Re: Brugmansia
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- Subject: Re: Brugmansia
- From: J*
- Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 08:13:29 -0800
...they seem to
>attract every insect and molusc for miles around, and as a result are
always
>rather full of holes and covered with slime...
Thanks for giving me a good laugh with my morning coffee. I'm sorry, I
should be more sympathetic; it just reminded me that with gardening "it's
always something".>
>...lovely, pale blue flowers, no higher than the level of the grass. Upon
>closer inspection, they were somewhat irregularly five-petalled, and about
>2-3 cm across. They arose from small clumps of rather fleshy, dark green,
>grass-like leaves, 6-7 cm in length. A very low-growing bulbous plant...
Except for the 5-petalled part, sounds like Ipheion uniflorum. Mine are
blooming now (at the north end of the Sacramento Valley) so the timing is
right. Sometimes a couple of petals overlap or grow together so the flower
isn't quite regular. I can't think of what else it would be.
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