Perceptions of Zones and Hardiness
hornig@usadatanet.net (Sat, 07 Feb 2004 11:16:52 PST)

Arnold - no, everything just goes into the gardens as they are. The soil
is generally a clayey loam - close to neautral, reasonably fertile, fairly
moisture-retentive. Gardens occasionally get amended with nursery compost
(mostly MetroMix 510, plus perlite and whatever other stuff typically ends
up in compost: judging from the results, more baby arisaemas and cyclamen
than we intend!). As I said, we're on a hill, so there's an inevitable
downward trend of free moisture. For example, I have several Kniphofia
caulescens growing in a swale that is completely liquid in early spring
(here, April-May), and they love it. The true bulbs and corms are not in
wet spots - I do try to site them on definite slopes. Other than that,
nothing gets special conditions or soils -

Ellen

Original Message:
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From: Arnold Trachtenberg arnold@nj.rr.com
Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 13:38:49 -0500
To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [pbs] Perceptions of Zones and Hardiness

Ellen:

Do you take any special precautions with the soil/medium that you grow
all the South African bulbs in?

Arnold

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