Dear All, It is interesting how certain people have made an impression on many of us. I was fortunate to work with Jack on the early issues of BULBS and was a bit in awe of being able to correspond with someone so well known. He shared so much of himself and his experiences with so many people. My two Jack Elliott plants both have blue flowers: Bellevalia dubia and Orthrosanthus polystachyus. The latter may not qualify as a geophyte even though it is in the Iridaceae. It is more of a tufted perennial. After I helped him identify it with my good collection of books on Australian plants, he told me the flowers were a nice blue and asked me if I wanted seed. When it bloomed for the first time this year, I thought it very beautiful and was grateful that I had a plant that I could always associate with Jack. Since it is evergreen and doing well I expect to have it for a long time. http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/… Mary Sue
