I grow them from seeds and this is the depth they choose them themselves I just re-potted them on the same level as they where Also a picture on internet from Kew showed the same growing See: http://kew.org/discover/blogs/… Roland R de Boer 2238 Route de la Maugardiere F 27260 EPAIGNES FRANCE Phone./Fax 0033-232-576-204 Email: bulborum@gmail.com Facebook groups:///https://www.facebook.com/groups/bulborum <https://www.facebook.com/groups/518187888211511/> Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/pages/Bulborum/… 2014-09-24 3:22 GMT+02:00 <arnold140@verizon.net>: > Roland: > > I also picked up a couple of S. maderiensis bulbs. > > There was a bit up purple on the tip of the bulb. > > You image on the Facebook page show the neck and shoulders of the bulb > above ground. Is this the recommended planting depth? > > Thanks, > > Arnold > > > On 09/23/14, Bulborum Botanicum wrote: > > Here are mine > https://facebook.com/groups/bulborum/… > Similar flowers has *Scilla natalensis *(which have now > renamed to the new nomenclature Merwilla plumbea) but bulbs are higher as > wide > > Roland > > R de Boer > 2238 Route de la Maugardiere > F 27260 EPAIGNES > FRANCE > > Phone./Fax 0033-232-576-204 > Email: bulborum@gmail.com > Facebook groups:///https://www.facebook.com/groups/bulborum > <https://www.facebook.com/groups/518187888211511/> > Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/pages/Bulborum/… > > 2014-09-24 0:55 GMT+02:00 Jude Haverington <tylus.seklos@gmail.com>: > > > Indeed - as you said, they are big and beautiful - can't wait to see how > > they do. > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Dee Foster <dee@deeandbill.com> wrote: > > > > > Jude, I'm no expert but just tooling around the wiki, nothing else > looks > > > quite like that flower spike, at least not under the Scilla heading. So > > > like you say, if it flowers true, that's all that matters. I've planted > > > some as they recommended, with necks just peeking above the soil, and > > then > > > I planted some with just the bottom inch or so in soil. Time will tell! > > > Fingers crossed! > > > Dee > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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/ >