September 2025 in the Southern Hemisphere

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This what I have labelled as Asarum magnificum, but I wonder if it's really Asarum maximum?
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A few non-daffodils!
1) Polygala chamaebuxus
2) Scilla libanotica
3 & 4) Bulbinella floribunda
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Some of the Cyclamen persicum in the garden,
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Some daffodils:
1) a new acquisition, Narcissus 'Josina Elizabeth'
2) Narcissus 'Joycelyn Newman'
3) Narcissus 'Matador'
4) A seedling from one of Doug Bryce's hybrids
5) Narcissus 'Katie Heath'
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[Jeffnz]

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Re the seedling in photo 4, it is a keeper.
I have never had OP seed set on the daffs that i grow, but HP gives seed set. Was the seedling open or hand pollinated?

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Re the seedling in photo 4, it is a keeper.
I have never had OP seed set on the daffs that i grow, but HP gives seed set. Was the seedling open or hand pollinated?

Hi Jeff,
Thanks, I think it's worth keeping and it's a seedling from one raised by the late Doug Bryce who introduced me to the Victorian Daffodil Society. I can't remember if it was a deliberate cross - I can't locate notes on its raising
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More narcissus
- including the effect of Red Legged Earth-mites on a hybrid hoop
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Some South African bulbs:
1) Moraea bipartita
2) Hesperantha cucullata
3) Gladiolus abbreviatus
4) Babiana hybrid (odorata x pygmaea)
5) Hesperantha vaginata (var stanfordiae?)
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Anemone pavonina in the garden and in a pot.
Raised from seed from SRGC Seedex with several descendants in a west facing bulb bed,
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1) Anemone pavonina x heldreichii
2 & 3) Anemone heldreichii
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A few miscellaneous ones:
1) Tecophila cyanocrocus
2) Nothoscordum ostenii
3) Bellevalia macrobotrys
4) Trillium sp or hybrid?
5) Gagea fibrosa

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Some Tulipa clusiana forms:
1) A pale seedling ex 'Tinka'
2) 'Tinka'
3 & 4) 'Lady Jane'
5) type form
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More from South Africa:
1&2) Gladiolus gracilis
3)Gladiolus watermeyeri which is strongly violet scented
4 & 5) Gladiolus hirsutus - wich we got from Gilles Lardy, he did a great talk about Gladiolus at the recent AGS Vic Group conference "Flora of the Veld" - though he did stray into the Northern Hemisphere
[He'd be a great speaker for one of your zoom meetings!]
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More from South Africa
1) Geissorhiza inequalis
2) Lapeirousia oreogena
3) Babiana cedarbergenis
4) Pauridia gracilipes ssp. speciosa
5) Hesperantha latifolia
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Some Tulipa clusiana forms:
1) A pale seedling ex 'Tinka'
...5) type form

1) More of the pale seedling of 'Tinka'
2) The Type form of Tulipa clusiana showing the dark centre
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