Laetitia,

Some of the great arilbred hybridizers lived in CT and MA, not too far from you.

I live in an area with sometimes up to 80 inches of rainfall and the arilbreds are happy and bloom freely if they are elevated and placed in a bed with lots of sand. They rot less than TBs.

I hybridize a few of them and have a pot of about ten from the cross of Lancer x Study in Amythest. I have never bloomed one in a pot because I line them out. It probably can be done, but I think the stalk would be shorter and the flower smaller unless it was a gigantic pot.

Walter Moores

Thanks Walter. Maybe I will just try them in the ground; find a well drained spot and see what happens. One will be OYEZ and the other a lesser known one.
I figure OYEZ has been around for a long time, so it is probably tough, right? Plus I happen to like all those veins.
Anyone have any luck with OYEZ in the East?
Thanks,
Laetitia

Oyez was tough to grow and had to be replaced several times. Most of the time, it had only one bud. I think the most it has is two, but it is a gorgeous bloom.

Good luck with it.

Walter Moores

I think Laurie has Oyez but she's a little drier than the east coast.

I had a different one I got from her. Forget the name now. It bloomed but once it went dormant for the summer it disappeared forever.

I had OYEZ but lost it after blooming it once.

Sue, you got JEWEL OF OMAR from me. It's a trooper here, but it did take a few years to settle in and get happy. I nearly lost it several times over those first few years.

Laurie

I'm going to try it again.
I keep hoping Jewel of Omar reappears. I did dig some rhizomes that weren't blooming in the general area it was planted. Hopefully it was one of those.

Pretty sure it wasn't my winter temps that did it in. Spring or mud season as it's called here is the culprit. The top few inches of soil thaw but the water doesn't drain away because of the deeper frost and you get mud as far as the eye can see. Starting early this year. Wasn't a lot of snow so maybe we will dry off early this year. I can see the ground in most of the front yard. Doesn't usually happen for another month.