September 2020 in the Southern Hemisphere

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Officially the first day of spring and we had a beaut sunny day though the wind could be a bit cool.
Here are a few things celebrating the end of winter:
1) Tulipa bakeri 'Lilac Wonder' - now apparently T. saxatilis 'Bakeri Group'
2) Hesperantha vaginata var stanfordiae
3) Narcissus obesus
4) Anemone pavonina
5) Narcissus 'Golden Rain'
cheers
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[Maggi Young]

Great spring  flowers  for  you, fermi!  I  love the  colour  of that Anemone pavonina.

[Lesley Cox]

After a relatively warm winter - no snow worth speaking of and temps in high teens and even up to 25C last week in the South Island - we started spring yesterday with heavy snow and all the skifields with deep cover. Lambing and calving have been difficult with sheep in drifts and the lower South Island roads only negotiable with chains, especially in Central Otago, so another crazy weather year in the making. Snowdrops, irises, winter aconites and crocuses all managed to flower during the warm time but some of my little daffodils are feeling the chill. Cyclamen coum as always shrugs off any winter blues and goes from strength to strength under the red magnolia. Saxifragas are starting and I saw yesterday that my largest shortia from last year's potting on, has 3 bud bunches emerging from the leaves. Just the one last year (its first) so it seems happy. Its leaves have been wonderful through the winter, deepest glossy mahogany/red but they are already taking on a spring green hue.

Greatly relieved to see some emerging seedlings of Mertensia virginica that I potted last year as the main, large plant was totally destroyed , a combination of rabbits and last summer's drought. Two feral cats living in the trees by the railway line are keeping some kind of control over the young rabbits and I'm grateful for that!

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Great spring  flowers  for  you, fermi!  I  love the  colour  of that Anemone pavonina.

Thanks, Maggi,
It's a second generation of ones grown from SRGC Seedex many years ago - first flowers in 2010.

Here is an Isopogon cultivar - can't find the label but I seem to remember that it's a hybrid
cheers
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Banksia blechnifolia is coming into bloom in our rock garden
cheers
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[Gabriela]

Banksia blechnifolia is coming into bloom in our rock garden
cheers
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Many beautiful and interesting species that we cannot grow in a cold climate Fermi, but it is so good to see them

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Many beautiful and interesting species that we cannot grow in a cold climate Fermi, but it is so good to see them

Hi Gabriela,
likewise for the cool climate plants you can grow that don't survive here but we can enjoy seeing each other's posts
cheers
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Ficaria verna 'Brambling'
Scilla bifolia
Narcissus 'Tête Bouclé'
Acis trichophylla
Hesperantha oligantha
cheers
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1) Tecophilea cyanocrocus
2) Oxalis obtusa 'Peaches & Cream'
3) Babiana cedarbergensis
4) Trillium chloropetalum
5) Tulipa clusiana 'Tinka'
cheers
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Bulbinella triquetra
Cyanella alba
Geissorhiza splendidissima
Tulipa kaufmanniana 'Heart's Delight' & Tulipa stapfi
Tulipa vvedenskyi
cheers
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1) Dichelostemma capitatum from Jane McGary via the NARGS 2009 Seedex
2) Moraea 'Karen Howard' (M. loubseri x M. atropunctata)
3) Tulipa 'Little Beauty'
4) Tulipa clusiana 'Cynthia'
5) Babiana vanzyliae
cheers
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From last week:
Gladiolus virescens ssp virescens
Babiana scariosa
DBI 'Olives & Umber'
brownish Freesia hybrid
Dichelostemma sp - not sure if this is D. multiflorum
cheers
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Some Aussie plants in flower:
Olearia pimeleoides
Daviesia schwarzenegger
Senna artemisioides
Dampiera rosmarinifolia 'Rosea'
Westringia longifolia - a recent purchase
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More from South Africa:
Moraea marlothii
Ixia - orange species - might be I. maculata
Pelargonium triste - the scent in the evening is amazing!
Geissorhiza radiens
Lapeirousia divaricata
cheers
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Tulipa aucheriana
Moraea aristata
Ranunculus graminifolius
Sparaxis
Leucocoryne ixioides
cheers
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