Item 36, *Crocus tommasinianus* is seed, not bulbs (corms). It is my fault for not indicating to Luminita whether it was seed or bulb in my email to her. It is *seed* from a batch I collected for myself from various Crocus tommasinianus cultivars that grow well for me here. The bees are always busy collecting pollen (they need protein that time of year, February, foraging on days when/if the temperature is 50℉ or above) and do a splendid job of pollinating and cross pollinating them, along with a number of other Crocus species blooming at the same time. I never know what I'm going to end up with. So this may include the standard tommasinianus, to darker colors, roseas, wine colored, and novel streaked and tipped. This certainly isn't a rare geophyte, but it brings so much pleasure during late Winter/early Spring, unless our rains turn them to mush - or the voles get to them. One winter after a prolonged, deep snow cover, I found numerous stashes of the corms secreted away throughout the garden. The voles had dug up easily 50% of the corms and deposited them in piles, some corms partially eaten. It took f o r e v e r to replant them all. I've never sent a photo through the list, but will try to send photos of bloom variation. Mike W. Washinton, zn. 7, cool mediterranean -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: DSCN0102.JPG Type: image/jpeg Size: 3814901 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/…> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: fullsizeoutput_20.jpeg Type: image/jpeg Size: 3342567 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/…> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: DSCN0136.JPG Type: image/jpeg Size: 3787280 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/…> _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>
