Quick bloom from seed
Diane Whitehead (Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:00:19 PST)
It never occurred to me that it could be an annual.
The seed packet said A. phillippiana. It grew amazingly long and
skinny, and then had a pale pink flower with two lower petals with
three zones (white, yellow, pink), all streaked magenta. (so easy to
augment one's memory with a digital photo.)
Diane
On 1-Feb-08, at 10:05 AM, Jane McGary wrote:
Diane Whitehead wrote,
I had an Alstroemeria from that arid strip of Chile which roared into
growth and flower as soon as it tasted water. Died fast, too.
I wonder if it was A. graminea? It is the only annual species in the
genus,
and that's where it comes from.