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All:

The donation window for the next 2023 US BX is now open until June 20 (if you need additional time, kindly advise). Please read below carefully, thanks!

I am ready to accept donations of clean, healthy bulbs at this time.  I am not requiring that donors pre-package the donations in ready-to-go packets at this time; I find it easier and more effective to do this myself according to demand and realize not everyone has time to sort and separate, other than species.  I will need you to at least label the bag or box to easily identify the bulbs.

Each donor will be credited the postage for the donation or a minimum of $5.

Feel free to include comments or instructions for your donated items, most of us need some help with new items to our collections.

Kindly send your donations to me at:

Bridget Wosczyna
731 Furnace Road
Morgantown PA 19543

Please be sure to send me an email advising that you have sent the bulbs so that I may keep an eye on my mailbox.

This notice will  be mailed out to the PBS mailing list as well.

Email me at bulbexpbs@gmail.com with any questions. 

Thanks in advance!
Bridget

Sorry for the omission, Mary Sue.   
Bridget

All: Please read this post/email in its entirety prior to ordering so we will have no confusion for ordering and your boxes can get out to you much more quickly?  It will make my job a little easier.

This BX will be open for orders until Wednesday, April 26 at 9:00 p.m. PST

Standard rules apply for this BX:

Kindly review the list below and email me (do not reply to this email) with your request(s) to bulbexpbs@gmail.com.
I will send a simple acknowledgement of your email.  Should you not have a response from me within a day, please resend.

Be sure to include your full name and current address.

Bulbs are $3 each.  Some of these are only one share and in short supply.

This will be a lottery (however, if you did not receive something last round, kindly advise and I will try to assure some accommodation. Also, if there is something you really are looking to receive, it helps for me to know this as well.)

You must be current in your membership and you must be up-to-date on BX/SX charges. If you are uncertain, feel free to check with Jane McGary or Arnold Trachtenberg.

KINDLY NOTE:

Payments should no longer be made through the Paypal website due to changes in Paypal policies. PBS must be paid through the PBS website at: https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbsforum/index.php?page=BXpay.
Please be sure to reference BX number above.
You are still free to send payment via check if that is your preference.

No orders to anywhere but the US and (sometimes) Canada can be entertained at this point.  We cannot furnish the appropriate phyto docs to other countries.

Thank you as always to our current donors.

Robert Parks     

               1. Amorphophallusalbus RP1     
               2. Amorphophallus dunnii             
               3. Amorphophallus kachienensis or yunnanensis
               4. Amorphophallus konjac RP? #2             crow stole the label
               5. Amorphophallus konjac RP1 (Swallowtail)         (slightly forked spathe)
               6. Amorphophallus konjac RP2   
               7. Amorphophallus konjac RP4   
               8. Amorphophallus konjac RP5   ex BX473
               9. Amorphophallus konjac RP6g ()             OP konjac seedling division
               10. Amorphophallus konjac RP7
               11. Amorphophallus myosuroides (Green Leaf)   
               12. Arisaemaflava (Yellow #2)   
               13. Begoniasutherlandii                ex Dhannon
               14. Gorgonidium intermedium   
               15. Oxalissp. (Durango) ex Dhannon
               16. Oxalis trollii  ex DHannon
               17. Sauromatumgiganteum RP2               
               18. Sauromatum venosum

Indian Giant 
               19. Sauromatum venosum RP3   ex Jglattstein
               20. Sinningia leucotricha

             
               21. Typhonium rhizomatosum (AGA 1326-01)

Robert Lauf       

               22.Lachenalia ensifoli

a (pink)     
               23. Lachenalia namaquensis

         
               24. Drimia uniflora

           
Mary Sue Ittner
               25. Gloriosa superba

- summer growing 
               26. Hypoxis baurii var. platypetala, syn. Rhodohypoxis baurii var. platypetala- summer growing               
               27. Oxalis callosa

- winter growing           
               28. Oxalis sp. L 96/42  - summer growing, Uli collected in Mexico               
               29. Oxalis triangularis

- evergreen if you keep watering   
               30. Oxalis zeekoevleyensis

- winter growing, but starts into growth early, water July-August when shows signs of life           
               31. Griffinia espritensis   

Judy Wong         

               32.Chasmanthe floribunda

'Duckettii'     
               33. Chasmanthebicolor

Fred Biasella       

               34. Stenomesson(Clinanthus) variegatum yellow form,             
               35. Stenomesson (Clinanthus) red form 
               36.Gloxinia Nematanthodes 'Evita'         

Thank you!
Bridget

BX 490 will be posted on Friday night (9:00 p.m. EST). and will close on Tuesday, April 25. 
Thank you!
Bridget

Everyone,

I am in receipt of some nice offerings from our members.  This weekend I will post our first BX for 2023.  I understand that many folks have not yet repotted their winter growers, and anticipate another in May.

Thank you for your continued interest and participation.

I am really looking forward to another stellar year for the BX.

Bridget

All:

The donation window for the first 2023 US BX is now open until April 17. Please read below carefully.

I am ready to begin accepting donations of clean, healthy bulbs at this time.  I am not asking that folks pre-package the donations in ready-to-go packets at this time; I find it easier and more effective to do this myself according to demand and realize not everyone has time to sort and separate, other than species.  I will need you to at least label the bag or box to easily identify the bulbs.

Each donor will be credited the postage for the donation or a minimum of $5.

Feel free to include comments or instructions for your donated items, most of us need some help with new items to our collection.

Kindly send your donations to me at:

Bridget Wosczyna
731 Furnace Road
Morgantown PA 19543

Please be sure to send me an email advising that you have sent the bulbs so that I may keep an eye on my mailbox.

This notice will  be mailed out to the PBS mailing list as well.

Email me at bulbexpbs@gmail.com with any questions.  

Thanks in advance!
Bridget

Hello!

I wanted to send out a notice that soon I will be asking for donations for the first 2023 BX.  I anticipate opening the donation window in early April for a distribution in early May.  Last year was stellar for donations and I surely hope we have as many generous donors and happy members in receipt of incredible material.

While you are repotting and looking at that overabundance of your bulbs, please consider sending along extras for the Exchange. We cannot do it without or generous members!

If you have questions, please feel free to reply here or email me privately at bulbexpbs@gmail.com.

Many thanks, as always,
Bridget  

Bulb Exchange Manager, Vice President

Martin, I'm a little envious of your "in between" status.  I am tied to social media as I am .... social.  So many of my connections with people evolved with it.  I don't have any issues with FaceBook and Instagram as I judiciously guard my privacy settings and since I've seen ads forever, I literally don't even "see" them any longer - I just keep scrolling.  In my case I'm able take what I like from social media and have the ability to just glide away when I need a break, etc.  
It is a conundrum, as it is built to pull you back in for those likes, comments and "validation".  I simply use it as a tool to show my pretty plants to my friends and to advocate for joining bulb societies.  

Thanks for including the link!  I believe I simply assumed it would go one of two ways: persons who use Instagram would know that the @pacificbulbsociety would get them where they needed to go and everyone else would roll their eyes and say: nope.  

We've got a few dozen followers already.  Good start.

Hello everyone;

It was recently agreed that PBS would begin to forge a larger presence on social media.  To that end, I will be handling the recently created Instagram account. 

I'm excited to announce this today to our members and persons on the list that I have made our first post.

If you wish to follow, you need only search Pacific Bulb Society on the Insta app and you can begin to follow our account.  Be advised that I intend to keep the page "private" at this point so the page is not spammed. I will have to approve anyone who wishes to follow the page, if you intend to follow as a business and not an individual, kindly send me an email to let me know and I will accept your request.  Otherwise, we'd be seeing all kinds of offers in post responses and I assure you, some of them can get strange and irritating.  

I wanted to personally thank our member Zeon for grabbing the @PacificBulbSociety address so that we can utilize the PBS name as the place to find the page. He created an account when the idea was floated several weeks ago and he was gracious enough to hand the account over to me when I asked him to do so.  It was quick thinking on his part as often others may already be using the name when you try to create a new account.  For this I am very grateful; we have our name in full on the account and searches for our page will be very easy. 

I am keenly aware that not everyone participates in social media.  I'm not going to encourage anyone to do so if they are not inclined.  That's totally fine!

The Instagram account will simply be a page with nice pictures and minimal information on bulbs/flowers/tubers/corms/plants.  It will be an avenue for people to find PBS and hopefully help us grow our membership.  It will not have loads of information.  It will have a link to the membership in the bio.  The Insta account should only be considered a complement to our Wiki and the Forum. Instagram was not created for long discussions or deep-dives: it's basically eye-candy to promote interest in whatever subject is posted.  

Do you have something cool or interesting flowering or growing in your bulb garden?  Feel free to send me a few pictures privately and the name of the plant you're submitting.  We will not be getting in-depth with these posts since we have the most valuable tool already, our Wiki, which I also intend to promote. 

Feel free to email me privately with questions as I don't wish everyone to be overwhelmed with a thread in their in boxes.  I'm really looking forward to PBS having more of a presence on social media.  We need to encourage beginners and younger people as well as more experienced plant folks around the globe to join us in our passion of growing bulbs.

Thanks for your time,
Bridget
Vice-President/Bulb Exchange Manager
PBS  

I have kept mine in both growth (occasional water in my frost-free barn with a little light) and also completely dormant in cool, dark conditions.  I find they jump into growth more readily with even the minimal attention of a few light waterings and little light.  
Uli's recommendation is spot on.  
Bridget

All: You'll do me a favor and read this post/email in its entirety prior to ordering, won't you?  So we will have no confusion for ordering and your boxes can get out to you much more quickly?  I'll be grateful and especially thankful this week if you do. 

I will begin by acknowledging the late date for a BX.  Many of our members growing bulbs are on the west coast and I feel comfortable with making the offer.  My intention is to get this out the door on Saturday.  Therefore, this BX will be open until Wednesday at 9 p.m. PST. 

Any and all misspellings are entirely mine.  I needed to get the post up and did the best I could.  Should you find a necessary correction, feel free to make a post on the forum.  Jane isn't available today to check my list prior to posting, which is our normal protocol.
Standard rules apply for this BX:

Kindly review the list below and email me (do not reply to this email) with your request(s) to bulbexpbs@gmail.com.
I will send a simple acknowledgement of your email.  Should you not have a response from me within a day, please resend.

Be sure to include your full name and current address.

Bulbs are $3 each.  Some of these are only one share and in short supply.

This will be a lottery (however, if you did not receive something last round, kindly advise and I will try to assure some accommodation. Also, if there is something you really are looking to receive, it helps for me to know this as well.)

You must be current in your membership and you must be up-to-date on BX/SX charges. If you are uncertain, feel free to check with Jane McGary or Arnold Trachtenberg.

KINDLY NOTE:

Payments should no longer be made through the Paypal website due to changes in Paypal policies. PBS must be paid through the PBS website at: https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbsforum/index.php?page=BXpay

You are still free to send payment via check if that is your preference.

No orders to anywhere but the US and (sometimes) Canada can be entertained at this point.  We cannot furnish the appropriate phyto docs to other countries.

This BX will be open until Wednesday, November 23 9:00 p.m.(PST).
My email to the membership list includes two attachments with donor notes from Rimmer and Jim.  Due to my technological limitations, I am unable to attach pdfs of the documents hereto due to some space constraints.  May try to make an addendum post to the forum with those documents tomorrow.

Thank you to our current donors. 


The following are up for offer:

  Charles Hunter
1.Amorphophallus kiusianus                       
  Mike Lowitz 
2.Nerine Krigei              
  Rimmer de Vries                     
3.Boophone  disticha                                                 
        can be planted in ground in spring or potted up for year round growth 
4.Sinningia warmingii          can be planted in grand in spring or potted up for year round growth   
5.Sinningia tubiflora

            can be planted in ground in spring or potted up for year round growth       
6.Lilium Asiatic      lancifolium var flaviflorum          Yellow Tiger lily diploid 
7.Lilium Asiatic      'Nutcracker'      tetraploid form of Nutcracker   
8.Lilium Aurelian  'Tanecnice'          Bretislav Miculka registered aurelian- early yellow with short pedicels       
9.Lilium Aurelian  'Ypsilanti on steroids' x 'Housekeepers' Revenge' (means lost pollen parent tag) Yellow recurved Aurelian my cross from about 10 years ago
10.Lilium Aurelian  'Ypsilanti' x 'Bill Craigs Yellow Henryi'= Yellow recurved aurelian  my cross from about 10 years ago 
11.Lilium Aurelian  'Betty Sturley' x BB-1 (yellow Aurelian/OT)            'Betty Sturley' is a Charlie Kroell registered Aurelian, BB-1 is a nice yellow OT seedling seen in Brian Bergman's field in 2010, my cross from about 12 years ago         
12.Lilium Aurelian  Large orange seedling with color break form Charlie Kroell in 2007 good for coursing with yellows 
13.Lilium Aurelian  Yellow recurved aurelian seedling            different cross 
14.Lilium Aurelian  Yellow recurved aurelian seedling            different cross 
15.Lilium Aurelian  Yellow recurved aurelian seedling            different cross 
16.LiliumOT            Gloriana (Judith Freeman cross) See Lily Garden Catalogue         
17.Lilium OT            Limoncello (Judith Freeman cross)            See Lily Garden Catalogue             
18.Lilium OT            Peach Pink Trumpets (Judith Freeman cross)        See Lily Garden Catalogue         
19.Lilium OT            RG Sunset Type (White-Magenta- Gold)  Robert Griesbach rescue           
  Jim Heinrich 
20.Gladiolus alatus

Flower Colors:	orange, white, yellow
Life form:	corm
Climate:	winter rain climate

                                                                                                                                                                         
21.Gladiolus pulcherrimus

Flower Colors:	orange
Life form:	corm
Climate:	winter rain climate

                             
22.Gladiolus uysiae

Flower Colors:	brown, patterned
Climate:	winter rain climate

                                           
23.Gladiolus watermeyeri

Flower Colors:

brown, patterned

                               
24.Hesperantha bachmanii                           
25.Gladiolus cunonius

Flower Colors:	red
Climate:	winter rain climate

                                       
26.Freesia leichtlinii                                        
27.Geissorhiza corrugat

a                                 
28.Gladiolus carinatus

Flower Colors:	yellow, purple, blue
Climate:	winter rain climate

                                     
29.Melasphaerula ramosa                             
30.Acis autumnalis

Height:	10-20 cm (3.9-7.9 inch)
Flower Colors:	white, pink
Flower Season:	early autumn
Life form:	bulb

                                           
31.Moraea polystachya

                                   
32.Lachenalia violacea

var. glauca                         
33.Allium unifolium

                                         
34.Gladiolus scullyi                             
35.Gladiolus floribundus

Flower Colors:	white, pink
Climate:	winter rain climate

                                 
36.Gladiolus maculatus                                  
37.Moraea lewisiae

subsp. lewisiae                                           
38.Ferraria densepunctulata

Flower Colors:	white, purple, green, patterned
Life form:	deciduous corm
Climate:	winter rain climate

                                       
39.Ferraria ferrariola

Flower Colors:	white, purple, green, patterned
Life form:	deciduous corm
Climate:	winter rain climate

                                     
40.Ferraria crispa

Flower Colors:	white, green, yellow, brown, patterned
Life form:	deciduous corm
Climate:	winter rain climate

(form B)                             
41.Ferraria crispa

Flower Colors:	white, green, yellow, brown, patterned
Life form:	deciduous corm
Climate:	winter rain climate

2                                           
42.Ferraria divaricata

Height:	30-45 cm (1-1.5 ft)
Flower Colors:	yellow, green
Life form:	deciduous corm
Climate:	winter rain climate

                                   
43.Ferraria divaricata subsp. arenosa                                       
44.Ferraria schaeferi

Flower Colors:	yellow, brown, patterned
Special:	fragrant
Life form:	deciduous corm
Climate:	winter rain climate

                                       
45.Ferraria uncinata

Flower Colors:	blue, green
Flower Season:	early spring
Life form:	deciduous corm
Climate:	winter rain climate

                                         
46.Freesia fergusoniae

                                     
47.Freesia fucata

                               
48.Freesia refracta

                             
49.Freesia sparrmanii

50.Gladiolus floribundus

Flower Colors:	white, pink
Climate:	winter rain climate

Thank you,
Bridget           

All:
The weather is kind this week and still good for shipping in most cases. Therefore, another BX is here!

Standard rules apply for this BX.

Kindly review the list below and email me with your request(s) to bulbexpbs@gmail.com.
I will send a simple acknowledgement of your email.  Should you not have a response from me within a day, please resend.

Be sure to include your full name and current address.

Bulbs are $3 each.  Some of these are only one share and in short supply.

This will be a lottery (however, if you did not receive something last round, kindly advise and I will try to assure some accommodation. Also, if there is something you really are looking to receive, it helps for me to know this as well.)

You must be current in your membership and you must be up-to-date on BX/SX charges.

KINDLY NOTE:

Payments should no longer be made through the Paypal website due to changes in Paypal policies. PBS must be paid through the PBS website at: https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbsforum/index.php?page=BXpay

You are still free to send payment via check if that is your preference.

No orders to anywhere but the US and (sometimes) Canada can be entertained at this point.  We cannot furnish the appropriate phyto docs.

This BX will be open until Thursday, November 3 at 3:00 p.m. (EST)/12:00 p.m.(PST).

Thank you to our current donors. 

The following are up for offer:


Kathleen Sayce

1.                  Habranthus robustus

'Russell Manning' BX 304, pink
2.                  Habranthus robustus

BX 382-16, pink
3.                  Habranthus tubispathus

, BX 298, C. Davis
4.                  Moraea setifolia

, no notes on source or color, uncertain ID
5.                  Nerine laticoma

BX 301-2, Ellen Hornig, pink
6.                  Pancratium maritimum

, from seed, 2010 from a BX (unnumbered on tag), white
7.                  Zephyranthes 'hustacana' from BX 420, Ina Crossley
8.                  Zephyranthes, untagged, yellow
9.                  Zephyranthes flavissima

, yellow
10.                Zephyranthes 'La Buffa Rosa', pink, BX 294, D. Beir
11.                Zephyranthes drummondii

, BX 301-17, Ina Crossley
12.                Zephyranthes 'Sunset Strain' BX 6 #891
13.                Zephyranthesmixed species BX 382-3, early germinators, mixed colors

Stephen Willson       
     
14.                Lilium lancifolium

var. flaviflorum x 'Lion Heart' (bulbils)
15.                Lilium lancifolium

  (bulbils)
16.                Lilium sargentiae

(bulbils)

Frederick Thorne 
         
17.                Amaryllis 'Apple Blossom' Smallish bulbs
18.                Amaryllis 'Minerva' small offsets
19.                Amaryllis 'Red Lion', young bulbs
20.                Zephyranthes grandiflora

Robert Parks     

21.                Amorphophallus konjac

Flower Colors:	black
Flower Season:	mid spring
Special:	edible storage organ
Life form:	tuber

(clone RP4)
22.                Amorphophallus konjac

Flower Colors:	black
Flower Season:	mid spring
Special:	edible storage organ
Life form:	tuber

(clone RP3)
23.                Amorphophallus malkmus-husseini
24.                Arisaema exappendiculatum

25.                Arisaema flavum

(ssp. abbreviatum)?
26.                Arisaema candidissimum

(pink)
27.                Arisaema taiwanense

28.                Drimia flagellaris

29.                Oxalis enneaphylla

30.                Sauromatum venosum

(clone RP1) (few petiole spots)
31.                Sauromatum venosum

(clone RP3)
32.                Sauromatum venosum

'Indian Giant'
33.                Sinningia leucotricha

34.                Ornithogalum comptonii

Rimmer deVries

35.                Phaedranassa glaucifolium 'Harry Hay'
36.                Phaedranassa viridifoliaTelos clone
37.                Phaedranassa dubia

38.                Chrysothemis  friedrichsthaliana
39.                Tecophilaea cyanocrocus

(hybrid)
40.                Sinningia speciosa

(Purple bloom/white vein on leaf)
41.                Lilium regale

42.                Lilium 'Hotel California'  (asiatic hybrid)
43.                Lilium 'Galaxy', (asiatic hybrid)
44.                Clivia 'Sahin Twin'  (these bulbs need a little love; will be a project for someone who enjoys a rescue) 
45.                Sinningia tubiflora

(Plant Delights, 2016)
46.                Sinningia bragae

Amy Olmsted   

47.                Arisaema fargesii

48.                Sauromatum giganteum

49.                Crinum powellii

Thank you,
Bridget

All:
It has come to my attention that now might be a good time for donations of amarylids as folks might be repotting for winter.  Should you have any extras, I will turn them around quickly if you can send to me very soon.  I could take gesneriads at this time too, if they are still dormant or of a size that they will not be too resentful of being unpotted for a couple of weeks.

Thanks in advance,
Bridget

This BX is the one that keeps on giving.  While sorting and prepping the bulbs for distribution, I came upon a box I had forgotten to include in BX 486.  I am posting the list below.  Kindly refer to the initial post/email for the rules that apply to this BX, the only caveat being this will be open until Wednesday afternoon (12 p.m. Pacific).

Email me at bulbexpbs@gmail.com with your request. 

For your consideration I have very few of the following (some only one bulb) from member Robert Parks:

45. Crinum macowanii

African King  BX468
46. Lachenalia multifolia

47. Cyrtanthus sanguineus

48. Brodiaea pallida

  BX470
49. Amorphophallus malkmus-husseini
50. Barnardia japonica

51. Gorgonidium sp.
52. Drimia lydenburgensis ex DHannon
53. Strumeria discifera
54. Urginea olivieri  ex DHannon
55. Albuca fragrans SX472
56. Cyrtanthus elatus

X montanus BX470

I have 8 small Massonia pustulata

'purpurea' just received from member Peter Shaw. 

Kindly send me an email at bulbexpbs@gmail.com if you are interested.

I am only leaving this offer up until all are spoken for as I intend to send all bulbs out in the next few days. 

Thanks!
Bridget