Eastern Cape Bulbs
Robert Hamilton (Sat, 15 Jan 2005 18:27:49 PST)

Hi all,

I would like to " second" Mary Sue's review of the Eastern Cape
Bulbs CD. The images are fabulous and the articles extremely
informative.

While I dont live in a true Mediterranean climate because we get
some summer rainfall , it still gets very dry here through
summer. Despite this I have found that many bulbs from the
summer rainfall area do very well as garden plants.

My impression is that even in their native habitat they probably
have to tolerate long periods of dry summer at times so are
well adapted to areas which dont get a lot of summer rainfall.
For me they also seem to tolerate the winter wet that they
dont get in their native climate.

Genera which do well as garden plants include Boophone,
Brunsvigia , Dierama , Eucomis and Moraea.

Cheers,

Rob in Tasmania