Dear esteemed members, in this occasion I must communicate the loss of my dearest friend, botanical colleague and one of the administrators of Planet Botanical Hippeastrum Facebook Group, William Lewis Janetos (Bill Janetos, 62) of Rollins Road, who passed away on Monday, May 25th, 2015 at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover, N.H., with his family by his side. As well as being an extraordinary person, Bill was an avid orchid, Hippeastrum and Crocus horticulturalist. Arrangements were under the direction of Wiggin-Purdy-McCooey-Dion Funeral Home of Dover, N.H. R.I.P [10/17/1952 - 05/25/2015] -------------------------------------------- El mar 26-may-15, pbs-request@lists.ibiblio.org <pbs-request@lists.ibiblio.org> escribió: Asunto: pbs Digest, Vol 148, Issue 18 Para: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org Fecha: martes, 26 de mayo de 2015, 16:17 Send pbs mailing list submissions to pbs@lists.ibiblio.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to pbs-request@lists.ibiblio.org You can reach the person managing the list at pbs-owner@lists.ibiblio.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of pbs digest..." List-Post:<mailto:pbs@lists.ibiblio.org List-Archive:<http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php Today's Topics: 1. from: larryryo@gmail.com (larryryo@gmail.com) 2. Spammer (Bulborum Botanicum) 3. Re: Spammer (David Pilling) 4. New Moraea hybrids, 2015 (Michael Mace) 5. New Moraea Hybrids, 2015 (Pamela Slate) 6. Re: New Moraea hybrids, 2015 (Jim McKenney) 7. Re: New Moraea hybrids, 2015 (Anne McNeil) 8. Re: New Moraea hybrids, 2015 (Karl Church) 9. Fwd: New Moraea Hybrids, 2015 (Pamela Slate) 10. Re: New Moraea hybrids, 2015 (Mark Mazer) 11. Re: New Moraea hybrids, 2015 (a van beek) 12. vinyl blinds as plant tags (was re:///New/ Moraea hybrids, 2015) (Nicholas plummer) 13. vinyl blinds as plant tags (was re:///New/ Moraea hybrids, 2015) (Lamon Ready) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 20:51:05 +0200 From: "larryryo@gmail.com" <larryryo@gmail.com> To: "pbs" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Subject: [pbs] from: larryryo@gmail.com Message-ID: <5371264C-E984-4159-8EC5-9634D1B7FE1C@radioonline.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Salutations pbs http://emmamclaughlan.com/would.php/… larryryo@gmail.com Sent from my iPhone ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 22:11:21 +0200 From: Bulborum Botanicum <bulborum@gmail.com> To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Subject: [pbs] Spammer Message-ID: <CABsCM2q8fYKeGa+9m_m7h27EKeaoVntHuGpaso3mwRQkqcRH2A@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 larryryo@gmail.com is a spammer Roland R de Boer 2238 Route de la Maugardiere F 27260 EPAIGNES FRANCE Phone./Fax 0033-232-576-204 Email: bulborum@gmail.com Facebook Group English :https://www.facebook.com/groups/bulborum/ <https://www.facebook.com/groups/518187888211511/> Facebook Group French : https://www.facebook.com/groups/1454572311501070/ ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 21:25:47 +0100 From: David Pilling <david@pilling.demon.co.uk> To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org Subject: Re: [pbs] Spammer Message-ID: <5563854B.6030106@pilling.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Hi, On 25/05/2015 21:11, Bulborum Botanicum wrote: > larryryo@gmail.com is a spammer Thanks Roland. I've suspended Larry from posting. I suspect his email account has been hacked - long time since we had one of those events. -- David Pilling http://www.davidpilling.com/ ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 15:56:07 -0700 From: "Michael Mace" <michaelcmace@gmail.com> To: <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Subject: [pbs] New Moraea hybrids, 2015 Message-ID: <005401d0973d$fd699a20$f83cce60$@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi, gang. Fair warning -- I am going to talk about hybrids. My Moraea hybridization results for 2015 are now posted online. The highlights for this year include a flower with long black eyelash streaks on the tepals, one that looks a bit like a white-skinned pumpkin, a nice bright orange with pale blue eyes, and (as I mentioned on the list a couple of months ago) what I think may be the first documented Moraea X Homeria cross. If you're interested, you can see photos of my favorites here: http://growingcoolplants.blogspot.com/2015/05/… l If you have trouble with that link, here's a shorter version: http://bit.ly/1LzHzbd/ As for species Moraeas, I spent a lot of time this year trying to puzzle out the difference between Moraea bellendenii and Moraea tricuspidata. According to Goldblatt's book, the main difference is that tricuspidata is white and flat and while bellendenii is yellow and cupped. But what if you have a pale yellow-white one that's sort of cupped? Is it a hybrid or a color variant of one of the species? Supposedly you can tell the difference by measuring the filaments (the little stems that lead to the anthers). But the darned things are only a few millimeters long. Just try shoving a ruler into a tiny little flower. I ended up plucking off some of the stamens so I could measure them, but the stems that i got were shorter than they should be for either species. If anyone can enlighten me, please let me know. It's become hard to find seeds of Moraea species I don't already have, but I did get my first ever flower from Moraea unguiculata, just last week. The flower is ridiculously small -- it would fit on the tip of my finger. After I saw it I realized that the photos I've seen in books are all heavily magnified. Anyway, it was cute, and also notable because it was the first time I've gotten a flower from seeds supplied by rareplants.de. Often their seeds have failed to sprout for me. I'll have some seeds of various species for the BX later this summer, but nothing like the bumper crop that Bob Werra just discussed. Bob, I think you're right, raised beds are the way to go in our part of California! Mike San Jose, CA (zone 9, min temp 20F / -7 C) ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 17:52:11 -0700 From: Pamela Slate <myixia1@gmail.com> To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Subject: [pbs] New Moraea Hybrids, 2015 Message-ID: <CAMmkippN5Lv1OfWj9-nSk1qAyfknC0E71ow1U4vYqWU=wLmf+A@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 VERY interesting and beautiful, Mike! Congratulations! P Slate ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 01:16:53 +0000 (UTC) From: Jim McKenney <jamesamckenney@verizon.net> To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Subject: Re: [pbs] New Moraea hybrids, 2015 Message-ID: <564731957.1978986.1432603013624.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Wow Mike those are exciting.? And here's a question for the group: who else uses those cut down vinyl blinds for plant labels? I've been using them for years.? Jim McKenney ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 20:05:49 -0700 From: Anne McNeil <amcdeubner@gmail.com> To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Subject: Re: [pbs] New Moraea hybrids, 2015 Message-ID: <CAHaZp6GTUfGnBnoxnJQo_h5hWMhVKgVPd1YO_-0S=Wn4D+agFw@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Michael, Stupendous! I love them all but really do like the white one you think is elegant, I think so too. Jim, Great idea about the blinds, I've never used them but shall start! Anne McNeil On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 6:16 PM, Jim McKenney <jamesamckenney@verizon.net> wrote: > Wow Mike those are exciting. > And here's a question for the group: who else uses those cut down vinyl > blinds for plant labels? I've been using them for years. > Jim McKenney > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 20:19:34 -0700 From: Karl Church <64kkmjr@gmail.com> To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Subject: Re: [pbs] New Moraea hybrids, 2015 Message-ID: <CAGquAQiFwaYBtZE-MXJ6E6Tuj19rFPk9ZAej=o-ffsgn31yT7Q@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Been using them for 2 years since being introduced to them when becoming a Master Gardener. Karl On May 25, 2015 6:17 PM, "Jim McKenney" <jamesamckenney@verizon.net> wrote: > Wow Mike those are exciting. > And here's a question for the group: who else uses those cut down vinyl > blinds for plant labels? I've been using them for years. > Jim McKenney > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 22:26:57 -0700 From: Pamela Slate <myixia1@gmail.com> To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Subject: [pbs] Fwd: New Moraea Hybrids, 2015 Message-ID: <CAMmkippC1HyAyWRJ7APm6u2+LV7vuhVqUdaYQs_7d-O0phH1zA@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pamela Slate <myixia1@gmail.com> Date: Mon, May 25, 2015 at 5:52 PM Subject: New Moraea Hybrids, 2015 To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> VERY interesting and beautiful, Mike! Congratulations! P Slate ------------------------------ Message: 10 Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 07:15:56 -0400 From: Mark Mazer <markemazer@gmail.com> To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Subject: Re: [pbs] New Moraea hybrids, 2015 Message-ID: <CAAvPRWvyu+sdfUdegZ+cNf2y2SdBEBkqx94+yyO7TG6dfW_Ehw@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Tom Stuart started me on using vinyl blind labels in the garden decades ago. Mark Mazer Hertford, NC USDA 8a On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 11:19 PM, Karl Church <64kkmjr@gmail.com> wrote: > Been using them for 2 years since being introduced to them when becoming a > Master Gardener. > > Karl > On May 25, 2015 6:17 PM, "Jim McKenney" <jamesamckenney@verizon.net> > wrote: > > > Wow Mike those are exciting. > > And here's a question for the group: who else uses those cut down vinyl > > blinds for plant labels? I've been using them for years. > > Jim McKenney > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/ > ------------------------------ Message: 11 Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 13:48:58 +0200 From: a van beek <avbeek1@hotmail.com> To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Subject: Re: [pbs] New Moraea hybrids, 2015 Message-ID: <BLU436-SMTP42E1D4BE07F3EB3ADDC97DE0CC0@phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; format=flowed The only thing I can add is use a good waterproof marker. Some of them are not so waterproof as claimed as I found out the hard way 2 years after returning from holiday. The person that sold me some succulent pelargoniums wrote the name with a white ink marker on the black plastic pots. He told me that would last for a least 4 years. I'm trying that now also. Aad On 5/26/2015 1:15 PM, Mark Mazer wrote: > Tom Stuart started me on using vinyl blind labels in the garden decades > ago. ------------------------------ Message: 12 Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 14:51:26 -0400 From: Nicholas plummer <nickplummer@gmail.com> To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Subject: [pbs] vinyl blinds as plant tags (was re:///New/ Moraea hybrids, 2015) Message-ID: <CAJQ9fxUknpu7ib6Rms=Reujk52ZeEqXsfMvUSwNWB9ZSqy_+Jg@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 I have some labels cut from old blinds that are still flexible after about 15 years use. However, I always use a No2 (HB) pencil to label my plants. I haven't found any pen that lasts as long as pencil in direct sun. Nick On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 7:48 AM, a van beek <avbeek1@hotmail.com> wrote: The only thing I can add is use a good waterproof marker. Some of them are > not so waterproof as claimed as I found out the hard way 2 years after > returning from holiday. > The person that sold me some succulent pelargoniums wrote the name with a > white ink marker on the black plastic pots. He told me that would last for > a least 4 years. I'm trying that now also. > > Aad > > > ------------------------------ Message: 13 Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 15:17:39 -0400 From: Lamon Ready <lamonready@hotmail.com> To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Subject: [pbs] vinyl blinds as plant tags (was re:///New/ Moraea hybrids, 2015) Message-ID: <COL129-W7583D642338A1F6FF17991C5CC0@phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I started out using soda, etc cans, cut into strips various widths. Start by cutting the bottom off first, then the top. Trim both rough ends with sisscors. Use something that has a slight give to it to place the label on. I usually use a # 2 pencil to write with, using a little pressure. Fold the 'period' end into an arrow for added stiffness to insert into the pot, etc. I sometimes use alum wire stuck through the 'period' end to loosely wrap around a small branch, etc. I have used the blinds / a # 2 pencil the last 2 years, but am planning on reverting back to my orginal alum. ones. > I have some labels cut from old blinds that are still flexible after about > 15 years use. However, I always use a No2 (HB) pencil to label my > plants. I haven't found any pen that lasts as long as pencil in direct sun. > > Nick > > On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 7:48 AM, a van beek <avbeek1@hotmail.com> wrote: > > The only thing I can add is use a good waterproof marker. Some of them are > > not so waterproof as claimed as I found out the hard way 2 years after > > returning from holiday. > > The person that sold me some succulent pelargoniums wrote the name with a > > white ink marker on the black plastic pots. He told me that would last for > > a least 4 years. I'm trying that now also. > > > > Aad > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php ------------------------------ End of pbs Digest, Vol 148, Issue 18 ************************************