Morea polystachya - hardiness continued
Lauw de Jager (Fri, 26 Nov 2004 23:27:10 PST)
Dear Jim,
May I join your delight as I have same experience here. Now we have a
raher mild autumn/winter. But in the passed years even frost down to -6-8
°( 20-25? °F) does not affect the foliage and seed capsules. When the cold
period has passed new buds open again. Seed is generally not set during the
colder periods and but the autumn flowering capsules can be sown during the
spring
Kind regards
le 27/11/04 1:45, James Waddick à jwaddick@kc.rr.com a écrit :
This fall has been exceptionally mild, but earlier in the
week snowfall dropped nearly 10 inches and totally buried this Morea.
Temps only dropped to about the mid 20s (F- 03 -4C). Warmer weather
has melted all the snow and the Morea is unphased. Open flowers are
mostly mashed, but unopened buds look ready to open in a day or two.
It has bloom with 1,2 or 3 flowers at a time almost continuously for
the past 7 weeks. Inches away are plants of Hippeastrum xjohnsonii
and they all have severe frost damage to the foliage while foliage of
the Morea is untouched.
Lauw de Jager
Bulb'Argence
Mas d'Argence
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