Re[2]: now Dierama

     
     
Thanks for the info, seems I have it in the right conditions, so I'll leave well
alone.  Sounds like I should expect to see some flowers next year, hopefully set
off well against the brown wooden fence partly covered in a prostrate 
cotoneaster I've trained upwards to break up the flatness.
     
I first saw this plant in a garden nearby where the owner saw me trying not to 
be too obvious at sneaking a look at what he was growing (very British of me). 
He invited me to look round the back where he had a collection of all sorts of 
rare plants & many not supposed to be hardy here such as Brugmasia planted 
outdoors.  He had worked at a nursery then as a builder & seems that whenever 
they dug up part of a garden for building, he would rescue any interesting 
plants.  He yanked several rooted seedlings out of the ground for me to take 
away, but alas, I had to buy my own Dierama.  Still I have a variegated 
honeysuckle and a couple of things I should be able to identify next summer. I'm
looking forward to being skilled enough to return the favour and pass on some 
choice rarity sometime.
     
Karen In Cheshire.
     
     
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Subject: RE:  now Dierama
Author:  Non-HP-maridube (maridube@teleport.com) at HP-UnitedKingdom/o2=mimegw3 
Date:    12/08/99 20:08
     
     
Hi Karen,  You have hit on one of my favorite perennials.  Dierama 
pulcherrimum grown from seed will form a little bulb in a year or 2.  The 
bulbs must get about the size of a U.S. half dollar (um, don't remember but 
maybe the size of a English coin worth a pound?) before they will bloom. 
That usually takes about 3 years.  They need excellent drainage and part to 
full sun.  Mine grow on a very dry west facing slope in the rockery.  They 
are definitely worth waiting for and so spectacular in bloom.  I have 2 
colors - pale pink and bright magenta.  They are called Angel Fishing Rods 
or Fairy Fishing Rods here and do indeed look like fishing rods when the 
seed pods are hanging down from those long wands.  Enjoy, enjoy,  Marilyn 
Marilyn Dube'
Natural Design Plants
Hardy Perennials, Choice Tropicals
Portland, OR   Zone 8b
     

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