Good picture, Steve. Did you need a gas mask while taking it? My Sauromatum clump up but not the Dracunculus. As well as hardy / less hardy variations there is also a leaf variation. Steve, yours appear to be solid green. Mine have white stripes. Don't have a good picture but will try for one tomorrow. Judy On 6/14/2021 10:21 PM, Steve Marak via pbs wrote: > Nice picture, Judy! Mine, in NW Arkansas, were at their peak on June > 4. A picture of one patch of them is attached (I hope). > > I've grown it for 35 years, and it was given to me by someone local > who had grown it for about that long and had a similar story, so this > strain has been around here for a long time. They will set lots of > seed, which is viable, but I usually don't collect much since few > people seem to want it. > > I think there are more and less hardy strains. I gave some to a friend > who planted them at the Denver BG. A couple of years later he told me > that he liked them so much he'd bought more. The ones I gave him > survived the Denver winters, the others didn't. > > Does anyone know a source for the white-spathed form? > > Steve > > On 6/14/2021 6:55 PM, Judy Glattstein via pbs wrote: >> Well, if he really wants to grow something that smells like a >> decaying woodchuck, a week dead and rotting in the summer heat, >> Dracunculus vulgaris should do it for him. >> >> It is not difficult to find. Both Brent & Becky's Bulbs, also McClure >> & Zimmerman are offering it in their catalogs for fall planting. B&B >> $4.50 each, 5 for $19.50. M&Z $10.50 each, 3 for $26.95 >> >> Myself, I'd prefer to plant outdoors in spring. Perhaps pot up and >> keep dry over the winter in a frost free location. >> >> But it is fully hardy here in western New Jersey. My earliest images >> are from late June 2009. So it has been in the ground, no extra >> protection, for better than a decade. Planted one, still have just >> one. Don't recall any seed set but I'll keep watch. >> >> Judy >> >> On 6/14/2021 7:36 PM, Kenneth Preteroti via pbs wrote: >>> Judy my son Thomas liked your plant. He said he wants it! >>> >>> Ken P >>> >>> “If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people >>> what they do not want to hear.” George Orwell >>> _______________________________________________ >>> pbs mailing list >>> pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net >>> http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… >>> Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> >> >> >> > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: 3I0A2669 (Dracunculus vulgaris) 06042021.JPG > Type: image/jpeg > Size: 477090 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> -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus/ _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>