Bulbs: Simple Pleasure: Narcissus pseudonarcissus., 1 by raydio

raydio wrote:
Hey~

I've been looking thru the B&B catalogue and this one and that one I have at hand, first to check the albo-mac prices and then thrying to find a certain one I wanted. It's from B&B : "Picasso". Nice color arrangement but, and I don't know if this is a characteristic cultivar wide, but I don't really like the form: that wobbly wavely edge. But I love the colors. Also admired "Purple Haze". YUM! And that "Pink Mist" is to die for!

Then I was looking thru Park's and Whoa! "Midnight Eclipse". OMG that is wonderful and mysterious with being over-the-top. But look: $12.95 ea. Whoa! is right for now (I keep telling myself, I am so close to contacting B&B and Park's it's not funny.) And then, I go looking at page 37 of the 2002 catalogue (really must check out the webpage....) and seeing the way the pix are layed out on the page makes me want to have a pot of each one and have them displayed in a group, all in bloom. NICE. A much better choice than having to pick one or two and having to work with color mixing and so on. Just a group of pots at different levels with foliage plants in between. Sweet. The pinks and oranges together is really appealing to me.........

Frits: Yeah, two years and bubbye. I have dug them up but seem to drag my feet on replanting and then the bulbs have wated away or disappeared (mysteriously) and that's that. I know I'll have them again, though and maybe see if i can set a local record for keeping them going. Beat my old record, anywho.

The Musella. Yes, I have pups from one I planted in 2001. I gave it NO special treatment after planting it a little deeper than usual. It lost all the foliage but the central stem wasn't destroyed. It started growing very early (and I wish I could say when that was. I just remeber being surprised that it was going when it wasn't warmed up at all. April maybe. I just don't know, but it could have been as early as mid-March if we had a lot of early warm that season.

Anyway, I got a dozen or so pups from it and potted them up the year it bloomed as I wasn't sure if they were deep or old enough to survive. It didn't occur to me that they prolly would, since the corm was so deep, but you know how I am about losing all to an experiment. So, I potted them up and brought them in and have kept them indoors each winter cause I needed to rework the border and until this year I have neither been interested enough or had the time to do that. (I'm out of work at present and not chronically depressed, so that's why I've gotten so much done in the yard.) It doesn't seem like that long ago, but I just checked my pix and they were made in 2002. Jeez that is so weird. I don't really remember having them inside four winters......whoa!

Anywhow, I gave a couple away and I have 8 plants in 1 gallon pots to *finally* get in the ground. I'm planning to pot up a pup of my Musa accuminata "Rojo" and set it out too and I thank B&B for listing it as zone 7 for that, though there is a business up the road that has had them out front for years and I've been suspecting that they leave them in the ground. Each year the little banana grove gets bigger and better. Never saw any disturbance or re-mulching to indicate a landscaperhad removed them for winter. So, I'll keep an eye out this year and maybe stop in and ask if I can't wait that long. I have (what I'm pretty sure is) a Musa basjoo to put in the ground too. Oh, I can't wait!! A "Tropical Paradise in Miniature". Mmmmmmmmmmm!

Back then I had to videotape and do screencaps to have digipix so that's why these look a bit wonky.

Robert.