Polianthes and Manfreda crosses

Dennis Kramb dkramb@badbear.com
Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:16:39 PDT
Jon Lindstrom wrote:
> Some thoughts on these crosses:
> Manfreda virginica conveys winter hardiness to the F1 crosses, but
> the flower form strongly resembles the Manfreda (with the color
> from the Polianthes parents). I am not especially enamored with
> this but hope some advanced crosses improve upon it. The hybrids
> though are vigorous and clump up nicely with age.
>   

How tall are these?  They look lovely!

Dennis in Cincy (who would be happy to test for cold hardiness)  :)


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