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On the bulb exchange payments page, the link to the membership page in the "BX Payments" section is broken, getting a 404 page not found message.  The other link to the membership page, in the "PBS Functions" section, works fine.

MarcR 2023-08-02:  Paint would work very well in warm winter areas. In cold winter areas, one would want the reflective coating to be easily removable and restorable

I was thinking of my Los Angeles location, where any day of the year can reach 92 F (33 C).  Thank you for posting the more general case, which is a much better answer.  (The dangers of autopilot....)

There is a special white paint made for roofs, and aluminized shade cloth, both designed to reflect heat.

I had no idea flowers from the same plant could look so different due to weather differences during budding & flowering.  That morning glory is gorgeous, too.

I am constantly amazed at the breadth & depth of knowledge here.  Thank you!

On the Gladiolus flanaganii

Flower Colors:	red
Climate:	summer rain climate

page, the second photo also has a lovely purple & white flower.  Does anyone have any idea what that might be?

The Jepson Manual is the taxonomy of the vascular plants of California.  It is not a cheap book, and the last version of it (2012) is somewhat out of date.  Fortunately, it is now freely available online (not sure how long this has been available).  There is a brief introduction here.  A portion of the intro is shown below:

QuoteThe eFlora has diverged from the print book in that it: (1) contains descriptions not in the print book (e.g., waifs, agricultural weeds); (2) contains errata and other changes made relative to the print book; (3) contains direct links to the Consortium of California Herbaria; (4) contains direct links to the Online Interchange for California Floristics; and (5) contains substantive revisions of scientific content for some taxa; see Supplement 1-11, 2013-2022.

The eFlora search page is here:  https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/search_eflora.php?name=

Happy hunting!

CO₂ can also be locked up in carbonate minerals (from the Guardian):  Rock 'flour' from Greenland can capture significant CO2, study shows

Because of the possibility of a virus, I will isolate the plant and keep an eye on it.

I have two Scadoxus multiflorus

ssp. katharinae that I have been growing for several years.  This year, the new growth on one is abnormal, see the green bulges in the attached photos.  The other one looks normal.  Any idea what this could be?

Hi David,

Thanks for pointing out the SMF, I somehow missed the Simple Machines links on the bottom of each forum page!

With that info, I found this link:  https://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/How_to_view_unread_posts_and_replies

I think the 'Updated Topics' link "displays a list of topics the user has participated in that have unread replies."  I could not test it with your reply because (on autopilot) I of course clicked on the 'Unread Posts' link I always click on.

I had a few questions about the several different links used to find recent posts on the forum.  The first 2 below appear on the upper right of all new pages (those showing the new web pages supporting the forum).  The last one shows on the 'Unread Posts' page when there are no new links to display.

Visible Link Text	Resulting Page Title	Link Action Code
'Unread Posts'	Recent Unread Topics	unread
'Updated Topics'	Updated Topics	unreadreplies
'Click here to try all unread topics'	All Unread Topics	unread;all;start=0

I mostly use the first one, to see the new items since I last looked.  This is great, as it lets me browse though the recent posts sequentially, as I used to do on the browser interface of the list archive.

I have never seen anything in the 'Updated Topics' page.  If this is replies to topics I started, that may be because I look at 'Unread Posts' first.  What exactly is this one?

'All Unread Topics' had older items in it, dating back to the start of the forum.  I have gradually read these until they were all gone.  Yesterday after reading all of the recent unreads, I looked at all of the unreads.  There were 2, less than 1 day old (I think).  What is the dividing time interval between recent and all unreads?  And is it settable by the user?  I've posted a screen shot below showing an example of this today, but for a bit longer interval than a day.

Here is the same link with darker text:

https://www.cactusandsucculentreview.org.uk/

What a great free resource!  Very interesting article on Gethyllis.  And don't miss the one before it on Pachypodium namaquanum for any succulent growers.

Thanks - I'll try forcing mine this year, if it ever starts to warm up.  We've had mostly below average temps for the last 4 months.  The coldest southern California winter I can remember, though not bad compared with many other places.

Ron

Where we got 8 inches (20 cm) of rain in the last 4 days, which is half of our yearly average, but we sure needed it.

Quote from: Robert_Parks on February 20, 2023, 08:46:57 AMThe aroids want warmth to initiate growth...

I was wondering if that might be the case.  My Amorphophallus did not sprout at all last year, though the tubers looked healthy.  When they died back in the fall of 2021, I had put them in a new spot where they would stay dry during the winter, but it was also a much cooler spot than before.  I figured I would move them to a sunny spot when they sprouted, but they never did.