Favorite Yellow Flowered Bulbs--TOW
Mary Sue Ittner (Thu, 22 Jan 2004 07:50:22 PST)

Dear All,

This continues to be a really wonderful topic of the week. I love hearing
from different parts of the world. We seem to be missing our southern
hemisphere contingent however. Any nominations from Argentina (there are
all those great South American Irids), New Zealand, Australia, South
Africa? Many parts of Australia I expect to have a lot of light too so it
would be interesting to know if people there who experience a lot of light
are not fond of yellow.

Although there have been a few blanket votes for Narcissus, I think it
would be interesting to have some favorites in that genus too. Maybe some
of you who are especially fond of this genus can give us your choices for
your favorite yellows and include Narcissus by name (although I don't want
to preempt the joint topic of the week coming in February on this one.)

Tulipa batalini has made more than one list from more than one area. It was
on my list. John has pointed out that it really is a clone of Tulipa
linifolia. We probably need to fix that on the wiki. Do you have a
suggestion John for how we can write it to distinguish between the
beautiful red flowered ones and the ones you can still buy commercially as
T. batalini with all the shades of yellow? Would it just be Tulipa
linifolia (yellow clone often referred to as T. batalini)?

I think this topic deserves its own wiki page with all this information
compiled in one place. I expect it might take a bit of time to pull it all
together. And yes, Lee, I do plan to have future topics for other colors.
Last year we had topics of the week where we discussed the best bulbs for
different climates and I plan to every couple of months have a topic on
favorite bulbs of different colors.

Mary Sue
TOW coordinator