Lee: We have never had seed to set on our Pancratium foetidum, but check with Archibald seed and perhaps they still carry it. Tony Avent Plant Delights Nursery @ Juniper Level Botanic Garden 9241 Sauls Road Raleigh, North Carolina 27603 USA Minimum Winter Temps 0-5 F Maximum Summer Temps 95-105F USDA Hardiness Zone 7b email tony@plantdelights.com website http://www.plantdelights.com/ phone 919 772-4794 fax 919 772-4752 "I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself...at least three times" - Avent Lee Poulsen wrote: > Tony, > Do you offer this species for sale? > > Jim, > I've grown several Pancratium species, some of which are even mature. :-) > But I've never had any of them bloom. I've even had P. zeylanicum for 15 > years in a greenhouse; they're very healthy and have multiplied a great > deal since then (I keep promising to send some to Dell), but nary a > bloom have I ever seen from them. > Even the mediterranean climate ones I have (PP. maritimum, illyricum, > canarien-sis/-se), which should do well here, and grow well they do, > have never bloomed. > I have P. tenuifolium, but it's still too small to bloom. > Is Pancratium another one of those genera that only bloom when planted > in the ground? > > Does anyone know of sources for any of the other P. species, esp. the > Asian ones? > > --Lee Poulsen > Pasadena, California, USDA Zone 10a > > > Tony Avent wrote: > >> Jim: >> >> The only Pancratium that we have had success with outdoors is Pancratium >> foetidum which has been in the ground since 2000. It flowers for us in >> late July. >> >> >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > >