Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: johnw on October 07, 2008, 06:00:29 PM
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The cool autumn has slowed things down considerably. Bessera elegans, just a few years ago so hard to find and now at most gardens centres, opened a few days ago. Easy to grow but difficult to store dry as the bulbs are so small and they will tolerate no winter moisture, at least here. It would be of interest to know how others store them and how early they plant them.
They are a magnet for slugs, one night alone I picked 14 slugs (not the huge banana slugs but the nasty small flesh-coloured ones) off the badly damaged leaves, resolved by placing the pot up on a trough.
Lucky Luit cycling past a field of these!
johnw
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John
I put mine in a frost free garage about the end of October.They dry of and sit in the pot until about beginning of April when I clean them and start them into growth.I have not had a slug problem with these.