Arum hardiness & more questions

[Tom and Ann Kline]

Dear all,  I Live in Falls Church, Virginia ten miles west of Washinton,
D.C., but no, most of the tubers that I sent Ray Stilwell I had gowing in my
cold frame and were getting too big for me to handle in my old age when I
have to 'down-size' the size and number of pots I carry over under cover each
winter.  I just finished making my 8,000 plus data- base of the plants I have
planted in my garden and I plan to go over my listing and pull out all of the
hardy aroids that I currently have or have lost over the years and the
possible reasons for my success or failure.  It will take a day or so because
this is really not the time of year to be doing research.  I do have a lot of
aroids that have done well for me. I must add and I find that the ones that
are evergreen give a very exotic appearance to the garden as long as the
temperature remains above 25 F, after that they,the leaves that is, collapse
in a heap only to revive once it warms up again. Hellebores do the same
thing.
Ann E.Kline
Falls Church, Vriginia  Zone 7A
"George R Stilwell, Jr." wrote:

> Bonaventure,
>
> I have grown Arum creticum here. They survive, but do not do well in my
> hands. But neither
> does Arum italicum that grows wild every place else around here. I think
> Arum just don't like me.
>
> Ann Kline grows all kinds of Arum in Pennsylvania and judging by some
> tubers she shared
> they do very well there.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "intermediate species to the genus
> Arisaema"? As to similar
> plants, Pinellia is certainly one. It looks like a miniature Arisaema.
> See Roy's Arisaema page
> for pictures and lots of information.
>
> I grew, by accident, a Typhonium horsfieldii one season and it is similar
> in appearance to
> both Arisaema and Pinellia. It did not survive the winter here.
>
> Tropical Arisaema look like Arisaema in every respect. They certainly
> don't look like Amorphophallus
> at all.
>
> Ray
> <GRSJr at Juno.com>
>
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