December 2009 in the Southern Hemisphere

[t00lie]

Very nice Doug --my sps flower poorly --not enough sunshine i guess.

Physoplexis comosa in bloom. Yummy 
Seed sown Nov 06 -- courtesy of a Swedish forum member.
Surprised how quickly it has matured.

There are about a dozen smaller seedlings tucked under/around the flowering plant--i couldn't be bothered individually potting up when the seed first germinated      --i'll have to do so in the autumn and pass a few around.

Cheers dave 

[Lesley Cox]

The Physoplexis looks good Dave. Mine tends to flower rather poorly, i.e. there are several stems but they are smallish and rather tatty, dying away quickly. I think, looking at yours that maybe it likes lots of water until bloom time at least. Might move mine to a trough from the dry raised bed. 6 new troughs to play with.

[Lesley Cox]

Yesterday (Sunday) Roger, Teddy, Cain and I went down to Hokonui Alpines and picked up 6 troughs I had ordered (see "A New Bit of Garden " thread.) I had a quick dash round the nursery which is not usually open on a Sunday, and selected just 10 plants, very restrained of me. Among others, Primula nepalenssis and a wonderful plant of Campanula zoysii, complete with buds. This too, a well-coloured form of Nomocharis aperta from the ACE expedition. As you see, there's a nice seed pod already there.

[angie]

Very nice choice of plants, Cant wait to see your troughs planted up, we will need to see episode's of the troughs from planting to maturity.
Angie

[cohan]

Yesterday (Sunday) Roger, Teddy, Cain and I went down to Hokonui Alpines and picked up 6 troughs I had ordered (see "A New Bit of Garden " thread.) I had a quick dash round the nursery which is not usually open on a Sunday, and selected just 10 plants, very restrained of me. Among others, Primula nepalenssis and a wonder plant of Campanula zoysii, complete with buds. This too, a well-coloured form of Nomocharis aperta from the ACE expedition. As you see, there's a nice seed pod already there.

congrats on the celebrity style sunday shopping
remarkable flower, a(nother) genus i know little about, though i've been seeing the name around...

[Maggi Young]

Cohan.... trust me, you'll never meet a Nomocharis you don't like!
They are enchanting creatures, each and every one!
I'm just not sure they'd take your climate 

[johnw]

This too, a well-coloured form of Nomocharis aperta from the ACE expedition. As you see, there's a nice seed pod already there.

Lesley - What a find! 

Good to see you too!

johnw

[Lesley Cox]

Thank you John. If there had been more Nomocharis I'd have bought at least 3 but it was the last one. Oddly, I had looked at the listing when their spring catalogue was sent and decided not.

[fermi de Sousa]

Thank you John. If there had been more Nomocharis I'd have bought at least 3 but it was the last one. Oddly, I had looked at the listing when their spring catalogue was sent and decided not.

It's the principle on which all supermarkets operate! wysiwyb!
cheers
fermi

[galahad]

Yesterday (Sunday) Roger, Teddy, Cain and I went down to Hokonui Alpines and picked up 6 troughs I had ordered (see "A New Bit of Garden " thread.) I had a quick dash round the nursery which is not usually open on a Sunday, and selected just 10 plants, very restrained of me. Among others, Primula nepalenssis and a wonder plant of Campanula zoysii, complete with buds. This too, a well-coloured form of Nomocharis aperta from the ACE expedition. As you see, there's a nice seed pod already there.

I have been eyeing up the C. zoysii at Hokonui as well

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Cohan.... trust me, you'll never meet a Nomocharis you don't like!
They are enchanting creatures, each and every one!
I'm just not sure they'd take your climate 

They surely don't like my climate... 

It's a gorgeous plant Lesley !!

[Lesley Cox]

Go for it Ross. There were plenty there and more coming on but I've thought that before and missed out.

Luc, I've had it before and lost it a couple of times but those were very small plants from private sources. These were beauties.

[Lesley Cox]

Luc they (Nomocharis) don't like my climate either but I love them so much I'll do all I can to encourage them; a really humusy area to plant the bulbs and as much water as I can manage through the growing time. It's not enough but I get good flowers on stems which are perhaps shorter than they should be. The bulbs don't like drying out while dormant either. It is said they are short-lived anyway, perhaps 3 or 4 years at most, per bulb but I find they usually set good seed and so it's not too hard to maintain a flowering colony.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Thanks Lesley - my experience is that they simply do not cope with our (very occasional !) really hot spells of 30-35°C... even when watered regularly...    I have the same problems with Meconopsis... 

[Lesley Cox]

I do too, with Meconopsis. something very perverse abut me that I continue with such species when they would be happier elsewhere. They are all the time looking for ways to go to plant heaven.