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Well done there Janet! Has the white bloomed for you yet? I like it even better; the scapes are much longer holding the blooms well out from the foliage. Let me see if I have a crappy picture showing that--OK, here's one. I won't even try to excuse my poor photography skills--lol--what I was playing with here is did I like the old grey fence or new fence background or sun or shade. White is hard to photo sometimes. This was also early in the season with them and not that many blooms were open.

Another thing I was pleasantly surprised by was the staggered bloom times on the 4. F laxa ssp azurea (blue) started blooming in Jan. Almost exactly at 3 week intervals next came the red, then 3 weeks later and the 'Joan Evans' and very last (but best, I think) was the white. They will do great in the ground here too--they handle summer or winter moisture well, all 4. But I can't drag them around and pose them for pics--lol

Hey Az, see you aren't alone with that white and photography. =)
Are you at high or low elevation in Mesa, Arizona? I know Dale in Tampa is a flatlander at low elevation near the Gulf (niece in Tampa) like me--hot and humid. Wallaby, I can't remember ever asking you about your elevation there....I was just thinking about what effect elevation might have on how the same bulbs might behave even in the same zone.