Desiderata

Geophyte species (bulbs, corms, tubers, rhizomes) that I would like to obtain

If you have any of the following bulbs for trade or sale, please contact me at: shieldsgardens@gmail.com.

To see what I have to offer in exchange, go to http://www.shieldsgardens.com/amaryllids/Offerata.html

• Amaryllidaceae
  • South American
    • Hippeastrum iguazuanum
    • Hippeastrum evansiae
    • Hippeastrum leopoldii or neoleopoldii
    • Hippeastrum pardinum or pseudopardinum
    • Hippeastrum lapacense
    • Hippeastrum argentinum/immaculatum/tucumanum
    • Hippeastrum bukasovii
    • Hippeastrum nelsonii
    • Griffinia sp.
    • Rhodophiala (except bifida)
  • South African/African
    • Haemanthus canaliculatus
    • Haemanthus graniticus
    • Haemanthus pumilio
    • Haemanthus sanguineus (large, near bloom size)
    • Haemanthus tristis
    • Scadoxus cinnabarinus
    • Scadoxus cyrtanthiflorus
    • Scadoxus nutans
    • Scadoxus pseudocaulus
    • Cyrtanthus epiphyticus
    • Brunsvigia gregaria
    • Brunsvigia josephinae
  
  
• Iridaceae
  • South African
    • Gladiolus sp., especially from the Drakensberg (except for oppositiflorus and saundersii)
  
  
• Araceae
  • Asian
    • Amorphophallus sp. (except for konjac or bulbiferum)
    • Arisaema, various sp.
  • South African
    • Zantedeschia, odorata and rehmannii (no hybrids!)
  
  
• Aloaceae
  • South African
    • Aloe sp., any
  
  
• Agavaceae
  • North America
    • Agave parryi (from colder locations)

Other Sources of Information

Bulbous Plants of Southern Africa, by Neil du Plessis and Graham Duncan, Tafelberg Pub. Ltd., Cape Town (1989).
Bulbs for Warm Climates, by Thad M. Howard, University of Texas Press, Austin (2001).
Bulbs, Revised Edition, by John E. Bryan, Timber Press, Portland (2002).
Cape Bulbs, by Richard L. Doutt, Timber Press (1994).
RHS Manual of Bulbs, John Bryan and Mark Griffiths, Eds., Timber Press (1995).
Garden Bulbs for the South, Scott Ogden, Taylor Publishing Co., Dallas, TX (1994).
Bulbs of North America, Jane McGary, editor, Timber Press and North American Rock Garden Society (2001).
Bulbs for Summer Bloom, John Philip Baumgardt, Hawthorn Books Inc., New York (1970).