[pbs] Bulbs that flower without leaves--TOW
James Waddick
jwaddick at kc.rr.com
Sun Aug 3 15:40:01 EDT 2003
>Dear Jim W.,
>
>Wow, you've raised some interesting questions.
Calendar Year/versus Growing season.
I think this is a zonal problem. Here everything is basically
calendar as winter stops most foliage.
In Medit areas, the summer stops a lot of foliage and the
season goes from fall to spring.
Since this is the PACIFIC BULB SOC. -I'll bow to 'growing
season' considerations.
Even so Lycoris can be a bit of a problem as some mentioned
with spec. such as L. radiata. One of the few to bloom in late
summer/fall and then puts up foliage from late fall to early spring.
Is this foliage first (spring) or flowers first -Fall?
More common species produce foliage for a few months in
spring, but bloom in fall. That's foliage first.
>
>
>As some of the posts already indicate there may be a fine line
>between plants in A and B as some produce flowers and very quickly
>the leaves follow.
>
I think your idea was to concentrate on bulbs where there is
a fairly major gap between foliage and bloom. And the grower needs to
decide which come first seasonally or chronologically. I always think
of Lycoris having foliage first and fall blooming. This is based on
all species basically going dormant in spring when foliage fades. But
I can see where those with fall foliage might appear to have flowers
preceding foliage. Still there is a major gap and there is no remnant
of foliage when the flowers bloom and that should be the key
character.
So the topic is:
"Flowers that bloom at least a month before or after foliage".
Right? Jim W.
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