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| La Puce 2007-07-20, 1:25 pm |
| Got one !! I'm sooooo excited. It's beautiful. I wonder if anybody had
experience with them. I've got the right place, pot, medium and all is
well, flowering beautifully, though I'm not sure what to do this
winter. Either I dig out the tubers and keep them dry or leave them in
pots? What would you do? Thank you.
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| La Puce 2007-07-20, 5:25 pm |
| On 20 Jul, 17:23, La Puce <hel...@rudlin.co.uk> wrote:
> Got one !! I'm sooooo excited. It's beautiful. I wonder if anybody had
> experience with them. I've got the right place, pot, medium and all is
> well, flowering beautifully, though I'm not sure what to do this
> winter. Either I dig out the tubers and keep them dry or leave them in
> pots? What would you do? Thank you.
Nick, I can't see your reply?!?!? Can you try again?
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| JennyC 2007-07-20, 5:25 pm |
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"Nick Maclaren" <nmm1@cus.cam.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> In article <1184948620.749675.152660@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
> a Puce <helene@rudlin.co.uk> writes:
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> |> Got one !! I'm sooooo excited. It's beautiful. I wonder if anybody had
> |> experience with them. I've got the right place, pot, medium and all is
> |> well, flowering beautifully, though I'm not sure what to do this
> |> winter. Either I dig out the tubers and keep them dry or leave them in
> |> pots? What would you do? Thank you.
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> When they start to die down or it starts to get cold, put them somewhere
> dry and frost-free. That is all you have to do, but you can repot.
> And they should be kept DRY in the dormant season - nowhere in the
> UK ever gets as dry as their natural habitat, except in extreme
> centrally-heated locations.
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> Mine did quite well for some years, but then suffered some sort of rot.
> They were in an extremely well-drained pot of poor soil, too.
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> Oh, and they are lethally poisonous.
> Regards,
> Nick Maclaren.
I had more or less the same experience as you Nick. I kept mine in the
bottom of the wardrobe, and it was fine for a couple of years,=then it
fizzled.
Jenny
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| La Puce 2007-07-21, 1:25 pm |
| On 20 Jul, 19:35, "JennyC" <Jenny.squir...@chello.nl> wrote:
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> I had more or less the same experience as you Nick. I kept mine in the
> bottom of the wardrobe, and it was fine for a couple of years,=then it
> fizzled.
Right - thanks a lot you two. Hoping I'll keep mine a bit longer <off
to find a suitable hybernation spot>
ps. still can't see Nick's post by itself. How bizarre ...
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| Chris Hogg 2007-07-21, 1:25 pm |
| On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:23:40 -0700, La Puce <helene@rudlin.co.uk>
wrote:
>Got one !! I'm sooooo excited. It's beautiful. I wonder if anybody had
>experience with them. I've got the right place, pot, medium and all is
>well, flowering beautifully, though I'm not sure what to do this
>winter. Either I dig out the tubers and keep them dry or leave them in
>pots? What would you do? Thank you.
I used to grow them in the soil at the back of a frost-free
greenhouse. Left then in the ground all year, but just didn't water
them in the winter months. They came up year after year. A word of
warning: my wife used to curse them because if your clothes brushed
against the flowers, the bright orange pollen was extremely difficult
to remove.
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Chris
E-mail: christopher[dot]hogg[at]virgin[dot]net
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| La Puce 2007-07-21, 8:25 pm |
| On 21 Jul, 19:08, Chris Hogg <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
> I used to grow them in the soil at the back of a frost-free
> greenhouse. Left then in the ground all year, but just didn't water
> them in the winter months. They came up year after year. A word of
> warning: my wife used to curse them because if your clothes brushed
> against the flowers, the bright orange pollen was extremely difficult
> to remove.
Thanks for that. It will fall on our heads because it's growing above
the veranda door (from a pot on a table). You've given me an idea and
I'm now I'm considering planting it in the ground, in the veranda,
where I have bear earth in the corner. Would this be best done this
winter? Carefully? It's quite dry there.
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| Chris Hogg 2007-07-23, 1:25 pm |
| On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 15:47:15 -0700, La Puce <helene@rudlin.co.uk>
wrote:
> You've given me an idea and
>I'm now I'm considering planting it in the ground, in the veranda,
>where I have bear earth in the corner. Would this be best done this
>winter? Carefully? It's quite dry there.
Dunno. If it's free from frost there, then maybe. But I'd wait until
it dies back in the autumn, anyway, before planting it out.
--
Chris
E-mail: christopher[dot]hogg[at]virgin[dot]net
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