October 2009 in the Southern Hemisphere

[Paul T]

Fermi,

Great pics.  I don't think I've heard of Thunderbolt before (what a great colour), the Trop is gorgeous, and the Asphodeline is so full of promise.  Asphodeline lutea is in flower here at the moment..... I can't begin to guess how many flowers there must be in the flowerhead over the life of it as there are new ones every day from multiple points, over and over again.  What are the flowers on damascena like?

[Lesley Cox]

I've put some more little beardies on the Bearded Iris topic.

[Ray]

Flowering in the South today bye Ray

[Paul T]

Ray,

Very cool.  Way to big for my garden..... if I had acreage there would definitely be one on the property!! 

[Lesley Cox]

At one stage there were a lot of trees planted here for the timber trade. I believe Paulownia is a light-weight wood, bt I've heard nothing of it for 10 or 15 years so maybe it all went pear-shaped.

[Lesley Cox]

This lovely campanula is C. oreadum, courtesy Mr Buttercup as seed. I hope to be able to take a pic in a little while with more flowers open.


and a Rhododendron which has given me a sharp reminder that it's not good to keep things in pots too long. R. glaucophyllum album was a compact plant when I bought it from the local Rh Grp plant list then became leggy over a couple of years. Last year it almost died from drought but then came away at the base to flower now. I'll trim off the "legs" and encourage the bushy base. And it will be planted out almost immediately.

[t00lie]

Some nice plants folks.

Here's my contribution

A lovely yellow Trillium sulcatum with a slight red edging i raised from home open pollinated seed sown 2002.

The yellowing is a lot darker than what is shown here.

Cheers dave.

[Paul T]

Dave,

Wow!!    Beautiful.  Must be thrilling to get home seedlings to flower like that.  Must be good to get home parents to set seed like that!    Everyone will be clamouring for seed from you now. 

[Lesley Cox]

A lovely yellow Trillium sulcatum with a slight red edging i raised from home open pollinated seed sown 2002.

Yeah Yeah. It's not as if it's an exciting buttercup hybrid or anything rare or exceptional Dave. ( )

[Ragged Robin]

A lovely yellow Trillium sulcatum with a slight red edging

Absolutely gorgeous, Dave, many congratulations on your first flower 

[fermi de Sousa]

Asphodeline lutea is in flower here at the moment..... What are the flowers on damascena like?

Hi Paul,
Asphodeline damascena was grown from NARGS 2000 (?) Seedex and was donated by more than 3 donors which seems a bit strange as no one has donated it again since (well, I have this year) so I'm not sure who donated it and whether it is any different to A. taurica (which Vojtech Holubec grows and has donated to NARGS Sdx).
The flowers open in the late pm so I didn't get pics till the other day:






cheers
fermi

[Paul T]

Very nice, Fermi.  Like the lutea there are lots of flowering points producing a succession of flowers.  Good stuff!!

[Rogan]

Here's something new (for me...) flowering in my collection - Griffinia espiritensis - smashing colour!

[Ragged Robin]

Great photo, Rogan, so delicate in colouring does it have one flower per stem or more? 

[galahad]

Tree Paeony Honeycomb
Trillium grandiflorum (pic a few weeks old)