Was Cloud-Cover, Becomes Ginger Lilies
- To: m*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Was Cloud-Cover, Becomes Ginger Lilies
- From: t*@eddy.u-net.com (Tim Longville)
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 20:34:13 GMT
Thanks to Dave and Deborah for more on Cloud-Cover and related
products. I will ask SPK if they still do something similar.
Dave: I was intrigued by your seed-setting H. gardnerianum. The brute
flowers well here - and, like yours, is putting out fat Churchillian
cigars of new growth at the moment - but nary a sign of a seed pod.
Ever. In 1998 I could understand it, since we hardly had a summer to
persuade the poor creature into flower (it finally made it in late
October) but it doesn't set seed even when we have a real, long, hot,
dry summer, with consequent profuse flowering. Why not, darn it? (That
was a squeak of outrage.) Which insect does the S.W. have which the
N.W. doesn't? Have you ever spotted which wee thing it is which does
the trick?
And more generally: as a matter of interest (masochistic interest,
since it doesn't happen here), which other ginger lilies set seed in
cultivation - in the UK? - or in the Med? - or (more likely) in CA?
And does anyone know what sort of critter fertilises them in the wild?
(I don't suppose SPK does THEM in a bottle...)
Back on line after nearly 24 hours without electricity. Storms reached
110mph in gusts. Local woods looked like a ten-pin bowling alley this
morning. Just finished scraping and sluicing half an inch depth of
sea-salt off our seaward facing windows. Oh, and heaving back upright
three eucalypts, two azaras, one sophora - but not yet a partridge in
a pear tree.
Happy New Year??!!
Tim
Tim Longville
