Just bought one of these and did some internet research. The website says slugs and snails are pests but how bad? Anyone grown these?
These are really pretty exotic looking flowers and flower aug-oct but will make expensive slugfood!
Oh and is worth saving seed?
I've got Tricyrtis in pots that I grew from seed - plant now, leave the pot out to get chilled, and it should come up next spring - but haven't planted them out yet.
I have a Toad lily in my garden which has been there for at least 15 years. It is a lovely flower and I have not had much trouble with slugs or snails. It is very hardy and mine has just started to flower.
Mines just started flowering too, will save some seed later this year.
I've got a very large population of slugs and snails in the back garden so will try the front in the woodland area.....just need to find some space......
I grew some in the folks garden a while ago..... my mum thought it was nice that I was growing something other than the "boring veg and monster onions"..... she had a medium-large fit when these oddly ugly flowers came up all over the place.... slugs can be an issue but I planted mine close to her bergenias and that thing that's a bit like a bergenia that slugs like even more.... want to say "Canna" but I don't think it was..... might have to get my bizarrely goth garden back sometime... I've got some snakes-head fritillary seed, need to sort out all the black flowers again, there's an almost black carnation that smells gorgeous, Queen of the Blacks I think it is.... quite heavy, musky dusky decadent..... a mate of mines girlfriend took some off to an essential oils fair and got a pretty close replica made... suited her down to the ground really, but he did mention later that walking into our garden in the summer made him uncomfortably stiff :o
chrisc
I've just repotted my Tricyrtis; from seed planted two years ago, I had the odd flower this year. I found flourishing roots, most of them producing offsets. I ve put them all in 15 - 20 cm pots for the moment, but it looks as though they'll outgrow them sometime next summer.
My first attempt to grow them failed due to newly emerging seedlings being hit by a late frost. They seem to be vulnerable at this stage, but once they're established they're fully hardy.