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From: Eva Gallagher <galla at MAGMA.CA>
Subject: Re: Grow Lights now hardiness
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Hello Gord - I grow several Arisaemas in Canadian Zone 3. We do get relia=ble
snow cover but the ground does freeze deeply. A flavum has flowered here =for
many years - it comes up very late (maybe end of June) and then very
quickly. I often think that I have lost it, but then it pops up again. A
sikokianum flowered for the first time this year - I had even forgotten t=hat
I had it. I think after the third year - what a beautiful plant. My soil =is
very acid - sandy but added peat, compost and I water a lot.
Also had pots of seeds - forgot all about them for a year when I am sure
that they dried out - and after spending two years over the winter in 4" =and
8" pots above ground, some started growing - those surviving in these
conditions were flavum, either consanguineum or ciliatum (forgot which bu=t
it started with a c and one other one.
So they must be truly hardy - though the pots were all pushed together in=a
flat - they had no protection except for leaves that fell on them. It is
interesting that they started all growing very late as well - towards the
end of June I think.
Regards,
Eva Gallagher
Deep River, Ontario
Can Zone 3
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gord Vokey" <gordvokey at SHAW.CA>
To: <ARISAEMA-L at NIC.SURFNET.NL>
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 12:53 AM
Subject: Re: Grow Lights
> I hobby garden about 100 miles north east of Winnipeg Manitoba in
> a zone 2b to zone 3 Canadian shield environment (-40 degrees C or
> F don't matter its cold either way!)  I have two colonies of Arisaema
> triphyllum with one colony producing seed last year.  I also left
> outside last fall a few A.sikokianum and A.candidissimum.  I
> mulched them and they have a good snow cover and a mild winter
> so far.  So maybe (hoping) I will see them this spring.
> Arisaema tryphyllum would be considered rare here in Manitoba (6
> to 20 occurrences).  I have never seen them in the wild, but they
> may appear on the south eastern tip of the province bordering Lake
> of the Woods and Minnesota.
> Gord Vokey
> 74 Shepton Bay
> Winnipeg, Manitoba
> R3R 2E9
>
> Phone:204-895-4150 (Evening)
>      204-786-6451 (Day)
>      204-348-3390 (Cottage)
> Email:gordvokey at shaw.ca
>     :gord at conviron.com (work)