That is very interesting, it must be different here. I grow the single late tulips and they seem to be the only thing that stands up to hail (they just close up and sit it out). Angela ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Sue Ittner" <msittner@mcn.org> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 3:16 AM Subject: Re: [pbs] Bulbs that hold up to stormy weather > Hi, > > Between storms for a few minutes at the moment as it seems to have stopped > raining so we are probably in the scattered showers period for the rest of > the day. So I went out to look at my soggy garden to see what looked the > best. My experience with Tulipa is that it does fine with rain until it > starts to bloom and after that the flowers fall over and sometimes some of > the petals fall off and hail pock marks them. Perhaps it is dry for Angela > when they bloom or they just behave differently. The new Anemone from Jane > that she says should be in every California garden, A. palmata, looks great > and so do a couple of Fritillaria. Gladiolus tristis is doing better that I > would have expected although some of the flowers are no longer erect. > Chasmanthe bicolor looks all right, at least from a distance. It is still > standing. Allium hyalinum (one pot blooming since December) still looks > fine. Narcissus bulbocodium is presentable and a tall Triteleia ixioides > looks good from a distance. Not all the flowers look good close up. Some > Muscari doesn't look too bad but the flowering stalks that have been > blooming for awhile are not as attractive. Perhaps that would be the same > without the rain by now. I find some of my Romuleas will look good between > storms if we have a sunny day, but not all. Since my Moraea (Homeria sub > group) flowers sometimes for a couple months with each flower lasting a > couple of days, it will be fine on those days we don't have rain. Many of > my South African bulbs that normally bloom in March and April will be > pretty much a miss--Sparaxis, Ixia, Freesia, some Lachenalias, some > Moraeas. Even though the Tritonias usually come later they are not looking > good and my Ferraria is a bit sad too. I had some nice blooms of Babiana > when we had a dry period in February, but the ones trying to bloom now are > ruined. Some of my Delphinums are holding their own and some of the > Cyclamen although other Cyclamen have sick leaves. > > I can at least be glad that we haven't had as much rain as Kathy (YET). I > remember those years when we got 90-100+ inches of rain and it wasn't fun. > Wish we could share with some of you in drought conditions. > > Mary Sue > > Mary Sue Ittner > California's North Coast > Wet mild winters with occasional frost > Dry mild summers > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >