Sandersonia
Mary Sue Ittner (Sun, 10 Aug 2003 07:31:25 PDT)

Dear Katherine and Mark,

I should think you could grow Sandersonia in Vermont. When it is dormant in
winter, I leave mine dry in the pot and it has worked. So if you had a
basement or some place you could store the pot where it wouldn't be too
cold I would imagine that it would be fine. Mark is growing his in
Connecticut, but in a greenhouse. Perhaps he can tell you what he does too.
As I said before mine worked fine as a house plant the first time I
flowered it. I planted the tubers late August, they came up in September,
bloomed in November, went dormant. I replanted them in spring and then they
bloomed the following July. They were very quickly changed to the new
hemisphere.

Hopefully Rachel will say what the disease was. I believe it was fungal,
but can't find her message to me to verify this. They were growing great
quantities of them and lost a lot one year.

Mary Sue