I know and grow the rather disappointing Convallaria majalis 'Rosea',I have seen it looking better in some gardens but is not a first class plant.I was refering to the illustrations in the various hortus and herbals of byegone times when speaking of really pink forms.Some were called red! I know of one grower who had yellow forms. > Message du 12/11/07 21:31 > De : totototo@telus.net > A : "Pacific Bulb Society" > Copie à : > Objet : Re: [pbs] Time travel and ancient plants > > On 12 Nov 07, at 8:32, Mark BROWN wrote: > > > How I wish time travel was really available! Imagine... pink > > convallaria. > > Pink convallaria is still very much with us and fairly readily > available. However, it's something of a disappointment. The plant is > smaller than the white forms, and the color is a slightly dull, dusty > rose-pink, not a nice clear pink as you might imagine. > > Myself, I'd like to go zipping back to the beginning of the Cambrian > and watch the critters found in the Burgess shales. > > Does anyone know what, if any, proposals have been made to put this > into a distinct species? > > > -- > Rodger Whitlock > Victoria, British Columbia, Canada > Maritime Zone 8, a cool Mediterranean climate > > on beautiful Vancouver Island > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > >