delosperma & aizoaceae

[fermi de Sousa]

This was bought as Mesembryanthemum "Dwarf orange"!?
cheers
fermi

[Great Moravian]

Catalogue of Life: 2014 Annual Checklist
treats
Ectotropis seanii-hoganii (Niederle) H.E.K.Hartmann & C.Schröd.             
as a synonym for
Delosperma seanii-hoganii Niederle (accepted name)
http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/details/species/id/16888639/synonym/1688864
The latter remains my preference too, but I don't force anybody not to
prefer the former.

[Peter II]

[tozi]

Some of my plants. 

Delosperma seanii hoganii



Delosperma "Snow Flake"


D. "pink ribbon"


D. spalmanthum

[Great Moravian]

Ich lach mich

I laugh too. But I justly.

[Maggi Young]

About the man : Sean Hogan of Oregon, in the US
www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/plants/10783262/The-new-plant-gurus-Sean-Hogan.html

[Great Moravian]

About the man : Sean Hogan of Oregon, in the US
www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/plants/10783262/The-new-plant-gurus-Sean-Hogan.html

Thank you, Maggi. It is really interesting and topical, namely at least for me.

[Great Moravian]

The first snowfall of the season has driven me to my computer: I have been intrigued to look over all the postings since I last got on last spring...it has been a very busy year in Colorado and I am in the frenzy of getting seed prepared for exchanges and getting my gardens ready for winter. Mark McDonough let you all get a glimpse of a plant we will be releasing this coming year through the Plant Select program: There are two cultivars of this taxon.

The first two pictures are of the selection FIRESPINNER which will be released: it is the redder of two clones. The last picture is of the more orange clone, which has not been released, but which is charming in its own right.

Thought the SRGC forum ought to know about what is promising to be a truly spectacular plant. Blooms of Bressingham is working on the European rights for this.

It has been a spectacular and very hardy and vigorous garden plant for me.

Mark and Panayoti, I wonder whether the plants are true seeding, i.e. purple centres, yellow-orange-red tips of flowers, or segregate to pinkish-purplish flowers as, allegedly Delosperma dyeri, 'Red Mountain' does.

[tozi]

Some new flowers. 

[Great Moravian]

Click Different flower-sizes in Malotigena frantiskae-niederlovae
Click Bladder cells are circular-based in Delosperma
Click whereas linear-based and transversally arranged  in Malotigena
Rabiea suggested as a hybrid parent for Malotigena by Schröder has no bladder cells
but circular-based multicellular warts instead. It is therefore out of game.
Another genus with linear-based transversally arranged bladder cells wanted.

[tozi]

Great Moravian, thanks for the pictures. 

And another delos from my collection. I love these genus 

D. klinghardtianum, Seanberg Flats
D. esterhuyseniae, SH 1222, Adamskraal

[johnw]

The Delos Jewel of the Desert series is doing well here this summer but not a flower on 'Fire Spinner' which gets sun for the best part of the day. Have others had the same experience?

All had to be bare-rooted back in May as they were in a commercial bark-peat mix.

johnw

[Great Moravian]

Alternative 'Fire Spinner' in my garden. It didn't flower last year, but perfectly this one.
It is certainly not Delosperma dyeri as proposed by South African botanists.
I should test it for hybridity.

[Maggi Young]

How spectacular  - and in somewhat surprising  combinations - the colours on these flowers are .

[johnw]

I was rather expecting a show more like this!  In all honesty I am not keen on the colour combination of this one.

johnw - expecting 27c today