Dear Fred: Are you still growing lilies? Cheers, John E. Bryan (Formerly with OBF.) boutin wrote: > > Bulbs and Memories, > > Thank you Judy for mentioning Elizabeth Lawrence. That brings back the > memory of my correspondence with Elizabeth Lawrence in the late 60's and > early 70's about "found bulbs", particularly old narcissus cultivars. I was > collecting cv's of tazettas in southern California and buying a few old > narcissus cv's from listings in the rural farm classified sales sheets that > came out from states in the southeast. Elizabeth was a help in putting > names on some of these. I still have a large pan of N. jonquilla which > dates from this time. It flourished and flowered well in southern > California. Grows well here in the foothills of the mid Sierra Nevada's, > but hardly flowers. > > One of my clones of Ledebouria socialis came from the late Ed Carman of Los > Gatos. It certainly brings to mind the many happy hours of talking plants > with Ed and snooping through his nursery of unusual plants. And it's this > dwarf form of the common "violet squill" which prompted my recent interest > in the genus Ledebouria and in the variations of L. socialis. > > This squill brings to mind another bulb which my grandfather always grew and > called sea squill, which would have been Urginea maritima, but I think was > actually Ornithogalum caudatum, with all the bulbils offsets under the > scales. This fascinated me as a child. Also in my grandparents garden was > a long wide row of Hippeastrum 'Johnsonii'. This old amaryllis was an > unending source of bulbs for giving to friends and neighbors. In later > years this bulb came back to me from one of the old neighbors. I no longer > grow it, but was happy to see it mentioned recently in the PBS. > > Fred Boutin > 2400 ft. elev. > zone 7 > Tuolumne, CA > > _______________________________________________ > > pbs mailing list > > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php