[pbs] bulbs and their requirements.
Adam Fikso
adam14113 at ameritech.net
Wed Jun 25 13:39:40 EDT 2008
I find that it's always worthwhile finding out where the bulbs originate.
If it's appropriately named like Ixiolirion tataricum, the species epithet
by itself is a clue. It's a Tatar, a steppe bulb, in all likelihood. Yeah,
dry summers, and minimal rains, and lousy soil, and good drainage and maybe
cold winters--really cold, and lots of limestone in the soil, and sharp
drainage, (either that and a sloping clay or terra rossa base where the
water drains off before it soaks in very much..)
Of course this doesn't work for Scilla peruviana!--but we've been over that
more than once.
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