Nerine 2008

[Folypeelarks]

Oh! What a colorful flowers - great selection! I suppose that this is Nerine bowdenii or...maybe sarniensis.. ?

(I think that Nerine sarniensis has longer stamens but I am not sure)

[johnw]

Nerine bowdenii just opened late last week, the sole survivor planted close to the house foundation. This one may be a selection known as 'Pink Triumph', rather large this year thanks perhaps to Ian's suggestion of Potash drenches. One more stalk getting ready to bloom but a strong frost cannot be far off.

Lusting for all those colour forms Luit showed at Lisse.

I understand Pink triumph might be bowdenii x sarniensis so it can't be that.  I wonder if anyone can compare it with 'Fenwick's Variety' which I have never seen over here.

johnw

[shelagh]

Maggi I thought you said on Saturday that you had a Nerine that was worth photographing?

[Maggi Young]

Indeed I do, Shelagh, but the weather has been dull and  then when the sun shone today I was otherwise engaged... I hope to get the camera to it tomorrow. As I told you, I do not know the name of the variety.... I hope someone here will help 

[pehe]

As the weather is bad in Denmark, the Nerine bowdenii pots have found some shelter in the greenhouse. They are not pretty anymore but seed pods are developing. Outside all Nerine flowers have been destroyed by frost

My first Nerine sarniensis has opened

Poul

[Maggi Young]

"Maggi I thought you said on Saturday that you had a Nerine that was worth photographing?"

Indeed I do, Shelagh, but the weather has been dull and  then when the sun shone today I was otherwise engaged... I hope to get the camera to it tomorrow. As I told you, I do not know the name of the variety.... I hope someone here will help 
 

Have just nipped out to the garden before the rain starts to photograph this mystery nerine.......

does anyone recognise the variety? The stem and petioles are very dark, almost black....

[mark smyth]

Maggi are you taking the P? If that truely is the flower head I hope you get in chipped next year because I want one bad!

[johnw]

Maggi - I stare at this one in utter disbelief.

Where on earth did you get it?

I think I have recorded 11 flowers in a head but I can't even count them on yours.

And is it hardy? If so that limits the possibilities all of which elude me. N. bowdenii and N. krigei are the only ones I have heard of surviving frost. Could it be a bi-generic hybrid?

Chip, chip, chip and self.

johnw - might have the first good frost tonight on the coast.

[pehe]

"Maggi I thought you said on Saturday that you had a Nerine that was worth photographing?"

Indeed I do, Shelagh, but the weather has been dull and  then when the sun shone today I was otherwise engaged... I hope to get the camera to it tomorrow. As I told you, I do not know the name of the variety.... I hope someone here will help 
 

Have just nipped out to the garden before the rain starts to photograph this mystery nerine.......

does anyone recognise the variety? The stem and petioles are very dark, almost black....

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Maggi,

Could it be Nerine iMAGGInation flore pleno?

Poul

[shelagh]

I like it Poul, the comment as well as the Nerine.

[Paul T]

Hmmm Maggi.... if that is for real there could be a couple of possibilities.....

1. you have an absolute stunner there, well worth keeping track of.

2. Fasciation has produced a "super stalk" that may never happen again (not common in Amaryllidaceae as far as I know, but not impossible).

3. There is Brunsvigia parentage somewhere in whatever it is, and that has resulted in the higher flower count.

If it isn't a joke (as you HAVE been known to perpetrate on occasions  ), then I'd be monitoring it to see whether it always flowers this prolifically.  Great looking plant if it always does this.  Particularly with darker stems and that flower colour.

[johnw]

Paul - Funny you should say that as I went through Cape Bulbs last night, page by page trying to find a match...I kept going back to Brunsvigia and wondering if there weren't similarities, how hardy they are and would they cross with Nerine.

I scratched my head and then it came to me - I bet that was once on Maggi's summer Ascot hat!

And next these will be some of Ian's latest Croci.

johnw

[Gerdk]

These are no Nerines! See topic!
The left one is ' Begonia sutherlandii ' 

Gerd

[Maggi Young]

The left one is ' Begonia sutherlandii '

I think you are correct there, Gerd.... well spotted.... good large flowered form though, is it not??

Okay, I'll come clean, I was just testing /teasing you folks..... got to keep you on your toes and make sure you are paying attention........


here is my "nerine".......a synthetic flower, certainly Nerine iMAGGInation .....I bought it on the day of the SRGC AGM.... just thought it looked so magnificent in shape and colour that anyone would be proud to have grown it. You'll see fom this pic that it is quite a size.......... hoped that photographing it outside in a natural setting would fool you.... but I must say, you're too sharp for me... well done!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

 
Well done Maggi !