Hardy Hippeastrum

Judy Glattstein jgglatt@gmail.com
Wed, 24 Feb 2016 13:01:01 PST
The replies so far have all been focused on temperature. That is 
certainly an important consideration. However - I think soil type / 
drainage is at least equally important.

My New Jersey garden has a heavy clay-ish soil. No idea why Fritillaria 
imperialis is happy and multiplying by offsets but let's just ignore it 
for the nonce.

My Connecticut garden of happy memory had that mythical high organic, 
moist but well drained gardener's holy grail and everything grew 
wonderfully well.

My opinion - cold wet soil will kill geophytes that would have survived 
equally cold but better drained soil.

Judy in New Jersey where today is - again - overcast with rain, rain, 
rain (at least it doesn't need shoveling) and the first galanthus and 
eranthis are in bloom



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