November 2014 in the Southern Hemisphere

[Jupiter]

Beautiful fermi. I've not heard of rain lilies before. Your photo prompted me to go and look them up. Very interesting!

[fermi de Sousa]

Beautiful fermi. I've not heard of rain lilies before. Your photo prompted me to go and look them up. Very interesting!

3 words for you, Jamus: a new obsession!
Tim,
For us it's more frost hardy than Zephyranthes grandiflora but usually just gets the foliage burnt off and the bulb recovers; Z.grandiflora has disappeared in the garden
cheers
fermi

[Jupiter]

I'm not giving in to any urge I may (or may not) be having to start ordering seeds of Zephyranthes... I have enough going on here at the moment and the beginning of summer is not the time be adding to the workload.

Cobaea scandens is quick to get a grip on this old piece of chain.

[Anthony Darby]

I wonder if Merwilla plumbea is self-fertile?

[fermi de Sousa]

Yes, it is.

[Anthony Darby]

Excellent.  You grow it Fermi?

[fermi de Sousa]

Yes, Anthony, but it hasn't flowered so far this year.
I'm presuming it's self fertile as it sets seeds most years but I've never raised the seed myself..
Is that yours in the pic?
cheers
fermi

[Anthony Darby]

Yes, but I bought it with a flower stalk from Terry Hatch at Joy Plants.

[Maggi Young]

Yes, but I bought it with a flower stalk from Terry Hatch at Joy Plants.

I'm sure that's cheating! 

[Anthony Darby]

Absolutely, but the only difference is this one was grown in a pot near the Bombay Hills, Auckland's southern limit as opposed to in a pot in Botany, East Auckland. Until I get my own garden it will remain in this pot and we'll see if it flowers next year.

[fermi de Sousa]

Last year we got a piece of a Tillandsia Paul T had growing outdoors in Canberra.
I keep it in our shade-house and this year it's decided to flower - very pretty but the pics aren't great as I took them in the evening,
cheers
fermi

[Jupiter]

Alstroemeria psittacina, common as dirt but I prefer it to many of the better known ones