Sharing seeds of rare plants/GMOs

Sharing seeds of rare plants/GMOs
penstemon (Thu, 13 Nov 2014 17:21:38 PST)

One genetic modification I would love to see is one that would turn the
Cape bulb flora into summer growing flora, we'd have such interesting
gardens here in the northeast if that was the case. Many summer growing S
African bulbs are perfectly hardy here, and that would likely be the case
with Cape geophytes if they didn't put their leaves up in winter.

Yes, but then you would have all these geophytes adapted to growing leaves
in dry conditions. Gardens in the northeast would be mostly covered in
plastic, for which "interesting" might not be the right description.
The summer growers are mostly hardy here, too, but water hogs, so banished
from the garden. Sigh.

Bob Nold
Denver, Colorado