus
> USDA Zone 5B
> Worcester, MA USA
> 
> On 1/23/18, 4:48 PM, "pbs on behalf of Jane McGary" <pbs-bounces@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net on behalf of janemcgary@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
>    I grew Canarina in my bulb frames at my former place. It flowered, 
>    having survived temperatures down to about 22 degrees F under cover. 
>    However, I had made the mistake of planting it in a large terracotta pot 
>    with one drain hole. 
>    On 1/23/2018 9:42 AM, James Waddick wrote:
>> Dear PBSers,
>> 
>> 	Anyone in a cold/cool climate grow Canarina in their greenhouse?  I have been wondering about  growing a plant. Any one have seeds or tubers to share?
>> 
>> 	How hot can it take it in summer when dormant?
>> 
>> 		Thanks for input. 		Best		Jim W.
>> 
>> 
>> Dr. James Waddick
>> 
> 


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