RE: tuber roses

Hi Betty,

Well, I hate to sound like a "know it all," but once again you can tell that
"scent" is one of my top priorities.  The only time I've had success with
tuberroses was when they were grown in clay pots.  These are indigenous to
Mexico, I believe, so they like hot conditions.  In a southern/western
exposure, anything in a clay pot will get baked.  I don't know where you
live, but probably your soil can't warm up enough, or your season is not
long enough to bring on the flowers.  Try a clay pot -- it works!  Then just
winter them over in the winter in the pot inside somewhere.

Susan Saxton, zone 6b
For mine is just 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: moorman@teamzeon.com [m*@teamzeon.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 1999 1:02 PM
> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: Re: Scents

> Betty Moorman@ZEON
> 03/03/99 04:01 PM
> 
> The three scents that just knock me out are tuberoses, lilacs, and
> hyacinths.  The tuberoses are one of my current gardening 
> campaigns.   I am
> planning to give them a try again this summer.  (The last, 
> and only time I
> smelled them was when I was a little girl and an aunt grew them one
> summer.)  Last summer I planted some, they put up lots of 
> foliage, but did
> not bloom.  I dug the bulbs and will pot them this summer, instead of
> putting them in the ground, and plan to put the pot in an 
> area surrounded
> by concrete walls (without, of course, blocking the sunlight) 
> to retain as
> much warmth as possible.
> 
> 
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