Specialty Gardening: Cottage Gardening for Hot Climates, 1 by DaleTheGardener

DaleTheGardener wrote:
Pagancat, I was a resident of SF CA for 13 years and loved growing the SAfrican bulbs that come the Cape area. They don't grow here very well. My second season here I tried Fressia, Ixia, Sparaxis, Watsonia etc. What a disappointment!! By the time they bloom our night temps are in the 70's. Fressia bloomed for about 4 days and had no scent, they were under stress from the heat and the same for most of the other bulbs, except Watsonia. The watsonia grew fine, but, never flowered because our day are not long enough in the summer. I have been trying to find species that grow from eastern SAfrica northward. I am trying some of the summer growing kinds, from seed, right now. Hope this works out.

Thanks for the tip, I had forgotten about Jim Duggan, but I am sure that NCalifornia stock isn't gonna prosper here in the near tropical heat and humidity. I have moved my focus to http://mpeixoto.sites.uol.com.br/amaryl/fotoamaryl4.html and I am having good success.