I added a photo on the wiki of seedlings for this reason. All seedlings I grow are so, from three different strain. http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/… Angelo Porcelli south of Italy > Hello All, > Just a short note. Haemanthus coccineus seedlings are usually hirsute for > the first 2-4 years. A few might even continue to have fine hair on the > leaves for another year or two. This is so for plants from most > localities. > Regards, > Alan Horstmann > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 9 > Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:34:10 -0600 > From: James Waddick <jwaddick@kc.rr.com> > Subject: [pbs] BX 148 - PBS benefits > To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> > Message-ID: <p06240823c368f295da85@[192.168.1.103]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" > > Dear friends, > When I saw this listed as "If this is too common for your > cultured tastes, but it is one of my favorite oxalis." > I had to at least try. > > I admit to never purposely growing an oxalis, but had to try this one. > > Today I noticed that 4 flowers were open in the cool > greenhouse. Charming and certainly easy. > > Thanks Dell, Thanks Roy. > > And by the way, also open were a few flowers on Tulbaghia > simmleri (fragrans) -the typical violet form from the late Dave > Karnstedt, a trade from me for a start of my 'alba'. I left the pots > out a bit too long and the foliage is pretty ratty, although my > 'alba' is even rattier and it is not blooming. > > The BX is a great part of PBS and the opportunity to make > interesting trades is always there. > > Keep it up, guys. Best Jim W. > -- > Dr. James W. Waddick > 8871 NW Brostrom Rd. > Kansas City Missouri 64152-2711 > USA > Ph. 816-746-1949 > Zone 5 Record low -23F > Summer 100F + > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 10 > Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:03:52 -0800 > From: Mary Sue Ittner <msittner@mcn.org> > Subject: [pbs] New wiki pages > To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.2.20071120173434.01652c38@mail.mcn.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > > Hi, > > I've added pictures of two more genera of tuberous terrestrial orchids we > saw in Australia. The first is: > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… > > These are blue orchids, formerly included in Caladenia. I haven't done the > wiki page for that one yet because it will take me longer since we saw so > many different species (some I'm still trying to figure out.) Jim Waddick > asked me to include the sizes of my Australian additions. I think this is > a > fair request even though I expect many of our wiki photographs don't > include this information. You often can't tell from the pictures, > especially if all you see is a close up of the flowers. Many of the > orchids > we saw have a single leaf a long way away from the flower and difficult to > get in focus in a picture if you want the flower in focus too. Both of the > ones we saw are Western Australia endemics. > > The second wiki page is: > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… > This is a genus with only two species found in other areas of Australia. > We > saw one of the species in several places in Victoria. They are really > beautiful flowers and the ones we saw ranged in color from white to dark > purple. The first day we saw them it was very windy and frustrating as > they > would blow out of your frame. I captured a pollinator doing its thing on > one of them, but it wasn't in focus as well as the picture I took seconds > later when it rested before it flew away so that's the one I added. I'm > not > sure what the pollinator was. We also saw this species toward the end of > our trip when we were staying in Apollo Bay. Bob and I took a walk by > ourselves on the Great Ocean Walk one day. This walk on Victoria's > spectacular west coast, stretches 91 kms starting at Apollo Bay. We > weren't > seeing nearly as many flowers in this area as we had seen in other areas > on > our trip although there were wonderful views, waterfalls, birds, tree > ferns, and koalas. I read the description for all the day hikes for this > walk that wouldn't be too far away for us to drive to from where we were > staying and only one mentioned flowers. We had been told we were too early > for flowers or that there were no flowers each time we asked. We were very > pleased when the description turned out to be correct. We saw a lot of > orchids including hundreds of Glossodia major in one spot. This was a very > interesting stretch to walk as the habitats and soils changed as you walk > and accordingly so did the flowers you saw. > > Mary Sue > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 11 > Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:50:27 +0200 > From: "Rogan Roth" <Roth@ukzn.ac.za> > Subject: [pbs] Ammocharis coranica pollen > To: <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> > Message-ID: <47442991.2298.0024.0@ukzn.ac.za> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > I have a white-flowered form of Ammocharis coranica flowering at the > moment and have collected some pollen from it. This I will dry and freeze. > > If anybody would like some of this pollen please send me your postal > address - first come first served as I don't have very much available. > > I have tried to upload a picture of it to the wiki, but the wiki is > offline at the moment (at least to me), however I will forward a picture > to you on request. > > Regards > Rogan. > > Please find our Email Disclaimer here: http://www.ukzn.ac.za/disclaimer/ > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 12 > Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:20:47 -0500 > From: "Dell Sherk" <dells@voicenet.com> > Subject: [pbs] Pacific BX 160 CLOSED > To: "'Adam Fikso'" <adam14113@ameritech.net>, "'c'" > <CathyCraigEA@hotmail.com>, "'Macfarlane'" <macfarla@almaden.ibm.com>, > "'Mark'" <Antennaria@aol.com>, "'Mark Wilcox'" <marque219@yahoo.com>, > "Pat Colville" <Pat.Colville@JHResearchUSA.com>, "PBS list" > <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>, "The Masterson Family" <masterson4@cox.net> > Message-ID: <20071121142112.A21074C00F@lists.ibiblio.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Dear All, > > > > Everything is claimed. Packages should go out after the weekend. Happy > Thanksgiving to our American members. > > > > Best wishes, > > Dell > > > > Dell Sherk, Director, PBS BX > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 13 > Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:15:04 -0800 > From: Mary Sue Ittner <msittner@mcn.org> > Subject: [pbs] Wiki > To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.2.20071121070347.0350d268@mail.mcn.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > > Hi, > > I got a note this morning that there was a hardware failure (network > switch) at ibibilio and that some of the systems weren't working. There > was > a second note saying that after working on this seven hours the problem > was > fixed. The database for our wiki doesn't seem to be operational however > and > I looked at some of the other wikis on ibiblio and they aren't working > either. > > The data base (mysql) was not working very well when I added the last > pages > (slow, sometimes generating error messages) so this problem may be > separate > from the other problem. I've sent in a request for help. In the meantime > the photos are still available since the pictures do not require the > database. > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/ > > Mary Sue > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > > > End of pbs Digest, Vol 58, Issue 12 > *********************************** > > __________ Informazione NOD32 2665 (20071117) __________ > > Questo messaggio รจ stato controllato dal Sistema Antivirus NOD32 > http://www.nod32.it/ > >
