Nan, thanks for your comments. I, too, have only thought of them in terms of rat control. I'll put aside thoughts of blue flowers. -Cynthia Mueller Sent from my iPhone On Sep 9, 2013, at 8:35 AM, "Nan Sterman" <TalkingPoints@PlantSoup.Com> wrote: > I've never seen blue fowered Urginea, Cynthia, but I've only seen them grown in California. It could be that there are blue fowered varieties in their native habitat - though if there were, I would think they would be grown in agriculture for cut flowers as well. They were brought to the US to be evaluated for use as a rat poison. The agriculture/horticulture use is incidental…. > > Nan > > > On Sep 9, 2013, at 4:14 AM, Cynthia Mueller <cynthiasbulbs@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> Nan, I have always thought Urginea marit. came in both white and blue flowers. I do have blue-flowered Scilla peruviana. -Cynthia Mueller >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Sep 8, 2013, at 5:54 PM, "Nan Sterman" <TalkingPoints@PlantSoup.Com> wrote: >> >>> Are you talking about Scilla peruviana? >>> >>> On Sep 8, 2013, at 10:43 AM, Cynthia Mueller <cynthiasbulbs@hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Nan, do you know where a person could purchase a blue-flowered squill? -Cynthia Mueller >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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/ > > _______________________________________________ > 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/