Re: link on stinky plant

Hum is right, Donna - it's on Plant Delights site so you ought to be
able to get there.  Here's the full URL

http://www.plantdelights.com/Catalog/Images/sld19885.jpg

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
Shadyside Garden Designs
> hum... for whatever reason, the snurl claims I do not
> have permission to view...
> 
> If someone gets thru, please email me (off list) the
> actual link.
> 
> TIA
> Donna
> 
> --- Marge Talt <mtalt@hort.net> wrote:
> 
> > You're nowhere as far behind in reading this list as
> > I am, Ceres:-)
> > 
> > Well, voodoo lily is a common name for at least 3
> > genera of aroids:
> > 
> > Sauromatum guttatum, now Typhonium venosum, 
> > Synonyms: Arum cornutum,
> > S. venosum;
> > Amorphophallus - any one of about 200 species - all
> > from mostly
> > tropical climates;
> > Dracunculus vulgaris (AKA Arum dracunculus)
> > 
> > I have lost Sauromatum in the garden; have one
> > Dracunculus that's
> > hanging in outside in the garden - so one is hardy
> > for me and the
> > other isn't quite tho' I do know Sauromatum is hardy
> > in Holland and
> > slightly south of me.  Have not tried overwintering
> > either of these
> > inside but would hazard a guess that they would take
> > cooler dormant
> > temperatures and may not want to get completely dry
> > since they can
> > overwinter outside in the garden....won't swear to
> > this, however:-)
> > 
> > I grow 4 different Amorphophallus species - one in
> > the ground (A.
> > konjac) and 3 in pots - A. bulbifer, A.
> > paeoniifolius and A. dunnii. 
> > All are overwintered in their pots; allowed to go
> > dry but kept in the
> > laundry room where daytime temps approach 68-70F.  I
> > have read posts
> > on Aroid-L from those who remove the tubers from
> > their pots and keep
> > dry in the house on shelves, desks or hung in net
> > bags on the theory
> > that the pots don't dry out well enough and the
> > tubers may rot if
> > they don't, as mature tubers from the most common
> > species need to be
> > kept dry in dormancy.  Immature tubers and those
> > that make long
> > skinny tubers need to be kept just damp or they will
> > desiccate.
> > 
> > Your donor said he'd potted bulblets - well, a.
> > bulbifer makes these
> > at the junctures of the leaf blade, so I wonder if
> > that's what you've
> > got?  Did it have a marvelously patterned stem as
> > well as a very neat
> > leaf?  http://snipurl.com/kcqd
> > 
> > So, in answer to your question, if your voodoo is an
> > Amorphophallus,
> > the temp. under your stairs would be the only issue.
> >  If it stays 50F
> > or above they'd be fine there; if it gets colder you
> > need to shift
> > the pot upstairs to some corner where it's warmer. 
> > If it's one of
> > the others, it would probably be fine.
> > 
> > Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
> > mtalt@hort.net
> > Shadyside Garden Designs
> > 
> > ----------
> > > From: Cersgarden@aol.com
> > > I am a bit behind but   your conversation
> > regarding stinky plants
> > reminded me 
> > > of a plant a gentleman gave me this past summer
> > that he called
> > Voodoo Lily.   
> > > The foliage is stunning and I loved it in his
> > garden.   He gave me
> > a pot of 
> > > what I think he said were bulblets that he had
> > potted. He said they
> > were not 
> > > hardy for him so I left them in the pot, let the
> > foliage die off &
> > stored them 
> > > in the basement under the stairs as I do my
> > Eucomis, Sprekelia,  
> > Zephyranthes, 
> > > etc.   Think this was a good choice?
> > 
> >
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