Dear Lee, I love Hippeastrums and grow a number of them here in the Himalayas through gifts from freinds. Many thanks for the link I will get to Brazil plants. I am finding the postings most interesting. Even those on fungi, Linnaeus, Amorphs and orchids!!! Many thanks to all of you there and regards. Udai ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lee Poulsen" <wpoulsen@pacbell.net> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 2:03 AM Subject: Re: [pbs] PBS list and growing bulbs in Hawai`i > Hi Jacob, > > I don't think anyone has *nothing* worthwhile to post, especially to > this list, and Jacob just proved it IMO. I think this was a very > informative post, moreso than you might imagine. Keep posting > whenever you even think you have something to say. I'm positive at > least one person, and most likely even more, will benefit from it. > > There's a reason Protea (and other mediterranean climate plants) grow > so well in the highlands of Maui. As far as I'm concerned it's the > 6th mediterranean climate region of the world. (The other five, more > classicly known ones, are: the entire coastal regions bounding the > Mediterranean Sea as well as the Atlantic coasts of Portugal and > Morocco, California (as well as southern coastal Oregon and the > regions of Washington and British Columbia in the rain shadow of the > Olympic Peninsula), Central Chile, the Western Cape region of South > Africa, and the coastal regions surrounding Adelaide in South > Australia and the southwestern region of West Australia including > Perth.) See the (rather crowded, but informative) plot of a bunch of > key locations from all six mediterranean regions on the wiki: <http:// > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/…>. (It's > in the Miscellaneous section.) You'll note that two towns in upper > Maui (as well as one in upper Lanai) all have the classic annual > mediterranean rainfall pattern. And they have corresponding > temperatures as well. Surprisingly, none of the highland locations I > checked on either side of the Big Island had such a rainfall pattern. > > So you should easily be able to grow any mediterranean climate bulb > in that part of Maui. > > If you want a good source of other tropical South American amaryllid > seeds like Hipp. calyptratum, be sure to check Mauro Peixoto's list > of (mostly) Brazilian natives on a regular basis: <http:// > http://www.brazilplants.com/> (in either English or Portuguese) or go > directly to <http://mpeixoto.sites.uol.com.br/Seeds.html>. > > Buried Treasures <http://www.buried-treasure.net/catalog/index.php> > still has some Proiphys amboinensis bulbs for sale. They have them > every year. Great plants. > > Supposedly no one has seen Bessera tenuiflora for a while, but a few > people have seen it in various parts of the coast of southern Baja > California last fall. I submitted some photos from one of these guys > as mystery photos and quite a number of the experts who inhabit this > list almost immediately determined what it was. They're on the wiki > now (under Behria). > > Good luck with your bulb hunts. > --Lee > > On May 24, 2007, at 12:35 PM, Jacob Knecht wrote: >> >> My main reason for posting is just to share my >> gratitude for this group and all who take time to >> contribute. I really think this is a fantastic >> organisation, the PBS Wiki is phenomenal. Although I >> have been growing bulbs for a while I still don't feel >> like I have that much more advice to add than what has >> already been placed in previous discussions. >> >> I see this as a 10-15 year experiment to see if I can >> not only successfully grow these South African bulbs >> in this climate, but also get them to bloom! If I am >> fortunate to develop a strategy at getting these to >> bloom in my climate I will be sure to keep the board >> updated. If they don't do so well, I intend to try >> some up in the high elevations of Maui island where >> Protea are so successfully grown. >> >> A very kind friend gave me some seed of Hippeastrum >> calyptratum and they have grown with so much vigour!! >> >> I am always on the lookout for non hybridised species >> (an non virused!) of Eucharis, Griffinia and other S. >> American amaryllids. There are so many exciting >> little treasures that should be brought into >> cultivation. I'd like to grow Proiphys as well. >> >> By the way, has anyone ever seen Pseudogaltonia >> clavata, Eucrosia dodsonii, Stenomesson auranticum, >> Bessera tenuiflora or Urceolina pendula for sale? >> > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.7.6/814 - Release Date: 5/21/2007 > 2:01 PM > >