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Specific Families and Genera => Cacti and Succulents => Topic started by: Johan K. on April 10, 2015, 09:47:43 PM

Title: Lewisia 2015
Post by: Johan K. on April 10, 2015, 09:47:43 PM
A few Lewisia tweedyi in flower for the moment.

Photo 1 Lewisia tweedyi

Photo 2 Lewisia tweedyi 'Alba'

Photo 3 Lewisia tweedyi 'Rosea'

And a first flower on Lewisia nevadensis.
Title: Re: Lewisia 2015
Post by: David Nicholson on April 11, 2015, 08:33:21 AM
Very nice to see Johan, mine will be a couple of weeks yet.
Title: Re: Lewisia 2015
Post by: Graeme on April 11, 2015, 01:18:23 PM
Yellow Tweedyi due to go to a nursery friend of mine - it had seeded all the way through the plunge in one of the alpine houses - they are just starting to green up -so need to be gone[attachimg=1]
Title: Re: Lewisia 2015
Post by: Maggi Young on April 11, 2015, 02:24:33 PM
A Lewisia  tweedyi and a L. cotyledon hybrid in the background (right) at the SRGC Edinburgh show today - photo from Kevock Nursery's tweets

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Title: Re: Lewisia 2015
Post by: David Nicholson on April 11, 2015, 06:09:06 PM
I don't know how they get them in flower so early?
Title: Re: Lewisia 2015
Post by: Graeme on April 11, 2015, 06:10:33 PM
I don't know how they get them in flower so early?
been in a closed down tunnel
Title: Re: Lewisia 2015
Post by: Maggi Young on April 11, 2015, 06:10:43 PM
I don't know how they get them in flower so early?

 Sun Ray lamps?
Title: Re: Lewisia 2015
Post by: Maggi Young on April 11, 2015, 06:11:03 PM
been in a closed down tunnel
That would be cosy.
Title: Re: Lewisia 2015
Post by: David Nicholson on April 11, 2015, 06:23:38 PM
been in a closed down tunnel

Dr Beeching been at it again? (OK, I suppose I'm the only one old enough to remember him :(  )
Title: Re: Lewisia 2015
Post by: Graeme on April 11, 2015, 06:33:55 PM
Dr Beeching been at it again? (OK, I suppose I'm the only one old enough to remember him :(  )
he sacked my dad who was a signalman  - did 24 1/2 years - needed 25 for a pension - they are trying to open the line again..........
Title: Re: Lewisia 2015
Post by: Roma on April 12, 2015, 10:33:29 PM
Lewisia tweedyi lemon form - just a little plant with two flowers
Title: Re: Lewisia 2015
Post by: Graeme on April 13, 2015, 05:28:47 PM
first one in flower - it is a big plant but a bit scruffy

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Title: Re: Lewisia 2015
Post by: David Nicholson on April 13, 2015, 06:31:39 PM
Still waiting for mine, the end of this week might do it.
Title: Re: Lewisia 2015
Post by: Graeme on April 13, 2015, 09:10:50 PM
has anyone got a strong well flowering pure White Lewisia tweedyi - mine just limps along from year to year - never produces many flowers and never seen any seed off it - all the other colours do well with me just the white plant I have never looks good?
Title: Re: Lewisia 2015
Post by: David Nicholson on April 14, 2015, 08:26:58 AM
I bought one from Ashwood last year, time will tell!
Title: Re: Lewisia 2015
Post by: Johan K. on April 15, 2015, 01:19:06 PM
Very nice to see Johan, mine will be a couple of weeks yet.

Thanks David.
Title: Re: Lewisia 2015
Post by: Johan K. on April 15, 2015, 01:24:31 PM
Sun Ray lamps?

Nothing special.
These plants are in an unheated greenhouse.
Title: Re: Lewisia 2015
Post by: Mark Griffiths on April 21, 2015, 02:01:28 PM
has anyone got a strong well flowering pure White Lewisia tweedyi - mine just limps along from year to year - never produces many flowers and never seen any seed off it - all the other colours do well with me just the white plant I have never looks good?

I had a nice one. Right up to the time it died :(
Title: Re: Lewisia 2015
Post by: David Nicholson on April 21, 2015, 03:46:13 PM
I had a nice one. Right up to the time it died :(
.

Funnily enough so has mine, I thought I was tempting Providence.
Title: Re: Lewisia 2015
Post by: Mark Griffiths on April 21, 2015, 04:04:38 PM
I had a mixed seed pot - var rosea and alba (from the year before). I had hoped I had several albas but it seems all the rest were roseas. If anything the alba was bigger and more vogorous than the roseas.

Title: Re: Lewisia 2015
Post by: Johan K. on April 21, 2015, 09:53:37 PM
A few flowering Lewisia.

Photo 1 and 2 Lewisia cotyledon

Photo 3 Lewisia cotyledon 'Patty's Plum'
Title: Re: Lewisia 2015
Post by: Johan K. on April 21, 2015, 09:57:24 PM
Photo 1 Lewisia 'George Henley'

Photo 2 Lewisia 'Ashwood Carousel'

Photo 3 Lewisia columbiana

Title: Re: Lewisia 2015
Post by: Johan K. on April 21, 2015, 10:01:29 PM
And a first flower in the rockgarden on a Lewisia cotyledon hybrid.
Title: Re: Lewisia 2015
Post by: David Nicholson on April 22, 2015, 07:04:32 PM
Johan, nice collection there. Are they all in the garden, I have never dared to try them outside in my climate?
Title: Re: Lewisia 2015
Post by: Johan K. on April 22, 2015, 09:10:20 PM
Thanks for the nice comment David.

Only the last picture is taken in the garden.
Other plants in the garden will start to flower soon.

The other plants stand in an unheated greenhouse in a pot, and a few in a small rockgarden in an open greenhouse.
Title: Re: Lewisia 2015
Post by: Johan K. on May 03, 2015, 08:59:34 PM
Two Lewisia cotyledon 'Patty's Plum' in pot.

And Lewisia cotyledon hybrid in the garden.
Title: Re: Lewisia 2015
Post by: Roma on May 18, 2015, 01:35:29 PM
Lewisia rediviva

I think this is their third flowering from seed sown in January 2009
I had seed from AGS and SRGC seed exchanges but it was from the same donor.  Many thanks to Mr & Mrs Fowler for collecting such fine seed which has given me plants that have survived my hit or miss cultivation for longer than any I've had before.
Title: Re: Lewisia 2015
Post by: Maggi Young on May 18, 2015, 01:44:13 PM
Roma, thanks for showing these fantastic flowers. They are so gorgeous. 
Title: Re: Lewisia 2015
Post by: David Nicholson on May 18, 2015, 02:23:08 PM
Lovely Roma, I never have any success with rediviva.
Title: Re: Lewisia 2015
Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on May 18, 2015, 03:20:26 PM
Lewisia rediviva

I think this is their third flowering from seed sown in January 2009
I had seed from AGS and SRGC seed exchanges but it was from the same donor.  Many thanks to Mr & Mrs Fowler for collecting such fine seed which has given me plants that have survived my hit or miss cultivation for longer than any I've had before.

Congratulations, Roma, they are gorgeous !!
Title: Re: Lewisia 2015
Post by: Roma on May 20, 2015, 09:40:08 PM
Thanks Maggi, David, Luc.  I can't resist showing more pictures.  The three pink ones together then the pale pink with the two whites followed by three individual flowers.
Title: Re: Lewisia 2015
Post by: Matt T on May 20, 2015, 10:17:08 PM
So much variation when you look at them closely and all together like that. Beautiful plants, Roma.
Title: Re: Lewisia 2015
Post by: astragalus on May 21, 2015, 01:06:38 AM
Variable and all are beautiful.
Title: Re: Lewisia 2015
Post by: Johan K. on June 23, 2015, 09:20:48 PM
A few Lewisia's.
Title: Re: Lewisia 2015
Post by: Maggi Young on June 23, 2015, 09:22:22 PM
That's a good white, Johan.  8)
Title: Re: Lewisia 2015
Post by: Johan K. on June 23, 2015, 10:08:40 PM
That's a good white, Johan.  8)

Thank You Maggi.
Title: Re: Lewisia 2015
Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on June 24, 2015, 07:57:49 AM
This Lewisia columbiana did very well this year.
The plant must be 12 or 13 years old and has lost rosettes that rotted off in the past, but it recovers every time and this is the result.
Title: Re: Lewisia 2015
Post by: Jupiter on June 24, 2015, 08:55:57 AM
Oh wow Luc, I have a little one of these in the rock garden. I hope it does half as well as yours.
Title: Re: Lewisia 2015
Post by: David Nicholson on June 24, 2015, 09:08:51 AM
Magnifico Luc, far better than mine which is under glass.
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