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Re: Zaluzianskya capensis

> For the second year I have managed to kill all my flourishing seedlings
> of Zaluzianskya capensis, which is supposed to be a very easy annual from
> South Africa with a strong evening fragrance of almond. Virtually overnight
> the plants wilted and died. No bugs I could see. Was fertilizing & watering
> regularly. Anybody else have a problem with these?

   Sorry, no. Growing them fairly hard though with afternoon shade, I
managed to bloom all the half dozen or so seedlings I got. Could be as was
suggested that you were treating them too well, but these at least would
have been started in ordinary peat-based Sunshine #1 under no great intensity
of fluorescent lighting. In a house (this may be it) that until well into
spring can't be heated to more than about 15 degrees above ambient.
   Climatic factors may have been at work here (in Kansas), but the scent
was neither as pervasive as advertised nor more important, as desirable.
Rather like what someone said about the Giant's Causeway on the north coast
of Ireland, that it was worth seeing but not worth going to see.

BK---

"I have seen gardens which were all experiment, given over to
every new thing, and which produced little or nothing to the owners,
except the pleasure of expectation."
   ------Charles Dudley Warner, My Summer in a Garden (1888)
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