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Flowers and Foliage Now / Re: October 2025 in the Southern Hemisphere

« Last post by fermi de Sousa on October 12, 2025, 02:51:20 AM »

DBI Wanganui Gem, raised in NZ by Jean Stevens
cheers
fermi

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Flowers and Foliage Now / Re: October 2025 in the Southern Hemisphere

« Last post by fermi de Sousa on October 12, 2025, 02:48:04 AM »

Serapias neglecta has opened another flower,
cheers
fermi

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Flowers and Foliage Now / Re: October 2025 in the Southern Hemisphere

« Last post by fermi de Sousa on October 12, 2025, 02:45:55 AM »

Hi Robert,
Looking forward to more of your posts about these projects.
Here is a recent purchase - a few months ago a past member was "downsizing" and gave us a lot of her potted cyclamen which were sold to members at very reasonable prices.
We picked up this unlabelled pot which appears to be full of Cyclamen balearicum!
cheers
fermi

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Grow From Seed / Re: Growing Daylilies from Seed

« Last post by Guff on October 12, 2025, 01:39:23 AM »

Impressed with this newer version  XS2500 LED. Runs so much cooler then the XS1000 that I took down, even though it's twice as long. I may grow some roses from seed this Winter, so may hang the XS1000 back up in a different spot.

Some pictures of the light.

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Crocus / Re: unknown autum flowering Crocus please help to idetify

« Last post by Catwheazle on October 11, 2025, 08:19:36 PM »

OK.... thank you very much.


Bernd

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Crocus / Re: unknown autum flowering Crocus please help to idetify

« Last post by Mariette on October 11, 2025, 08:12:01 PM »

I´d say it really looks like Crocus speciosus. Crocus ligusticus has flowers which differ from Yours, not at least regarding the colour, which is more lilac-mauve or purple.

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General Forum / Re: Book Grow Nerines by Graham Duncan

« Last post by Vinny 123 on October 11, 2025, 04:23:26 PM »

Specialist societies tend to be bursting with totally OOT enthusiasts and even more with detailed nowledge offered more than generously.
Somehow, there will be a way to ask  if you cannot find answers to your questions, if not in "joining packs", there will be some way or another.

Nerines - quite popular in the UK - you should be fine.

They don't float my own boat especially, but there are lots of species, many available in cultivation, and almost beyond counting numbers of cultivars.

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Crocus / unknown autum flowering Crocus please help to idetify

« Last post by Catwheazle on October 11, 2025, 02:37:08 PM »

Hi,
today, 11.10. 2025 some autum flowering Crocus start to flower.
I'm trying to determine whether it's C. ligusticus, as I bought it, or, as someone on Facebook told me,
definitely C. speciosus.
I've read Ruksan's book, but I can't tell the difference based on the flowers alone.
Can anyone help me?
Thank you!
Bernd

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Blogs and Diaries / Re: Crystal Range Flora 2024-5

« Last post by Robert on October 10, 2025, 07:29:49 PM »

On 9 October 2025, I had a successful trip to the Red Peak region of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Pictured is a neighboring peak, Silver Peak, elevation 8,934 ft. (2,723 meters).



Although many plants were dormant or in a state of autumn senescence there was still a great deal of plant life to observe and study. Pictured above is a dry meadow situated at an elevation of ~ 8,200 feet (2,499 meters). At this elevation Lodgepole Pine, Pinus contorta ssp. murrayana and Mountain Hemlock, Tsuga mertensiana, are the dominant forest species with scattered specimens of Western White Pine, Pinus monticola.

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General Forum / Re: Book Grow Nerines by Graham Duncan

« Last post by grenadier on October 10, 2025, 06:47:48 PM »

Thanks Vinny 123. I have taken your advice and taken out a membership with NAAS. I hope I can now further my knowledge on the nerine.