Well, we are pretty cold here and they grow like weeds for us. Trouble is they self seed all over the place, but the seedlings are always the original red. The seedlings are more robust than the forms so the forms get swamped and disappear.
I too live in St Austell and find these grow too well. The flowers are lovely but the foliage is dense and untidy so I have been digging these out along with one or two other 'mistakes' such as Japanese Anemones.
I also live in St. Austell, mecca for the kaffir lily! I have them growing in a narrow bed along the top of a low wall where it is shady but well drained. They grow like weeds, I have the pink and red ones. I have seen an almost white one but have not grown it. Mine finished flowering a week or two ago, I spotted a self sown seedling flowering down the bottom of the garden, must remember to move it in with its cousins..
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Well, we are pretty cold here and they grow like weeds for us. Trouble is they self seed all over the place, but the seedlings are always the original red. The seedlings are more robust than the forms so the forms get swamped and disappear.
Oops! Forgot to add the link.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/howtogrow/6338022/How-to-grow-Schizostylis-the-Kaffir-lily.html.
I too live in St Austell and find these grow too well. The flowers are lovely but the foliage is dense and untidy so I have been digging these out along with one or two other 'mistakes' such as Japanese Anemones.
I live in the North East where they grow very well, without getting out of hand, giving lovely colour in Autumn
I've got these too in Bath, but the red variety, although sadly none are now in bloom.
I read the NYD flower count with interest and was very impressed by some of the long lists - memo to self - I must try harder this year!
I also live in St. Austell, mecca for the kaffir lily! I have them growing in a narrow bed along the top of a low wall where it is shady but well drained. They grow like weeds, I have the pink and red ones. I have seen an almost white one but have not grown it. Mine finished flowering a week or two ago, I spotted a self sown seedling flowering down the bottom of the garden, must remember to move it in with its cousins..