Re: Re: SPEC: Belamcanda chinensis
Hi Jan and All, I am glad to hear that I am not the only one who cannot get
their Candy Lillies performing. Mine also kick up their heels and grow and
then turn up their toes and sulk, only to disappear. I have tried sun,
partial sun/shade, shade, but havent yet fried any in hot sun. Not really
game to do that to them. I will also be waiting for any listers handy
hints.I do keep the water up to them, is this wrong?, They are not soggy.
P.S. Thanks for the species growing tips Jan. I planted everything ,
carrying your list around with me, which got considerably covered with red
dirt finger prints as the digging progressed. Now all I have to do is sit ,
wait and watch.Everything seems happy, the visible plants that is, the
others are still sleeping.Oh I cant wait for spring, all the TBs are
increasing wildly.....Yippee! Cheers All, Wendy.wendon@dcsi.net.au where the
cows are madly calving, lots and lots of babies...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan Clark" <janclarx@hotmail.com>
To: <iris-talk@egroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 8:40 AM
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: SPEC: Belamcanda chinensis
> >Interestingly enough, I started out a few years ago with a clump of
> >yellowey, clump of orange and a clump of purple (all three were dark
> >spotted) and two of the three clumps died out....... the only one that
> >survived was the purple.
>
> They don't seem to like it here. I will never know what colour mine was,
> because it seems to have disappeared completely.
> The Candy Lilies are much the same. They germinate like crazy, and grow
well
> at first, then start to weaken. I only have 6 left from the first batch of
> around 50 seedlings. I have planted them back into pots for the shift.
> I have 30 or so seedlings, which look very healthy, about 1/4" tall. I
would
> appreciate any suggestions for soil mix, sun/shade requirements, etc,
before
> I pot them on. I would very much like to keep these all going, and get
some
> bloom, and hopefully some more seed from them, as they were my last batch
of
> seed. (from Christie - thanks)
> Cheers, Jan Clark, Australia (zone 9, soon to be zone 8)
>
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