What's blooming now - week of Sept 3, 2011
Ken (Sun, 04 Sep 2011 11:41:01 PDT)

I was visiting the LA County Arboretum (Arcadia, CA) and the Huntington Botanical Gardens (San Marino, near Pasadena, CA) this weekend and encountered the following bulbs in bloom:

Drimia (Urginea) maritima:

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Amaryllis belladonna and hybrids:

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Callostemma purpurea:

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Lycoris aurea (?) :

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Haemanthus coccineus:

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and not blooming, but in full growth, Ammocharis coranica:

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And many other non-geophytes of horticultural interest !

Ken Blackford
San Diego