I used to have seeds from you. Makiko On Tue, Nov 24, 2020, 1:49 AM Chantal Guiraud via pbs < pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > Dear all, > > It’s the first time I send a message here, so, a I’m a little bit shy and > wonder if my message is relevant or not. > I am running the seed exchange for MGS and MGi which is partner of many > mediterranean gardening societies. So David Tivol who is Californian > Horticulture Society’s manager invited us (Mediterranean Gardening France) > to a Zoom presentation. The lecturer was Carlos Magdalena « The plant > Messiah » and it was very interesting, apart the fact that he is spanish > and speaks english with a very strong accent. I am myself french and, > unfortunately could not catch very much, but I could watch the Power Point > pictures. > All this to say that, surely, somebody of you knows David Tivol or one of > his team, and could ask him how it works. > > Chantal Guiraud > MGS/MGF Seed List Coordinator > Montpellier-France > > > Le 23 nov. 2020 à 13:00, pbs-request@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net a > écrit : > > > > 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. Zoom Presentations (Bob Hoel) > > 2. Online presentation (Johannes-Ulrich Urban) > > 3. Re: BX-SX 472 (Luminita Vollmer) > > 4. Re: Iris tuberosa ?Blue Jade? (Robert Lauf) > > 5. Re: Photo programs (Jan Jeddeloh) > > 6. Re: Photo programs (Kerry Woods) > > 7. The Alpine Gardner 90th Anniversary (Jan Jeddeloh) > > 8. R: Iris tuberosa Blue jade (ang.por@alice.it) > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Message: 1 > > Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2020 07:15:37 -0600 > > From: Bob Hoel <bob.hoel@comcast.net> > > To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > > Subject: [pbs] Zoom Presentations > > Message-ID: <A2EAF903-7922-4888-8E68-65F1D613E644@comcast.net> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > > > Robin, > > > > If PBS has a licensed (paid) account then the host can designate a > co-host (the presenter). A co-host then has almost all the ?privileges? of > the host to share their screen. I believe that PBS is already equipped to > do the presentations being proposed. Happy to talk this through with > whomever is organizing. We personally have a paid account for a number of > purposes and are able to do exactly as described. > > > > Bob Hoel > > 630-240-0219 (cell) > > > > Why drive when you can use active transportation! ? ? ? > > > >> On Nov 22, 2020, at 6:00 AM, pbs-request@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > wrote: > >> > >> From: "R Hansen" <bulbnut@hansennursery.com <mailto: > bulbnut@hansennursery.com>> > >> To: "'Pacific Bulb Society'" <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net <mailto: > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>> > >> Subject: Re: [pbs] Photo programs > >> Message-ID: <001701d6c04a$c1e56ec0$45b04c40$@hansennursery.com <mailto: > 001701d6c04a$c1e56ec0$45b04c40$@hansennursery.com>> > >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > >> > >> Robert Lauf raises some good points about the functionality of making > these photo programs available. At this time, PBS has an account that > allows the Board to meet using Zoom and because we have just the one > license, I act as host. I'll be glad to check into an institutional-type > account where various members could use it, but there would have to be some > planning in terms of scheduling and topics as well as frequency in order > for members to find it most useful. This is certainly a topic I will put on > the Board's agenda for its February meeting as there is a lot of interest > in pursuing these programs. > >> > >> I'll be saving your suggestions, because to me the most important > aspect is accessibility of members to the programs and making a variety of > topics available. > >> > >> Keep up the great ideas! > >> > >> Robin Hansen > >> President, PBS > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Message: 2 > > Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2020 13:21:22 +0000 > > From: Johannes-Ulrich Urban <johannes-ulrich-urban@t-online.de> > > To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > > Subject: [pbs] Online presentation > > Message-ID: <5AE91E08-69DA-4105-BC3F-D0D0181159E7@t-online.de> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > > Dear All, > > > > Online presentations are great, I have participated in a few and learn > to appreciate Zoom more and more. I am happy to give a talk, show my > pictures or take you for a walk through my garden. > > I did this walk through my garden with friends and it worked very well. > > > > I would like to remark two things. As far as I understand Zoom the host > can invite the person to give the talk and is not necessarily the one > giving the talk himself. But there will be people more knowledgeable than > me about this. > > > > Another point: one of the Zoom presentations I participated in was > victim of Zoom bombing and had to be abandoned. It was very unpleasant, > especially for the host. If it is announced all too publicly there is a > certain risk for that kind of thing. > > > > Bye for now, > > > > Uli > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Message: 3 > > Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2020 07:51:44 -0600 > > From: Luminita Vollmer <pbslv.xchange@gmail.com> > > To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > > Subject: Re: [pbs] BX-SX 472 > > Message-ID: > > <CALXf-BKr_N=+ > k8PooWjJXpBL0Gs5_pHMBs+NBPqAMdhYi6aNxA@mail.gmail.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > > > Robin and all - all the items are seeds in this exchange. > > Sorry for not making clear to everyone! > > Luminita > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Message: 4 > > Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2020 15:18:00 +0000 (UTC) > > From: Robert Lauf <boblauf@att.net> > > To: Ceridwen Lloyd via pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > > Subject: Re: [pbs] Iris tuberosa ?Blue Jade? > > Message-ID: <703539896.382307.1606058280078@mail.yahoo.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > > > This year I got a nice starter collection of Lachenalia species from > Telos Rare Bulbs, and the first to bloom is viridiflora.? The color is > indeed almost other-worldly.? Making it more interesting, the small buds > start out pink, like Virginia bluebell.? I would attach a photo but there > are some excellent images on the wiki.? If you're set up to grow dry-summer > bulbs, by all means this is a little gem to consider. > > The secret seems to be the expression of chlorophyll in the flower, > overprinted with dark blue anthos.? Someone should try to get that green > gene into hyacinth.... > > Bob Lauf. > > On Sunday, November 22, 2020, 05:19:39 AM EST, Ceridwen Lloyd via pbs > <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > > > > Ah! A fellow turquoise flower enthusiast, good-o! > > I have some lachenalia viridiflora that I purchased as bulbs, living on > an outdoor table in smallish terra-cotta pots with only the rain (a little > frost pocket in the Adelaide Hills, zone 9 but nearly zone 8 in a La Ni?a > year like now) and they flower their little hearts out and have multiplied > away like mad in a few short years. > > I have Ixia viridiflora in a raised (filled with sandy loam, because we > have rocky clay) narrow semicircular stone bed around a tree (which I wish > was a jacaranda, but it?s too cold here) and they form a gorgeous hazy > penumbra right about now. They flower at the same time as jacaranda and are > the perfect colour to sing with them. Someone needs to plant a vast area of > these together, like a warm climate version of beech and bluebell woods. > > I also adore - though it?s not a bulb - Oxypetalum or Tweedia, and have > some seedlings just popping up now. Not quite turquoise, but not quite blue > either. > > And of course I hang out for the day I can get my hands on Ferraria > ferrariola.? I didn?t here hear a peep from Luminita regarding the last > bulb exchange so I guess that?s a no. I wonder who the donor was? > > I?ve emailed David Glenn at Lambley nursery to see whether any of the > original stock is obtainable at all. He is married to the artist Criss > Canning and if you Google images for the iris you get to see a painting she > did of them. > > Cheers, > > Ceridwen > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > >> On 22 Nov 2020, at 18:37, Lee Poulsen via pbs < > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > >> > >> ?Ooh! Ooh! If you find seeds, I want some too. One of my favorite > ?topics? of plants to grow are those with flowers in the cyan or teal part > of the spectrum. They?re rarer than true blue flowers. A long time ago when > the PBS list had some topic discussions, we went through all of the colors > on the color wheel, and there was a small discussion of the few flowers > that are teal. Luckily two of them are bulbs from the western Cape Province > area of South Africa. So if you can grow bulbs from that area, you can try > growing Lachenalia viridiflora and Ixia viridiflora. ?Viridiflora? in this > case isn?t green. It?s a turquoise/teal/aquamarine color. And they?re > stunning. (I had a pot completely full of Lachenalia viridiflora in full > bloom one winter and it was so amazing to stare at. You just don?t see that > color in nature very often at all.) > >> > >> Anyway, Jane McGary mentioned that she knew of some Iris tuberosa that > were teal in color, but I never found any pictures on the internet, and > I?ve ordered various seeds that were supposed to have some bluish flowers, > but none of them have been teal. She also mentioned that there was a teal > gentian as well. But those aren?t bulbs. > >> > >> BTW, even if I can?t grow them, I still want to see them in person. > There is an absolutely stunning one, that is off-topic because it?s not a > bulb, but if you?re offered the opportunity to see the Jade Vine > (Strongylodon macrobotrys) in flower, take it. The flowers don?t look like > they are real. Sadly, it is tropical and requires a lot of space to grow. > Luckily, the Huntington Gardens has an amazing vine growing in their large > conservatory greenhouse, and it blooms regularly. > >> > >> (And in case anyone wants to know the others that I know about, there?s > another small tropical called Ecbolium viride, as well as two Puyas, P. > alpestris > >> and P. berteroniana. The two Puya will grow here, but they get very big > and have very spiny leaf edges. Luckily the Huntington grows both of them > outside in its famous cactus and succulent garden. Their flowers also look > unreal. I would love to grow and see that Iris tuberosa ?Blue Jade?, and > see the gentian that Jane knows about because I don?t think it will grow > here in Southern California.) > >> > >> --Lee Poulsen > >> Pasadena, California, USA - USDA Zone 10a > >> Latitude 34?N, Altitude 1150 ft/350 m > >> > >>> On Nov 21, 2020, at 4:40 AM, Ceridwen Lloyd via pbs < > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > >>> > >>> Hi all, > >>> This was offered by Lambley Nursery here in Australia in 2017, sadly > mine has not survived. > >>> Does anyone have plants (in Australia) or seed (elsewhere) at all? > >>> Thanks > >>> Ceridwen > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> pbs mailing list > >> pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > >> http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > >> Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > pbs mailing list > > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Message: 5 > > Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2020 10:15:36 -0800 > > From: Jan Jeddeloh <janjeddeloh@gmail.com> > > To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > > Subject: Re: [pbs] Photo programs > > Message-ID: <94015C76-4282-4C60-ACF1-926EC5976043@gmail.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > > > As host you should be able to enable screen sharing by participants > which would allow the presenter to just share their screen with everyone. > This would avoid having to purchase an institutional account as long as > you?re willing to host. > > > > Jan Jeddeloh > > > >> On Nov 21, 2020, at 1:10 PM, R Hansen via pbs < > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > >> > >> Robert Lauf raises some good points about the functionality of making > these photo programs available. At this time, PBS has an account that > allows the Board to meet using Zoom and because we have just the one > license, I act as host. I'll be glad to check into an institutional-type > account where various members could use it, but there would have to be some > planning in terms of scheduling and topics as well as frequency in order > for members to find it most useful. This is certainly a topic I will put on > the Board's agenda for its February meeting as there is a lot of interest > in pursuing these programs. > >> > >> I'll be saving your suggestions, because to me the most important > aspect is accessibility of members to the programs and making a variety of > topics available. > >> > >> Keep up the great ideas! > >> > >> Robin Hansen > >> President, PBS > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> pbs mailing list > >> pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > >> http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > >> Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Message: 6 > > Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2020 14:02:37 -0500 > > From: Kerry Woods <kwoods@bennington.edu> > > To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > > Subject: Re: [pbs] Photo programs > > Message-ID: > > < > CAB6FmQXWk3Mp80u2FOAzCoaNikehuwN3VuTPTJiZOrW8EW6Ddg@mail.gmail.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > > > A couple of points on use of Zoom for this sort of thing: > > * Anybody can sign up for a free account which has full functionality > (you > > can share-screen to show powerpoint or whatever), but limits number of > > participants to 100 and length to 40 min. > > * Right sort of paid account (institutional or not) can remove > either/both > > of those limits ($200/yr = unlimited time, up to 300 participants) > > * Hosts (regardless of account type) can assign 'co-host' privilege to > any > > other participant, and that other person can then share screen, etc. > > freely. > > > > Another option: You can use Zoom (including free version) to record a > > presentation, and then share it as an .mpg (doesn't allow interaction, of > > course). > > > > Another option: *Google Meet *works very similarly to Zoom, and is free > to > > use as host for anyone with a google/gmail account (google meet > conference > > can include non-gmail emails). I think it works at least as well as > zoom - > > may have slightly higher bandwidth demands... > > > > > > > > On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 1:15 PM Jan Jeddeloh via pbs < > > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > > > >> As host you should be able to enable screen sharing by participants > which > >> would allow the presenter to just share their screen with everyone. > This > >> would avoid having to purchase an institutional account as long as > you?re > >> willing to host. > >> > >> Jan Jeddeloh > >> > >>> On Nov 21, 2020, at 1:10 PM, R Hansen via pbs < > >> pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > >>> > >>> Robert Lauf raises some good points about the functionality of making > >> these photo programs available. At this time, PBS has an account that > >> allows the Board to meet using Zoom and because we have just the one > >> license, I act as host. I'll be glad to check into an institutional-type > >> account where various members could use it, but there would have to be > some > >> planning in terms of scheduling and topics as well as frequency in order > >> for members to find it most useful. This is certainly a topic I will > put on > >> the Board's agenda for its February meeting as there is a lot of > interest > >> in pursuing these programs. > >>> > >>> I'll be saving your suggestions, because to me the most important > aspect > >> is accessibility of members to the programs and making a variety of > topics > >> available. > >>> > >>> Keep up the great ideas! > >>> > >>> Robin Hansen > >>> President, PBS > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> pbs mailing list > >>> pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > >>> http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > >>> Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> pbs mailing list > >> pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > >> http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > >> Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > >> > > > > > > -- > > Kerry D. Woods > > Bennington College, Natural Sciences > > Dir. of Research, Huron Mt. Wildlife Found. > > http://www.hmwf.org/ > > http://faculty.bennington.edu/~kwoods/ > > kwoods@bennington.edu > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Message: 7 > > Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2020 17:55:24 -0800 > > From: Jan Jeddeloh <janjeddeloh@gmail.com> > > To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > > Subject: [pbs] The Alpine Gardner 90th Anniversary > > Message-ID: <DD9B6E25-099A-4CDC-A0FF-BEDDAEFA7F56@gmail.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > > The above special AGS publication is available online to non-AGS members > at > https://alpinegardensociety.net/plants/… > < > https://alpinegardensociety.net/plants/…> > and includes a couple of articles of interest to PBS members. > > > > John Watson and Anita Flores discuss the history and myths about > tecophilia, Brian Matthew writes about the subterranean parts of bulbs and > corms and Tony Hall describes a new Juno iris. Other articles are just > generally interesting reading for us plant geeks. > > > > Jan Jeddeloh > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Message: 8 > > Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 08:53:13 +0100 (CET) > > From: "ang.por@alice.it" <ang.por@alice.it> > > To: <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > > Subject: [pbs] R: Iris tuberosa Blue jade > > Message-ID: <175f417ac66.ang.por@alice.it> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > > > > > > > > > > > Iris tuberosa is quite common in the countryside around my area and > color variants are occasionally seed but very rare. There is a normal > variability in the amount of black vs the green part of tepals, some > individuals looking almost black. I have spotted from time to time some > 'bluish' individuals but not enough distinctive to be collected, so far. > But I have found a totally golden individual and after many years another > one and for the first time I am sowing seeds from these two cross > pollinated each other. If selfed they will yeald green and black plants > again, so it's clearly a recessive gene. Also I have never seen any color > variant around those yellow in the wild, to confierm it doesn't reproduce > true to type.Angelo PorcelliItaly > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Subject: Digest Footer > > > > _______________________________________________ > > pbs mailing list > > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > End of pbs Digest, Vol 45, Issue 23 > > *********************************** > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>