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Title: October 2023 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on October 11, 2023, 12:56:39 PM

We're expecting a dry, hot summer and spring was looking like being dry unlike the beginning of this month when we got more than an inch in our region but further east in the state there were floods!
Here are a few late spring flowers:
1) Geissorhiza radians
2) Moraea bipartita
3) Lapeirousia divaricata
4) Ranunculus gramineus
5) not sure on the id on this one which I had as Bellevalia cyclades
cheers
fermi

Title: Re: October 2023 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: ashley on October 11, 2023, 05:28:07 PM

Very nice Fermi  8)

Quote from: fermi de Sousa on October 11, 2023, 12:56:39 PM

... 5) not sure on the id on this one which I had as Bellevalia cyclades ...

This looks to me like Leopoldia cycladica, just emerging here.

Title: Re: October 2023 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on October 11, 2023, 08:51:03 PM

Thanks, Ashley.
I'll have to change the label,
cheers
fermi

Title: Re: October 2023 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on October 15, 2023, 06:20:12 AM

Quote from: ashley on October 11, 2023, 05:28:07 PM

Very nice Fermi  8)

This looks to me like Leopoldia cycladica, just emerging here.

Well, I guess you should know! ;D
cheers
fermi

Title: Re: October 2023 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: ashley on October 15, 2023, 10:01:50 AM

 ;) ;D

Title: Re: October 2023 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on October 15, 2023, 09:01:34 PM

A few things in pots:
1) a white flowering draba - a volunteer in a nearby pot but I've lost track of the original with the label!
2) Asarum magnificum
3) Campanula 'Dickson's Gold' and Armeria caespitosa
4) Calochortus uniflorus
5) A dwarf Tulbaghia hybrid/cultivar - sold as "Fairy Stars" I think!
cheers
fermi

Title: Re: October 2023 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on October 17, 2023, 11:12:59 PM

1) Allium 'Purple Rain'
2) Gladiolus carneus ssp macowanianus
3) a late flowering double Tazetta nacissus
4) mixed Dutch Iris
5) mixed Pacific Coast Iris hybrids
cheers
fermi

Title: Re: October 2023 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on October 22, 2023, 10:20:55 AM

The Tall Bearded Iris are starting to flower
cheers
fermi

Title: Re: October 2023 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on October 30, 2023, 09:00:46 AM

A couple of Aussie plants in our garden:
1) Eremophila hygrophana
2) Velleia paradoxa
cheers
fermi