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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: fermi de Sousa on July 31, 2016, 04:16:49 PM
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The last month of winter! But it is not devoid of flowers!
There are 3 different shades of purple on these 3 seedlings raised from NZAGS Seedex of Lapeirousia oreogena
cheers
fermi
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That's wonderful Fermi, just amazing. Does it set seed for you? I'd love to try some. I have had flowers on the Moraea macronyx you gave me, but my camera is at the doctors so no pictures.
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Those who knew Ms Essie Huxley of Tasmania, will share my joy, when this C.rhodium ssp. peloponnesium, which I received from her so many years ago, reappeared after many years, this past week.Nice to remember people who have passed, by plants that they gifted to you.
I've put a sturdy wire cage around it and will pot it up later.
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C.rhodium
Well do I remember seeing these up at Longley.
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Does it set seed for you? I'd love to try some. I have had flowers on the Moraea macronyx you gave me, but my camera is at the doctors so no pictures.
I'll let you know, Jamus, I'm hopeful that they will produce some seed but they will be crosses between the different clones as they seem designed not to self-pollinate. I missed the first blooms on our Moraea macronyx so no pics here either!
Here are yet more blooms on Moraea polystachya which started flowering in March!
cheers
fermi
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Paul Tyerman was kind and sent me this Galanthus gracilis, which promptly produced 5 flowers! I love it, it's such a dainty species and should suit our climate here better than most.
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My now famous jade green Iris tuberosa only has two flowers this year after I sent pieces off to various people. I'll give it a couple of years to build up before sharing more.
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Trevor Nottle gave me this Fessia greilhuberi, which he insists is a Scilla, and he doesn't believe me that the World has moved on.
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The little retics are starting in the rock garden. Now I just need these wretchedly recalcitrant juno seeds to germinate.
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Otto's favourite snowdrop, S. Arnott is proving reliable. I'm getting braver and might even plant more!
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A great pleasure for us to view Jamus. Thank you. Looking forward to some similar blooms in my Christchurch garden. :)
Edna
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A lovely sunny day today and I got some long overdue weeding done, plus found time for a few photographs.
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Jamus such beautiful photos. The aqua iris tuberosa is stunning.
Your retics are ahead of mine.
I took some photos too - it is almost Spring.
1. Edgeworthia chrysantha blooms opening (a tiny plant, didn't expect it to flower yet)
2. Scilla mischtschenkoana (I think) emerging
3. Chrysosplenium macrophyllum from Lynn McGough
4. The Galanthus S. Arnott is now in full swing. Thanks Marcus and Otto.
5. Wasabi japonicum
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Hmmm, 2 of the photos didn't load.
i'll try again.....
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Parsla, beautiful stuff in your garden. Your clump of S. Arnott is sensational! Wow.. how many flowers? It should thicken up nicely in a few years. Wasabi is something I've considered trying... do you have it in water? I thought it preferred running water? But I guess not.
One more, Isoplexis canariensis.. I LOVE this shrub.
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Yesterday we had a day in the Hills (the Dandenongs) visiting Otto's garden and Tim's garden next door.
Here are some pics from Tim's:
Stone with snowdrops
RockWall topped with hellebores
Helleborus.x.hybridus
double white
double pink
cheers
fermi
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More from Tim's:
Helleborus argutifolius x2
Yellow snowdrops
Double snowdrops ( a named cv but I couldn't read the label- may start with "PAV..."
Arabis - earning it's name "rock cress"
cheers
fermi
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Last ones from Tim's place:
snowdrops and cyclamen
Cyclamen coum self-seeding
Galanthus with long outers
Rhododendron walk
Aucuba japonica in fruit
cheers
fermi
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Back to Otto's:
embankment with Hellebore
Helleborus niger with interesting foliage
Galanthus 'Spindlestone Surprise'
Helleborus torquatus MH seed coll. Montenegro
Leucojum vernum
cheers
fermi
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Thanks Fermi. Glad you're taking time off from the theology ;) ;D
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...Glad you're taking time off from the theology ;) ;D
So is the church!
Back to Otto's:
Otto's saxifraga collection
Corydalis henrikii
Seed raised reticulata iris which is not I.bakeriana despite the seed label!
Otto leads the way
Cyclamen coum on the edge
cheers
fermi
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Still at Otto's:
Narcissus 'Thirty'O'
Juno Iris bucharica
Crocus angustifolius
Iris winogradowii "white form"
Galanthus 'Trym'
cheers
fermi
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More from Otto's last week:
white crocus
White Crocus tommasinianus
Iris histrioides 'Lady Beatrix Stanley'
Polygala chamaebuxus "Albus"
Snowdrops, galanthus and others
cheers
fermi
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Last few at Otto's:
A dwarf Rhodo with Cyclamen coum as an "understorey" ;D
A black Hellebore cv and at it's feet
a tiny pink Hepatica
Hamamelis ?mollis and
a closeup
cheers
fermi
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A few from our garden in Central Victoria (already posted elsewhere):
Moraea macronyx
Retic Iris 'Alida'
Narcissus 'Jessamy with Lachenalia aloides
Narcissus KB-M-12-YY-1-03
Ixia rapunculoides
cheers
fermi
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A few more from our place:
Lapeirousia montana
Pseudomuscari chalusicum
Prostanthera calycina
Lapeirousia oreogena and a close-up
cheers
fermi
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Lovely colours in the Lapeirousia Fermi.
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Thanks Fermi for a great set of photos. I enjoyed seeing your portraits of Otto's garden and yours too.
The kids saving fallen Camellia flowers after a stormy night. :)
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Seems the spring is on its way in the south! I am a bit jealous - I like spring better than autumn :-\
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I saw a family of newly hatched mallards with their mum yesterday morning. 8)
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Some from Saturday.
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Fritillaria graeca
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Otto's "Hint of Green" cyclamineus
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Common Ranunculus
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Spindlestone Surprise
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Scoliopus bigelovii is going to flower! I'm over the moon.
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The hail damaged tulips have still managed to charm us. These double ones are luscious.
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The ruby giant look fabulous at the moment.
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cyclamineus
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Helleborus cv.
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Arum hygrophilum
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One year old Armeria juniperifolia, SRGC seedex
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Saxifraga cochlearis
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A posy of flowers from the garden - an early birthday posy for Maggi!
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fermi
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Wow! So lovely - thanks fermi! :-* :-* :-*
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Here's some flowering now. Galanthus ex 'Magnet Imposter', seed from John W; Galanthus nivalis 'small early' from Edna, Narcissus blancoi, seed from Rafa, Narcissus 'Limequilla' X 'Emerald Sea' and Iris unguicularis cretense, this pot from Bill Dijk.
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Anthony - When Ian C. was here he said would we could safely call our Magnet Imposter 'Magnet'. Your seedling of it appears to have a stronger mark; open-pollinated so we'll never know the father. Here's the mum.
johnw
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That's altogether a much bigger plant. I suspect mine will increase in size. The seeds were sown October 2012 and these are the first flowers.
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Wow! So lovely - thanks fermi! :-* :-* :-*
Glad you liked the flowers, Maggi.
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Today I took some pots of bulbs to work so that I could photograph and pollinate them:
Hesperantha pauciflora
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Lapeirousia montana
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Moraea macronyx
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cheers
fermi
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Love the Lapeirousia (both of them) Fermi.
When I saw Otto recently he told me to "post some pictures on the SRGC forum"! Here are some photos taken recently in my garden.
Some Crocus chrysanthus cultivars
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Crocus sieberi 'Spring Beauty'
Crocus tommasinianus 'Pictus' from Marcus
Crocus reticulatus ssp. reticulatus - wild collected seed from Marcus sown in 2013. Seed collected from Mt Falakro, Greek Macedonia at 1300m
Iris reticulata 04IM - bee pollinated seed from Alan McMurtrie, sown May 2013
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Galanthus 'Barbara's Double'
Galanthus 'Spindlestone Surprise' (thanks Otto)
Muscari from Fermi
One of my favourite hellebores - red flower buds look like fruit from a distance
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This Massonia is on it's way out (it was white). Label bleached by the sun, can't remember which species this is. Originally collected by Cameron McMaster, has a fragrance like Hyacinths. I think I was told that only the ones from this particular area had a fragrance - the rest of the species doesn't.
Romulea hoenicia(?) from seed (came as 'purple Romulea)
Triandrus hybrid 12_6R from Lawrence Trevanion (Canberra breeder)
Wurmbea stricta
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Thanks, Otto! We can always count on you! And kind thanks to Jon for taking up the " challenge " - very exciting to see the spring flowering so beautifully for you. :-*
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At our FCHS Rock Garden Group's Plant Swap in April I got a "string of pearls", Senecio rowleyanus, as an a "cutting" which I put into the Shade-House draped over a couple of other pots - it gradullay put down roots and it is now producing flowers!
cheers
fermi
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Fermi, we love the perfume of Senecio rowleyanus. Similar to clove pinks.
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Comparing 2 Bulbinellas:
Bulbinella robusta (syn. B. robusta)
Bulbinella eburniflora
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fermi
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My vote goes to B. eburniflora although they are great both of them!
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Some things flowering now.
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We went down to the Leongatha Horticultural Society's 60th Daffodil and Floral Show and here are a "few" pics!
Setting up time
Sue (President) preparing her exhibits
Rodney setting up his exhibits
Cutflowers
Magnolias
cheers
fermi
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Leongatha Hort Soc Show:
Australian Native plants
Grevilleas
Acacias
more general exhibits
Hakea bucculenta 'Pink Pokers'
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fermi
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Close-up of Hakea bucculenta 'Pink Pokers'
Acacia williamsonii
Acacia imbricata
Prostanthera magnifica
Diplolaena grandiflora
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fermi
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Display by Society for Growing Australian Plants
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fermi
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Great to see these Fermi, especially the natives.
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Hi Fermi,
thank you for the photos of Otto's garden, and your own. It is so colourful - feels like spring already, even though barely a leaf on show.
Also thank you to viv and jamus for recent advice/comments i hadn't managed to keep up with.
I have a few - just for fun. The iris reticulata have just finished.
1. iris reticulata Cantab
2. iris reticulata George
3. Fritillaria thunbergii under the mulberry
4. Muscari valerie finnis (or baby's breath???)
5. Erythronium tuolumense finding its way up through the veronica 'georgia blue' ground cover.
jacqui
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6. Illicium anisatum bush. much healthier now it has been transplanted under the oak.
7. A lovely hyacinthella pallens gifted by Otto last year has flowered. Can't wait till it clumps up a bit
8. A very dark Anemone blanda, again from Otto, with a central whitish eye
9. the cyclamen leaves looked so pretty together I couldn't resist photographing
Happy Spring!
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Beautiful plants Parsla. I love your Illicium anisatum.. do other parts of the plant smell of aniseed or only the fruits?
A few from my garden today
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The path up the front garden with bulbs in pots.
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Trop. tricolor just getting started
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I. unguicularis ssp. cretensis, a recent addition
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Ranunculus ficaria 'Colarette'
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A gift from Matt Coulter at Mount Lofty BG. Primula denticulata
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Yes, Jacqui,
It was very spring like today!
Tulipa cretica in full bloom;
Babiana pygmaea;
Gladiolus watermeyeri, first flower from NZAGS Seedex 2011, violet scented during the day, not at night;
Romulea sabulosa,
Hesperantha latifolia with an interloper! Could it be a hybrid?
cheers
fermi
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Great to see these Fermi, especially the natives.
Glad you enjoyed them, Ashley, here are a few more:
Petrophile sp
Grevillea 'Ellendale Pool'
Pterostylis sp.
cheers
fermi
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Here are some daff pics:
Entry display;
President Sue introduces Stephen Ryan who opened the Show;
Some of the entry benches;
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fermi
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More daffs:
Someone there knows how to get Narcissus canaliculatus to flower!
Narcissus 'Joycelyn Newman'
N. 'Small Stuff'
N. 'Beryl'
NN 'Phalarope' and 'Endear'
cheers
fermi
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Potted plants;
Potted Fritillaria
2 x Cymbidium orchids
Lachenalia aloides
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fermi
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Camellias!
Takanini
Hugo Okan
Hot Chocolate
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fermi
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Floral Art:
colourful tray of flowers and foliage
Still being set up!
Creative with Kelp!
Floral wheelbarrow (outside)
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fermi
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The Prize winners' Table;
Beat's Blue ribbon Pieris
Josie's best Daffodil in Show
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fermi
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Hi Jupiter, I can't say I have noticed a scent to the illicium foliage, but maybe it is more perceptible at some times of year. I'll crush a leaf and see. Thank you for your photos. Your pots are so photogenic, artistically situated along the path.
And fermi - really nice to glimpse the shows and outings you snap, that we might otherwise not be aware of. Seems your garden is perpetually in bloom.
Jacqui.
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Thanks Jacqui, it was a bit of a happy accident the pots on the stairs leading up through my nursery... it makes me happy every time I walk past. :)
Here's another picture and a narcissus which is giving me pleasure at the moment,(a debate on facebook at the moment over whether it's lucifer or stella, or something else).