Zone 6 Lancaster County PA > > Hi Tim, > Where are you located (zone)? Thanks for the info. > Ernie > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Eck <teck11@embarqmail.com> > To: 'Pacific Bulb Society' <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> > Sent: Thu, Jul 16, 2015 8:48 pm > Subject: Re: [pbs] Crinum - 'Super Ellen' > > > I think Jim Shields found C. variabile to be as hardy for him as bulbispermum > and he created hybrids of the two. Plant Delights had them but may not > offer > them. > I don't think scabrum is very hardy but its cross with bulbispermum > (Herbertii) is fairly hardy (6B?). I lost a lot of Herbertii to a cold winter > this year. > Cold and wet will kill a lot of things - so you can effectively > gain two zones by raking leaves over them in the fall and covering with > plastic. > I have crosses of bulbispermum and variabile with lots of others like > hardyi, ligulatum, lavranii, macowanii, firmifolium, carolo-schmidtii, > fimbriatulum, oliganthum, erubescens, and some hybrids that should be > hardy to > zone 6 or 7. >