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Lovely erythroniums - guess what Keith Wiley and the BD speak about when they are together......... Loved that John Mitchell showed R. de T. the Hepatica falconeri that was in the last RBGE display at the Edinburgh show and which has featured in the forum .
Lovely erythroniums - guess what Keith Wiley and the BD speak about when they are together.........
I don't think the garden is open at all during 2015.
For those who missed it and cant wait for tomorrows repeat
It knows where I am. There is a big bar across the tulip picture which says Not available in your area.I feel left out.
Western North American Erythronium species tend to struggle here in my Midwestern garden. Here is a valiant E. multiscapideum hanging on: (Attachment Link) and here is another one still with us: (Attachment Link) Once upon a time, there were more of them in these spots. I think that West Coast plants of all kinds, evolved with cool, dry nights even in summer, don't take well to our warm, humid summer nights in Indiana.Jim
Jim,I got thinking about your Erythroniums. Your winters are very cold compared to our part of California. The California Erythroniums start active root growth in mid-winter and it seems that they will be unhappy if their roots remain frozen, and likely damaged by the extreme cold. Maybe a more likely cause for their poor performance. The ground never freezes deeply here, so the roots are never frozen.Something to think about.
Yes, a very good point. Plus our summer rains. I wonder if trying to grow these in the ground around here is a poor strategy? Would pots work better -- winter and summer in the greenhouse?Jim