On 2009-05-07 23:13:59 +0100, moghouse said:

On May 7, 7:29*pm, Sacha wrote:

We've planted them in a small, shaded bed with shallow soil against a
hedge; an open bed which is well-drained and raised with good, deep
soil; a south facing bed among shrubs and moist-ish; a very narrow bed
of totally shaded, poor soil up against the house wall facing east bed.
* I've done everything with the damned things other than throw them
over my left shoulder while reciting To Be or Not To Be and garotting a
frog with my right hand. *In other gardens I've more or less repeated
these attempts and I can only conclude that even while my favourite
perfume is Diorissimo (gentlemen may care to Google this) the darned
things will not repay the compliment!

No point in me suggesting the full moon ritual, planting them standing
on one leg with an incantation to the goddess Lily, then?

One word - teeshirt. ;-)
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Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials
South Devon

On 2009-05-08 10:43:10 +0100, "Jeff Layman" said:

Sacha wrote:
On 2009-05-07 13:05:16 +0100, moghouse said:

I don't know why this did not occur to me before when we were talking
about LotV, but on my way back from the greenhouse just now I passed a
container that nudged my memory.
While sorting out one of my cold frames a few weeks ago I came across
several small pots of LotV that I had potted up last year but did not
get sold. Not needing any more in the garden, I stuck them all in an
empty container. They are now thriving and just coming on to bloom. Of
course I cannot say yet if they will continue to do well there but I
don't see why not. So if you have a garden that will not accept LotV
why not try them in a container?

I'm going to find some vile old compost, a couple of stone of rubble
and chuck some bulbs into a container with it. I'll let you know next
year!

Bulbs?! If you've got bulbs rather than rhizomes ("pips") then I'm not
surprised you haven't got LofV coming up! Any chance of you getting some
"in the green" and planting those? At least you'll know you've got healthy
stock.

Er - this is a Nursery. ;-)) We have dozens of them in pots all
waiting for happy homes but none of them will do their thing in this
one! ;-))
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials
South Devon