Hello David Agapanthus - old wisdom, which I find true, roots have to be confined if they're to flower. I think they need time to flower in the nature are no pots and they flower freely there Roland 2010/6/5 David Pilling <pbs@pilling.demon.co.uk>: >> David, I'm not sure what does well in your specific climate, >>but here they revel in summer heat ( 94 degrees today!). Perhaps >>someone with experience closer to him can reply. > > x powelii survives here, flowers, forms offsets - but not impressive. > Ellen Bosanquet, leaves appearing now and on past form it might form a > flower by the end of November, in time for the first frosts. > > I'm glad to see all the advice to plant crinum deep. There's another > string of advice on the web which says plant them with the tops of the > bulbs above ground, and in my experience temperatures just below zero > will then kill them. > > Agapanthus - old wisdom, which I find true, roots have to be confined if > they're to flower. > > > -- > David Pilling > email: david@pilling.demon.co.uk > web: http://www.davidpilling.net/ > post: David Pilling P.O. Box 22 Thornton Cleveleys Blackpool. FY5 1LR UK > fax: +44(0)870-0520-941 > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > -- R de Boer La Maugardiere 1 F 27260 EPAIGNES FRANCE Tel./Fax 0033-232-576-204 Email: bulborum@gmail.com