Favorite Yellow Flowered Bulbs--TOW
Mary Sue Ittner (Mon, 19 Jan 2004 10:13:23 PST)

Dear All,

With all the recent posts I am almost reluctant to post a new topic for
this week. Ironically, thanks to Jim Waddick and Alpine-l, Galanthus is
scheduled to be a topic for February. So it looks like we might get an
introduction after our discussion. Please continue all the threads going on
now as long as you like even though I am introducing a new one.

Rhoda McMaster suggested that we could have a topic of the week where
people shared their favorite 5s. This was something she said that everyone
could participate in and wouldn't required an introduction (both of those
ideas I like). One of our topics this past summer was favorite bulbs for shade.

This week's topic is your favorite five (or more) yellow flowered
geophytes. I know people who try to avoid yellow in their garden for some
reason, but I like it as it is cheerful and goes well with blue which is
another of my favorite colored flowers. Please share your favorites in this
category. I'm not quite ready since when I looked through my data base I
had about 20 strong candidates and will need to reduce them. To help me I
decided to use as my criteria ones that I am growing (versus ones I have
seen in the wild) and ones that are reliable bloomers and have bloomed more
than once. That will remove plants like Ornithogalum dubium that for me is
hit or miss. If it came up every year, it would certainly make my list. But
if others want to include plants they don't grow or plants that bloomed
once that is fine with me. We should get a broad range of plants since we
have people from all over the world, but more than one nomination is just fine.

Mary Sue
PBS TOW coordinator