Hi Mary Sue, your reference to, 'Babiana doesn't seem to be a genus with a lot of followers', piqued my interest. I am a true novice but during the last nine months or so I have managed to procure corms or in some cases seed for the following: Babiana ambigua, disticha, leipoldtii, melanops, nana, odorata, patersoniae, purpurea, sambucina, and vanziliae. I Live in Yorkshire in the UK (zone 7/8), and I am endeavouring to grow these in pots under glass. (conservatory). Any advice you could give would be much appreciated. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Sue Ittner" <msittner@mcn.org> To: <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 6:14 PM Subject: [pbs] Babiana and Spiloxene on the wiki > Hi, > > It always fascinates me that so many of the off topic subjects on this > list > draw more responses than those on topic. > > Before the wiki went down last week I had spent a couple of months working > on the Babiana wiki pages, adding a lot of information and pictures and > trying to figure out a lot of species we saw from location and the Babiana > revision. In the revision there were 23 new combinations, names, species, > and statuses so this was quite a task. Babiana doesn't seem to be a genus > with a lot of followers, no doubt because it can't be grown in colder > areas. Still, I hope some of you will take the time to look at what I've > done and let me know about corrections or if you can identify some of the > species that I gave up on listed under Babiana sp. Babiana is a genus in > northern California that can be grown in the ground (at least some > species) > and if you grow a number of different species they will be in bloom a long > time. > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… > > The other genus I also added new species and new pictures to is Spiloxene. > I got a little carried away with Spiloxene capensis, but there are just so > many forms of this one that I wanted to give a sense of that. We saw one > on > Lion's Head that had a blue center, quite striking. You can't tell these > differences from the thumbnails. Spiloxene capensis multiplies rapidly for > me and Spiloxene serrata very little. The latter is a species that starts > to bloom in winter and will keep on blooming if it has conditions it > likes. > Since we have had less rain this year it has been blooming more than it > usually does. I also had some interesting pictures of what seemed to be > natural hybrids, but didn't get around to adding them and now all those > kinds of things need to wait until we figure out if and how we can fix the > wiki so it will last. > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… > > I know I can't compete with culinary matters, but I hope some of you will > look at the pictures. > > Mary Sue > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > > > > E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (6.0.0.386) > Database version: 5.11720 > http://pctools.com/uk/spyware-doctor-antivirus/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com/ Version: 8.0.233 / Virus Database: 270.10.20/1943 - Release Date: 02/10/09 07:20:00 E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (6.0.0.386) Database version: 5.11720 http://pctools.com/uk/spyware-doctor-antivirus/ E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (6.0.0.386) Database version: 5.11730 http://pctools.com/uk/spyware-doctor-antivirus/