Pacific BX 230 (Dell Sherk)

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Today's Topics:

1. Re: unknown Iris (Dennis Kramb)
2. Re: Pacific BX 230 (Dell Sherk)
3. Candy Lilies Iris x norrisii - 2 (Jay Yourch)
4. Re: unknown Iris (James Waddick)
5. Re: Candy Lilies (aclyburn17@verizon.net)
6. Mailing list (Robert-E. Brasseur)
7. Re: Candy Lilies Iris x norrisii - 2 (James Waddick)

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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:34:50 -0500
From: Dennis Kramb <dkramb@badbear.com>
Subject: Re: [pbs] unknown Iris
To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
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Ina wrote:

There is this lovely Iris in my bog garden. My lack of knowledge is
great. Is it a Japanese Iris or what?

http://flickr.com/photos/plantlover/…

Thank you

Looks like a Japanese iris to me, for sure.

Dennis in snowy Cincinnati

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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 08:41:45 -0500
From: "Dell Sherk" <ds429@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [pbs] Pacific BX 230
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I have received your order. Note: better to use my other email address:
ds429@comcast.net

Happy holidays,
Dell

Dell Sherk, PBS BX

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From: pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org]
On Behalf Of Ellen Watrous
Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 5:05 PM
To: Pacific Bulb Society
Subject: Re: [pbs] Pacific BX 230

Hi Dell,

Please send me

1. Lilium humboldtii

Thanks!

Ellen Watrous
3334 NW Covey Run
Corvallis, OR 97330

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From: "Dell Sherk" <ds429@comcast.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 8:34 AM
To: "'Pacific Bulb Society'" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>; "'Roger Macfarlane'"
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Craig" <CathyCraigEA@hotmail.com>
Subject: [pbs] Pacific BX 230

Dear All,

The items listed below have been donated by our members to be
shared.

If you are interested in obtaining some of them, please email me
PRIVATELY
at <ds429@comcast.net>. Include "BX 230" in the subject line.

Specify the NUMBERS of the items which you would like; do not
specify quantities. It is a good idea to include your snail mail address,
too, in case I don't already have it. Availability is based on a first
come,
first served system. When you receive your seeds/bulbs you will find,
included with them, a statement of how much money (usually $2.00/item)
(cash, check, or Pay Pal to <Arnold140@verizon.net>; no money orders,
please) you should send the PBS treasurer to defray our costs for packing
and first-class, priority-mail, or international postage.

PLEASE NOTE: NEW POSTAL-RATE SCHEMES NECESSITATE OUR PLACING A SURCHARGE
ON
EACH ORDER FROM PBS BX OFFERINGS.

Some of you are members of the online PBS discussion forum but are not
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If you would like to donate seeds or bulbs/corms to the
PBS,(Donors
will receive credit on the BX for the cost of postage for their
donations.),
please send CLEAN, clearly labeled plant materials to:

Dell Sherk
6832 Phillips Mill Rd.
New Hope, PA, 18938
USA

Non US donors should contact me for instructions before sending seeds.

I WILL REPLY TO YOU WITHIN 24 HRS OF MY RECEIPT OF YOUR ORDER.
IF YOU DO NOT HEAR FROM ME, TRY AGAIN !!

From Nhu Nguyen: (SEEDS)

1. Lilium humboldtii
2. Nerine sarniensis - hybrid seeds of mixed parentage of white, striped
pink, and carmine red

From Eric Duma: (SEEDS)

3. Lilium leucanthum OP
4. Lilium henryi OP
5. Purple Trumpet Voluntaire Strain
6. Orange Trumpet Voluntaire Strain
7. Griesbach Tetraploid Asiatic Lilium Orange X Orange

From Gary Meltzer:

8. Seed of Tacca leontopetaloides

From Jan Agoston (SEEDS):

9. Iris graminea
10. Iris lactaea var chrysantha
11. Iris ochroleuca ssp gigantean
12. Cyclamen coum
13. Cyclamen hederifolium
14. Belamcanda chinensis hybs
15. Polygonatum latifolium
16. Hosta plantaginea

Thank you, Nhu, Eric, Gary, and Jan !!

Best wishes,
Dell

Dell Sherk, PBS BX

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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:44:10 -0500
From: "Jay Yourch" <jyourch@nc.rr.com>
Subject: [pbs] Candy Lilies Iris x norrisii - 2
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Jim,

I've not grown I. dichotoma or its hybrids with I. domestica, but I've had tremendous
success with I. domestica here in central North Carolina. My favorite is the
compact, yellow flowered 'Hello Yellow', a plant that's been so prolific with flowers
and seeds that I now have large patches that produce so many seeds that I'm able to
send them to seed exchanges in large quantities. I wouldn't consider the plant weedy
because the seedlings don't usually germinate far from the parent plants and are
easily dug, and relocated or shared with others, if one has too many. It's been very
adaptable in my garden, growing and flowering well in both moist and dry soils, full
sun or partial shade. The only troubles I've had are deer nibbling on the flower
buds, they don't favor its leaves, and voles destroying plants by eating the crowns,
but they also seem to prefer other plants. I'd like to try a pink flowered form of
I. domestica as well as the jewel toned hybrids if I can locate plants or seeds.

Regards,

Jay Yourch
Raleigh, North Carolina
Zone 7b

Jim Waddick wrote:

Iris domestica (Belamcanda) has a wide distribution from
India through China to Japan and beyond. It has naturalized in parts
of Missouri and you can run across patches at old homesteads and in
open woodlands. Plants seem long lived.

Iris dichotoma has a much smaller natural range in NE China,
to adjacent parts of Russia to N. Japan. It is a plant of open
grasslands. I saw a vast expanse of this plant on a treeless plain of
Inner Mongolia fully exposed to sun, snow and passing herds.

It is very interesting to hear about the difficulties some
people seem to have growing these species and hybrids or having long
term success. Here both parents seem fairly easy and quick form seed.

It is also disappointing to hear that 'muddy colors' seem to
predominate in at least some sources today. I recall the bright jewel
like tones of early seedlings.

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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:58:55 -0600
From: James Waddick <jwaddick@kc.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [pbs] unknown Iris
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Looks like a Japanese iris to me, for sure.

Dennis in snowy Cincinnati

I agree wikth Dennis. 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 +

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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 06:06:09 -0600 (CST)
From: aclyburn17@verizon.net
Subject: Re: [pbs] Candy Lilies
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Some five years ago, my Hubby helped me dig and then plant a small
flowerbed. The first plants I planted in it were Candy Lilies which I
bought from Parks and a few of these are still alive though most
lasted only about four years.

Candy Lilies seem to love Indiana's hot, dry summers and Indiana's
heavy clay soil. (I'm in zone 5B here in Terre Haute.)
Mine have done well for me with very little care. They bloomed
dependably every late summer while they lived and then set seed in
fairsized amounts. Some of these seed even managed to produce a few
volunteer seedlings which are beginning to bloom for me.
The only thing about them that disappointed me was that Park only sent
me reds and one orange and one yellow.

Seems to me that I remember reading in the lazy S'S Nursery website
that they were breeding Candy Lilies and they had a few pictures up.
If I remember correctly, he had a very pretty purple one that I'm
thinking about buying this spring.

Sincerely,
Anita Clyburn
Terre Haute, Indiana
(812) 877-4122
Zone 5B and heavy clay.

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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:33:09 +0100
From: "Robert-E. Brasseur" <r.e.brasseur@scarlet.be>
Subject: [pbs] Mailing list
To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
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Dear list manager,

Some months ago I had some problems identifying a strange Hippeastrum hybrid and made contacts with PBS in search for help. I got the help and simultanuously I got into your mailing list. I now realise that I am not that much involved in bulb collection as to justify the large amount of mail I receive every day. So please write me off the list. Thanks in advance.

Best wishes for 2010!

Robert-E. Brasseur

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Message: 7
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:30:39 -0600
From: James Waddick <jwaddick@kc.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [pbs] Candy Lilies Iris x norrisii - 2
To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
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Jay Yourch wrote:

"I've had tremendous success with I. domestica here in
central North Carolina. My favorite is the
compact, yellow flowered 'Hello Yellow'"

" I'm able to send them to seed exchanges in large quantities. "

Dear friends,
Yes Jay has been generous and sent some of his seed to the
SIGNA Seed Exchange this year. We also have seed of both wild and
garden origin seed of both I domestica and I dichotoma. We also have
some choice Other Irids - many bulbous. The seed list goes to members
of SIGNA first, the is published on the web. I'll announce it here as
soon as I can, but it is days if not weeks away.

If I am lucky we'll even have some mixed Candy Lily (x
norrisii) seed on the web as a Late Arrival. I'm looking forward to
that one myself.

Thanks for all the comments. 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 +

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