Re: Crocosmia lucifer

In a message dated 8/8/01 4:03:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
campanin@ntx1.cso.uiuc.edu writes:


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   So--please--someone tell me what they really want--these blazing red
beauties--if they are to live and bloom in zone 5?


I've got them in unimproved clay at the corner of a bed inside a split-rail
fence.  On the outside of the fence are larger plants that shade this section
in late afternoon, but they're in full sun otherwise.  They were slow to
increase but have become a substantial crop over 10 years.  Couldn't tell you
how many exactly.  I never thought of them as increasing by seed, but perhaps
that's the case here and much of the seed doesn't fall into a propitious
spot?  I've never paid attention to that.  I also have no browning or
spotting.  I don't know whether this is a prescription for success for
everybody or not.  I also don't recall where I first acquired these, but I
suspect it was a pot from a local nursery, even a chain nursery, and that I
left them potted on the porch until they finished blooming and then let the
pot dry out and planted the bulbs/tubers in the fall.  Memory is short,
though.
Bill Lee
Z6b outside Cincinnati
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