Mark, your photograph really captures the presence of one of my favorite alliums. The flowers are somehow hyperdimensional in their stiff, bright whiteness, balanced on that long, wiry stem. It's impossible not to reach out and touch them gently. And I love the scarf. Paige Paige Woodward on top of Chilliwack Mountain in southwest British Columbia Canada wet Zone 6 http://www.hillkeep.ca/ paige@hillkeep.ca ----- Original Message ----- From: <Antennaria@aol.com> To: <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 7:03 PM Subject: [pbs] Re: Allium guttatum ssp. sardoum > Ornamental onion fans, just posted to the PBS wiki: > > Allium guttatum ssp. sardoum - a fine European species, with dense heads of > white flowers held precisely spaced, showing off bright white pedicels and > small fluffy white florets stained with a small dark blotch on each tepal. > Photo by Mark McDonough, July 18, 2002. > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/… > > Mark McDonough Pepperell, Massachusetts, United States > antennaria@aol.com "New England" USDA Zone 5 > ============================================== > >> web site under construction - http://www.plantbuzz.com/ << > alliums, bulbs, penstemons, hardy hibiscus, western > american alpines, iris, plants of all types! > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > >
