Swamp Culture and Hymenocallis

Kipp McMichael kimcmich@hotmail.com
Thu, 07 Apr 2016 13:39:34 PDT
Rimmer,
  I do not know the species, but my uncle once harvested a Hymenocallis native to estuaries around Mobile Bay (Alabama) for my aunt. He yanked it right out of the slough-side where it grew in 15cm of standing water. He planted it at home in a flowerbed outside the kitchen window. The plant prospered there for decades, in sandy loam, never again experiencing standing water (though Alabama's climate meant it got frequent rain).
-|<ipp

> To: rdevries@comcast.net; pbs@lists.ibiblio.org
> From: ds429@frontier.com
> Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 16:19:19 -0400
> Subject: Re: [pbs] Swamp Culture and Hymenocallis
> 
> Dear Rimmer,
> 
> I suppose some members from the American South will respond too, but the first time I ever saw hymenocallis in the wild was in a watery swamp in Florida. Not sure which one it was.
> 
> Dell
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> From: Rimmer deVries
> Sent: Thursday, April 7, 2016 3:26 PM
> To: Pacific Bulb Society
> Subject: [pbs] Swamp Culture and Hymenocallis
> 
> I was reading an old issue of Herbertia/ Plan Life from 1981 in which TM Howard discussed growing some Hymenocallis in "swamp culture” as in totally submerged situations.
> He mentioned Hymenocallis traubii and H. littoralis like being totally wet, with the water levels 2” above the top of the soil, as in pots in a tub of water
> WET!
> I thought a saucer below the pots was adequate but this description is much wetter.
> 
> does anyone grow Hymenocallis in pots this wet? if so which Hymenocallis like this much water? 
> the PBS wiki says Hymenocallis sonorensis grows at steam edges do any other of the Mexican hymenocallis like this much water or just like a good soaking weekly?
> 
> can these Hymenocallis take this much water in winter while dormant?
> 
> Rimmer
> 
> SE Michigan
> Zone 6b
> sleeting outside
> 
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