April 2019 in the Southern Hemisphere

[t00lie]

Hello Lesley

I use a SD card on the phone to temporarily store phone images and from there I've just posted this test image directly.
If you like I can have a look at your phone settings next time I'm passing through.

Cheers Dave.

[Parsla]

Hi Jamus, Fermi, Lesley and all others,

I have been letting the side down badly, although with such a long dragged out Summer many things have suffered.
The crocus popping up have been a joy.

A few from April.
1. I had labelled this as Crocus kotschyanus, but it has strange elongated petals and doesn't really look like any online. Maybe need some help in identification. Even could be said to resemble a colchicum. Most confusing.
2. Another very beautiful specimen I am unsure about
3. Beautiful crocus caspius gifted by Otto
4. Cyclamen scrambling on the embankment

[Parsla]

A few more...

5. The very beautiful Gordonia lasianthus has been blooming non-stop
6. Colchicum autumnale album
7. The ever growing patch of Crocus goulimyi
8. Two lovely Nerines that again came from Otto

Could picture #1 in last post  be colchicum autumnal???

[Maggi Young]

Lots  in flower, Jacqui!! I think your Crocus kotschyanus  is  that - there  could  be  pulchellus  blood there, but they do vary.

[Jupiter]

Hi Jacqui! your patch of Crocus goulimyi is impressive! I am working on building up that species because it's so easy in the garden and beautiful. Here are a few from me.

1. some of the autumn flowering crocus in pots
2. A pale clone of C. tournefortii
3. I call this the "vase shaped white" clone of goulimyi
4. compare with the "narrow petal white" clone of goulimyi
5. C. cartwrightianus, the fourth flower out.

[Parsla]

Thank you Maggi,

I have really wondered what it was - its quite breathtaking and its the first year i have had more than one bloom.

The other crocus i was unsure about might be a sieberi atticus - i find i have a face-on view - but white anthers? First photo.

Also, just to say the easter bunny made it to eltham.  Second photo.

Jamus, lovely photos. The goulimyi comparison is interesting.

 

[Jupiter]

pulchellus Jacqui?

My little clump of goulimyi is really in full swing now.
And Nerine 'Cleopatra', a gift from Otto and my favourite Nerine.

[Leucogenes]

Jamus...this Nerine 'Cleopatra' looks stunningly beautiful...👍

[Mini bulb lover]

A few autumn crocuses in my garden this month.

Crocus goulimyi
Crocus sativus
Crocus niveus
Crocus laevigatus

[Mini bulb lover]

From Crocus Group seed:

Crocus cartwrightianus ex 'Michel' has very small flowers for me. 2nd photo shows the same crocus with a bee for scale.
Crocus goulimyi wild collected from the Peloponnese
Crocus hadriaticus
Crocus pulchellus var. leucopharynx

[Mini bulb lover]

A couple more autumn flowers:

Crocus pulchellus (SRGC seedex)
Gentiana angustifolia

[Jupiter]

Beautiful stuff Jon. I particularly like the Gentian. Your wild collected clone of goulimyi is a stunning dark colour. I have none that dark, I may have ask you for a few seed if you have good seed set.

Here are the newest onco Irises in my collection, just out of embryo culture and into pot culture and doing well. This is half the EC plants, the other half were still a little small and I'm holding them back until they catch up.

[fermi de Sousa]

Nice crocus pics, everyone!
Still very dry here but we've been able to water parts of the garden so there are some flowers:
Oxalis flava
Nerine sdg of 'Ariel'
Nerine seedling #2 of Nerine fothergilla major x N.rosea cross made in the 1990s
cheers
fermi

[Parsla]

Yes, lovely flowers all.
I particularly like Jon's laevigatus - fabulous  markings

the nerines are beautiful everyone

i have 3 flower shots and a couple of ring-ins.

1. These grew very quickly from Cyclamen seed . persicum have such glorious leaf markings.
2. A fluffy friend ,photographed through my kitchen window
3. Crocus cartwrightianus
4. A very elegant form of Crocus pumilus that was a gift from Otto.
5. i do love seeing fungi pop their heads up - we have finally had a little rain