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Author Topic: June 2025 in the Southern Hemisphere  (Read 262 times)

fermi de Sousa

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June 2025 in the Southern Hemisphere
« on: June 09, 2025, 04:25:14 AM »
This is definitely winter now!
We've had frosts and finally some rain. Parts of southern Australia have been experiencing drought while the north has been having floods! This is certainly a land of contrasts.
Here is the main offering to start this thread - Narcissus 'First Stanza' raised by Lawrence Trevanion in Canberra from a crossing of Narcissus elegans var fallax with Narcssus 'Soleil d'Or'. Pics taken a few days apart - the second two after an attack by critters - possibly parrots.
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Victoria, Australia

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Re: June 2025 in the Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2025, 09:59:08 PM »
All parts of Narcissus are supposedly poisonous to birds, not sure about your native parrots.

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Re: June 2025 in the Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #2 on: June 10, 2025, 11:03:46 AM »
Hmm!  Hummingbirds feed on the nectar here in Maine, US with seemingly no I'll effect

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Re: June 2025 in the Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #3 on: June 10, 2025, 10:04:05 PM »
I am no avian expert but did google the topic and that is what I posted.

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Re: June 2025 in the Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #4 on: June 14, 2025, 10:21:55 AM »
The damage done was the nipping off some of the blooms, which is typical for parrots. So they don't actually eat the flowers.
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Re: June 2025 in the Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #5 on: June 14, 2025, 10:27:37 AM »
Oxalis purpurea 'Alba'
A reliable winter flowering oxalis with a tendency to spread by stolons
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Re: June 2025 in the Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #6 on: June 14, 2025, 02:44:05 PM »
This is a nerine we received as "Salmonea" - an unverified name.
It has the appearance of Nerine undulata but a much deeper colour.
One suggestion is that it is an old UK raised hybrid called 'Gloaming'
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