Nerine 2016

[Menai]

Thank you John & Malcolm. My recently acquired  books on SA bulbs - du Plessis. Duncan et al. don't mention this ssp so I was confused.

Erle

[johnralphcarpenter]

Nerine humilis var. breachiae, Nerine 'Rushmere Star', Nerine 'Countess of Mulgrave'.

[David Nicholson]

Very nice Ralph, I'm still failing miserably to grow them.

Late next month I'm going to see a National Collection "of Hardy Nerines, N. sarniensis and cultivars, 3500 pots with in excess of 450 varieties". Will get some pictures if I can.

[johnralphcarpenter]

Thank you David; not happy with the colour rendition of 'Countess of Mulgrave' so I had another go. This time the colour is correct but it is out of focus! Hey ho.

[johnralphcarpenter]

Nerine 'Ophelia'.

[johnralphcarpenter]

Nerine 'Mark Fenwick'.

[ashley]

Nice plants Ralph  
What I have as humilis var. breachiae is still a few days off opening but has emerging, upright leaves and looks similar to straight humilis.  It certainly doesn't fit the description of Breachiae Group on the Nerine & Amaryllid Society website as 'Distinguished from typical N. humilis by the leaves, which appear as the flowers wither, being pressed flat against the ground.' 

[johnralphcarpenter]

Nerine bowdenii. I bought this at the Great Dixter Autumn Plant Fair, from Hilliers. They said it is an unnamed seedling grown from seed collected by Tom Mitchell - there were a range of pinks available.

[johnw]

Ashley  - A very elegant N. humilis!


john

[johnw]

Nerine SPS- X6 originated from the first batch of seed (these were open-pollinated with female parent not noted) of Sir Peter Smithers' selected Nerines that he sent us many years ago.  I split the seed with Joe Harvey, these grew very quickly and Joe flowered the first one 18 months later.  This selection SPS -X6 of mine has flowered reliably every year, big flowers, 11 per truss.  Nerines are extremely difficult to photograph and capture the true colour plus sparkly bits, this shot taken under bench. 

The tag denotes one flower crossed with a white N. bowdenii ex Ken Hall.

johnw

[johnralphcarpenter]

Nice plants Ralph  
What I have as humilis var. breachiae is still a few days off opening but has emerging, upright leaves and looks similar to straight humilis.  It certainly doesn't fit the description of Breachiae Group on the Nerine & Amaryllid Society website as 'Distinguished from typical N. humilis by the leaves, which appear as the flowers wither, being pressed flat against the ground.' 

Like this?

[Michael J Campbell]

Nerine sarniensis, Hyb

[brianw]

There were several "Amarines" round in the garden centres last year. In bud/flower then. I have grown some nice leaves but no flowers this year so far. Advice welcome. Mine are in large pots. Maybe they need starving.

[johnw]

Great colour and form Michael!

Quite taken today by the colour and sturdiness  of N. bowdenii 'Isabel', she weathered yesterday's huge storm.

john

[Senecio 2]

I wonder if any of the nerine growers on the forum would help me with a query? I recently bought a bulb of N.flexuosa Alba, some still use this name, some say it is now undulata and others say it's humilis. Does anyone know the correct name to use?

For what it is worth below are pics of what I grow as N. humilis and N. flexuosa. N. flexuosa alba is grown by the thousands outdoors in New Zealand as a winter cut flower and has the same form as the pink one in the photo.