2 SAUROMATUM VENOSUM Bulbs, Voodoo Lily -Big Sale (Amorphophallus, Arisaema)

Description: You are buying 2 bulbs for this price. These are the easiest to grow and most cold hardy of all the Voodoo Lilies (Sauromatum) and a good starter plant for the beginner. Yet it grows to be quite a large and spectacular looking plant with an impressive sinister-looking flower. It also produces several offset bulbs each year that can be detached and grown on as new plants each Spring. These Voodoo Lilies look spectacular in the garden mixed with other plantings and seed around a bit and create clumps as offset bulbs detach and grow up. These bulbs went dormant recently. They are freshly dug and dried for winter dormancy. Larger tubers should flower this spring and may start flowering on the shelf if not kept cool. You can pot them up around New Years and have them flower on your window sill. Stunning foliage will come in late June and last until frost in fall. I harvest about a quarter of my plants for sale and leftovers are grown in pots until next fall. The rest I will leave in the ground all year. This is a very easy exotic and tropical-looking plant that will grow practically anywhere in the garden or in planters or pots. My wife thinks it looks like an evil plant, but I think it looks cool. It definitely has 3 seasons of interest and will baffle gardening friends as to its identity. First this purplish-black finger-like shoot emerges late spring. This becomes the fruiting body or spadix, which swells, and the outer skin divides off and forms a robe-like spathe around the spadix as it peals backwards into a cape that reveals an interior maroon surface jungle spotted with gold. Every web site claims it gives off a carrion-like smell for a day to attract pollinating flies. My plants smell exactly like horse manure for a day, which makes me wonder if it is a different variety. After pollination, a ball of blue-black berries form. Then a second shoot emerges from the bulb to form a 24" to 36" purple-spotted stem ending in a giant leaf that unfurls into approximately 8 to 12 segments tracing out a circle in the middle. This plant will last until the first frost. If you check the bulb at this point. you will find many offset bulbs that will become plants next fall, forming a nice clump of Voodoo Lilies. The seeds will also germinate outside occasionally. All of these plants are grown in zone 6a in New York State. Those that I harvest are moved to plastic bags containing slightly moist perlite and stored in a refrigerator. This way they are watched to see which are ready to be planted out in the spring and/or potted up. They will be shipped in the same plastic bags with perlite and can be refrigerated until you want to plant outside or pot it up. Do not put in freezer! Good drainage is important and if planted in a pot, I recommend a 50:50 mix of potting soil and perlite. Good shade plant. but will take a half day of sun. Extremely deer resistant.

Price: 6 USD

Location: Cortlandt Manor, New York

End Time: 2024-11-24T22:10:08.000Z

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