Re: the Grand Poobah speaks
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- Subject: Re: the Grand Poobah speaks
- From: "* T* <m*@clark.net>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 03:21:09 -0400
Ah, Margaret, that explains it. I didn't know such an animal as a hardy
amaryllis existed! Do they look like the non-hardy kinds?
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: Margaret Lauterbach <mlaute@micron.net>
> Date: Wednesday, July 22, 1998 9:40 AM
>
> At 01:49 AM 7/22/98 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> >I may have missed a beat here, but why don't you just pot them up now?
Or
> >are you trying to force bloom for Christmas or something?
> >
> Marge, these are hardy amaryllis, sent by Barb Boese. Barb grows them
out
> of doors at her home in Dodge City, Kansas. I think that's about zone 5,
> and she does grow them in a sheltered location, and protects them with
> mulch in winter, but they zoom up and form very large attractive displays
> in spring, I think. She also sent me some of the bulbs. She says put
them
> ON the soil, and they'll plant themselves. She sent me some last year
that
> didn't plant themselves, but that was my fault because the soil in the
> location I chose was too hard and dry. I'm keeping it moister this year,
> but have a screened cage over the bulbs to ward off squirrels. The
"bulbs"
> are not bulbous, they're rather flat, like the offshoots of leeks that
have
> flowered. Margaret
>
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