[pbs] Pink Rhodophiala bifida bloom time in SE Texas
Diane Whitehead
voltaire at islandnet.com
Thu Sep 6 17:02:49 EDT 2007
Begin forwarded message:
From: patty allen <prallen2 at peoplepc.com>
Date: September 5, 2007 12:48:40 PM PDT
To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs at lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [pbs] Pink Rhodophiala bifida bloom time
Reply-To: patty allen <prallen2 at peoplepc.com>
Lee, I live in southeast Texas and my pink Rhodophiala bifidas are on
their third cycle of bloom since the second week of August. The more
mature bulbs send up at least one bloom stalk and a week or so later
will send up a second. My pinks range from a pale lavender-pink to a
dark rose-red pink. Vary in height from about 12" to over 18".The
petal on some twist and flare , others stand straight out to the side
of the stalk, some have short petal , some have long petals . I have
had 3 bulbs that threw up 2 bloom stalks with six blossoms each and I
harvested 12 seed pods from them. These pink oxbloods have been
growing for me since 2002 and multiply like crazy, beside the seed
set.I have several thousand pinks in all shades of pink and it is
just a sight to behold when they are blooming!
One tiny maroon-red is about 6" tall and has been plucked from all
the others to be evaluated. I have about 10,000 of our hardy Texas
red oxbloods blooming right now and if the cooler and wetter weather
keeps up for a while, they will probably still be blooming by the end
of this month.
Patty Allen
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