Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Bulbs => Bulbs General => Topic started by: David Nicholson on February 27, 2012, 11:37:20 AM
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I'm sure these are not the first Romulea to be posted this year although we did use to have a specific Romulea thread. If these need to go somewhere else Maggi would you move them please.
My first Romulea to flower this year-Romulea tetragona this one a kind gift from Michael.
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Very nice David, save it's seed and sow back into the pot to get a decent clump.
Romulea linearisii from the Wallaces in 2005 has been flowering here.
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Very nice Peter. :) :)
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Romulea bulbocodium.
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Very nice Michael. ;D ;D. How long from seed to flowering please?
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They will usually flower from seed in three years, sometimes two. They are weeds here and I have to continually weed them out of other pots.
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Really !! :o :o
Beautiful weeds?? They don't seem to be very commonly grown? Are they unruly in their growth habit?
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Not really,just that the leaves are rather long and can hide the flowers. Romulea and Freesia laxa, especially Joan Evans, are growing in the sand underneath the bench in the greenhouse. I don't usually weed them out unless the get in my way.
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I think I've found what I will be trying from the seed bank this year. ;D ;D
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The main problem with romuleas is that if there is not enough sun the flowers wont open >:(
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Do all species flower around this time of year?
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I had Romulea tetragona flowering within 2 years after sowing.
The plants grow in winter and flower at the end of their annual growing cycle. Beautiful but as Peter mentioned they need sun to open the flowers - though the outside of R. tetragona's flowers is good-looking as well. ;)
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Do all species flower around this time of year?
not sure but they grow both in the mediteranean and South Africa, all the ones I have grown are winter growers
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Do all species flower around this time of year?
There are three Romulea species I know about (and there may be more) that are Eastern Cape growers and would flower here in the perhaps late spring. I haven't succeeded with these I have tried from seed.
Romulea macowanii
R. namaquensis
R. camerooniana (syn. campanuloides)
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Thanks David, for the information. What happened to your attempts from seed ?
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I've sown and lost macowanii twice but, not to be deterred I sowed another batch in May 2011. I haven't watered the summer growers yet but time will tell!
I have two batches of camerooniana after loosing two previous sowings. One sown October 2010, the other August 2011 on none of my sowing occasions did I realise they were summer growers so Heaven only knows what's happened to them, I'll have to find them.
I have one batch of namaquensis sown May 2011, again they are with my summer growers in the garage not watered yet.
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I see. Thank you David.
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A slightly immature flower and more to come but as I'm likely to be away from home for most of next week I didn't want to waste a photo opportunity.
From Michael-Romulea bulbocodium
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True R. namaquensis is a summer dormant species.
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I enjoy repotting my Romulea species (fondly known as my Romuleans!); they have such interesting 'bulbs'. I also discovered that I have two nearly mature R. hantamensis bulbs after many years of careful cultivation from seed; hopefully they will flower soon as it is such a striking species - has anyone flowered this one before?
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Flowered it Rogan? I hadn't even heard of it. I looked it up in Goldblatt, Manning and Snijman and it's very pretty. The flower shape in the picture I saw made it look a bit like the trochopteranthum of the Romulea world.
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I'm running off back to my Fritss!!! :'( :'(
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I'm running off back to my Fritss!!! :'( :'(
The Rhinopetalums Ron?? ;) ;D