arisaemas for zone 3-4

Sat Nov 30 00:27:17 CET 2002

Dear Henry,

I ordered from Chen Yi several years ago and have selected some arisaemas for growing in my garden (Moscow, Russia (zone 3-4) without winter protection at all. Here they are:

A-01 Arisaema bathycoleum (half-hardy in my garden. Sometimes I lost 1 or 2 tubers from my stock)

A-03 Arisaema candidissimum (pink-flowered) 3200 - no lost
A-03 Arisaema candidissimum (white-flowered) 3200 - no lost
A-04 Arisaema candidissimum var. serratum 3200 - no lost (I am not sure "var. serratum" is correct ?)

Arisaema ciliatum (in 1996 or 1997 years it has number A-08. I would say this arisaema are hardy in zone 3. Last spring one plant was alive when I found ones on the bed.)

Arisaema franchetianum 3500 (if I remember number was A-09, when it was I ordered. Very hardy - zone 3)

A-55 Arisaema flavum 2800

A-12 Arisaema sikokianum 1300 (I lost a few plants last winter. Pay attention it's not A. sikokianum.)

A-33-36 Arisaema erubescens (several simillar arisaemas + A-63 Arisaema erubescens var. overwintered in my garden under protection)

A-53 (A-51?) yello-green arisaema with brown spots on steem. Bloom very early - first days of May. I don't know one's name.

A-43 Arisaema multisestum 1300 3.00

This winter I am testing more arisaemas from China. Hope they will alive. Beginning of this winter are very cold: -20C last night without any snow at all.

First year I take only 1 plant per item for testing hardiness without any protection, but all "stock" of my arisaemas are covered with 10 cm of mulch.

Oleg

Dear Arisaema enthusiasts,

I joined the group a couple months ago, but have been
too busy to tell you who I am.

I'm a forty-five-year-old gardener in the land of long
winters, born and raised in Minnesota. I grew up near
Lake of the Woods on Minnesota's border with Canada.

I've been gardening for forty years. A neighbor gave
me a handful of leftover vegi and flower seeds after
they planted their (big) garden when I was about four
years old.

I planted the little strip of land next to the garage.

In that microclimate, my corn grew taller than theirs!
I was hooked.

Every time I move to a new house, before I've unpacked
I'm out digging.

Having totally filled my yard with plants (we removed
the lawn twenty years ago), I was very pleased to
become the plant buyer for my daughter's school plant
sale.

So now I get to buy lots and lots of plants each year.

I've also been an active environmentalist, which is
primarily what I had used the internet for.

But recently, while searching for info on the genus
Corydalis I stumbled on a link to sign up for
Alpine-L.

Not knowing what I was doing, I clicked.

Now I skip the depressing serious-issue email and read
about gardening instead. I love it.

This summer I joined a newly formed "rare plants"
list-serve. September was Arisaema month on that list.

I only have two different Arisaemas:
Jack-in-the-pulpit, which is very common throughout
the state and in local gardens, and Green Dragon,
uncommon in the wild and very rare in gardens here.

But I am adding Arisaema. When I posted the list of
Arisaema I ordered from Chen Yi in China, I was
immediately nominated for this group.

I was quite pleased to see that their are several
northern gardeners on the list.

I was told that one of you would be able to help find
the true identity of these as Chen Yi might not have
them labled correctly.

Any advice on how to handle the roots this first
winter?

Some of them I bought with the idea of potting them up
for resale, some I bought just a few to try them out.

--Henry Fieldseth
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, USDA Zone 4
(average 150 frost-free days per year)

PS Here is the list of Arisaema I ordered from Chen Yi
this fall. The five species I bought a lot of to
resell in the spring are marked with an asterik (*):

A-02 Arisaema brevipes*
A-03 Arisaema candidisimum (PINK)*
A-04 Arisaema candidisimum var.
A-06 Arisaema sp. (2)
A-12 Arisaema sikokianum*
A-20 Arisaema biauriculatum
A-26 Arisaema angustum var. amurense
A-28 Arisaema sikokianum var. serratum
A-29 Arisaema sikokianum var. henryanum
A-30 Arisaema sikokianum var. sikokianum
A-39 Arisaema erubescens (7)
A-63 Arisaema erubescens var.
A-71 Arisaema sp. (15) black-flowered*
A-86 Arisaema sp. (26)
A-109 Arisaema sp. (34)
A-114 Arisaema lingyunense
A-117 Arisaema aff. elephas (red leaves)
A-117 Arisaema heterophyllum*

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