Tigridia
Garak (Wed, 10 Oct 2018 04:48:42 PDT)

Hi all,

I'm one of Paul's customers as well, and to double the harm, I was
tricked by the same seed supplier. The person in question operated from
several ebay accounts based in Mexico, always offering 5-10 seeds of
Tigridia species for 15-25 US$. He has been active at least until early
summer. I've found out later, that the images used were partly based on
flickr, Inaturarlist or similar, so ALWAYS google Images from suspicious
sellers - and always consider 2$ a seed suspicious.

I'm happy Rareplants finally replied and will refund - i had sent a
first notice about the situation in early August, probably right in the
nursery holidays, and back then not all of the bulbs had flowered. Oh,
and the species introduced before last November @ Rareplants are likely
the true stuff, the Orthantha definitely is, I got that one, too.

I'm sorry for giving out that Seedseller warning as late as I do - I was
partly ashamed (I had ordered 12 or more species there), partly I tried
to keep that seller friendly, as I offered him to pay again for new
seeds to be sent, but only after they had flowered - I thought he'd go
and get the reported common species out there like T. meleagris, which
were reported by Inaturalist all around his address as used on the seed
sent. He replied he'd do, but nothing happened since then.

Yes, I'm totally in love with the genus (or the whole tribe) and love
makes blind. So if anyone on the list knows reliable suppliers of any
Tigridia besides pavonia, orthantha, VanHouttei subsp. VanHouttei,
immaculata and chiapiensis, I'd love to know.

Greetings,
Martin

Am 10.10.2018 um 13:15 schrieb Wylie Young via pbs:

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Martin
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Likely zone 7a

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