July 2024 in the Southern Hemisphere

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In the middle of winter we have these winter staples:
1,2) Jasminum nudiflorum
3) Lonicera fragrantissima
4) Hakea 'Burrendong Beauty'
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Some of the "white hoops" flowering now,
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Galanthus 'Lady Beatrix Stanley' is the only double snowdrop which has done well in our garden,
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[Jeffnz]

Hi Fermi
What other doubles have failed to grow?

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Hi Fermi
What other doubles have failed to grow?

Hi Jeff,
I've tried a few such as Lavinia and Ophelia.
One took about five years to finally flower last year which I think is Ophelia - I thought that I posted pics when it flowered but can't find the posts - so I've attached them here,
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[Jeffnz]

Plicatus plenus is the only double I have seen for sale here.
Our garden conditions are not really suited to growing galanthus, very wet winters and hot dry summer.
I have obtained seed from a couple of kind donors and will look to see what plants do return each season, definitely need to water over summer, I think that elwesii hybrids will, be my best choice.

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Our garden conditions are not really suited to growing galanthus, very wet winters and hot dry summer.
I have obtained seed from a couple of kind donors and will look to see what plants do return each season, definitely need to water over summer, I think that elwesii hybrids will, be my best choice.

Our garden gets most of its rain in the winter though recently we've had summer rain as well.
I've found that Galanthus elwesii grow relatively well and have self-seeded in places.
This little colony grows in the middle of the rock garden in full sun without artificial watering except in the driest summers if other plants are at risk,
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Massonia citrina is just starting to flower
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A few other pics from the weekend:
1) (Pseudo)muscari inconstrictum
2) yellow hoops in the garden
3) A rain-soaked Narcissus romieuxii type
4) Possibly Galanthus plicatus
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Acis tingitana in the garden
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This is a different clone of Acis tingitana which I received as A. valentina which doesn't flower at this time,
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Narcissus 'Snook' just opening.
Narcissus 10 WW - a cream "Bulbocodium type" received from Keira Bulbs a number of years ago.
Narcissus "Harold's Earlies" from Glenbrook Bulb Farm
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A few more florets open on Massonia citrina
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A couple of the newer Hellebores still in pots:
1) Helleborus x hybridus "Double Black"
2) Helleborus x hybridus ex 'Cleopatra'
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[ashley]

A couple of the newer Hellebores still in pots:
1) Helleborus x hybridus "Double Black"
2) Helleborus x hybridus ex 'Cleopatra'

Very nice Fermi.  Do you expect the red to keep this colour as the flower matures?

Oddly & 6 months out of sync, a batch of seedlings are also flowering here at the moment.  First flowering probably accounts for the untidy semi-double.