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Bulbs => Bulbs General => Topic started by: angie on January 12, 2012, 08:51:18 PM
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Flowering today, thanks Hans J :)
Gethyum atropurpureum
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Flowering today, thanks Hans J :)
Gethyum atropurpureum
Wow Angie they are superb,Hans could i put my name down for seed from you or Angie if yours produces seed..please.
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Davey
You have to ask only Angie ...I have given her all my bulbs of Gethyum
By the way - I had never seeds in some years ...may be it was all a single clon
Angie
my congratulation - you grow it very well !!!
Hans
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my congratulation - you grow it very well !!!
Hans
Can only grow well from good stock ;D ;)
Angie :)
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Flowering today, thanks Hans J :)
Gethyum atropurpureum
Lovely plant Angie and well grown too. :)
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Flowering today, thanks Hans J :)
Gethyum atropurpureum
Lovely plant Angie and well grown too. :)
Thanks Darren. I am struggling a bit this year and to think that last year was a much colder winter, still sun is out today so bulbs will be a lot happier.
Angie :)
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my congratulation - you grow it very well !!!
Hans
Can only grow well from good stock ;D ;)
Angie :)
Well done Angie. I had it also from Hans but lost it after one flowering season.
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my congratulation - you grow it very well !!!
Hans
Can only grow well from good stock ;D ;)
Angie :)
Well done Angie. I had it also from Hans but lost it after one flowering season.
Me too... it got frozen last winter........ :-X :'( :'(
Sorry , Hans!
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Sorry Maggi and David ,
please write to Angie ...I'm shure she will give you replacement !
Maggi could you please start a new topic for 2012 ?
Thank you
Hans
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Ah yes, again I am reminded that the year has changed! :-[
I think that Angela has her plant frost free... is that right, Angela?
That would make all the difference I think. I feel so bad about my frozen bulbs. :(
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Thank you Maggi !
Yes - I have also always grown this bulbs frost free ( with a minimum of 5° )
Hans
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I think that Angela has her plant frost free... is that right, Angela?
That would make all the difference I think. I feel so bad about my frozen bulbs. :(
Yes Maggi I try and keep my greenhouse at 5c . Lets hope I can bulk it up and share it out :)
Angie :)
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You should have tried Albuca nelsonii instead. I have just learnt it is extra hardy.
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Gethyum (Solaria) autropurpureum was hardy for me, without any frost protection at all, for 8 years. It survived -15C in 2009/10 and flowerd, last year it was killed completly. It is not hardy for the worst a British winter can do but certainly doesn't need to be "frost free"; as mine were frozen into the plunge (without adverse effects) most winters.
The seeds I had saved are growing strongly so I hope to have flowers again in a couple of years.
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Nothoscordum felipponei, (Ipheion dialystemon)
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Having to try to keep up with name changes wears me out... but whatever "they" are calling it this week ;) I do like that sharp yellow with the outer stripe. Very fetching.
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;D
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Back in December I sowed several lots of Rhodophiala seeds - my araucana salmon, araucana yellow form selfed and bagnoldii - in deep pots, placed them in plastic bags and set them under lights at 18c. A few seedlings came up rather quickly and then nothing. For fear of the seedlings rotting or etiolating the bags were moved to a cold room, again under lights, holes poked in the bags weekly until they were removed completely. A few seedlings withered away whilst others grew longer and longer. The latter finally started to show dying tips just as their second leaves appeared. Now two months later and still in the cold more seeds are sprouting. What to make of this? Would more have sprouted if they had been left in the warmth or are they cold germinators?
I landed several bags of pumice yesterday, quite the occassion. Now I intend to repot R. rhodolirion and R. pratensis (ed. these were dead so have been removed from my previous posting under dorant) which are dormant, they do not take kindly to disturbance.
johnw
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Many thanks to Alberto for these beauties! Rhodophiala bifida 'Granatiflora'.
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Whilst I was out for my evening 'constitutional', I chanced upon this little Irid bravely flowering in an overgrown part of the garden. I assume I am responsible for introducing the seed at some stage, but what is it? The closest ID I can come up with is a Calydorea species - could this be correct?
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Stenomesson aurantiacum-Peru
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Many thanks to Alberto for these beauties! Rhodophiala bifida 'Granatiflora'.
What a beautiful plant Rogan!
Congratulations
JP
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It is thanks to your skills, Rogan, that it is in flower!
Yes, it is a Calydorea, if in flower now, C. amabilis, but the flower color is a lovely clear violet.
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Nothoscordum felipponei, (Ipheion dialystemon)
Michael,
Aren't these just brilliant? Such clear yellow, and flower for so long. They, and their virtually identical spring flowering species, provide so much pleasure. 8)
Rogan,
Interesting flower on your white iris. It's ringing bells, but nothing I can put a name to. If that is a white variant of Calydorea amabilis it is a much better form than the ones I grow under that species. They have much more spidery petals in my case. I love your white one, but I have a different genus lurking in my head I think..... just can't clearly get to it. ::)
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Ipheion 'Alberto Castillo'
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Wonderfully scented.
Leucocoryne purpurea
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I have to agree Arnold i would tell everybody to give these ago
(http://i964.photobucket.com/albums/ae121/davep1970/DSCF0014.jpg)
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Neomarica gracilis the 'walking iris'.A little dark my camera cannot cope with the contrast very well.
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Tony that is so lovely 8)
Angie :)
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Neomarica caerulea- very beautiful and it has the biggest flower I have seen of Neomaricas species.
Thanks Rafa :D
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Ismene x festalis.(Hymenocallis × festalis) Not strictly South American :)
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Ismene x festalis.(Hymenocallis × festalis) Not strictly South American :)
Yes, Michael, but its parents were both from South America.
Jim
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I guess that qualifies it as South American, if it were a footballer there would no problem. ;D ;D ;D
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Rhodophiala montana received as R. elwesii ex Goteborg Botanic Garden in flower here. Some may have received received seeds of this again as R. elwesii.
johnw - +25c and sunny after a brief downpour.
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Beauties John
Roland
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Caliphruria korsakoffii, a dwarf in the Eucharis group, is blooming now. I think this comes from Peru.
Jim
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Hello Jim
nice one
probably they need to be warm, like Eucharis ??
Roland
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This one may be from a high altitude, because it thrives in my Clivia House, where the winter temperatures at night can get down to 40-45°F (about 4 - 7°C). I keep my Eucharis in a somewhat warmer greenhouse, and they just barely survive. The Caliphruria is on the same table with some Hippeastrum species.
Attached, the flower close-up.
Jim
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Sounds more interesting
I can't keep Eucharis
I tried them a few times
but it seems to be to cold in my poly-tunnels (+1ºC)
Roland
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It's too bad that these Caliphruria do not seem to set seeds.
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Maybe self sterile
It wouldn't be the first time
that all the plants for sale in the trade
are just from a single collection
Roland
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A few more shots of the same Rhodophiala montana as a couple of yellows have since opened.
johnw - +24c & sunny/
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Nice glow in the flower from the top picture
Roland
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Habranthus brachyandrus 'Cherry Pink'
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Congratulations Arnold
nice plants
Here are also the first Habranthus and Zephyrantes in flower
Roland
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Roland:
I have to admit they were relatively ignored and stayed in the greenhouse at 110F at times.
Just gave them a lot of water.
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Exact what most bulbs like
Forget them :o and then spoil them ;D
Roland
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This is Habranthus tubiflorus. Be warned if you have grown 2010 Rhodophiala seed from the SRGC seedex, this is what you will get! Whoever is sending in these Rhodophiala seed is collecting seed pods in the wild or from their collection and is paying no attention to the leaves, let alone flowers if present!
Rhodophiala mendocino = Habranthus tubiflorus
Rhodophiala elwesii = Habranthus tubiflorus
Rhodophiala sp. BEW = Habranthus tubiflorus
Rhodophiala sp. BCW = Habranthus tubiflorus
If it grows quickly, has no problems and flowers in a year don't get too excited.
johnw
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Someone, somewhere, asked me about the bulbs of Caliphruria korsakoffii and how they grow. I looked at one pot (the one closest to the house) and noted that most of the offsets in it, including bloom size, are growing with the neck at the surface of the potting medium. Only one or two bulbs are growing with most of the bulb above the surface, and I suppose that is because of the overcrowding in the pot.
Jim
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Rhodophiala montana received as R. elwesii ex Goteborg Botanic Garden in flower here. Some may have received received seeds of this again as R. elwesii.
johnw - +25c and sunny after a brief downpour.
Superb plants, John!
Have some doubts about the species - I think yours looks more like one I have seen in the Biobio - area near Concepcion which should be Rhodophiala bakeri, a variable species (yellow to pink) which grew at low altitudes.
Never have seen any hint of pink in the flowers in the populations of Rhodophiala montana I have visited (Region of Maule) - also petals seem more narrow in this species. Here a picture of R. montana: http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=1573.msg39144#msg39144 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=1573.msg39144#msg39144)