Bomareas and other fall blooming things
- Subject: Bomareas and other fall blooming things
- From: d* f*
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 14:38:59 -0700 (PDT)
After browsing Phillips and Rix's book, Indoor and
Greenhouse Plants, I was wondering if anyone is
growing any of the following Bomarea species:
B. caldasii, B. salsilla, B. frondea, B. multiflora,
B. racemosa, or any of the other less commonly
available species? Some of these are sometimes
available at Strybing Arboretum, or the UC Berkeley
Botanic Garden. I was wondering if anyone is growing
these in their own gardens, and might have seed, or
suggest commercial sources for plants. (Suncrest
Nursery does list B. frondea). I'd be interested to
hear comments from anyone growing these...
Fot those interested in reliable fall bloomers for
milder mediterannean climates, some of the things in
my garden still or starting in full bloom include;
Abutilon 'Logee's Pink'(nice very floriferous small
pink with rose veined flowers, Abutilon 'Victor
Reitor'(nice large and very open faced orange
flowers, Acanthostachys strobilacea, A. blumenavi,
Acehmea calyculata, A. caudata, A. gamosepala, A.
recurvata, Acacia podalyrifolia, Billbergia nutans,
Brunfelsia pauciflora 'Macrantha', Calandrinia
grandiflora, Clerodendrum philippinum, Crinum
powellii, Dalechampia dioscoraefolia, Duranta repens,
Hedychium flavescens, Juanulloa mexicana, Luculia
intermedia, Nerine bowdenii, Pavonia multiflora,
Plectranthus neochilus, P. zuluensis, Pseuderanthum
grandiflora, Ruellia macrantha, Sauraria madrenis,
Tibouchina granulosa, all in full bloom at the
moment; and Dahlia imperialis, Hypoestes aristata, and
Montanoa grandiflora, Senecio tamoides are still in
bud, but should be blooming in the next week or so.
I'm hopeful that conditions stay mild enough to
encourage some of the heliconias to bloom this
fall/winter. As I read of others growing these same
species from the mountains of southern Mexico in
Florida or southern California, and having blooms for
months already, I do get envious of places with warmer
year round temperatures!
In any case, the wide arching narrow banana leafed
foliage of all the Heliconias is looking quite
luxuriant and undamaged by strong winds so far this
fall, and is a great backdrop to the other flowering
things. The Tibouchina granulosa with its very dark
green foliage, pale lavender purple flowers and fuzzy
red stems of Tibouchina granulosa expecially stand out
against the lighter apple green foliage of Heliconia
scheideana, H. bourgeana and H. latispatha. Below
these tall shrubs are things like Impatiens
glandulifera, just this week finally opening its first
purple flowers, Centradenia grandifolia, (like a
larger growing and slightly woodier Heterocentron
elegans) and Iresine herbstii(a vivid red herbaceous
foliage plant) which is a tender perennial in a zone
10a/Sunset 17 location. These last two were tropical
finds from Seattle, which are not much used here in
the Bay Area, and have far outperformed the other more
temperate perennials and shrubs I brought back from
this same trip.
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