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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: fermi de Sousa on September 03, 2024, 09:33:59 AM
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Officially Spring here but accompanied by ferocious weather in south-eastern Australia, from gale force winds in Victoria, floods in Tasmania and High Fire danger in New South Wales!
Here are a few flowers around the garden:
1) Geissorhiza inequalis
2) Dwarf Bearded Iris - Iris aphylla grown from AGS Sdx 2009
3) Gladiolus gracilis
4) I think this is Dipterostemon capitatus but I stand to be corrected!
5) Moraea macronyx
cheers
fermi
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fermi,
The Geissorhiza and the Moraea really look good!
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Hi Fermi
Yes, the photograph looks like Dipterostemon capitatus ssp. capitatus. There are two other subspecies here in California, ssp. lacuna-vernalis and ssp. pauciflora. Your plant does not appear to fit the description of ssp. lacuna-vernalis or ssp. pauciflora.
Dipterostemon capitatus ssp. capitatus, as might be expected, has a fair degree of genetic variability with qualities that are useful in ornamental horticulture. There are white flowering forms, as well as variability in the number of flowers per scape and their shade of bluish-purple. The bracts are generally deep blue-purple, but this too can be variable. In addition, there is variability in the ploidy level, which can lead to larger scapes, flowers, and bulbs. Good forms are very useful garden plants, especially in xeric Mediterranean type landscape situations.
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Thank you, Marc and Robert.
Here are a few more:
1) Hesperantha latifolia in trough
2) Pauridia gracilipes ssp speciosa
3) Gladiolus watermeyeri - great scent of violets
4) Same gladdie 2 days later
5) Romulea flava
cheers
fermi
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A few more from our garden:
1) Bellevalia ciliata
2) Hesperantha bachmannii
3) Asarum magnificum
4) Babiana cedarbergensis
5) Anemone pavonina
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fermi
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A Visit to Tonkins Bulbs in the Dandenongs
Last weekend we visited a friend's nursery which specialises in rare and unusual bulbs.
Here are some pics of the plants in the "Stock beds"
1) An Australian native ground orchid, Pterostylis pedunculata
2) Serapias lingua
3) Serapias neglecta (though this might be a hybrid)
4 & 5) Fritillaria imperialis
...more to come
cheers
fermi
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More from Tonkins Bulbs:
1) Pleione Raw Silk
2) white Pleione
3) a few more pleiones
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fermi
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Some more:
1) Gladiolus splendens
2) Trillium pusillum
3) Corydalis solida
4) Fritillaria meleagris
5) Fritillaria persica
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fermi
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A couple of Caladenia orchids at Tonkins Bulbs
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fermi
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Still at Tonkins!
1) Dwarf Bearded iris, featuring 'Tarheel Elf'
2) DBI 'Knick Knack'
3) Scilla/Chionodoxa
4) Species tulips
5) Paeonias
cheers
fermi
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Such treasures "chez Tonkins"!! What a great place to visit!
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Fermi,
Very nice display! What impresses me most is how well grown they are.
Between turkeys and deer, many of my plants look chewed >:(
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Thanks, Marc and Maggi, it's an amazing place!
A few of weeks ago The Ferny Creek Horticultural Society (FCHS) held its Spring Show.
1 & 2) I found a beautiful clump of Iris tuberosa in the gardens.
3) The inaugural Otto Fauser Award was made to the grower of a beautiful pot of Primula 'Hall Barn Blue'
4 & 5) The Certificate which will be awarded by the AGS Vic group once a year at either the FCHS Spring Show or the Floral Festival in October
cheers
fermi
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More from the FCHS Spring Show:
The Rock Garden Section was well supported,
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fermi
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More in the Rock Garden Section, including the Blue Ribbon which went to a rare Fritiallaria
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fermi
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More from the FCHS Spring Show:
1) Double Bloodroot and
2) Anemonella from the Rock Garden Section.
3 & 4) Some of the Camellias
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fermi
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Rhodies and Azaeleas!
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fermi
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Even more Rhodies!
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fermi
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Some of the daffodil section
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fermi
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Our daffs on the other side of the Tasman are starting to go over.
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Our daffs on the other side of the Tasman are starting to go over.
Ours too - these pics are from a few weeks ago at the FCHS Spring Show.
Here are a few more
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fermi
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The last few daffs including the Blue Ribbon winner 'Buzzie'
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fermi
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Some Australian Native Plants
1) Blue Ribbon - an Acacia
2) Banksia undata (in front) and Banksia ericifolia
3) Banksia menziesii
4) Grevillea sp
5) Boronias
cheers
fermi
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Last few pics from FCHS Spring Show, Australian Native Plants
1) Grevilleas
2) Mixed genera
3) Philotheca
4) Waratahs and other genera
5) Waratahs (Telopea cultivars)
cheers
fermi
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More flowers from our garden:
1) Lapeirousia silenoides
2 & 3) Tulipa agenensis ssp sharonensis
4) DBI 'Raspberry Jam'
5) Moraea versicolor
cheers
fermi
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What a great show - both at the FCHS and your garden, fermi!!
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Thanks, Maggi.
Here's a selection of Delosperma cooperi seedlings which come up in our pots after getting 3 different ones a few years ago.
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fermi
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Some Aussie native plants in our garden:
1) Senna artemesiodes
2) Isopogon - possibly the hybrid 'Pink Drumsticks'
3 &4) Phebalium sp.
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fermi
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Some of the local roadside wildflowers:
1) Roadside terrain
2 - 4) "Bendigo Waxflower", a Philotheca species.
5) An acacia sp.
More to come,
cheers
fermi
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More from the roadside:
1) Daviesia ulicifolia ssp. ruscifolia
2) close up
3 & 4) A "Donkey Orchid", Diuris (probably D. pardina)
5) another Donkey
cheers
fermi
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Box Ironbark with understorey of pea bushes, mostly Daviesia, commonly known as "Eggs and Bacon"
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fermi
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One of the few bulbous species in Australia, "Early Nancies"
Wurmbea dioica
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fermi
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Wattles (Acacias) are important pioneer plants in the Australian environment.
There are at least 3 different species here but the only one I'm pretty sure about is the Golden Wattle, Acacia pycnantha, the last pic,
cheers
fermi
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The second photo maybe Acacia acinacea.
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Thanks, Jeff,
That's a good possibility.
Back to the garden!
Tulipa 'White Emeror'
cheers
fermi
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Hi Fermi
Do your tulips return year after year?
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Hi Jeff,
not all return each year.
These 'White Emperor' have been in the ground a number of years and have not been dug and replanted.
Some newer purchases have not returned and I (and others) suspect these have been imported from the Northern Hemisphere and treated in some way to hold them "in stasis" for 6 months before entering the retail market here. Possibly for this reason the bulbs don't survive after flowering.
The species tulips seem to be more "perennial".
Here is Tulipa clusiana 'Lady Jane' and the straight species
cheers
fermi
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A few more species tulips:
1) Tulipa bakeri (now called T. saxatilis "Bakeri Group")
2) Tulipa saxatilis
3) Tulipa stapfii (syn T. systola)
cheers
fermi
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Some more from September; these are South African in origin:
1) Hesperantha vaginata
2) Freesia viridis
3) maroon Sparaxis
4) Lachenalia mutabilis
5) A stray Moraea which might be a hybrid
cheers
fermi
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Growing Morea for the first time, I have a few seed pots, will remain in the pots for a second season before planting out into the garden. I am advised that the plants should be kept dry for the summer months. In the garden this may be difficult to achieve, do you have any issues with the garden plants that you have, or is your climate such that you get little or no rain over summer?
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Growing Morea for the first time... I am advised that the plants should be kept dry for the summer months. In the garden this may be difficult to achieve, do you have any issues with the garden plants that you have, or is your climate such that you get little or no rain over summer?
Hi Jeff,
our climate is mostly dry in summer but sometimes we get rain - one solution I have for this is to plant summer dry bulbs where any summer moisture is sucked up by active roots of perennials, trees/shrubs and even annuals which don't need extra water,
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fermi
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Thanks, cant apply the same solution in our garden, but handy to know.
May ultimately resort to pot growing as the lack of summer rain cannot be assumed.
Most of my seed is from peacock hybrids.
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Fermi,
You might try using the jar part ot a poultry feeder inverted over the plant you are trying to protect.
Use it only when rain is expected.