Haemanthus 2013

[angie]

I bet you are enjoying those flowers Hans, I just love them 

I hope to get all mine sorted out now that I am feeling better and my American visitors are away to London for the week 

Angie 

[Maggi Young]

You just take things easy, Angela - feet up with a cuppa, enjoying the photos is good for you!!

[Hans J]

 

[angie]

You just take things easy, Angela - feet up with a cuppa, enjoying the photos is good for you!!

Maggi I have been a bit lazy but enjoying the quiet of home. Hospitals just seem to be so noisy. I tied up my greenhouse this morning, so its all ready to take all my winter flowering plants. I really enjoy the greenhouse and its always somewhere to go when its raining and have a nice cake and coffee. I have so much chocolates to get through  . Thats one good thing about being in hospital lots of visitors bringing lots of goodies 

Angie 

[Hans J]

new flowers are open ( Special for Angie  )

Haemanthus carneus ( sowing 2005)
Haemanthus humilis "Keibolo" ( sowing 2006 )

the flowers are in this year not very big ( but thats the first flowers )...I hope for the next years !

Enjoy
Hans 

[angie]

Really nice Hans. I do like the white flowers of Keibolo 

I have got 50% of my winter flowering plants repotted. Away to Norway with my American friends for a wee holiday so the rest will have to wait till I get back home.

Hope I will get some lovely flowers like you have soon.

Angie 

[ashley]

Yes very nice Hans , and rewarding to see them flower after a long wait.

[Renate Brinkers]

Hi Hans,

a very succesful Haemanthus season for you!

Did you water them and then they start to flower or did they start to flower and then they get some water?

[Hans J]

Renate ,

yes ...until now the best year ever for my self sown Haemanthus 

maybe a result of my fertilizing with Phostrogen ?

I can not confirm the theory that all South African bulb plants like no Phosphorus ...this fertilizer has :
14 -4,4 -22,4 ( NPK )- I fertilize all my bulb plants with this

No - I have not watered before the flowers came ...
Sometimes I have not seen the buds before ( they must be very quick ) ...p.e. from H.carneus I have nothing seen until the flower was open

The next ( others ) flower are open soon

Hans

[Hans J]

next flowers are open today 

Haemanthus humilis "Giant"

also sown 2005 - seeds ex African Bulbs

Hans

[K-D Keller]

Haemanthus coccineus and  Haemanthus sanguineus

The blossom peduncles are nearly so beautiful like the blossoms. It is an exceptional sight  when the blossoms come out of the dry soil.

Very large patience and really good work Hans. Haemanthus from seeds!

[Auricular]

Here are some photos from the last days and weeks.

-Haemanthus canaliculatus -  after some months 'summer-break' the leaves continue growth

-Haemanthus pubescens ssp. leipoldtii finally starts growth after more than one year dormancy
(sadly the plant i got as leipoldti from a swiss forum member is only coccineus.... ....also the amarylloides ssp. amarylloides i got from him is coccineus.... )

-Haemanthus coccineus "Giant" from Colchester

[Auricular]

Flowering for the first time for me, bought from Paul Christian as sanguineus
"very attractive and ornamental dwarf form with rounded leaves. Seed originally from coastal grasslands near Port Elizabeth. "

Leaves like sanguineus adpressed to the ground, red stripes on leaf-underside.
Maybe a natural hybrid with coccineus, both species grow in that area
Here are the leaves from 2010
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=4905.msg175391#msg175391

[Auricular]

From left to right:
-Haemanthus "incarnatus"
-coccineus 'Breede River'
-coccineus "coarcatus"

[Auricular]

Haemanthus humilis ssp. humilis "Satans Neck" ("pustulated" form)