Sorry all. Obviously meant to be just back to Mary Sue. (It's not just the BX I have to watch out for.) On Thu, Jul 8, 2021, 7:15 PM Brenna Green <brenna.green@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd be interested .. either BX or privately. > > I've been meaning to ask, I think I read that you live in Elk? I'm curious > how far from the coast you are, to get an idea of what your garden > conditions are like. My parents are just north of the Big River Bridge, > east of Mendocino village, so damp, damp, damp (and on clay soil). I'm > currently in Santa Cruz, in the warmest part of town, so 'hot' during the > day but foggy at night. I figure your conditions are either going to be > like mine or like theirs :) and the CA and SA bulbs you grow are some of my > favorites! > > Brenna > > On Thu, Jul 8, 2021, 5:15 PM Mary Sue Ittner via pbs < > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > >> I have dug up a lot of Babiana corms, descendants of some I grew from >> seed more than 30 years ago. I think they are hybrids of Babiana >> stricta. I'll attach a photo taken in May this year and I also added >> photos to the wiki. >> >> https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… >> >> I recall that in the past I sent a bunch to the BX and they weren't very >> popular. Maybe that is because they aren't very hardy and the drying >> foliage doesn't pull off easily in the beginning so either you have to >> cut it off or put up with how it looks for awhile. >> >> Still, they have a soft spot in my heart since Babiana was Rachel >> Saunders' favorite bulb. I don't know whether I should send them again >> to the BX or just ask people to contact me privately if they would like >> some so I can be sure that they would end up going to people who wanted >> them and not be an extra burden for Luminita. They should work out well >> in parts of California if you have a spot that you can plant them in >> that you don't care how it looks when they die back.They can also be >> grown in pots. >> >> Mary Sue >> >> -------------- next part -------------- >> A non-text attachment was scrubbed... >> Name: Babiana_stricta_hybrid.jpg >> Type: image/jpeg >> Size: 347247 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> >> > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>
