Hi Ron, Even though it sounds like you’ve been a member for a little while, welcome to participating on the list. As you’ve found, there is an immensely knowledgeable group of people on this list. There always seems to be at least one person, usually more, who knows about (and grows) every other type of plant besides bulbs, as was recently shown by the question about a gesneriad. It appears we’re close neighbors; I live in Altadena near JPL. However your microclimate sounds much nicer than mine—it seems we get a frost or two almost every winter that kill my tomato plants 🙂 and sometimes burn the leaves of my most sensitive plants if I forget to move them, and they’re completely exposed to a clear dark sky at night with no overhead protection and not close enough to the walls of the house to be protected by the heat escaping from the house. I purchased two different clones of U. maritima (which I’ve heard has a new name), also from the LA Arboretum, although in the late ‘90s. They eventually became huge and I had to plant them in 15 gal pots (not sure what the metric equivalent is, but they’re huge, diameter about 0.5 m). One of the bulbs grew almost to the size of a basketball before it split into two bulbs. Currently both pots are filled with pomelo-sized bulbs and they’ve burst their pots. They’re the largest bulbs I’ve ever grown. And in my climate (southern California), they grow without any effort on my part except for an occasional watering during the winter (when they are in leaf) if it hasn’t rained for a while. In late summer, when the bulbs are dormant they send up these very tall scapes with hundreds of small white flowers covering a good length of the scape. The flowers open up in a section of maybe 15 cm/6 in. that progresses up (or down, can’t remember which way) over a period of a few weeks. --Lee Poulsen Pasadena, California, USA - USDA Zone 10a Latitude 34°N, Altitude 1150 ft/350 m > On Nov 5, 2020, at 5:51 PM, Diane via pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > > I have never seen one, except in photos. It looks like the sort of bulb that would last forever. Do you still have yours? > > Diane Whitehead > Victoria, British Columbia, Canada > >> On Nov 5, 2020, at 3:27 PM, ron--- via pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> My first bulb was a Urginea maritima, one of many plants received in a horticulture class at the Los Angeles County Arboretum in the late 1970s. _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>