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#1
Well, of course, send 'em to the BX!

Unless they are too heavy and unwieldy to ship...

If there is anyone local to San Francisco, these are available for pickup:

Urginea maritima (or whatever is currently), multiple bulbs 4-6" diameter, unhappy due to cool summers
Scilla peruviana-large clump, excess to needs
Impatiens insignis-multiple plants, deciduous, wants wet conditions to flower well, may prefer cool summers

Email me if you'd like any or all: Robert's email

Robert
in cool, currently rainy San Francisco...maybe enough wetting rain to sow seeds, and get the planted out bulbs to get going for the winter.
#2
Hello again-

We have a seed share that may be of interest to you.  Thanks to
Mary Sue Ittner who harvested the seed and brought it to the post office!

Please email me privately at trolleypup@gmail.com by Tuesday night, May 30th,
I will portion seed, invoice and probably ship Wednesday or Thursday.
$6.50 per portion including shipping (Canada will calculate once packaged-usually US$15-20)

Please include your name and shipping address in your email. Shipping is at your risk, weather conditions at the delivery point can affect ephemeral seed viability.

Haemanthus albiflos - some are already sprouting, so be ready to plant them. The minimum portion will be 5 seeds.

Robert
#3
About half the winter bulbs are lifted or in pot storage...the rest are going dormant at their own speed, probably dragged out by the 1.5"+ of unlikely rain in May.

The summer bulbs are a few randoms, but mostly Amorphophallus (plus other geophyte aroids), and this year's planters of Andean tubers. That was a lot of soil! Most of the aroids are in 1 to 10 gallon pots. The indoor lights are all shining on tropical/near tropical miniature aroids. The storage boxes have been emptied of summer bulbs and are filling with winter bulbs.

The front yard still has lots of spots of color from spring/summer bulbs, and the summer flowering perennials...but it is definitely getting less colorful. Lots of miniature flowers in the greenhouse, and Pelargonium incrassatum is still being improbably pink.

Front yard - Bomarea superba(?), Ixia viridiflora (plus interloper I. polystycha)
Under lights - Typhonium circinnatum with the rolled spathe
Back yard - Gorgonidium intermedium pushing up a bouquet of flowers, Amorphophallus konjac moving towards opening

#4
For those of you where winter shipping of live plants is a thing, I have some goodies that are ready for a new home. Free shipping to the south and west USA. Email me directly: trolleypup@gmail.com I'll collect responses over the weekend and ship next week.

Varieties that are still solidly dormant will be made available later.

Nerine filifolia...not quite dormant, but lots of them, a near evergreen summer grower.

Andean tuber crops, some are starting to sprout, the ones in solid dormancy can wait. Most of these require cool summers, and will not thrive with warm/hot days and nights. Summer growers, with a very long season (tuber production begins around the solstice, dormancy late November into January). 

Yacon - Smallanthus sonchifolius, the exception, will handle warmer conditions. I have a few, the bud tubers don't store well (the storage tubers do though). Dahlia style growth.

Ulluco - Ullucus tuberosus, bright colored tubers
 - (pink): elongated bright pink tubers
 - Moclips: round pink tubers faded to green

Mashua - Tropaeolum tuberosum, viny nasturtium relative, red/orange flowers in fall
 - (light green with purple eyes): many

Oca - Oxalis tuberosus, very vigorous floppy with a few yellow flowers, few to many
 - (red)
 - White Salmon
 - Hopin Alba
 - (cream with magenta eyes)
 - Amarillo
 - Bolivian Red
 - Twilight
 - (dark red with yellow)

 Robert


#5
Hello again-

We have a seed share that may be of interest to you.  Thanks again to
Mike Rummerfield who harvested the seed and brought it to the post office!

Please email me privately at trolleypup@gmail.com by Sunday night/Monday morning,
I will portion seed, invoice and probably ship Monday/Tuesday.
$2 per packet, $4.50 shipping (Canada will calculate once packaged-usually US$15-20)

Remember that winter conditions may affect live seed shipping. Shipping is at your risk.

Please request by number.

*Mike Rummerfield:*
All seed are crosses of Clivia miniata.

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Alick's Peach x Angel City
X
Chubb peachy pink

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Alick's Peach x Angel City
X
Hammett yellow
(this cross produces both pigmented and 
non-pigmented seedlings)

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Alick's Peach x Angel City
X
Morriss yellow x Chiba Gold
(this cross produces both pigmented and 
non-pigmented seedlings)

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Berties Bronze F1 x Gem's Mexico (b)
X
Japanese red x Ms Sunshine

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Chubb peachy pink
X
Alick's Peach x Angel City

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Chubb peachy pink
X
Hammett yellow
(the above X produced yellow berries and
all unpigmented bases !!)
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Chubb peachy pink
X
Morris yellow x Chiba Gold
(the above X produced yellow berries and
all unpigmented bases !!)
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Debutante x Arturo's yellow (orange flowered!)

Golden Dragon x orange Belgian (b)
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Debutante x Arturo's yellow (orange flowered!)
X
Morris yellow x Chiba Gold  
(this X produced orange colored berry,
but 50/50 non-pigmented and pigmented seedlings)

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Felicity Weeden orange flowered seedling
(unknown parentage)
X
Berties Bronze F1 x Gem's Mexico (a)
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Golden Dragon x orange Belgian (b)

Berties Bronze F1 x Gem's Mexico (a)
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Golden Dragon x orange Belgian (e)
X
Japanese red x Ms Sunshine
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Golden Dragon x orange Belgian (d)
X
Spectalos X (Tadai x Helleborus)
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Golden Dragon x orange Belgian (e)
X
Tipperary peach x Tipperary peach
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Good Hope
X
Morris yellow x Chiba Gold
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Hammett yellow
X
Morris yellow x Chiba Gold
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Jack Van Rensburg x Oribi Gorgeous
X
Berties Bronze F1 x Gem's Mexico (a)
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Jack Van Rensburg x Oribi Gorgeous
X
Japanese red x Ms Sunshine
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Jack Van Rensburg x Oribi Gorgeous
X
Linda Richards red (a)

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Linda Richards red (b)
X
Linda Richards red (a)

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Lucky Charm x Saki Beni
X
Jack Van Rensburg x Oribi Gorgeous

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Lucky Charm x Saki Beni
X
Japanese red x Ms Sunshine

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Lucky Charm x Saki Beni
X
Morris yellow x Chiba Gold

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tall scaped orange Belgian

Berties Bronze F1 x Gem's Mexico (a)

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tall scaped orange Belgian

Japanese red x Ms Sunshine

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tall scaped orange Belgian

Jack Van Rensburg x Oribi Gorgeous
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tall scaped orange Belgian
X
Linda Richards red (a)
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Tipperary peach x Tipperary peach
X
Golden Dragon x orange Belgian (d)
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Tipperary peach x Tipperary peach
X
Golden Dragon x orange Belgian (e)

Best regards, Robert
#6
General Discussion / Found my gophers' cache!
December 25, 2022, 07:03:31 PM
At the end of a day of digging out beds to install hardware cloth liners[1], I was making another crater and the shovel hit a large void and then I saw a cavern full of bulbs. I think I have recovered a significant portion of the bulbs that used to be in the front beds...after discarding the Oxalis purpurea, 75-100 bulbs are left. So I'll do a rough sort (gladiolus-obvious, also over 2" in diameter, Ixia, also distinguishable, Zephyanthes should be dormant), but accurately sorting the Tritileia, Leucocoryne, Narcissus, Scilla, and Ornithogalum is unlikly to be accurate. And there is a partly gnawed large tuber that looks like it might have a growing point, but I didn't lose anything with that sort of tuber.

Anyway, mostly they can go back to where they started (20-40 feet away from the cache)...they were mostly mixed plantings anyway, now they can be mixed plantings with no label nearby.

Robert
in pleasant San Francisco, where there is one more day of nice weather before it rains for a long week.



[1] Early this fall the gophers cleared all my ground planted bulbs (amaryllids and irids).
#7
My conditions don't satisfy the needs of summer growing Zantedeschias, so I lifted them all, about 14 varieties.

Numbers range from a few to many, with a  broad range of colors.

Offer details: I will send them for free to USA locations that aren't frozen (your judgement, the tubers won't tolerate frost). Email me offlist (trolleypup@gmail.com), we can discuss via email  details of what you want/varieties offered.

Robert
in cool wet San Francisco, with a smattering of pretty flowers (mostly Oxalis at the moment)
#8
Bulb and Seed Exchanges / Mostly Nerine seed available
December 07, 2022, 10:23:19 PM
Hello again-

We have some seed shares that may be of interest to you.  Thanks again to
all who harvested the seed and brought it to the post office!

Please email me privately at trolleypup@gmail.com by Sunday night/Monday morning,
I will portion seed, invoice and probably ship Monday/Tuesday.
$2 per packet, $4.50 shipping (Canada will calculate once packaged)

Remember that winter conditions may affect live seed shipping. Shipping is at your risk.

*Mary Sue Ittner:*
Scadoxus membranaceus (few)
Nerine sarniensis (winter rainfall)
Nerine masoniorum (evergreen)
Nerine humilis (winter rainfall)
Nerine 'Wombe' X 'Carmenita' - from the Zinkowski rescue, not N. sarniensis, but unlike my pots of those, flowers reliably
Nerine augustifolia (summer rainfall)


*Robert Parks*
Nerine filifolia (OP, but no other Nerine set seed)

Best regards, Robert
#9
Current Photographs / (Plants with) Recalcitrant Seeds
September 14, 2022, 11:02:00 AM
While the discussion is going on in the email list...

Here is a picture of developing seed (with accompanying flowers). The first flowers opened a few weeks ago, the first seeds will be mature in a couple weeks (not much bigger than they are now). Immediate germination if sowed, 2-4 weeks if not sowed and stored dry, dessication starting in weeks depending on temperature and humidity.

Nerine filifolia (miniature, infl. to 8"/20cm, year 'round water, evergreen without a frosty dry winter)

Granted, these are small seeds (2-3mm), without the resources of some of the other recalcitrant seeds (up to marble sized!)
#10
Current Photographs / Five families of geophytes
August 26, 2022, 11:57:22 PM
Dierama reynoldsii holding down the delicate end of summer flowers
Amaryllis belladonna...or more likely A. belladonna with some Brunsvigia
Oxalis tuberosa (Oca), one of the rare handsome flowers from a plant that specializes in vegetative propagation
Amorphophallus henryi with amazing iridescence...and the scent of fresh horse poop
Bomarea sp., none of the local birds understand what is going on here.

Robert in grey grey San Francisco
#11
General Discussion / Scandent inflorescences
August 26, 2022, 11:13:34 PM
Because why do the leaf and flower stalk thing when you be weird. Expanded netting plus surplus chopsticks to support the extra weird geophytes.

Schizobasis intricata (two forms)
Igidia volubis
Bowiea volubis (two forms)

And, THAT corner of the greenhouse
#12
Out of the greenhouse now so it can be appreciated by the flies. 

I wouldn't say it is an attractive color, but the iridescence across the spathe is impressive. The other aroids in bloom now are all pale green and much less impressive (Pinellia and Remusatia)
#13
A few things from the San Francisco cloud forest (the ground under trees stays moist from fog catching). Everything but the A. ongsakulii is outside (the greenhouse is only wind/fog protection, and things move in and out). The aroids tend to run slow getting their leaves up in the cool tropical conditions (temps this week 65/50F 20/10C). Lost a daisy tree to the wind (Sonchus palmensis), 3 giant flower heads (30"/75cm across) were enough of a sail even though it was staked. Oca (Oxalis tuberosus) is growing like it wants to take over the entire back yard before the equinox.

1 - NOT Arisaema consanguineum! Maybe a Remusatia?
2 - Ulluco (Ullucus tuberosus), one of the Andean tubers
3 - Begonia boliviensis Santa Cruz Sunset, with a small wild clone behind
4 - Roscoea auriculata Early Blooming...going on 2 months of blooming
5 - Bomarea ?hirsuta?...sending up a flowering stem every month, after the winter rush...still waiting on the seed pods to mature
6 - Tritileia hyacintha; laxa, Zephyrantes, Brodiea pallida...B. pallida actually bloomed this year, we had a gap in the fog so the scape didn't turn into mush
7 - Rhodohypoxis baurii hybrids...dragging it out, months of blooming
8 - Bomarea sp. Small Red...when you put a batch of seedling pots on the ground and fail to get around to repotting and distribution...and they just don't go dormant for me...some day there will be a shovel and crying.
9 - Pinellia?...I don't have my list with me, as annoying as it may be elsewhere, it is a handsome leaf and a sleek flower
10 - Amorphophallus ongsakulii...the cutest of the cute!
11 - Amorphophallus NOT bulbifer...3 years from a dessicated tuber (2-3 years dry storage), with me, 1 year roots only to rehydrate, 1 year of vigorous leaf, and now a bud...I guess I get to find out what is it!
12 - Amorphophallus konjac Shattered Glass...with a particularly well mixed variegation this year, another one is behind, that one seems to have minimal variegation this year
#14
General Discussion / Trachyandra ciliata
June 21, 2022, 04:40:03 PM
got three tiny tubers last fall, so I put all three in a 4"/10 cm square pot and set it out in the garden (as I do with most of my bulbs). Next thing I know it is sprawled a meter across with flower stalks everywhere, dozens of little white flowers lasting  a day...for months. It finally went dormant after setting seeds weakly, so I went to lift it and check/divide it. I had no idea you could expand one of these pots that much! 

Looks like every root has a growth bud or two on top, and they are weakly connected to the parent growth. Presumably an adaptation to survive being dug up and eaten. Of course,  packed in like this I could only loosen up a couple dozen root/tubers...after it dries out a bit, I think I'll got at it with a box cutter and separate the main tubers. 

We'll see in the fall if the seeds that dropped while I was distracted volunteer.  It certainly has the potential to be an annoying invasive...maybe next year I'll try steaming the flower stalks like asparagus,  edible, hmm.
#15
Current Photographs / Typhoniums
May 24, 2022, 09:56:47 PM
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Ty. roxburghii and rhizomatosum.