Unfortunately my rocks are granite boulders. Sadly there are few small rocks. The town I live next to is called Roxboro. And the Subdivision I am a part of is called "The Rock Garden" but the only rocks I could use to edge a raised bed would have to be purchased and brought in. Most of the exposed rocks are only about the size of a volkswagen. I grow many types of plants and often have areas I cover for the winter with frost cloth. I counted a few years ago about 2,000 pots. Covering may be an option for some of the crocosmias. My zone used to be a 7 but with global warming last winter was more like zone 8. Many things came through the winter better than expected including the half dozen crocosmia cultivars I had at that point. On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 9:22 AM Rimmer deVries <Rimmer@twc.com> wrote: > If you live on a rock how about a raised beds stabilized by rocks to give > them the thermal protection of earth. > > Rimmer > Kentucky > > > On Jun 21, 2024, at 8:13 AM, Bob Pries via pbs < > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > > > > Roland: Thank you for the information. I do have the > > Goldblatt/Manning/Dunlop book on Crocosmias. Peter Goldblatt and I > climbed > > a mountain together with a group many years ago. I am interested in > getting > > to know more Crocosmia people because I am trying to update my resources > of > > information. While most people know me as an Iris specialist my friend > Jim > > Waddick once said that I just like everything. He was right. Since I have > > gone off on this tangent with Crocosmias (few Iris bloom in Summer) I > > thought it wise to come back to the source of Bulb Knowledge and re > > introduce myself to You experts out there who can really tell me a lot. > > This year I have assembled about 20-30 cultivars which I have hopes of > > blooming this season. Sadly many are only getting started. Because I now > > live on a granite mountain in the Piedmont of North Carolina with soil > > depth of only inches, I grow everything in pots. The black pots are > usually > > 3-5 gallons and sit clustered on top of the ground so I worry about > winter > > freezing. I can store some in a small basement but the task of moving > > hundreds of pots at year's end becomes overwhelming. 'Lucifer' seems to > > take it quite well but 'George Davison' seems to be harder to recover in > > Spring. It is such a challenge to find cultivars that I might go to > > extremes to protect the ones I have but as I get them to increase I hope > to > > trial more outside through winter. Sadly I do not have a greenhouse. The > > Dunlop book lists about 385 cultivars but I believe many more could be > > added from the last 20 years of hybridizing. The KAVB lists many fewer. > So > > developing a complete current list is a challenge and I would love to > know > > the hybridizers their introduction dates and general information. This is > > my summer project! > > > >> On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 6:44 AM Roland Ludwig via pbs < > >> pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > >> > >> Hi Bob, > >> > >> yesterday in the night, I took a look into the large > Chasmanthe/Crocosmia > >> book by Peter Goldblatt and John Manning (published in 2004). 'Paul's > Best > >> Yellow' is not mentioned in the cv list there. As I can hardly imagine > that > >> Goldblatt/Manning could have overlooked a more common cv, it was either > a > >> rather unknown and obscure cv at that time, or it has been bred and/or > >> introduced somewhen during the 20 years which have passed since the > release > >> of the book. > >> Some Dutch traders indeed call it „a recent introduction“. However, it > >> can't have happened that very late: According to this site, Cotswold > have > >> sold it in 2007 already: > >> > >> > http://johnjearrard.co.uk/plants/crocosmia/… > >> And the last picture description there says that Ken Ridgely was the > >> breeder. According to several sources, he is from South Africa. Maybe > there > >> is somebody at PBS who is in contact with him and could ask him who > Paul is > >> or was? > >> > >> Best regards from Germany, > >> > >> Roland (PBS forum: Kasbek) > >> > >> > >> > >> -----Original-Nachricht----- > >> Betreff: [pbs] Crocosmia 'Paul's Best Yellow' > >> Datum: 2024-06-20T19:18:02+0200 > >> Von: "Bob Pries via pbs" <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > >> An: "pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net" < > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > >> > >> On my first attempt I have not figured out how to post to the forum. > Maybe > >> that is what I am doing now? I curious as to who is Paul and does anyone > >> know more about this crocosmia? 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