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Quote from: Pegasus on November 09, 2022, 10:32:30 AMhello, does anyone have seeds willing to share? I would buy them also,

Thank you
Yoli

Hi Pegasus,
Where are you? I have seeds of Zephyranthes and Habranthus off and on during the year in my greenhouse. I might mail a few samples to someone inside the USA, but I cannot ship them internationally .

Jim Shields (my real name)
Westfield, Indiana

I have Cyrtanthus montanus that came from Greg Pettit in South Africa.  There were 4 bulbs which have increased nicely over the years.  I think all 4 were the same clone, as they have all increased nicely from bulblets and are mutually infertile -- no seeds in many years.  This accession has my number JES #1328.

I can probably collect some pollen for you, but would need your name and postal address to send any to you.

Regards,
Jim Shields

I will try again to post a picture of Hymenocallis woelfleana in bloom.

I have posted a picture on my Facebook home page at:

https://www.facebook.com/ShieldsGardens

The flowers of Hymenocallis woelfleana are intensely sweetly fragrant, something I have not noticed with other species of Hymenocallis

When I drag and drop an image file (jpg) on a Reply window to the new Hymenocallis... topic, the message simply goes blank when I hit Post

I am confused.  This does not happen when I post images to the SRGC Forum

Have you ever seen Hymenocallis woelfleana in bloom?  Well,
now you have.  Native to Mexico.  This is the first time I
have ever seen this plant or this species in bloom. 
Superficially resembles Hymenocallis eucharidifolia but the
leaves of woelfleana are pronouncedly petiolate.  My #1780. 
The cup of woelfleana is smaller than that of eucharidifolia. 
Most Hymenocallis ovaries are sessile. Note that the ovary
of woelfleana is pedicellate.  I received this plant in Nov.,
2003, as a small bulb in leaf. It came from Hugh Bollinger.

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My place was a 5-acre corn field about 40 years ago.  There were a few sugar maple trees and some poison ivy.  Everything else I have planted, even native species of wild flowers like Trillium recurvatum was brought in from 15 miles away.  Crop fields came very close to being quite sterile.

Some Claytonia virginica has naturalized under  European linden trees that I planted after we built the house.  They look quite nice now.  Other native wild flowers I transplanted into what was a corn field have not done so well.  Other species of trillium barely survive here.  Arisaema also barely survive. 

On the other hand, I hired a friend's son to pull up and cut down loads of Amur Honeysuckle.

Jim

I haven't gotten any notifications from the SRGC Forum for quite a long time now.   Something may have changed there.  Someone could ask Maggi Young if it really matters.

Jim

Quote from: MarcR on May 01, 2022, 09:32:58 AMI was thinking that it might encourage discussion and showing off one's treasures to have separate headings for popular bulb families i.e. Iridaceae, Amarylidaceae, Ranunculaceae, etc.

It seems to be well used on the SRGC forum.

 

I feel the same way as Marc, again based on my experiences with the SRGC Forum.

Jim

Hi Uli & all,

Some of the South American enthusiasts for Hippeastrum have started referring on Facebook to this species as something like "Hippeastrum evansiorum" but I note that IPNI still lists it as Hippeastrum evansiae  [ https://www.ipni.org/?page=4&q=hippeastrum  ].   Sometimes there is historical justification for changes like this, but I haven't heard any grounds for this change. 

Besides, I am getting pretty old, and I just generally don't like change anymore!

Jim

Hi Rimmer,

What size pot is the flowering plant growing in?  I don't have a feel for scale here.

Nice flowers!

Jim

We have a groundhog living under our front porch -- which my wife insists on feeding.  That is actually better than having him/her living back among the flower beds.

Jim

Rimmer,  I'm pretty sure that Hippe is not stylosum.  You're right about how it looks.

-- Jim