double flowered Nerine

[mark smyth]

Nerine pudica is new to me last year. One bulb has produced a flowering stem with flowers that have from one to six extra petals. Is it time to get excited or could it be a one off? If it does the same next year the bulb will get chipped.

[Paddy Tobin]

It's a lovely bloom, Mark.

Paddy

[mark smyth]

I like it also and hope it stays like that.

Here's a better photo. Rain was forecast but we now have a sunny evening.

[Maggi Young]

I like it because though ti is double, it has its sexy parts.
I also like the way the anthers are the same colour as the markings on the petals

[Martin Baxendale]

That's beautiful, Mark.  

[Ragged Robin]

The black background really shows it off well - love the pink anthers against that creamy white too 

[mark smyth]

I dont know why the background came out black. The back ground is oat meal coloured vertical blinds in the sun room. I closed them to form a background so the eye isnt drawn towards out of focusfurniture

When the pollen is ripe I will apply it to all the flowers of the sarniensis

[fleurbleue]

Very nice flower Mark  Did you purchase it as double flower specimen ?

[SueG]

Mark
That is a great flower - avoids being blousy or messy.
If it is stable there will be a queue forming straight away!!
Sue

[Lesley Cox]

It's very nice Mark. I wish you good fortune with it.
There are double forms too, of Galtonia candicans and if that sounds horrid, it isn't, and they are beautiful, like gardenias up the stem. They have been extensively propagated and are used as a cut flower, exported from NZ all the time.

[Paul T]

Mark,

Lovely.  The background came out black because your flower was so bright that the camera had to adjust the contrast to focus on it.  I regularly find with bright flowers that the background virtually disappears into apparent darkness.  It really helps to set the flower off beautifully.

Good luck with it returning next year, but I would imagine the odds are that it is an abnormality this year and won't return again.  That said, I hope I'm wrong!! 

[angie]

Mark

Lovely flower do you keep it in a pot in the greenhouse, I have a pot of Nerine filifola ( dwarf ) flowering but not sure if I could plant this outside, always fear the amount of wet weather we get this time of year might kill nerines.
Any help on where to purchase good nerines.

Angie

[mark smyth]

Thanks Paul and Lesley.

I emailed the owner of Exbury Nerines. He has seen doubles flowers now and again but never all the flowers on one stem. His advise is to cross pollinate with the sarniensis.

[mark smyth]

Angie right now the pot is outside enjoying the sun. When the flowers are over it will be back in to the green house.

I know someone about 10 miles 15km away who grows filifolia outside