Re: H. amancaes, not surprising that it's tricky --considering its native provenance in coastal sand in Peru. ----- Original Message ----- From: "J.E. Shields" <jshields@indy.net> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2010 5:16 PM Subject: Re: [pbs] Sulphur Queen > Also, I found amancaes much trickier to grow than longipetala, Advance, > Festalis, Pax, and Suphur Queen. > > Jim Shields > > > > At 04:37 PM 7/3/2010 -0500, you wrote: >>re. H. amancaes. It is apparently limited to a small area in Peru in the >>wild and may not be being propagated by many growers. Seeds are not >>currently avaialable from B & T world seeds. >> >> >>----- Original Message ----- From: "David Ehrlich" <idavide@sbcglobal.net> >>To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> >>Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2010 3:13 PM >>Subject: [pbs] Sulphur Queen >> >> >>I don't know why Google/Picasa URLs are so complicated. Here is a photo of >>my >>Sulphur Queen (taken some years ago) You can see it has a very pleasant >>shape, >>and actually the color's not bad, just not really to my taste. >> >>I would be happy with Ismene amancaes; I don't know why it's impossible to >>obtain. >> >> >>http://lh4.ggpht.com/_a1lW2azOWtE/TC6fKyXaxAI/… >> >> >>David E. >>_______________________________________________ >>pbs mailing list >>pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >>http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >>http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >>_______________________________________________ >>pbs mailing list >>pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >>http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >>http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > > ************************************************* > 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/
