Good morning all, Getting ready for our move to Hawaii from the Central Coast of California...retiring from the strawberry business...New email address, fsthorne@sbcglobal.net Regards, Fred Thorne In a message dated 3/24/2006 9:01:52 AM Pacific Standard Time, pbs-request@lists.ibiblio.org writes: > Today's Topics: > > 1. An amazing event (Jim McKenney) > 2. Re: Scilla bifolia, etc (Fred Biasella) > 3. Scilla Bifolia (Kathy Stokmanis) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:38:45 -0500 > From: "Jim McKenney" <jimmckenney@starpower.net> > Subject: [pbs] An amazing event > To: "'Pacific Bulb Society'" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> > Message-ID: <000001c64f59$0a3a14a0$25022c42@Library> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > An article on page C 12 of today's Washington Post reports an amazing event: > a tortoise thought to be about 250 years old has died at the zoo in India > where it had lived for the past 130 years. > > What's the bulb connection? The tortoise was originally owned by eighteenth > century British military officer Robert Clive. When I read that, my first > thought was: is that the Clive for whom the genus Clivia was named? But no, > the genus was named for another member of the Clive family, the then Duchess > of Northumberland. I wonder if she ever saw the tortoise? > > It's as if Gilbert White's Timothy had survived into our times. > > Jim McKenney > Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, USDA zone 7, where the local "tortoises" > are still snoozing. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:20:31 -0500 > From: "Fred Biasella" <fbiasella@watertownsavings.com> > Subject: Re: [pbs] Scilla bifolia, etc > To: "'Pacific Bulb Society'" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> > Message-ID: <001501c64f5e$df83e140$55a7f10a@wsbmain.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Here in Boston MA, it seems to thrive in quite cold conditions. Regardless > of it spending the winter with or without a good snow cover it seems to come > back great guns every year. > > I knew of a good sized carpet that had naturalized on the grounds of a house > that burnt down long ago. Also at the Arnold Arboretum on the North facing > side, there's a "sea" of them that is absolutely spectacular and they don't > receive any special attention. I'll try to take a picture of them and post > it on the Wiki. > > Warm Regards, > Fred Biasella > > Hi, > > So is one of you who grows Scilla bifolia going to add it to the wiki since > it obviously seems to be a plant that has many fans? And how about Scilla > mischtschenkoana? We also could make a page for Chinodoxa if people had > pictures of it to add? Do people still consider it to be a distinct genus? > Do most of these need cold winter temperatures to thrive and summer water? > > Mary Sue > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:55:15 -0800 > From: "Kathy Stokmanis" <vikingdoc@earthlink.net> > Subject: [pbs] Scilla Bifolia > To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > Message-ID: <410-220063524165515920@earthlink.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > I grow Scilla siberica and several types of Chionodoxa in my mild, wet > winters and very hot summers. They currently get supplemental irrigation and have > returned for several years. The Scilla siberica is a slug magnet, preferred > to almost anything else except for Hyacinths. Could this account for its > ephemeral nature in other gardens? Those in pots are somewhat more protected > and I actually got to see flowers this year. All of the above are currently > in spectacular bloom in my garden right now. > > Northern California, zone 8/9, unusually wet this winter with 80+ inches of > rain, currently raining. Very hot dry long summers. Lachenalia are in bloom > and the common Muscaris are just starting. The Hellebores from Tasmanian > seed bloomed for the first time this year and I have numerous doubles and > semidoubles. I love variety. > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > > > End of pbs Digest, Vol 38, Issue 22 > ***********************************