Staked Bulbine
Bulbine frutescens
The bulbine adds color to the fall and winter landscape as well as the rest of the year. Mine took a rest from blooming in late December (the only time all year) and have started to bloom in January after several freezes. (San Antonio, Tx.)
OHHHH I can't wait for spring! At least the days are getting longer, but it is only 18 degrees this morning.
This looks like a neat plant...I saw your other images of it as well.
Susan, this plant is fantastic in my zone. It is evegreen and practically ever-blooming. I wish it was hardy in your zone so I could send you a few.
Well thanks for the offer anyway. Someday when I move south, I can look at all your pages of pics and start growing all the things that I can't have now. Isn't it sad and inexplicable how we want the things that we have to coddle all the time. Kind of like the grass is always greener...
You're absolutely right about that. I love fuscias and used to buy them knowing that they would only survive for a little while because of the heat here. Then, I decided that this was not fair to the plants. The past 2 years I have decided to go native evergreen and native perennial more. I am also planting a lot more bulbs now that I know which ones naturalize in my zone. I am getting to old too cuddle, oops, I mean coddle.
This message was edited Saturday, Jan 24th 8:00 AM
A little anti-Freudian slip there, Hazel? LOL
I am a big proponent of native plants, too, actually, but can't resist the others that aren't. I especially like to try something new, hoping it will work out here. Here's one to laugh about...I just sowed some Meconopsis grandis seeds! They have an icecube's chance in Hades of surviving here, but I just had to try it anyway. Probably won't even germinate...
Well, my husband says I cuddle and coddle my plants more than him. Good luck with your Meconopsis grandis ... you never know. I have a snapdragon plant that I planted last February that is still alive braving the heat of the summer. It bloomed all summer. It is setting blooms now. This has never happened before. I have 2 salvia plants that emerged from seed in November or early December that have not frozen back as have all of the other salvia. If I could develop these into a new strain of heat hardy snapdragon and cold hardy salvia, I could make a lot of moolah.
How about a hybrid of the two? You could call it snapia or salvidragon.
Susan, that would be even a bigger money maker. One of us better patent those to names.
