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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: fermi de Sousa on August 04, 2024, 10:11:02 PM
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We started August with a Plant Sale at The Ferny Creek Hort Society.
In the garden Crocus and Galanthus were in full flower.
Inside there was a lovely pot of mixed Iris retculata hybrids,
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fermi
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A few flowers in our garden:
1) Narcissus 'Snook' just opening and a cream Narcissus bulbocodium hybrid from Keira Bulbs
2) Narcissus 'Snook' fully open
3) Crocus gargaricus ssp gargaricus
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fermi
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This Pauridia (syn Spiloxene) came from Garry Reid of Obscure Bulbs - possibly a form of P. capensis.
You don't notice it unless the sun is shining!
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fermi
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A few Narcissus tazetta types are in bloom.
The last pic shows the damage caused by Red Legged Earth Mites :'(
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fermi
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Hi fermi
Thank you for the beautiful display. It is interesting to see winter blooms when I am in mid Summer.
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Thank you for the beautiful display. It is interesting to see winter blooms when I am in mid Summer.
Hi Marc,
it's the advantage of a Forum which covers both Hemispheres!
At work they created a garden next to the carpark and this Grevillea is now in flower - I think it might be a form of Grevillea lanigera or maybe a hybrid. It often has birds in attendance for the nectar,
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fermi
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Some winter flowering shrubs/trees:
1) Mahonia (syn Berberis) aquifolium
2) Parrotia persica
3) close up of Parrotia flowers
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fermi
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1) Oxalis obtusa Peaches & Cream
2) Oxalis obtusa seedlings popping up in an adjacent pot!
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fermi
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Hi fermi,
I'm not familiar with Oxalis obtusa; but all of my Oxalis bloom during summer and autumn.
Seeing Oxalis in winter is really strange.
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Hi Marc,
The roadside here are painted acid yellow by Oxalis pes-caprae in late winter!
A preferred yellow flower is the daffodil!
Here's Narcissus hispanicus which I got many years ago from Rod Barwick at Glenbrook Bulb Farm, Tasmania.
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fermi
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A few more narcissus (we are heading into peak Daffodil):
1) 2 N. cyclamineus hybrids from Keira Bulbs
2) a volunteer N. bulbocodium hybrid with a pleated corona - possibly a seedling from 'Kojak'
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fermi
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Can you post a photo of the red ex Cleopatra when the flower is fully open?
Hi Jeff,
here are some more pics
1) 7/8/24
2) 16/8/24
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fermi
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fermi,
The 'Cleopatra' is VERY NICE indeed! Enjoy!
Marc
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Thanks, Marc,
'Cleopatra' is the parent which friends at Post Office Farm imported from Japan (from Hirose) for breeding. They have been selling seedlings from crossing these and I quite like the one I got.
We also got a double black which is lovely,
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fermi
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fermi,
The double black is magnificent!
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Thx for the photos.
Gradational hellebore growers may see Cleopatra and hybrids there of as not being an acceptable move. I disagree, the same my be said for hellebore flowers that are round in shape and doubles, all a part of a change in breeding and seeing the opportunity to create something that is unique. Japanese hellebore breeders have created some truly outstanding new hellebores, particularly doubles. Unfortunately many of their off spring are not available outside of Japan, unless of course the likes of Peter goes to the trouble of visiting nurseries and bringing selected plants back to his nursery for subsequent breeding.
The double black is outstanding, for shape and colour, sorry but it is not really black just an intense purple. With my hellebores the reduction in cold winters has seen dark colours become less intense. We rarely get snow but used to have quite hard frosts over winter, the latter are not so hard or frequent as in the past, more is the pity
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Jeff,
All blacks in horticulture are intense purple. Very few of us look at flowers through a chromatometer. For most of us if something looks black, we call it black. In a paint store, a chromatometer can be useful to precisely match tints.
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Jeff,
All blacks in horticulture are intense purple.
All Blacks in Rugby are intense as well! :o
;D
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fermi
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We made a visit to Post Office Farm Nursery to get a few more hellebores (you can't have too many hellebores!).
1 & 2) display beds
3) a stock Plant
4) A bowl of flowers floating
5) one of our purchases - a double Helleborus niger
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fermi
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Hi fermi
Agree, on Saturday night we demolised the Argentians but our biggest rugby challenge of the still awaits us, South Africa at home. We have been traditional rivals, the up copming games will be brutual.
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A couple of Australian Native plants:
1 & 2) Pomaderris obcordata 'Mallee Princess'
3) Hakea scorparia ssp scoparia
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fermi
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Last weekend we did a bit of retail therapy!
Most were from Goldfields Revegetation Nursery which specialises in Australian Native Plants especially locally sourced ones.
These were all potted up into a large pot. The central plant is Conostylis setigera from Western Australia.
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fermi
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Some more winter flowers:
1) Hesperantha latifolia
2) Scilla libanotica (thank you, Ashley)
3) Gagea fibrosa
4) Moraea macronyx
5) Narcissus pachybulbus
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fermi
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I have just started growing moraea, have a numbewr of seed pots of first year germination.
Do you have to takle any spacial precautions to avboid summer rain or is your climate dry throught these months?
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I have just started growing moraea, have a number of seed pots of first year germination.
Do you have to tackle any special precautions to avoid summer rain or is your climate dry through these months?
Hi Jeff,
our climate is theoretically "Mediterranean" with most of our rain falling in autumn and winter and the start of spring. However, as the weather can be crazy I try to get all the spring bulbs under cover during the summer in case of rainstorms.
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fermi
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Fritillaria stenanthera 'Kara Tau' from SRGC Seedex 2015 - first seedling 12-08-2017, first flower 3-08-2022.
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fermi
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Fermi,
It seems well worth the long wait.
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Fermi
Thx for the info, I assume thsat the flowers of Moraea macronyx are short lived, a pity as this wolud be a great species for hybridising with.
Jeff
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I assume that the flowers of Moraea macronyx are short lived, a pity as this would be a great species for hybridising with.
Jeff
Hi Jeff,
yes, M. macronyx is very short lived - withered by evening time. I think Mike Mace in the USA has used it in hybridisation.
Here are a few things before the end of the month - lots to upload!
1) Bellevalia macrobotrys
2) Cyclamen persicum
3) Bulbinella eburniflora
4 & 5) Babiana odorata x pygmaea - the second pic shows the dark centre.
cheers
fermi
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Some South African bulbs (corms actually):
1 & 2) Hesperantha latifolia hybrid which appeared in a pot of H. latifolia.
3 & 4) Geissorhiza corrugata
5) Moraea bipartita
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fermi
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Babiana pygmaea - first pic taken in bright sun and the second shaded,
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fermi
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In the shade bed:
1) Trillium, hellebores - backed by Acanthus.
2) Our one and only Trillium - T. chloropetalum?
3) Scilla bithynica
4) Scilla melaina
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fermi
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In the sunnier beds:
1) Anemone heldreichii and Babiana odorata x pygmaea
2) Anemone heldreichii
3) Anemone coronaria
4) Tulipa cretica
5) Muscari azureum
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fermi
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1) Cyclamen persicum
2) Muscari ex Valerie Finnis
3) Ixia rapunculoides
4) Scilla libanotica - a bit more developed
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fermi
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fermi,
I wish I shared your adeptness with a camera! T used to take reasonably good photos; but now,
I get too much movement even, with a tripod.
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Hi Marc,
do you ever use a phone camera?
I think if you set it on video you can then take a screenshot of one frame to post,
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fermi