Habranthus estensis
Lee Poulsen (Mon, 08 Mar 2004 11:50:05 PST)

On Mar 7, 2004, at 7:14 AM, Alberto Castillo wrote:

Thanks Alberto for making this correction. However, I must make a
correction of your statement--which should explain my mistake I hope. I
am not a superb bulb grower, merely a hobbyist who has let the hobby
get away from his control. I would claim that Mary Sue is an example of
one who is in the category of "superb bulb grower" (or expert hobbyist
as I would classify it); after all, she *knows* all the correct
scientific names of all the species she has grown or has seen, *and*
she has spent good money multiple times to take foreign trips for the
sole purpose of looking for and viewing bulbs growing in the wild,
whereas I've only managed to squeeze the viewing in as a side trip into
a more common tourist trip.

In any case, I never noticed that my H. estensis weren't growing in the
summertime. The flowers these seeds came from suddenly bloomed in a
spectacular manner in early September of last year, which is still
quite warm so I consider it summer, plus they were watered all summer.
I put some photos of them on the wiki at
<http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…>

I trust you will see my message when you successfully recover from your
operation. No fair doing a hit-and-run posting like that ;-), but I
hope you get well soon.

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