September 2019 in the Southern Hemisphere

[Leena]

So lovely Trilliums!  I especially liked the first one (Sept 7), but it is good to see any from your spring while our spring is still far away. Here I got some seeds now from my Trilliums, but many seed pods had disappeared one night, maybe to voles. One seedpod which I thought was good, but when I reached to  take it, a wasp came from the hole in the base of it  , and there were only two seeds left. I didn't think wasps could eat Trillium seeds but maybe they just dropped them or something.

[Parsla]

Hello all,

Toolie s trilliums are gorgeous.
I have only one up, and maybe it will be the only one that flowers - without those lovely leaf markings, sadly.

A few from last days.

1. The trillium
2. The Narcissus 'Hawera' clump
3.  An epimedium hybrid I bought years ago does well in the garden
4. A Gordonia yunnanense that was rather a disappointment for some years is coming into its own now

[Parsla]

and 3 more..

5. Muscari muscarimi
6. My very first Juno ever to flower - kindly gifted by marcus and susan
7. A slightly the worse for wear pseudomuscari

[Jupiter]

You have lots of beautiful things flowering Jacqui. I love your rare shrubs; Gordonia is new to me. The juno is lovely! That's a rare creature... is it Iris magnifica f. alba?

[Parsla]

Jamus you do say the nicest things..
For my part, I love your artistry with the rock garden.

I think the Juno has magnifica in it but wondered if it might be a cross.  I'm so pleased it has finally flowered.
It has been quite a wait.

Here are two for today, tulips saxatilis and anemone blanda.

Spring is such an exciting season.

[fermi de Sousa]

Some more from the garden in the last few days:
Tulipa bakeri - now T. saxatilis (Bakeri Group) 'Lilac Wonder'
Galaxia (now Moraea) fugacissima
Narcissus 'WubWub' from Lawrence Trevanion
Hesperantha vaginata & ssp stanfordiae? from NZAGS Sdx 2011
Narcissus 'Joycelon Newman' from Keira Bulbs
cheers
fermi

[fermi de Sousa]

1) A bit of spring sunshine - Hesperantha vaginata, Gagea fibrosa and Nothoscordum felipponei
2) Gladiolus watermeyeri
3) Narcissus 'Split' 11aW-W (Gerritsen, Holland)
4) Isopogon cv
5) Olearia pimeleoides
cheers
fermi

[Jupiter]

Fermi, you must have bought seed of Gladiolus watermeyeri from Silverhill the same time I did. Is that the first time flowering for you?

[fermi de Sousa]

Fermi, you must have bought seed of Gladiolus watermeyeri from Silverhill the same time I did. Is that the first time flowering for you?

Hi Jamus,
no mine came from seed from NZAGS 2011 http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=14607.msg363362#msg363362 reply #54, first flowered in 2016,
cheers
fermi

[fermi de Sousa]

A few more from our place:
1) Bellevalia ciliata
2) Anemone pavonina red - grown from SRGC seedex seed a few years ago
3) I think this is Anemone heldreichii x A. pavonina
4) Tulipa agenensis ssp sharonensis
5) Not sure if this is Tulipa clusiana 'Lady Jane' or seedlings of it but whatever, they are getting swamped by the self-sown sweet-peas 
cheers
fermi

[t00lie]

So lovely Trilliums!

Hello all,
Toolie s trilliums are gorgeous.

Thanks Leena/Parsla. It seems spring is well underway in Aussie and also over on this side of the ditch with various Erythronium, Primula and Fritillaria in bloom 











Cheers Dave.

[t00lie]

More Trilliums including a nice deep pink coloured rivale I picked up while in Christchurch last weekend for the NZAGS Annual Show.

[t00lie]

Babiana nana , Arum unknown , Moraea 'lucky dip' and ? ..its had that many names changes and I've forgotten all of them for the moment ...   ,and finally Tropaeolum brachyceras originally as seed from Bill Dijk.

Cheers Dave.











Cheers.

[Paul T]

Great pics folks.  Some absolute crackers in here.  Wonderful.

[Parsla]

You really are stealing the spring show Toolie, absolutely gorgeous, although Fermi’s bellevalia and anemones are also very pretty.  I don’t know how you grow the frit meleagris  in the ground. I can’t seem to keep it alive that way. Specially when hot dry summers are followed by a proper drowning.