Arisaema-L Gallery Image Upload (2483) Arisaema sikokianum hybrid

[Adam Fikso]

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Hi.  My sikokianum x takedae hybrid is now 5 years old and I expect to =see it emerge in a month or so. 
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Subject: Re: Arisaema-L Gallery Image Upload (2483) Arisaema =sikokianum hybrid


I have just uploaded 2 photos to the gallery of the descendents and =originals of a cross made by Roy Herold about 20 years ago, when only a =few of us had contracted the "arisaema bug".


At that time people were falling in love with sikokianum and some of =us wondered why Roy was trying to "improve on perfection".


However, it has become apparent to most over the intervening years =that while sikokianum is almost uniquely attractive, grows "like cress" =from seed and initially does well in the garden, it often is quite =short-lived and frustratingly disappears after one or two years.


I think that you'll agree that the plant I posted the photo of is =almost as spectacular as sikokianum, and it and its siblings have been =in my garden since 1999.



I'd add that Don Jacobs sold me a sikokianum/takedae hybrid in 1991, =but it has long since disappeared.


Comments?




JIm  






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