Crinum x 'JC Harvey' through the season.

This was on March 31, here in 7b.

I planted them last summer and mulched them deeply to preserve the above-ground pseudostem.

This is on 7/29.

And this is on 9/13.

Only in the last 10 days have offset started to peek out around the main bulbs. (Not visible here.)

Amazing growth, yes?

R.

They look really great! Somehow some americanum I got this spring is already blooming, when I just transplanted it a couple of months ago from the pot. I was surprised. They are lovely

Great Tropicanna!

Post a pic or two?

R.

well, maybe I should have said it was budding, but here's the pic, It will probably open tommorrow I hope

I have other crinums, but no blooms as these are all in their first year here. Here's procerum and asiaticum potted for winter ...I'd show you the rest, but they all just look like crinum leaves

which crinums do you have raydio? I'm excited to hear about how well they do in NC since I've only seen them growing once.

Nice variegated asiaticum and the procerum is lovely. Did you keep your americanum on the wet side? Was it potted all season?

I have a few different kinds. Some are OK in the ground (Elizabeth Traub, Ellen Bosanquet, xherbertii, xpowelliis) and some have to be taken in (asiaticum, scabrum, mooreii). I have some seedlings of various kinds that will be taken in, even though some are really hardy here, as "babies" they are too vulnerable to keep outside without risk.

I have noticed a few clumps around town here, that seem to be Crinums, but they don't seem to have bloomed this year. In most cases they look like they are just not cared for as well as they might have been, and with out DRY summer, I guess they haven't shown what they can do.

I have been looking in all the yards that I pass for Crinums, and it seems as though there are more than I had thought, at first. Maybe they're too young to bloom, maybe I missed them after spring rains, or maybe they just don't get enough care, but they are here around town. I'm thinking that people just don't know how to grow them well, and being that so many of them are so tough, they survive from year to year but don't flower. No doubt the owners are disappointed........but they needn't be!

Seems that our 7b rating should actually be nearer zone 9 lately.......I've had several borderline-tender plants survive and am experimenting with Hippeastrums as well as Crinums. Plants *do* acclimatize over time, to be sure.

R

The americanum was potted up until about mid-july. it did stay well watered, one out of three bulbs bloomed. I'll try to catch a pic when the bloom opens

The asiacticum and procerum were in the ground until a few weeks ago. I'm considering keeping them in pots, but not sure.

I really don't see crinums at all. I saw what looked like powelli in someone's yard in Mocksville once when it was blooming, very pretty.

I sunk a bunch of them in the ground this year but most aren't clearly identified. When they bloom I'll get to find out :)

I have asiaticums in pots and will most likely keep them potted.

While they may grow better for the summer in soil, I'll just avoid all the transplanting back and forth. The ground just doesn't warm up soon enough here and they do some rooting in before growing, so I'm thinking it's just not worth it, since I would be lifting them a bit early to prepare them for winter. Shortish season.

Since they're evergreen and tend to bloom in fall (as well as other times) I don't want to risk slowing them down at any point, but that's just me.

But---- I have been guilty of completley changing my plans/strategy all of a sudden-- :-)

I do have 'Sangria' (which seems to be a procerum hybrid) in the ground permanently. PDNs Tony Avent says it's fully hardy in 7b. I wouldn't risk pure procerum unless I had backup plants. The red-leaved forms are said to be more tender still.

R.

I just got Sangria as well, what good taste you have! lol.....gonna go look for those blooms

check it out

smell pretty good too!

Very nice, Tropicanna!

I have the similar-looking C. erubescens (syn. C americanum var. erubescens) that bloomed in early August.

Corrected species.

This message was edited Sep 17, 2007 5:52 PM

wow! thanks for sharing!