South African Bulbs 2014

[Maggi Young]

Great detail to be seen in these photos, Michael.

[ArnoldT]

Warm weather here is pushing everything into flower.

Lachenalia orchioides subsp. glaucina
Lachenalia vanzyliae
Lachenalia violacea var. glauca-- with an amazing coconut scent, could be my favorite scented bulb surpassing Muscari marcrocarpum

[johnralphcarpenter]

Moraea tulbagensis. x 3

Moraea villosa

Moraea aristata

Lovely! How do you grow them?

[Michael J Campbell]

While some of them grow in a raised bed outside here I  grow most of them in pots in the greenhouse.
They are grown in a gritty compost with the top two inches of coarse sand, the bulbs are planted in the sand, covered with more  sand and topped with grit. They are watered from the beginning of August and kept going steady until the spring,they then  need lots of water when the flower buds appear. when they die back after flowering they must be kept completely dry in full sun until August when they growth cycle starts again. I give them a couple of feeds with tomato fertilizer in the spring.

[ashley]

Thanks Michael.  I have some seedlings coming along, so appreciate advice on how to manage them.
Yours look magnificent.

[Steve Garvie]

Moraea gigandra

The largest flowered of the Peacock Moraeas this easy-to-grow species is highly threatened in the wild being restricted to a small number of sites in the northwest Cape.

[Brian Ellis]

Does anyone know of Lachenalia martinae ?  One of our neighbours is the niece of Bina Martin who found it when working at Kirstenbosch and she would be most interested to see a photograph of it.

[François Lambert]

Moraea tulbagensis. x 3

Moraea villosa

Moraea aristata

wonderfull flowers Michael 

[SJW]

Warm weather here is pushing everything into flower.

Same here. Arnold.
Lachenalia namaquensis, one with a paler flower and leaf than the others.

[SJW]

Lachenalia haarlemensis

[SJW]

Two forms of Lachenalia pallida (since the reclassification). I'd previously grown them as L. pustulata and L. unicolor.

[Michael J Campbell]

Lots of sunshine and lots of flowers today.

Moraea aristata

[Steve Garvie]

A very beautiful display of this lovely Moraea Michael!!!

[Michael J Campbell]

Moraea atropunctata

[fermi de Sousa]

After seeing your great Moraeas in flower, Michael, I then went to the Pacific Bulb Society's pages and discovered these: http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/PeacockMoraeaHybrids and got completely blown away!
Sigh!
Another field of exploration to take up some time!
cheersw
fermi