Mid-Atlantic Gardening: July Blooms, 1 by orchidfancy

orchidfancy wrote:
SALLYG: I am in love with your African foxglove.I got some seeds from you I assume at the deed swap in Frederick. I had so many seeds this year that I have had to go online for the propagation of a lots of things. Foxgloves are one of my favorite flowers. I brought some back from France that I gathered on my brother property they are deep purple I just started them last week and they are already up, at the same time I started some lupines they are all out I am so exited. I have more Foxgloves to plant they are this year seeds and they are white and some lavender. This is another foxglove project altogether I cant wait to start the seeds that I got from you. Regarding to keeping bulbs from one year to the other , last year I tried something new for my eucomis(pineapple lilies) my blood lilies and my caladiums and my callas and elephant ears. In the past I lost all my Caladiums to rot, drying up, name it. Not last year. first I dug up all my bulbs at the end of the season laid them out on newspaper to dry up for couple days, then I laid them out in cardboard boxes with couple inches of shredded paper at the bottom of the box, shook some baby powder all over the bulbs then another layer of paper, closed the boxes, labeled them and put them on the shelf in the basement and waited for spring. This spring I opened the boxes and everything looked great .Everything got planted late but I have more Eucomis than I know what to do I think that every planter that I have has at least one Eucomis or two , same for the callas and I only lost couple caladiums and that is a first.
Here is a picture of one of my blood lilies and pineapple lily.