REPLY: [pbs] Lycoris/ Peony Ploidy
DaveKarn@aol.com (Fri, 13 Feb 2004 08:57:17 PST)

In a message dated 13-Feb-04 7:54:35 AM Pacific Standard Time,
jwaddick@kc.rr.com writes:

The is frequently grown in and about the southernmost reaches of Imperial
Russian Siberia -- aka Minnesota -- solidly UDSA Zone 4 and survives nicely,
thank you! I grew it in both a suburban garden and in a farm field North of the
Twin Cities where it had nothing to protect itself from the January deep freeze
but a barbed wire fence. I cheated a bit, however, by letting the weed
growth stay in the fall. This two feet (+/-) acted as a most efficient snow catch
with the result that if there was any amount of snow, the frequent winter
winds would just blow the loose snow into the catch where it piled up and
insulated anything underneath. While I didn't have that in the former suburban
garden, there was usually a winter mulch of several inches of straw to help stave
off the worst of that lethal winter cold in those years where snow was scarce.
I doubt that either of the people who bought our former properties have gone
to any extra trouble with this Lycoris. It wouldn't surprise me one bit that
this one grows and blooms there still in both places. Oh!, that it were only
fertile!!!

Dave Karnstedt
Silverton, OR (absolutely tropical, compared to the weather I left behind in
MN!!)