20-10-2003, 12:42 AM
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Storing crocosmia corms
in article , Janet Baraclough at
wrote on 19/10/03 5:09 pm:
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Ray is developing one which we hope will be licensed and propagated. It
will be C. 'Tamana'. It's developed in our garden as a sport but what the
cross is we have no idea. The flowers are very large and what is nice, it
flowers later than Lucifer. Once we are allowed to sell it, I'll send you
some!
Yespleasethankyou:-)
Okay - hold your breath for a bit and all shall be yours!
Do you also grow Salvia confertiflora? It's in flower now with us and has
been for some time. It can be tender in a bad frost but that and Salvia
involucrata have come up with us over and over again in recent winters.
Yes, great foliage, huge spikes of red flowers and it goes on and on.
Do you have it in the ground, and if so do you mulch it? Mine is in a
big pot, so will need some good protection for winter. I meant to get
some cuttings going but never got round to it.I've not got involucrata
but have some other red one, raspberry something? planted in the ground;
I'm wondering whether to mulch it with fine gravel for winter or if even
that would be perilously damp round the crown.
Raspberry something? Don't know. I'll try to remember to ask Ray tomorrow
but S. involucrata is a very bright pink - what would once have been called
Schiaparelli pink, I suspect! We don't mulch any of ours but they're in a
bed alongside a house wall, not in pots. I may say that we also have
Nicotiana glauca in the same bed and Amicia zygomeris, both of which survive
and flower. Last year we went to -7 but all came back and flowered well.
Another new-to-me is salvia leucothoe, in the ground, which is getting
a bit battered by autumn wind, but the bits that blow off have rooty
ends so I can pot them up. Brodick castle gardens has a huge salvia
guaranitica in deep blue flower atm, must be 7ft tall and almost as
wide.
Janet.
I barely knew about Salvias until I met Ray. Coming from the Channel
Islands, I simply cannot imagine why they aren't grown more widely there.
They're the most enormous value, IMO.
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Sacha
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