Sinningias
Jamie (Thu, 10 Apr 2003 23:50:08 PDT)

Tony,

are your plants raised from seed by yourselves? Did you note how many
survived vs froze? I've been the opinion that any given batch of seed may
habour a few seedlings capable of adapting to climatic extremes. This is
very interesting. At those temperatures, I cound grow them in Cologne, no
problem! How are they with winter wet? Or is the rockery the solution!
There are often Sinningias available in Europe as cool-house house plants.
I'm gonna have to keep my eyes open.

Jamie V.
Cologne

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Avent" <tony@plantdel.com>
To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 10:00 PM
Subject: Re: [pbs] Sinningias

Alberto:

We grow Sinningia selovii and S. tubiflora here in NC in our full sun rock
scree. They have been in several years and have endured 9 degrees F (-13C)
with no problem (no mulch or snow cover). We also grow S. 'Tante', which
is an intermediate hybrid. We plan to put in another 30+ species this year
for trials. This was quite a surprise to us, but these seem far hardier
than their origin would indicate.

At 06:29 PM 4/10/2003 +0000, you wrote:

Tony Avent
Plant Delights Nursery @
Juniper Level Botanic Garden
9241 Sauls Road
Raleigh, NC 27603 USA
Minimum Winter Temps 0-5 F
Maximum Summer Temps 95-105F
USDA Hardiness Zone 7b
email tony@plantdelights.com
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three times" - Avent
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