Re: [Aroid-l] Zantedeschia hardiness

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-20F! Yikes!! We are feel stressed to the limit here when temps go down to 0F and the wind chill feels like -20. Nearly killed wrapped up Musella lasiocarpa and Cortaderia. But Gladiolus also survive here, the big florist types. I figured I'd "dig their graves", 2 spade-depths down into the sandy subsoil, & they loved it. I'm tempted to try it on some of the more tender Arisaemas and get my paeoniifolius down there, albeit with a plastic dropsheet winter wetness protector.
Bonaventure

----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Marak <samarak@gizmoworks.com>
Date: Saturday, March 5, 2005 7:05 pm
Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Zantedeschia hardiness

> Similar story here, Bonaventure. (NW Arkansas, solid USDA zone 6, 
> little snow
> cover, wildly fluctuating temps rarely down to -20 F [-29 C] in 
> winter.)  
> Except that for me, they're all hardy except the one that should 
> be, Z.
> aethiopica, the big white one.
> 
> I've had a couple of varieties out for more than 10 years now, and 
> several 
> generations of their children as well. Others just a year or two, 
> but so far 
> seem equally happy. At this point, except for aethiopica, which 
> just isn't 
> going to grow outdoors for me, I toss them in the ground and am 
> very confident 
> that they'll show up next year, regardless of their parentage. 
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 bonaventure@optonline.net wrote:
> 
> > Sue, I'm here in central coastal NJ where Alberta clippers have 
> been bringing
> > near 0F temps regularly in winter. Its still cold and the top of 
> the garden
> > soil is still frozen, but Zanties,a small floriferous pink and a 
> medium white
> > with white-speckled leaves, are buried deep within the sandy sub-
> soil, and
> > have for several years been getting several inches of organic 
> mulch a year. A
> > 'Goliath Yellow' or something like that, has not survived. They 
> sprout and
> > quickly come into bloom in early summer. Bonaventure Magrys 
> Cliffwood Beach,
> > NJ
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Susan Cox <snalice@dslextreme.com>
> > Date: Thursday, March 3, 2005 0:02 am
> > Subject: [Aroid-l] Zanthedeschia 'coburn'?
> > 
> > > To the person it may concern, or anyone else who might know:
> > > 
> > > I received a Zanthedeschia from a person in Ireland (I can't 
> remember who
> > > now, sorry) several years ago.  It was told to me that this 
> particular> > Zanthedeschia survived a terrible, terrible freeze 
> in Ireland (I think)
> > > when many other very hardy plants did not survive.  I am 
> hoping to find the
> > > variety name. 
> ...
> 
> 
> -- Steve Marak
> -- samarak@gizmoworks.com
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