South African Bulbs/Geophytes 2020

[Steve Garvie]

A Summer-growing form of Boophone disticha from the Eastern Cape.

[ArnoldT]

Steve:

WOW

[ArnoldT]

Ashley

Thanks, "Drift" translates as "operation" in Afrikaans.
Looks like it's a small road.

[Anthony Darby]

Just heard from Toolie. His Gladiolus flanaganii bloomed on 20^th January. I had a pot (first pic) in full sun flowered at the end of Feb. These in the rockery, which gets sun from early afternoon, are flowering now! Why the differences?

[ruweiss]

Steve and Anthony: Simply beautiful - Thank you for showing

[ArnoldT]

This one went into summer storage in the basement.  Upon checking it was throwing up a flower spike with leaves.

Haemanthus humilis ssp. hirsutus

[fermi de Sousa]

Lachenalia pusilla flowering for the first time from seed from NARGS Seedex 2016
cheers
fermi

[ArnoldT]

Haemanthus humilis ssp. hirsutus.

in full  flower.

[Maggi Young]

Arnold - look what I found  recently!
http://www.nasl.com/news/2015/05/07/throwback-thursday--arnold-trachtenberg-trainer-to-the-stars
 Doesn't  have  that great photo of  you  with Pele that I butchered for  your  profile  pic though!

[David Nicholson]

Arnold, I remember Eddie Firmani well. In the 1950's he played for the English team Charlton Athletic and I remember him scoring five times against one of my-boyhood favourite teams, Aston Villa. Ah! those were the days.

[ArnoldT]

I believe Eddie was born in South Africa and emigrated to UK.

He was a coach with the Cosmos on 2 or 3 occasions.

We were owned by an entertainment company and they liked to keep things interesting.

Eddie was also the coach of  a team in  Kuwait during the Iraqi invasion.

The picture displayed is me taping Franz Beckenbauer's ankle during an All-star game with a Canadian Bruce Wilson to the left side of the picture.

David:

Here's a fellow you should recognize from your days as a fan.

[ArnoldT]

A beautiful flowering example of Cyrtanthus obliquus.

A gift from an old friend.

Found near Knysna to  the SE Cape coast.

Spends it's summer time outside on the ledge of the greenhouse.  Evergreen and replaces leaves one or two per season.

[johnw]

A superb C. obliquus Arnold. Somewhat of a rarity, seeds rarely offered on the seedex and I never see plants for sale.

johnw
hfx, ns
67F & sunny, suddenly summer though below 50F at night

[Steve Garvie]

Lovely obliquus! Not an easy bulb to grow.
 

[ArnoldT]

 
Of course I'd like to take all the credit as a knowledgeable grower.

 Truth is it sat on the greenhouse knee wall outside during our NE USA summers and watered when I remembered. It came inside the greenhouse when weather turned cold here in the NE USA

No special care at all.  More like benign neglect. ( which may be a hint for all of us)

Potted in a coarse mix of perlite, granite chips and traditional potting mix.

Fed once a month with a hydroponic solution used by cannabis growers.

A gift from Jim Shields, a master Hippeastrum grower many of you know whom I met years back when we both served on the old IBS

If I do get seeds Steve and John your first on the list.