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Title: April 2020 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on April 02, 2020, 05:04:47 AM

It's been a damp start to the month with rain! Could we possibly be getting a "normal" autumn with enough rain to encourage the bulbs out of their dormancy?
We can only hope!
Here's another daffodil to flower in autumn, 'First Stanza' from Lawrence Trevanion in Canberra - a cross between Narcissus elegans var fallax and 'Soleil d'Or'
cheers
fermi

Title: Re: April 2020 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on April 02, 2020, 05:34:41 AM

A few other autumn flowers:
Oxalis flava
Colchicum boissieri
Epilobium cana
Nerine angulata
cheers
fermi

Title: Re: April 2020 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on April 09, 2020, 11:10:41 AM

Moraea polystachya
Sternbergia sicula emerging through a mat of Dymondiae
Sternbergia sicula & the tiniest Colchicum corsicum
Nerine rosea
Acis autumnalis putting out a late bloom
cheers
fermi

Title: Re: April 2020 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on April 10, 2020, 02:57:33 PM

Zephyranthes candida
Oxalis lobata
The last flowers on Cyclamen graecum
Bessera elegans has survived another year!
Crocus speciosus ssp. xanthalaimos from seed from NARGS Seedex 2003 collected in Turkey by Erich Pasche; first flowered in 2008
cheers
fermi

Title: Re: April 2020 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on April 20, 2020, 06:12:10 AM

More autumn flowers:
Crocus salzmannii
Nothoscordum felipponei
Oxalis flava
Oxalis palmifrons
Narcissus viridiflorus
cheers
fermi

Title: Re: April 2020 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: Jupiter on April 22, 2020, 11:00:48 PM

Thanks for sharing your garden Fermi, you've got a lot going on there at the moment! I am enjoying a good start to autumn too with lots of Crocus and Oxalis flowering and Narcissus to come later. Narcissus viridiflorus is out and I keep going back to admire it and sniff. :)

Title: Re: April 2020 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: angie on April 23, 2020, 09:44:34 PM

Fermi l like your Oxalis flava, very pretty.

Angie  :)

Title: Re: April 2020 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on April 29, 2020, 12:36:20 PM

Here's a few more oxalis in the garden:
Oxalis hirta Salmon Pink
white Oxalis purpurea
Oxalis flava var succulenta
Oxalis meisneri
cheers
fermi

Title: Re: April 2020 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: Jupiter on April 29, 2020, 10:21:23 PM

These have been posted elsewhere on the interwebs but I think it's nice to have a record here for future reference. Various autumnal happenings of the floral variety.

Part 1.

Title: Re: April 2020 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: Jupiter on April 29, 2020, 10:22:24 PM

Part 2.

Title: Re: April 2020 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: Jupiter on April 29, 2020, 10:23:49 PM

Part 3.

Title: Re: April 2020 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: Maggi Young on April 30, 2020, 11:18:04 AM

Nerine  'Cleopatra' is  very striking - these  two-tones often are - but  that  is  lovely.
Your  image  of the  Crocus  'Mani white' is  delicious, Jamus!  Crocus can be  so utterly  gorgeous!

Title: Re: April 2020 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: Jupiter on April 30, 2020, 01:20:56 PM

Thank you Maggi, I agree the little Crocus are so photogenic! I just keep coming back to them as they open and close and the light changes and finding new photo opportunities. The Mani White are a lovely shape. I must be careful not to bore everyone with endless pictures!

Title: Re: April 2020 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: David Nicholson on April 30, 2020, 03:10:33 PM

Quote from: Jupiter on April 30, 2020, 01:20:56 PM

.....I must be careful not to bore everyone with endless pictures!

Keep 'em coming, it's never a worry!