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Title: December in the Southern Hemisphere 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on December 03, 2020, 02:48:38 PM: It's been a mild start to summer and there are still some plants in bloom!
1) Triteleia 'For You'
2) Cyanella hyacinthoides
3) Bloomeria crocea
4) Brodiaea elegans
5) Lilium 'Tiger Babies'
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fermi
Title: Re: December in the Southern Hemisphere 2020
Post by: Véronique Macrelle on December 03, 2020, 07:29:41 PM: :D a little summer in the midst of our too dark months: it feels good
Title: Re: December in the Southern Hemisphere 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on December 04, 2020, 11:03:38 AM: Quote from: ashley on December 03, 2020, 07:42:49 PM
Welcome Fermi. Continental drift must be accelerating ;) ;D but your plants are as good as ever. 8)
Never again trust "cut and paste"! :o
Thanks, Maggi,
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fermi
Title: Re: December in the Southern Hemisphere 2020
Post by: shelagh on December 07, 2020, 10:33:39 AM: They certainly brightened up my morning, thanks Fermi.
Title: Re: December in the Southern Hemisphere 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on December 08, 2020, 01:56:24 AM: Another roadside stop on the way home from Bendigo in the Kim Bolton State Forest.
1) botanising close to the road
2) Xerochrysum (Helichrysum) viscosum - the Sticky Everlasting - is the main colour this year
3) Xerochrysum viscosum & Lobelia gibbosa
4 & 5) a taller inhabitant is Grevillea alpina - the Mountain Grevillea - rather misnamed in this environment!
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fermi
Title: Re: December in the Southern Hemisphere 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on December 08, 2020, 01:59:37 AM: I think this is the first time that I've seen Lobelia gibbosa in the wild
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fermi
Title: Re: December in the Southern Hemisphere 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on December 08, 2020, 02:33:57 PM: A prostrate Goodenia which maybe G. blackiana
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fermi
Title: Re: December in the Southern Hemisphere 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on December 08, 2020, 02:35:39 PM: The Blue Finger-Flower, Cheiranthera linearis,
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Title: Re: December in the Southern Hemisphere 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on December 08, 2020, 02:39:35 PM: Will's favourite, which he calls "Madge", the Magenta Cranes-bill, Pelargonium rodneyanum, which we've grown in our rock garden for many years
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fermi
Title: Re: December in the Southern Hemisphere 2020
Post by: ashley on December 08, 2020, 04:08:13 PM: All nice to see Fermi; thanks for showing.
That pelargonium's new to me.
Title: Re: December in the Southern Hemisphere 2020
Post by: ruweiss on December 08, 2020, 08:26:03 PM: Fermi, nice to see these impressive native plants, all are totally unknown to me.
Many thanks for your good work.
Title: Re: December in the Southern Hemisphere 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on December 17, 2020, 12:18:55 PM: Thanks, Ashley and Rudi - some of these are new to me too!
Asphodeline liburnica - flowering well in its second year after planting out
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fermi
Title: Re: December in the Southern Hemisphere 2020
Post by: Yann on December 18, 2020, 04:42:19 PM: All these natives are (almost) unknown to us, thanks for sharing.