Know this flower?

[digitS']

Wow, Pat!

Ornithogalum arabicum

I just pulled out the name that looked like it might be possible.

Steve

 

[patandchickens]

Yup, so there ya go!

<high-fives Steve>

Thanks for finding it Steve. Alas (not surprisingly) google-consensus seems to be that it's only hardy to zones 7 or 8, doesn't do ME any good LOL


Pat

 

[lesa]

Yeah, I was hoping too, Pat. That sure is pretty!

 

[skeeter9]

Very striking!

 

[Reinbeau]

Yup, so there ya go!

<high-fives Steve>

Thanks for finding it Steve. Alas (not surprisingly) google-consensus seems to be that it's only hardy to zones 7 or 8, doesn't do ME any good LOL


Pat

Pull the bulb, store it overwinter in a pot kept barely moist in a cool spot, even freezing, but not too cold. Put it back out in the spring and see what happens. Worth a shot!

 

[patandchickens]

Pull the bulb, store it overwinter in a pot kept barely moist in a cool spot, even freezing, but not too cold. Put it back out in the spring and see what happens.

Yeah I know, however what REALISTICALLY happens here is either "forget to pull the bulb, it's gone forever by springtime"; or "pull the bulb, store it overwinter in a spot where rats or voles eat it"; or "pull the bulb, store it overwinter in a spot where I forget totally about it and both it and its packing material freeze-dry and by spring it's a weightless little dead raisin".

Have done all of the above with various tender bulbs, and finally learned my lesson. Disorganized people are not meant to grow tender bulbs

(I do have a small potted fig tree that I winter in the chicken bldg, but even *that* is a challenge for me not to kill, and survives only by being located right behind the feed bin where I have to notice it periodically )

But thanks for the suggestion, and for the unrealistic-but-flattering estimate of my organizational capacities LOL

Pat