I guess I could add the attachment... On Sat, Jan 1, 2022 at 3:35 PM Robert Parks <trolleypup@gmail.com> wrote: > Today, pretty much all the color in the front yard is provided by Oxalis > purpurea in a variety of forms. > > Tomorrow I'll be shuffling these pots around, as O. purpurea and O. hirta > like to sprawl all over less aggressive species. In other garden joy, when > the gophers devour the Oxalis bulbs, they also carry them back to their > nests, so I now have a concentration of purpurea where they had a den last > summer...in my neighbor's yard! > > Happy New Year! > > Robert > in sunny (for a few days) San Francisco, cool and moist, with more precip > during the week. Everything that needed planting is planted, and except for > a few geophyte aroids, everything due for dormancy and lifting is in > storage, time to rebuild some benches in the greenhouse. > > > On Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 6:52 PM Robert Parks <trolleypup@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Lovely! My garden is a bit battered from the downpours and hail, maybe >> I'll find some color for tomorrow >> >> On Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 1:17 PM Johannes-Ulrich Urban via pbs < >> pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: >> >>> Dear All, >>> >>> Some cheerful pictures for you to enjoy on the last day of the year, >>> from midwinter in the Algarve. >>> All the best for the New Year! >>> >>> The pictures show: >>> a happy mix of Oxalis, from left to right: O. purpurea Lavender And >>> White, O. purpurea Pink Giant, Oxalis namaquana and Oxalis purpurea white >>> form. Top left in the background is Lachenalia bulbifera, Bredasdorp Form. >>> >>> Lachenalia viridiflora, unbeatable in the first sun after rain >>> >>> A very late flowering Nerine undulata (hybrid?) >>> >>> A portrait of Iris unguicularis >>> >>> And Gladiolus priorii raised from Silverhill Seed (under the name G. >>> merianellus) >>> >>> Uli >>> >>> >>> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 20220101_150431-oxalis purpurea-15h.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 650980 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>
