While the peak season for crinum lilies is May-July, there’s always quite a few blooms in late summer and even into early fall, before our first frost turns the foliage and remaining flowers into green slime. Here are a couple of clones that stood out in the garden this week.
The first is Crinum ‘Bright Star’, a Dave Lehmiller cross of Crinum paludosum x Crinum americanum. The second is an un-named clone of Crinum x bubertii (unpublished), which is a cross of Crinum buphanoides and Crinum x herbertii. We have twenty amazing clones of this, and are now faced with the process of eliminating the majority as we make our final selections. It’s almost like culling your own children at this point, since there isn’t a bad one in the bunch.
Will Crinum survive our winters in a pot in the Stanly county area?
There are crinum that will survive from Zone 5b south, but each clone is different, so you’ll need to check hardiness zones for each one.
I missed the part about a container. Plants in containers typically loose another 15-20 degrees of winter hardiness, so no, that would not work in your area.
Thank you. I guess I need to put it on my back porch or close to the foundation of the house.
That’s a beautiful new hybrid, you found a novel combination of parents. How about one new variety a year for the next dozen years?