Dear All,
The items listed below have been donated by PBS list members for
sharing. If you are interested in obtaining some of them, please email me
PRIVATELY at <dells@voicenet.com>. Include "BX 37" in the subject line.
Specify the NUMBERS of the items which you would like; do not specify
quantities. Availability is based on a first come, first served system.
When you receive your seeds/bulbs you will find included with them a
statement of how much money (cash or check) you should send the PBS
treasurer to defray our costs for packing and first-class postage. It is a
good idea to include your snail mail address too, in case I don't already
have it.
Some of you are members of the PBS discussion forum but not members of
the Pacific Bulb Society. THIS BX OFFERING IS AVAILABLE ONLY TO MEMBERS OF
THE PBS. Consider joining the PBS so that you can take advantage of future
offers such as this. Go to our website: http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/ . Or
contact me at dells@voicenet.com
If you would like to donate seeds or bulbs/corms to the PBS, please send
CLEAN, clearly labeled material to: Dell Sherk, PO Box 224, Holicong, PA,
18928, USA. Donors will receive credit on the BX for the cost of postage for
their donations.
From Chuck Schwartz:
1. Seed of Wachendorfia thyrsiflora - evergreen, sow in autumn, prefers damp
areas
From Lee Poulsen:
SEED:
2. Dietes butcheriana - Small whitish flowers, big nice-looking fans of
leaves. Grows in shade. Evergreen. Sow spring.
3. Calochortus 'Mixed' - from the Dutch bulb wholesalers. Just a few
seed of this.
4. Lapeirousia jacquinii - Sprays of small beautiful purple flowers.
Summer dormant. Sow autumn.
5. Manfreda variegata 'El Naranjo form' - Interesting-looking tall
flower spikes in spring. See Yucca Do's website
http://www.yuccado.com/ for pictures of Manfredas.
6. Romulea grandiscapa South African, summer dormant. Sow autumn?
7. Baeometra uniflora -Sow autumn.
8. Sparaxis variegata - Summer dormant. Sow autumn?
9. Ornithogalum dubium, white - Sow autumn.
10. Dodecatheon clevelandii - Really nice flower native to warm parts of
Calif I think.
11. Gelasine azurea - (I think this has been renamed.) Nice deep blue to
blue-violet flowers only last a day, but there is a succession of
them.
12. Seed of Veltheimia bracteata, from pink and bicolor flowers - Sow
autumn.
From Rob Hamilton:
SEED: (E = evergreen, W = winter growing, S = spring growing) (All seed was
produced in the Southern Hemisphere.)
13. Dierama juncundum (E)
-once again no confirmation of identity. Seed I sowed in March
germinated in May/June.
14. Dierama pulcherrimum (E)-a nice darker coloured form.
15. Fritillaria acmopetala (W)
16. Fritillaria imperialis (W)
17. Fritillaria messanensis gracilis (W)
18. Fritillaria pontica (W)
19. Fritillaria graeca (W)
20. Fritillaria tuntasia(W)
21. Littonia modesta (S) -parent is on the wiki.
22. Tecophilia cyanocrocus leitchlinii (W)
From Mary Sue Ittner:
23. Seed of Ferraria uncinata
Thank you, Chuck, Lee, Rob, and Mary Sue !!
Best wishes,
Dell
--Dell Sherk, Director, Pacific BX