Re: hardiness

From: Al Wootten <awootten at NRAO.EDU> on 1997.02.19 at 19:12:43(392) Lester Kallus writes: > I'm curious if my plants will have survived the winter. Yesterday, while > searching through another catalog, I found Colocasia esculenta listed as a > zone 9 plant. Having thought it was a zone 7 plant, I left mine out this > winter. +More > > This past winter here on Long Island has been a warm one. Although usually > a zone 7a area, we had a balmy 8a with two short-lived (4-5 hours) dips > into 7b. Are my Colocasias doomed? Mine are planted in sandy loam within sight of the Chesapeake Bay, 7b/8a usually but balmy this year. Mine have wintered over through two winters, this last the milder of them. The top of the large corm became a bit mushy from frost damage, but the plant performed beautifully anyway, as did two smaller corms. I have not tried overwintering my bulbifer (waiting until my leaf-corm provides me with a spare). Clear skies, Al

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