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Author Topic: Zephyranthes and some other amaryllids... 2008-2009  (Read 42949 times)

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Re: Zephyranthes 2008-2009
« Reply #225 on: November 02, 2009, 08:02:52 PM »
Yep, but entirely sincere. :)

Just had a thought - speaking of amaryllids whose stems don't bend or curve toward the flower, I'm not keen on Narcissus hedreanthus either and I'm pretty sure that is why.
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Re: Zephyranthes 2008-2009
« Reply #226 on: November 02, 2009, 08:16:28 PM »
Darren ,

after KEW is Z.smalli a hybrid between Z.chlorosolen x Z.pulchella

Zeph. chlorosolen was earlier Cooperia - this plants have no curved flowerstem

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Re: Zephyranthes 2008-2009
« Reply #227 on: November 02, 2009, 08:21:03 PM »
Quote from: Darren on November 02, 2009, 08:02:52 PM
Yep, but entirely sincere. :)

Just had a thought - speaking of amaryllids whose stems don't bend or curve toward the flower, I'm not keen on Narcissus hedreanthus either and I'm pretty sure that is why.

 ;D ;D :P



As to the non-curved stems... I do know what you nean... it is a bit odd. Not enough to put me off, though. Mind you, I like Rhodohypoxis because they have no visible middle!!  ::)
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Re: Zephyranthes 2008-2009
« Reply #228 on: November 02, 2009, 08:24:11 PM »
Quote from: David Nicholson on November 02, 2009, 07:52:02 PM
Quote from: Darren on November 02, 2009, 07:48:50 PM
...........nor does it have a graceful air to it, unlike, say, Maggi.

Crawler! ;D
Shush, David, leave the nice young man be.... :)



PS: any contributions to Darren's spectacle fund are welcome via the website....... :-*
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Re: Zephyranthes 2008-2009
« Reply #229 on: November 02, 2009, 08:25:35 PM »
Thanks Hans - that suggests that the ID might be correct doesn't it?

I might get some florists wire & put a kink in the stem myself & see if I like it more..

As for Rhodohypoxis, I shall refrain from commenting ;)

Nice? Young? Me? Cor! Thanks! Are you reading this Susan???

Oh - and I reserve the right to keep the spectacle fund in case I go to the bar at the discussion weekend next year.
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Re: Zephyranthes 2008-2009
« Reply #230 on: November 02, 2009, 09:55:36 PM »
Quote from: Maggi Young on November 02, 2009, 08:24:11 PM
Shush, David, leave the nice young man be.... :)

PS: any contributions to Darren's spectacle fund are welcome via the website....... :-*

Maggi,

Is that spectacle as in sight correcting apparatus, or spectacle as in the spectacle he's making of himself with all that crawling.  ;D ;D  I think I've mentioned before that my brother is a crawler.... he was in the Guiness Book of Records for it.  :o

Personally, I'm just wondering what Darren has done wrong that he's trying to make amends for..... or is it something he plans to do that he has decided to make amends for before it happens?  Sort of a "compliments in the bank" idea to have him in credit for the future?

Maybe I'm just thinking too much. :-\
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Re: Zephyranthes 2008-2009
« Reply #231 on: November 03, 2009, 08:27:28 AM »
Like most blokes I cannot claim to have done nothing wrong, I just haven't been found out yet.... ;)

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Re: Zephyranthes 2008-2009
« Reply #232 on: November 03, 2009, 09:41:41 AM »
 ;D ;D  Very true!!
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Re: Zephyranthes 2008-2009
« Reply #233 on: November 22, 2009, 06:14:36 PM »
I am happy to see Zephyranthes germinations now. Thank at the kind 'father' ;) who offered me them
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Re: Zephyranthes 2008-2009
« Reply #234 on: November 22, 2009, 06:19:54 PM »
 ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Zephyranthes 2008-2009
« Reply #235 on: November 22, 2009, 06:29:55 PM »
nice cat on the pic, Hans
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Re: Zephyranthes 2008-2009
« Reply #236 on: November 22, 2009, 06:34:57 PM »
Thanks Dom !

Thats our 'Felix' ...now 16 years old  8)
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Re: Zephyranthes 2008-2009
« Reply #237 on: November 22, 2009, 08:56:36 PM »
Hi Hans
Love Felix 8)
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Re: Zephyranthes 2008-2009
« Reply #238 on: November 22, 2009, 09:11:21 PM »
Hans, Felix looks so at home in a terracotta pot - were there seedlings in it  :o ;D
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Re: Zephyranthes 2008-2009
« Reply #239 on: December 01, 2009, 07:36:43 AM »
We had some heavy rain last week and on Wednesday I noticed some buds arising on the rain-lily patch:
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the next day they were out in full bloom: Habranthus tubispathus growing with Alstroemeria hookeri
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The "Apricot or Salmon pink form"
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And what I received as H. martinezii but which Alberto C tells me is more likely to be another form of H. tubispathus
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A couple of days later I took a pic of H. robustus (seedlings ex "Russell Manning" - seed of which have been donated to the Seedex!), but they were past their best  :-[
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But with more rain I found the Apricot ones were sending up a second flush of flowers! And all this before the summer - so much for calling them "autumn flowerers"!
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