Re: [SG] calla lilies
At 01:14 PM 6/17/99 -0400, you wrote:
>I would suggest that your callas have lost their roots. Check the
>collapsed one and see if the roots are still alive. This can happen if
>callas are kept too wet in a heavy soil. Do your pots have drain holes?
>For me callas have always been foolproof both in containers and in the open
>ground. But they do require good drainage. Too-wet soil cuts off oxygen
>to the roots and they die.
Bill, Does it depend on the type of calla lily? I am not an expert on them,
but the ones I grow are in a heavy clay soil that has horrible drainage.
With record rain falls this year (by March we had exceeded our average
yearly total) the callas didn't miss a beat. I haven't really researched
callas but I assumed they could take wet soils. Mainly I assumed this
because they grow in a friends yard that becomes a lake every winter. These
are the big callas with the white flowers. They are hand me down plants so
I can't even tell you which ones they are.
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Washington state of rain.
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