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Title: Moraea 2020
Post by: Ophrys on April 19, 2020, 06:40:21 AM
This year everything is very early. Another example is the genus Moraea. Moraea ochroleuca is flowering in its beauty.

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Title: Re: Moraea 2020 - Moraea vegeta
Post by: Ophrys on April 24, 2020, 07:53:11 PM
Moraea vegeta is second flowering Moraea. It is a small species with tiny but nevertheless beautiful flowers.

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Title: Re: Moraea 2020
Post by: Mariette on April 24, 2020, 08:39:28 PM
Beautiful pics, Ophrys! Moraea ochroleuca flowered in my greenhouse for the first time this year. It came as a lost label plant from a friend to me. I like the lovely scent, too.

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Title: Re: Moraea 2020
Post by: Ophrys on April 25, 2020, 08:56:56 PM
Vielen Dank, Mariette!
 
I'm happy that there are other people working with Moareas. The genus Moraea is not the easiest north of the Alps. I see you have the same phenomenon that the Moraea ochroleuca is growing distorted.
Very nice Auriculas in the front!
Title: Re: Moraea - Moraea sisyrinchium
Post by: Ophrys on April 28, 2020, 06:36:31 PM
The genus Moraea works not bad this year. Moraea sisyrinchium is the third in the row. Moraea sisyrinchium in the sun and in a softer light in the evening.
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Title: Re: Moraea 2020 - Moraea simulans
Post by: Ophrys on May 09, 2020, 07:25:59 AM
The flowers of Moraea simulans are tiny but very delicate and beautiful. They easily produce seeds that I will try to grow progeny of it.
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Title: Re: Moraea 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on August 28, 2020, 02:58:29 PM
Moraea tripetala - the first pic on 6th August
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fermi
Title: Re: Moraea 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on August 28, 2020, 03:03:33 PM
Moraea macronyx
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fermi
Title: Re: Moraea 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on August 28, 2020, 03:06:59 PM
Moraea polystachya - starts in autumn and continues on through the winter
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fermi
Title: Re: Moraea 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on August 28, 2020, 03:09:33 PM
Moraea bipartita first flowers of the season today
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fermi
Title: Re: Moraea 2020
Post by: David Nicholson on August 28, 2020, 04:49:08 PM
Spring springing then Fermi?

Title: Re: Moraea 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on August 29, 2020, 10:22:38 AM
Hi David,
officially spring on Tuesday but we always have a burst of bloom at this time of year - some people call this period "Sprinter" being a combination of winter and spring
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Moraea 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 16, 2020, 04:02:50 PM
Moraea versicolor (used to be in Galaxia) grown from seed from Gordon Summerfield
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fermi
Title: Re: Moraea 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 16, 2020, 04:15:16 PM
Moraea marlothii originally from seed from SIGNA Seedex
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fermi
Title: Re: Moraea 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 30, 2020, 05:22:54 AM
Moraea aristata looking stunning
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fermi
Title: Re: Moraea 2020
Post by: Diane Whitehead on September 30, 2020, 05:28:29 AM
Wonderful blue-eyed faces.
Title: Re: Moraea 2020
Post by: Leena on September 30, 2020, 07:27:36 AM
Moraea aristata looking stunning

It is stunning! I wonder if it is hardy enough to grow here? Maybe not.
Title: Re: Moraea 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 30, 2020, 03:22:32 PM
It is stunning! I wonder if it is hardy enough to grow here? Maybe not.
Hi Leena,
here they have survived in the ground a drop to -7oC which other South African bulbs in pots did not.
Here is Moraea setifolia which can seed about a bit - I try to collect as much of the seed as I can
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Moraea 2020
Post by: Leena on September 30, 2020, 06:58:08 PM
Hi Leena,
here they have survived in the ground a drop to -7oC which other South African bulbs in pots did not.

Here it may be -20C without snow in bad winters (though last winter the minimum was less), so I will just have to admire your pictures. :) They look very nice.
Title: Re: Moraea 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on October 01, 2020, 11:07:48 AM
Here it may be -20C without snow in bad winters (though last winter the minimum was less), so I will just have to admire your pictures. :)
Thanks, Leena,
I feel the same about things like Meconopsis I see here but not in my garden :)
The latest to flower is Moraea atropunctata which we got earlier in the year from Ray Mills (Ray's Unusual Plants) in Guildford.
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Moraea 2020
Post by: Maggi Young on October 01, 2020, 02:33:35 PM
Are you quite  sure  you haven't  been decorating and  dripping the  paint  about, fermi??!!   :-X ;)
Title: Re: Moraea 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on October 02, 2020, 10:19:52 AM
Are you quite  sure  you haven't  been decorating and  dripping the  paint  about, fermi??!!   :-X ;)
Me? Painting?  ;D
Not likely, Maggi!
Here's another spotty one Moraea 'Karen Howard' (M. loubseri x M.atropunctata) which we got earlier in the year from Garry Reid
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Moraea 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on November 07, 2020, 01:34:57 PM
A mystery moraea which has flowered in the old "South African Sand Bed". I wonder if it could be Moraea pritzeliana?
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Moraea 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on November 08, 2020, 10:36:54 AM
Moraea herrei flowering today
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fermi
Title: Re: Moraea 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on November 08, 2020, 11:19:20 AM
Moraea lurida can be really variable in the wild but the forms in cultivation are less so.
These are two variations in our seed raised bunch - one is yellow and the other cream ::)
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fermi
Title: Re: Moraea 2020
Post by: Véronique Macrelle on November 08, 2020, 03:33:51 PM
what beauty !
 could Morea aristata live in zone7 ?
Title: Re: Moraea 2020
Post by: fermi de Sousa on November 09, 2020, 11:08:51 AM
what beauty !
 could Morea aristata live in zone7 ?
Hi Véronique,
I don't follow the zone system here but we get down to -7oC on occasion,
cheers
fermi
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