Friends, I grow Crinums in Kansas City’s northern suburb where it is Zone 5/6. We always get to 0F or below each winter. Crinum’Ellen Bousanquet’ has survived barely, but rarely blooms. C. bulbispermum and C. xpowellii and var. album all survive ,. bloom and multiply. Crinum ‘Super Ellen’ is great, but needs a lot of room. Totaly hardy, flower stalks to 6 ft. This year -and it was a very bad growing season - it had around 14 huge multi-bloom flower spikes over weeks and weeks of bloom. Highly recommended to plant it deeply and mulch the first year, then just feed it like crazy. I noticed some of these reports have not mentioned specific names of Crinums and they are not equally hardy or tolerant of wide climate variances. without a name these comments are not very helpful. Best Jim W. On Sep 23, 2015, at 2:28 PM, Ernie DeMarie via pbs <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> wrote: Probably best to provide a good mulch for Ellen Bosanquet, I dont think it is supposed to be one of the hardiest of crinums. C. bulbispermum on the other hand survives here in both US and S African seed grown forms without issue, and the last two winters were exceptionally bad, also C x powellii has also survived unprotected. I thought I lost the pink form in my school garden (its been there for years) but it is fine, and the white form I planted last year at home also has come back. Neither seems quite as vigorous yet as C bulbispermum, and it is also good to plant the bulbs a bit deep. I also planted out a Super Ellen rather deep in the front yard, I will give it some wood chip mulch to protect it when winter comes, but it is supposed to be one of the hardiest of the hybrids. We shall see. Ernie DeMarie Briarcliff Manor NY zone 7/6 border _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/