Finishing up bloom here in Shrewsbury, MA is Gladiolus mortonius, which I never dreamed would overwinter here (zone 5b or 6). It's only been one winter, and we did have good snow cover, so time will tell; but I was very surprised when the clump I'd planted came up this year, and a few weeks ago it bloomed heavily. Superficially it looks somewhat like G. oppositiflorus - same color - but in the garden, longer and laxer flower spikes and foliage (and of course there are lots of other technical differences - they aren't closely related). It'll be interesting to see if it's there a year from now. Ellen On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 9:53 AM, M. Gastil-Buhl <gastil.buhl@gmail.com>wrote: > In mid-October most of my bulb garden is bare but a few recent > acquisitions are currently in bloom. The Hyacinthoides lingulata > opened its first blooms yesterday morning, a month after the leaves > emerged, just as predicted on the wiki page > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… > The Oxalis livida from PBS BX 318#25 made only leaves last year but > this year flowers precede the leaves. It has been blooming now for > about a week. Mine looks just like the one on the wiki: > > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… > And the Oxalis "fragrans" from Telos has doubled in its tiny pot to > make a fragrant bouquet, although I only get to see it on weekends as > it opens late afternoon and early evening. I keep it on the porch to > stop and inhale on every trip in and out of the house. > > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… > > My own photos of these blooms from the past week are here: > http://flickr.com/photos/gastils_garden/… > > It is nice to have some bulbs in bloom during this digging and re- > planting time. > > - Gastil > Santa Barbara, approximately zone 9b or 10a > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > -- Ellen Hornig 212 Grafton St Shrewsbury MA 01545 508-925-5147