July 2013 in the Southern Hemisphere

[arillady]

Fermi I keep seeing those Hesperantha photos above and thinking how beautiful it is.
Had a lovely visit from Marcus and Trevor N today.

[fermi de Sousa]

Already posted elsewhere, but repeated here for those who don't scour every new page of the Forum!
Galanthus "Outer Green Tips" - AKA 'Merlin' 'Comet' (thanks, Lesley for the correction)
G. elwesii
Narcissus pachybulbus
Galanthus - maybe plicatus
Narcissus romieuxii ? seedling?
cheers
fermi

[Lesley Cox]

Hi Fermi,

I had 'Outer Green Tips' from Marcus a few years ago then he subsequently listed it as 'Comet.'   Your romieuxii seedling looks exactly like my seedlings from 'Julia Jane.'

[fermi de Sousa]

Thanks for the correction, Lesley.
Here's Galanthus elwesii growing in the Rock Garden and a bit more open in the warm weather we had this morning.
cheers
fermi

[Stephen Vella]

In flower today, Crocus olivieri ,this form has a puple flower tube. The pick doesnt show it. Mathew Murray who collected it back in 2001 in Greece. Was a hard find after the goats had ate every seed capsules

[Stephen Vella]

Crocus corsicus, another wild collection.

[Lesley Cox]

I potted up 43 weldenias yesterday. Usually I don't do them until they're breaking dormancy, say Sept but can't bear the waste of time as I wait for warmer weather. They all had good growing points and there were a few broken roots that also seemed to have growing points. I've not previously been able to get them going from root cuttings but maybe this time?

[fermi de Sousa]

I've posted these elsewhere, but we do have a few new flowers each day as we race towards spring!
Iris Blue ice
Iris Dance On
Narcissus hispanicus
N. hybrid(Westholme x N.viridiflorus) from Lawrence Trevanion
N. GlenBrook Ta-Julia
cheers
fermi

[Anthony Darby]

A couple more flowering in the garden - Iris unguicularius from Lesley, and a Cymbidium hybrid.

[Lesley Cox]

Your unguicularis has more flowers on it than mine has Anthony, 2 more! In the meantime, Bill's 'Starker's Pink' should be out tomorrow if there's some sun. It seems more lavender than I remember it from my mother's garden. I'm sure hers was really pink.

Here is Iris reticulata 'Gordon,' new bulbs from a garden centre, so imported, so a little earlier than they should be. I'll post some crocuses tomorrow.

[Rogan]

Nice flowers all; we're almost giving Luit a run for his money - notice I said 'almost'!   

I have several bulbs of Narcissus cyclamineus and Tecophilaea cyanocrocus just barely hanging on in my warm climate - both have produced one flower this year; something tells me I'm losing the battle...

Nice to have grown them at least once from seed to flowering size, of course there are many other things I can and do grow well - Snowdrops are also not one of them!

[Pete Clarke]

Oops - posted in the wrong hemisphere.

[Maggi Young]

Oops - posted in the wrong hemisphere.

 Not to worry, I've moved it for you. 

[Lesley Cox]

I haven't sorted the latest crocus pics yet but will do, ASAP. I'm in the process of sorting crocus pots and narcissus and have most of those done, now starting on galanthus and frits and then others as they begin to come through, putting them in trays in separate blocks so I can find things when I want them. The original shift had everything neatly recorded in an exercise book but as I've taken things from trays then filled the gaps with other things, the contents of each tray have become hopelessly mixed. I've so far emptied maybe a third of the original trays but keep finding more crocus pots to the extent that each one is "another b..... crocus." Of course I love them all but had no idea there were so many!

I had neither slugs nor snails at my previous address but though I've seen just a single tiny snail, there are legions of slugs. I am now only seen with a box of slug pellets in one hand. The little sods have eaten the bud out of Frit. alburyana!

[Otto Fauser]

Lesley , there is an army of slugs and snails in my garden and at the moment they are not only munching on the newly emerging leaves of Frits and Scillas etc . but have suddenly developed an appetite for the rarer Reticulata Irises ( I.bakeriana , zagrica ) and also dwarf Junos like rosenbachiana and parvula  etc.

   Looking forward to see your Crocus pictures - here are a few taken today . Thousands of Tommies in many shades opened in the sunshine ,and C. rujanensis is selfsowing .