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Bulbs => Bulbs General => Topic started by: Michael J Campbell on April 05, 2008, 08:36:44 PM
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Not sure where to post these. Maggi, move them if they are out of place.
Romulea citrina.
Romulea bulbocodium.
Moraea aristata.
Sparaxis
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Super pix, Michael, and good right here!
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Michael,
super romuleas. :o
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Michael
I continue to be amazed and delighted at the number of genus you grow - and grow so well. How do you do it - assume your garden is several acres and you have numerous greenhouses. ;D ;) ;D
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That Moraea is stunning!
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assume your garden is several acres and you have numerous greenhouses.
Arthur, would you believe I live in town and have a small garden 25m x 18m and I have two 12 x 8ft greenhouses,but I make the best use of all the space available.
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assume your garden is several acres and you have numerous greenhouses.
Arthur, ....but I make the best use of all the space available.
Michael
You most certainly do. Something for me to aspire to.
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I make the best use of all the space available.
Good grief, Michael, that must be the understatement of the century! You make AMAZING use of the space available. Hats off to you!! 8)
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Beautiful romuleas Micheal. Your bulbocodium look very happy outside; I must release some of mine too. That citrina is particularly nice.
These began flowering today, 15 months from SRGC seed 8) Although they came as requienii, flower size is only 8-10 mm, tepals pointed and colour wrong. Leaves are reddish at the base and the flower stem is about 10 cm - are they columnae perhaps?
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Ashley, I think you your romulea could be this one.
Romulea cruciata var. australis
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Thanks Michael; yes it matches your picture all right. But I don't know about cruciata (http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/SouthAfricanRomuleas#cruciata (http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/SouthAfricanRomuleas#cruciata)), and the columnae shown (http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/EuropeanAndMediterraneanRomuleas#columnae (http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/EuropeanAndMediterraneanRomuleas#columnae)) has little or no stem, unlike mine (or yours?).
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Veltheimia bracteata flowering in the alpine house.
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Michael,
Great to see the Velts. Our strange summer has started them off very early out of their summer dormancy (in fact the mature seedlings in my shadehouse didn't even go dormant this year). I have buds way down in the middle on one of my seedlings from a yellow flowered variety. This was seed a few years ago from the US and they are supposed to be true. i am so looking forward to seeing a yellow one in the flesh!! There are 11 surviving seedlings so I figure there is a good chance that at least one of them will be yellow!! ;D I also have other mixed colour and bicolour seedlings so hopefully there will be other flowerings this year of "non-pink" varieties!! Your pic reminded me of what is to come. 8)
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A few in bloom today.
Allium Zebdanense.
Anomatheca salmon pink= Freesia laxa
Anomatheca red hyb= Freesia laxa
Anomatheca= Freesia laxa subsp. azurea
Sparaxis
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Michael,
your Freesia have beautiful colors 8)
This week my Hippeastrum is in flower.
Total 11 flower stems.
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All this rich colour is wonderful.... we still have cold rain and these colours seem very far away in nature here!
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Michael,
Those Anomathecas are of better form than many I've seen. Lovely "filled in" flowers. I think your last Ixia as actually a Sparaxis isn't it? Not complaining, just thought you might want the right name on it. Great pics of some great flowers.
Armin,
nice Hippeastrum!! So how have they been treated to get them to flower that prolifically? That is a LOT of flower stems for such a small group. 8)
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Paul,I think I have posted way too many pics today, if I had looked at the label it says Sparaxis on it. Getting careless again. Better go to bed now.
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Michael,
No problemo at all. Just wanted to let you know for your own records in case you'd received it as that. You definitely haven't posted "too many photos" for me anyway, as I'm enjoying them thoroughly. :D
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Hi Paul,
that's not a big secret. I started with 1 Hippeastrum bulb which set annual a daughter bulb. As I was too lazy I did not remove the daughter bulb(s). After the pot became too small I repotted them into the next larger size without harming the roots!
I water not before the flower stems have appeared and have a min. length of 10cm - if you water too early the stem growth is disturbed by quicker leaves growth. After flowers have fallen over I put the pot in a semi-shadow place in the garden, fertilize once with Patentkali (pottassum, magnesium, phosphate). I stop watering in September for dormancy. Before autuum frosts I put them in my the cellar in front of a window and keep them cool at 10-15°C. In January I remove all wilted, dry leaves, eventually repot using a ordinary garden mix. In March I put the pot back in my living room at 20°C. Soon new flower stems appear ;)
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Well you obviously have got it down to a fine art. It's well worth the effort to do it to, given that wonderful show of flowers. :o Well done!! 8)
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I have been growing the bulbs of the following Bellevalia for many years without a flower. This year they flowered. Can anyone identify it please.
Maggi - these were the bulbs I was going to send Ian to see if he could flower them, but postal difficulties intervened.
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Hello!
Could you please ID these Anomatheca to me? I had planted there 2 bulbs 4 years ago, and now they just took over the whole pot. If anyone wants some seeds, just let me know!
(http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o38/Jindegales/Plants%20April%202008/blbaea_0012.jpg)
(http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o38/Jindegales/Plants%20April%202008/blbaea_0002.jpg)
(http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o38/Jindegales/Plants%20April%202008/blbaea_0003.jpg)
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Mike, I think your Anomatheca are A. laxa
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But in such a pretty pink shade. :)
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That salmon pink is the "default" shade with our plants, which I still call Lapeirousia! :-X
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That salmon pink is the "default" shade with our plants, which I still call Lapeirousia! :-X
And has now been lumped into Freesia! Will it stay there? Who knows!
cheers
fermi
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Arthur - can it be Bellevallia dubia?
Here is this year's display of Merendera sobolifera. For the first time that showy
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I think you may be correct about Arthur's Bellevalia, Oleg, but he is off to Iran now so it will be a while before he can comment!
What a fine display of Merendera you have there. 8)
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The Merendera look so delicate. Very nice. 8)
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I have been growing the bulbs of the following Bellevalia for many years without a flower. This year they flowered. Can anyone identify it please.
The mouth of the lowest flower looks very constricted, or is this because the raceme is still immature?
Could it be one of the less tasseled Muscari comosum group, such as spreitzenhoferi?
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I wish my Colchicum/Merendera sobolifera would hold their flowers together like that. There is always this autumn!
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A couple in bloom in the greenhouse today
Bellevallia paradoxa
Watsonia Laccata,this is a small plant that only grows to about 30cm
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Michael,
Both plants are impressive. Is the Bel as dark as it looks in the photo? it's a wonderfully open, strong coloured Watsonia. I have one that is a miniature of only 18 inches tall, but it is tubular in flower rather than open like that. I like the open flower form in a shorter species like that. Great pics!! 8)
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Yes Paul,the Bellevallia colour is correct.
There would appear to be two forms of the Watsonia, I have the tubular form and it is taller than Laccata. I am sure it is something different, it came mixed with Laccata. Will have a look in my books.
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Mine's not as dark.
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Scilla vvedenskii in blossom now
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No quite Luits Dutch bulb fields, but not bad for Scotland
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Michael,
Both plants are impressive. Is the Bel as dark as it looks in the photo?
Paul here's another Bellevalia, which I saw in the Conn. Coll. last week.
Bellevalia pycnantha
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Susan,
All those wonderful Erythroniums. Wow!! :o
Luit,
Nice Bellevalia. haven't had much to do with the genus to be honest.
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No quite Luits Dutch bulb fields, but not bad for Scotland
Oh to be young and have the energy ;D
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No quite Luits Dutch bulb fields, but not bad for Scotland
Susan, to be honest I like your fields. They do remember me of the times (long ago I'm afraid),
when here the fields were surrounded by beech hedges.
But alas, for economic reasons...... etc. :( :-[ :-X
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I need the hedges, the field is 120m above sea level on the side of a hill and is rather windy. They just need another year or 2 then they will be working :)
By the way David, my mum is 78 and still works harder than me. She is the weed controler.
Susan
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I need the hedges, the field is 120m above sea level on the side of a hill and is rather windy. They just need another year or 2 then they will be working :)
By the way David, my mum is 78 and still works harder than me. She is the weed controler.
Susan
Good on your Mum Susan (I'm just feeling grotty today-beginnings of a cold and an awful wet day. By the way does your Mum do contract work I could use her at present? ;D
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My first thought (and second) on seeing your B. paradoxa Michael, was B. pycnantha. :-\
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My first thought (and second) on seeing your B. paradoxa Michael, was B. pycnantha.
Lesley, have you got a pic of B. pycnantha, Googled it but I can't find a decent pic
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My first thought (and second) on seeing your B. paradoxa Michael, was B. pycnantha. :-\
Its the same thing. What used to be called B pycnantha was renamed as B paradoxa a few years ago (and bizarrely, more recently, the new Kew monocot database puts Bellevalia in the family Asparagaceae :P )
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Well that sorts THAT then. AGAIN, thanks Diane. I haven't got a pic Michael. I had 3 good bulbs in a pot a couple of years ago and someone nicked the pot. The only thing ever stolen from my garden I think.
On the other hand, I have something else, another Bellevalia I mean, as B. paradoxa. Haven't got a pic of that either for now.
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here is my bellavalia pycnantha which I collected in one of its type locations in Eastern Turkey. It is slightly darker than the photograph and yes I do know there are greenfly on its leaves
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Yours looks nothing at all like mine (someone's else now :'() Tony, nor like the pics above.
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These began flowering today, 15 months from SRGC seed 8) Although they came as requienii, flower size is only 8-10 mm, tepals pointed and colour wrong. Leaves are reddish at the base and the flower stem is about 10 cm - are they columnae perhaps?
Further to Reply #8 above:
Romulea gigantea - named by someone with a sense of humour ;) - and with a reputation it seems!
http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/SouthAfricanRomuleasTwo (http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/SouthAfricanRomuleasTwo)
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I think this might be the genuine article. Photographed in Iran in 2005