bulb planting
Garak (Sat, 28 Nov 2015 05:05:57 PST)

Hi David,

another List Test mail? Trouble again?

I'm glad that I got my last bulbs underground 1 1/2 weeks ago, before
this ugly rain snow mixture started we're enduring right now in southern
Germany. they were mostly narcissus I grew in a huge pot last season - i
hoped I'd get my new garden paths finished in time and plant those
Narcissus round them, but I didn't even finish the garden wall I'm
building - summer was just too incredibly hot to do any real work
outside before mid of September - and digging foundations 80 cm deep in
clay is real work...
Strange that you mention it, but my Nerine bowdenii was about 4 weeks
later than last year, too - it didn't like the snow on the flowers,
which now don't look too nice anymore. I guess it's the late and hot
summer that delayed them. But the Freesia laxa doesn't complain about a
few degrees Celsius below freezing and flowers on, though protected from
direct snow...

meanwhile I'm wondering how much cold the rodophiala montana seedlings
can take - I planted them for cold stratification in my bright garage
and didn't expect them to sprout, but they didn't want to wait for
spring. Ususally I'll have no frost in there unless it's permanent
freezing outside, I'm just wondering when I need to rescue them...

Greetings from Germany

Martin

Am 28.11.2015 um 13:47 schrieb David Pilling:

Hi,

I got the last of my bought (mass produced in the Netherlands) bulbs
in the ground this week. It has been a struggle because whilst October
(in England) was mild, calm and dry, November has been constant rain.

The only flowers at the moment are nerine bowdenii, these have been a
couple of months later than usual. I have previously sent seed to the
AGS SeedEx. I got the AGS seed list last week, I've had no seeds so far.

The newspapers this week had photos of daffodils flowering in England
("due to the mild weather"). Somewhere there must be nerine and
narcissus flowering together.

The standard snowdrops (galanthus nivalis) have just poked their noses
above ground level.

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Martin
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Southern Germany
Likely zone 7a