Re: Crocosmia lucifer
- Subject: Re: Crocosmia lucifer
- From: B* C*
- Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 14:54:52 -0400
>In a message dated 8/8/01 4:03:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>campanin@ntx1.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>
> > .
> > So--please--someone tell me what they really want--these blazing red
> > beauties--if they are to live and bloom in zone 5?
> >
I deleted the original email by going too fast for my brain to catch up, but
did I see that you said you couldn't get them to blooming size from bulbs?
This seems very strange because I have no trouble getting them to bloom the
same year from just the bulbs (or are they corms?). In fact most people
growing them here in Canada do just that, since they are not considered
reliably hardy here (although they can be with good deep snow cover and very
sharp drainage).
Mine are about half way through their bloom period right now as a matter of
fact, and I am in a new garden and just planted them this spring. Try
treating them like glads and dahlias -lifting them for the winter and
storing them in vermiculite or whatever.
Bob Campbell
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