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Title: September 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 01, 2021, 03:12:34 PM
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!
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: September 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 02, 2021, 03:35:15 PM
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,
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: September 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 03, 2021, 03:49:19 PM
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
Title: Re: September 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: ashley on September 03, 2021, 07:07:09 PM
Lovely thing.  What are the main pollinators, driving evolution of this flower form?
Title: Re: September 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 05, 2021, 03:50:15 AM
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
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: September 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: ashley on September 05, 2021, 11:22:25 AM
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 :'( ;)
Title: Re: September 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 09, 2021, 01:03:42 AM
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
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: September 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 10, 2021, 10:52:14 AM
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
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: September 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 15, 2021, 03:46:08 AM
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!
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: September 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 15, 2021, 03:54:30 AM
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
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: September 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 15, 2021, 03:56:33 AM
A species of Hibbertia which might be H. exutiacies
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fermi
Title: Re: September 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 15, 2021, 04:01:11 AM
Leucopogon virgatus (I think) one of the "Bearded Heaths"
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fermi
Title: Re: September 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 15, 2021, 04:04:53 AM
And a few terrestrial orchids!
Glossodia major, the "Wax Lip Orchid"
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fermi
Title: Re: September 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 15, 2021, 04:08:52 AM
More Wax-lips - - Glossodia major
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fermi
Title: Re: September 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 15, 2021, 04:14:37 AM
Golden moths - Diuris chryseopsis
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fermi
Title: Re: September 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: Maggi Young on September 15, 2021, 04:55:17 PM
Crikey, fermi! Some  roadsides are  prettier than others!!
Title: Re: September 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 15, 2021, 04:58:04 PM
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
Title: Re: September 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: Maggi Young on September 15, 2021, 04:59:22 PM
Well done on missing out the  trash - some people are  beyond disgusting.
Title: Re: September 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: Maggi Young on September 22, 2021, 04:46:16 PM
 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.
Title: Re: September 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 24, 2021, 03:23:09 PM
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
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: September 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 27, 2021, 02:13:49 AM
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'
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: September 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 27, 2021, 02:19:28 AM
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'
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: September 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 27, 2021, 02:24:16 AM
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'
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: September 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 27, 2021, 02:30:15 AM
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
Title: Re: September 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 27, 2021, 02:37:35 AM
1) Scilla italica
2) Lachenalia mutabilis
3) Geissorhiza sp. possibly G. foliosa
4) Phebalium sp
5) Asarum splendens
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fermi
Title: Re: September 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 27, 2021, 02:46:21 AM
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
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: September 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: Maggi Young on September 27, 2021, 12:25:57 PM
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!
Title: Re: September 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: Carolyn on September 27, 2021, 01:18:14 PM
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?
Title: Re: September 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 27, 2021, 03:21:01 PM
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!
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: September 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 27, 2021, 03:30:13 PM
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"!
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: September 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 27, 2021, 03:39:25 PM
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)
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: September 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 27, 2021, 03:46:11 PM
Moraea 'Karen Howard' - a hybrid of M. atropunctata
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fermi
Title: Re: September 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 27, 2021, 03:52:37 PM
1) DBI 'Moon Sundae'
2) MBI 'Taja'
3) white Delosperma cooperi seedling
4) Allium drummondii
5) Moraea bipartita
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fermi
Title: Re: September 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 27, 2021, 04:12:21 PM
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
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: September 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: Carolyn on September 27, 2021, 06:25:10 PM
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"!
cheers
fermi

Thanks, Fermi, that sounds encouraging. (But do let me know if your opinion changes!)
Title: Re: September 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 30, 2021, 08:10:54 AM
1) Geissorhiza splendidissima
2) Lapeirousia divaricata
3) Babiana vanzyliae
4) Oxalia obtusa 'Peaches & Cream'
5) Tan and maroon PCI hybrid
cheers
fermi
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