Crinum
- Subject: Crinum
- From: T* K* E*
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 08:44:20 -0500
I haven't been online to see if they're on the net yet, but TyTy nursery in
Georgia had the best collection of mail-order crinums I've ever found.
Holly Hill, in Moncure, NC, also sells potted crinums, but Jim Massey
doesn't do mail-order. Stop by if you're ever heading to FL on Old US 1...
I have 8 or 10 bulbs that I rescued--found them lying on the ground near an
old farmhouse. When I found them, they were dried and mushy, but I dug them
in and four or five months later (which was August), most had sprouted.
Didn't bloom for a few years, but now they're fat and happy. I think these
were Milk and Wine, white with a red stripe. I've also purchased several,
one white, one pink--Ellen Bousanquet?
I'm at the very southern edge of 7B--officially, zone 8 starts about half a
mile south of me, but my next-door neighbor grows zone 8 plants that freeze
in my yard. Welcome to microclimates. We leave our crinums in the yard.
Like amaryllis, they like to be crowded. Jim Massey has beds that must have
100 bulbs in them. Given that the cheapest I've even seen them was $3 for
non-blooming size, and they go up to $100/bulb for the rare ones, this is no
mean collection of plants.
But you always envy what you can't grow--I salivated over the naturalize
hymnocallis I saw growing in Sydney a few years ago. They won't quite make
it here.
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