----- Original Message ----- From: "Dell Sherk" <ds429@comcast.net> To: "'Pacific Bulb Society'" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2012 4:16 AM Subject: [pbs] Pacific Bulb Society BX 319 > Dear All, > > The items listed below have been donated by our members to be > shared. > > If you are interested in obtaining some of them, please email me > PRIVATELY > at <ds429@comcast.net>. Include "BX 319" in the subject line. > > Specify the NUMBERS of the items which you would like; do not > specify quantities. It is a good idea to include your snail mail address, > too, in case I don't already have it. Availability is based on a first > come, > first served system. When you receive your seeds/bulbs you will find, > included with them, a statement of how much money (usually $2.00/share of > seeds or $3 -$5/share of bulbs)(cash, check, or Pay Pal to > <pbs.treasury@verizon.net>; no money orders, please) you should send the > PBS > treasurer. > > PLEASE NOTE: CURRENT POSTAL-RATE SCHEMES NECESSITATE OUR PLACING A > SURCHARGE > ON EACH ORDER FROM PBS BX OFFERINGS. > > Many of you are subscribers to this pbs elist which is free, but are > not members of the Pacific Bulb Society which has a yearly membership > charge. THIS BX OFFERING IS AVAILABLE ONLY TO MEMBERS of the Pacific Bulb > Society. If you are not a member, consider joining so that you can take > advantage of future offers such as this. Go to our website: > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/ .... > > If you would like to donate seeds or bulbs/corms to the > PBS,(Donors > will receive credit on the BX for the cost of postage for their > donations.), > please send CLEAN, clearly labeled plant materials to: > > Dell Sherk > 6832 Phillips Mill Rd. > New Hope, PA, 18938 > USA > > Non US donors should contact Dell for instructions before sending seeds. > > I WILL REPLY TO YOU WITHIN 24 HRS OF MY RECEIPT OF YOUR ORDER. > IF YOU DO NOT HEAR FROM ME, TRY AGAIN !! > >From Roy Herold: > > BULBS: > > 1. Narcissus 'Stockens Gib' > Another mystery from Lt Cdr Chris M Stocken. This one came to me from a > friend who received it from a grower in Belgium. It was listed by the > RHS as last being commercially available in 2005. The term 'gib' was a > mystery to me, and originally I thought it to be an alternate spelling > of a 'jib' sail. Google told me that a 'gib' is a castrated male cat or > ferret. No thanks, but it also told me that 'gib' is short for > Gibraltar. Stocken also collected in the Ronda mountains of Spain, and > Gibraltar is just to the south, so is the probable origin of these > bulbs. As for the bulb itself, it has never bloomed for me in ~8 years, > but has multiplied like crazy. It has received the summer treatment > recommended for plain old 'Stockens', but to no avail. Let me know how > it turns out. > > 2. Narcissus mixed seedlings > These date back to a mass sowing in 2004 of seed from moderately > controlled crosses of romieuxii, cantabricus, albidus, zaianicus, and > similar early blooming sorts of the bulbocodium group. Colors tend to be > light yellow through cream to white, and flowers are large, much larger > than the little gold colored bulbocodiums of spring. These have been > selected three times, and the keepers are choice. There is the odd runt, > but 95% look to be blooming size. > > These albucas from wild collected seed have been languishing in seed > pots for several years, and as a result never got around to blooming. > Take a chance on something new. > > 3. Albuca sp, north of Calitzdorp, 12-18" > 4. Albuca sp, Paardepoort, north of Herold > 5. Albuca sp, De Rust > 6. Albuca sp, Volmoed, southwest of Oudtshoorn, only a couple > 7. Albuca sp, Uniondale, 1 or 2 flowers per scape > >From Jerry Lehmann: > > 8. Bulbils of Lilium tigrinum > >From Jonathan Lubar: > > 9. Bulbs of Gladiolus murielae > >From Mary Sue Ittner: > > 10. Corms of Babiana sp. - These have naturalized in my Northern > California > garden > and are probably a form of Babiana stricta. Originally grown from > mixed seed more than twenty years ago. Winter growing > > 11. Bulbs of Oxalis pulchella var tomentosa - ex BX 221 and Ron > Vanderhoff - > Low, > pubescent, mat forming foliage and large very pale salmon colored > flowers. Fall blooming. This one hasn't bloomed for me yet, but I > hope it will this year. > > 12. Bulbs of Oxalis semiloba - originally from Uli, this is supposed to be > a > > summer rainfall species, but grows for me in winter and dormant in > summer. It never bloomed but the leaves reminded me of Oxalis boweii. > Chuck Powell provided me with some photos of this species he grow > successfully (also on a winter growing schedule) and I added them to > the wiki. I can't confirm the identity of these. > > 13. Bulbs of Oxalis obtusa (peach flowers), winter-growing > > 14. Bulbs of Oxalis flava (lupinifolia form), winter-growing > > 15. Bulbs of Ammocharis longifolia, syn. Cybistetes > longifolia, (survivors from seed sown from Silverhill Seed in 2000 > and 2005). It can take 8 to 10 years to flower so I may be giving up > too soon, but I suspect they need more summer heat and bright light > than I can provide so I'm letting someone else have a crack at them. > >From PBS: > > 16. Small corms of Gladiolus flanaganii > 17. Small bulbs of Zephyranthes 'Labuffarosea' > 18. Small corms of Tigridia pavonia > 19. Small corms of Gladiolus dalenii > > Thank you, Roy, Jerry, Jonathan, and Mary Sue !! > > Best wishes, > Dell > > Dell Sherk, PBS Bx > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/