Pasithea
Mary Sue Ittner (Sun, 01 Dec 2002 10:23:06 PST)

Dear All,

My original seed came from Jim Forrest in New Zealand who I suspect got his
seed from Flores & Watson. My comment about thinking it might need some
water during dormancy just came from my observation that the ones I planted
in a summer dry raised bed never came back. I have since given my dormant
pots occasional summer water and have had good luck. Mine stay outside all
the time so get heavy winter rain and occasional freezing temperatures. I
move them to the shade for summer. I guess I am going to need to try
planting one out again and see what happens.

Mine bloom in May and June which once again is later than in the UK. This
year I repotted into a larger pot and looked at it carefully and it
reminded me of some of those Australian geophytes with their amazingly
strange underground storage organs. From memory I'm not sure I can describe
it, but if Peter calls it a rhizome maybe it also has tuberous roots while
in growth.

Mary Sue