[aroid-l] Arum purpureospathum & dioscoridis hardiness

Dear MArge;
No one else has replied so I'll try. I have grown various forms of dioscoridis here off and on for a while including much colder winters and have it in the ground now. The trick (as always in heavy limey clay) is good drainage- raised bed, hillside drainage, added drianage stuff-sand gravel etc. etc.
Mixed on purpureospathum. I have it in pots in both a cold frame and cool-frost free greenhouse and it is easy, but have yet to give it full sway outdoors except perhaps by accident.

In Zone 7 you should have little or no trouble, but watch drainage always.
Oh- Full sun or mostly so. Should be easy and worth trying a least a few of your babies if not all. Jim W.
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Dr. James W. Waddick
8871 NW Brostrom Rd.
Kansas City Missouri 64152-2711
USA
Ph. 816-746-1949
E-fax 419-781-8594

Zone 5 Record low -23F
Summer 100F +

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