Re: Today in my garden

Yeah. That's a beautiful caudiform, Auralie. I'd love to see a photo
of the bloom.


On 2/28/08, Lynda Young <lyoung@grindertaber.com> wrote:
> Ohh, picture please!
>
>  Lynda
>  Zone 7 - West TN
>
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>  Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 1:31 PM
>  To: gardenchat@hort.net
>  Subject: Re: [CHAT] Today in my garden
>
>  Don't expect anything blooming here for another six weeks - we're
>  still ice-bound with temperatures not above 27 today.  The only
>  thing I have blooming is of an appropriate size - my Boweia has
>  a bunch of blooms - each nearly 1/4" across.  I wrote about this
>  plant back in December, but got no comments.  It has now grown
>  quite a mass of green tendrils, and has about a dozen of these
>  tiny greenish-white blooms, each on the tip of a tendril.  With a
>  magnifying glass I can see five recurved petals, five prominent
>  stamens and a very prominent pistil.  I don't know what the pollination
>  procedure is, so don't suppose I will get seeds - or if I could even
>  see them if I did.
>  I know this plant is native to South Africa, and that it is difficult to
>  propagate by division of the bulbous base, but since it has a flower
>  it must have seeds.  It's never bloomed before in the several years
>  I have had it.  Exciting!
>  Auralie
>
>
>
>  In a message dated 2/28/2008 12:23:13 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>  silverhawk@flash.net writes:
>
>  *sighhhhhhhhh* Not HERE. Still waiting...but I know it's around the
>  corner. Started my herbs in the garage and they are popping up and doing
>  well so far. Started some coleus seeds (chocolate mint and picture
>  perfect rose) and they are coming up finally.
>
>
>
>  james singer <islandjim1@verizon.net> wrote:
>  Everything seems to be blooming here--avocado, mango, lychee, rose
>  apple, Surinam cherry, loquat--including the pine trees, so the world's
>  covered with a fine yellow dust.
>
>  Island Jim
>  Southwest Florida
>  27.1 N, 82.4 W
>  Hardiness Zone 10
>  Heat Zone 10
>  Sunset Zone 25
>  Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
>  Maximum 100 F [38 C]
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