Favorite Pink Bulbs-TOW
Lee Poulsen (Wed, 11 Aug 2004 13:25:16 PDT)

I happen to love vibrant colors as much as I do pastels, so my favorite
shades of pink are either the vibrant/intense almost magenta pinks or
the smooth-as-cream cotton candy pink shades. I'm going to break Mary
Sue's rule and list more than five:

Rhodohypoxis baurii. Although I would love to see masses of these
blooming in the Drakensberg (the one time I was there was late winter,
and I was probably in the wrong part of them), they still look great
smothering a pot in intense pink

Amaryllis belladonna, especially the ones that have other related
genuses in their ancestry. Although the plain species is now in full
bloom all over the place here, mine in pots are just now sending up
scapes.

Lycoris sprengeri, also just now sending up scapes in my pots. While I
agree with Jane about pink forms of normally blue flowers, a normally
pink flower with edges of electric blue is very striking to me.

Since I'm not a species purist: intense pink Hippeastrum commercial
cultivars

Watsonia 'Opal'. A hard to find cultivar that is a nearly pearlescent
shade of pink.

Dierama pulcherrimum. Big arching fountains of this in Golden Gate Park
in San Francisco.

Zephyranthes 'Labuffarosea' (xCooperanthes 'Labufaroseus' according to
T. Howard). A good one of these has the best shade of pink of all the
Zephyranthes, IMO.

I *love* pink cup (W-P and Y-P) Narcissus cultivars.

Veltheimia bracteata, both the species and the rosealba cultivars.

--Lee Poulsen
Pasadena area, California, USDA Zone 9-10