Hello all, A sizable colony of ants has taken residence in a big pot of well drained sandy soil where I have some Claude Shride martagons. How will the ants affect my bulbs? I would prefer to leave them be unless they will hurt my lilies... Yoli Chevy Chase MD On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 7:00 AM, <pbs-request@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > Send pbs mailing list submissions to > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > pbs-request@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > > You can reach the person managing the list at > pbs-owner@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of pbs digest..." > > > List-Post:<mailto:pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > List-Archive:<http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Streptopus (Linda Foulis) > 2. Re: critters again (Marianne Culver) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 06:05:03 -0600 > From: Linda Foulis <lmf@beautifulblooms.ab.ca> > To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > Subject: Re: [pbs] Streptopus > Message-ID: > <1A10BB16-9462-47F9-94CD-654C226E4937@beautifulblooms.ab.ca> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Thank you Mark, > Hopefully this means success in the cold frame this spring, if spring ever > gets here that is. > > Linda M Foulis > Leslieville, Alberta > > > On Apr 1, 2018, at 11:37 AM, Mark Mazer <markemazer@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Double dormancy... warm, cold, warm, cold, then germination. > > > > Mark Mazer > > Hertford, NC > > > > On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 1:28 PM, Linda Foulis <lmf@beautifulblooms.ab.ca> > > wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> Can anyone provide tips on getting Streptopus amplexifolius to > germinate? > >> It grows wild here and I've found areas with fairly large populations. > I > >> can collect seed, and lots of it, but I've yet to be able to germinate > it. > >> Methods I've tried are - pot in a cold frame, direct in a marked > protected > >> spot in the garden (several spots), in the fridge and then in my plant > >> room. Also have tried with whole berries, and with cleaned seed. This > is > >> over a 3 year period. > >> The berries do persist into fall so I've not been able to determine if > >> they are eaten by anything and spread that way? Do they require > digestion > >> acids to germinate? > >> > >> Linda M Foulis > >> > >> Leslieville, Alberta, Canada > >> Zone 2-3 > >> > >> Trying to find the bright side of all this snow is becoming difficult. > >> Last year this time I was photographing beaked hazelnut flowers. Crocus > >> are under 2' of snow right now. > >> _______________________________________________ > >> pbs mailing list > >> pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > >> http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > pbs mailing list > > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 12:51:59 -0700 > From: Marianne Culver <mpculver15@gmail.com> > To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > Subject: Re: [pbs] critters again > Message-ID: > <CAPyAFZ+mhGd7cQLkBkpxf12LDfSgyvHQQROemP= > 5sjq3kk2VGA@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Hi Kathleen, > I like your idea of mesh. Last year with adding another 6' x20' planting > area we lined it with 1/4" mesh to keep the moles/voles from digging up > underneath the bed has worked like a charm. I have considered doing lids > but the lining has decreased it so much. I got the idea from some > professional flower farmers that routines line their ditches for tulips > with steel mesh before back filling and planting bulbs densely. A 10FT > fence and the neighbors lush garden keeps the deer away. LOL > > Happy Planting, > > Marianne Culver. > > > > > On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 3:39 PM, Kathleen Sayce <kathleen.sayce@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > My spouse is building me a large wire-covered enclosure for seed pots in > > my ongoing struggle with voles, etc. Actually, he is building two mesh > > covers, one for an existing area that is now occupied by 3 stand-alone > mesh > > sections over pots (4x4 ft), and a new area (3.5 x 8 ft) with a large > > cover. I can?t wait. And after this week, I really can?t wait. > > > > In preparation, the protective black deer-deterring mesh was taken down > > over pots in another area, and all pots and planters were lifted to > > break/cut tree roots that have grown up through the pavers into them. > I?ve > > learned the hard way to do this by late winter or face much larger roots > > growing into pots in spring. I have no illusions about the tree root > > problem?it will continue in the new mesh areas, where all pots will have > to > > be lifted annually so roots can be removed. > > > > While this mesh was down, some larger animal nibbled the side of a > > stem?not the top?and left the buds to die, on a pot of Fritillaria > > camschatcensis. Annoyed does not begin to describe how I feel about this. > > First buds to form, ever, on the pot. Highly likely to be deer from the > > delicate nibble on one leaf plus just enough stem to kill the top. > > > > Kathleen > > PNW coast, where we have had 3 rounds of false spring/pre-spring/almost > > spring, and then back into strafing rain/hail/near snow/snow in March, or > > as a friend says, ?March comes in like a lion here, and leaves like a > lion > > too.' > > _______________________________________________ > > pbs mailing list > > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > > > ------------------------------ > > End of pbs Digest, Vol 14, Issue 2 > ********************************** > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…