September 2013 in the Southern Hemisphere

[Mini bulb lover]

Jon B (mini-bulb lover) will be too modest to mention this, but I think he should be congratulated for putting his first entries into the Rock garden Section at the Ferny Creek Horticultural Society's Spring Show and coming away with a couple of first prize cards AND the Blue Ribbon!
Congratulations, Jon!
cheers
fermi

Thanks Fermi. You're right, I wasn't going to mention it...   

Here are some more flowers from the show (none of them mine, unfortunately).

Ipheon sellowianum (unless the name has changed)
Spiloxene canaliculata
Rhodo irroratum "polka dot"

[Mini bulb lover]

It was perfect weather (sunny, mid 20s) on the weekend for the Ferny Creek Horticultural Society spring show so I took the following photos in the surrounding garden.

I hope Otto is feeling better soon.

[johnw]

Smashing irroratum Polka Dot Jon!

Any idea what the red rhodo is?

johnw

[David Nicholson]

Nice selection Jon. The Ipheion is now Tristagma by the way.

[Mini bulb lover]

Johnw - I don't know the name of the red rhodo but I'm going to Ferny Creek tomorrow so I'll see if I can find a label.

David - thanks for the heads up on the Ipheion name change. Someone did mention to me they thought the name had changed but they weren't sure what it had changed to. I suppose if I stood still long enough they'd try and change my name too!

A couple of photos taken in my garden on this grey day today -
Hippeastrum papilio which was generously given to me by some friends recently (very generous when the next day I received a catalogue listing them for $65(AUD) a bulb! (approx. 38 GBP))
And a Lewisia cotyledon seedling that Otto generously gave me last year.

[Hillview croconut]

Hi,

That spiloxene looks a treat. Must it be confined (imprisoned) in a pot?

A few yellow flowering fritillaria from around the Mediterranean Basin. Well strictly not F. rhodokanakis but this form is so striking.

    Fritillaria kittaniae
    Fritillaria carica from Samos
    Fritillaria milasense
    Fritillaria rhodokanakis yellow
    Fritillaria pelinaea

edit by maggi to add photo file names

[Anthony Darby]

I think this is a Hyacinthoides sp.?

[Mini bulb lover]

Johnw - the red Rhodo I posted earlier is "Cornubia" which I'm told was bred in New Zealand. They have two in the garden, one a stronger red than the other.

Below is Geissorhiza radians. The petals of the unopened buds really glisten in the sun (hard to capture with my camera). I like the way the sun shines through the petals. Quite a bold flower.

[arillady]

Striking flower Jon.
Iris warleyensis
Iris bucharica next to Sindpers hiding behind another bulb of bucharica
this came as seed of Iris lazica whihc it is not - similar to a babiana leaf - thin though

[Maggi Young]

I think your imposter lazica is a little gladiolus, Pat  No idea which one though.

[Hillview croconut]

MMM ... where's Paul or Fermi when you need them? I would like to know how Iris lazica got into the gladdie mix.

I can send some I. lazica to you Pat - give me a pm if you wish.

Just a few stragglers from the very first day of September.
 
Cheers, Marcus


PS The Crocus vernus was originally grown by Otto and passed on to David Glenn and now to me. I managed to get a few back to Otto this year so they have come full circle.

[Lesley Cox]

Can someone ID the two double Narcissus for me please? I had the former as 'Rip van Winkle' but was told at the weekend that it isn't. I should know the other but the mind isn't working. It's just that I have some flowering in pots for salestable at Otago Iris Group meeting on Saturday. fund-raising madly for Convention in 2015. The more we can raise the lower we can keep the cost, the more members we'll have from around the country, especially the N. Island. 

Then Trillium maculatum, a really good form whose seed this coming season I had promised to Stewart Preston, but too late I'm afraid. He had admired it a couple of times. Three flowers yesterday when I took the pic, just two today after a rabbit visit! Bird netting now covering the bed.

The Corydalis is C. transsylvanica, bought from Joy Stack at the summer Study Weekend. Four bulbs, 6 stems and some seed forming. Rabbit apparently didn't like that but he dug up and mostly ate some pink Primula sieboldii plants.

[arillady]

Thanks Maggie and Marcus. Yes please Marcus - sometime - for the lazica.
Gladiolus huttonii
Iris subbiflora x Iris revoluta - hard to capture the colour correctly
PT9856 - love the form of this one with its tucked under standards touching the stem
Tulips which the hare or rabbits moved tags around.

[Maggi Young]

Can someone ID the two double Narcissus for me please? I had the former as 'Rip van Winkle' but was told at the weekend that it isn't. I should know the other but the mind isn't working. It's just that I have some flowering in pots for salestable at Otago Iris Group meeting on Saturday. fund-raising madly for Convention in 2015. The more we can raise the lower we can keep the cost, the more members we'll have from around the country, especially the N. Island. 

First one is a bit ragged but near enough  to Rip van Winkle in my eyes .... what reason was given for it not to be so?
 
I think Second one is Narcissus  Eystettensis  syn. Queen Anne's Double - but AnneW disagrees and she's probably right  in saying it is Pencrebar - though I think it is very hard to  distinguish them 

[Lvandelft]

this came as seed of Iris lazica whihc it is not - similar to a babiana leaf - thin though

Pat, don't believe of a Gladiolus but did you try Babiana, there are many of them.... , well, you are able to see your whole plant.

Here are some !!pics:
http://www.ispot.org.za/search/node/babiana