Milk and Wine Lily – Second Attempt

Milk and Wine Lily – Crinum X herbertii
Ted 

Ted,

101 Water Oaks Drive

Mississippi

2 comments for “Milk and Wine Lily – Second Attempt

  1. Gorgeous Crinum, Ted!   C. herbertii is as hardy as dirt for us in STL, along with almost every hybrid save those with Asian tropical species involved in their pedigrees (for those, we just lift them and either put them into the basement over the winter, or pot them up in our greenhouses).  We acquired our bulbs of C. x herbertii from a woman in Nebraska years ago, whose mother had been growing it since the 1920s.  In another week or two, ours will start to spike; our C. bulbispermum are spiking now. 

     

    For those interested, http://www.jenksfarmer.com/ is an excellent source for Crinum of all shapes and sizes, colors, and blooming seasons.  I visited with owners Jenks and Tom last year and participated in their operation–what an experience, and what impressive bulbs!  Also, if any of you are visiting the Columbia, SC area, be sure to visit Riverbanks Zoo and Garden http://www.riverbanks.org/garden/. There, curator Andy Cabe maintains an exceptional public collection of Crinum, sure to please.

     

    Like others in the Amaryllis family (Amaryllidaceae), Crinum are poisonous, thus deer and rabbit-proof.  Plant them once and you’ll have them forever. And did I mention, many are very sweetly fragrant?  They play well with daffodils, too!

     

    Jason 

     

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