Roland: Thank you for the information. I do have the Goldblatt/Manning/Dunlop book on Crocosmias. Peter Goldblatt and I climbed a mountain together with a group many years ago. I am interested in getting to know more Crocosmia people because I am trying to update my resources of information. While most people know me as an Iris specialist my friend Jim Waddick once said that I just like everything. He was right. Since I have gone off on this tangent with Crocosmias (few Iris bloom in Summer) I thought it wise to come back to the source of Bulb Knowledge and re introduce myself to You experts out there who can really tell me a lot. This year I have assembled about 20-30 cultivars which I have hopes of blooming this season. Sadly many are only getting started. Because I now live on a granite mountain in the Piedmont of North Carolina with soil depth of only inches, I grow everything in pots. The black pots are usually 3-5 gallons and sit clustered on top of the ground so I worry about winter freezing. I can store some in a small basement but the task of moving hundreds of pots at year's end becomes overwhelming. 'Lucifer' seems to take it quite well but 'George Davison' seems to be harder to recover in Spring. It is such a challenge to find cultivars that I might go to extremes to protect the ones I have but as I get them to increase I hope to trial more outside through winter. Sadly I do not have a greenhouse. The Dunlop book lists about 385 cultivars but I believe many more could be added from the last 20 years of hybridizing. The KAVB lists many fewer. So developing a complete current list is a challenge and I would love to know the hybridizers their introduction dates and general information. This is my summer project! On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 6:44 AM Roland Ludwig via pbs < pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > Hi Bob, > > yesterday in the night, I took a look into the large Chasmanthe/Crocosmia > book by Peter Goldblatt and John Manning (published in 2004). 'Paul's Best > Yellow' is not mentioned in the cv list there. As I can hardly imagine that > Goldblatt/Manning could have overlooked a more common cv, it was either a > rather unknown and obscure cv at that time, or it has been bred and/or > introduced somewhen during the 20 years which have passed since the release > of the book. > Some Dutch traders indeed call it „a recent introduction“. However, it > can't have happened that very late: According to this site, Cotswold have > sold it in 2007 already: > > http://johnjearrard.co.uk/plants/crocosmia/… > And the last picture description there says that Ken Ridgely was the > breeder. According to several sources, he is from South Africa. Maybe there > is somebody at PBS who is in contact with him and could ask him who Paul is > or was? > > Best regards from Germany, > > Roland (PBS forum: Kasbek) > > > > -----Original-Nachricht----- > Betreff: [pbs] Crocosmia 'Paul's Best Yellow' > Datum: 2024-06-20T19:18:02+0200 > Von: "Bob Pries via pbs" <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > An: "pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net" <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > > On my first attempt I have not figured out how to post to the forum. Maybe > that is what I am doing now? I curious as to who is Paul and does anyone > know more about this crocosmia? I will include a picture. > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > PBS Forum latest: > https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbsforum/index.php/… > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > PBS Forum latest: > https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbsforum/index.php/… > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> PBS Forum https://…