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: Ellen Bosanquet (pronounced bo-san-ket, not the French way) has about 16, red/dark-pink (magenta) trumpet-shaped blooms on thick, 24-36 tall scapes. Flowers have a spicy fragrance and open several at a time for a period of about 10 days. Multiple scapes will emerge from larger bulbs, extending the blooming period. Leaves are wavy, look like a corn plant, and can grow to 6'. Mature bulbs are HUGE and can reach 8 in diameter. Bulbs are mostly seed sterile but the pollen is semi-fertile. It will form numerous offsets and develop into large clumps in just several years (it can rarely accept a number of pollens, including C. Mooreii). This is a commodity type of plant, one of the two most common varieties, that will be easy and fun to grow, giving you something to trade or share with your friends.
This is definitely a must have plant in any crinum collection which will reward you with lots of summer color. We grow over 1000 varieties of crinum including about 350 of our own hybrids. BACKGROUND: Bred around 1910 by Louis Percival Bosanquet, who resided in Florida, he named it after his wife and first listed it in 1930. Its parents remain the great mystery in crinum hybridizing and are probably C. scabrum X C. moorei or J. C. Harvey. It has the short scapes of scabrum and resembles J. C. Harvey when not in bloom. It is probably the most famous and widely grown hybrid. GROWING CONDITIONS: Flowers appear punctually near the end of May or early June and continue for about 6 weeks in zone 9(later in cooler zones). This is a very hardy and easy to grow bulb requiring no special care. It tolerates a wide range of soils, extended dry periods, and will tolerate freezing weather to zone 7, possibly lower, if the bulb is planted deeply and mulched. Bulbs can survive nicely out of the ground for very extended periods if allowed to dry. They can take full sun, but blooms do best in partial shade. They will also make excel

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