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Title: April 2025 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on April 07, 2025, 11:17:09 AM: The weather is currently cooler but we are expecting a hot weekend!
Here is Oxalis attaquana with its unusual foliage,
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fermi
Title: Re: April 2025 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on April 09, 2025, 02:27:50 PM: Two seedlings raised from Cyclamen mirabile 'Tilebarn Nicholas', one has nicely pink foliage when it opens,
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Title: Re: April 2025 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on April 11, 2025, 11:51:43 PM: First flowers of Narcissus viridiflorus
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Title: Re: April 2025 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on April 12, 2025, 12:10:09 PM: A few more flowers:
1) A pink cultivar of Nerine sarniensis
2) Rhodophiala bifida Pink - a second stem is a bit more normal sized
3) xAmarine is really hitting its straps.
4) The first Sternbergia sicula
5) The last few flowers of Narcissus 07/02T (N.tazetta ssp lacticolor x N.elegans)
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fermi
Title: Re: April 2025 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on April 12, 2025, 04:36:58 PM: I visited the Australian Plant Society's Heathcote's branch's Flower and Art Show and took some pics of the floral exhibits:
1) A display table
2) Grevillea 'Peaches & Cream'
3) Grevillea eriostachya
4) Grevillea 'Legacy Flame'
5) Beaufortia squorrosa
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fermi
Title: Re: April 2025 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on April 12, 2025, 04:38:02 PM: More from Heathcote:
1) Grevillea bipinnatifida
2) Grevillea dielsiana
3) Correa 'Federation Belle'
4) Eremophila flaccida subsp flaccida
Title: Re: April 2025 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on April 12, 2025, 04:44:21 PM: 1) Eremophila oldfieldii subsp. angustifolia
2) Eremophila forrestii
3) Eremophila willsii sp. willsii
4) Grevillea 'Cumquat'
5) Grevillea biformis
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Title: Re: April 2025 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on April 12, 2025, 04:47:03 PM: 1) Hakea laurina
2) Hakea laurina 'Stockdale Sensation'
3) Grevillea lanigera
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fermi
Title: Re: April 2025 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on April 12, 2025, 04:51:30 PM: Here are the last few:
1) Grevillea 'Bush Lemons'
2) Grevillea 'Caloundra'
3) Eremophila miniata
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fermi
Title: Re: April 2025 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: Maggi Young on April 12, 2025, 07:43:46 PM: Quote from: fermi de Sousa on April 12, 2025, 04:36:58 PM
I visited the Australian Plant Society's Heathcote's branch's Flower and Art Show and took some pics of the floral exhibits:
1) A display table
2) Grevillea 'Peaches & Cream'
3) Grevillea eriostachya
4) Grevillea 'Legacy Flame'
5) Beaufortia squorrosa
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fermi
Wow, quite the variety!
Title: Re: April 2025 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on April 20, 2025, 11:43:32 AM: Quote from: Maggi Young on April 12, 2025, 07:43:46 PM
Wow, quite the variety!
There's a huge variety of Australian Plants which are great for our gardens but sourcing them is difficult - I'd not seen many of these for sale even in nurseries specialising in them.
Here are some plants from South Africa!
1) Nerine rosea
2) A seedling of a cross I made between a red cultivar and Nerine rosea
3) Nerine 'Ariel'
4) an unlabelled orange Nerine - similar to 'Prince of Orange' or the old 'Corusca Major'
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fermi
Title: Re: April 2025 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: fermi de Sousa on April 24, 2025, 03:13:55 PM: The critters were eating the flowers off the white Cyclamen graecum, so I placed a piece of chicken wire over the top held up by a terracotta pot.
The critters worked out that if they pressed on the wire they could get to the flowers anyway >:(
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fermi
Title: Re: April 2025 in the Southern Hemisphere
Post by: Maggi Young on April 24, 2025, 04:21:29 PM: Merciful heavens! Just bad luck to have smart critters, I guess!