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I'd rather wait a while -  the fast growing ones become weeds.

Diane  - still digging out Spanish bluebells after 40 years.

I hope you have a safe place to grow your new bulbs.

I took notes on growing Geophytic Pelargoniums from your talk in 2006 and grew one successfully for a number of years before it was overtaken by a rampant Cistus.

Diane

I read the article Gladiolus of Southern Italy and it seems to be Gladiolus byzantinus.  However, just in case it's not, I won't donate its seeds.

Diane

I have tried growing Eremurus on a dry, occasionally sunny bank but it has never grown for me.  It might be hiding behind my rampant Cistus.

This plant is growing on top of a small mountain on Saltspring Island, B.C.  Note the abundance of sunshine and the cactus blooming over on the left.

Shall I try again?

This year I had flowers from old seeds because I reused soil from ungerminated ones. Linaria triornithophora (Three birds Flying) which I sowed in 2002 finally germinated and is flowering now.  

Did our wiki have many mis-named plants?

After several years of growing seeds of Gladiolus papilio 'Ruby' which never were, I have finally decided to identify what I actually grew.  These are in flower now.

And I did manage to buy a plant of Ruby from Far Reaches in Port Townsend Washington.

50 years ago I began my new 1/2 acre garden by planting bulbs in the fall.  I knew I'd be planting in the same areas in the spring and didn't want to spear my new bulbs.  I had seen lemon balm growing at my rented house and decided it would be a good idea to plant one above each cluster of bulbs.  

I had no idea how generously that plant self-sows.  Come early spring, it wasn't possible to tell where the bulbs were until they came up.  

I've been pulling out lemon balm ever since, though my son liked it to make smoothies so I never totally eliminated it.

How exciting!  Did you grow them from seed, and if so, how long did it take?

I guess you didn't use cedar.

It is supposed to grow in the Klamath Mountains of southern Oregon and northern California.  

Where is this one growing?

Uli, which arisaema book do you have?

Mine is The Genus Arisaema by Guy and Liliane Gusman, who live in Belgium.

Thank you, Carlos.

My friend is excited to know the name of her narcissus.

I had to look really hard for a while, but the petals do have very faint bluish lines on them.  I would never have noticed if you hadn't asked.