[Arisaema-l] Arisaema-L Gallery Image Upload (3453) Arisaema engleri x sikokianum

[Lotte Hedges]

How exquisite!  Would you mind sharing the type of conditions in your garden
­ soil type, humidity, light, drainage, minimum temperature,etc.  I would
really appreciate it.  Many thanks for posting this gorgeous picture.
Lotte  


on 4/18/12 9:33 PM, Don & Liz at lizndon at mchsi.com wrote:

> It's always interesting how certain plants like certain gardens for
> inexplicable reasons; the climate in my eastern Iowa garden is not exactly
> Japan, but A. sikokianum grows like crazy here; I wouldn't be exaggerating
> (too) much by saying it has designs on taking over the garden. From the seed
> from two original tubers, there are now probably fifty adult plants, some
> quite massive, and I probably have two-three hundred seedlings. On the other
> hand, I can't grow an ordinary columbine to save my soul.
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> Don
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> On Apr 17, 2012, at 4:48 PM, 2csh wrote:
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>> Jim: Your very attractive hybrid flower looks a lot like my sikokianum
>> flower. And most people agree it is the most attractive flower of any
>> arisaema. Can't disagree with that.
>>  
>> SIkokianum does OK for me here in north Georgia- do you think it is the
>> warmer weather that it likes down south? But you may be at lower elevation.
>> (Certainly has nothing to do with the gardener!)
>> Charles Hunter
>> Smyrna, Georgia USA  z7 @ 1000 feet
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>> --- On Tue, 4/17/12, Jim McClements <jimmcclem at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> From: Jim McClements <jimmcclem at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [Arisaema-l] Arisaema-L Gallery Image Upload (3453) Arisaema
>>> engleri x sikokianum
>>> To: "Arisaema Enthusiast Group (AEG) Discussion List (and other hardy
>>> Aroids" <arisaema-l at science.uu.nl>
>>> Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 10:40 AM
>>> 
>>> Attached is another sikokianum hybrid, probably with A. takedae and/or
>>> limbatum. Don Jacobs sold a similar cross back in the old days, and Roy
>>> Herold also did one. I'm not sure which source this came from, but it's done
>>> very well here and has seeded around the property. This, in a place where
>>> sikokianum never has survived! There are less colorful forms in the
>>> seedlings, but they all seem to like it here (Zone 7a).
>>> 
>>> Jim McClements
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>>> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:08 AM, <Webmaster at florapix.nl
>>> <http://us.mc1804.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=Webmaster@florapix.nl> >
>>> wrote:
>>>> Arisaema-L Gallery Image Upload (3453) Arisaema engleri x sikokianum
>>>> 
>>>>                From: Erick Adams
>>>>                eMail:
>>>>                Name: Arisaema engleri x sikokianum
>>>>                Note: In 2007 I managed to pollinate my last living  A.
>>>> engleri with A. sikokianum pollen before it expired. The following year
>>>> only 13 seedlings emerged.  As of this year (2012) only 3 of these F1
>>>> plants are left and the largest has finally bloomed.
>>>> 
>>>>                URL: http://botu07.bio.uu.nl/temperate/?gal=Arisaema&id=3453
>>>> <http://botu07.bio.uu.nl/temperate/?gal=Arisaema&amp;id=3453>
>>>>                File: Arisaema/Arisaema_engleri_x_sikokianum_3453.jpg
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