Kipp, Thanks for the heads up I'm sure many will be watching for Dell's announcement. Karl Church Dinuba, CA On Sep 3, 2014 10:28 AM, "Kipp McMichael" <kimcmich@hotmail.com> wrote: > Greetings, > Linguistic argumentation aside, I have also been busy collecting seeds > this summer and just dropped a few nice items in the mail for an upcoming > PBX. > 1) A very deep red form on Brunsvigia josephinae - the mother bulb was > selfed to produce seeds on 2(!) bloom stems this season. > 2) Three species of wild-collected Calochortus including weedii (var > intermedius) and clavatus (var clavatus) and fimbriatus. > 3) The most intriguing seed comes from the otherwise common Calochortus > luteus. This seed is from rescued bulbs discovered in a couch-sized area of > serpentine soil on a slope that was set for excavation for a new house > (sadly, this was the second to last population of this species in San > Francisco). I carefully sifted the soil of 1000s of Oxalis pes-caprae bulbs > to find a handful each of bulbs of C. lueteus, Brodia terrestris and > Dichelostemma capitatum. Many of these bulbs were transferred to a habitat > restoration organization in San Francisco, but the few I kept for myself > were the only Calochortus to bloom for me this year and they made copious > seed. > -|<ipp > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >