pbs Digest, Vol 62, Issue 14 ALLIUMS

Iain Brodie of Falsyde auchgourishgardens@falsyde.sol.co.uk
Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:22:08 PDT
ALLIUM WALLICHIII.
Would anyone be interested in some seed of Allium wallichii? A lovely plant 
and not often available. my seed came from the wild originally and this 
species is very hardy - down to - 25C. I can post seed to a few people, 
enough to get them started if of interest.

Iain
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>   1. Re: pbs]  Mark McDonough alliums available (Pacific Rim)
>   2. BX 162 (Dennis Szeszko)
>   3. Re: BX 162 (Richard)
>   4. Sleeping Beauties from South America (totototo@telus.net)
>   5. Re: Sleeping Beauties from South America (Mark Mazer)
>   6. Fritillaria hybrids (Jane McGary)
>   7. Re: Fritillaria hybrids (Robin Hansen)
>   8. Re: Sleeping Beauties from South America and double wild
>      Narcissus (brown.mark)
>   9. Re: Sleeping Beauties from South America Ipheons (Lauw de Jager)
>  10. Wiki Additions- Hepatica, Narcissus, Leptoceras (Mary Sue Ittner)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:31:49 -0700
> From: "Pacific Rim" <paige@hillkeep.ca>
> Subject: Re: [pbs] pbs]  Mark McDonough alliums available
> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
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> Jerry John Flintoff wrote:
>
>> ?? Re Allium flavum ssp tauricum ' Lemon Cooler '- as a lover of soft
>> yellow tones I don't think I would use the term "acid" to describe such a
>> gentle hue.? It is a super plant that I aways look foreward to seeing 
>> each
>> summer.
>
> We agree on the beauty of the creature, at least. :-))
>
> Paige
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:05:55 -0600
> From: "Dennis Szeszko" <dszeszko@gmail.com>
> Subject: [pbs] BX 162
> To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org
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> Johannes:
>
> I will do my best to source seeds of both of these plants for you, but it
> will not be until September.  I have a few corms of Milla magnifica that I
> will be planting in the next few weeks and with some luck they will 
> produce
> copious seed.  The other plant that I tentatively have identified as a
> Rhodochiton species is growing in my greenhouse and will likely produce
> seed, as well.  A botanist was going to confirm the identify of this plant
> for me and l will be pass along the information to the PBS listserv.
>
> The other seed that I offered of Tigridia aff. mortonii in BX 162 has been
> confirmed by a Tigridia specialist as, indeed, being this species.  This 
> is
> a true botanical oddity and the first time that this plant has been
> collected in over 85 years.   I hope that people who received seeds of 
> this
> species have luck in growing it to flowering size.  It is the only known
> Tigridia species with red flowers.  (Tigridia pavonia has some selected
> clones that are red, but in nature it is never this color.)
>
>
>> Message: 9
>> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:02:45 +0100
>> From: johannes-ulrich-urban@t-online.de (Johannes-Ulrich Urban)
>> Subject: [pbs] BX 162
>> To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org
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>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>>
>> Dear All,
>>
>>
>>
>> This is an attempt to source one or two of the plants offered as seed at
>> the
>> end of 2007 in the BX 162, especially a Rhodochiton ? species from Mexico
>> and
>> perhaps Milla magnifica. I contacted the donor of the seed but he had no
>> leftovers neither. I am very interested in these plants and wonder if
>> someone
>> might have just a few seeds left or if someone would be happy to harvest
>> seeds
>> for me from plants grown from the BX 162 seeds, especially the
>> Rhodochiton. I
>> am happy to cover all expenses. I very much hope you do not mind me 
>> trying
>> in
>> this rather unusual way.
>>
>>
>> With many thanks and greetings from spring in northern Germany, Uli
>>
>>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:19:59 -0800
> From: "Richard" <xerics@cox.net>
> Subject: Re: [pbs] BX 162
> To: "'Pacific Bulb Society'" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
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> Dennis,
>
> I received a few seeds of the ?rhodochiton? But so far there is no
> germination. I keep them in a greenhouse with a 80 degree minimum temp.
> (heat Mat)   Any ideas on germination them. It has been a long while.
>
> The only seed that showed some germination was the Pentstamen.
>
> Richard
> Vista CA
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Dennis Szeszko
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 12:06 PM
> To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [pbs] BX 162
>
>
> Johannes:
>
> I will do my best to source seeds of both of these plants for you, but
> it will not be until September.  I have a few corms of Milla magnifica
> that I will be planting in the next few weeks and with some luck they
> will produce copious seed.  The other plant that I tentatively have
> identified as a Rhodochiton species is growing in my greenhouse and will
> likely produce seed, as well.  A botanist was going to confirm the
> identify of this plant for me and l will be pass along the information
> to the PBS listserv.
>
> The other seed that I offered of Tigridia aff. mortonii in BX 162 has
> been confirmed by a Tigridia specialist as, indeed, being this species.
> This is a true botanical oddity and the first time that this plant has
> been
> collected in over 85 years.   I hope that people who received seeds of
> this
> species have luck in growing it to flowering size.  It is the only known
> Tigridia species with red flowers.  (Tigridia pavonia has some selected
> clones that are red, but in nature it is never this color.)
>
>
>> Message: 9
>> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:02:45 +0100
>> From: johannes-ulrich-urban@t-online.de (Johannes-Ulrich Urban)
>> Subject: [pbs] BX 162
>> To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org
>> Message-ID: <1JYr13-0AD0aM0@fwd24.aul.t-online.de>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>>
>> Dear All,
>>
>>
>>
>> This is an attempt to source one or two of the plants offered as seed
>> at the end of 2007 in the BX 162, especially a Rhodochiton ? species
>> from Mexico and
>> perhaps Milla magnifica. I contacted the donor of the seed but he had
> no
>> leftovers neither. I am very interested in these plants and wonder if
>> someone
>> might have just a few seeds left or if someone would be happy to
> harvest
>> seeds
>> for me from plants grown from the BX 162 seeds, especially the
>> Rhodochiton. I
>> am happy to cover all expenses. I very much hope you do not mind me
> trying
>> in
>> this rather unusual way.
>>
>>
>> With many thanks and greetings from spring in northern Germany, Uli
>>
>>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:15:26 -0700
> From: totototo@telus.net
> Subject: [pbs] Sleeping Beauties from South America
> To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org
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> Some years ago, a pot of Beauverdia sellowiana (aka Ipheion
> sellowianum, and now considered as Nothoscordum something-or-other)
> was exposed to more cold than it could handle. But instead of the
> bulbs rotting away, they simply went totally dormant. Every year I'd
> inspect the pot, note the absence of new growth, tip it out, and see
> endless bulbs just sitting there with no trace of root or top growth.
>
> The smaller bulblets dwindled in numbers, but the larger ones seemed
> to hold their own.
>
> Someone posted a message here on the PBS mailing list in which they
> mentioned using heat to give some sluggish amaryllidaceous plant a
> kick in the ribs and wake up to active growth. Following this tip, I
> moved my Beauverdia into the house and parked in inside a south-
> facing patio door where it got full sun most of the day and the soil
> was warmed up well and truly.
>
> This strategy worked; the Beauverdia soon came back to life and has
> thriven to this day, though flowers remain few.
>
>
> This last week I was making the rounds of the coldframes and observed
> two other Iphieon-ish bulbs showed only a very few grassy leaves.
> These were seedlings of Ipheion 'Alberto Castillo' and Ipheion 'Rolf
> Fiedler' (now Tristagma something-or-other). On tipping the pots out,
> it was the same story all over again with both of them: plenty of
> healthy bulbs, but no roots and no top growth.
>
> These are now undergoing the patio door treatment and I have my
> fingers crossed. I'll give this mailing list a report in a month or
> two when the experiment will have failed or succeeded.
>
>
> I wonder how widespread in the Amaryllidaceae this kind of behavior
> is. Has anyone else noticed it and, if so, in what species? Or is
> this behavior restricted to Ipheion and its close relatives?
>
>
> PS: Ipheion uniflora itself seems immune to cold: flats of seedlings
> of 'Froyle Mill' exposed to the full onslaught of winter cold and
> rain have plenty of foliage and even some flowers.
>
>
>
> -- 
> Rodger Whitlock
> Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
> Maritime Zone 8, a cool Mediterranean climate
>
> on beautiful Vancouver Island
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:24:26 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
> From: Mark Mazer <markmazerandfm13@earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [pbs] Sleeping Beauties from South America
> To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
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>>This strategy worked; the Beauverdia soon came back to life and has
>>thriven to this day, though flowers remain few.
>>
>>
>>This last week I was making the rounds of the coldframes and observed
>>two other Iphieon-ish bulbs showed only a very few grassy leaves.
>>These were seedlings of Ipheion 'Alberto Castillo'
>
>
> I recently moved potted Beauverdia 7 hundred or so miles southward from 
> Connecticut to North Carolina, keep them to the same minimum winter 
> temperature, but the bloom and vigor is significantly better here in NC. I 
> think they may prefer the higher summer temps, or are responding to the 
> better quality light.
>
> Ipheion 'Alberto Cstillo' is just going over in the greenhouse, but in the 
> landscape, they have been in bloom for several weeks now.  Will these 
> become weedy in northeast NC?
>
> Mark Mazer
> Hertford, Norrth Carolina, USA
> Zone 7b-8, I think
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:03:06 -0700
> From: Jane McGary <janemcgary@earthlink.net>
> Subject: [pbs] Fritillaria hybrids
> To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
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>
> The fritillarias are getting going well now and I'm having the annual
> anxiety of trying to verify their identities. Oh for a monograph! I wish I
> were not so intimidated by the thought of posting photos on the PBS 
> wiki -- 
> every time I try it, I seem to do it wrong.
>
> The big surprise today was the first flower in a pot of seedlings of F.
> pluriflora, seeds from my own plants. It appears to be a hybrid with the
> pollen parent probably being F. striata, which flowers nearby at the same
> time. F. pluriflora flowers are held upfacing or at an oblique tilt,
> whereas this one has fully pendent flowers like F. striata. The tepals are
> slightly reflexed at the tips, like striata but not like pluriflora. It is
> deep pink, like pluriflora, but shows the "dotted line" tesselation of F.
> striata, and also that species' white style. It does not have the sweet
> fragrance typical of striata. I have sent photos to experts for their
> opinions. These two species both come from California, but are widely
> separated geographically.
>
> I'm eagerly awaiting the first flowering this year of another plant that I
> know is a hybrid, because I made a deliberate cross with pollen of F.
> eastwoodiae onto what I think is F. gentneri (or a very large, flaring F.
> recurva, which is basically ... gentneri). I did this because I had only
> one clone of the latter, so could not get pure seed of it, and was 
> curious.
> F. eastwoodiae itself is sometimes claimed to be a natural hybrid of F.
> recurva x F. micrantha, but it is very stable and fertile, and I suspect 
> it
> should be viewed as a good species.
>
> I've previously written about bee hybrids here between F. biflora and F.
> purdyi (both ways), and Ed Rustvold of Berkeley, California, has sent me
> material of plants he thinks are this cross. Diana Chapman and I have
> apparent hybrids of F. liliacea x F. agrestis that were made by bees here
> -- no improvement on the former, unfortunately, as they are green instead
> of white and smell bad.
>
> I prefer to grow wild species, but these garden hybrids are fascinating
> too, and the purdyi x biflora cross is both attractive and unusually
> robust, probably a better garden plant than the somewhat miffy F. purdyi
> but preserving its black-and-white tessellation and shiny surface texture.
> It also produces many offsets AND viable seed -- I may see the F2 flower
> this year.
>
> So if you'd like to be a lily breeder and don't have much room, consider
> their little cousins.
>
> Jane McGary
> Northwestern Oregon, USA
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:11:29 -0700
> From: "Robin Hansen" <hansennursery@coosnet.com>
> Subject: Re: [pbs] Fritillaria hybrids
> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Message-ID: <003d01c884af$8f1b8db0$c7f164d0@homed4aec9b2d8>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> My frits, too, are having their happiest spring in years, think it must be 
> the prolonged cold we have had here on the coast -- weeks and weeks of it.
>
> A question for Jane and whoever received Erythronium  x multiscapoideum or 
> ??  Multiscapoideum itself is blooming but there is an erythronium you 
> thought might be  a hybrid, Jane; it is spectacular!  The leaf pattern is 
> quite a bit darker and more defined and the leaves, stems and buds are all 
> flushed a wonderful rose.  It's not quite in bloom yet and I will get 
> photos as soon as possible.
>
> Has anyone had this one bloom?  And if so, do you have any clues as to 
> identity?  It does seem more vigorous than the species.
>
> Robin Hansen
> Southwest Oregon
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: Jane McGary
>  To: Pacific Bulb Society
>  Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 3:03 PM
>  Subject: [pbs] Fritillaria hybrids
>
>
>  The fritillarias are getting going well now and I'm having the annual
>  anxiety of trying to verify their identities. Oh for a monograph! I wish 
> I
>  were not so intimidated by the thought of posting photos on the PBS 
> wiki -- 
>  every time I try it, I seem to do it wrong.
>
>  The big surprise today was the first flower in a pot of seedlings of F.
>  pluriflora, seeds from my own plants. It appears to be a hybrid with the
>  pollen parent probably being F. striata, which flowers nearby at the same
>  time. F. pluriflora flowers are held upfacing or at an oblique tilt,
>  whereas this one has fully pendent flowers like F. striata. The tepals 
> are
>  slightly reflexed at the tips, like striata but not like pluriflora. It 
> is
>  deep pink, like pluriflora, but shows the "dotted line" tesselation of F.
>  striata, and also that species' white style. It does not have the sweet
>  fragrance typical of striata. I have sent photos to experts for their
>  opinions. These two species both come from California, but are widely
>  separated geographically.
>
>  I'm eagerly awaiting the first flowering this year of another plant that 
> I
>  know is a hybrid, because I made a deliberate cross with pollen of F.
>  eastwoodiae onto what I think is F. gentneri (or a very large, flaring F.
>  recurva, which is basically ... gentneri). I did this because I had only
>  one clone of the latter, so could not get pure seed of it, and was 
> curious.
>  F. eastwoodiae itself is sometimes claimed to be a natural hybrid of F.
>  recurva x F. micrantha, but it is very stable and fertile, and I suspect 
> it
>  should be viewed as a good species.
>
>  I've previously written about bee hybrids here between F. biflora and F.
>  purdyi (both ways), and Ed Rustvold of Berkeley, California, has sent me
>  material of plants he thinks are this cross. Diana Chapman and I have
>  apparent hybrids of F. liliacea x F. agrestis that were made by bees here
>  -- no improvement on the former, unfortunately, as they are green instead
>  of white and smell bad.
>
>  I prefer to grow wild species, but these garden hybrids are fascinating
>  too, and the purdyi x biflora cross is both attractive and unusually
>  robust, probably a better garden plant than the somewhat miffy F. purdyi
>  but preserving its black-and-white tessellation and shiny surface 
> texture.
>  It also produces many offsets AND viable seed -- I may see the F2 flower
>  this year.
>
>  So if you'd like to be a lily breeder and don't have much room, consider
>  their little cousins.
>
>  Jane McGary
>  Northwestern Oregon, USA
>
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> Message: 8
> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 06:50:18 +0100
> From: "brown.mark" <brown.mark@wanadoo.fr>
> Subject: Re: [pbs] Sleeping Beauties from South America and double
> wild Narcissus
> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
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>
> That is strange beacause I nearly lost my Rolf Fiedler through cold until 
> it
> wen't back into the greenhouse which has some minimal heat.Now I have two
> pot fulls after going down to one or two bulbs.It is just as you say all 
> the
> baby bulbs died in the freeze.Nothing happened for a year.I nearly gave up
> but tipped out the bulbs from thier pot and as there was still a week leaf
> or two I persisted.And voil? the result.Wisley blue can cope with much 
> more
> cold.I have lost Charlotte Bishop sadly ,but Alberto Castillio is in the
> open garden and flowers whenever it feels like it and the weather is not 
> too
> cold.I must try to get some more clones.I have to get everything from
> England which is a drag...
> Double clones of Narcissus pseudonarcissus are coming out now.I have seven
> or eight diffrent ones.Who else grows or likes these?The woods around here
> in Normandy are yellow with them.Sunday I found a pale citron single form 
> in
> the woods by the sea here.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <totototo@telus.net>
> To: <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 10:15 PM
> Subject: [pbs] Sleeping Beauties from South America
>
>
>> Some years ago, a pot of Beauverdia sellowiana (aka Ipheion
>> sellowianum, and now considered as Nothoscordum something-or-other)
>> was exposed to more cold than it could handle. But instead of the
>> bulbs rotting away, they simply went totally dormant. Every year I'd
>> inspect the pot, note the absence of new growth, tip it out, and see
>> endless bulbs just sitting there with no trace of root or top growth.
>>
>> The smaller bulblets dwindled in numbers, but the larger ones seemed
>> to hold their own.
>>
>> Someone posted a message here on the PBS mailing list in which they
>> mentioned using heat to give some sluggish amaryllidaceous plant a
>> kick in the ribs and wake up to active growth. Following this tip, I
>> moved my Beauverdia into the house and parked in inside a south-
>> facing patio door where it got full sun most of the day and the soil
>> was warmed up well and truly.
>>
>> This strategy worked; the Beauverdia soon came back to life and has
>> thriven to this day, though flowers remain few.
>>
>>
>> This last week I was making the rounds of the coldframes and observed
>> two other Iphieon-ish bulbs showed only a very few grassy leaves.
>> These were seedlings of Ipheion 'Alberto Castillo' and Ipheion 'Rolf
>> Fiedler' (now Tristagma something-or-other). On tipping the pots out,
>> it was the same story all over again with both of them: plenty of
>> healthy bulbs, but no roots and no top growth.
>>
>> These are now undergoing the patio door treatment and I have my
>> fingers crossed. I'll give this mailing list a report in a month or
>> two when the experiment will have failed or succeeded.
>>
>>
>> I wonder how widespread in the Amaryllidaceae this kind of behavior
>> is. Has anyone else noticed it and, if so, in what species? Or is
>> this behavior restricted to Ipheion and its close relatives?
>>
>>
>> PS: Ipheion uniflora itself seems immune to cold: flats of seedlings
>> of 'Froyle Mill' exposed to the full onslaught of winter cold and
>> rain have plenty of foliage and even some flowers.
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Rodger Whitlock
>> Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
>> Maritime Zone 8, a cool Mediterranean climate
>>
>> on beautiful Vancouver Island
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>>
>>
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 9
> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:21:53 +0100
> From: Lauw de Jager <dejager@bulbargence.com>
> Subject: Re: [pbs] Sleeping Beauties from South America Ipheons
> To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Message-ID: <C3FE94A1.FBA%dejager@bulbargence.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"
>
> Dear listmembers,
> Now that Paige opened the subject on Ipheions, I would like report on our
> Iphions here in the nursery. All grown outside in the ground and flowering
> is now at its best.
> Following my Ipheion posting last summer I report on the september 2006
> sowings of: --Alberto Castillo (fairly uniform, but 100% white),
> -- Charlotte Bishop  (varying from light rose to a nice deep pink),
> --Froylemill, (70%  deep purple, some with a white centre, some all 
> purple,
> by the way I doubt the identity of Froylemill in the wiki page, the sowing
> contains some interesting large pale blue plants, possibly a result of
> "Alberto Castillo" pollen?)
> --Rolf Fiedler: 100% true
> Some list members obtained several lots of 100b of these sowings, it would
> be interesting to hear their reports on the flowering.
>
> Alberto Castillo has sent me some bulbs of a selection "Summerskies", 
> which
> now shows its large blue flowers. It looks like a large improved form of
> 'Rolf Fiedler'(I will have a closer look at its bulbs next summer) and is
> certainly of future interest.
> Next weekend I will put up a series of pictures on the wiki.
> Bye for now
>
> -- Lauw de Jager
> Bulb'Argence
> South of France (zone 9 (olive trees)
> emailto: dejager@bulbargence.com
> Site http://www.bulbargence.com/
>
>
>
>
> Le 12/03/08 22:15, ??totototo@telus.net?? <totototo@telus.net> a ?crit?:
>> These were seedlings of Ipheion 'Alberto Castillo' and Ipheion 'Rolf 
>> Fiedler'
>> PS: Ipheion uniflora itself seems immune to cold: flats of seedlings
>> of 'Froyle Mill' exposed to the full onslaught of winter cold and
>> rain have plenty of foliage and even some flowers.
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> Message: 10
> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:11:50 -0700
> From: Mary Sue Ittner <msittner@mcn.org>
> Subject: [pbs] Wiki Additions- Hepatica, Narcissus, Leptoceras
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> In the past week there have been these additions:
> Hepatica nobilis from Alessandro Marinello
>  http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…
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> Additional Narcissus pictures from Jay Yourch
> Additional pictures of 'Elka' and 'Snipe' at a later stage when the cup
> color has faded
> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…
> New pictures of 'Pinza'
> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…
> Add new cultivars 'Toby the First' and  'Wisley'
> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…
> Add Narcissus jonquilla var. henriquesii
> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…
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> Another orchid from Australia, Leptoceras menziesii or the Rabbit or Hare
> orchid.
> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…
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