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Re: [SHADEGARDENS] Tender Bulbs

Charles, plants and bulbs don't read the books.  I think it's a good thing!
Gail Korn

At 01:06 PM 3/16/98 -0500, you wrote:
>I have several tender bulbs the elephant ears and water canna's. The Ag
>Ext person says those type of bulbs are not supposed to grow here in zone
>8a. I have notice that a lot of plants will grow here but when I look in
>my book Treasury Of Gardening or I look up a plant on my Garden
>Encylopedia CD. Let's take the gardenia for example they say is can grow
>only in zone 9 but it lives here too I wonder if those people that writes
>that information ever check their sources I don't belive they do. Both
>the elephant ears and water canna's and the gardenia's come back every
>year the gardenia is evergreen here in zone 8a. In other words what I'm
>saying I'm confused on how the people that publish that information don't
>realize that some plants will live outside of their zones.
>
>I know both the elephant ears and water canna's are supposed to be tender
>bulbs. I rooted my gardenia's in a jar of water and the Ag Ext person
>did'nt belive that it was possible to root gardenia's in a jar of water
>until I showed him.
>Charles Zone 8a
>
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