Dear Lee, Thank you for all the suggestions for sources. I will be contacting many of them as time permits. We do grow gingers, Curcuma, Hymenocallis and a few Heliconia and Gloriosa superba grows wild in moist areas of South India. Best regards and many thanks. Richard (Narad) On 16, May 2008, at 8:29 PM, Lee Poulsen wrote: > Narad (Richard Eggenberger) wrote: >> I would be most grateful >> if I could receive bulbs of other species and hybrids that I can >> carry >> to India when I return each year from late October to first March >> during the best planting season. We would like to begin a >> hybridizing >> program for the species for which I am especially fond as its >> spiritual significance in the language of the flowers is "Prayer'. >> If >> there are other bulbs that can adapt to this climate, 11 degrees >> north >> of the equator, hot and humid, I would be most appreciative of your >> suggestions. We do grow Crinum (only one or two varieties), Eurycles, >> Eucharis, Polianthes, and one or two species of Amaryllis that can >> withstand the intense heat of summer. >> >> > > Have you looked at the amazing Zephyranthes hybrids Fadjar Marta of > Jakarta Indonesia has produced? I think the climate there is similar > to > yours. Plant Delights Nursery <http://www.plantdelights.com/> > carries a > number of them such as Bali Beauty, Batik, Copper Mine, Fantasy > Island, > Jakarta Jewel, Krakatau, Lydia Luckman, Moulin Rouge, Paul Niemi, > South > Pacific. There is also a website where many of his hybrids are > pictured: > <http://geocities.com/fadjar_z/Fadjar/…>. Yucca Do > Nursery > <http://www.yuccado.com/> also often carried a good selection of the > species. I think many of the things both of these nurseries (esp. > everything Yucca Do sells) carry would do just fine in your climate as > well. Buried Treasures Nursery in Florida > <http://www.buried-treasure.net/> carries all kinds of tropical bulbs. > There are some other nurseries as well that I can't think of right > now. > There are a number of Hippeastrum from Brazil that might do well in > you > climate. Check out Mauro Peixoto's website (he sells seeds of many of > the species on his website) <http://www.brazilplants.com/>. Also Greg > Pettit who has a nursery on the warm humid east coast of South Africa > might have a lot of suggestions too. > > Other genera to look for might include: > Griffinia > Hymenocallis > Trimezia > Neomarica > Eucrosia > Many of the Ginger genera (Zingiber, Alpinia, Burbidgea, Cautleya, > Costus, Etlingera, Hedychium, Kaempferia) > Canna > Globba > Curcuma > Heliconia > a few Lilium > Gloriosa > > --Lee Poulsen > Pasadena, California, USDA Zone 10a > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/