What a wonderful and fine post, Mr. Poulsen! Thanks for sharing! Louis Matane, Quebec Zone 4b http://www.jardinsdedoris.ca/index.html https://facebook.com/pages/Les-jardins-de-Doris/… 2017-01-16 12:47 GMT-05:00 Lee Poulsen <wpoulsen@pacbell.net>: > Telos is extremely reliable. Diane knows her bulbs. > > The Japanese guy is Komoriya and he has been breeding all kinds of bulbs, > especially Hippeastrum for decades. His stock is wholesaled all over Japan. > He even has some rare species of other bulbs that if you find them on his > actual website (rather than just what he offers on eBay), I’ve been told > you can email him and request them and he’ll offer them when they’re > dormant. (He also has some amazing Lachenalia hybrids that he once offered > a couple of years ago on eBay for a few months.) > > Finally, there is an excellent seed source for Brazilian Hippeastrum > species (and some primary crosses). That would be Brazilplants which is run > by Mauro Peixoto. (If you’re ever in the vicinity of São Paulo, Brazil and > can afford an extra day to head out to his farm and shade houses, you’ll be > blown away by all the rare and amazing Brazilian natives he grows. For > example, picture a piece of one-meter diameter concrete pipe placed > vertically on the ground outside and filled with well drained medium as a > sort of giant pot or small bed, filled with about 25 giant bulbs of > Worsleya all of which are in full bloom with about hundred of those amazing > purple-lavender flowers open at the same time!) > > Now if we could just get someone in Argentina, and especially Bolivia, to > start up a mail order nursery to grow and offer seeds of their native > Hippeastrums (someone in Peru would be nice, too), I would be in heaven. > But it would also mean that CHAD sufferers would never be cured. If you > have a Facebook account, go look at the photos of Bolivian Hippeastrum > species that Raul Fernando Lara Rico has posted. Actually, I think he also > cross-posts them on the Planet Botanical Hippeastrum Facebook group site, > which if you go there and search the group for his name, you’ll eventually > find a series of photos of all the native Bolivian species. But I warn you > that you’ll get a serious flare up of Hippeastrum lust. > > --Lee Poulsen > Pasadena, California, USA - USDA Zone 10a > Latitude 34°N, Altitude 1150 ft/350 m > > > > On Jan 15, 2017, at 7:48 PM, Tim Eck <teck11@embarqmail.com> wrote: > > > > There is a reliable Japanese vendor who sells on eBay. I have ordered > from them with good luck. You can also order some excellent hippeastrums > from bulk domestic dealers (Sunshine etc.) and niche breeders ( Mary > Mancini ?) on eBay. I haven't ordered from them in a few years so my info > might be outdated. > > Tim > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> > >> The only one I know is Telos Rare Bulbs in CA. Diane who is the > proprietor > >> appears here on occasion. > >> > >> Arnold > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/