Re: mystery plant? (Bulbine)
- Subject: Re: mystery plant? (Bulbine)
- From: &* A* O* <s*@gimcw.org>
- Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 16:19:24 -0500 (Central Daylight Time)
- Importance: Normal
Hi Laura!
Yes, undoubtedly Bulbine frutescens - was relatively common here in the SF Bay
Area for years also, though I see it less these days. It does need to be
'renewed' from time to time (reroot cuttings and replant). The soft orange
flower is a nice cultivar called 'Hallmark'. It is a bit slower growing than
the yellow form (which might be a good thing!). I used to have a light
different form that seemed to want to be a bicolor, but it was weak and died
out. I thin the genetic are limited in their color expression.
Can grow pretty dry and hot, though it like a bit a shade. A former neighbor
had a clump of 'Hallmark' growing out of a stacked concrete slab wall - it was
large, but handsomely compact and flowered well. Being close to a public
sidewalk, we neighbors all used to 'help ourselves' to any leggy bits that
were too long, so this might be why it was so.
Seán A. O'Hara
on Sun, May 20, 2007 4:53 pm, Laura Cooper wrote:
> Sure looks and sound like Bulbine frutescens to me. It grows like
> crazy here in LA, it will grow in a little shade but flowers much
> more in the sun. I have both the yellow and orange forms on my
> hillside garden. Only hard thing for me with it is that weeding the
> grass that establishes in between it is a bit difficult without
> pulling out the plant--but whatever comes out roots somewhere else
> easily.
>
>
> On May 20, 2007, at 2:19 PM, Pamela Steele wrote:
>
>> I have been given this plant . It has small orange coloured
>> flowers on long stalks which are in abundance now. It very pretty
>> and was in quite a shady garden but I am told it likes sun. It is
>> so lovely and I would like very much to grow it. I cannot find it
>> any of my succulent or Mediterranean garden books. What is it and
>> any growing tips, please.
>> Thank you
>> Pamela
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