South African Bulbs/Geophytes 2018

[Maggi Young]

It occurs to me we don't grow enough South African bulbs here - time to remedy that!

[ArnoldT]

Fermi:

No I didn't but should have a load this year.

[Maggi Young]

It occurs to me we don't grow enough South African bulbs here - time to remedy that!

Oh! Ebay visited,   speedy delivery, Paul, thank you! 

[Paul Cumbleton]

Oh! Ebay visited,   speedy delivery, Paul, thank you!

Thanks Maggi.  I hope you have fun and pleasure growing them. And thanks to everyone else who has supported me. You may like to know that we intend to spend what we have raised on a new project in the garden, building a new raised bed outdoors specifically for bulbs. My partner Colin has already started the construction and intends to try a lot of Fritillaria in it to extend our knowledge of which ones are Ok outside in our climate. I'll add some of the South African things again to see what might make it outdoors here. And no doubt a whole host of other things will sneak their way in too! We have spent hours agonising what medium to fill the bed with but it is likely going to be largely a sand bed. We'll share photos etc of it all as we go along.

Paul

[Maggi Young]

 Sounds a fun project -  will look forward to hearing how it goes.

[Hans J]

Here is another offer for seeds/bulbs from South Africa and some other ...

Seeds:

Ipheion hirtellum
Ipheion sessile
Massonia bakeriana
Massonia pygmea ex Kamiesberg
Massonia spec. north of Stutterheim
Massonia spec. Roggefeld
Massonia tenella
Tulbaghia violacea v.macmasteri


Bulbs :

Strumaria :
aestivalis
discifera ssp.bulbifera
picta
undulata

Beometra uniflora
Eucomis regia
Haemanthus X albiflos x incarnatus
Hyacithioides lingulata

Nerine :
humilis De Toitskloof
humilis DT
humilis Piekenierskloof
humilis v.breachae
sarniensis ' Red Pearls'
sarniensis 'Afterglow'
sarniensis CB
sarniensis 'Corusca Mayor'
sarniensis f. alba
sarniensis 'Miss Cator'
X mansellii

Massonia :
bakeriana
citrina
depressa Bredasdorp MC
depressa Concordia BS
depressa JES 515
depressa Kamieskroon/Namaqualand
depressa liver colored form DH
depressa Middelpos/Roggeveld
depressa Rietfontain GS2010 Nr.3593
jasminiflora King William Town MC
longipes Cape Agulhas MC
longipes De Hoop GD
longipes ex Arniston AB
pustulata Napier/N  GD
spec.Alexanderbay DH
tenella Niewoudtville

If anybody is interested for seeds/bulbs please contact me via PM
I prefer swap ( for things what I not have in my collection )
Or payment ( reasonable prices + posting charges )
If wished I can take Pictures for the size of bulbs

...sorry all seeds/bulbs are gone ....

Best wishes
Hans

[Menai]

Can someone id this zantedeschia for Treborth Botanic Garden, please? It is the first time it has flowered for us. We don't have a record of where it came from and because of the leaves it is on the database as Z. albomaculata but  the flowers are too yellow for that. Z elliotiana or Z jucunda maybe?

Thank you

Erle on Anglesey

[fermi de Sousa]

Hesperantha humilis first flowers of the season
cheers
fermi

[François Lambert]

Can someone id this zantedeschia for Treborth Botanic Garden, please? It is the first time it has flowered for us. We don't have a record of where it came from and because of the leaves it is on the database as Z. albomaculata but  the flowers are too yellow for that. Z elliotiana or Z jucunda maybe?

Thank you

Erle on Anglesey

Hello Menai,

Looks very much like my Zantedeschia Pentlandii

see a pic of this years flower : http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=16185.msg393702#msg393702

[Menai]

Thank you very much François. The leaf shape looks right too.

Erle

[François Lambert]

It occurs to me we don't grow enough South African bulbs here - time to remedy that!

Many are wintergrowing species, which is not easy at our dark Northern latitudes in winter, and ideally these should be grown in a heated greenhouse, which is also not evident.  But any summer growing South African bulb can count in me.  I have right now a wonderful patch of Ornithogalum candicans starting to flower :-)

[François Lambert]

My patch of Ornithogalum Candicans (and some green flowering ones at the front)

Right now the older adult bulbs are flowering, but I spaced out my seedling bulbs this spring and many of them have since then grown strong enough to produce flowers also, that will be a second flush of flowers in a week or so, they are mostly in bud now.  I didn't expect the seedling bulbs to flower this year already as they were at best just a bit over 1 cm in diameter when I repotted & spaced them.

I grow them all in pots because their frost resistance is too low for the winters at my home.

[fermi de Sousa]

This is Bulbinella latifolia var doleritica which I got as seed from Silverhills in 1999.
It languished in a pot till 2016 when it was liberated into the garden and would've flowered that year except that the flower spikes aren't frost hardy
Likewise last year but this year two spikes have gotten "above the frost" and the first has opened its flowers today - only 19 years after germinating!
I hope it sets seed!
If I can extract an offset I might try it in a more protected area to see if it flowers more regualrly,
cheers
fermi

[P. Kohn]

In Sheffield Botanic Garden we have Bulbinella latifolia ssp latifoliaand it usuaally flowers in late winter/early spring so fascinating that this var is flowering now.

[fermi de Sousa]

In Sheffield Botanic Garden we have Bulbinella latifolia ssp latifoliaand it usuaally flowers in late winter/early spring so fascinating that this var is flowering now.

Over here it is still winter
cheers
fermi