Click Here To Visit The SRGC Main Site
Aaron - Thanks, the photos are there now. I should have been more methodical and recorded the kinds of coums I have lost over many years. I will duck out to the greenhouse as I believe coum ("adzharicum ex Pilous") is in flower now making it the earliest of the coums under glass. Untried outdoors as no idea which ssp. it is.Summer heat is not a factor here so I have to wonder which ssp. is the hardiest in the UK though real cold is not an issue for most of it, not the normal kidney leaf and rather plain.john
You mention the NY garden being in a snowbelt, snow is a great insulator, it will protect plants from the worse of the weather where other plants subject to heavy frosts can get severely damaged or killed. Do you get much snow in nova scotia?
I had great hopes for kuznetzovii as it had been touted as the super hardy one but Janis disagrees. He said he lost it and his climate would give it a very good test, if it had survived there then it would surely fly here if, that is, it could tolerate our spring & autumn wetness.