Spring in Southern Hemisphere... with crocus! (July- September)

[Lesley Cox]

Just had a look at my 'Chocolate Soldier.' Alas, not going to flower but the single corm has come up as two, so hopefully it will increase nicely.

[t00lie]

After David Lyttle's ,(a.ka.mountain goat),flying visit here this morning i managed to take a few pics of crocus in bloom.

The first shot shows a clump pushing up through a native Celmisia.

Unfortunately the plants in the third pic are a bit elongated--i should have moved the pot to a sunnier spot earlier.

Finally Cyclamen coum .

Cheers dave.

[Maggi Young]

My goodness , Lelsey, yes... you did show it, though not with the species name.... here:
Re: Some Australian Natives
« Reply #5 on: October 05, 2008, 05:49:11 AM »
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=2532.msg57608#msg57608

.... I hadn't put two and two together!

[Ray]

A couple of plants flowering atm here

[Lesley Cox]

Maggi, David mentioned the name of the pimelea on page 2 of that thread. I should have known it right from the start because on that same day, I bought some very beautiful cards at the nursery and one was the pimelea, correctly named.

[Lesley Cox]

Dave, I'm not sure about your blue crocus but I think the two yellows are CC. chrys, 'Fusco-tinctus' and chrys. `Zwanenburg Bronze' respectively.

[Lesley Cox]

We had a spectacular sunrise this morning, not boding well for sailors or shepherds or gardeners. The temperature outside at 11.30am is still just 2C and when I went to Mosgiel at 9am for a haircut, cars on the side of the road had thick ice on their windows.



The following pics were taken yesterday when it was distinctly warmer. I seem to have lost the knack of taking halfway decent pics lately. Most are a bit blurry and I'm wary of lying across a raised bed to get a better angle, still being a bit tender in the tummy.


Iris 'Sheila Ann Germaney' is one of my favourites but I'm a little worried about some darker marks on the standards. I dread the V word.


'Harmony' is an old faithful, always performing well and seemingly fully reliable.


This little tommie is unlike any other I have. It appeared, like Topsy, in the raised bed where I have cool things like dwarf rhodos, small primulas etc.


A better pic than the last, of Crocus biflorus alexandri, more out

[fermi de Sousa]

Ray,
some nice stuff there - the South Africans are nicely suited to Southern Australia. That Romulea sabulosa is huge!
That Frit seems very early; you are well ahead of us here in Central Vic.
We've had a few crocus flower recently - this is one I was able to photograph before the slugs got to it! Crocus sieberi ssp sieberi (from Marcus Harvey)


Yesterday we visited some neighbours who do much better with hellebores than we do. Here's some pics from their place - first a patch which they brought with them when they moved 12 months ago,

 Except for this yellow which they got recently


Along with this lot,


H. x ballardii

A nice white,



And a double pink.

Most of these were brought from Peter Leigh's "Post Office Farm Nursery"
cheers
fermi

[Lesley Cox]

Some more crocuses.


C. cvijicii


C. candidus


C. olivieri


C. angustifolius. I think this was the first crocus I ever knew, as my mother had it in her garden as far back as I can remember. She had it as C. susianus and I still have to adjust the name in my mind whenever I see it.

These two pots of Narcissus are from my Tasmanian friend MH, this last summer. The first was supposed to be 6 bulbs of N. cantabricus ssp cantabricus. They are different shapes, sizes and colours, even the palest not being white, to my mind, so I'll have to try that one again.


This one is something of a mystery too as it came as N. bulbocodium nivalis, which should be bright yellow. I'd welcome any comments please. The texture is very thick and waxy and the colour almost white.

[cohan]

Some more crocuses.

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C. cvijicii

some lovely crocuses, but i'm even more curious to know whats growing beside the first---the tiny rosettes?

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Spring definitely seems to be getting on it's way in the SH !
Lovely pix everybody !

Lesley, N. cantabricus somehow doesn't want to be white for you does it...   

[Lesley Cox]

You're right Luc, this is the umpteenth time I've tried this plant and never yet.....

Cohan, the little rosettes are yet-to-flower plants of the monocarpic Sedum pilosum. I planted one there maybe 10 years ago and it flowered, seeded and I've never needed to replant. The seed is fine as dust so they come up here and there, in paths etc. I usually weed out a hundred or so and leave some to carry on. It is a lovely thing I'd not want to be without.

[fermi de Sousa]

Hi Lesley,
it's a lovely little sedum and one I've been trying to get up from seed since seeing it at the Aberdeen SRGC Show a few years ago.
A few more flowers from the garden this morning:
Bulbinella cauda-felis, just starting


Retic Iris hybrid "Harmony"

And some daffodils,
Narcissus bulbocodium v citrina


One of the GBF "Detective Series", probably "Smarple"


And Narcissus "Topolino" (ignore the weeds please!)


cheers
fermi

[cohan]

You're right Luc, this is the umpteenth time I've tried this plant and never yet.....

Cohan, the little rosettes are yet-to-flower plants of the monocarpic Sedum pilosum. I planted one there maybe 10 years ago and it flowered, seeded and I've never needed to replant. The seed is fine as dust so they come up here and there, in paths etc. I usually weed out a hundred or so and leave some to carry on. It is a lovely thing I'd not want to be without.

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oh wow--glad i asked, its a delight! thanks..

[Otto Fauser]

a few more Crocus flowering in my garden at the moment : 2 Tommies, and other species ,
 surely C. biflorus 'Sulphur' ex Ray Cobb must have chrysanthus blood in it -does anyone know it?
 and the last pic is a 25 year old slide of C. gargaricus ssp . herbertii , seed received many
years ago from Martyn Rix ,under EMR 1209 .It grew very well and spread fast by stolons '
 but unfortunately has now dwindled away to a few corms - it must have been -in it's heyday-a square meter across .
 003 C. tomm. 'Pictus'
 007       "      white
 004 C. paschei
 019    'Mida's Touch'
 024  biflorus 'Sulphur' ex Ray Cobb
 021 pestozzae col . Camlica, tky
 004[15] gargaricus ssp. herbertii EMR 1209