Andrew thanks for the information. I will stop watering the ones with blooms now. Some of mine that had already gone dormant and did not bloom are in pots inside the house. I have a few that are winter dormant and they are on a shaded porch. Marie Sunny Hot Arizona > From: awilson@avonia.com > To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 08:00:38 -0700 > Subject: Re: [pbs] Bulbous pelargoniums > > Marie, Thanks! > > Pushing out bloom stocks is what they are meant to do now. You think the > plants have gone dormant in April or early May, depending on the year and > the location. Only after that has finished does the real action take place! > Do not water them after they have started to throw up the bloom shoots. They > do this out in the Karoo and in northern Namaqualand, beautiful flowers > above totally bare rock and soil. > > In sunny, hot Arizona, as you put it, they should do great. If you have them > in pots I would recommend keeping them partly shaded in summer to prevent > the pots getting to 180 F - which they can. In the ground they are perfect > in full sun as the soil temperature drops rapidly even 0.5 inches below the > surface. Adding pebbles, as in nature, accomplishes this. > > Whenever the Wiki gets back to normal I may add some more shots. Alberto > (off line on account of site matters) asked for shots to show leaves. I > cannot show both flowers and leaves together. Now you know why. > > Andrew > San Diego > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] > On Behalf Of Denise Marie Ortiz > Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 7:22 AM > To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > Subject: Re: [pbs] Bulbous pelargoniums > > > Andrew great pictures. I just started growing some of these this past year. > I had a new order come in of some that should have been going dormant about > now but instead are sending up bloom stocks. > > Marie > Suny Hot Arizona > > > From: awilson@avonia.com > > To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > > Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 22:57:01 -0700 > > Subject: [pbs] Bulbous pelargoniums > > > > In this delightfully cool year, spring has lasted an amazing length of > time. > > The tuberous pelargoniums are still in bloom here. They are normally > > late bloomers but this year they have lasted longer than normal. If > > you go to > > http://flickr.com/photos/andrewrmw/… > > box/ you'll see P. triandrum and if you go to > > http://flickr.com/photos/andrewrmw/… > > box/ you'l see P. caroli-henrici, a personal favorite. > > > > Andrew > > San Diego > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/ > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/