Strange aroids (was Re: Hardiness of Pinellia cordata)
Ellen Hornig (Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:34:03 PDT)
This discussion reminds me: does anyone out there grow Typhonium
diversifolium in the open garden, and if so, what does it require? I've
been nursing a bunch of these strange Himalayan aroids in pots for years;
they seem to have an extraordinarily brief active period, but they're quite
enchanting when they're up. I haven't yet tried any in the garden.
Thoughts?
Ellen
Ellen Hornig
Seneca Hill Perennials
3712 County Route 57
Oswego NY 13126 USA
http://www.senecahillperennials.com/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roy Herold" <rherold@yahoo.com>
To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 7:17 AM
Subject: Re: [pbs] Hardiness of Pinellia cordata
One other point that I forgot to mention...
In the late 1990s I saw Pinellia cordata growing quite happily in
several gardens in the Ann Arbor, Michigan area, which is certainly a
subzero F region. These appeared to be established clumps as opposed to
spring replants. However, the leaf size was smaller and had less
variegation than the Yamazaki clone, so it may have been a hardier
strain. Most of the plants I have seen in gardens or nurseries in Japan
appeared to be the small leafed type.
And out of thousands of flowers, I have only had one set seed. The
special gnat that does the pollinating must have been around that year.
--Roy
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