I'm pretty sure Alplains has it listed currently, and I think he calls it opportunistic, growing/flowering when there is enough water.. So maybe you just have to water it plenty at the best time for you, probably summer?... Here's what Alplains' online catalog says:
*Hesperocallis undulata* (Liliaceae) (45x26,Z9,P,EC,2) .......................................................... 50 seeds / $4.00 *92815.20* (W) Imperial Co., CA, 300ft. With sufficient rainfall, racemes bearing numerous silvery-white, 6-petalled flowers pop out of the sand dunes of its native habitat by the thousands. By early summer, the bluish, undulate, basal foliage dies back, leaving a few capsules containing flat black seeds on the dry stalks. Cohan On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Pacific Rim <[email protected]> wrote: > Jane Hendrix recently posted an image of Hesperocallis undulata > http://botu07.bio.uu.nl/temperate/index.php?gal=AlpenPix&genus=&id=3101 . > She mentioned that this bulb of the Mojave and Sonoran deserts is also > called the Ajo Lily. Ajo, of course, means garlic in Spanish. Unfamiliar > with the plant, I have just looked it up in the Flora of N America. It > seems > that the bulb has a garlic flavor, but the scent of the flower is sweet. > Has > anyone on this list sniffed it? Or eaten the bulb? Hesperocallis is a > one-species genus. In the FNA (vol. 26, published in 2002), it was in > Liliaceae, but it is now in Asparagaceae. > > Does anyone grow Hesperocallis? > > If seed is ever available, please sign me up! > > Seeing Hesperocallis with Abronia villosa in Jane's photos makes me > daydream > that I might be able to grow it. Abronia latifolia, a yellow-flowered > seashore plant, grows well here in rainy SW British Columbia. > > Paige Woodward > [email protected] > Manager, Alpenpix, the image gallery of Alpine-L > http://botu07.bio.uu.nl/temperate/?gal=alpenpix > >
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