Do you remember the cultivar name on the lagre red-orange gem? Hazard a guess? Sounded like.....? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ellen Hornig" <hornig@earthlink.net> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 11:27 AM Subject: Re: [pbs] Zantedeschia > Jim's account of hardy zantedeschias in western Virginia reminds me that > two years ago, a friend sent me tubers of a large-growing red-orange > zantedeschia with nicely spotted leaves. I grew them for a season in a > container, decided they were too much trouble (needed water constantly, > blew over in the wind), and tossed them in the last compost heap down the > hill (the heap of no return). This year he wrote and asked how the callas > had done in my garden. Whoops. I hadn't realized he considered them > hardy. > > But later in the season, when I'd forgotten all about them, I chanced to > look in the lower compost area, and there they were: a huge clump, in full > and glorious bloom. So now they've been moved back into the garden, in > several places, and one potful set aside in a greenhouse, just in case. > > Ellen > > Ellen Hornig > Seneca Hill Perennials > 3712 County Route 57 > Oswego NY 13126 USA > http://www.senecahillperennials.com/ > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/