Sinningias
Tony Avent (Fri, 11 Apr 2003 14:31:36 PDT)
Bonaventure:
I have not personally tried Sinningia leucotricha, but one of our
customers has found it to be completely hardy to about 12 degrees F in the
ground, about 1 hr east of us. I will be planting this soon.
At 04:46 PM 4/11/2003 -0400, you wrote:
Tony Avent writes:
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.
What about S. leucotricha? Has a bulb, sort of. My only gesneriad but one
of my favorite plants.
Bonaventure Magrys
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