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/ >