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Re: delosperma & aizoaceae
« Reply #390 on: September 08, 2014, 08:08:23 AM »
I was rather expecting a show more like this!

johnw - expecting 27c today
So you should move to Denver.
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Re: delosperma & aizoaceae
« Reply #391 on: September 08, 2014, 08:17:22 AM »
In all honesty I am not keen on the colour combination of this one.

johnw - expecting 27c today
But my plant is certainly closer to the wild thing
http://www.ispot.org.za/node/221180?nav=parent_ob
And I dislike spectacular hybrids.
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Re: delosperma & aizoaceae
« Reply #392 on: September 08, 2014, 10:53:26 PM »
So you should move to Denver.

Not a chance I would spontaneously combust, I'm a fog and mist guy. 

I spoke to a friend in the Annapolis Valley of NS and he says 'Fire Spinner' flowers in one big display for him and no repeating.

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Re: delosperma & aizoaceae
« Reply #393 on: September 10, 2014, 12:02:14 PM »
I see there's a Delosperma called D. seanii-hoganii after the great plantsman Sean Hogan out in Portland.  Why on earth such a Latin name?  Even sean-hoganii or seanhoganii which would have been less ridiculous than that, why not the logical D. hoganii of which Sean might(?) approve.  Next will it be Narcissus ianii-bulbii-despotii-youngii?

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Re: delosperma & aizoaceae
« Reply #394 on: September 11, 2014, 03:48:42 PM »
I see there's a Delosperma called D. seanii-hoganii after the great plantsman Sean Hogan out in Portland.  Why on earth such a Latin name?  Even sean-hoganii or seanhoganii which would have been less ridiculous than that, why not the logical D. hoganii of which Sean might(?) approve.  Next will it be Narcissus ianii-bulbii-despotii-youngii?
It might be ridiculous for an English speaker but not for me speaking an inflected language.
For me, and for any Latin speaker, sean-hoganii or seanhoganii are quite comical terms.
In my native language I say Seana Hogana in genitive, Sean Hogana is simply nonsense.
If you obtained classical education, you certainly encountered
Publi(i) Ovidi(i) Nasonis Metamorphoseon libri XV,
and not
Publius Ovidius Nasonis Metamorphoseon libri XV.
If there is Papaver corona-sancti-stephani, connecting two words together
is absolutely acceptable.
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Re: delosperma & aizoaceae
« Reply #395 on: October 28, 2014, 10:35:35 AM »
Peter,
your Delosperma hybrids remind me of a few we bought on our visit to see Paul T in Canberra;
They are all called Delosperma cooperi
with gemstone names for the diffeent colours:
Moonstone, Garnet and Ruby!
There was also another one which was called Drosanthemum speciosum Kliprand
cheers
fermi
A rather poor pic of Delosperma cooperi 'Ruby', but an interesting range of seedlings has started to flower,
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« Reply #396 on: October 28, 2014, 01:37:59 PM »
The Delosperma varieties with gemstone names are widely sold here in California. They are good plants for us. Xeric! and nice flowers too.
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Re: delosperma & aizoaceae
« Reply #397 on: October 28, 2014, 02:58:30 PM »
Still a few flowers on the Delos here.

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Re: delosperma & aizoaceae
« Reply #398 on: November 03, 2014, 09:20:02 PM »
Some mesembs growing in the garden here. Plants flowered much earlier this year; pictures of plants without flowers were taken a few minutes ago.
Stomatium mustellinum, and the same plant in flower at night.
Ebracteola wilmaniae.

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« Reply #399 on: November 03, 2014, 09:24:46 PM »
Okay, so I don't know how to do attachments properly......

Neohenricia sibbettii (this was taken earlier this spring, before it was ripped out of the ground and mostly devoured, and then replanted.
Rabeia, probably difformis, with signs of nibbling

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« Reply #400 on: November 03, 2014, 11:30:56 PM »
More of the same.
Bergeranthus jamesii, in flower, at night.
Aloinopsis schooneesii, close up.
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« Reply #401 on: November 04, 2014, 12:47:36 PM »
Keep them coming Bob, enjoying the variety immensely.  It was 2c here yesterday and spitting a bit of snow and yet the Delos previously posted were in flower.  300-400km north of here got 20-30cm of snow, even South Carolina got some.

johnw - +5c, +17c tomorrow
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« Reply #402 on: November 04, 2014, 04:00:59 PM »
It took me a while (meaning years) to realize that the trouble with the "squishies" I planted wasn't lack of winter hardiness, but edibility. Instead of being mush after a cold winter, the plants were simply gone. When I started finding plants pulled up by the roots, and then again the next day after I replanted them, I figured out what was going on.
They're so easy from seed that replacing them isn't a problem.
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« Reply #403 on: November 04, 2014, 09:24:08 PM »
Aloinopsis spathulata, and a hybrid ('Opera Mauve') of it and (I think) Nananthus wilmaniae, made by Bill Adams of Sunscapes Nursery in Pueblo, Colorado.
Pictures taken today.
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Re: delosperma & aizoaceae
« Reply #404 on: November 04, 2014, 09:43:13 PM »
They're a good "blue", aren't they?
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