Dear All,
The items listed below have been donated by people from all over the
world, to be shared. If you are interested in obtaining some of them, please
email me PRIVATELY at <dells@voicenet.com>. Include "BX 125" in the subject
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Dell Sherk
6832 Phillips Mill Rd.
New Hope, PA, 18938
USA
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IF YOU DO NOT HEAR FROM ME, TRY AGAIN !!
From Mary Sue Ittner:
SEEDS: (Winter growing unless described otherwise)
1. Calochortus Mariposa mixed-- I just scooped up a bunch of seed pods from
random pots. I don't hand pollinate so they are probably all hybrids anyway
(argillosus, catalinae, luteus, superbus, vestae likely candidates)
2. Gladiolous carneus- pink form, see wiki, gorgeous
3. Gladiolus geardii-- best with year round water I think as not dormant
long. Can grow successfully in a pot, but in a deep pot in my raised plunge
beds where the soil stays much more moist than in the ground, has many more
blooms
4. Lachenalia contaminata-- not dormant long, late blooming
5. Pasithea caerulea-- true blue flowers, few seeds probably just for one
person
6. Watsonia coccinea-- One of my favorites. Not tall, bright red flowers,
doesn't take over your garden (but sometimes misses a year of bloom)
BULBS:
7. Ixia sp. (Found it's way into some of my pots. Could be a hybrid or could
be Ixia polystachya. Sure to be one of the ones that is easy for me in my
climate. A lot of them fade away never to be seen again and some expand and
expand.
8. Muscari botryoides -- nice blue, grew from Nargs seed so hope this is
right species. It's one of those that produces lots of offsets. I find this
less likely to happen planted deeply in large pots. Most Muscari have a
short dormancy for me if they don't dry out completely.
9. Narcissus species-- Sorry but I set these apart to share and did not
write down what they were and then had a senior moment. I think they are
Narcissus bulbocodium var. tenufolius and descendents of bulbs given by
Bill Dijk to another BX in March 2000. My notes indicate that ones planted
in my raised beds bloomed from February to April this year. The only other
ones I've repotted so far as Narcissus cantabricus, another wonderful early
blooming species, but I think they are probably the other.
10. Romulea bulbocodium (ones originally from Jane called nivalis) Romulea
bulbocodium aff. -- These are wonderful bulbs, blooming very reliably, easy
from seed and increasing every year. I think I now have enough pots of them
however and am sharing extras. They were grown from seed exchange seed
misnamed Romulea linaresii and Romulea ramiflora . Most people consider
these plants to be a form of Romulea bulbocodium even though some books
describe that species as having a stigma that overtops the stamens and these
flowers have short stigmas about the same height as the stamens.
11. Tritonia pallida-- Grown from seed of plants I think were labeled T.
pallida, but I grow lots of Tritonia so these are no doubt hybrids
12. Tritonia sp. -- Cormlets of larger bulbs that look like Tritonias that
appeared in my mystery bulb pots, also no doubt hybrids.
From Jim Fisher:
13. Bulbs and bulblets of Oxalis hirta. These and their ancestors were
originally received from Mary Sue Ittner. It flowers for me in November and
multiplies rapidly. Flowers deep pink with a yellow throat."
From Lynn Makela:
BULB(lets) / Corm(lets):
14. Nothoscordum filipponei (syn? Ipheion sellowianum)
15. Oxalis melanosticta 'Ken Aslet'
16. Oxalis purpurea 'Garnet'
17. Oxalis brasiliensis
SEED:
18. Habranthus gracilifolius (estensis?)
19. Zephyranthes primulina
20. Zephyranthes reginae
21. Zephyranthes macrosiphon
22. Zephyranthes commeroniana
Thank you, Mary Sue, Jim and Lynn !!
Best wishes,
Dell
--Dell Sherk, Director, Pacific BX