Hi again Hans, This is really sick more than 100vbUSD for 25 seeds of Worsleya! Look here: http://cgi.ebay.com/Worsleya-procera-seeds-RARE_W0… Best Tomas 1 jun 2009 kl. 19.21 skrev pbs-request@lists.ibiblio.org: > Send pbs mailing list submissions to > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > pbs-request@lists.ibiblio.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > pbs-owner@lists.ibiblio.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of pbs digest..." > > > List-Post:<mailto:pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > List-Archive:<http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: What's Blooming Oregon (Robin Hansen) > 2. Thalictrum tuberosum; was RE: What's Blooming Oregon > (Jim McKenney) > 3. Re: What's Blooming Oregon--Robin (Kenneth Hixson) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 07:17:54 -0700 > From: "Robin Hansen" <hansennursery@coosnet.com> > Subject: Re: [pbs] What's Blooming Oregon > To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> > Message-ID: <ACD501BBC4144704A9AD513D231336E9@homed4aec9b2d8> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Ken and others, > > Do you find that Camas leichtlinii, white form, generally blooms > later than the blue? Mine (single) is just now blooming and the > flowers are huge and beautiful, but my other camas are nearly over. > Seems like this happened last year also. > > Triteleia grandiflora howellii is blooming as is T hyacinthina and > some of the others in this group. Allium hyalinum is blooming > also. The May-June-July bloom is much appreciated at this time of > year. > > What has surprised me though is how long Iris douglasiana has been > blooming, at least a month. This is a large clump recently planted, > and looks as though it has enough buds to continue for several weeks > yet. > > Is anyone familiar with Thalictrum tuberosum? Raised from seed, it > is blooming for the first time. The flowers are large, 5/8" or more > and creamy white with yellow stamens on a plant that is maybe 4" at > the moment. I can't seem to find much information and am hoping > someone can tell me whether it's small enough for a shady trough. > > Robin Hansen > Southwest Oregon and yet another foggy day, but warm > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 10:41:10 -0400 > From: "Jim McKenney" <jimmckenney@jimmckenney.com> > Subject: [pbs] Thalictrum tuberosum; was RE: What's Blooming Oregon > To: "'Pacific Bulb Society'" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> > Message-ID: <000501c9e2c7$02a72ed0$2f01a8c0@Library> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Robin, take a look at this link: > > http://telegraph.co.uk/gardening/howtogrow/… > m.html > > Jim McKenney > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:24:09 -0700 > From: Kenneth Hixson <khixson@nu-world.com> > Subject: Re: [pbs] What's Blooming Oregon--Robin > To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> > Message-ID: <4A23F299.4070505@nu-world.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Robin >> Do you find that Camas leichtlinii, white form, generally blooms >> later than the blue? > > First, the double cream camas is probably a double form > of Camassia leichtlinii ssp leichtlinii, the cream camas that is > native > around Roseburg, Oregon. You can see it in bloom in the medium of the > I-5 freeway, starting about twenty miles north of Roseburg, and along > side roads, etc. There is a white form of Camassia leichtlinii ssp > suksdorfii, and you will see it mixed at random in a large enough > population of the blue flowers, flowering at the same time as the > blue. > Some populations have several whites, some have none at all. > The cream camas flowers in late April around Roseburg, and probably > about the same time here, meaning the double cream is later than the > type and ssp. suksdorfii. If you buy bulbs of the white form, what > you get all too often is the cream, not white. Assuming you don't > get the blue ssp. suksdorfii, which is what I've received when I > ordered > the white form. I haven't heard of a white form of C. leichtlinii > ssp. leichtlinii, but it's certainly possible. Or, is it? As nearly > as I can determine, the only difference between ssp leichtlinii and > ssp suksdorfii is flower color--and flower color is usually not a > very acceptable definitive characteristic to botanists. > >> What has surprised me though is how long Iris douglasiana has been >> blooming, at least a month. > Iris douglasiana is a variable species, and some forms bloom > early, and are nearly finished, while one received as "late > douglasiana" > only started in the last week. One of the reasons that I. douglasiana > is used so much in hybridizing is that it has branched flower spikes > with multiple flowers per stem, unlike many of the other pacific coast > Iris. I'm still trying to establish "Mini Ma" seedlings, which I've > found rather tender. Mini Ma struggles to reach 6" high, but > seedlings > vary, almost seeming to be hardier the taller they get. > > Ken > > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > > > End of pbs Digest, Vol 77, Issue 2 > **********************************