the old Peruvian daffodil; share

Angela and Dean Offer angelasgarden@bigpond.com
Fri, 11 Nov 2005 23:20:02 PST
I have these in my garden, they grow easily here, never dig them up.  They
should flower in a month or so.  When they flower I will take a photo and
you can see if thats what you are looking for.
cheers
Angela
Sunny Spring inAlbany    W. Australia----- Original Message -----
From: Burger, Steve <Steve.Burger@choa.org>
To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2005 11:25 AM
Subject: Re: [pbs] the old Peruvian daffodil; share


> I have a good bit of a plant I bought from a local garden center ~ 7 years
ago as Peruvian daffodil.  Do you have any idea if we're likely to have the
same plant?  I bought so many plants that year ( I worked for the nursery
and this was a clearance)and the botanical names used were almost arbitrary
at times, I have no idea what species of hymenocallis they were.  Sometimes
I think I have more than one variety, occasionally seeing flowers in that
"sulfur" color, but the bulk are white.  I tried to isolate clumps that
bloomed differently and divided them off from the rest last year.  I'll see
what I get.
>
> Anyway, if you're interested, next spring I can lift you some, they're
root hardy here in N. Georgia and I won't disturb them now.
>
> http://community.webshots.com/photo/155961082/… Here are
some pics of my clump before it went nuts and I divided it.  The whiter
flowers appear first (and thus are my representative pics.  I labeled the
pics Hymenocallis festalis out of thin air.  Look to the links for the next
two photos and their high res versions elsewhere on the page.
>
> Let me know if you're interested, and I'll put it on my calendar to dig up
some for you next spring (perhaps after bloom if you care what color they
are).
>
> Steve
> Dallas, Georgia USA
> A very hot and cold wet and dry 7b.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of Susan Hayek
> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 10:00 PM
> To: Pacific Bulb Society
> Subject: Re: [pbs] the old Peruvian daffodil; share
>
>
> At 4:05 PM -0500 11/10/05, Dell Sherk wrote:
> >I used to grow a "Peruvian daffodil" that I obtained from an old
gardener. I
> >too grew it for a good 20 years and it offset like crazy. I'd lug the
> >immense clumps into the basement each fall and plant them out in rows in
> >spring when they would bloom all together in about two weeks and provide
me
> >with luxurious bouquets of cut flowers with heavenly scent. I got lazy
and
> >needed the space anyway and let them and my tuberoses freeze the year
before
> >last. I distributed a mixture of the hymenocallises/ismenes that I grew,
on
> >the BX a few years ago. Does anyone remember/have any to share with us?
> >
> >Dell
>
> **Gosh, I'd like some of these too. Hopefully the people who got
> these from the BX are having good luck with offsets.
>
>
> --
> susan hayek, North Coast of CA, USA, zone 9b, Sunset zone 17.
> 15 miles south of Eureka, CA, overlooking the Eel River, with a peek
> of the ocean.
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