flowering now
Nicholas plummer (Mon, 11 Jun 2018 07:11:00 PDT)
Hi Ernie,
Greetings from several hundred miles further south.
My Crinum bulbispermum 'Jumbo' bloomed a couple of weeks ago. Crinum
macowanii (Zambia) and Crinum 'Pat's Herbertia' are both currently working
on their second inflorescence of the season. Crinum 'Mrs James Hendry' and
Crinum 'Ellen Bosanquet' haven't bloomed yet this year, but I expect
flowers any day now. Crinum 'Stars and Stripes' is slow this year. The
growths seem small, so I suspect that the main bulb may have been damaged
or killed by the unusually prolonged freeze last winter. The leaves that I
see are probably from offsets.
Nick Plummer
North Carolina, Zone 7
On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 9:53 AM, Ernie DeMarie via pbs <
pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote:
I don't know how I forgot to mention it but the Crinum bulbispermum are in
full glorious flower right now, some with three stalks coming out from some
of the seed grown bulbs. They get better every year and sailed through this
past winter even without protection in most cases. I do not see
differences in hardiness between the USA bred ones and ones from S African
seed (ex Kimberly). The former tend to offset faster with the latter doing
so slowly or only after some kind of injury when I try and move big ones
(an ordeal). Other crinums put in the ground and protected also came
through, including Carolina White, and Amercinum and Super Ellen, but the
latter was slower to come back this year but is fine now. Deep planting
and protection when young seems to help for the C bulbispermum, I dont dare
not protect the others until I know more or have more.
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