Hi, I have grown this plant years ago but no longer do.One very hard winter put paid to it,and I never really found the right place for it in the garden. > Message du 04/11/07 20:47 > De : "Jim McKenney" > A : "'Pacific Bulb Society'" > Copie à : > Objet : [pbs] Chasmanthe floribunda > > I've had Chasmanthe floribunda outside for several seasons now, and it seems > to have settled into a winter growing pattern. Some earlier discussions of > this species on this list led me to expect it to crave heat; in fact, its > lack of bloom here was attributed to lack of heat by one contributor. > > This year the plant emerged in late winter and was growing very strongly > until it got hot. Although I watered it, once the heat kicked in it quit. I > wondered if that was it - if the heat had killed it. Today I see it emerging > in strength again. > > Is this species typically a winter grower in the Northern Hemisphere? > > Crinum x powellii 'Album' did the same thing: it died down during the heat > of the summer and is now putting up fresh foliage. > > Are these signs of the Mediterraneanizaton of our climate? > > I'm beginning to wonder if some plants are not sensing what some politicians > want to deny. > > Jim McKenney > jimmckenney@jimmckenney.com > Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, USDA zone 7, where, as if to contribute to > the Mediterranean theme, the Algerian iris, Iris unguicularis, is blooming > today, too. > > My Virtual Maryland Garden http://www.jimmckenney.com/ > > BLOG! http://mcwort.blogspot.com/ > > Webmaster Potomac Valley Chapter, NARGS > Editor PVC Bulletin http://www.pvcnargs.org/ > > Webmaster Potomac Lily Society http://www.potomaclilysociety.org/ > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > >