Overwintering Nerine bowdenii
Ellen Hornig (Sun, 24 Mar 2013 08:50:16 PDT)
Hmmmm...I've done the same thing with them for years (overwintering
unwatered, after the foliage dies down, in a cold place, but above
freezing), and they bloom vigorously ever year....
It could, of course, just be genetics.
Ellen
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Jim McKenney
<jamesamckenney@verizon.net>wrote:
Denys, for many years I had a big pot of Nerine bowdenii thick with big
healthy bulbs which I put out for the summer and brought indoors for the
winter. By the time I brought it in for the winter the foliage had started
to die down for the year, and during the winter the pot was not watered and
the bulbs made no new growth. When the pot was put outside in the spring
and watered well, leafy growth resumed.
In all the years I had these plants, never once did they bloom.
Jim McKenney
Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, USDA zone 7, where I can count buds on
the most advanced frits in the garden.
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