South African Bulbs/Geophytes 2020

[Rimmer de Vries]

Babiana vanzijiliae blooming 9Feb.
Reportedly smells like vanilla

[Rimmer de Vries]

Lachenalia garden in garage under lights.

[Rimmer de Vries]

Geissorhiza sp. (probably G. aspera with the white pollen)
this is in a fish box of sand and 12 plunged small mesh pots of seeds (now bulbs after 4 years) of different species. This pale purple one comes up all over in the various mesh pots. It must run underground

[fermi de Sousa]

Eucomis vandermerwei, one of the few summer growing species of South African plants that we grow
cheers
fermi

[Rob-Rah]

Gladiolus uysiae, 2 years from seed

[Diane Whitehead]

One of my favourites. 

How do you grow it?

[Rob-Rah]

One of my favourites. 

How do you grow it?

Identically to the other Cape ZAs! Soil is a mix of about equal parts John Innes #3, sand and grit, with a bit of fibrous peat added. Bone dry summers after the plants die back: they don't seem to mind being rather baked. Bring the plants into growth with first watering around the turn of Nov/Dec, don't overdo water during early winter. As much sun as possible. Weak feed every watering. Cold winter nights, kept a couple degrees above freezing.

[Diane Whitehead]

I'll have to add the regular weak feed to my pots.  Thank you.

[Rimmer de Vries]

Lachenalia pallida -Gilletti. From McMaster seed started fall 2017
An especially nice looking L pallida.

[fermi de Sousa]

Haemanthus barkerae grown from seed from Silverhills 2003;
Brunsvigia marginata
A second Crossyne flava
cheers
fermi

[Rimmer de Vries]

Moraea teipetala

[Rimmer de Vries]

Romulea tabularis

[Maggi Young]

Super photos  of that Romulea tabularis, Rimmer!

[Rob-Rah]

Sparaxis elegans (white form) and a slightly-closing Moraea flaccida (two years from seed, which has given a good display though the flowers seem to only be open for a short time each - I'll try and catch a few open at their best if they perform in today's sun):





And this unknown Lachenalia, which I think may be L. bachmanii:

[ArnoldT]

Gladiolus tristis.

Wonderfully scented of carnation and clove especially in early evening.