Re: alstroemeria

**K* M* <k*@iol.ie>**

Here in Ireland it seems that the problem is the combination of cold and wet - it will grow for me in well drained containers but in the soil it just rots away in the winter

kathryn

On 27 Feb 2010, at 05:24, debpits@aol.com wrote:

> 
>        I really don't know how to answer or express an opinion on these pages.  I usually get scolded.  I have been growing Alstromeria lutea for at least 10 years. My clump is about 3' x 3'.  It has spread to my next door neighbors yard.  A fabulous plant that blooms throughout the summer and is dynamite as a cut flower.  I live on a barrier island in MA just south of Boston  (not the Cape) probably zone 6b or 7a.  I have never been able to successfully divide the plant, but every year I have lots of seed.
> Deb Peterson, Rare Pit and Plant Council
> 
> 
> Subject: Re: [GWL] alstroemeria
> 
> 
> I'm in a warm zone 6, and I or the winter killed 'Sweet Laura' three years in a 
> ow. What's the saying? Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me; 
> ool me three times, and I must be a real slow learner. 
> 
> .L.

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