October 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere

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A few flowers from our garden for the start of October:
1) Scilla vicentina
2) Lachenalia mathewsii
3) Delosperma 'Firespinner'
4) a yellow DBI
5) Gladiolus virens
cheers
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[Lesley Cox]

Hi Fermi, You have started off the month with some nice things. The Gladiolus species looks especially exciting. I have 4 delospermas now, all from Peter and Louise at Hokonui BUT it turns out that they are the extra little epicurean treat the local rabbits have been waiting for all these years. Mine have been grazed down to their roots. I haven't tried them myself but I wondered if the juice inside their succulent"leaves" has a sugary taste. Certainly something is very toothsome to the little grey b........s.

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... it turns out that they are the extra little epicurean treat the local rabbits have been waiting for all these years. Mine have been grazed down to their roots. I haven't tried them myself but I wondered if the juice inside their succulent"leaves" has a sugary taste. Certainly something is very toothsome to the little grey b........s.

Bunnies? Hmm, doesn't quite fit the number of spaces
My offering for today:
DBI 'Killarney Green'
cheers
fermi

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Hi Fermi, You have started off the month with some nice things. The Gladiolus species looks especially exciting...

Here's another one - Gladiolus melisculus - which has a great colour but not the violet scent
cheers
fermi

[Lesley Cox]

Another lovely gladiolus species. Do you get seeds from these Fermi?

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Another lovely gladiolus species. Do you get seeds from these Fermi?

Hi Lesley,
they don't always set seed.
I think I need two clones and am hoping a second clone will be in flower before the first finishes!
cheers
fermi

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1) Dichelostemma - capitatum I think
2) Tulipa hageri 'Splendens'
3) a pale Anemone pavonina
4) a purple PCI & Pelargonium triste
5) a white PCI
cheers
fermi

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Some more from the October garden:
1) Muscari cycladicum first flowering from seed from Ashley (ex JJA0.689.210)
2) Geissorhiza monanthos - form 1
3) Geissorhiza monanthos - form 2
4) Moraea bipartita
5) a red-backed, red-centred, yellow Ixia
cheers
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1) DBI 'Toy Clown'
2) Moraea setifolia
3) white Delosperma cooperi seedling
4) Tulipa linifolia 'Red Hunter'
5) Tulipa 'Little Beauty'
cheers
fermi

[cohan]

Great to see all the lovely stuff coming into flower!

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1) Delosperma cooperi seedling orange
2) Ixia hybrid seedling - red-eyed pink
3) MBI 'Blue Flirt'
4) PCI 'Big Money'
5) Hypericum sp.
cheers
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[cohan]

Love that orange Delo! I had a hybrid which managed to survive a winter, then self seed itself for several years, then faded away.. I'd probably need to manage more intensively to keep it going.. nubigenum survives in ground.