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Today's Topics:

1. Behria tenuiflora flowering...finally (Nicholas plummer)
2. Re: Source of Freesia bulbs or seeds (Paul Flowers)
3. An Eruption of Galanthus Bulbs (Judy Glattstein)
4. Re: An Eruption of Galanthus Bulbs (Hansen Nursery)
Back in April, I asked for advice on a Behria tenuiflora corm that hadn't
broken dormancy for more than two years. No one had any suggestions, but
the plant decided to grow and bloom anyway. What a fantastic little flower!

Photo and some speculation on what might have induced it to break dormancy:
https://sweetgumandpines.wordpress.com/

Regards
Nick Plummer
North Carolina, USA, Zone 7 (Where it still feels like July, but the
Lycoris are finishing their flowering season and Colchicums are getting
started)

It looks like they have run out for this year but it might be worth
contacting them for next summer

http://rvroger.co.uk/index.php/…

So today I was hauling yet another tub of last autumn's leaves into the
woods to throw onto the brush pile where I intended to relocate the
hatchling box turtles (except I think they hatched yesterday and
scuttled off on their own.) As I was coming back out of the woods I saw
all these small round white objects lounging around on the soil surface.
Masses of them, in several colonies. Some so thick I could not see the
soil. All of them fully exposed. Of course I could not leave them to the
vagaries of time and the weather. I suppose I could have just dumped
some dirt, (excuse me, soil, let's be upper class) over them. But if
they were so crowded they were erupting into the light of day maybe they
were looking for new situations.

So I scrabbled with my fingers, lifted them all, and now have to figure
where I am going to plant them all. As you can see from the attached
image, there are many, many snowdrop bulbs. Because the only thing I can
think of that was in that general area last spring were galanthus.

Has this happened to anyone else?

Judy in New Jersey

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<As I was coming back out of the woods I saw
<all these small round white objects lounging around on the soil surface.
<Masses of them, in several colonies. Some so thick I could not see the
<soil. All of them fully exposed. Of course I could not leave them to the
<vagaries of time and the weather

<Has this happened to anyone else?

Yes, masses of bulbs, mostly muscari I think, no dirt (soil) allowed in
piles in a brick planter that's about 20 feet long across the front of my
new house. Obviously untouched for years. I'm digging them out with the
idea that I'll plant bulbs of my own preference. I can't imagine how many
years it has taken to develop into these mounds... I suppose people will
cringe when I say I've tossed them in the garbage but the whole property has
extensive mounds of bulbs and that's not counting the patches of hybrid iris
and crocosmia. They seem to be all one color as are the tons of herbaceous
peonies - all double-flowered and maroon with no scent.

Pouring buckets of cats and dogs in southwestern Oregon,

I know my may way to the county dump and I have just the right-size truck
for the job...

Robin
Hansen Nursery
robin@hansennursery.com

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