Eranthis hyemalis in Sonoma County
From HK (Mon, 19 Oct 2015 17:38:09 PDT)

I am confused- why don't they flower?

On Monday, October 19, 2015, Paul <ottopauld@hotmail.com> wrote:

On 18 Oct 2015, at 19:43, S. R. Gilbert wrote:

Dear PBS, Probably very foolishly, I bought one hundred Eranthis bulbs

and

must now do my best with them in my Petaluma garden. Winters in

Petaluma are

mild, with temperatures seldom dipping below freezing, and daytime

highs

mostly in the sixties. What advice can you offer to this Eranthis

novice?

I have tried both Eranthis hyemalis and E. cilicia in my present garden in
Brookings OR which is six miles from the Pacific Ocean and where the
coldest temperature over the past seven years has been 18F, but is usually
around 25F. While foliage appears every year, the plants that I have
rarely flower, and certainly do not even grow like those in the Northern
Willamette Valley where the plants originally came from. The annual winter
precipitation is between 75 and 100 inches annually falling between October
and May.

Paul Otto
Brookings OR

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