Five favorite yellow-flowered geophytes

Rodger Whitlock totototo@pacificcoast.net
Sat, 24 Jan 2004 18:27:11 PST
On 21 Jan 04 at 12:14, Jim McKenney wrote:

> 4. Iris winogradowii: faints during the summer

It's a mountain plant that doesn't like to go very dry in summer. 
Mine never grew so well as when I had them in a large terracotta pot 
plunged in sand, and rushed out every morning all summer long to pour 
the cold tea from the previous morning into the pot.

> 5. a yellow tiger lily (Lilium lancifolium aka L. tigrinum), if
> there has ever been such a thing

I have what is supposed to be this very thing.

-- 
Rodger Whitlock
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
"To co-work is human,
to cow-ork, bovine."


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