Today, pretty much all the color in the front yard is provided by Oxalis purpurea in a variety of forms. Tomorrow I'll be shuffling these pots around, as O. purpurea and O. hirta like to sprawl all over less aggressive species. In other garden joy, when the gophers devour the Oxalis bulbs, they also carry them back to their nests, so I now have a concentration of purpurea where they had a den last summer...in my neighbor's yard! Happy New Year! Robert in sunny (for a few days) San Francisco, cool and moist, with more precip during the week. Everything that needed planting is planted, and except for a few geophyte aroids, everything due for dormancy and lifting is in storage, time to rebuild some benches in the greenhouse. On Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 6:52 PM Robert Parks <trolleypup@gmail.com> wrote: > Lovely! My garden is a bit battered from the downpours and hail, maybe > I'll find some color for tomorrow > > On Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 1:17 PM Johannes-Ulrich Urban via pbs < > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > >> Dear All, >> >> Some cheerful pictures for you to enjoy on the last day of the year, from >> midwinter in the Algarve. >> All the best for the New Year! >> >> The pictures show: >> a happy mix of Oxalis, from left to right: O. purpurea Lavender And >> White, O. purpurea Pink Giant, Oxalis namaquana and Oxalis purpurea white >> form. Top left in the background is Lachenalia bulbifera, Bredasdorp Form. >> >> Lachenalia viridiflora, unbeatable in the first sun after rain >> >> A very late flowering Nerine undulata (hybrid?) >> >> A portrait of Iris unguicularis >> >> And Gladiolus priorii raised from Silverhill Seed (under the name G. >> merianellus) >> >> Uli >> >> >> _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>