Urginea maritima

[Hans J]

Hi Thomas ,

As promised here some pics of Urginea on Crete !

 

[Anthony Darby]

Ah, that I do get regularly to flower inside. A friend collected some a few years ago from the edge of a field in Spain. They were being used as a make-shift wall!!!

[zephirine]

I tried it in the garden this year, but the drainage is probably too poor for it to thrive here.
So far, only a pair of small leaves have emerged. Maybe I should pot it up too...
Thanks for the pics, Hans!
Zephirine

[Paul T]

While discussing Urginea maritima I thought I might pass on a bit of a discussion I had with someone recently.  He has this species, but it is quite different to mine in appearance.  While mine has greener leaves and a more upward "whorl" of leaves his opens out with silvery leaves almost flat on the ground.  He's giving me a couple of bulbs so I can do further comparison of them, but I am fairly comfortable that mine is accurately named, and he has the knowledge that I am comfortable that his probably is too.  Is there a lot of variability in the leaf appearance of this species?  I'm rather lookinf forward to seeing how his do in my garden and just how different they are.

[Hans J]

I tried it in the garden this year, but the drainage is probably too poor for it to thrive here.
So far, only a pair of small leaves have emerged. Maybe I should pot it up too...
Thanks for the pics, Hans!
Zephirine

Bon jour Zephirine ,

I think it is not possibly for us here to grow this bulbs succsessfull .....I have it also tried before 20 years ....always only leaves !
If you see the habitat of this plants is it clear -they grows in very hot and dry area -special in calcy fields ( Terra Rossa ).

I suppose you live in Dept. Drome ?
If yes - so you should visit the nursery of Riviere in Crest - but maybe you will know it ....
We live in south-western Germany , near the border of France ( Alsace )
30 km from Strasbourg .
To your name "Zephirine" : do you grow also Zephyranthes .....?

Many greetings
Hans

[Cris]

Hi

In Portugal we see many Urginea growing wild. A mounth ago they were blooming, it's great to see it.
i've some bulbs and they've bloomed. Now the leaves start to appear.

[Kees Jan]

Here are the leaves of this late-summer and autumn flowering bulb, recently photographed in the Peloponnesos. They are very large!

[Anthony Darby]

Yup, that's what I have growing on my classroom windowsill. Last year it started producing two spikes and has two growing points now.

[Paul T]

And down here, mine are heading into dormancy now.  Interestingly I just got a different form from a friend of mine..... his, instead of having the upright whorl of leaves like the last pic (as mine have), have leaves that spread out almost flat apparently.  The leaves on his are also greener than mine, which have a more silvery blue quality to them.  He's just given me a potted bulb that is starting to go dormant like mine. Will be interesting to compare them next season growing in similar conditions, and see how different they are then.

[Cris]

Hi

Here in Portugal it's time to see the Urginea (Drimia now, right?) maritima blooming. It's amazing to go on a road and see all those white flowers.

[Maggi Young]

Hi

Here in Portugal it's time to see the Urginea (Drimia now, right?) maritima blooming. It's amazing to go on a road and see all those white flowers.

Cris, it confuses me to keep up with the names... but it must be lovely to see the flowers.. whatever they are called !
It is rather unusual to think of white flowers as autumn flowers, don't you think? 

[Cris]

Maggi, I also prefer to call the plants for the first name I've learned. There are sooooooo many names and my head sometimes don't support all of them.
I'll try to take some pictures of them. 

Here are two pictures of it.
the first one is from a plant I saw in the the wild last year
the second one if of my plants starting to bloom

[Anthony Darby]

Interesting to note that mine, on the classroom windowsill and under the same (?) conditions as last year have just started to show signs of life. Last year they had flowered by the end of August.

[Maggi Young]

Yes, Anthony, I remember you telling us that.... I suppose it goes to show what a miserable summer we have had, eh?