Gorgeous color combination, it almost looks turquoise! Love it! Colin Arcata, California On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 5:23 PM, Michael Mace <michaelcmace@gmail.com> wrote: > Yesterday afternoon when I got home from work, I was looking forward to > going outside and visiting the plants in bloom. We're getting close to peak > bloom for the South African bulbs here, and there's something new to look > at > almost every day. That's when I discovered a new law of nature - call it > Mike's Law, although I am sure I'm not the first person to notice it. The > law goes like this: > > > > As soon as I'm ready to go outside, it starts raining. > > > > It had been dry all afternoon, but literally as soon as I was ready to go > outside and start pollinating things, the rain began. So I had to hang up > the little paintbrush, and I went outside to watch the new flowers get wet. > > > > I've enclosed a photo of the new flower that stood out the most. I think > it's a color form of Moraea villosa, although the seeds were sold as a form > of M. gigandra. Whatever the species, it has a really striking pale blue > band around the central cup. I've never seen another Moraea quite like it, > aside from one listing on iSpot. I believe these seeds came from that > location. > > > > Comments welcome. > > > > It has a half-dozen siblings in bloom, with slight variations in the > intensity of the colors. I'm planning to cross them with each other, and > will definitely share the seeds if there are any. > > > > Mike > > San Jose, CA > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: IMG_2990.jpg > Type: image/jpeg > Size: 1837734 bytes > Desc: not available > URL: <http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/… > 20180313/12caa388/attachment.jpg> > _______________________________________________ > 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/…