Bulbs that can thrive on neglect

Bulbs that can thrive on neglect
Shmuel Silinsky (Mon, 12 Feb 2018 00:20:22 PST)

So are to send suggestions for various areas etc? Is there a way to have
members edit it, kind of like how wikipedia is written by members. Now that
I think of it, perhaps a google docs link that members can edit and is read
only for guests. Or perhaps it is just far more work than I realize.

One factor to include is local pests. I live in Jerusalem where we do not
have squirrels (ground or tree), but the major pest is hyrax. Thank God
they don't eat many bulbs, but there are the snails....

Shmuel
Jerusalem Israel
zone 9

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On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 11:15 PM, Mary Sue Ittner <msittner@mcn.org> wrote:

Hi Gordon,

Years ago I organized a topic of the week for several years. There were
several topics on the best bulbs for specific regions.

Topics we discussed can be found in:

http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

We discussed Bulbs for Pacific Northwest, Bulbs for Mediterranean Gardens,
Bulbs for Continental Climates - Upper Midwest, Bulbs for Texas. It
depended on finding a person in a particular region willing to introduce
the topic with his/her experience and then for others to share as well.

I made wiki pages for the favorite plants people listed by color and
plants you can grow in the shade, but never found the time to make wiki
pages for some of the other topics discussed. I remember when I decided to
do the color pages being told by one of the other volunteers that I would
come to regret it and it was a really big job so I understood later his
advice. The Legacy Bulb pages came about because Kathleen Sayce was willing
to spend a fair amount of time creating text for me to add to the wiki.

Ernie O'Byrne introduced the Bulbs for the Pacific Northwest. You can see
how his experience compares to yours:

http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbslist/…
1hb1num24b03oi61hlie1.html

And a lot of others responded which you can find in the archives for that
month (January 2003). It would take someone to come up with a compilation
from all the people's suggestions for a list. I agree that knowing what you
can easily grow is really helpful and the categories we discussed were
really broad and there are huge difference of microclimates within them
which makes a list only a starting point. My climate in coastal Northern
California is probably a combination of Pacific Northwest and
Mediterranean. Being coastal I have success with entirely different bulbs
than inland gardeners only a couple hours away. I can grow things Southern
California gardeners can't and they can grow things I can't even if we are
both Mediterranean. My list would only contain a few of the things on your
list.

Mary Sue

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