Bulbs of south africa--Cyrtanthus breviflorus
Ellen Hornig (Mon, 13 Jun 2005 14:38:02 PDT)

One of my customers/trading buddies in Kansas reports that Cyrtanthus
breviflorus overwintered just fine for him in the open garden - and his
conditions must be harsher than my snow-belt ones, so I will certainly be
trying it here myself this year.

Persuant to other recent discussions, I've had a colony of a small form of
Tritonia disticha v. rubrolucens in the garden (top of the rock garden) for
many years, and it has now spread so far that part of it will have to be
removed to protect a fine Daphne arbuscula that used to be a safe foot away.
This year I put in a very large form of the tritonia - so big it looks more
like a gladiolus (from memory, close to 3ft/90cm tall) - also raised from
Silverhill seed, but started several years after the small form. I hope
it's as hardy as the little one - it's stunning.

Also: much to my surprise, several Galtonia princeps bulbs which I stuck in
last fall overwintered just fine, and are up and growing vigorously. This
is a lower-altitude plant than G. regalis and G. viridiflora, and I really
didn't expect it to make it. There are some advantages to living in the
snow belt!

Ellen Hornig
Seneca Hill Perennials
Oswego, NY USA
USDA zone 5 - average 10ft of snow annually
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ago.

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