Crinum 2013

[johnralphcarpenter]

I planted one bulb of Crinum x powellii some ten or twelve years ago, and it has bulked up into a huge clump several feet across, flowering reliably every year.

[François Lambert]

Great display John.  I hope mine will prosper as well.

[jshields]

If x-powellii does well, you should try bulbispermum itself.  Even hardier is Crinum variabile.  We have also found some pretty hardy hybrids, especially [variabile x bulbispermum].

Jim

[johnw]

Those anthers are bizarre, lovely flower.

Jim: Are you able to grow this where you are?  I wonder if the mysterious big leaves I would have seen in old gardens around Richmond, Virginia back in the 70's & 80's were xpowelliis, late July or August?

johnw

[johnralphcarpenter]

If x-powellii does well, you should try bulbispermum itself.  Even hardier is Crinum variabile.  We have also found some pretty hardy hybrids, especially [variabile x bulbispermum].

Jim

I'm trying a variety of Crinum inclding those, but they are mostly not yet flowering size. Patience!

[jshields]

Those anthers are bizarre, lovely flower.

Jim: Are you able to grow this where you are?  I wonder if the mysterious big leaves I would have seen in old gardens around Richmond, Virginia back in the 70's & 80's were xpowelliis, late July or August?

johnw

John,
I grow bulbispermum, variabile, x-powellii, [bulbispermum x lugardiae], and [variabile x bulbispermumj] outdoors in the ground here in the open field.

Up against the south and east walls of one of the greenhouses, I have several x-herbertii types as well as 'Emma Jones'.  Crinum 'Ellen Bosanquet' and C. 'Super Ellen' do not do well here out in the open.  I tried [bulbispermum x macowanii] out in the field, but got only a 30% survival rate, so that cross is not so hardy.  The lugardiae parent of [bulbispermum x lugardiae] is not at all  hardy here out in the ground.


Crinum cf. x-herbertii #592 close to the greenhouse wall



Crinum variabile



Crinum 'Emma Jones' also close to the greenhouse wall

Jim Waddick grows a much larger assortment of Crinum hybrids outdoors in the ground in his garden in Kansas City.  In fact, it was Waddick who got me started growing them outdoors here.

Jim

[johnw]

That's amazing Jim, and I thought xpowelii was the hardiest and borderline in Z6.  While your lows are lower than here I think winter is more protracted here.

This Nerine bowdenii Quinton Wells hardy strain (formerly xwellsii) is looking promising (thanks to GerdK & his seed).  I am planting them further and further away from the house and they survive.

Jim Waddick certainly has inspired a lot of us to fill our gardens & greenhouses beyond capacity. Bamboos, Polygonatums, Sarumas, Asarums you name it it came from Jim.

johnw

[Boyed]

Here's a reliable Crinum spends winters outside buried deep in the ground.

Crinum bulbispermum.

Arnold, how deep you plant your crinum bulbs?

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