Who Knew?

[David Pilling]

A thread in which we tell people what we didn't know...

Cornell have a flower bulb research program, along with a website with articles and videos

https://flowerbulbs.cornell.edu/

[petershaw]

Pretty awesome, thanks for the link.

[David Pilling]

"Welcome to the American Horticultural Society
The American Horticultural Society educates Americans about and advocates Earth-friendly and sustainable gardening practices, as well as models them at our River Farm headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia."

https://ahsgardening.org/

There is a huge archive of publications:

https://ahsgardening.org/gardening-resources/gardening-publications/

[janemcgary]

If you come upon any of the articles they asked me to write for their journal, I apologize in advance for how dumbed-down they are. The editors asked me to mention only bulbs available commercially, and for which they had professional photos.

[Ron]

The Jepson Manual is the taxonomy of the vascular plants of California.  It is not a cheap book, and the last version of it (2012) is somewhat out of date.  Fortunately, it is now freely available online (not sure how long this has been available).  There is a brief introduction here.  A portion of the intro is shown below:

The eFlora has diverged from the print book in that it: (1) contains descriptions not in the print book (e.g., waifs, agricultural weeds); (2) contains errata and other changes made relative to the print book; (3) contains direct links to the Consortium of California Herbaria; (4) contains direct links to the Online Interchange for California Floristics; and (5) contains substantive revisions of scientific content for some taxa; see Supplement 1-11, 2013-2022.

The eFlora search page is here:  https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/search_eflora.php?name=

Happy hunting!