Scilla peruviana

Jane McGary janemcgary@earthlink.net
Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:46:06 PDT
Scilla peruviana (despite the name, about which there is a "confused 
botanist" story) is native to Spain, where it grows in the mountains 
at mid elevations. I grow it outdoors in Oregon, where it survives 
and flowers after winter temperatures in the mid-teens F. It is well 
adapted to dry summers, which Barbara probably does not have in New 
Mexico -- I believe the rains there are mostly in late summer? In the 
wild, I saw it growing amid shrubs and in roadside ditches, in 
considerable shade.

Jane McGary

At 06:16 PM 6/27/2010, you wrote:
>I recently bought a bunch of geophytes in a fit of enthusiasm. One 
>of them is Scilla peruviana. Has anyone grown it in the ground in a 
>colder climate?
>
>- Barbara Weintraub
>Santa Fe, New Mexico
>6700 feet elevation
>(Think high desert)
>nominally zone 5b


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