Re: glads or crocosmias

Thanks, Zem, one is plenty.  Hear that Judy?  No need for your friend to buy
one for me.  Thanks, though.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zemuly Sanders" <zsanders@midsouth.rr.com>

> Kitty, I have tuberoses.  Send me an address and I'll put some in the mail
> to you.
> zem
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <kmrsy@comcast.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 4:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] glads or crocosmias
>
>
> > Sure! - but only if they have something cheap. There's always the chance
> > they'll get too cold on the way up here and be damaged. The guy sending
> > the curucma rhizomes is insulating them well and sending them to the CES
> > office so they won't sit outside. I'd love to find a Eucomis or a
> > Tuberose. I have Rhodohypoxis on order from bulbmeister.com, but it
> > won't arrive until April.
> >
> >
> > I will check the stores again the day before the presentation to see if
> > anyone got an early shipment. I remember one year, Lowe's got a shipment
> > of dormant daylilies, 12 to a bag, in late January. No one bought them
> > and they sprouted, not just from being inside but from the heat of each
> > other in the piles. They were actually composting. I reached into the
> > pile and ow! it was Hot!
> >
> >
> > Let me know what you find.  However, I am daunted by the very thought of
> > trying to find something to trade you. ;+)
> >
> > --
> > Kitty
> > neIN, Zone5
> >
> > -------------- Original message -------------- 
> >
> >> Want me to look at HD next weekend and see what they've got? Bulbs and
> >> such are usually available about now.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tuesday, February 1, 2005, at 11:28 AM, kmrsy@comcast.net wrote:
> >>
> >> > I'm giving that presentation on summer geophytes at the end of the
> >> > month
> >> > and am having trouble getting examples in time. I've got some ginger
> >> > rhizomes, lily bulbs, Begonia and Dahlia tubers, a Colocasia (tuber
or
> >> > corm? - I've read they are tubers that form corms). But I'd like to
> >> > show
> >> > Gladiolus and/or Crocosmia corms, too. I've found some on eBay, but
the
> >> > pricing with shipping and quantities offered just don't work for me.
> >> > These items will not be available in local stores or delivered by
> >> > mailorder sources in time for my presentation.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Does anyone (especially those southerners among you) on this list
have
> >> > a
> >> > corm or two they could spare this month? In FL, Tx and southern CA
you
> >> > may even be getting ready to plant them soon since you're so much
> >> > warmer
> >> > down there. I'm sure I can come up with something I could trade that
> >> > you'd like.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Also looking for a Eucomis bulb if possible.
> >> >
> >> > -- 
> >> > Kitty
> >> > neIN, Zone5
> >> >
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> >> Island Jim
> >> Southwest Florida
> >> 27.0 N, 82.4 W
> >> Zone 10a
> >> Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
> >> Maximum 100 F [38 C]
> >>
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