Bob; I would heartily recommend Schizostylis since the flowers are long lasting cut flowers and a clump can easily provide color for two months, at least in cool weather. I hope to see if I can get them to bloom again in Summer, maybe by August. I would not suggest growing them with carnivorous plants since the Kaffir lilies like fertilizer and that would discourage the pitcher plants from forming pitchers. Your idea of growing them with Siberian Iris is a good one, although the iris need a bit of water flow and would not like the stagnant water the Schizostylis will tolerate. But the Schizostylis will love a really moist situation. There are supposedly 81 varieties of Schizostylis in the RHS Plant Finder. The cultivar registration authority has only registered 19 varieties. Supposedly the current British National collection holder has about 36 varieties. None of these references provide descriptions. I am very interested getting more varieties and discovering their differences. I had added images of some of the cultivars I grow ato the iris wiki at https://wiki.irises.org/Ird/… I am keenly interested in discovering the differences between cultivars. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> Cc: "Robert Lauf" <boblauf@att.net> Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 4:11:08 PM Subject: Re: [pbs] Schizostylis Schizostylis coccinea - Plant Finder | | | | | | | | | | | Schizostylis coccinea - Plant Finder | | | They call it river lily for a reason. After reading this, I'm tempted to find one and grow it with my Sarracenias and see how it does. I have the Sarraceneias in pure milled peat and the pots are on pavers in a shallow pond so the bottom of the pot is standing in about an inch of water. As Tony Avent describes it, wet feet but dry ankles. Siberian iris can also be grown this way for a pond-edge feature. The only thing I would fear is that exposed in a pot, the Schizostylis might not be winter hardy here. If anyone has tried it, I'd like to know, because this has piqued my curiosity! Bob LaufZone 7Oak RIdge, TN On Tuesday, May 12, 2020, 03:30:39 PM EDT, Robert Pries via pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: Dear Bulb- lovers: I have recently been pleased to have six cultivars of Hesperantha coccinea come into bloom this Spring. Please excuse that I like the old name Schizostylis. Schizostylis is supposed to bloom in the fall and a couple of years ago I had one do this but it bloomed so late I had to bring the pot indoors while it finished blooming in November and December. It subsequently went dormant and I assumed it had died. Probably if I would have stored it in a cool place it would have reappeared with water in the Spring. I believe much of the information on the internet is misleading. After a good deal of research it seems that while Fall blooming is normal, people have reported bloom off and on all year long. I grimace a bit when I see reference to well-drained soil. My experiences for the last couple of years have been that if in a well- drained soil the plant is more likely to die at any sign of drought. I had one plant that seemed to have gotten too dry in late spring that I plunged into a bucket filled with water just above soil level. The plant started growing rapidly all summer and I have since decided it does better as a pond plant. I have been experimenting with longer and longer periods of inundation and am convinced that well-drained is not something it prefers although off and on I do let the water level drop to an inch below the soil surface. I am anxious to hear of other people experiences. _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… -- Bob Pries Zone 7a Roxboro, NC (336)597-8805 _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… -- Bob Pries Zone 7a Roxboro, NC (336)597-8805 _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…