Dear All,
The items listed below have been donated by our members to be shared.
If you are interested in obtaining some of them, please email me PRIVATELY
at <ds429@comcast.net>. Include "BX 259" in the subject line.
Specify the NUMBERS of the items which you would like; do not
specify quantities. It is a good idea to include your snail mail address,
too, in case I don't already have it. Availability is based on a first come,
first served system. When you receive your seeds/bulbs you will find,
included with them, a statement of how much money (usually $2.00/item)
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If you would like to donate seeds or bulbs/corms to the PBS,(Donors
will receive credit on the BX for the cost of postage for their donations.),
please send CLEAN, clearly labeled plant materials to:
Dell Sherk
6832 Phillips Mill Rd.
New Hope, PA, 18938
USA
Non US donors should contact me for instructions before sending seeds.
I WILL REPLY TO YOU WITHIN 24 HRS OF MY RECEIPT OF YOUR ORDER.
IF YOU DO NOT HEAR FROM ME, TRY AGAIN !!
BULBS:
1. Hesperantha baurii- summer grower, pink flowers
2. Ferraria crispa - winter growing, I think this is the variety northii
SEED:
3. Calochortus argillosus
4. Calochortus Mariposa hybrids - open pollinated and collected from several
plants
5. Calydorea amabilis -- summer-fall blooming, short lived flowers, but
produces them over a long time, short dormancy
6. Chlorogalum pomeridianum- the Indians used the root of this one to make
soap, wavy leaves, tiny star-like flowers that open in the late afternoon
and close the next day, can spread a bit by seed
7. Geissorhiza leopoldtii- white flowers, this seems to be one of the
easier ones to grow for me
8. Haemanthus humilis- seed from the white one from Cameron McMaster. I
don't know if plants will also be white. Some of the seeds are pink and some
are starting to sprout.
9. Lilium maritimum - native to where I live, pretty red flowers, I'm not
sure how easy it is away from the coastal influences
10. Moraea vegeta - one of the easiest for me to grow in the ground where it
increases dramatically, very low growing. Most of the flowers are brownish,
although occasionally there appear some with bluish flowers.
11. Nerine angustifolia - summer grower, reliable bloomer for me in a
container, much easier than N. bowdenii, which rarely blooms for me
12. Nerine platypetala - summer grower, , reliable bloomer for me in a
container, much easier than N. bowdenii, which rarely blooms for me
13. Pelargonium capillare - not a geophyte, evergreen, short plant, pink
flowers, few seeds. I added a photo temporarily to the wiki of what it looks
like and will take it off later. Original plants grown from Silverhill
Seeds.
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/…
si4.jpg
14. Triteleia bridgesii - one of my favorite Triteleias
15. Watsonia coccinea - shorter plant than some, pretty red flowers, not
every corm blooms reliably each year
From Nhu Nguyen:
16. Rhodophiala advena - peachy pink form with a light green throat. Similar
to the second photo from Osmani Baullosa.
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…
17. Orthrosanthus aff. chimbocarensis - summer growing. These came from my
plant which was grown from seed collected in Chiapas, Mexico. These can be
sown in late fall but they will not sprout until there is some good warm
temperature. They bloom fairly quickly from seeds.
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…
18.Tulbaghia simmleri (Tulbaghia fragrans) - pink form (few)
19. Ledebouria "pauciflora" - offsets from BX166 from Mark Mazer. This one
is slow to pick up but makes very nice fleshy leaves and eventually will
divide very well. http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…
20. Amaryllis belladonna
21. Solenomelus pedunculatus
22. Calochortus venustus (2009, wild collected)
Thank you, Mary Sue and Nhu !!
Best wishes,
Dell
Dell Sherk, PBS BX