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Current Photographs / Re: Ixia viridiflora photo shooting
July 24, 2023, 10:55:11 PM
Robert, I have been trying for years to get my ixia viridifolia bulbs to bloom. I have two pots to which I keep adding more bulbs, with little to no success. I live not far from you, in the Berkeley hills.
The pots are outside in a mixed sun-shade area, winter and summer. In winter, I hand water every two weeks or so when there is not rain. I move them to more sun as the stalks grow high. But they don't produce flowers. (This might be the time when I am not watering enough?) I stop watering them completely as soon as the stalks get dry. Once the winter rains start again (or don't) I start hand watering again. I have not changed the perlite and coir mix in the pots for years.
Other Ixia viridifolia failed to grow when I put the bulbs straight into my SA bed where plants receive only winter rain (and an occasional hand watering when it is very hot).
Could you please describe for me your watering schedule and any other conditions you credit with getting yours to bloom?
The pots are outside in a mixed sun-shade area, winter and summer. In winter, I hand water every two weeks or so when there is not rain. I move them to more sun as the stalks grow high. But they don't produce flowers. (This might be the time when I am not watering enough?) I stop watering them completely as soon as the stalks get dry. Once the winter rains start again (or don't) I start hand watering again. I have not changed the perlite and coir mix in the pots for years.
Other Ixia viridifolia failed to grow when I put the bulbs straight into my SA bed where plants receive only winter rain (and an occasional hand watering when it is very hot).
Could you please describe for me your watering schedule and any other conditions you credit with getting yours to bloom?
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Mystery Bulbs / Re: [solved:Wachendorfia t.]Not mine, just found while walking
July 24, 2023, 10:13:14 PM
I too have seed pods from my Wachendorfia thyrsiflora and will enter them in the seed swap. In addition to the yellow-orange flowers, the evergreen foliage is beautiful - intense green, striated, flat-swords in a fan shape. The roots are a fluorescent orange-red, hence its common names, red root or bloodroot. They need moisture.
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Mystery Bulbs / Re: Eremurus possibly?
June 29, 2023, 10:28:47 PM
Thanks for the opinions. (I'd given up hope of a reply.) I agree that it looks more like a bulbine or bulbinella.
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Mystery Bulbs / Re: Eremurus possibly?
May 12, 2023, 01:52:38 PM
I hope these photos (in addition) are helpful?
The top of the flower stalk is over two feet high.
The top of the flower stalk is over two feet high.
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Mystery Bulbs / Eremurus possibly?
May 04, 2023, 10:23:56 PM
Could this possibly be EREMURUS Stenophylus (aka Bungei), Foxtail Lily, Desert Candle?
I bought 3 large starfish-shaped roots for $8 from easytogrowbulbs.com and planted in Nov 2014 in a part-shade part of my Berkeley, CA, garden, but I haven't seen them since then. If so, this would be a miracle revival from the supposed-dead, 9 years later. But it doesn't look sturdy and big enough. I haven't planted anything else that would look vaguely like this plant. So what is it?
I bought 3 large starfish-shaped roots for $8 from easytogrowbulbs.com and planted in Nov 2014 in a part-shade part of my Berkeley, CA, garden, but I haven't seen them since then. If so, this would be a miracle revival from the supposed-dead, 9 years later. But it doesn't look sturdy and big enough. I haven't planted anything else that would look vaguely like this plant. So what is it?
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