September 2015 in the Southern Hemisphere

[Jupiter]

Order placed already. Rebecca's response, "do you really need more seeds?". My retort, "no I dont neeeed more seeds, any more than you neeeed a cup of coffee in the morning, or a glass of wine with a nice meal, but nice meals are better with a nice glass of wine".

[Parsla]

I've been admiring the photos. The olsynium is a revelation. Very pretty.

Here is mine for the day.
The first spring flower on anemonella thalictroides this season, kindly gifted by Otto.

Jacqui.

[Anthony Darby]

Thanks Robin. Only 10 minutes up the road from us, so will pop in.

Went along at 4, as the ad said 10.30 - 5, only to find the place empty as it had finished at 3, as indicated on a poster nearby! 

[rob krejzl]

Anthony,

I can top that. This summer I went to our local lily show because Judith Freeman was giving a talk. At one they announced the talk would be at five. Went home & (of course) when I came back they'd moved it forward.  I was not pleased.

[Jupiter]

The first of my tulips, Tulipa hageri x aucheriana "Little Princess" opened with the sunny weather today. I'm thrilled with it.

[Jupiter]

And just for fun some macro shots of Cerinthe major in the sunshine.

[Parsla]

Beautiful photos  Jamus.

The Cerinthe looks iridescent.

[Lesley Cox]

Went along at 4, as the ad said 10.30 - 5, only to find the place empty as it had finished at 3, as indicated on a poster nearby! 

A lesson to show arrangers to be learned here. We (OAGG) and having a big new show on Oct 3 and 4 and have printed posters and flyers for around the city in various places, to be put up this coming week. One of our (Christchurch) stallholders objected to the short selling time on Sunday, shown as 2-4pm. It was supposed to be 10am-4pm. Hasty adjustments made!

[Jupiter]

Thank you Jacqui, yes they do look iridescent. They sparkle in the sun which always catches my eye. I love Cerinthe in the garden even though they can be a bit of a weed here.

I love your Anemonella thalictroides. A plant I really love but I fear will not grow well in our climate.

[Tim Ingram]

Jamus - makes me want to get a macro lens, opens up a whole new world of detail. Alpines would make perfect subjects - I can see an exhibition at an Art gallery in my mind's eye...

[fermi de Sousa]

Jamus,
Tulipa 'Little Princess' doesn't look to even be in bud here!Here are a few now in the garden:
Appearing like a small yellow tulip is Babiana pygmaea;
Second generation Anemone pavonina seedling flowering for the first time in the rock garden;
Taking over much of the rock garden is a swarm of seedlings which are the result of Euphorbia rigida crossing with E. myrsinites;
Reticulata iris 'Natascha' from Lambley nursery this year;
A tulip which came as T.kolpakowskiana but is even less likely to be the true one than the one we already grow!!!
cheers
fermi

[Robert]

Fermi,

Thank you for sharing all the fine photographs of bulbs and other plants from your garden. For me it is inspirational and food for a creative mind.

Both Euphorbia rigida and myrsinites have been seedy but not weedy in our garden here in California. I have never noticed any hybrids, but then maybe I need to pay closer attention. There are other Euphorbia species that are much more weedy in our garden. E. x martinii, E. amygalloides 'Purpurea' cross and recross with each other and can become a mess around here without attention. A few other Euphorbia seed around too, but not like the E. x martinii clan.

[Jupiter]

Wow Fermi, Anemone pavonina is beautiful. I love the veins on the petals. I'll add it to my seed wish list. That Euphorbia certainly seems to have hybrid vigour! I have Euphorbia myrsinites self seedling around. Are seedlings likely to be hybrids? E. characias is close by as is E. silver swan or something like that?

Spent a couple of hours careful poking little seedlings into crevices in the rock garden. Absolute bliss... I hope they like their new home.

[Robert]

Jamus,

Euphorbia characias is weedy in our garden. I have never seen it hybridize with any of the other types in our garden, but then things can be different elsewhere.

[fermi de Sousa]

Hi Robert,
Happy to supply inspiration any time!

Jamus,
I've not seen hybrids between E. myrsinites and any other species, but who's to say what they can get up to!
Considering the two we have hybridising, I was once told that one was being considered to be a subspecies of the other but have not seen confirmation of this (and I can't remember which was being subsumed into which!)
cheers
fermi