If you live on a rock how about a raised beds stabilized by rocks to give them the thermal protection of earth. Rimmer Kentucky > On Jun 21, 2024, at 8:13 AM, Bob Pries via pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > > 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://… _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> PBS Forum https://…