South African Bulbs 2015

[johnw]

So many exsquisite Lachenalias there Fermi!

john - thoroughly drenched overnight.  The area around Wrightman's appears to have had 133mm in just a few hours, trust all's ok.

[Maggi Young]

john - thoroughly drenched overnight.  The area around Wrightman's appears to have had 133mm in just a few hours, trust all's ok.

That's a lot of rain   

[Maggi Young]

Hi Maggi,
I think it's mostly vegetative but it does set seed so some are probably seedlings.

My favourite Pelargonium is the evening scented Pelargonium triste which flowers in spring if we don't get a late frost! It is geophytic so I presume it could be shown here,
cheers
fermi

Love the pellie. Would it's furry foliage detar your latest herbivore?

[Matt T]

Wow! That's a fine specimen of P. triste, Fermi. Mine is just starting back into growth after a good baking this summer. One day it might make as fine a show.

[fermi de Sousa]

Love the pellie. Would it's furry foliage detar your latest herbivore?

Maggi,
as far as I see, the roo only eats grass....and whatever's mixed with it!

Here's a cluster (can't call anything this graceful a "clump"!) of Moraea aristata in a sand bed
cheers
fermi

[Rogan]

That is so nice, Fermi. I do so enjoy Moraeas!

This is definitely a "clump": another large specimen of Babiana patula beside our road and, a little further, dozens of flowering Gladiolus grandiflorus.

[fermi de Sousa]

Wow! That's a fine specimen of P. triste, Fermi. Mine is just starting back into growth after a good baking this summer. One day it might make as fine a show.

Matt,
in the evening it is superbly scented and worth waiting for!

In the garden this afternoon a yellow Spiloxene capiensis was in flower;
In a pot Geissorhiza tulbaghensis;
Ixia trifoliata;
Ixia and moraea in the South African Sand-bed;
An ixia with long-petalled yellow flowers
cheers
fermi

[fermi de Sousa]

Someone has asked to separate the 2 hemispheres, so here's the start of the SH one! (Maggi can probably separate out the SH posts out of the other Thread which can be renamed later I'm sure!
Here are more Ixia pics, from the sand=bed,
cheers
fermi

[Rogan]

Why?

[fermi de Sousa]

Why?

Hi Rogan,
I think it confuses some people to have Spring and Autumn flowering species in the same thread.
cheers
fermi

[ArnoldT]

Fermi:

If that's true we need a geography thread as well{:-)

[fermi de Sousa]

Gladiolus virescens is in flower, perfuming the area with a violet scent,
cheers
fermi

[Jupiter]

Oh wow fermi, I love your gladiolus. I've sown a couple of similar species, but they are not flowering age yet. I didn't realise they were scented. I have small plants of watermeyeri and ceresianus.

[fermi de Sousa]

Hi Jamus,
I didn't realise it either until they flowered.
A first flower on Moraea macrocarpa - just as well that I got the pic in the morning - took it to the meeting on Saturday and by 3pm it had completely shrivelled!
cheers
fermi

[Maggi Young]

I am rather busy at the moment and not really equipped to make edits to the threads to show which are summer or winter flowering species  and a geographical  thread may not help with that distinction - but it might be more useful if instead of making a split, those of you who regularly post here, would  ..a) be sure to add a line to your signature box to say where you live - northern or southern hemisphere - and also state whether the plants you have posted about are summer or winter  growing. Presumably those of you growing these plants over time are aware of that?

Perhaps some of you experienced growers might like to make a useful list of winter versus summer growers to post ??

 Meantime I'll rejoin this  thread  to the  previous one.