Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Véronique Macrelle on July 05, 2019, 03:17:46 PM
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the first is a 4-year-old seedlings it is bulbous : the seeds were labeled Olsynium douglasii. but that's not it, is it?
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the second plant is in its second year. the whole plant is succulent, the leaves are cylindrical, the stem is 6 mm wide.
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the last comes from seeds (5 years) of a mixture of small bulbous plants from PWS. the flowering plant measures 12 cm.
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Veronique, the first one might be Hesperantha baurii.
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thank you.Carolyn
I keep it in a cold greenhouse pot, do you think it can grow outside in the garden?
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The second looks like Calandrinia/Montiopsis umbellata, or something closely related. Perhaps the last one might be Freesia laxa?
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I grow Hesperantha baurii outside, in a (usually) wet part of Scotland, with minimum winter temerature around -5C, but it did survive the winter of 2010 when we had -12C. It willl set lots of seeds - keep them just in case....
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thank you, for these determinations.
I had thought of Freesia laxa but I thought it more asymmetrical
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I have grown hesperantha baurii outside in my sandy, freedraining soil for 20 years no problem Veronique. I think it might be one that has had a name change, maybe to freesia? Please correct me if I’m wrong. Don’t know the other two plants at all, second one looks very pretty.