Dear Paul,
I would appreciate a picture.
Thanks Hugh
--- Paul Tyerman <ptyerman@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> At 04:32 16/02/05, you wrote:
> >Dear Paul,
> > Do you have a picture of your
> Harrisiana?
> >You say it is the same as the Hughii?
>
> Hugh,
>
> I have been "told" that var harrisiana is a synonym
> for S. hughii but
> apparently that is wrong. Maybe that synonymy is
> just in what is in
> commerce around the place? According to Angelo in
> Italy there are very
> specific differences and he doubts that the real S.
> hughii is in
> cultivation, or at least not freely available. I
> can send you a picture if
> you'd!!
>
> >You mention 2 other forms which flower regularly
> when
> >the common species sometimes misses a year. Which
> 2?
>
> I meant that the 2 other forms I have (i.e the var
> harrisiana and the
> 'Alba') flower very very regularly while the
> straight species "can" skip a
> year. It was commented on one of the lists last
> year I think that it is
> common for S. peruviana to miss a year, but I have
> only ever seen it happen
> once. I have grown it for years in pots and I have
> never had a pot fail to
> flower, no matter HOW bad the conditions it was in
> were <grin>, but I HAVE
> had my clump that has been in the ground for 6 years
> miss flowering one
> year for unknown reasons. I was stumped until I
> read the comment about it
> being common for missing years. It obviously isn't
> "common" for it to do
> it here but it can on rare ocassions.
>
> The pure white 'Alba' has flowered every year I have
> had it in pots or in
> the ground, and the var harrisiana flowers in spring
> and/or autumn as it
> feels like it. I have found that the var harrisiana
> tends to be much more
> reactive to its environmental conditions as it tends
> to go dormant if it
> gets dry, whereas the straight species and the
> 'Alba' hold on for much
> longer. The var harrisiana tends to put up leaves
> whenever things are
> right for it, and I think this may be why it can
> flower in spring or autumn
> as it feels like it.... in a good year it can then
> flower in both spring
> and autumn rather than just sticking to spring like
> the 'Alba' and the
> straight species we have here. The harrisiana
> observations though are just
> from my own plants that I have been growing for the
> last 3 or so years. We
> are in a bad drought at the moment but the pots are
> watered regularly. It
> has behaved quite differently in similar conditions
> to the other ones,
> which is why I have noticed it so clearly. I do not
> know if these
> observations hold true for others as I have not
> spoken to anyone else
> growing it.
>
> Hopefully this explains more clearly what I was
> meaning.
>
>
> Cheers.
>
> Paul Tyerman
> Canberra, Australia. USDA equivalent - Zone 8/9
>
> Growing.... Galanthus, Erythroniums, Fritillarias,
> Trilliums, Cyclamen,
> Crocus, Cyrtanthus, Oxalis, Liliums, Hellebores,
> Aroids, Irises plus just
> about anything else that doesn't move!!!!!
>
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