I love Babiana and would definitely be interested. I used to have them but when we had the family trajedy and I wasn't home much for a couple of years and there was a drought, they went the way of most of my garden, gone. So if they come up on the BX, I will try them or if not enough are interested, I'll gladly pay postage. Carolyn Craft -----Original Message----- From: Mary Sue Ittner via pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> To: pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> Cc: Mary Sue Ittner <msittner@mcn.org> Sent: Thu, Jul 8, 2021 5:15 pm Subject: [pbs] Babiana corms I have dug up a lot of Babiana corms, descendants of some I grew from seed more than 30 years ago. I think they are hybrids of Babiana stricta. I'll attach a photo taken in May this year and I also added photos to the wiki. https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… I recall that in the past I sent a bunch to the BX and they weren't very popular. Maybe that is because they aren't very hardy and the drying foliage doesn't pull off easily in the beginning so either you have to cut it off or put up with how it looks for awhile. Still, they have a soft spot in my heart since Babiana was Rachel Saunders' favorite bulb. I don't know whether I should send them again to the BX or just ask people to contact me privately if they would like some so I can be sure that they would end up going to people who wanted them and not be an extra burden for Luminita. They should work out well in parts of California if you have a spot that you can plant them in that you don't care how it looks when they die back.They can also be grown in pots. Mary Sue -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Babiana_stricta_hybrid.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 347247 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/…> _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>
