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 209" in the subject line.
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If you would like to donate seeds or bulbs/corms to the PBS,(Donors
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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.
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DO NOT HEAR FROM ME, TRY AGAIN !!
From Tom Mitchell:
SEED: (some limited)
1. Colchicum sp. , ex. Italy
2. Crocus sp., ex. Montenegro
3. Corydalis sp. aff. cava, ex Italy
4. Anemone hortensis, ex Italy
5. Anemone nemorosa, ex Croatia
From University of California Botanical Gardens, Berkeley:
6. Seed of Crinum bulbispermum, open-pollinated, probably with C. macowanii
7. Seed of Hippeastrum pratense (Rhodophiala pratensis)
From Mary Sue Ittner:
8. Small corms of Freesia alba, " This naturalizes in coastal Northern
California, but probably isn't very hardy. Nicely fragrant. These are
smaller cormlets forming on the top of the plants so that when I pull out
the old leaves I sometimes get these in my hand too. There is an outside
chance that there could be a Sparaxis offset since they look very similar
and I'm pulling out those dried out leaves too, but I tried to concentrate
on the Freesia leaves."
9. Pelargonium dipetalum - originally grown from seed from Silverhill Seeds,
this is mostly evergreen for me although the leaves die back a bit in
summer. Ernie says new plants can be grown from any piece of the tuberous
roots. Some species make strings of tuberous roots, sort of like sausage
links strung together that can be separated and individually grown on into
plants. I've sent Dell a lot of these so some of you could have fun trying
this to see if it works. Interesting to see on the wiki that David's plants
in the UK bloom from February to April as mine are just starting to bloom.
The leaves in this pot died back without bloom, but when I dumped it out,
the roots look fine. I planted one out last year and it is doing fine so
plan to plant the rest of them in the ground this year. Since this is a
species from the southern Cape it is probably tolerant of year round water.
Fine as a container plant:
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…
petalum
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…
petalum
From Ken Blackford:
10. Seed of Scadoxus puniceus natalensis, " The mother plants were all seed
grown by me from a single bulb I purchased from Rancho Soledad Nursery in
San Diego County, CA ... about 2003. I had just a few blooms last year and
a pretty good display this year, which I suspect accounts for the seed
production."
From Corina Rieder:
11. Seed of Bomarea caldasii
12. Bulbs of Polyxena (Lachenalia) longituba, white, blooming size
From Jim Shields:
13. Seed of Crinum bulbispermum, ex hort
14. Seed of Hymenocallis graminifolia (few)
15. Seed of Hymenocallis phalangides (few)
16. Seed of Hymenocallis guerreroensis
From Roy Herold:
SEEDS:
17. Massonia pustulata, dark purple leaves when emerging, ex Doutt, only a
few.
18. Massonia echinata ex Mesa
19. Massonia sp ex Addo, pretty sure it's hirsuta, very different from any
other massonia. Seed pods are tiny compared to pustulata or echinata, with a
fraction of the seeds. Ex Steve Hammer.
20. Massonia pustulata (formerly depressaish, depustupressalata, etc)
21. Androcymbium dregei
22. Polyxena longituba
23. Pelargonium appendiculatum, as above.
24. Pelargonium barklyi, blooms in 9 months from seed, ex BX152/MSI.
25. Ornithogalum sp, yellow and green flowers. Pretty sure it's suaveolens
per the wiki pic, a new favorite for me. Ex BX173-8/Martin.
26. Albuca sp De Rust.
27. Albuca sp Uniondale, short, 1 or 2 flowers per plant
28. Albuca sp N Calitzdorp, 12-18", 8-12 flowers, husky plants, leaves ~1"
wide at base, clasping.
29. Albuca sp Volmoed (the one near Oudtshoorn). Short, ~6 flowers per
plant.
30. Small bulb, bulbine like, grassy foliage, yellow flower, somewhere in
the Little Karoo.
31. Bulbine sp? Rooiloop. 6" pencil shaped leaves, 1/4" dia, lt green.
32. Asclepiad vine De Rust, bright red flowers, scrambles over shrubs.
Sorry if it's not a geophyte...
Thank you, Tom, UCBG, Mary Sue, Ken, Corina, Jim and Roy !!
Best wishes,
Dell
Dell Sherk, PBS BX