Flowering Now - September 2009

[WimB]

@ Maggi: I'm sorry to hear that. If mine keep on growing and if they multiply I'll keep you in mind

@ Martin: thanks for the correction. I bought it last year from a nursery which has been named a couple times on this forum for it's misnamed bulbs. Probably Crocus pulchellus indeed.

[Maggi Young]

That is very kind of you , Wim, but I'll be happy just to think that yours are growing well.... I can then enjoy the photos here!

[johnw]

Wim - Can you tell me about the life cycle of your Amaryllis belladonna?

I just wonder what happens to the winter leaves during a cold snap. I presume they get killed and hence wonder how you manage to flower it so well. Nary a flower here.

johnw

[Lesley Cox]

The Cyclamen are TRULY ivy-leaved in this place.

(refers to Giles pix  in post # 12 on previous page)

[WimB]

John,

After flowering my Amaryllis starts to get leaves which stay quite small untill March/April and then start to grow untill somewhere in July when the leaves disappear. The flower buds appear in August and normally flower by the end of August or at it's latest by the end of September.
They've never lost their winter leaves (that I can recall). Last year we had the hardest winter since a couple of years and I'm sure they kept their leaves which were only 10 to 15 cm during that time. They are planted against a south facing wall and protected from the wind.

[fermi de Sousa]

The Cyclamen are TRULY ivy-leaved in this place.

(refers to Giles pix  in post # 12 on previous page)

You beat me to that witicism, Lesley!
I don't know why they were ever called C. neapolitanum, as I've never seen a chocolate coloured one!
cheers
fermi

[johanneshoeller]

Does anybody know the name of this interesting plant?

[WimB]

Hans,

could it be Zephyranthes robustus?

[maggiepie]

Ceratotheca triloba, these started flowering about a week ago.

[akoen]

They were very nice. Is it a perennial?

[Ragged Robin]

Amazing, Helen, they are really lovely - are they perennial or grown from seed?

[Maggi Young]

Lovely, Helen..... I didn't know this plant... found this link....
http://theseedsite.co.uk/profile339.html

and this......http://apps.kew.org/efloras/namedetail.do?flora=fz&taxon=6474&nameid=16395

[Ragged Robin]

Two great links Maggi - could spend several hours lost in the seed world 

[maggiepie]

Anne, they are annuals, I was hoping to get some seed but not sure there will be enough time before frost.

Robin, I grew these from seed, they are supposed to be very quick to grow, flower and set seed but these just sat there for awhile, no doubt due to the cool summer.

Thanks for the links Maggi.

[fleurbleue]

My pink Cerathoteca has already set seeds ; if anyone wants some seeds, send me a pm ; Maggiepie I hope your white Cerathoteca will give you seeds, I have been searching for white Cerathoteca seeds for a long, long time without any succes  and I should be very, very happy if I could receive someones 
Cheers

Nicole