Some notes on my donation

Carl Frederick via pbs pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net
Sat, 16 Oct 2021 07:39:39 PDT
I should have included these at donation time!  All are winter growers and grow fine outdoors here in the Bay Area of San Francisco where it rarely freezes any more.  Keep dry over the summer except for Boophane ( which it appears I misspelled in the donation) which is happy to get watered as long as it is growing.  

215. Boophane disticha
Can be summer or winter growing but these seeds need to be planted right away. 

216. Bulbine vittatifolia
Protect from heavy winter rain which will eventually rot the plants. 

217. Bulbine torta
Same advice re rain. 

218. Ornithogalum fimbrimarginatum
May be difficult to germinate but Mary Sue reported it germinated for her with fall/winter rain. 

219. Ornithoglossum viride
Very erratic wrt germination, could take years.  Hang onto those pots!

220. Ferraria divaricata ( green flowers)
A beautiful clone, should be purely self-pollinated, green/cyan flowers and late-blooming for me but that might have been due to the plant only recently mature enough to flower.  

221. Lachenalia pusilla
Lotsa spots

222. Lachenalia reflexa
Multiplies readily. 

223. Trachyandra tortilis
Also may not germinate this season but likely will in the same pot next year.  This one like many others is best sown dry in spring/summer (when the seeds ripen) and kept dry until fall.  Sowing now is fine and maybe you’ll be lucky with germination this season. 

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