it's great to hear what you have blooming, and would be useful information if you included your zone - everyone who writes. you may have in the past but we may not be able to keep those zones and names in our heads. thanks robin carrier ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Sue Ittner" <msittner@mcn.org> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 11:05 PM Subject: Re: [pbs] What's blooming week of 16 January > It looks like it is getting colder and we'll finally have some rain. > Something is eating the leaves of some of my plants too. It could be > the birds who are busy planting sunflower seeds, millet, and tanoak > acorns in my pots and removing the tags, but yesterday and today we > saw something scurry across the deck and I think it's the chipmunk > who we thought had relocated this summer after we secured where it > was living in the wood box. > > So here's what has been blooming in coastal northern California. > Oxalis purpurea (all the leaves on the purple one in one pot are now > gone, do you suppose purple leaves taste better than green), Oxalis > obtusa, Oxalis versicolor, Oxalis luteola, Haemanthus deformis (a bit > past its prime), Haemanthus paucifolius, Triteleia hycinthina (a > short form with only a short dormancy and a long bloom), Calochortus > uniflorus, Cyclamen coum, Cyclamen pseuibericum, Narcissus romieuxii > var. zaianicus, Tropaeolum tricolor, Nothoscordum montevidensa, > Gladiolus priorii, Canarina canariensis, Allium hyalinum, and most > strangely of all in the greenhouse, xHippeastrelia, Kniphofia uvaria, > Iris unguicularis, Orthrosanthus chimboracensis > > We were out hiking last week and we saw a lot of naturalized > Narcissus, Iris douglasiana (none blooming in my garden yet), and > Allium triquetrum (which we call Allium pestum), Oxalis pes-caprae > and by the roadside we saw some kind of Chasmanthe in bloom as well. > > Having all these sunny days with warmer temperatures during the day > has probably contributed to having some of these bloom earlier or > longer. It looks also like Moraea tricolor might have bloomed and I > missed it. I hope that it will bloom again. > > Mary Sue > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >