Welcome Nicholas, I'm fairly new to PBS & have gotten great advise from several members. You'll find this group of people very helpful & encouraging. Also the wiki is first rare & the BX offerings outstanding. Karl Church Dinuba, CA zone 9a On Jun 1, 2013 6:45 AM, "Nicholas plummer" <nickplummer@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > I recently joined the society, and this is my first post to the list. I > grow a mixed collection of tropicals, primarily orchids and succulents, in > my greenhouse in North Carolina. For many years, I have had Haemanthus > albiflos and Cyrtanthus sanguineus lurking among my orchids, but I didn't > give much thought to bulbs. Then, I discovered the wonderful PBS wiki and > bulb maven blog. Needless to say, I have now started a small collection of > African and South American bulbs with some plants from Telos and Steven > Hammer and some seed from Silverhill. Since I grow in a greenhouse, heat > tolerance is more important to me than cold hardiness. I'm interested in > summer growers that can take a North Carolina summer or winter growers that > are happy with temperatures that don't go much below 60 F (thermostat is > set for lowland tropical orchids). > > I love the look of amaryllids with tubular flowers and am trying out a > Phaedranassa tunguraguae and seedling Cyrtanthus herrei from Telos. So, > two specific questions: > > 1. Can anyone comment on heat tolerance of Clinanthus species? I see that > Clinanthus variegatus 'Apricot' can be grown in Hawaii, so that goes on my > wishlist, but how about the various color forms of Clinanthus incarnatus, > particularly the red-flowered form? (I'm using the labels on the PBS > wiki. Other websites seem to reverse the species epithets.) > > 2. Is Cyrtanthus obliquus available in the U.S.? I'm hesitant to order > seed from South Africa, because of the difficulty of storing amaryllid seed > until the appropriate growing season in the northern hemisphere. > > Regards, > Nick Plummer > Durham, NC, Zone 7 > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >