Dear All,
The items listed below have been donated by PBS list members for
sharing. If you are interested in obtaining some of them, please email me
PRIVATELY at <dells@voicenet.com>. Include "BX 61" in the subject line.
Specify the NUMBERS of the items which you would like; do not specify
quantities. Availability is based on a first come, first served system.
When you receive your seeds/bulbs you will find included with them a
statement of how much money (cash or check) you should send the PBS
treasurer to defray our costs for packing and first-class postage. It is a
good idea to include your snail mail address too, in case I don't already
have it.
Some of you are members of the PBS discussion forum but not members of
the Pacific Bulb Society. THIS BX OFFERING IS AVAILABLE ONLY TO MEMBERS OF
THE PBS. Consider joining the PBS so that you can take advantage of future
offers such as this. Go to our website: <http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/> . Or
contact me at dells@voicenet.com
If you would like to donate seeds or bulbs/corms to the PBS, please send
CLEAN, clearly labeled material to: Dell Sherk, PO Box 224, Holicong, PA,
18928, USA. Donors will receive credit on the BX for the cost of postage for
their donations.
PLEASE NOTE: I WILL REPLY TO YOU WITHIN 24 HRS OF MY RECEIPT OF YOUR
ORDER..
IF YOU DO NOT HEAR FROM ME, TRY AGAIN !!
From Leo Martin:
1. Seed from various open-pollinated Hippeastrum hybrids.
From Dell Sherk:
2. Seed of Hippeastrum 'Lemon Lime' x H. 'Naughty Lady'
From Gary Meltzer:
3. Seed of Clivia miniata descended from the plants brought to Golden Gate
Park by John McLaren, not the creator, but the first major garden influence
and defender of the park in San Francisco. Currently they live under a
monkeypod tree (in Hawaii), offset very frequently, bloom
profusely, and it seems that all of the seeds sprout and grow very fast
blooming within a year or a little more. The one plant I put in the ground
3 years ago is now a cluster about 3' X 5' all of which bloom extremely
well. They are in the ground about 5' from an all year stream in an area
that gets over 200" of rain a year average, spread throughout the year. I
never water them and rarely fertilize. The soil is slightly acid (pH 6.34),
and never dry. Exposure is high shade - the monkeypod- and on a slight
slope.
From Paul Tyerman (photos of some of these are available on the PBS wiki):
Amaryllis belladonna - hot pink multifora style
Scape-
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Bulb-
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The colour in the single flower shot is pretty much accurate. A good
bright pink. The full scape shot colour has been changed a bit by the
camera adjustment to shade.
Belladonna - white with pink tips
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/…
Belladonna - white fading to pink
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/…
Belladonna - hot pink ... looks like I forgot to photograph that this
year. The flower colour is very similar to the hot pink multiflora type
but there are less flowers and they are uni-directionally arranged like the
straight species.
I also uploaded a picture of my Agapanthus africanus. Pretty accurate with
the colour so people know what they're getting...
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/…
4. Seed of Amaryllis belladonna - hot pink multiflora variety. This is a
stunning
bright pink multiflora style of belladonna with up to 25 flowers per scape,
arranged in a full circle rather than uni-directional like the straight
species. No idea what the origins of this plant were or what the offspring
will produce. Bulbs get to be nearly the size of a football with mutiple
stems per bulb (which I personally had never seen before).
5. Seed ofAmaryllis belladonna - mixed seed of 3 parents. I have mixed
these as they
were growing near each other and are likely to be cross-pollinated between
the 3 of them. The parents are all the floriferous uni-directional species
types but flowers are very different as follows:
1. White with pink tips
2. Bright pink with white throat
3. White, fading to dark pink - This produces flowers on the one head
that
range from white through to dark pink. VERY floriferous plant that flowers
happily for me in a pot or the ground unlike so many varieties that don't
seem to like pots.
6. Seed of Agapanthus africanus. To my knowledge this is correctly named.
It has
matched the few pictures I could find of this species. The flower stem is
around 2 foot tall at the most with maybe 15 - 20 small decidedly purple
flowers that tend to all more or less face in the one direction.
7. Seed of Haemanthus coccineus - This is a mixture of seed from around 9
different
seed parents. Numerous crosses with pollen between them were undertaken so
there should be a very good mix of genetics within the seed pool. All are
very good flowerers for me. They're summer dormant, flowering just prior
to the emergence of their single pair of broad flat leaves. Very slow to
multiply so seed really is the best option to build up a collection of
them. Usually takes around 6 years to flowering but can be a little
quicker.
From Tom Glavich:
Seed of
8. Albuca batteriana - a great large Albuca, flowers from late January
through March, clumps. I wouldn't be without this in my garden. White and
green flowers.
9. Pancratium maratimum (only 3 seeds)
10. Tritonopsis caffra - spectacular bright red flowers, and great wrinkled
seed pods!
Bulbs and Bulblets
11. Bellevalia pycnantha
12. Muscari armeniacum 'Blue Spike'
13. Muscari armeniacum 'Cantab'
14. Muscari armeniacum 'Christmas Pearl'
15. Muscari aucheri 'Blue Magic'
16. Muscari comosum 'Plumosum'
17. Muscari latifolium
18. Muscari neglectum
19. Sparaxis bulbifera
20. Watsonia coccinea
21. Watsonia laccata
22. Watsonia pillansii
Thank you, Leo, Gary, Paul, and Tom !!
Best wishes,
Dell
--Dell Sherk, Director, Pacific BX
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