Nerine 2020

[Maggi Young]

From a  tweet by  Advolly  Richmond ....
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The  Nerine  and  Amaryllid Society are looking for a home for the  Nerine sarniensis collection on mainland  UK   - this  needs a large heated glasshouse. Plant Heritage Guernsey has  offered  but NASoc need to have a duplicate collection on the mainland if poss. Can you help? Please contact the society if you  think you  can help......  email to   nerinesociety@gmail.com 


http://www.nerineandamaryllidsociety.co.uk/

[majallison]

Thanks for publicising this, Maggi; I think we may have found a home (or two homes!) for the collection.

[Maggi Young]

Excellent news, Malcolm!!

[fermi de Sousa]

Nerine angulata

[fermi de Sousa]

Nerine masoniorum
cheers
fermi

[fermi de Sousa]

Nerine fothergilla 'Major' has been lumped into N. sarniensis but I keep it under the old name as it is distinct in my opinion; it's certainly hardier.
The first pic is from a couple of weeks ago when it first started to flower; the second is from yesterday as the last cluster starts to fade
cheers
fermi

[fermi de Sousa]

Nerine rosea has also been subsumed by N. sarniensis which I find even less understandable
cheers
fermi

[fermi de Sousa]

Nerine 'Ariel' is an old hybrid that I got about 40 years ago.
It comes through our winters without protection but is grown at the base of a sprawling rose.
It's flowering nicely this year
cheers
fermi

[Diane Whitehead]

Ariel is lovely - none of mine are that colour.

[fermi de Sousa]

Hi Diane,
I don't know the heritage of this hybrid, but I got a similar colour by crossing N. rosea and N. fothergilla 'Major', but they don't flower regularly so here's a pic from 2018
cheers
fermi

[fermi de Sousa]

First flowers on a cross between a red Nerine sarniensis hybrid and Nerine rosea I made a few years ago
cheers
fermi

[fermi de Sousa]

Another seedling, this one is from seed of one of the Nerine sarniensis hybrids and is a soft pastel pink,
cheers
fermi

[Diane Whitehead]

Fermi,

Do you have a goal for your hybridizing?

My plan is to produce hardy ones I can grow outside, so I've been crossing bowdenii with various sarniensis.  I should also use undulata - it's so eager that its seedlings are in a lot of my pots.  Great excitement - my pot of Wurmbea is about to flower - oh, no.  it's just a usurping undulata.  So I think undulata needs to be banished to the garden.

Diane

[fermi de Sousa]

Hi Diane,
most of my hybridising is random - mostly whatever is in flower at the same time.
However I'm using what I still call Nerine rosea because it is hardy here. I haven't tried using N. undulata yet - here what we used to call N. flexuosa "Alba"  is considered to be a form of N. undulata. But they usually flower in May while most of the others flower in April. I haven't got into pollen saving
cheers
fermi

[johnw]

First flowers on a cross between a red Nerine sarniensis hybrid and Nerine rosea I made a few years ago
cheers fermi

Good work there Fermi.  There are some new Dutch bowdeniis that are close to that colour, as well as many good red bowdenii x sarniensis. Be interesting to get some of those genes into that hybrid to produce summer flowerers.

john