I know someone (really, I do) who kept digging and digging. She eventually had her husband holding onto her feet, and she still didn't get deep enough to find the bulb. John --- On Wed, 8/4/10, Marguerite English <meenglis@meenglis.cts.com> wrote: From: Marguerite English <meenglis@meenglis.cts.com> Subject: Re: [pbs] Hesperocallis undulata To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Date: Wednesday, August 4, 2010, 4:16 PM In its native area (desert) it grows in pure sand and very deep (I once dug down almost 3 ft and still was only seeing stem.) J.E. Shields wrote: > Josh and all, > > I've had one for years. It makes a leaf or two in some years, nothing at all in most years. It has never bloomed, and it may well be dead now -- I have not dumped it out in the last several years. > > I grow it (if that's what you want to call storing it in a dry pot for years at a time without visible growth) in a deep pot in nearly pure sand. It sits outdoors in most summers and gets natural rain. Some years it sits inside the greenhouse for the whole year. > > I clearly don't know how to grow it. > > Jim Shields > in hot, humid, miserable central Indiana > > > At 03:36 PM 8/4/2010 -0700Josh wrote: >> Has anyone been able to keep this plant alive? It is for sure a very >> interesting plant with foliage and bloom interest! > > ************************************************* > Jim Shields USDA Zone 5 Shields Gardens, Ltd. > P.O. Box 92 WWW: http://www.shieldsgardens.com/ > Westfield, Indiana 46074, USA > Tel. ++1-317-867-3344 or toll-free 1-866-449-3344 in USA > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >