Dear All, The items listed below have been donated by our members and friends to be shared. If you are interested in obtaining some of them, please email me PRIVATELY at mailto:ds429@frontier.com Include "BX 412" in the subject line. SPECIFY THE ITEM NUMBERS. DO NOT SPECIFY QUANTITIES. It is a good idea to include your snail mail address, too, in case I do not already have it. Availability is based on a first come, first served system. When you receive your seeds/bulbs you will find, included with them, a statement of how much money you owe (usually $2.00 – $5.00 per share of seeds or bulbs + postage and packaging charges), and instructions about how to pay. PAYMENT IS DUE AS SOON AS YOU RECEIVE YOUR PACKAGE. Many of you are subscribers to this pbs elist which is free, but are not members of the Pacific Bulb Society which has a yearly membership charge. THIS BX OFFERING IS AVAILABLE ONLY TO UP-TO-DATE MEMBERS of the Pacific Bulb Society. If you are not a member, consider joining so that you can take advantage of future offers such as this. Go to our website: <http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/> If you would like to donate seeds or bulbs/corms to the PBS,(Donors will receive credit on the BX for the cost of postage for their donations.), please send CLEAN, clearly labeled plant materials to: Dell Sherk 55 W. High St. Salem, WV 26426 USA Non US donors should contact Dell for instructions before sending seeds. ALL ORDERS TO THE FOLLOWING EMAIL ADDRESS ONLY. Dell's email address ds429@frontier.com Do not hit the reply tab or you will reply to all PBS members by mistake. I WILL REPLY TO YOU WITHIN 24 HRS OF MY RECEIPT OF YOUR ORDER. IF YOU DO NOT HEAR FROM ME, TRY AGAIN !! From Jim Barton: (SMALL BULBS/CORMS) 1. Oxalis caprina 2. Conanthera trimaculata 3. Babiana sp. ex SA 4. Ornithogalum maculatum 5. Oxalis obtusa 6. Oxalis obtusa MV 5414A 7. Oxalis fabifolia 8. Lachenalia anguinea 9. Gladiolus tristis x alatus 10. Gladiolus virescens 11. Gladiolus alatus 12. Gladiolus cf. violaceo-lineatus 13. Chasmanthe floribunda 14. Sparaxis hybrids from Hadeco 15. Amaryllis belladonna hyb, mixed 16. Sparaxis grandiflora subsp. violacea From Jane McGary: 17. Seeds of Paeonia cambessedesii 18. Seeds of Cyclamen graecum From Angelo Porcelli: 19. Seeds of Paeonia mascula ‘Gargano’ 20. Seeds of Calostemma purpureum From Keshab Pradhan: 21. Bulbils of Globba schomburgkii (Zingiberaceae) From Kathleen Sayce: 22. Seeds of Amaryllis belladonna, dark pink (FEW) From Uli Urban: 23. Begonia gracilis var martiana. BULBILS They look like seed but are miniature tubers which are produced in large numbers on the nodes. They should not dry out completely but best "sown" now in a small pot and kept just a little moist from time to time. They will eventually sprout fairly late in May or June, flower the second year. Beautiful upright plant to 75cm tall with large slightly fragrant pink flowers. fully dormant in winter, prone to mildew in autumn. 24. Seeds of Clivia miniata 'Belgian Strain' In the family for well over hundred years.... This is the broad leaved and large flowered form. I grow another more dainty form with narrow leaves and smaller flowers from another branch of the family.... as old. Easy but slow from seed. (FEW) 25. Cyrtanthus labiatus, not flowered for me so far, fleshy bulbs above ground, produces lots and lots of bulbils. From the Müller-Doblies couple. Identity is certain. 26. Cyrtanthus sp. or Strumaria sp.. Same type of bulb, fleshy above ground, even more bulbils, no flower as well. Identity is not certain, so far unflowered. From John Lavranos. 27. Seeds of Scadoxus multiflorus subsp katharinae. From Essen Botanical Garden, they have a most impressive giant specimen in a huge tub and sell young seedlings. Slow at first but worth the patience. Big red flower heads in spring. Not fully dormant in winter with me, makes a flush of new stemmed foliage in spring. 28. Nymphaea sp., tropical blue viviparous. Forms small leaf tubers at the end of the season when the water gets cooler. These LEAF TUBERS can be stored in moist sphagnum, I treated them with a whiff of fungicide before posting, Leaf tubers are much easier to store than adult tubers. Start in spring in a heated aquarium with extra light and plant into a warm pond or large container in full sun when spring weather has warmed up, late May or early June with me. Feed with Osmocote, this does not trouble the water. I have had better results storing the adult potted tubers with almost all the foliage cut off. Stood in a large bucket in a frost free greenhouse in unheated water it made almost no growth until the days got longer and the temperature rose. Adult tubers stored in sphagnum ALWAYS rotted. Beautiful purplish-blue flowers above the water, exquisitely scented. Thank you, Jim, Jane, Angelo, Keshab, Kathleen, and Uli !! Best wishes, Dell Dell Sherk, PBS BX _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/