South African Bulbs/Geophytes 2020

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Bulbinella latifolia v. doleritica
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Bulbinella robusta
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Bulbinella floribunda - which appears to be more robust than B. robusta! Or have I got them mixed up?
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[Steve Garvie]

Very nice Fermi.
Can these Bulbinella handle some frost?

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Can these Bulbinella handle some frost?

Hi Steve,
We've been down to -7^oC and they seem to have handled that okay.
The exception is B. latifolia which can lose the flowers if hit by frost, even just a few degrees below 0^oC
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[Steve Garvie]

Thanks Fermi!

[Diane Whitehead]

This is Moraea polystachya from the Karoo, from seed Fermi donated to NARGS in 2015.

It is the first time it has bloomed for me.  It has been in a pot in my unheated greenhouse but I am going to plant it outside, as I remember how cold the Karoo can get.

Diane

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Hi Diane,
so glad that it is flowering for you.
We had the last flower on ours last week! Now I'm harvesting seed!

Here's the pure yellow Hesperantha vaginata var stanfordiae
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Babiana cedarbergensis which we got a couple of years ago from Ferny Creek Hort Soc.
It has a sweet scent,
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[ArnoldT]

A very large summer grower.

Think it is Eucomis pallidiflora ssp. pole-evansii

Spends winters in a bag of potting soil under the greenhouse bench at no colder than 42 F.

[Diane Whitehead]

I received seeds of Nerine hirsuta of hort from last year's SRGC seed exchange.

What could this be?  It must be hairy, and there are a number of species that have hairy pedicels ( angustifolia, appendiculata, masoniorum , platypetala),  and some with both hairy stems and hairy pedicels: ( filamentosa, filifolia, gibsonii).

It would be good to know so the seedlings can be treated correctly.

Diane

[Maggi Young]

I've  sent  your  question to the  Bainbridges, Diane - I  hope  they may be  able to help.

 It  seems  that rareplants are  selling a  plant under  this  description   which they say is  likely  to be  a form of  N. angustifolia

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Moraea versicolor is diminutive but makes up for it by shouting very loudly!
Grown from seed from Gordon Summerfield, RSA, 2010,
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[bainbridges]

Hi folks, especially Diane.

We don't know who submitted this seed,- it's too much of a job to record donors for over 7000 donations in the time we have, but our spreadsheet says we checked the name on Google as it does not appear as a taxon in Plants of the World Online.

Google takes us to the Rare Plants Co. website - link here:  https://www.rareplants.co.uk/product/nerine-hirsuta/  and they give some information as they sell Nerine hirsuta of hort, and say they think it is a form of angustifolia.

Hope that helps, that's the best we can do!  We do try to check names as seed is submitted to us, but again cannot finally verify them of course.

Ian & Carole B

[Diane Whitehead]

Thank you.  I'll label it N. angustifolia? then.

I can never access the rareplants website.  I always get this message:  Access from your area has been temporarily limited for security reasons.

I have bought seeds from rareplants.eu    Is it the same company?