[medit-plants] Re: intro/question

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Hello fellow gardeners!!

I live in California and recently became a gardener.

I chose my e-mail name because of a nickname. You see my actual name is Horace. Friends have had fun with my name for years, I guess cuz its a little unusual. Upon retirement I started getting into gardening and so my nickname became "Hortus". My wife feels my gardening style is a bit strange so she started calling me "Hortus Confusus". It became my most popular moniker!

As I am learning on my own and late in life I guess I ask a lot of dumb questions. I hope that the following question is not too much in that direction.

I grow a lot of Calla lilies, the big white kind. Love em. They grow really well by themselves which is great. Recently I found a type with a pinkish tint at the base of the flower otherwise it is identical to those I already have. Planted these new ones in the same type of ground, exposure, etc. They just pine away and eventually die!!! And don't come back when my other plants sprout when it rains in the fall. Tried it three times now over as many years and it happened each time. I suspect the guy who is growing these (the only one I know who grows them) is using some sort of cultural practice. Is there a way I can train my new Callas to grow like my existing plants?