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Title: double flowered Nerine
Post by: mark smyth on October 06, 2009, 01:51:28 PM

Nerine pudica is new to me last year. One bulb has produced a flowering stem with flowers that have from one to six extra petals. Is it time to get excited or could it be a one off? If it does the same next year the bulb will get chipped.

Title: Re: double flowered Nerine
Post by: Paddy Tobin on October 06, 2009, 02:16:39 PM

It's a lovely bloom, Mark.

Paddy

Title: Re: double flowered Nerine
Post by: mark smyth on October 06, 2009, 04:55:53 PM

I like it also and hope it stays like that.

Here's a better photo. Rain was forecast but we now have a sunny evening.

Title: Re: double flowered Nerine
Post by: Maggi Young on October 06, 2009, 05:10:32 PM

I like it because though ti is double, it has its sexy parts.
I also like the way the anthers are the same colour as the markings on the petals :)

Title: Re: double flowered Nerine
Post by: Martin Baxendale on October 06, 2009, 05:10:49 PM

That's beautiful, Mark.  

Title: Re: double flowered Nerine
Post by: Ragged Robin on October 06, 2009, 05:30:39 PM

The black background really shows it off well - love the pink anthers against that creamy white too  :)

Title: Re: double flowered Nerine
Post by: mark smyth on October 06, 2009, 06:09:24 PM

I dont know why the background came out black. The back ground is oat meal coloured vertical blinds in the sun room. I closed them to form a background so the eye isnt drawn towards out of focusfurniture

When the pollen is ripe I will apply it to all the flowers of the sarniensis

Title: Re: double flowered Nerine
Post by: fleurbleue on October 06, 2009, 06:13:05 PM

Very nice flower Mark  ;) Did you purchase it as double flower specimen ?

Title: Re: double flowered Nerine
Post by: SueG on October 06, 2009, 07:33:22 PM

Mark
That is a great flower - avoids being blousy or messy.
If it is stable there will be a queue forming straight away!!
Sue

Title: Re: double flowered Nerine
Post by: Lesley Cox on October 06, 2009, 09:35:54 PM

It's very nice Mark. I wish you good fortune with it.
There are double forms too, of Galtonia candicans and if that sounds horrid, it isn't, and they are beautiful, like gardenias up the stem. They have been extensively propagated and are used as a cut flower, exported from NZ all the time.

Title: Re: double flowered Nerine
Post by: Paul T on October 06, 2009, 10:34:18 PM

Mark,

Lovely.  The background came out black because your flower was so bright that the camera had to adjust the contrast to focus on it.  I regularly find with bright flowers that the background virtually disappears into apparent darkness.  It really helps to set the flower off beautifully.

Good luck with it returning next year, but I would imagine the odds are that it is an abnormality this year and won't return again.  That said, I hope I'm wrong!!  8)

Title: Re: double flowered Nerine
Post by: angie on October 07, 2009, 11:28:26 AM

Mark

Lovely flower do you keep it in a pot in the greenhouse, I have a pot of Nerine filifola ( dwarf ) flowering but not sure if I could plant this outside, always fear the amount of wet weather we get this time of year might kill nerines.
Any help on where to purchase good nerines.

Angie :)

Title: Re: double flowered Nerine
Post by: mark smyth on October 07, 2009, 06:13:24 PM

Thanks Paul and Lesley.

I emailed the owner of Exbury Nerines. He has seen doubles flowers now and again but never all the flowers on one stem. His advise is to cross pollinate with the sarniensis.

Title: Re: double flowered Nerine
Post by: mark smyth on October 07, 2009, 06:15:49 PM

Angie right now the pot is outside enjoying the sun. When the flowers are over it will be back in to the green house.

I know someone about 10 miles 15km away who grows filifolia outside