People!!! We have feet of snow on the ground, more in the forecast. The only thing blooming are the house plants - plumeria, lemon trees, phoenix oyster mushroom block, scilla madeirensis, amaryllis, african violets, and several orchids. It will be a long time before anything outside will be blooming! Although I did hear a Robin yesterday! ;) Luminita from Minneapolis On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 2:22 PM, M Gastil-Buhl <gastil.buhl@gmail.com> wrote: > Blooming now: > > (apologies for spellings from memory not proof-read) > > Dichelostemma capitatum, giant Santa Cruz variety > Moraea tripetala > Moraea polystachya > Gladiolus gracilis (past peak) > A dainty light-blue-purple Ixia > A dainty blue Scilla from Illahe Rare Bulbs, tag faded (but there's always > the underground tag for later reference) > Another UFO with tiny orchid-shaped pale-lavendar blooms (I'll post a pic > later) > A purple Lachenalia from PBS > Ipheion uniflorum, including patches of 'Jesse', 'Wisley Blue', and others > (Yes I realize that is not the current name.) > Muscari (only a few in a patch that used to be crowded with blue blooms) > Scilla peruviana > Oxalis purpurea > other pink and salmon species Oxalis > and of course O. pes-caprae, which has only reached blooming size due to my > negligence these past 30 seconds. > > The Chasmanthe aeothepica has not opened its spikes of buds, which seems > very late, normally fall blooming > > Climate context: > Santa Barbara climate closest to Sunset zone 24, mild (historically wet) > winters and mild (historically dry) summers. Weather here this past year > has not followed the historic climactic pattern. These past 5 years most > irrigation has been from city pipes due to long term extreme drought. This > past summer we had rain (very unusual for here) which may explain why some > bulbs have not emerged this winter, and why my Moraea polystachya has a > bumper crop. That winter grower seems to appreciate summer rain. Some bulbs > turned brown early in the January heat wave. > > My garden is an experiment in resilience. > Gastil > _______________________________________________ > 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/…