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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: fermi de Sousa on February 29, 2016, 01:27:33 PM
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Today is the official start of autumn but summer is apparently still in control with the temperatures in the mid-30s all this week and probably the next as well.
Appropriately the autumn flowering Narcissus hybrid 'First Stanza' (N.elegans x 'Soleil D'or') is in bloom;
A couple of colchicums are also in bloom
cheers
fermi
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Fermi,
I enjoyed the "autumn" blooming Narcissus. Thank you for sharing. Such plants are refreshing to see in the garden after the long hot summer.
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A delightful little Narcissus Fermi. I'm hoping I may get some flowers from the large bulbs of N. viridiflorus that Bill D. gave me. It may not be hot enough here in the south for them to continue flowering next year though.
Talking of which, did you see a beautiful hybrid of viridiflorus on Facebook today? It is called 'Lima's Green Goddess' and is really superb - and fragrant too!
As to summer still in control, it's just 10C here today with a bitter southerly. A bit of a shock after February's days of 30C and more.
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I agree that the Narcissus viridiflorus hybrids have great appeal - evidenced by how often we have discussed them in the Forum over the year!
Back in 2008 Luit showed some of this type of hybrid : http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=1167.msg26379#msg26379 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=1167.msg26379#msg26379)
And there's a great discussion we linked to previously here:
http://daffnet.org/dutch-grown-viridiflorus-hybrid-collection/?fb_action_ids=1089641601049064&fb_action_types=og.likes (http://daffnet.org/dutch-grown-viridiflorus-hybrid-collection/?fb_action_ids=1089641601049064&fb_action_types=og.likes)
and these : http://trevaniondaffodils.com.au/jonquilsplus.html (http://trevaniondaffodils.com.au/jonquilsplus.html)
http://daffnet.org/n-viridiflorus-hybrids-a-revolution-in-the-daffodil-world/ (http://daffnet.org/n-viridiflorus-hybrids-a-revolution-in-the-daffodil-world/) - where the American heritage of the "Lima " hybrids is confirmed
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But where can you buy them?
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Given the various Australian and North American connections, I suppose in Australia and Canada, America. There used to be a live link to Leenen in Holland about these hybrids, but it has disappeared now. The company exisits, of course, but not the page they called "Viridiflora" http://www.wfleenen.com/en/ (http://www.wfleenen.com/en/)
And http://www.dutchgrown.com (http://www.dutchgrown.com) were selling collections of un-named seedlings from Leenen. Bothe these firms are wholesalers I think.
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http://www.ringhaddy-daffodils.com/acatalog/Lima_s_Green_Goddess.html (http://www.ringhaddy-daffodils.com/acatalog/Lima_s_Green_Goddess.html) for the same price as two mid-range snowdrops!
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But where can you buy them?
As Matt says, from Ringhaddy, when they are in stock - the same place where you got Narcissus 'Lima's Shooting Stars' that you showed us in 2014.... http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=11696.msg316410#msg316410 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=11696.msg316410#msg316410) ;D
I knew I'd seen them mentioned before!
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As Matt says, from Ringhaddy, when they are in stock - the same place where you got Narcissus 'Lima's Shooting Stars' that you showed us in 2014.... http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=11696.msg316410#msg316410 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=11696.msg316410#msg316410) ;D
I knew I'd seen them mentioned before!
Yes, but that was the only one they had at that time. I'd like to get some more of the Lima's hybrids.
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But where can you buy them?
For those of us in Australia:
http://www.trevaniondaffodils.com.au/index.html (http://www.trevaniondaffodils.com.au/index.html)
cheers
fermi
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A delightful little Narcissus Fermi. I'm hoping I may get some flowers from the large bulbs of N. viridiflorus that Bill D. gave me. It may not be hot enough here in the south for them to continue flowering next year though.
Dave Toole manages to get them to flower every year. You have hotter summers than we do Lesley. Nae bother, as they say!
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Flowering now in the upper rock garden is this variegated Yucca, not sure on the exact species,
cheers
fermi
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Australian forumist and rosarian Pat Toolan is featured in a local paper..... 8)
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Thanks, Maggi,
Maybe they'll do a follow up article about her incredible irises! ;D
Today felt a bit more like autumn (despite getting to 31oC) with the first bloom on Moraea polystachya.
And Lycoris elsae has reached peak bloom,
cheers
fermi
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Couple of crackers there Fermi.
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Great to see Pat in print! She's probably a bit blasé about it by now. :)
Fermi, Lycoris elsae is love-er-ly. I like the cream. I have the little Lycoris radiata you gave me up, but too young to flower yet.
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Couple of crackers there Fermi.
Hi Dave,
thanks - I like these as I don't have to do much for them except keep the ground cleared around them. ;D
Here's the Commelina elegans looking rather voluptuous as it is in a watered bed; the flowers open in the morning and are withered as the day heats up,
cheers
fermi
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Perhaps a halfway acceptable substitute Fermi for the glorious autumn flowering Asiatic gentians. I have them starting now after good rain, assorted seedlings from the sino-ornata lookalikes of various parentage as well as depressa and some out of season acaulis. still trying to work out the photo programme on this laptop.
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not much in flower in my late summer rock garden except some Campanulas , Gentians and a number of Ericas , Callunas and Daboecia various species and cultivars . In my opinion these 3 Genera should be grown more often in Australian gardens . Shown here is Erica ciliaris the Dorset Heath . Also a 20 year old Cyclamen rohlfsianum with more than 100 hundred flowers grown by Rex Shield.
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Nice photos Otto. Your Rhodophiala bifida is very showy in a large clump like that.
Here's my offering; Crocus speciosus albus and Ipomoea 'Carnevale di Venezia'.
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Wonderful colouring in the Stepelia.
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... Ipomoea 'Carnevale di Venezia'.
What an interesting morning glory, Jamus!
Is every flower different?
Does it come true from seed? ;)
Here is Sternbergia finally in flower in our garden,
cheers
fermi
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Yes Fermi every flower is different. I would have said it comes true from seed until the other day when a plain white one opened. I will send you some.
First flower out today on my Ceropegia ampliata, and this little Hebe which I bough yesterday from a local nursery. It's a hybrid called Emerald Green. I love it.
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More for you Fermi.
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Very nice, Jamus.
You can try some of the Ipomaea lindheimeri which is setting seed right now!
Sternbergia sicula continues to shine, even more so when the sun is also shining ;D
cheers
fermi
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The Sternbergia certainly love you climate, Fermi. They just scream sunshine!
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The first of the autumn narcissi are out here in Auckland. Narcissus obsoletus and N. elegans. The first two pics are of N. obsoletus from southern Spain and sown May 2011. These first flowered in 2014. The last two pics are of N. elegans, also southern Spain, and were sown March 2012, and this is the first time it's flowered. These came from near Malaga, and were originally labelled N. malacitanus. I have another pot labelled N. malacitanus multiflower, but they are a little behind this pot.
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Anthony thank you for posting those pictures. I love the Narcissus species you grow. Maybe we can trade some seed one day? :)