SPRING FLOWERS
Wild bulbs rarely for sale

From page 16
‘Baby Moon" (soft yellow) and
‘Minnow’ (multi-flowering,
yellow) all are worthy of inclusion
in a rock garden.

Crocus deserve a place in the
tock garden, too; such as C.
chrysanthus and C. tomasinianus.
Autumn-fiowering crocus also do
well in rock gardens, e.g. C.
medius and C. speciosus.

Miniature iris complement the
above in a rock garden: Iris
reticulata and Iris danfordiae.
These bloom very early in the
season, as does the winter aconite,
(i.e. Eranthis). Amoag the scilla,
S. bifelia (violet-blue) is par-
ticularly suitable to this site.

The little bulbs called species of
botanical bulbs are sometimes
teferred to as ‘‘wild’’? bulbs but
this is rarely the case today. Al-
though some countries (e.g.
Turkey and Portugal) still allow a
few kinds of species bulbs to be

dug from the wild and sold to con-
sumers, the vast majority of the
little bulbs that Canadians will see
in garden centres and other retail
stores are actually cultivated Dutch
products.

The term ‘‘species’’ and
“‘botanical’’ are used to describe:
bulbous plants as they occur in
nature; hybrids that are created
spontaneously in nature; and
hybrids created by man which
closely resemble the bulbous plant
as it was originally in the wild. it is
primarily this latter category that
are found for sale in Canada to-
day. Just as the familiar hybrid
tulips, miniature narcissus and
species crocus: bulbs which retain
the characteristics of their native
ancestors.

For instance, most of the species
and botanical buibs sold by the
Dutch —- including 100 per cent of
the tulips — are propagated and
cultivated in Holland. Many

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species bulbs have been propagated
and grown there for centuries and
fewer than one per cent of all
bulbs sold by the Dutch today are
wild-collected.

Species, or botanical, bulbs also
share another characteristic. That
is, they often naturalize well —
they propagate naturally and
multiply over the years. Bulbous
plants evolve for the purpose of
self-preservation.

Swollen leaf or root tissues pro-
vide an underground storehouse
for moisture and nutrients to see
the plant through periods of
adverse conditions, such as hot,
dry summers.

Hybridization — the process of
breeding and cross-breeding to ob-
tain plants with specific charac-
teristics — often distances *:7m
from this talent for self-¢ a
tion and, in some cases, even pro-
duces plants with sterile seeds.

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