A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – January 3, 2022 – Jenks Farmer on Crinum LiliesA Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – January 3, 2022 – Jenks Farmer on Crinum Lilies

<p>Uh-oh, now I've learned that there's another plant I didn't think I could grow in my Northern garden, but it sounds like I can. Hello, Crinum lilies, you gorgeous size-XL bulbs that I thought were the domain of Southern gardeners only, and not for me. </p> <p>A new book about them by <a href="https://jenksfarmer.com/">Jenks Farmer</a> is teaching me otherwise, and making me want to order some bulbs.  </p> <p> Augustus Jenkins Farmer, aka Jenks Farmer, is a longtime horticulturist and garden designer who's former director of Riverbank Botanical Garden in South Carolina and author of a couple of previous books. These days, he is, true to his surname, also a farmer specializing in growing and selling crinum lilies and a few other goodies from his organically managed 18th-century South Carolina farm. His new self-published book is called <a href="https://jenksfarmer.com/product/the-crinum-book/">“Crinum: Unearthing the History and Cultivation of the World's Biggest Bulb.”   </a></p>