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Pleione and Orchidaceae / Re: Pleione 2025

« Last post by Maggi Young on March 30, 2025, 08:36:03 PM »

Here are two Pleiones shown by Don Peace at the Hexham Show on Saturday 29th March 2025 - the photos were taken by Alan Gardner.

pleione ulli wagernakel Enigma don peace.jpg

Pleione and Orchidaceae / Pleione 2025

« Last post by Tim Harberd on March 30, 2025, 06:07:56 PM »

As mentioned previously: It is my intention to show more Pleione here this year. Hopefully a few other forum members will chip in.

The season has started, as usual, with P. Shantung ‘Ducat’ (R6.35) This one is 10cm across. Personally I don't like these lone early flowers, as they can be over before the rest of the flowers in the pan are fully open

P. Kettlewell ‘Garth’ (H161.2) and P. Marco Polo (H168.2) are not far behind. It really is high time H168.2 got a name! Any suggestions? I’ll talk to Dad about it this week.

Coming up, this P. Shantung ‘Natasha’(R6.40) has put up two double headers. I’m not a fan of twin flowers, since the second is often twisted, but I do take the trait as a sign of general good health. On which point, note the uneven colouring of the developing buds. This was the start of last year’s virus scare! I expect these flowers to have normal colouring once fully mature, but time will tell.

Tim DH

Iris / Re: Reticulata Iris - 2025

« Last post by Alan McMurtrie on March 30, 2025, 04:24:12 PM »

Interesting to see different expressions on tetraploid bulbs of 05-BL-4 delivered by the lab [Photos are from 2024, and 2022]. Unfortunately the Dutch bulb grower didn't keep track of delivery details, but then I wasn't expecting expression differences. Aside: there are issues with whether the delivery was of "4x" bulbs, "4x 4C<8C", etc. [The lab does 3 stability tests, but the results do vary...]

At the moment we have freezing temperature, so I have a bit of time to do a post. Only the middle clone is in bloom currently.

Wide fall

Dark blue with lots of veins

Dark blue only a few veins (clearly the grower mixed two varieties; which is not a good sign...)

05-BL-4c-Tetra-&-03-BP-1-P4082111_720.jpg

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

« Last post by Robert on March 30, 2025, 04:08:40 PM »

Hi Fermi,

You have brought up a good point concerning the cultivation of Erythronium species. An important consideration is the fact that I have been working on this project for over 20 years. In the beginning I had similar results at the best. Over the years my success rate has increased, however over many years progress was extremely slow with many setbacks. Most likely my methodologies would not work for you. I work with only local species and highly genetically diverse populations of plants. The fundamental concepts behind the theory of rapid adaptive evolution is a guiding force forming the basis of my methodologies. As it has turned out, the loss of our walnut tree has turned out to be a huge blessing. I have dropped many projects and now focus my efforts on the R and D of a small selection of plant species, and creating a beautiful garden. These have always been my horticultural passions. It is nice to get back to my core horticultural passions. I especially enjoy working on very difficult and challenging R and D projects. The process and the knowledge gained is what is so satisfying for me. I enjoy making new discoveries.

Jasmin says that wallabies seem like goats.

Grow From Seed / Re: Growing Daylilies from Seed

« Last post by Guff on March 29, 2025, 11:28:02 PM »

Jeff, thanks.

I'm going to do a back cross at some point. Not sure if the Yoga Man that I bought will flower come Summer(haven't received it yet). Every Knee Shall Bow cost is too high to buy at this point, $200+ for one fan.

Yoga Man
https://ladybugdaylilies.com/product/yoga-man/
https://garden.org/plants/view/665682/Daylily-Hemerocallis-Yoga-Man/

Every Knee Shall Bow
https://springwoodgardens.com/intros21/EVERY%20KNEE%20SHALL%20BOW%20.html
https://garden.org/plants/view/797260/Daylily-Hemerocallis-Every-Knee-Shall-Bow/

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

« Last post by fermi de Sousa on March 29, 2025, 11:16:23 PM »

Hi Robert and Jasmin,
thanks for your comments and advice. We've had kangaroos in the garden since we started living here. But they don't do as much damage as the wallabies, because they mostly eat grass while the wallaby will eat any plant.
I've gotten some locally (well, the Dandenongs) produced Erythronium seed which I'll try out here. I've previously tried plants which have simply petered out after a few years, even ones I'd grown from seed.
Here are some more flowers:
1) Narcissus 07/02T - N. tazetta lacticolor x N. elegans from Lawrence Trevanion in Canberra
2) Lycoris Elsae
3) Rhodophiala bifida seedling of the orange red clone
4) Rhodophiala bifida pink - on a very short stem!
cheers
fermi

Grow From Seed / Re: Growing Daylilies from Seed

« Last post by Jeffnz on March 29, 2025, 11:08:02 PM »

That is a great seedling, did it follow either parent?

Grow From Seed / Re: Growing Daylilies from Seed

« Last post by Guff on March 29, 2025, 10:46:45 PM »

Collected seed pods, not many.....

2x Precious Candy pollen (5 seeds total)
1x My blue eyed seedling pollen (2 seeds)
1x with it's own pollen (2 seeds)

Put up a second scape, around Easter a flower should be open. Will be interesting to see if it changes.