Arisaema 2011

Wow Wim...my Arisaema will not even show themselves until late June, let alone flower!

I quote Todd, my Arisaemas will not show for a while - if they have survived the severe freezing of the soil this winter :(

Last winter I lost 4 pots with great seedlings, they froze in my greenhouse :'(

@Wim - A. engleri looks most interesting; I like the wide and open spathe; somewhat like A. sikokianum.

@Gene - Nice A. sikokianum; I'm curious about how much the seed cost on eBay.

Posted is a photo of 3 A. sikokianum, the two more mature plants always face each other each year, as if having a conversation. I find this aspect interesting, that the blooms seem to definitely be oriented a certain fixed direction from the tuber.  I've never tried digging up a tuber and replanting it after rotating the tuber 180 degrees, to see if one can control which direction these flowers face.

I have not grown A intermedium from seed before but other species. Last winter I lost several potfulls of seedlings as the pots froze in the very cold weather we had. Those I had planted out (Emptied the pot as one clump when they were growing strongly) and planted deep survived fine.

If I grow them on in pots I repot in winter/early spring when they are completely died down. The corms are like peas or small nuts in size and without roots and easy to handle.

Wow!  :o Love those Jacks!! Esp. the taiwanense with the long 'cilia' at the tips of each leaf part. Very cool. How hardy are these varieties? I have the ringens as overwintering seedlings in pots coming into their 3rd year so I'm hoping perhaps to get a bloom this year?

Toole wrote:

A few in bloom here

A.ringens
A.tiwanense
A.ciliatum
A.speciosum

and full of promise A.exappendiculatum which i find is a bit too vigorous in the garden with its strong stolons .

Cheers Dave.  

Wouldn't mind if any Arisaema spread voluntarily in my garden ;) I am also trying to increase my stock of Arisaema by sowing. Have got seed from Chris Chadwell and they always sprout well.

AmyO wrote:

Wow!  :o Love those Jacks!! Esp. the taiwanense with the long 'cilia' at the tips of each leaf part. Very cool. How hardy are these varieties? I have the ringens as overwintering seedlings in pots coming into their 3rd year so I'm hoping perhaps to get a bloom this year?

A. ringens has been hardy for me here in Massachusetts (near the New Hampshire line), although I have lost this species and others due to mole digging.  I also grow an unidentified Arisaema collected by Darrell Probst (I think China, or possibly Korea) that looks much like A. taiwanense, although without those wonderful long thready ends to the leaves.

bulborum wrote:

The Arisaema kiushianum just got dormant here
but flowered in May
compared to the flower the leaves are giants
but the flowers are sooooooo beautiful

Roland

Well, I like these plants a lot but I wouldn't use the word "beautiful" ;D More like  :o

bulborum wrote:

That's my English Hoy
I learned only two years English at school  :D

we call the flower here an eye-catcher
and like A. sikkokianum everybody at the plant-shows
who sees it , want to touch the flower

Roland

Didn't mean to criticise your English - I find it quite naturally that someone find this flower beautiful like a mother find her child beautiful ;)

The flowers of Arisaema kiushianum are soooooo cute, and from the vantage point of looking straight on at the flowers, they look like a little owls.