Six feet tall and blooming in Portland: What is it?
Paul LICHT (Sun, 10 Jun 2018 08:03:42 PDT)
I have 6 or more in my Berkeley area garden. They are multiplying a bit too
fast. All bloomed this year and blooming finished about a month ago. The
leaves are now dying back.
Paul
On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 7:44 PM, Nathan Lange <plantsman@comcast.net> wrote:
All the Drimia maritima that I've seen in Northern California usually
flower no earlier than July with plants in cooler locations closer to the
coast flowering as late as late September. The description of "bulbinella"
type flowers inflorescences in June suggests the much earlier flowering
Eremurus, although these don't fit the "grapefuit-sized" bulb description.
Nathan
At 03:09 PM 6/9/2018, you wrote:
I clicked a photo of an absolutely stunning cluster of six-foot tall
blooming beauties this morning at the corner NE 28th and Siskiyou in
Portland. The homeowner happened to be outside, and was happy to tell me
about how he purchased one grapefruit-sized bulb several years ago and
planted it, and how it's been multiplying ever since. He said he couldn't
remember what it was called. I was thinking bulbinella, but that genus is
rhizomatous and probably can't survive in this climate anyway.
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