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Diane Whitehead

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Re: Moraea 2020
« Reply #15 on: September 30, 2020, 05:28:29 AM »
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Re: Moraea 2020
« Reply #16 on: September 30, 2020, 07:27:36 AM »
Moraea aristata looking stunning

It is stunning! I wonder if it is hardy enough to grow here? Maybe not.
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Re: Moraea 2020
« Reply #17 on: September 30, 2020, 03:22:32 PM »
It is stunning! I wonder if it is hardy enough to grow here? Maybe not.
Hi Leena,
here they have survived in the ground a drop to -7oC which other South African bulbs in pots did not.
Here is Moraea setifolia which can seed about a bit - I try to collect as much of the seed as I can
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Re: Moraea 2020
« Reply #18 on: September 30, 2020, 06:58:08 PM »
Hi Leena,
here they have survived in the ground a drop to -7oC which other South African bulbs in pots did not.

Here it may be -20C without snow in bad winters (though last winter the minimum was less), so I will just have to admire your pictures. :) They look very nice.
Leena from south of Finland

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Re: Moraea 2020
« Reply #19 on: October 01, 2020, 11:07:48 AM »
Here it may be -20C without snow in bad winters (though last winter the minimum was less), so I will just have to admire your pictures. :)
Thanks, Leena,
I feel the same about things like Meconopsis I see here but not in my garden :)
The latest to flower is Moraea atropunctata which we got earlier in the year from Ray Mills (Ray's Unusual Plants) in Guildford.
cheers
fermi
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Re: Moraea 2020
« Reply #20 on: October 01, 2020, 02:33:35 PM »
Are you quite  sure  you haven't  been decorating and  dripping the  paint  about, fermi??!!   :-X ;)
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Re: Moraea 2020
« Reply #21 on: October 02, 2020, 10:19:52 AM »
Are you quite  sure  you haven't  been decorating and  dripping the  paint  about, fermi??!!   :-X ;)
Me? Painting?  ;D
Not likely, Maggi!
Here's another spotty one Moraea 'Karen Howard' (M. loubseri x M.atropunctata) which we got earlier in the year from Garry Reid
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Re: Moraea 2020
« Reply #22 on: November 07, 2020, 01:34:57 PM »
A mystery moraea which has flowered in the old "South African Sand Bed". I wonder if it could be Moraea pritzeliana?
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Re: Moraea 2020
« Reply #23 on: November 08, 2020, 10:36:54 AM »
Moraea herrei flowering today
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Re: Moraea 2020
« Reply #24 on: November 08, 2020, 11:19:20 AM »
Moraea lurida can be really variable in the wild but the forms in cultivation are less so.
These are two variations in our seed raised bunch - one is yellow and the other cream ::)
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Re: Moraea 2020
« Reply #25 on: November 08, 2020, 03:33:51 PM »
what beauty !
 could Morea aristata live in zone7 ?

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Re: Moraea 2020
« Reply #26 on: November 09, 2020, 11:08:51 AM »
what beauty !
 could Morea aristata live in zone7 ?
Hi Véronique,
I don't follow the zone system here but we get down to -7oC on occasion,
cheers
fermi
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