September 2019 in the Southern Hemisphere

[Jupiter]

Spring! I have spent the whole weekend gardening and it has been bliss. I have so many ideas inspired by my visit to Olinda for Oron's talks; it was an educational as well as a enjoyable weekend.

Here are some early spring flowers from my garden;

1. Saxifraga edithae 'Bridget'
2. Narc. cyclamineus alongside Narc. cyclamineus 'Viv' (a lovely gift from Otto)
3. Ipheion peregrinans 'Rolf Fiedler'
4. Anemone blanda
5. Tropaeolum tricolor

[Jupiter]

part two;

6. Serapias neglecta
7. Moraea macronyx
8. Babiana sp? (B. nana)
9. Steps up through the rock garden
10. Gladiolus watermeyeri

[Parsla]

You really are a perfectionist Jamus, very taken with your crevice pots and that spectacular gladiolus.

It was a lovely weekend to be outside.

1. A hermodactylus iris that came from lambley nursery - named blue jade i think
2. Cardamine pentaphylla - much slower to increase than its cousin 'flickweed'
3. One of my favourites, from Otto: Hyacinthella leocophae
4. Crocus etruscus

[Parsla]

5. Our native Boronia megastigma lutea
Each year i put a pot on the doorstep for the scent, then plant it out in the garden after flowering

6. Bellevalia dubia

7. Erythronium lilies

[Leucogenes]

Hello Jamus...

again great plants... as always from you. But I find the photo of the steps particularly fascinating. You should show some more photos of the complete rock garden...what I have seen so far is exactly to my taste and a great inspiration for me.

Greetings
Thomas

[Jupiter]

Hi Jacqui, it was really nice to see you again at Olinda.  It's just a pity we can't catch up more often. Are you sure you bought the jade blue Hermodactylus tuberosus from Lambley? Mine was from Marcus and he said it was very rare here and I even gave a bit back to him because he said he didn't have it anymore!

Thomas thanks for your compliments; the rock garden is 50% joy and 50% pain, I am still learning what species do well in our challenging climate. Recent drought conditions haven't helped. It's not looking its best in terms of the health of the plants right now...

 

[fermi de Sousa]

A great start to spring with your flowers, Jamus and Jacqui!
Here are a few more from our garden:
1) Acis trichophylla
2) Gagea fibrosa
3) Hesperantha latifolia
4) Muscari muscarimi
5) Crocus minimus 'Bavella'
cheers
fermi

[Jupiter]

Hi Otto, if you're reading this, can you please tell me the name of this Scilla you gave me when I was at your place, one that we forgot to give a label!

[Parsla]

Hi Jamus,

 
yes it is such a pity not to meet more often. 

Marcus told me about your hermodactylus. I think he said it was a chance seedling.  Yes it is rare but david Glenn  did list it a couple of years ago on line. It wasn’t in the printed catalogue though so maybe very few.  Naturally I snapped it up 

The Scilla has me curious. I thought maybe ingridae but anthers wrong. Shall await Otto’s reply with interest.

Fermi the muscari muscarimi is very sweet.

[Yann]

I like the colors of your minimus, somes are really dark. In Corsica most of them are pinkish or violet, those in Sardinia are dark.

[t00lie]

Lovely images all.
My first attempt at downloading directly a phone camera image I took recently .

[Maggi Young]

Lovely trillium t00lie - your season is  getting into its  stride!

[t00lie]

Lovely trillium t00lie - your season is  getting into its  stride!

Thanks Maggi .Yes a lot of colour with a number of early Trillium's in bloom with other 'bits and pieces'.

A number of seedling T.s are flowering for the first time and although none of them stand out I quite like the leaf shape and patterning of this one .Label says 'NZ Hybrid' sown 2012 so it took its time ..... .

[Herman Mylemans]

Dave, beautiful Trilliums!

[t00lie]

Dave, beautiful Trilliums!

Thank you Herman

Here are a few more all raised from garden collected seed so sometimes I find identification a bit hit and miss. 

Trillium with very narrow petals the leaves have a slight petiole like base so maybe it has some angustipetalum influence.



Raised as Trillium maculatum the leaf colouring is more pronounced in this its second year of flowering .



Trillium kurabayashii.