"Janet" wrote in message
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Lily of the Valley doesn't need extreme conditions, but it seems
to dislike some conditions.
I have never been able to grow it (sob). I've bought it growing in pots;
I've lifted it from established colonies with utmost care and minimal
disturbance and it still turns up its nose and toes. At our last place, a
neighbout just a mile away had it growing like a weed but it still
wouldn't take for me.
Janet
We once had an established clump, a square of which I removed in order to
locate a fence post, I put some in pots and they made pot full's in no time,
not realizing how lucky I was I sold them, over the next couple of years my
previously rampant patch dwindled and went. and I have never persuaded it to
grow again.
--
Charlie, Gardening in Cornwall
Holders of National Collections of Clematis viticella
and Lapageria rosea cvs
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk