Re: Sternbergia

In a message dated 10/24/01 8:43:51 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Blee811@aol.com 
writes:

<< I think Sternbergia would be perfectly hardy for you, Marge. Here in 
 Cincinnati we're called Zone 6a which means we're really a 5b with some Zone 
 6 plants surviving.  The Ohio River valley sometimes keeps us a little 
warmer 
 than we'd be otherwise.  If you drive 50 miles north or south, conditions 
 change. >>

Sternbergia is native to Asia Minor and southeastern Europe.  Most guides 
mention dry hot summers and basically a dry location.  They need time to 
build up a vigorous clump, Genders mentions 6 to 8 years, to bloom well.  A 
high pH plant.  It is a bulb no longer tried by me and is certainly not hardy 
here.  Sternbergia used to be in the bulb catalogs in years past but not so 
recently.  That is probably how I came to try it.  S. lutea has leaves 
appearing with flowers. It is the "lily of the fields" in the Bible so you 
can get an idea of the growing conditions.  

There is a free bulb list with many well informed members and little traffic 
sponsored by the IBS.  You can sign on without membership in IBS whish is 
40.00.  Recently IBS offered a membership on the internet ( 14.95)  with 
their publication online plus membership in the not-free list with world-wide 
bulb grower input.  Neither list have a lot of traffic so adding it is not 
much more email arriving.  The quality of the posts is excellent.  The 
instructions are on the IBS website found on any search.  (International Bulb 
Society)

Bulbs are a good field of interest for winter bloom, a northern states lack 
on the windowsill or plant room.

Claire Peplowski
NYS z4

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