South African Bulbs/Geophytes 2019

[jshields]

The only thing on Zantedeschia that I could come up with in my own web site is the following:   http://www.shieldsgardens.com/amaryllids/Zantedeschia.html

Jim

[Maggi Young]

Thanks, Jim!

[Rimmer de Vries]

Ixia sp?

[François Lambert]

Flowering very late this year because they were kept very cold during winter - they even endured some sub-zero temps at for a short while.  I kept them in the unheated greenhouse over winter - only putting them in a dark barn when frost below -3°C was forecasted.

But since they are now in the greenhouse again and getting plenty of light the flowers are much compacter than in previous years when flowering on the windowsill.

 Veltheimia bracteata

[Rimmer de Vries]

A teio of several white flowered narrow leaved look alike lachenalia

Big one is L backmanii
Middle is L. liliflora
Left is L. contaminata.

[Rimmer de Vries]

Lachenalia media

[Rimmer de Vries]

Clivia ‘Sahin Twins’ in nice light. Started from seed in 2007.

[ArnoldT]

Rimmer

Great color.

Like some pollen from the 'Vico Yellow'?

[Rimmer de Vries]

Polyexena odorata. I think this also bloomed last fall.

[Rimmer de Vries]

The romuleas are coming

Romulea obscura-small one

Romulea salanhernsis - larger one

Winter hardy to 0F

[Steve Garvie]

Babiana rubrocyanea


Gladiolus carinatus

[ArnoldT]

Steve:

Is the Gladiolus scented?

[Steve Garvie]

There is a rather pleasant sweet scent to it Arnold.

[ArnoldT]

Steve.

Good to know your olfactory sense is intact.

That's the exact description in Goldblatt and Manning's book on Gladiolus.

[David Nicholson]

Just to show that Tulbaghia 'Purple Eye' is a cracking plant (bred in Devon!) here are pictures firstly from May 2018, then December 2018, and finally from this morning. Maybe I shouldn't boast, it's chucked it down ever since I took the picture!