September 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere

[Maggi Young]

Crikey, fermi! Some  roadsides are  prettier than others!!

[fermi de Sousa]

Crikey, fermi! Some  roadsides are  prettier than others!!

...and I avoided taking pics of the trash left by people or thrown from cars
cheers
fermi

[Maggi Young]

Well done on missing out the  trash - some people are  beyond disgusting.

[Maggi Young]

 News has arrived from Austrlia of the  award  of  the John Pascoe Fawkner Medals  for  horticultural excellence to two members of the  Victoria AGS group . These well deserved medals have  been awarded from the Royal Horticultural Society  of  Victoria to Fermi  de Sousa and Viv  Condon ! These  two, well known members here too, of  course, are  real "engine-houses" of the  AGS Victoria group.





 Huge congratulations to you both! Very well deserved indeed.

[fermi de Sousa]

Thank you, Maggi, for your best wishes.
And here I was thinking it was a thankless task
Here are a few more things in flower now in our garden
1) Narcissus obesus
2) Narcissus 'Xit'
3) Tulipa batalinii 'Red Hunter'
4) DBI 'Making Eyes'
5) Westringia longifolia
cheers
fermi

[fermi de Sousa]

Some pics from a couple of weeks ago:
1) Cyclamen persicum ex Rhodes
2) Hesperantha vaginata
3) Hesperantha vaginata v. stanfordiae
4) Pauridia sp. possibly P. gracilis
5) Tulipa clusiana 'Lady Jane'
cheers
fermi

[fermi de Sousa]

Some more from 2 weeks ago:
1) Tulipa agenensis ssp. sharonensis
2) Tulipa vvedenskyi
3) Narcissus 'Slip Slop'
4) Tulipa saxatilis
5) DBI 'Wanganui Gem'
cheers
fermi

[fermi de Sousa]

1) Narcissus 7WP 'Quickstep' x N. fernandesi
2) Iris ‘Making Eyes’ SDB (Blyth, 1982)
3) Tulipa clusiana 'Tinka'
4) Tulipa stapfi'
5) Narcissus 'Golden Echo'
cheers
fermi

[fermi de Sousa]

Some daffs taken on 12-09-21
1) Narcissus 'Pipit'
2) Narcissus 'Binkie Bell'
3) Narcissus 'Christmas Valley'
4) Narcissus 'Red Aria'
5) Narcissus 'Double Gold Medal'
cheers
fermi

[fermi de Sousa]

1) Scilla italica
2) Lachenalia mutabilis
3) Geissorhiza sp. possibly G. foliosa
4) Phebalium sp
5) Asarum splendens
cheers
fermi

[fermi de Sousa]

1) Paeonia mascula rossoi
2) Tulipa sp. Fergana Group
3) Sparaxis - maybe S. grandiflora - purple form
4) Sparaxis - maybe S. grandiflora - white form
5) "Settlers' White" - Iris albicans
cheers
fermi

[Maggi Young]

My word, you're garden is a real spring picture, fermi- so many beauties ! Our garden is largely fifty shades of  green at this time  of  year in Aberdeen so very exciting to see  all the  colour  you have.

Re: September 2021 in the Southern Hemisphere
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1) Narcissus 7WP 'Quickstep' x N. fernandesi

Crumbs, what a fabulous display!

[Carolyn]

Lovely show of spring colour, Fermi. Is Scilla italica a well-behaved? I bought some last year, but was a bit hesitant, given the invasive nature of our native bluebells in Scotland. I wondered if this scilla would be just as thuggish?

[fermi de Sousa]

My word, you're garden is a real spring picture, fermi- so many beauties ! Our garden is largely fifty shades of  green at this time  of  year in Aberdeen

The garden has a lot of green in it - mostly weeds but I can crop most of them out of the pics 
The big difference between our gardens at the end of summer is that ours will be 50 shades of brown!
cheers
fermi

[fermi de Sousa]

Lovely show of spring colour, Fermi. Is Scilla italica a well-behaved? I bought some last year, but was a bit hesitant, given the invasive nature of our native bluebells in Scotland. I wondered if this scilla would be just as thuggish?

Hi Carolyn,
that clump of Scilla italica has been in the rock garden since around 2014 and first flowered in 2016. So far I see no evidence of any tendency to invasiveness. Fingers crossed that that wasn't "famous last words"!
cheers
fermi