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Flowers and Foliage Now / Re: Matelea cyclophylla is flowering
« Last post by Vinny 123 on October 15, 2025, 05:55:03 PM »If you have not checked the link, it has a picture with the floral parts labelled.
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Flowers and Foliage Now / Re: Matelea cyclophylla is flowering« Last post by Vinny 123 on October 15, 2025, 05:55:03 PM »If you have not checked the link, it has a picture with the floral parts labelled.
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NARCISSUS / Re: NARCISSUS 2025« Last post by Robert on October 15, 2025, 05:17:46 PM »Hi Anne,
You certainly have created many fine new Narcissus hybrids. I also run across your hybrids on DaffSeek (daffseek.org). Thank you for sharing your photographs. Below is a photograph of Narcissus elegans blooming in a container at our Sacramento, California home. It is a nice plant with a very good spicy-sweet fragrance. I am not sure about the correct name of this plant, as it does not quite fit the description for Narcissus elegans or N. serotinus. The foliage is definitely elegans-like. Currently, I have only one blooming plant. I tried to self it last year and got no seed. I selfed it again yesterday and placed it in the cold frame. I hope it is not an obligate outbreeder. 13
Ian Young's Bulb Log - Feedback Forum / Re: Monthly Bulb Log Diary 2025« Last post by Robert on October 15, 2025, 05:16:14 PM »Hi Ian,
Thank you so very much for your latest Bulb Log. I too want to get our Sternbergia out into the open garden. With our climatic conditions I think that we have a good chance at success. Pictured below are a few from our cinderblock garden. In California, commercial strawberries taste terrible. I have been attempting to breed good tasting day-neutral strawberries. ‘Sequoia’ is a good tasting, old day-neutral strawberry and I have been using this variety in many of my new hybrids. Pictured below are a few hybrids that I have not planted out yet. The results so far are okay, but I have not been “wowed” by the flavor of any of the new hybrids to date. Alpine Strawberry seed is available here in the U.S.A. Maybe I will try growing some this year. They do taste great, however I am not sure they will like our hot summers. They definitely do not hybridize with commercial type strawberries. This has been attempted many times in the past. Maybe I can get some of the Alpine Strawberry to survive our summer heat and breed for heat tolerance. I already have many projects going. Maybe it is better that I do not add another project. 14
Flowers and Foliage Now / Re: Matelea cyclophylla is flowering« Last post by Hans J on October 15, 2025, 11:33:29 AM »Ahhh ....good to know !
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Flowers and Foliage Now / Re: Matelea cyclophylla is flowering« Last post by Vinny 123 on October 15, 2025, 11:15:36 AM »16
Flowers and Foliage Now / Re: Matelea cyclophylla is flowering« Last post by Vinny 123 on October 15, 2025, 11:02:36 AM »No problem - no reason not to try - good luck.
I was astonished that I could find so very, very little detail online, not even a labelled section through a flower. I am unsure what specialist societies still exist outside of general cactus and succulents societies, but there must be one, with a forum, somewhere that has detailed Asclep' knowledge within its members. (I have not double-checked, but I believe that the IAS has been defunct quite a while??) I did find it very easy to remove pollinia from flowers though - when they are complete they are sort of wishbone-shaped - if that translates. Maybe it's worth joining a C&S forum to try to get more detailed information? Maybe BCSS - as here, you do not need to be a member although I have found it "unhelpful" previously...... Maybe the PBS, or CSSA? Good luck 17
Ian Young's Bulb Log - Feedback Forum / Re: Monthly Bulb Log Diary 2025« Last post by Ian Y on October 15, 2025, 10:57:58 AM »Find out what windows and paths are for in a garden in this months Bulb Log.
There are also plenty autumn flowering Crocus and other flowering bulbs to see if you click on the link. https://srgc.net/documents/bulb%20logs/251015104210BULB%20LOG%201025.pdf 18
Flowers and Foliage Now / Re: Matelea cyclophylla is flowering« Last post by Hans J on October 15, 2025, 10:52:02 AM »many thanks Vinny !
This helps me abit to understand the flower structure .... I have to try !!! 19
Ian Young's Bulb Log - Feedback Forum / Re: Monthly Bulb Log Diary 2025« Last post by Ian Y on October 15, 2025, 10:48:11 AM »Dear Fermi, Robert, Jasmine, Susan and Anne,
Thank you so much for your loyal support and having stuck with me through all 23 years it means so much to me. I intend to continue making the videos so you can stay in touch with the garden that way plus if I do decide to write then Bulb Log updates will appear in the IRG as appropriate. Best wishes to you all. Ian 20
General Forum / Re: Pacific Bulb Society« Last post by grenadier on October 15, 2025, 09:41:09 AM »Thanks for confirming that Vinny 123
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