RE: Achemenes

Dee Ann, your helpful cultural advice is intriging and I am considering
taking you up on your offer to share.  One question first:  The room you
store these plants in for the winter.  How cold can it get?  I like you
don't want to bring the plants indoors and would have to keep them in my
garage.

Susan Saxton, zone 6b

For mine is a little old-fashioned garden where the flowers come
together to praise the Lord and teach all who look upon them to do
likewise.
Celia Thaxter

I AM in shape.  ROUND is a shape!


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dee Ann Scheller [d*@juno.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 4:27 AM
> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: Re: Achemenes 
> 
> 
> Good Morning to all Achimenes lovers,
> 
> I have been growing these lovely plants for about 10 years.  
> I fill every
> hanging basket that I am given with good potting soil and add 
> 5 or 10 of
> the tiny rhizomes (which resemble small pine cones to me) and then
> prepare for a long wait.  Some years I dispare of ever seeing them
> emerge,  but then finally they do and it is worth the wait. I 
> give many
> away and still when it is time to bring them in doors after the last
> bloom has finished--I always have 10 to 20 pots to clip off 
> all the old
> foliage put each pot in a grocery bag and tie shut , I just leave the
> rhizomes in the soil and hang the baskets in a storage room.  
>  I divide
> them in the spring, after they are up several inches.  I 
> didn't mention
> that you do not water them all winter.  When you start 
> bringing them out
> in the spring (about the end of March or 1st of April) then start
> watering.  I"m sure if you could do this earlier IF you have a green
> house or a sunny window, I just do not care for plants inside 
> my home. 
> One year I brought in ants that way.
> 
> I love the velvety dark purple flowers which resemble petunias (to me)
> and the foliage is a nice dark green on the top side and a magenta
> underneath and shaped like a peppermint with the saw tooth 
> edges.  They
> have been blooming for over a week, Maxine, who lurks on the 
> list has had
> blooms much longer as she waters regularly and gives them a 
> light dose of
> miracle grow on occasion.
> 
> I haven't had a need to make stem cuttings as they produce  sufficient
> amounts of rhizomes to start new plantings.
> I would be happy to send some of the tiny bulbs to any one 
> who wants them
> and sends me their address, PRIVATELY (THEY ARE ALSO 
> AVAILABLE FORM PARK
> SEEDS)
> Dee Ann in SW. Indiana  zone 6 
> 
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