More Information about Pacific BX
Mary Sue Ittner (Wed, 11 Aug 2004 07:57:58 PDT)

Dear All,

I had a house guest last week and mailed some material to Dell the day
before my friend arrived and planned to write about my offerings as soon as
she left, thinking I'd have time. I didn't get it done yesterday and it was
on my mental list for today, but Dell is so efficient that he has already
announced some of what I sent him.

SEED:
12. Phaedranassa cinerea -- Grown from seed to flower from seed supplied by
Bill Dijk. Plant now.
13. Lachenalia campanulata -- Grown from seed from Rhoda and Cameron
McMaster of an Eastern Cape species that is evergreen if you keep watering
it, but blooms late spring. Seed from my plants
14. Gladiolus carneus, pink -- This was open pollinated by the bees so may
not be pure. It was blooming in June and was absolutely gorgeous. Here's
Jana's picture from the wiki.
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/…
We both have ours growing in raised beds unwatered in summer in northern
California, but I suspect they would do fine in the ground too as this
species has for me. Plant fall and allow change in day and night
temperatures for germination
15. Cyrtanthus brachyscyphus -- almost evergreen, nice orange flowers for a
long time in spring (for me anyway), one of the easiest Cyrtanthus, plant now.
16. Calochortus mariposa hybrids -- My Calochortus bloomed while I was in
the UK and they were together so I'm not sure what you might get so I
collected seed pods from several plants and decided to call them hybrids.
The offspring could look like one of the species I suppose. I'm not sure
when to tell you to plant them. My experience has been that I am most
successful with Calochortus seed that is growing when it is not cold and
wet so I have been starting seed of Calochortus in February and it seems to
be working better than late fall when I started other native plants. In
fact I still have some seedlings from some I started in February that have
not died down. Early fall might work for me too when it is still dry, but
seedlings coming up here in December or January when it is raining a lot go
down rapidly
17. Herbertia lahue -- These can be grown on a Mediterranean cycle,
blooming late spring-early summer. Flowers are short lived, but a lot of
them are produced. Plant in fall
18. Tritonia deusta, dark markings -- Seed saved from plants of this
species that has spots
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/…
This one is coming back fine in the ground in my northern California garden
where it gets occasional summer water, but not much

Mary Sue