Hey Boyce… Saw your post on PBS. I’m assuming you meant 2018, not 2013. At that timeline you are unlikely to get many bulbs to blooming size. Most take a while to bulk up to a size sufficient for that expenditure of energy. I’d be looking at blooming sized bulbs were I you. That said, Tecophilaea cyanocrocus should be among you’re must haves…. Hope all is well…. Carlo Carlo A. Balistrieri President/CCO The Botanical Gardening Group 262.490.6163 carlo@botanicalgardening.com Helping you cure plant blindness one garden at a time > On Mar 18, 2016, at 3:07 PM, Boyce Tankersley <btankers@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All: > > I am writing to request your advice, ideas and support with a very exciting > project. The Chicago Botanic Garden is in the early planning stages of > creating a Southern Hemisphere Bulb 'WOW' (extravaganza) for the winter of > 2013 at the Garden. > > The event will have available small Arid, Subtropical and Tropical habitats > focused display greenhouses as well as indoor spaces. > > The Winter Flower Shows to date typically incorporate the featured plants > in the habitats with more formal designed exhibits in the indoor display > areas. The scale of these winter shows is fairly large, the recent orchid > show featured 10,000 plants in full flower, for instance. > > So, what are the 'must haves'? > > Who should we contact to get these treasures? > > I "think" we have enough time to grow many bulbs from seed to flowering > size if we start now but we are also interested in obtaining fully mature, > flowering sized bulbs as well. > > The Garden has a wonderful library and we have access to number of online > resources but - they are hard put to equal the expertise found in this > group. > > Many thanks, > > Boyce Tankersley > Director of Living Plant Documentation > Chicago Botanic Garden > 1000 Lake Cook Road > Glencoe, IL 60022 > email:///btankers@chicagobotanic.org > _______________________________________________ > 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/