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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: fermi de Sousa on November 02, 2017, 11:47:50 AM
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We have reached the middle of spring and the weather is reminding us that winter is not that long ago!
However Jasminum parkeri is starting to flower well now.
When the sun shines the flowers of Delosperma cooperi seedlings open in variuos colours
cheers
fermi
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Do you think the jasmine is Jasminum parkeri Fermi?
I have it in a corner of each of two large concrete washtubs and it is growing so well I'll have to move them except that it would be easier I think to move everything else and leave the jasmines. Either way it's going to be tricky and possibly fatal to some items. ???
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Hi Lesley,
corrected its spelling now ;D
It can certainly smother some things but for the last few years Narcissus cordubensis which seeded itself into the jasmine has emerged up through it (over 30cm) to flower!
cheers
fermi
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It's Ixia season again!
Here are some of the hybrid swarm from Ixia 'Teal' crossing with some other species or cultivar. The colours vary from almost pure white to purple with some marked similarly to Ixia viridiflora which I presume is one of the parents of 'Teal'
cheers
fermi
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More of the Ixia hybrids.
I've donated seed of last year's hybrids to the SRGC Seedex if anyone would like to try them
cheers
fermi
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Even more!
cheers
fermi
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Is it possible you are being pushed out of house and garden Fermi? Seems you have hundred already, if not thousands!
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Hi Lesley,
there certainly are more and more each year of these hybrids and they are spread out, though not too invasively.
All is fine when they come into flower but because I want them to set seed we have to put up with them dying down disgracefully!
Here's my sole surviving Weldenia candida (which you grow so well, Lesley ;) )
cheers
fermi
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Good big flowers on the Weldenia, fermi - some we see here have smaller flowers -still the exceptional whiteness, but lacking that BIG punch!
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My own weldenias are starting now too. One small with very large flowers and 1 large with smaller flowers and I think that has been the story over many years, the more flowers there are the smaller they are. The very large one is in a pot and was attacked by rabbits just before it showed through the surface. They dug and scraped - because they could - and I guess I'm to blame for having it at ground level because the pot is so big and heavy that I can't lift it up. The plant was so close to breaking through that within a couple of days of their dig, it was showing and bright green so no real damage done. But I'm going to have to tip the pot and retrieve it and divide it up and do something with it, maybe plant it out and keep the smaller bits for nursery potting.
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I stand corrected - a second Weldenia has poked a nose through the gravel! I had unpotted it a month or so ago and was dismayed to find the main plant had rotted away over the winter :'(
I repotted whatever looked sound but had not been hopeful till I saw it come through this week :)
This little Moraea herrei (syn Barnardiella spiralis) was grown from Silverhills Seeds sown in 2014 with first germination 2015.
Each flower only lasts a few hours, opening in mid-afternoon and fading by evening. The first pic was taken indoors and the second was the next day,
cheers
fermi
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Puya chilensis is flowering again - 2 years since the first flowering which we mostly missed as we were in NZ!
The old spike is still in place and the new one is just as tall.
The bees and the honey-eaters are enjoying themselves!
cheers
fermi
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Fab, understated little number, fermi!
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Fab, understated little number, fermi!
Easy to miss if you are scouring the ground for the tinies ;D
Here are some "themids"
1) Triteleia 'The Giant'
2) Triteleia ixioides
3) Brodiaea elegans
4) Triteleia terrestris
cheers
fermi
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Hi Fermi,
Nice to see a few Themidaceae. All of ours are up now. I was planning on planting many out in the garden this autumn, however the room removal took so long, well it didn’t happen (sort of).
One of those ooppss moments. ??? The photograph is a bit blurry, however Brodiaea terrestris is looking like Brodiaea terrestris. They look like they could be ssp. kernensis with the notched staminodes. Triteleia must have been a typing error.
Anyway, thank you for sharing. 8) :)
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The last of my oncocyclus Irises to flower in my garden are I. paradoxa and acutiloba . and 2 months ago the exquisite I. kirkwoodiae ssp. calcarea was in bloom .Also a picture of some darker flowered Trillium rivale seedlings and Daphne x rollsdorfii ;Wilhelm Schacht ' which is easy to strike from cuttings .
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Beautiful plants Otto, all of them but especially the Irises. They look very happy at FCHS. It's a very tropical start to summer here. I hope we don't get any rotting rhizomes.
Cheers,
Jamus
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Hi Fermi,
Nice to see a few Themidaceae. All of ours are up now....
One of those ooppss moments. ??? The photograph is a bit blurry, however Brodiaea terrestris is looking like Brodiaea terrestris. They look like they could be ssp. kernensis with the notched staminodes. Triteleia must have been a typing error.
Hi Robert,
Yes, of course it is Brodiaea terrestris! I'm nearly old enough to claim a "Senior's Moment" ;D
Here are a few more themids:
1) Brodiaea coronaria var macropoda terrestris -see Robert's comment below!
2 & 3) Dichelostemma ida maia
4) a Triteleia ixioides which is slightly different to the one posted last week
cheers
fermi
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Hi Fermi,
Thank you for sharing the photographs.
I actually have some of my Themidaceae in the ground here in Sacramento. Dichelostemma with annual Eschscholzia species is a great combination. So far so good, as the Dichelostemma capitatum are up as well well as some of the Eschscholzia. Oh some Gilia too. Very pretty in the spring. 3-4 months until they bloom and can take photographs.
Some 2nd generation Triteleia ixioides are also coming on well.
One more thing:
I will have to look and consider things some more, but the Broadiaea coronaria is looking much more like B. terrestris. It appears like the flower scape is sitting at ground level. ??? ??? :-\
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....the Brodiaea coronaria is looking much more like B. terrestris. It appears like the flower scape is sitting at ground level. ??? ??? :-\
Yes, Robert, it does look like another version of Brodiaea terrestris!
And the second generation of Gilia capitata is flowering in pots where they have sown themselves!
cheers
feri
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Fermi,
Thank you for sharing the photographs of the Themadaceae.
As for Gila capitata, all the subspecies are not equal, at least from a (my subjective) horticultural perspective. We have 8 subspecies here in California and I have yet to see them all. The deep colored flowers on some of the subspecies is quite intriguing. I'll have to conduct some trials to see how they work out in our garden. Sadly my seed lines became mixed (between subspecies - a cardinal sin in plant breeding :P ) and I will have to start over with them. In the mean time, I will enjoy my mixed populations. They are still pretty and maybe something good will come of them. :) 8)
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My posted seed list has arrived in today's post, which means it must have reached NZ not later then Monday because it goes first to Auckland from the UK then to Christchurch then to Dunedin and then, in my case to the small town of Milton to be delivered here by the Rural Delivery service which now comes just 3 days a week, but we're never sure what days those will be. The postal service has become almost a Mickey Mouse affair. But now to decide, do I use the printed list or wait until Dec 1st to have it Online. Probably the latter or I'll have to make a trip to Dunedin to buy a GB fiver, there being no banks now in Milton, also a farcical situation, so far as customer service or convenience are concerned. There are 2 "holes in the wall" machines but while one can draw money, one certainly can't get a bank note in another country's currency!
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Sorry to hear you've been poorly, Lesley - if you are home and feeling better- the SRGC online seed ordering service is NOW open! (It's the is December now in New Zealand, eh? !!)
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just waiting on an email from the seed team to "remind" me of my password....sigh
At least I was able to enter the SRGC password when Cynthia reminded me that it was case sensitive!
I used a paasword I thought I'd remember but it seems that my memory fails me
Just heard from Cynthia - apparently I should've received an email with an activation link - that hasn't arrived yet.
And, yes, I've checked the "junk mail" folder :(
fermi
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Inner central, second line pages of printed seed list, first page, numbered (i). Look in first paragraph under heading "Main Seed Distribution 2017-2018" ::)
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Hi David,
The paper list hasn't arrived yet ::) but I got that password from the Secretary's Pages as Maggi has told us to do many times.
It was the activation email which didn't arrive, but the Seed Team has come to the rescue <insert hand-clapping emoji here>
Still perusing the list now :o
cheers
fermi
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The browsing list online would have helped, fermi. Also, as I have said before - some work emails will not deliver automated activation emails. Glad the seed team has sorted you out!