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Bulbs => Bulbs General => Topic started by: ArnoldT on March 28, 2020, 05:26:06 PM
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Leucocoryne purpurea.
A solid performer.
Gets bothered by some black aphids.
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Neomarica caerulea - the plant is a bit bulky and prone to red spider mites. It spends the summer in the garden but this year it’s flowred for the first time. I think its stunning
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Neomarica caerulea - the plant is a bit bulky and prone to red spider mites. It spends the summer in the garden but this year it’s flowred for the first time. I think its stunning
It really is gorgeous, Paul, what a fabulous colour!!
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Leucocoryne vittata
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Nothoscorodum ostenii (Uruguay)
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Hippeastrum evansiae
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Eithea blumenavium (Brazil) in bloom now without leaves.
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Some lovely stuff here folks.
I can't speak for other Brits but it has really been a stonking Ipheion year this year in my garden. 'Froyle Mill', 'Jessie' and 'Charlotte Bishop' are just about over now (having started in late February) but the following are still doing well.
Ipheion 'Alberto Castillo'
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Whoops!
Ipheion uniflorum
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Leucocoryne vittata
Some serious flower variation here.
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Just in flower Ipheion uniflorum ex Alberto Castillo
Gerd
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Pasithea caerulea
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Nice plant, I've never seen it before.
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only for correct information: Pasithea comes from Chile, not from South Africa
Gerd
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only for correct information: Pasithea comes from Chile, not from South Africa
Gerd
Oops! Thanks Gerd, I've moved this!
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Does Eithea blumenavium cross with anything?
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This is more the type.
Leucocoryne vittata
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Paramongaia weberbaueri - this bulb's first flowering: I think the flowers will be bigger next year. A very sweet scent of nothing in particular. Just sweet.
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Paramongaia weberbaueri - this bulb's first flowering: I think the flowers will be bigger next year. A very sweet scent of nothing in particular. Just sweet.
Wow, oh wow! That is lovely! How long to flowering? Have you grown it from seed?
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No - it was from an offset bulb 2 years ago
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Very nice!
Mine are still dormant having grown through Spring/Summer; they only died back in early December. I’ve never yet flowered this species. I started off with one but now have about six -they seem to put their effort into making new bulbs .....but I’ve yet to see a flower.
Perhaps I don’t keep them warm enough or maybe I should try switching them to a winter growth regime with dormancy and a baking in the Summer?? ???
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Do you know if yours is the "winter" or "summer" growing version?
This one dies back in summer and gets its first water in around Dec, and starts into grow in Jan-ish. I understand that it's the "winter" one.
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I find Paramongaia is not willing to please; I have a bulb of the summer-growing form which flowered a couple of times for me in the summer but then decided determinedly to come into growth in November, so it's in full growth when light levels are lowest: no flowers for about 3 years now....
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Have you come across any picture of Paramongaia in the wild?
I was looking at the photos of wild Ismene amancaes on the Pacific Bulb Society site (https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Ismene (https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Ismene)) and wondered if Paramongaia is similarly plentiful anywhere??
(And does anyone fancy a plant tour to Lima in June/July one year!)
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Very excited that Eucrosia 'Harry Hay's hybrid' (I think the parentage is mirabilis x aurantiaca) is coming into flower... It was a kind gift from a forumist a couple of years ago... it's winter deciduous, but the leaves are very imposing, wider than they are long.
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Have you come across any picture of Paramongaia in the wild?
I was looking at the photos of wild Ismene amancaes on the Pacific Bulb Society site (https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Ismene (https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Ismene)) and wondered if Paramongaia is similarly plentiful anywhere??
(And does anyone fancy a plant tour to Lima in June/July one year!)
I think I came across some research that stated that there were half a dozen or more populations of Paramongaia & that in limited areas it's quite abundant & local people pick the flowers to sell to tourists... will see if I can find the info, I think it might have been in Spanish (one of many languages I do not speak. Or read.)
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Do you know if yours is the "winter" or "summer" growing version?
This one dies back in summer and gets its first water in around Dec, and starts into grow in Jan-ish. I understand that it's the "winter" one.
Mine usually starts into growth in early May and goes dormant in December.
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You can access Brian Mathew's 1997 Curtis's Botanical Magazine article on Paramongaia here;
https://www.jstor.org/stable/45065245?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents (https://www.jstor.org/stable/45065245?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents)
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Thanks Gail.
I think I’m keeping my plants too cold over their winter dormancy. I will try storing indoors for 12 weeks at >15°C from December to March.
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Eucrosia 'Harry Hay's hybrid'... a couple of days later & the stamens have unfurled, it really is remarkable...
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Eucrosia 'Harry Hay's hybrid'... a couple of days later & the stamens have unfurled, it really is remarkable...
You'd never manage to fold up all its "bits" and get them back inside the flower, could you?!! Just another example of how fascinating flowers can be.
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Eucrosia eucrosioides -Catacocha, Ecuador.
Flowers open Green
April 24 - red developing in blooms
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Eucrosia eucrosioides -Catacochia ecuador.
Flowers open Green
Very green indeed!
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Conanthera trimaculata, flowering for the first time 8 year after sowing ! The bulbs has been looking mature since several years but didn't want to bloom for unkown reasons and, for unkown reasons, I have 3 stems this year. Was looking very lovely on picture and I'm not disappointed to look at it now ;D
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Conanthera trimaculata, flowering on this side of the pond for the first time.
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Just in flower (and survived the second winter outside here)
Sisyrinchium laetum - a smaller version of S. macrocarpum
Gerd
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Ecrosia aurantiaca. With Nice offset flower stems.
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Lovely Eucrosia. Here Leucocoryne odorata is flowering but not really living up to its name.
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But what lovely green eyes ;)
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Phaedranassa dubia from Colombia and Equador
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Lovely Arnold. I have about a dozen now in 3L pots with big aspidistra-like leaves, very handsome but a long way from flowering
john
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And the marvelous broad leaves of Phaenadrassa dubia.
johnw
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Three Rhodophialas in flower here.
1. R. montanus
2. R. advena
3. R. advena x R. montanus
I repeated the cross to compare with #3, the first of a previous seed lot to flower.
johnw
overcast, drizzle
fog, 56F
badly in need of rain.
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A sibling to the last one posted, looks like the R. montanus genes are dominating in this one. Big too, almost finger length & twice the size of R. montanus. Creamy with a very faint hint of peach. So I guess the cross deiniitely took.
johnw
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Rimmer - that Ecrosia aurantiaca is fantastic. Any chance of a seed swap for some Rhodophiala selfs and crosses I posted above?
In any case a remarkable sight there.
johnw
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Phaedranassa viridiflora
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Tropaelum brachyceras, a recent gift from Ray Mills in Guildford (Australia) from whom I've had numerous bulbs over the years
cheers
fermi
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The brilliant red Rhodophiala appeared from nowhere a few days ago. First flowering fort me & a challenge to capture the true red.
johnw
at last some coolness
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Clinanthus incarnatus In bloom now after lots of rain and humidity. This used to bloom in May.
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Rhodophiala bifida ssp spacthacea. First bloom.
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Common sterile Rhodophiala bifida oxblood lily
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Hi Rimmer,
nice pics! When you say that the ox-blood form is sterile is that just because it's self-sterile? Have you tried pollen from another clone on it - such as he pink - before?
cheers
fermi
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Funny :)
Here are also flowering my Rhodophiala bifida ( first watering on 01. September )
Nr. 1 +3 are also Rhodophiala bifida "Oxblood Lily "
Nr. 2 - I have received this plants before many years as Rhodophiala bifida "Pink" ( but it is for me not really pink )
I have tried yesterday to cross pollinate this plants ...we will see
In memory is that I have made this polliantion before some years ...and it works
Hans :)
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Nothoscordum ostenii and in the 3rd pic, comparing it to Nothoscordum felipponei which the Pacific Bulb Society seems to think are the same ???
I only have one plant of it left so hope it will set some seed this year,
cheers
fermi
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Update from today :)
Now are near all flowers open :
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Update from today :)
Now are near all flowers open :
Wow!!
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Hi Rimmer,
nice pics! When you say that the ox-blood form is sterile is that just because it's self-sterile? Have you tried pollen from another clone on it - such as he pink - before?
cheers
fermi
Fermi my delayed reply is due to looking for these books. This is a triploid plant