Bananas! NOW Lycoris!
Kelly Irvin (Fri, 06 Jun 2003 10:35:56 PDT)

Very interesting observation, Diana. I have a number of Lycoris in a
winter house which remained covered until the beginning of May, a little
longer than I have left plastic on before. Needless to say, due to very
poor ventilating capability with this house, April proved to provide
some very hot conditions for the structure. Shortly after the first rain
on the uncovered winter house, a few of my Lycoris have sent up flower
stalks, one clump I am sure flowered for me last fall. Here it is the
first week of June, and I have in bloom:

1. An unlabeled white fall foliage spider lily, probably L.
xhoudyshelii, and probably from Jim Waddick. Anyway it looks a bit
similar to the L. xhoudyshelii I received at the IBS California meeting
last spring (all appears normal).

2. Lycoris radiata v. pumila x L. xrosea (all appears normal - bloomed
last fall, too)

3. L. straminea (on a very short stalks only a few inches high and not
quite bloomed yet)

A couple dozen other clumps are in the house of other species and
varieties, and they did not send up flowers.

Photos of these and other flower bulbs taken in the last few days may be
viewed for the next 24 hours at:

http://bulbmeister.com/photopost/showgallery.php/…

diana chapman wrote:

I should add as far as Lycoris is concerned, though, that when I moved from
the very hot interior of California to the coastal region all pots were
loaded in a van in temperatures of 108F (probably more inside the van).
When they were unloaded on the coast, the temperature was about 55F (this is
normal summer temperature here). The drop in temperature induced just about
every bulb to bloom. It was quite amazing.

Diana
Telos Rare Bulbs

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