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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: fermi de Sousa on September 01, 2021, 03:12:34 PM
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Officially the start of spring here and the weather didn't disappoint! Lovely sunshine after a cool (but not frosty) morning.
The first pic is Narcissus nivalis - which has been flowering since May! Grown from seed from Ashley from seed originally from Rafa!
Next is what I've grown as Nothoscordum ostenii which according to "Plants of the World On-line" is a synonym of N. felipponei.
However the third pic is a comparison of the two!
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fermi
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1) we got this Lewisia cotyledon from a friend back in February and it has survived the winter!
2) Trillium chloropetalum
3) Anemone blanda - first flowering from seed from Marcus Harvey in 2013!
4) Tulipa 'Little Beauty'
5) Moraea (syn Galaxia) fugacissima - just fading, a few minutes later they had collapsed,
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fermi
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I'm not sure if this is Isopogon cuneatus or a hybrid, but it has done well in a sand bed for a number of years.
The pattern of the buds are a feature even before they open
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fermi
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Lovely thing. What are the main pollinators, driving evolution of this flower form?
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Lovely thing. What are the main pollinators, driving evolution of this flower form?
Good question, Ashley, that I can't answer!
Here's a link to a 2018 newsletter where they ask members to keep an eye out for pollinators http://anpsa.org.au/iso-petSG/iso-pet23.pdf (http://anpsa.org.au/iso-petSG/iso-pet23.pdf)
Funnily enough one member uses the term Iso-Pets to cover Isopogons and Petrophiles! Quite a different use of the term nowadays for those fur-babies which have come into people's lives during isolation ;D
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fermi
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Fascinating newsletter Fermi; thank you.
In the long-ago days when we could visit family there I tried encouraging them to grow more natives, but with limited success :'( ;)
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1) Narcissus 'Fencourt Jewel' 8WP
2) Narcissus 'No Matta' ('Cloth of Gold' x Welch seedling) from Lawrence Trevanion
3) Scilla bithynica
4) Narcissus 7WP 'Quickstep' x N. fernandesii
5) Tropaeolum brachyceras
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fermi
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Some seed raised plants in flower now:
1) Anemone pavonina red with white centre grown from SRGC Seedex seed
2) Tulipa agenensis ssp sharonensis - seed from Miriam in Israel
3) Allium israeliticum - from "Seeds of Peace"
4) Scilla libanotica - thanks to Ashley. First flower opened a few days ago but the others have withered :( It might have become a bit too warm for them? Not sure.
5) Moraea bipartita - seed from NZAGS
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fermi
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And now for something completely different!
Some remnant native vegetation on the roadside on the way to Bendigo yesterday:
1-3) Daviesia sp which might be D. leptophylla
4-5) Grevillea alpina
More to come!
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fermi
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More from the roadside:
1) a Dianella species, probably D. revoluta already in flower
2) An Ozothamnus species just beginning to flower
3 & 4) Drosera auriculata, the "Tall Sundew"
5) Xerochrysum viscosum, the "Sticky Everlasting" about to come into flower
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fermi
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A species of Hibbertia which might be H. exutiacies
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fermi
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Leucopogon virgatus (I think) one of the "Bearded Heaths"
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fermi
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And a few terrestrial orchids!
Glossodia major, the "Wax Lip Orchid"
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fermi
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More Wax-lips - - Glossodia major
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fermi
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Golden moths - Diuris chryseopsis
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fermi
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Crikey, fermi! Some roadsides are prettier than others!!
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Crikey, fermi! Some roadsides are prettier than others!!
...and I avoided taking pics of the trash left by people or thrown from cars :(
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fermi
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Well done on missing out the trash - some people are beyond disgusting.
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News has arrived from Austrlia of the award of the John Pascoe Fawkner Medals for horticultural excellence to two members of the Victoria AGS group . These well deserved medals have been awarded from the Royal Horticultural Society of Victoria to Fermi de Sousa and Viv Condon ! These two, well known members here too, of course, are real "engine-houses" of the AGS Victoria group.
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Huge congratulations to you both! Very well deserved indeed.
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Thank you, Maggi, for your best wishes.
And here I was thinking it was a thankless task :D
Here are a few more things in flower now in our garden
1) Narcissus obesus
2) Narcissus 'Xit'
3) Tulipa batalinii 'Red Hunter'
4) DBI 'Making Eyes'
5) Westringia longifolia
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fermi
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Some pics from a couple of weeks ago:
1) Cyclamen persicum ex Rhodes
2) Hesperantha vaginata
3) Hesperantha vaginata v. stanfordiae
4) Pauridia sp. possibly P. gracilis
5) Tulipa clusiana 'Lady Jane'
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fermi
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Some more from 2 weeks ago:
1) Tulipa agenensis ssp. sharonensis
2) Tulipa vvedenskyi
3) Narcissus 'Slip Slop'
4) Tulipa saxatilis
5) DBI 'Wanganui Gem'
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fermi
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1) Narcissus 7WP 'Quickstep' x N. fernandesi
2) Iris ‘Making Eyes’ SDB (Blyth, 1982)
3) Tulipa clusiana 'Tinka'
4) Tulipa stapfi'
5) Narcissus 'Golden Echo'
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fermi
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Some daffs taken on 12-09-21
1) Narcissus 'Pipit'
2) Narcissus 'Binkie Bell'
3) Narcissus 'Christmas Valley'
4) Narcissus 'Red Aria'
5) Narcissus 'Double Gold Medal'
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fermi
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1) Scilla italica
2) Lachenalia mutabilis
3) Geissorhiza sp. possibly G. foliosa
4) Phebalium sp
5) Asarum splendens
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fermi
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1) Paeonia mascula rossoi
2) Tulipa sp. Fergana Group
3) Sparaxis - maybe S. grandiflora - purple form
4) Sparaxis - maybe S. grandiflora - white form
5) "Settlers' White" - Iris albicans
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fermi
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My word, you're garden is a real spring picture, fermi- so many beauties ! Our garden is largely fifty shades of green at this time of year in Aberdeen so very exciting to see all the colour you have.
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1) Narcissus 7WP 'Quickstep' x N. fernandesi
Crumbs, what a fabulous display!
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Lovely show of spring colour, Fermi. Is Scilla italica a well-behaved? I bought some last year, but was a bit hesitant, given the invasive nature of our native bluebells in Scotland. I wondered if this scilla would be just as thuggish?
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My word, you're garden is a real spring picture, fermi- so many beauties ! Our garden is largely fifty shades of green at this time of year in Aberdeen
The garden has a lot of green in it - mostly weeds but I can crop most of them out of the pics ;D
The big difference between our gardens at the end of summer is that ours will be 50 shades of brown!
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fermi
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Lovely show of spring colour, Fermi. Is Scilla italica a well-behaved? I bought some last year, but was a bit hesitant, given the invasive nature of our native bluebells in Scotland. I wondered if this scilla would be just as thuggish?
Hi Carolyn,
that clump of Scilla italica has been in the rock garden since around 2014 and first flowered in 2016. So far I see no evidence of any tendency to invasiveness. Fingers crossed that that wasn't "famous last words"!
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fermi
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Crumbs, what a fabulous display!
Hi Maggi,
it's the most impressive that it's ever been - a good reminder of the great grower from whom I got it (though it wasn't his own hybrid)
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fermi
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Moraea 'Karen Howard' - a hybrid of M. atropunctata
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fermi
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1) DBI 'Moon Sundae'
2) MBI 'Taja'
3) white Delosperma cooperi seedling
4) Allium drummondii
5) Moraea bipartita
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fermi
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1) Moraea marlothii
2) DBI 'Toy Clown'
3) Allium neapolitanum
4) Oncocyclus iris hybrid I got from Marcus Harvey, raised by Pat Toolan
5) Moraea atropunctata
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fermi
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Hi Carolyn,
that clump of Scilla italica has been in the rock garden since around 2014 and first flowered in 2016. So far I see no evidence of any tendency to invasiveness. Fingers crossed that that wasn't "famous last words"!
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fermi
Thanks, Fermi, that sounds encouraging. (But do let me know if your opinion changes!)
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1) Geissorhiza splendidissima
2) Lapeirousia divaricata
3) Babiana vanzyliae
4) Oxalia obtusa 'Peaches & Cream'
5) Tan and maroon PCI hybrid
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fermi