Babiana--TOW
J.E. Shields (Tue, 15 Apr 2003 05:42:58 PDT)

Hi all,

I've never mastered the trick of growing Babiana here. All I've tried have
been winter growing species; are there summer-growing species? It surely
must require a greenhouse in cold climates, but even in my greenhouse they
do not do well.

I have tried several babianas, from corms as well as from seed. To this
day, I've never seen one bloom, and most slowly waste away. My last pot of
Babiana is headed for the compost pile unless someone can tell me what the
magic ingredient is in growing them here.

Jim Shields
in central Indiana

At 09:35 PM 4/14/03 -0700, you wrote:

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