Re: I. danfordiae
- Subject: Re: I. danfordiae
- From: e*@kkeka.ericsson.se
- Date: Wed, 6 Mar 96 01:37:30 MST
Tom wrote :
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> Guess what! Some I. danfordiae are coming back strong for their
> second year of bloom. I believe I did try planting this group deeper,
> but I don't think I planted them all that deep. Whatever I did
> or didn't do, it's given me at least a second season of bloom.
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> technical writer/editor Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Sorry to make you dissapointed, but I planted some I. danfordiae
in 1990 and they lasted (and bloomed) for 4 years.
I killed them I think by moving them to a shady place.
They were planted in the first time in a very steep slope, the earth is some
kind of morain
but it looks very much like powder when its dry, and they was'n fertilized
at all. In the summer that slope is turned against the south- and is rather
dry.
I read in a garden book last night and there it was told that I. danfordiae
was from the turkey and grown in holland, it must be fertilized and that it
developes small pseudo bulbs that needs to grow to flower.
Can you explain why I succeded !
regards Gunnar Andersson, sweden
