Re: titanum blooming in the US

From: SelbyHort at aol.com on 1999.07.14 at 21:46:38(3503) Dear Doug, Did your plant bloom last week? I had heard it flowered on the 7th or so. How did everything go??? We listed our double flowerings as the 8th and 9th flowerings. We did this because Fairchild said theirs was the 6th and Atlanta said theirs was the 7th. The 5th flowering was reported by Kathy Upton at Univ. of Missouri, Colombia. It was a younger plant from the same seed batch as all of ours, so it surprised everyone. Going back in time, there was a flowering at Longwood in April 1961 and before that were the July, 1939 and June 1937 flowerings at NYBG...so if you add this all up you will find that one flowering is unaccounted for. I asked Craig Allen at Fairchild how he arrived at the 6th flowering and he said they weren't sure, but were only guessing and allowed that they added in an extra flowering for some possible event that may have been undocumented. In the rush to get the PR out, you really don't have time to trace all the history in detail, and there appears to be some gaps in information. It is possible that your flowering is the 9th titanum flowering in this country, but this has yet to be confirmed. Hope to hear more from you about your flowering when you have time, Donna Atwood Selby Gardens +More In a message dated 99-07-12 00:04:42 EDT, you write: << I have been asked by several people here about other flowerings of Amorph.titanum in the US. I have been saying that our plant ( due any day, I'm thinking) will be the 10th event in this country. Does anyone know the dates and places of all other 9? I know of the most recent events, but would love to pass these details on. Thanks, Doug >>

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