Sorry, I think my message was unclear, I was replying to Paige *and* JIm.. Cohan
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 4:42 PM, cohan fulford <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > Hi Paige, I got one bulb in 1998 from I.B.S. I planted it in a narrow, deep pot in plain brown sand. The bulb was planted fairly low in the pot. In the first 5 years or so, it may have sent up leaves once or twice. It winters inside the cool greenhouse, under a bench. This is the greenhouse where my Haemanthus and Lachenalia grow in winter. I repotted it at least once, because I thought it must have surely died several years before and wanter to empty the pot. It was still sitting there, looking sound and healthy. Since repotting it has sent up leaves twice, of which right now is the second time. This seems to happen when the floor of my greenhouse floods in winter. Putting it on top of a bench and watering heavily seems to have no effect on it. Forgetting to water it for a few years at a time also seems to have little effect on it. Sometimes I set the pot outdoors for the summer, sometimes I forget to move it out of the greenhouse at all. This has no apparent effect on it either way. It has never bloomed. I have no idea how one actually ought to grow it here in the cold winters, hot summers, rather wet Midwest. Jim Shields > > > 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 >> >> -- West Central Alberta, Canada, Zone 2-3 record temps from 10-20 miles away: min -45C/-49F;max 34C/93F http://picasaweb.google.com/cactuscactus
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