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Title: October 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on October 03, 2021, 03:35:40 PM: A few flowers from our garden for the start of October:
1) Scilla vicentina
2) Lachenalia mathewsii
3) Delosperma 'Firespinner'
4) a yellow DBI
5) Gladiolus virens
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: October 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: Lesley Cox on October 04, 2021, 08:25:59 AM: Hi Fermi, You have started off the month with some nice things. The Gladiolus species looks especially exciting. I have 4 delospermas now, all from Peter and Louise at Hokonui BUT it turns out that they are the extra little epicurean treat the local rabbits have been waiting for all these years. Mine have been grazed down to their roots. I haven't tried them myself but I wondered if the juice inside their succulent"leaves" has a sugary taste. Certainly something is very toothsome to the little grey b........s.
Title: Re: October 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on October 04, 2021, 10:50:46 AM: Quote from: Lesley Cox on October 04, 2021, 08:25:59 AM
... it turns out that they are the extra little epicurean treat the local rabbits have been waiting for all these years. Mine have been grazed down to their roots. I haven't tried them myself but I wondered if the juice inside their succulent"leaves" has a sugary taste. Certainly something is very toothsome to the little grey b........s.
Bunnies? Hmm, doesn't quite fit the number of spaces ;)
My offering for today:
DBI 'Killarney Green'
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: October 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on October 05, 2021, 09:32:45 AM: Quote from: Lesley Cox on October 04, 2021, 08:25:59 AM
Hi Fermi, You have started off the month with some nice things. The Gladiolus species looks especially exciting...
Here's another one - Gladiolus melisculus - which has a great colour but not the violet scent
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: October 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: Lesley Cox on October 06, 2021, 01:11:37 AM: Another lovely gladiolus species. Do you get seeds from these Fermi?
Title: Re: October 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on October 06, 2021, 12:34:55 PM: Quote from: Lesley Cox on October 06, 2021, 01:11:37 AM
Another lovely gladiolus species. Do you get seeds from these Fermi?
Hi Lesley,
they don't always set seed.
I think I need two clones and am hoping a second clone will be in flower before the first finishes!
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: October 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on October 08, 2021, 03:59:39 PM: 1) Dichelostemma - capitatum I think
2) Tulipa hageri 'Splendens'
3) a pale Anemone pavonina
4) a purple PCI & Pelargonium triste
5) a white PCI
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: October 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on October 11, 2021, 02:17:24 AM: Some more from the October garden:
1) Muscari cycladicum first flowering from seed from Ashley (ex JJA0.689.210)
2) Geissorhiza monanthos - form 1
3) Geissorhiza monanthos - form 2
4) Moraea bipartita
5) a red-backed, red-centred, yellow Ixia
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: October 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on October 14, 2021, 01:03:32 AM: 1) DBI 'Toy Clown'
2) Moraea setifolia
3) white Delosperma cooperi seedling
4) Tulipa linifolia 'Red Hunter'
5) Tulipa 'Little Beauty'
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: October 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: cohan on October 14, 2021, 02:47:35 PM: Great to see all the lovely stuff coming into flower!
Title: Re: October 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on October 24, 2021, 11:08:22 AM: 1) Delosperma cooperi seedling orange
2) Ixia hybrid seedling - red-eyed pink
3) MBI 'Blue Flirt'
4) PCI 'Big Money'
5) Hypericum sp.
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: October 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: cohan on October 26, 2021, 07:46:43 PM: Love that orange Delo! I had a hybrid which managed to survive a winter, then self seed itself for several years, then faded away.. I'd probably need to manage more intensively to keep it going.. nubigenum survives in ground.