Dear All,
Around Denton, TX where I lived for six years, the outlines of old homesteads are delineated with persisisting Muscari neglectum, Rhodophiala bifida, Lycoris radiata, Narcissus jonquilla, and a few other types of Narcissus. There were also clumps of Cooperia pedunculata at these sites, which were farther north than that species normally grows I think. Many of these places have been lost since the 1990s as undeveloped gaps in the urban landscape are filled in.
Shawn Pollard
Yuma, AZ
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From: Kathleen Sayce <ksayce@willapabay.org>
To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Sat, February 6, 2010 4:25:59 PM
Subject: [pbs] old homestead bulbs
My question is this: along with daffodils and Hyacinthoides, what
other winter-spring flowering bulbs are likely to persist and thrive,
decades after planting? Which crocus, tulips, etc, are truly
survivors that outlast their gardens?
Kathleen