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Nerine 2020
« on: February 19, 2020, 12:20:13 PM »
From a  tweet by  Advolly  Richmond ....
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The  Nerine  and  Amaryllid Society are looking for a home for the  Nerine sarniensis collection on mainland  UK   - this  needs a large heated glasshouse. Plant Heritage Guernsey has  offered  but NASoc need to have a duplicate collection on the mainland if poss. Can you help? Please contact the society if you  think you  can help......  email to   nerinesociety@gmail.com 


http://www.nerineandamaryllidsociety.co.uk/
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« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2020, 09:16:05 PM »
Thanks for publicising this, Maggi; I think we may have found a home (or two homes!) for the collection.
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Re: Nerine 2020
« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2020, 12:15:02 PM »
Excellent news, Malcolm!!
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Re: Nerine 2020
« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2020, 05:05:10 AM »
Nerine angulata
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« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2020, 05:06:32 AM »
Nerine masoniorum
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Re: Nerine 2020
« Reply #5 on: April 08, 2020, 02:14:13 PM »
Nerine fothergilla 'Major' has been lumped into N. sarniensis but I keep it under the old name as it is distinct in my opinion; it's certainly hardier.
The first pic is from a couple of weeks ago when it first started to flower; the second is from yesterday as the last cluster starts to fade
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Re: Nerine 2020
« Reply #6 on: April 08, 2020, 02:15:58 PM »
Nerine rosea has also been subsumed by N. sarniensis which I find even less understandable
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« Reply #7 on: April 09, 2020, 12:24:50 PM »
Nerine 'Ariel' is an old hybrid that I got about 40 years ago.
It comes through our winters without protection but is grown at the base of a sprawling rose.
It's flowering nicely this year
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Re: Nerine 2020
« Reply #8 on: April 10, 2020, 02:38:22 AM »
Ariel is lovely - none of mine are that colour.
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« Reply #9 on: April 10, 2020, 03:03:24 AM »
Hi Diane,
I don't know the heritage of this hybrid, but I got a similar colour by crossing N. rosea and N. fothergilla 'Major', but they don't flower regularly so here's a pic from 2018
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« Reply #10 on: April 26, 2020, 12:02:37 PM »
First flowers on a cross between a red Nerine sarniensis hybrid and Nerine rosea I made a few years ago
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« Reply #11 on: April 26, 2020, 01:24:21 PM »
Another seedling, this one is from seed of one of the Nerine sarniensis hybrids and is a soft pastel pink,
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Re: Nerine 2020
« Reply #12 on: April 26, 2020, 08:39:21 PM »
Fermi,

Do you have a goal for your hybridizing?

My plan is to produce hardy ones I can grow outside, so I've been crossing bowdenii with various sarniensis.  I should also use undulata - it's so eager that its seedlings are in a lot of my pots.  Great excitement - my pot of Wurmbea is about to flower - oh, no.  it's just a usurping undulata.  So I think undulata needs to be banished to the garden.

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« Reply #13 on: April 27, 2020, 08:54:23 AM »
Hi Diane,
most of my hybridising is random - mostly whatever is in flower at the same time.
However I'm using what I still call Nerine rosea because it is hardy here. I haven't tried using N. undulata yet - here what we used to call N. flexuosa "Alba"  is considered to be a form of N. undulata. But they usually flower in May while most of the others flower in April. I haven't got into pollen saving
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Re: Nerine 2020
« Reply #14 on: April 27, 2020, 02:07:15 PM »
First flowers on a cross between a red Nerine sarniensis hybrid and Nerine rosea I made a few years ago
cheers fermi

Good work there Fermi.  There are some new Dutch bowdeniis that are close to that colour, as well as many good red bowdenii x sarniensis. Be interesting to get some of those genes into that hybrid to produce summer flowerers.

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