Pacific Northwest Gardening: Success with Eremurus?, 0 by evelyn_inthegarden

evelyn_inthegarden wrote:
OK, I have lurked enough! I have had some success with Eremurus. I will try and look to see if there are any pictures from last year. The best ones I got were from Old House Gardens, but I also got some from Mcclure&Zimmerman. It looks as though there will be 5 going to bloom this year, though no flowers yet, the foliage is looking nice and full. The first 2 from OHG have bloomed for 2 years, blooming the first year as the roots were huge and moist. The others were smaller and did not bloom the first year, and were sigificantly shorter as well. Now, the third year they look to be the same height, so far. I will take some pictures when they get a little bigger then chart their progress. I guess about a month and a half or so, depending on the weather as last May it snowed on the 11th!

I have hard clay soil, and not only did I amend the holes but put sand and grit in the bottom few inches, then put the amended mixture under and over the root, not too deep. They would get buried in clay if I planted them very deep and the instructions say to have them just below the soil line. They are supposed to be in "well-drained" soil! I don't have that and almost every plant I get wants that...LOL!! So I try to "amend the soil's ways"....

Oh, look, I found one from 6-21-2010....

This message was edited May 2, 2011 4:25 PM