Hi, I wanted to comment on two of my offerings to this BX. #14 is a species I grew from Harry Hay seed. I started the seed March 2005 and several bloomed for the first time in April of this year. I'm growing these in my greenhouse in a very large container since the bulbs were getting big. Hopefully they won't remain dormant like happens to me with other South American bulbs in the Alliaceae. The seed was labeled Nothoscordum ostenii, but that species is yellow. Anyone have any idea what species they can be? I was busy when they bloomed and didn't carry them out of the greenhouse for better pictures and didn't photograph the leaves either. Perhaps I can do that when they start in growth again. I wanted to show potential customers what the flowers looked like since I thought they were really very pretty and seeing the dreaded name Nothoscordum and learning it was white might scare some people off. It's not the one that is weedy and seems to multiply as you look at it and requires destroying the soil it was growing in to be sure you got all the offsets (and the one that often turns up in seed exchanges as other things like Tulbaghia). http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/… http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/… #19 is Geissorhiza radians. Dell has no doubt accidentally changed the name when he posted what I wrote him to the group since I checked my text and it said radians, not radiata. So if people requested it thinking it was a new species, it is not. Geissorhiza radians however has to be one of the most beautiful corms in the world. It's common name is wine cups and it is stunning, especially when there are a lot of them blooming together in a pot or the wild. The seed however is tiny and I haven't found them especially easy to grow from seed. They like abundant water while growing and a dry summer. Mary Sue
