Re: arum care
- Subject: Re: arum care
- From: "gentian21" g*@insightBB.com
- Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 10:59:54 -0600
Arum Italicum Marmoratum is one of the few totally maintenance free plants I
grow. If the plant will grow for you are finished. You never have to
divide them and the dead foliage and leaves dries to almost nothing. No
fertilizing, no watering, no trimming! They will stay nice until it gets
near 0F or they are crushed down by the weight of the snow. It is a good
location for plants that you don't plant till hot weather and they go
dormant or die with the first frost. A good share plant is Begonia grandis
that will just be starting when the Arum is in bloom. They start dying back
and looking shabby just before it starts getting cold. I like to pull the
tops off as soon as they start looking bad. Besides one million Begonia is
enough, I don't need 10 Million. At the base of each leaf there is a little
bud that falls off and gives you a new Begonia the next year. In early
summer I have to bull up a leaf bag full of Begonias to keep them in bounds.
Frank Cooper
Urbana, Illinois USA Zone 5b
Record low temp -27 F (-32.8 C)
Record high temp 105 F (40 C)
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