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Re: July 2013 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #135 on: July 23, 2013, 09:04:30 PM »
Perhaps a Geissorhiza or Hesperantha or  even...  Geissorhiza hesperanthoides   ::) ???

Where are the Irid experts when we need them?
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Re: July 2013 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #136 on: July 23, 2013, 09:20:08 PM »
Yes perhaps :-\
I was going to suggest an ixia, e.g. Ixia stricta, but it might help if you could show more of the foliage and scape please Gerrit.
On second thoughts, probably not an ixia.
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Re: July 2013 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #137 on: July 23, 2013, 09:26:20 PM »
I think the style is  in three distinct sections, not a branched style with a central stem..... so  that was why I doubted Ixia, and most Geissorhiza have trifid ended styles too, don't  they.... :-\

I'm leaning towards Hesperantha  baurii now  :)
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Re: July 2013 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #138 on: July 23, 2013, 09:38:14 PM »
You beat me to it, Maggi, while I was searching for a picture from last year.
Hesperantha baurii
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Re: July 2013 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #139 on: July 23, 2013, 09:43:24 PM »
After searching on the www, I agree. I will add the new name in my first contribution.
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Re: July 2013 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #140 on: July 23, 2013, 09:48:14 PM »
That was fun :D

The seperate style branches are quite clear in your photo, Roma. 
Nice plant, isn't it?  I like the rounded petals.
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Re: July 2013 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #141 on: July 23, 2013, 09:51:53 PM »
Thank for your efforts Maggi and Roma. Probably I've got the seeds from you Roma.
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Re: July 2013 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #142 on: July 23, 2013, 10:01:19 PM »
A wee  note about the next IRG :
Gerrit has contributed a super photo report on the Orchids of Crete........ new issue will be online on Friday. 
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Re: July 2013 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #143 on: July 24, 2013, 08:23:37 PM »
A couple of plants flowering now: Watsonia angusta and Crinim moorei f. album.
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Re: July 2013 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #144 on: July 25, 2013, 08:33:39 AM »
I don't know about pink snowdrops but there are brown foxgloves and they are rather good plants in the garden. Digitalis obscura is a favourite and looks closer to being a penstemon than a foxglove - I don't find it too easy but keep searching for a place that suits it; this hot dry summer has been ideal. The second species is as brown as you can get, D. parviflora, and this is a great garden plant, perennial, easy going, seeds around but not too much, and with very good foliage as well as flowers. Here it is growing with Potentilla recta, a perfect combination, and actually nothing to do with me because both plants originally arrived by self-seeding.
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Re: July 2013 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #145 on: July 25, 2013, 10:01:32 AM »
I too like these  smaller / brown Digitalis , Tim.
Your "voluntary" pairing of the potentilla and foxglove is one that would be worth repeating deliberately....... note taken!
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Re: July 2013 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #146 on: July 25, 2013, 11:09:40 AM »
Both quiet beauties Tim.   I have D. parviflora flowering for the first time and am delighted with it, and D. ferruginea seedlings coming along for next year.
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Re: July 2013 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #147 on: July 25, 2013, 01:52:11 PM »
A couple of Hemerocallis species: Hemerocallis hakuunenesis and Hemerocallis fulva var. rosea.
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Re: July 2013 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #148 on: July 25, 2013, 01:54:44 PM »
A couple of Buddlejas: Buddleja 'Morning Mist' (syn. 'Silver Anniversary') and Buddleja fallowiana BSWJ7803.
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Re: July 2013 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #149 on: July 25, 2013, 02:03:32 PM »
Another rose bred using Rosa persica: Rosa 'Allisar, Princess of Phoenicia'
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