bulb growing
Pacific Rim (Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:23:20 PDT)

Hello, Anthony. Good heavens, you live in my bailiwick but I was not aware
of you until now.

Both Narcissus and Lilium are genera broad enough to encompass several
climates and many,.many recipes for propagation. All bulbs I have met are
canny: smite theory and produce at least a few first-year thread leaves
under almost any conditions.

PBS readers at large: Salt Spring Island, aka Saltspring, is one of the Gulf
Islands between Vancouver Island and the SW coast of British Columbia.
Members of the same archipelago south of the border, off Washington State,
are called the San Juan islands.

Some of you are probably aware of at least two excellent growers of uncommon
perennials and bulbs on Salt Spring, one out of business for several years,
the other Thimble Farms, http://www.thimblefarms.com/ .

I would not consider growing both Narcissus and Lilium in quantity. Their
demands are too different. You would have neither holidays nor efficiency.

Not that I can boast either.

Paige Woodward
paige@hillkeep.ca
http://www.hillkeep.ca/

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