Dear All,
The items listed below have been donated by people from all over the
world, to be shared. If you are interested in obtaining some of them, please
email me PRIVATELY at <dells@voicenet.com>. Include "BX 123" in the subject
line.
Specify the NUMBERS of the items which you would like; do not specify
quantities. It is a good idea to include your snail mail address too, in
case I don't already have it. 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, check, or Paypal to
<theotherjen8@yahoo.com>; no money orders, please) you should send the PBS
treasurer to defray our costs for packing and first-class postage. Some of
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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
6832 Phillips Mill Rd.
New Hope, PA, 18938
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 Chuck Schwartz:
1. Seed of Scadoxus puniceus
From Mary Sue Ittner:
SEED:
1. Cyclamen repandum
2. Cyrtanthus brachyscaphus -- evergreen, can be grown as houseplant or in
greenhouse, blooms for me for many months in the spring, easiest of all
Cyrtanthus for me
3.Dietes iridioides
4. Erythronium californicum
5. Freesia laxa as grandiflora -- Nargs seed source as F. grandiflora, but
blooms at the same time as F. laxa and is only slightly larger than the F.
laxa I grow so may just be a form of that
BULBS:
6. Ferraria sp. -- Obtained from Telos as F. schaeferi, but when it bloomed
looked like F. crispa and I never had a chance to find my Ferraria key to
confirm this and this species is not listed in the Color Encyclopedia
7. Freesia corymbosa--This is an Eastern Cape species and although I've
gotten it to bloom a couple of times, see wiki, I don't think it is all that
happy in my Medit climate so am passing it on
8. Fritillaria pudica-- tiny offsets of a species that has never bloomed for
me so I don't know if this is really what it is.
9. Herbertia lahue
10. Lachenalia bachmanii
11. Oxalis assinia (these were given me by someone else and have not bloomed
so cannot vouch for their identity)
12. Oxalis flava (kind known as lupinifolia)
13. Oxalis hirta? (acquired from Telos as O. namaquana which it is not)
14. Oxalis luteola MV 6395 (reliable, long blooming for me, late fall)
15. Oxalis massoniana
Oxalis obtusa (small quantities of each kind)
16. some unknown color
17. some peach
18. some yellow
19. some pink with gray leaves
20. MV5505a
21. Oxalis pes-caprae (shared as O. compressa, but I think it is the menace
of California where it is invading our wild spots, please don't ask for it
if there is any chance of it getting away from you where you live such as in
Med. climates)
22. Oxalis purpurea 'Garnet'
23. Oxalis purpurea 'Skar' (these were given me by someone else and have not
bloomed so cannot vouch for their identity)
24. Oxalis namaquana (Uli 59) -- last year we decided these were probably O.
namaquana. I loved the bright yellow blooms in winter. Understood why I saw
them bloom in mass in a wet year in Namaqualand as they offset a lot.
25. Oxalis semiloba (these were given me by someone else and have not
bloomed so cannot vouch for their identity)
26. Oxalis from Uli labeled 69 bluish gray palmate leaves, grew in
seasonally moist soil in heavy clay on the Niewoudville plateau.
27. Polyxena longituba - fall blooming, pot culture, short, very charming,
increases well
28. Romulea tabularis-- mostly cormlets, perhaps some might bloom next year,
but most probably will need two years
29. Triteleia laxa-- cormlets, not blooming size
From Arnold Trachtenberg:
"Some Colchicums corms and Colchicum seeds. All the Colchicums grow outside
with no protection. I only added grit to the soil upon planting."
30. A quantity of open pollinated seed. I have about twenty different
Colchicum in flower at the same time.
31. Seeds of Colchicum rhodopaeum:
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/….
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32. Corms of Colchicum umbrosum:
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/…
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33. Corms of Colchicum 'Princess Astrid':
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/…
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From Al Sisk via Jim Shields:
34. Seeds of Crinum bulbispermum from his collection of old garden Crinum
cultivars from Texas.
Thank you, Chuck, Mary Sue, Arnold, Al, and Jim !!
Best wishes,
Dell
--Dell Sherk, Director, Pacific BX