Description
Growing Conditions: This plant is cold hardy into northern Ohio (Zone 5).
Flowers: The flowers are shell pink with rich-pink buds and a sweet fragrance. Their strong, erect stalks measure 60 inches. They make a great cut flowers.
Flowering Season: This crinum flowers more than most. It begins to blossom in June and continues through the fall.
Leaves: The glossy, Kelly-green leaves grow to a length of three feet.
How To Plant: Plant to a depth of 12 to 15 inches in normal garden soil.
Where To Plant: Cecil Houdyshel goes great with many plants. Try it in front of any kind of crepe myrtle, with a groundcover of homestead purple verbena or with antique roses, such as Caldwell pink.
Our Bulbs: We ship our normal tennis-ball-sized bulbs, which are ready for flowering.
Emily Hazelwood –
I have given this one to my Mom and my Mother-in-Law and they both really enjoy the multiple blooms. My Mother-in-Law likes that she has something that is not common in her area of Virginia. Grows well in North Carolina also.
Aimee Schooley –
Yes, I’m leaving a review before I’ve even planted my Cecil Houdyshels. I received my Crinums yesterday with a lovely personal note from Jenks and Tom, letting me know that since I’m in the same USDA zone as them, my Crinums will be on the same bloom schedule. Amidst a crazy upside-down world of uncertainty and worry, this example of simple kindness nearly brought me to tears. I’m planting my Crinums today – one under the crape myrtle, as the description suggests. The other, I’ll plant by my mailbox: in anticipation of it welcoming me home from wherever my travels take me; as a nod to the old Southern tradition of Crinums and mailboxes; and as sweet reminder of the wonderful and caring folks at Jenks Farmer, Plantsman. Thank you so much.
Jenks Farmer –
Thank you so much for saying this. Since I do the growing and tend get in the pictures with flowers, I get nice comments but Tom, stuck in the crinum shed doesn’t get the recognition he deserves — notes like this make us both proud and happy. Jenks