I am interested in getting some of your bulbs. Please let me know when you have dug them out--my sister comes to San Jose periodically (we are in Berkeley) and could get them. Thanks Claudia On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 10:48 AM Linda Press Wulf <lindapwulf@gmail.com> wrote: > See below and look up tulipa clusiana - they sound easy. Not my coloring > but delightful. Claudia, could cover the mound in middle of your orchard. > > Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 11:29:46 -0700 > From: Janet Hoffmann <janet@hoffmann.net> > To: pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > Subject: any interest in Tulipa > clusiana? > > I have a lot of Tulipa clusiana. They are in bloom right now and will go > dormant as the weather warms up here. We are having an unusually cool > spring in the San Jose, CA area with frost this morning. I have rather > heavy rocky soil and I found last year that the only way that I can dig > them is when the soil is moist from rain. I am thinking that I will dig > them *the end of next week* after the next bout of rain and when the > blooms are starting to fade. I can put them in a large planter until they > go fully dormant. I am not sure if I will make the April 17thcutoff > window. I am also trying to gage whether there is interest in this bulb and > if I should bother trying to save some. I do need to thin them in any case > being as after over 25 years in the ground, they are starting to take over > my front yard. > > Janet > > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> PBS Forum https://…