Re: Surprise lilies and Maginot Line of bamboo
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- Subject: Re: Surprise lilies and Maginot Line of bamboo
- From: M* T*
- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 18:42:38 -0500
Pat...shhhhh...not too loud, bambie might hear you...am hoping bambie
is not up on world history:-)
Surprise lilies, AKA Lycoris squamigera, AKA Naked Ladies, etc., etc.
are known to sulk for some time when moved...can sulk for two or
three years, if they put their minds to it. As long as they are
producing foliage, they are doing fine. You won't know until later
in summer whether they have decided they like their home enough to
bloom this year. Foliage emerges early and then dies off and when
you've forgotten they are there, up come the stout stems and lovely
flowers.
Wish I could find something, however, to cover the ground in the
interim where my patches of them grow. I keep trying assorted
annuals once the foliage has died down, but nothing seems to work
well and they do leave large bare patches of ground for some time.
Foliage is so thick that nothing perennial survives...at least
nothing I've tried.
What do all of you who grow these lovely bulbs use to hide the bare
spots from late spring to late summer?
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: Pat <pattm@execpc.com>
> Date: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 4:59 PM
>
> > Have a
> >*lot* of bamboo, so mean to make a bamboo Maginot line here - not
> >really decorative, either, but am beyond 'decorative':-)
> Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
>
> Marge . . .. ummm . . .err . . you do realize that the *real*
Maginot
> line was totally ineffective? The Germans went around it . . . . .
>
> To keep this *legal* in the list sense, last year I posted that my
> surprise lily's foliage came up in spring but I never got flowers.
> Well, the foliage is back this year, so they aren't dead. Is there
> anything I can do NOW to better my chances of getting blooms this
> summer?
>
> --
> Pat
> pattm@execpc.com
> Zone 5 SE Wisconsin
> (still hoping for someone to tell me when they prune their
Buddleias
> back in my zone)
>
>
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