Paul, California microclimates never cease to amaze. I wonder why your plants flower so early. Do they flower about in April/May every year, never any later? Nathan At 12:18 PM 6/10/2018, you wrote: >Nathan >I have both Merwilla and Drimia (which I still refer to as Urginea). They >are completely different, The Merwill hasn't even sent up buds yet and >looks entirely different. The Urginea have enormous bulbs, wider leaves and >of course, the bulbs are entirely different. I've had the Urginea for 5yrs >or more. Several started as relatively large bulbs and others from small >offsets; all from Tim Gregory. His in Woodside do not bloom as early as >mine in El Cerrito, The leaves are almost fully dried back now and will >remain dormant. Some will get a little water because they're mixed with >other stuff. For some reason, I never bothered to photograph the flowers. > >Paul > >On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 11:35 AM, Nathan Lange <plantsman@comcast.net> >wrote: > > > > > Hi Paul, > > > > Your plants sound very interesting and significantly deviate from anything > > I've ever seen before. Do you have pictures? What is the source of your > > plants? Approximately, when did the foliage die back this year? The foliage > > on my non-irrigated plants was still green a month ago. > > > > The established colonies of bulbs in the Sacramento area (hot dry summers) > > that I've seen consistently flower in late July into August. Plants in > > cooler Sonoma County flower much later with the flowering times seemingly > > correlated with when the foliage dies back. I have never seen a plant in > > flower before July. > > > > Sometimes, I get one of the old names, Scilla maritima, mixed up with > > Scilla natalensis (Merwilla plumbea) which, in my experience, better fits > > the flowering time you described. Any possibility of that? I feel compelled > > to ask because April/May flowering Drimia maritima is really unusual. > > > > Does anyone else grow Drimia maritima in California that flower before > > June? > > > > Nathan > > > > > > At 08:03 AM 6/10/2018, you wrote: > > > >> 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 > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > pbs mailing list > > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > > >_______________________________________________ >pbs mailing list >pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net >http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…