Lycoris squamigera in a country garden
mark zukaitis (Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:21:15 PDT)

I have to tell you about my being a passenger in a car going on a drive through Westminster, Maryland. Severay people grew Lycoris squamigera - I only saw one place where there was only one stem. The rest were dense colonies. Beautiful! A more accurate name would be Lycoris with some sort of "carnus" as the specie as they are not really pink, not really any color. Basically flesh colored.

Best,

Mark
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From: Jane McGary<mailto:janemcgary@earthlink.net>
To: Pacific Bulb Society<mailto:pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 1:40 PM
Subject: Re: [pbs] Lycoris squamigera in a country garden

Jim's story about the Lycoris-filled garden reminds me of one I
passed by in Chile 2 years ago, where the entire front garden was
filled with a striped Hippeastrum in full bloom. No doubt this
country gardener had received a gift bulb many years ago, and
multiplied it in this favorable climate. I've also noticed native
species of Rhodophiala planted as ornamentals in rural Chile -- one
of the few native species one sees used this way, despite the noble
efforts of Drs. Riedemann and Aldunate and their "Flora Native de
Valor Ornamental" series.

A project I intend to see to when I've retired is going to some old
Oregon gardens of which I have the addresses from back issues of the
Rock Garden Quarterly, to find out if the collections described there
40 or so years ago still exist even in remnants. One is a violet
collection, and another is snowdrops.

Jane McGary
Northwestern Oregon, USA
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At 02:55 PM 8/9/2009, you wrote:

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