[pbs] Velthemia
Sue Haffner
sueh at csufresno.edu
Mon Sep 22 09:41:46 EDT 2008
Hi, all,
I just noticed that the velthemias are starting to pop
here in the San Joaquin Valley--the little bulbs only.
The big dudes are still dormant.
Sue Haffner, Clovis CA
----- Original Message -----
From: Mary Sue Ittner <msittner at mcn.org>
Date: Sunday, September 21, 2008 8:14 pm
Subject: Re: [pbs] Fall is here in San Jose
To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Hi Bracey,
>
> We got a bit of rain out of the front a little north of you. At
> least it
> generated some brown water for the barrels that collect water from
> the roof
> even if it only the surface of the ground got wet otherwise. And
> I too
> have Zephyranthes candida in bloom. But I've found it always
> blooms this
> time of the year for me. Alberto told us it grows along rivers
> and in
> marshes where it gets year round rainfall except for a brief
> period in late
> summer after which it blooms. Mine are growing in a large
> container with a
> Meyer lemon so that they get year round water. The best bloom I
> ever had
> was one year when I was gone in late summer and the person
> watering for us
> didn't water the lemon tree very much. It lost a lot of leaves,
> but didn't
> die and we got massed bloom from the Zephyranthes when we returned
> and
> stepped up the water. I don't know about Zephyranthes flavissima
> which
> isn't pictured on the wiki either.
>
> Mary Sue
>
> Mary Sue Ittner
> California's North Coast
> Wet mild winters with occasional frost
> Dry mild summers
>
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