Few Lycoris in Europe ?

Kelly Irvin kellso@irvincentral.com
Thu, 23 Feb 2017 11:24:44 PST
Very good point, Jim M., and likely true. The majority of the British 
Isles is, concerning cold hardiness, like our zone 8. This is barely 
cold enough for the spring foliage species to bloom reliably here in 
the U.S. It's, however, ideal concerning cold hardiness for most fall 
foliage species. But, I believe as you say, the summers are just too 
temperate to get reliable bloom from these. Add to all this the fact 
that Lycoris take at least three years to mature enough to bloom in 
the first place, with Nerine offering more color choices and Amaryllis 
offering a good trumpet form as an alternative to L. squamigera.

All that said, Lycoris FOREVER!

-- 
Mr. Kelly M. Irvin
10850 Hodge Ln
Gravette, AR 72736
USA

USDA Cold Hardiness Zone 6a/b

On 2/23/17 12:24 PM, Jim McKenney wrote:

> My take is that they fail in California because the summers are so dry. I suspect that they fail in Europe because the summers are so cool.
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