August 2014 in the Southern Hemisphere

[fermi de Sousa]

Puts the display bench at our local meetings in Aberdeen to shame 

Trade you for some of those dwarf daphnes and blue meconopsis
cheers
fermi

[Jupiter]

A few quick ones from this morning before work.
 
Tropaeolum tricolor
 

 

 
 
Epimedium versicolor, this one is a gift from Otto and I'm not sure of the variety...
 

 

 
 
My very favourite Geranium, Geranium incanum.
 

 
 

[Maggi Young]

It's unusual for me to have time to read any of the journals when they arrive. Today I broke with my own bad habits and have been enjoying the latest NZAGS bulletin on the day it arrived. A pleasant change indeed.

I have been taken by a plant that I know very little of but which features in super photos by Don Geddes  to accompany an article on "A visit to Adams Island" - these are of Gentianella cerina, in two colour forms. 
A search of the forum showed that it has never been mentioned here so I was comforted to find that I had not simply seen it here and forgotten it!

From the photos in the bulletin (and there are a good number on the internet of this plant) it appears that the plant can make fat clumps of flower in very pretty colours.

Gentianella cerina (Hook.f.) T.N.Ho & S.W.Liu
Original publication details: Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. (London), Bot. 23: 62 1993.

You can read a bit about it here :
http://nzpcn.org.nz/c/flora/factsheets/NZPCN_Species_502.pdf

[Jupiter]

It's an absolutely gorgeous week here in Adelaide and spring has sprung with a splendid flourish! Excuse my saccharin enthusiasm, I'm just feeling all giddy with the springishness... 


Crocus vernus 'pickwick' (but I don't have to tell you people that...)




Melianthus major in bud (what's not to love about this plant?)




Eruca sativa, common rocket.

[Jupiter]

I want to appologise for inundating the thread with my photos.    I feel like we aren't seeing anyone else's anymore... I am going to stop posting up images for a while, I want to see what others have to offer.

[johnralphcarpenter]

Don`t stop!

[Maggi Young]

Apologise? Inundate?  I think not - it is a delight to both see what you are growing and to enjoy your super photos, Jamus.

We are always pleased to have contributions for the Southern Hemisphere as and when they arrve -  in the same way as for any other area.

Ralph has the right idea  - don't stop!

[jomowi]

Indeed, don't stop, Jamus.  It often takes a photograph of the quality you post to appreciate the beauty of some flowers.  For instance most of the Brassicaceae are thought of as drab. Your pic of common rocket certainly disproves this perception.

[Robert]

Jamus - please do not stop. Your photographs, and all the others for that matter, simulates new ideas for my own garden. Your photograph of Tropaeolum tricolor was nice, maybe something to consider for my own garden. But then that leads me to a question?

When you say that your summers are hot, what do you consider hot?

[arillady]

Robert as I too live in South Australia and have been to northern California I would say that we are similar but you would be a little cooler I should imagine with a little more rain in a 'normal' year not like your last few.
Jamus if you would like to visit after 3.30 tomorrow I would be home. There are some lovely flowers out there that might be batthered and wet by next weekend.

[Otto Fauser]

Jamus , you asked for some images from the Southern Hemisphere . I took the following today in my garden , on a warm and sunny day ,almost spring like .All are quite every day plants but beautiful to my taste . However the quality of my photos is much inferior to yours . The only rarer plant would be Scilla goranica . As the first autumn flowering Colchicum appear in the Northern Hemisphere here the last of the winter flowering ones, Colchicum diampolis is still in bloom .

Enjoy the Arils at Pat's tomorrow -my best wishes to her   

    Anemone blanda
    Colchicum diampolis
    Cr. tommasinianus
    Cr. tommasinianus
    Narcissus 'Mitimoto'

[Otto Fauser]

    and 5 more

    Ornithogalum sigmoideum
    Cyc.-persicum --col Israel
    Frit.-davisii
    Scilla-bifolia
    Scilla-goranica

[Jupiter]

Stunning Otto, you captured them beautifully. I love the Crocus, I have a few little C. tommasinianus flowering too but it's new for me and the first time I've seen it in person. I think something happened when you resized the second lot of photos which is a shame because I absolutely LOVE that Fritillaria davisii. Wow... I'm hoping to grow more Frits and have had some germinations from seed just in the past week which is promising.

[Jupiter]

Nothing rare from me either but favourites of mine none-the-less.

Crocus tommasinianus 'Ruby Giant'




My absolute favourite salvia (apart from perhaps Salvia discolor...), Salvia africana f. lutea




Narcissus cyclamineus, brand new for me too.

[Anthony Darby]

That pic of cyclamineus is stunning Jamus. Not one I've tried here. The persicum from Israel is awesome Otto. I have my first flower on persicum (from Jordan) just coming.