South African Bulbs/Geophytes 2019

[Rimmer de Vries]

Cyrtanthus sp?  This has been passed around the Pacific Bulb Society BX as offsets that the donor originally got from John Lavanos. It has never bloomed for the donor but it is blooming for me today. As a large pink bloom.
Does anyone know the identify?

I think it is a large Habranthus that got mixed in?

[ArnoldT]

This may be way out of sequence.

Haemanthus humilis. Was safely tucked away in the cool basement and I notice growth.  Put it outside and flowered it's head off.

[fermi de Sousa]

Nothing "humble" about that Haemanthus, Arnold!
Quite a beauty.
Gladiolus dalenii flowers late in the season so is at the mercy of the frosts - these have escaped so far!
cheers
fermi

[ArnoldT]

Fermi:

thanks, my G. daleni always comes into growth at the wrong time and withers and never flowers.

[PaulFlowers]

cyrtanthus Spiralis- soooo pleasedthis bloomed. Survived red spider mite attack

[fermi de Sousa]

Hesperanthus humilis in flower in the middle of winter
cheers
fermi

[ArnoldT]

 Eucomis zambesiaca native to southern Africa, from Zimbabwe through Malawi to the Limpopo Province of South Africa

[PaulFlowers]

Dipcadi viride - odd sort of twisted flowers.

[Anthony Darby]

Here are two pics of the same clone of Gladiolus cardinalis taken two years apart. The difference in colour is not a trick of the light or computer so why are they so different? The first is when the clump was in a pot, the second in its second year in the rockery.

[fermi de Sousa]

Here are two pics of the same clone of Gladiolus cardinalis taken two years apart. The difference in colour is not a trick of the light or computer so why are they so different? The first is when the clump was in a pot, the second in its second year in the rockery.

Hi Anthony,
The first pic looks like the G.tristis hybrid rather than the species. Did you get any of the hybrids at any stage? I find G.tristis seems to pop up in a lot of pots! The spawn are very small and are easily transferred
cheers
fermi

[Rimmer de Vries]

Cyrtanthis elstus x montanus from PBS BX 330 (Dec 2012) as small offsets. First time in bloom. In a 9” tall pot

[Paul Cumbleton]

All gone now

I have just 3 South African bulbs for sale on eBay this year:

Eriospermum dregei
Massonia citrina
Strumaria karooica

You can find them listed by using this shortcut: http://ebay.eu/1n3uCgm

Paul

[Anthony Darby]

Hi Fermi

As I only started with one corm of Gladiolus cardinalis, the photographs show the same clone two years apart.

[fermi de Sousa]

Hi Anthony,
have a look at the G.cardinalis hybrid:
https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/GladiolusHybrids

We used to consider it a Gladiolus tristis hybrid, G. colvillei
cheers
fermi

[Anthony Darby]

Interesting. Very like the first photo, but why do my plants now look so different? It's the same plant, just in a different situation. No idea what the parentage is, except I got a corm from a New Zealand grower about five years ago and it has multiplied.