FREE Crinum Lilies (Ellen Bosanquet)
Carol love_the_yard (Zone 9A Jacksonville, FL)
12 years ago
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Have: 'Ellen Bosanquet' crinum
Comments (4)Hello I have Hippeastrum aka Amaryllis bulbs for trade. I have blooming size bulbs of Clown, a white flower with red stripes. The URL is my plant and flower will look like that. Please e mail me. Here is a link that might be useful: Hippeastrum 'Clown'...See Morecrinum lilys for trade
Comments (3)Hi! I'd love some crinums -- I can offer bearded irises: historic iris Frank Adams (gold on top, maroon below), War Chief (dark maroon-purple with gold markings), and rebloomer Tennison Ridge (plum and white). Interested? LynnT...See MoreCrinum lilies
Comments (10)Thanks Raimeiken, I appreciate you looking/commenting. They're fun and so easy here (if you can give them that afternoon shade). 'Ellen Bosanquet' stays evergreen and always has those long, green floppy leaves. Many other types are evergreen too, although 'Milk & Wine' goes dormant for winter. I get some from plant trades or ebay. I recently got some small bulbs from an online gardening friend in Alabama. She has a huge clump of them passed down through her family for several generations. I'm excited to see what they produce some day (it won't be any time soon, hah). I bought 'Ellen Bosanquet' as a tiny little bulblet, about the size of a SMALL radish, LOL, from Plant Delights Nursery (awesome catalog, dumb slapstick cover page). Love their stuff. It's hard to tell from these pics, but she's in the ground at the very northeast corner of my covered patio, on the east side of the house. She gets about a half day of sun (the first half, lol). Here's 'Ellen Bosanquet' today. She's definitely my favorite because she's evergreen, drought tolerant, and because her flowers each last several days ('Milk & Wine' only last a day for me in summer). Please post if you get some, and how they do for you. Small bulbs take patience, LOL. Happy gardening! Grant...See MoreCrinums
Comments (1)My crinums, varying cultivars, are about 5-6 years old now. The clumps they make cover about 4' in the summer, certainly 3' wide. I am not sure your daylilies will be able to survive after the crinums get going. The crinums will probably be about 2-3' tall, but the leaves on an established clump can grow to over 5' total length, esp. in good soil - they need plenty of room. You almost certainly won't get any flowers this summer, and maybe not next summer. Crinums resent moving and take a while to re-establish themselves. For neighbors, anything tallish and/or spikey, lilies, phlox (may have mildew problems down the road as the crinums enlarge, so pick resistant cultivars), coneflowers, rudbeckias, agastache, etc., etc.. One or another of the tallish grasses might be nice, either an upright form for contrast, or a mounding one for texture contrast....See Morecorar4gw
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