[pbs] Pancratium
Tony Avent
tony at plantdelights.com
Fri Jul 11 07:06:07 EDT 2008
Lee:
We have never had seed to set on our Pancratium foetidum, but check with
Archibald seed and perhaps they still carry it.
Tony Avent
Plant Delights Nursery @
Juniper Level Botanic Garden
9241 Sauls Road
Raleigh, North Carolina 27603 USA
Minimum Winter Temps 0-5 F
Maximum Summer Temps 95-105F
USDA Hardiness Zone 7b
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Lee Poulsen wrote:
> Tony,
> Do you offer this species for sale?
>
> Jim,
> I've grown several Pancratium species, some of which are even mature. :-)
> But I've never had any of them bloom. I've even had P. zeylanicum for 15
> years in a greenhouse; they're very healthy and have multiplied a great
> deal since then (I keep promising to send some to Dell), but nary a
> bloom have I ever seen from them.
> Even the mediterranean climate ones I have (PP. maritimum, illyricum,
> canarien-sis/-se), which should do well here, and grow well they do,
> have never bloomed.
> I have P. tenuifolium, but it's still too small to bloom.
> Is Pancratium another one of those genera that only bloom when planted
> in the ground?
>
> Does anyone know of sources for any of the other P. species, esp. the
> Asian ones?
>
> --Lee Poulsen
> Pasadena, California, USDA Zone 10a
>
>
> Tony Avent wrote:
>
>> Jim:
>>
>> The only Pancratium that we have had success with outdoors is Pancratium
>> foetidum which has been in the ground since 2000. It flowers for us in
>> late July.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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