TOW red flowered bulbs
320083817243-0001@t-online.de (Mon, 21 Jun 2004 14:59:54 PDT)

Dear All

One of my best plants is Dahlia coccinea var palmeri from a CDR collection from
Mexico. It is a tall but dainty plant with finely dissected leaves and flowers
best in autumn when the weather gets cool and damp. It has horizontally facing
cosmos like bright orange red flowers. it produces a lot of seed and young
plants tend to germinate in summer where the plants were the previous year, the
tubers are not hardy, though. I have donated this seed several times to the IBS
SX and may do so this year to the PBS SX if no disaster strikes.

For tuberous Begonias....... yes there are people out there who like them, but
I am interested in SPECIES tuberous Begonias. I know there are some very
beautiful ones but impossible to come by....... Anyone who can help?

greetings from cold "mid summer" Germany, Uli