This is obviously not your typical community garden..... Ellen On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Jim McKenney <jamesamckenney@verizon.net> wrote: > I visited my community garden plots today for the first time in about a > week. It's about a mile from home. Lots has been happening in my absence. > Today I found these in bloom: Colchicum hungaricum, Crocus chrysanthus > 'Uschak Orange' and a nice assortment of reticulate irises (these seem to > be thriving there). Fritillaria are popping up in numbers. F. persica is > about four inches up out of the ground, I can see flower buds on F. > bucharica, a teacup-sized dome of foliage of F. thunbergii is up, two forms > of F. sewerzowii are pushing up thick red noses, and frits in general are > on the move. Eremurus are just barely up above ground. Anemone blanda has > buds, but they are still hanging downward and none has bloomed yet.Arilate > and juno irises are rapidly greening up and raising great > expectations. Lots of gaps among the tulips and crocuses: these gaps are > explained by the fat rat I spotted today scurrying around in our plots. The > rats have evidently learned to recognize the plastic mesh pots as a > potential food source. They will go down a line of pots emptying one after > another.Does anyone know if the Dutch have switched to a newer clone of > Iris danfordiae in recent years? The ones I have now have bloomed reliably > for four years in a row. > Jim McKenneyMontgomery County, Maryland, USA, USDA zone 7, where last week > a friend gave me a tray of six potted collectible snowdrops. > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ -- Ellen Hornig 212 Grafton St Shrewsbury MA 01545