[pbs]LEUCOJUM VERNUM CULTIVAR
Jane McGary
janemcgary at earthlink.net
Wed Dec 15 12:41:09 EST 2004
Thanks to Jerry, John L., and John. G. for the excellent information on
'Gertrude Wister', which I've forwarded to the original inquirer.
If I could grow L. vernum effectively, I'd be campaigning for a bulb of
this interesting plant. However, both L. vernum and L. aestivum fail to
flourish here and rarely bloom, probably because the soil (acidic,
fast-drying) is wrong for them. In contrast, L. autumnale and the
purportedly tender L. nicaeense do well in the open rock garden, though I
don't depend on their surviving there indefinitely, once they encounter
winter temperatures more severe than average. The larger species, which
come from wet meadows, grow well at lower elevations near my home, where
the soil tends to be dense and silty rather than the rocky subalpine forest
stuff I have here; this suggests to me that it's the drainage, not the
acidity, that is inhospitable to these plants.
Jane McGary
Northwestern Oregon, USA
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