Mike, Wow, that is quite stunning. I do envy your climate down there, Moraea really need those warm summers to come back well in the fall. Phenomenal work, keep it up! On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 3:31 PM , via pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > They are all beautiful. I don't know how you can pick a favorite, I > picked several favorites. I still like the one near the end that looks > like it has bumblebees on it. Thanks so much for posting all of this. > Carolyn Craft > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Mace <michaelcmace@gmail.com> > To: pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > Sent: Mon, Sep 3, 2018 3:00 pm > Subject: [pbs] Moraea hybrids update 2018, and a video tour > > Folks, > > > > If you're not interested in hybrids, move along fast to the next message. > > > > I've posted the highlights from my Moraea-hybridizing activity for the > year. > There were many new flowers, including some interesting color combinations > and lots of streaks and dots. I'm also getting closer to a red flower, > which > is one of my big goals. > > > > https://growingcoolplants.blogspot.com/2018/09/… > > > > Growing these plants in raised beds (technically they're screenhouses) > continues to be much more successful for me than pots. I'm up to six beds > now (building one a year to hold the new seeds), and they're all performing > well. I think the number of blooms in the first bed is starting to decline, > and if that continues I'll probably re-dig it in a future summer. But even > if they last just six years, it's a lot better than replanting every three > years, which is what I had to do with pots. > > > > This year I made a video of the plants when they were at peak bloom. You'll > see not just hybrids, but video of some of my favorite species, including > the rich purple and blue M. gigandra, a bright orange selection of M. > neopavonia sold by Gordon Summerfield, a couple of M. tripetala forms, and > an unbelievably vivid magenta M. villosa. > > > > If you want to visit the growing beds on a bright breezy spring day, here's > your chance: > > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=gW6LzsVoPJg > > > > I am glad to share hybrid and species seeds for free if anyone's interested > (drop me a note at my address above; do not reply to the list). I'll ask > you > to make a donation to the PBS so I'm not competing with the seed exchange. > > > > As always, I would love to get advice from any other growers or > hybridizers. > I'm an amateur experimenting more or less at random. > > > > And I'm on the lookout for some additional Moraea species that aren't in > general cultivation. Please let me know if you have any suggestions. My > wish > list is here: > > > > https://growingcoolplants.blogspot.com/2016/05/… > > > > Thanks, > > > > Mike > > San Jose, CA > > _______________________________________________ > 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/… > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…