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/…> _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…
