October in the Southern Hemisphere

[Mini-daffs]

Hi
A few more photos.

[Jupiter]

Hi Jacqui, beautiful Iris but it can't be hermona x hermona. It's an "arilbred", oncocyclus crossed with a tall bearded. Not like Marcus to make a mistake. Was the label smudged?

[Mini-daffs]

Hi
A few more photos.

[Mini-daffs]

Hi
A few more photos.

[Mini-daffs]

Hi
Third group of photos.

[Parsla]

Hi Jamus,

Thank you for your advice- I know very little about irises. He gave me a couple of 'easy ones' a couple of seasons ago to see how they coped.

Sadly I don't have the original label from Marcus, which was most likely scribbled on a paper bag or the flip side of the correct label.

 

[Jupiter]

Graham you have some (a lot of!) amazing peonies.. and other things. They don't do that well here.. it's just a bit too hot and dry in summer for them, like a lot of things.

Jacqui, there are so many arilbred irises. I had a quick look and decided it was too hard to identify it properly from a photo. Check out this gallery on the ASI webpage - http://www.arilsociety.org/index.pl?Gallery+0  Maybe if Peter G is reading this he can offer some sage advice?

A few offerings from my garden



Rosa cv. Papa Melliand




Phlox subulata - cultivar needs a name, maybe  'Emerald Cushion Blue'?




Heracleum mantegazzianum




A nice bold poppy




Sanguinaria canadensis. See Otto it made it!

[Jupiter]

Some more pictures.. why not?



Anemone drummondii, first time flowering and more buds coming.



Rhodohypoxis baurii



Pinellia tripartita



Viburnum sargentii



Androsace studiosorum

[Lesley Cox]

Jamus, I think your last picture, the androsace, is Androsace lanuginosa, not studiosorum which is what we used to know as A. sarmentosa (still do, in NZ).

[Jupiter]

Thanks Lesley, but are you sure? I'm not sure now... but I have lanuginosa as well as this questionable one.... they are pretty close in leaf and plant type, but the flowers much paler on my lanuginosa. Otto, can you cast some light on this for us?

[Lesley Cox]

Yeah pretty sure Jamus. The intensity of colour could well vary plant to plant in lanuginosa, maybe with soil conditions or weather etc or just natural variation anyway. Yours looks the same as mine. As well of course, there is an even nicer (in my opinion), form of lanuginosa called var. leichtlinii and the flowers on that are pure white with the little yellow eye which reddens with age as with most androsaces.

[Lesley Cox]

These are two pics of lanuginosa from a couple of years ago. Mine are not quite started yet this year. Won't be long but very wet here at present. The pink here does look very pale but is deeper in reality.

[Jupiter]

I can see what you mean Lesley but really my plant is very pink. Mid pink I'd call it. I'll take better pictures tomorrow. Your lanuginosa looks just like mine, except bigger and better! Perhaps the pink one is a selection of lanuginosa or a hybrid of it with another? I have a small plant of studiosorum from Otto which almost died but is coming back now. When it grows a bit I can make a comparison and get back to you...

[Lesley Cox]

Jamus I've asked in a new thread about identification of sarmentosa and studiosorum and I hope someone will put me out of my misery because your own doubt raises doubts in me too.

One thing though. I don't think it is ever safe to use flower colour as a means of identifying a species. So many species have other coloured forms or vary within a single colour.

[fermi de Sousa]

This is one of the Ixia 'Teal' seedlings, a beautiful pale blue;
Geissorhiza darlingensis (or is it?);
Calytrix sp. x 2 pics
cheers
fermi