Urginea maritimum
Lauw de Jager (Thu, 10 Jun 2004 13:42:18 PDT)
Dear John,
The foliage may suffer some frost damage. But the bulb, which is very much
on the surface, may need some protection by a mulch. Like with Paul this
species easly withstands -6-8° Provides the spot is well chosen (sunny,
sheltered and well drained).
Regards
Lauw
le 8/06/04 15:02, Paul Tyerman à ptyerman@ozemail.com.au a écrit :
Lifting Urginea maritima for the winter would be disastrous, as it is a
winter-growing plant from Mediterranean coasts - whence it is collected for
export by unscrupulous bulb companies. It is extremely frost-sensitive and
will promptly be killed by more than a degree or two of frost.
Well don't you DARE tell that (the frost sensitive bit) to the bulbs of it
that I grow. ;-) Maybe we here in Aus have a strain that doesn't mind
frost but my 2 bulbs of it even just took without any problem an
unseasonably early -5 followed by -6'C the two mornings over the weekend.
So many other things got hit badly as this is VERY early for that hard a
frost here and a lot of things were still only closing down for the winter
and hadn't completely hardened off (so to speak). So many plants in our
garden pulped to a certain degree that would normally easily accept -6'C
later in winter when they have prepared for it. Even with this early low
the Urginea maritima are doing just fine and not looking like they've been
damaged in the slightest. Big healthy leaves are still there, having
emerged in teh last month or so and still growing.
They went through last winter fine as well, taking -8'C as well
Lauw de Jager
http://www.bulbargence.com/
South of France (zone 8 Olivier)