For those of you near the SF Bay Area, we have an enormous Brunsvigia josephine coming into bloom this week at the UC Botanical Garden; it should be fully opened in the next few days. I've noticed that the giant bulbs (larger than footballs) tend to split to form mutliple bulbs but may initially miss a bloom when they first do this. We've also had our first B. marginata bloom this past week and its trully spectacular. Paul Licht, Director Univ. California Botanical Garden 200 Centennial Drive Berkeley, CA 94720 (510)-643-8999 http://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/ pbs-request@lists.ibiblio.org wrote: > 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: Mystery Irid (Tom Mitchell) > 2. Re: Pacific Coast lily species (totototo@telus.net) > 3. off topic, Ruellia question (Dennis Kramb) > 4. Pacific Coast lily seeds (Kathleen Sayce) > 5. bulb growing (anthony matthews) > 6. Re: bulb growing (Pacific Rim) > 7. Re: Cryptostephanus blooming now? (Lee Poulsen) > 8. Re: bulb growing (anthony matthews) > 9. Re: bulb growing (Diane Whitehead) > 10. Amorphophallus titanum (Myke Ashley-Cooper) > 11. Re: Amorphophallus titanum (Albert Huntington) > 12. Re: Amorphophallus titanum (Myke Ashley-Cooper) > 13. Re: off topic, Ruellia question (Jim McKenney) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 19:00:14 +0100 > From: Tom Mitchell <tom@evolution-plants.com> > Subject: Re: [pbs] Mystery Irid > To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > Message-ID: > <25C28ED4-BF64-4EFF-B724-A6C24C97D4EC@evolution-plants.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > > As several others have suggested, I agree that the plant is a > Crocosmia. It looks like a form of C. aurea or C. masoniorum or > perhaps a cross between the two, of which there are several good > examples, e.g. 'Comet'. the book to consult is Crocosmia and > Chasmanthe by Goldblatt, Manning and Dunlop. Gary Dunlop owns > Ballyrogan Nurseries in Northern Ireland and probably knows more > about this genus in cultivation than anyone. His email address (which > isn't a State secret, since you can readily find it via Google) is > gary.dunlop[at]btinternet.com. He may be able to put a name on it for > you. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 11:55:16 -0700 > From: totototo@telus.net > Subject: Re: [pbs] Pacific Coast lily species > To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> > Message-ID: <4AA10024.21493.2AF0510@localhost> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > On 3 Sep 2009, at 19:35, info@auchgourishbotanicgarden.org wrote: > > >> Could anyone suggest an individual or nursery ... able and willing to >> supply ... seed or bulbs of three different wild origin provenances of >> botanical lilium taxa native to the Pacific coastal region of North America... >> > > Your message is, I am afraid, unclear. Are you looking for specific lily taxa, > specific locations, specific lilies from specific locations, or any old lily > from any three distinct locations? > > If you are interested in specific taxa, what are they? If specific locations, > where are they? > > >