Introduction

Hello everyone.
Welcome to my blog. I plan to feature photos of my bulbs in bloom, plus taxonomic news and opinions.
I live in the Adelaide Hills, Australia. The climate here is a fairly typical Mediterranean, with cooler and wetter winters than Adelaide itself (which is by the coast).
My collection is dominated by South African species, but only because they are numerous, easily obtained, and generally effortless to grow in my climate. I have a slowly-increasing collection of Australian native geophytes. I also have a fairly comprehensive range of Chilean natives; a small but growing range of species from the western USA; not quite enough species from the Mediterrean regions itself; and a fairly good number of Middle Asian species, mostly species tulips and several juno Iris species (still, however, waiting for their seeds to germinate!). I also try to grow some of the summer-growing, winter-dormant species - but they have to be pretty special to be worth the extra effort!
My plants belong to the following families: Agapanthaceae; Alliaceae; Amaryllidaceae; Asphodelaceae; Blandfordiaceae; Colchicaceae; Haemodoraceae; Hyacinthaceae; Hypoxidaceae; Iridaceae; Ixioliriaceae; Liliaceae; Tecophilaeaceae; and Themidaceae. I'm also 'dabbling' in Alstroemeriaceae but they are not reliable from seed - and I am considering expanding into Hemerocallidaceae and Laxmanniaceae, as these families include many Australian natives with root tubers and showy enough flowers, combined with a similar habit to geophytes from the other families.