South African Bulbs/Geophytes 2020

[Hans J]

here is starting my Empodium with flowers ( and a wonderful fragrance )

Have fun 😎
Hans

[Gail]

Oh, lovely, I accidentally left mine behind when I moved. Must replace.

[angie]

here is starting my Empodium with flowers ( and a wonderful fragrance )

Have fun 😎
Hans

Hans love the colour pity I couldn’t smell the fragrance. Starting to enjoy my South African bulbs.

Angie 

[Rimmer de Vries]

Hesse stellaris.
Finally blooming after 5 years.
I think the sand plunge helps and the 2 x T-5 lights.
Grew them outside in sun in prior autumns. 

[Rimmer de Vries]

Strumaria unguiculata. From seed started in 2013. I think this is the first bloom. Tall scape.
Also like the 6400k artificial light and sand plunge.

[fermi de Sousa]

First flowers this week of Tritonia deusta - from seed from Silverhill Seeds sown in March 2018. They are in a community box because the tray of freshly sown seed-pots was tipped over! I swept up the debris and put it on top of a foam-box of potting-mix and some seedlings germinated right on cue! I just need to see them flower to identify what they are!
cheers
fermi

[fermi de Sousa]

South African bulb-bed in full flower now: Ixias, Moraea, sparaxis and lachenalia
cheers
fermi

[Jon Evans]

What a lovely sight Fermi.  I wish we could grow these plants outside like this here.  They are not the same in pots.

[fermi de Sousa]

Hi John,
These South African geophytes are well suited to our climate - sometimes too successfully!
Below are a few pics taken today of a drift of a sparaxis with purple exterior which we saw on the side of the road not far from our place. Possibly a form of Sparaxis grandiflora. There must've been hundreds and they were spreading. Well there are 3 less there now
cheers
fermi

[Rimmer de Vries]

Empodium plicatum
In bloom now with tulbaghi violacea ssp macmasterii and Bessera elegans (all red).

[ArnoldT]

Rimmer:

Is the Tulbaghia scented?

[ArnoldT]

Veltheimia capensis

[ArnoldT]

Close up of Strumaria truncata

[Gail]

Good picture Arnold, it really draws your attention to that shimmer on the petals.

[ArnoldT]

Thanks Gail

The shimmer on the petals was not so apparent until I used a flash.