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Today's Topics:

1. Canarina (James Waddick)
2. Re: Canarina (Jane McGary)
3. Re: Canarina (Matt Mattus)
4. Re: Canarina (Lee Poulsen)

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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 11:42:22 -0600
From: James Waddick <jwaddick@kc.rr.com>
To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>
Subject: [pbs] Canarina
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Dear PBSers,

Anyone in a cold/cool climate grow Canarina in their greenhouse?
I have been wondering about growing a plant. Any one have seeds or tubers
to share?

How hot can it take it in summer when dormant?

Thanks for input. Best Jim W.

Dr. James Waddick
8871 NW Brostrom Rd
Kansas City, MO 64152-2711
USA
Phone 816-746-1949

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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 13:48:04 -0800
From: Jane McGary <janemcgary@earthlink.net>
To: pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net
Subject: Re: [pbs] Canarina
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I grew Canarina in my bulb frames at my former place. It flowered,
having survived temperatures down to about 22 degrees F under cover.
However, I had made the mistake of planting it in a large terracotta pot
with one drain hole. The tuber plugged the drain hole and then rotted.
So if you grow it, consider that the tuber becomes very large (as far as
I can tell, it doesn't offset) and can easily plug any drainage
openings. If I got one again, I'd plant it directly in the side of my
bulb house that has a raised bed, not in the side that has plunged pots.
I imagine it can take any amount of heat when dormant as long as it
isn't in a plastic pot that is not plunged. If you have to put it in a
free-standing plastic pot, I'd move it into the shade during summer.

Jane McGary

Portland, Oregon, USA

On 1/23/2018 9:42 AM, James Waddick wrote:

I have been wondering about growing a plant. Any one have seeds or tubers
to share?

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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 16:52:30 -0500
From: Matt Mattus <mmattus@charter.net>
To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>
Subject: Re: [pbs] Canarina
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I?ve been growing Canarina for three years now in a cold, glass greenhouse
(40? F min.) as a winter growing plant, but have had little luck with it as
I think it just needed to mature a bit.

Not sure if it was too cold, or wet. This year, it emerged with great
vigor and looked promising in its 12 inch clay pot but a couple weeks in
early January (during the N.E. cold ?Bomb Cyclone?) the greenhouse must
have dipped down colder near the glass and it is now frozen. I am guessing
that the roots are still OK, but I am not expecting blossoms this year.

That said, all of the tuberous tropaeolum species survived as did most
plants (aside from a bonsai Jade Plant) which led me to think that the
Canarina was tender.

Matt Mattus
USDA Zone 5B
Worcester, MA USA

On 1/23/18, 4:48 PM, "pbs on behalf of Jane McGary" <pbs-bounces@lists.
pacificbulbsociety.net on behalf of janemcgary@earthlink.net> wrote:

I grew Canarina in my bulb frames at my former place. It flowered,
having survived temperatures down to about 22 degrees F under cover.
However, I had made the mistake of planting it in a large terracotta
pot
with one drain hole.
On 1/23/2018 9:42 AM, James Waddick wrote:

I have been wondering about growing a plant. Any one have seeds or tubers
to share?

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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 14:42:57 -0800
From: Lee Poulsen <wpoulsen@pacbell.net>
To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>
Subject: Re: [pbs] Canarina
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This is another one of those winter growing plants that does not like
radiation frosts on its exposed leaves. Paramongaia weberbaueri is another.
(I now mark those species with their own special label.) The bulb or tuber
doesn?t mind. Being in southern California, I grow these outside, but now I
always place the pots for these under some kind of overhead cover like a
tree with leaves or shade cloth or the overhanging eaves of the house.

I keep it outside all summer as well with my other dormant winter
growers?which is a shaded area. It doesn?t seem to mind any of the hot days
we get here during the summer and they get no water from the time they go
dormant until mid-autumn. They just get larger each year; I just pot them
into larger pots. Otherwise they require very little care.

--Lee Poulsen
Pasadena, California, USA - USDA Zone 10a
Latitude 34?N, Altitude 1150 ft/350 m

greenhouse (40? F min.) as a winter growing plant, but have had little luck
with it as I think it just needed to mature a bit.

vigor and looked promising in its 12 inch clay pot but a couple weeks in
early January (during the N.E. cold ?Bomb Cyclone?) the greenhouse must
have dipped down colder near the glass and it is now frozen. I am guessing
that the roots are still OK, but I am not expecting blossoms this year.

plants (aside from a bonsai Jade Plant) which led me to think that the
Canarina was tender.

pacificbulbsociety.net on behalf of janemcgary@earthlink.net> wrote:

pot

I have been wondering about growing a plant. Any one have seeds or tubers
to share?

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