Author Topic: Spring in Southern Hemisphere... with crocus! (July- September) (Read 24163 times)

Ray · « **Reply #165 on:** August 30, 2009, 10:08:56 AM »

As you have read I was at the Hellebore sale at Olinda,and it was great to meet Otto for the first time,and also to be able to put a face to a name.As you can see in Otto's photos there were heaps of hellebores for sale and probably half of them were gone in the first hour.
Otto has made a new rock garden at Olinda and here is a pic of him and the rock garden.bye Ray

fermi de Sousa · « **Reply #166 on:** August 31, 2009, 01:03:17 AM »

Sorry I didn't get to FCHS to meet you, Ray - we're having some drama in the family at the moment!

More spring flowers springing up here
this is the first flower I've had on a retic iris I received a few years ago from a friend in Croydon,

She called it "Hercules" and I wonder if it's the same as "Hercule" which someone posted to the Retic thread awhile ago (NH spring)
Here are a few jonquilla hybrids in the rock garden.

And a re-flowering on this Hymenoxis argentea which I showed last year with just the one bloom.

cheers
fermi

Lesley Cox · « **Reply #167 on:** August 31, 2009, 06:05:28 AM »

There is one called 'Hercules' Fermi and to my mind it is very similar indeed to 'J S Dijt.' I read somewhere that 'Hercules' is no longer grown in the UK because it seldom opens completely, the northern sun not being strong enough early in the year, to develop it properly. It always opened here when I had it, but I haven't seen it available for many years.

cohan · « **Reply #168 on:** August 31, 2009, 06:34:28 AM »

Quote from: fermides on August 31, 2009, 01:03:17 AM

Sorry I didn't get to FCHS to meet you, Ray - we're having some drama in the family at the moment!
More spring flowers springing up here
And a re-flowering on this Hymenoxis argentea which I showed last year with just the one bloom.
cheers
fermi

hope the drama ends with applause!
like the hymenoxis..

Luc Gilgemyn · « **Reply #169 on:** August 31, 2009, 08:59:18 AM »

A really splendid Hymenoxis Fermi !!
Did you grow it from seed ??

Lesley Cox · « **Reply #170 on:** September 01, 2009, 05:45:42 AM »

I think this is Trillium maculatum. I forgot I had it until I saw the flowers among the general weed cover this morning.

Each year I get a single flower of Frit. aurea, except that this year I have a second single flower in a pot from seed from the Frit group. It's still a week or so away. We've had a week of very cold winds, today is just about a gale and bitterly chilling, hence, I suppose, the very short stem and reluctance to send its head up.

This odd frit is, according to the label, the first seedling to flower of my own seed from F. michailovskyi, in which case, it MUST be a hybrid. The only possible parent would be F. mutabilis.

Paul T · « **Reply #171 on:** September 01, 2009, 06:19:17 AM »

Lesley,

Beautiful Trillium. Lovely dark leaves, particularly with the flowers already open. Very nice!! So are you saving pollen from this F. aurea for the other one that is a week away?