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Thanks, Uli.  I have never seen Zeal Giant here, but apparently it was sold at some point over in Vancouver, so that is possible.

Diane

I just bought this, growing in a 1 gallon pot. I have a number of N bowdenii and also various sarniensis currently in flower, the bowdenii out in the garden and the sarniensis inside the greenhouse.  This plant is much more vigourous than any of my others.  The leaves are bigger and much more numerous, and the flowers are also bigger.

 I assumed this is a new species, but when I checked for N elegans in Graham Duncan's Grow Nerines, it was not included.

So, what is this robust plant?  The pictures show it next to some bowdenii in the garden.

Thank you both.  Yes, the leaves are slightly sticky and smell like pinched spruce needles.

I've just checked, and I have sown seeds of lots of albucas.   aurea, canadensis, namaquensis, rupestris, shawii, spiralis.  I can't find any labels, though.

These slightly scented yellow flowers are currently in bloom.  The petals are 1.5 cm long, and the whole flower stem and leaves are about 35 cm long.  The very narrow leaves have a deep groove along the entire length.

When I dumped the pot out a couple of years ago to check for bulbs, I found no bulbs, but lots of circling roots.  The root tips are poking out of the holes in the bottom of the pot.

The narcissus fly lays its eggs where the leaves enter the soil.  I grow bushy plants to hide the base of the narcissus leaves.

Years ago I read about using vinegar to kill weeds so I went to a garden store to buy some.  They had it in a locked room along with other poisons.  I didn't buy any and have never used anything to kill weeds except a garden fork and muscles.

What is wrong with this lily?

Not just bananas.

other fruit:  apricot, citrus, kiwi, melon, pear, rhubarb

veggies: bean, beet, pea, baked potato, squash

mushroom

dark chocolate

I guess you don't have to worry until you start to glow in the dark.

Plants with feelings? New book The Light Eaters might change how you think about plant intelligence

A review of The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/article-the-light-eaters-looks-at-the-growing-signs-of-plant-intelligence/

Maybe just the ones they grow in Iceland.

It's a good thing I eat a banana every day, but only a 10% improvement per pill?

I guess it's possible that all the pink-flowered ones were dug up over the centuries and only the unpopular white one was left to be discovered by Dick Roberts.

I wonder if pink ones are still growing in old gardens.

The pictures in the article are of white flowers.  Why is it called "rosy"?

And, getting back to the main topic:  Calochortus.  I have germinated many different species and have pots of bulbs that have never flowered.

Hmm - I'd better start tipping those pots out,  Maybe there's nothing in them.

My record for slowness:

Colchicum bornmuelleri (which apparently is a form of speciosum) - sown in 2000.  One seed germinated in 2008.  It sends up a leaf every year but has not flowered yet.

After that I decided not to sow any more colchicums.  If I want some, I'll buy some bulbs.