South African bulbose plants 2009

[Paul T]

Chris,

I can do seed or send you a few bulbs.  The yellow O. dubium are pretty much evergreen here.  They flower well and set seed quite freely, but I never get around to collecting it (but will try to do so if you or anyone are wanting some).  If only the orange would be as accomodating.  Apparently I am not alone in having the orange dubium grow for one year and then never break dormancy again..... do your orange ones flower each year?

Stenoglottis longifolia flowers here outside without a problem.  I have some in the ground and some in pots.  Even sitting for years in a tiny pot I still usually get a flower on them.  Mine have no leaf markings, although a friend has a spotty leaf one.  Easy and anything here.

[BULBISSIME]

Great Chris !

My Resnova only gave me leaves 
But your's seem's to be quite high in size ??

[Hristo]

Hi Fred,
I guess from the crown of the bulb to the tip of the flower spike is about 18cm.
For many years it has grown in a community pot, this year it got its own pot and actually looks better for it!
Leaving 3/4 of the bulb above ground seems to have resulted in this 'taller' growth form, in previous years the bulb has been fully buried and the leaves have tended to grow out along the surface of the potting medium.

[Rogan]

Resnova is such an interesting genus (now sunk into Ledebouria, I believe?), it's a great pity the bulbs are still being sold at ridiculously high prices and available seed just does not germinate - I think it must have a very short viability.

I have one Resnova-like plant in my collection with very attractive (...for a Resnova) pink and white flowers and another with attractive leaves reticulated in purple - both are still needing names and I believe the locality of the second species has been forgotten by the collector and so can't be described! I'll get pictures of both species when they come into leaf again in spring.

[Diane Clement]

Great to see the Resonova megaphylla in flower.  Mine will only make leaves - although they are very attractive.  Chris - you are colder than us in winter so I expect you have protected it - how hardy have you found it?

[Hristo]

Hi Rogan and Diane,
The Resonovas are rather attractive. This one flowers quite reliably here and grows in an east facing room with glass windows facing east and north.
It never drops below +5c in winter and gets no warmer than +30c in summer.
We have had a germination of unknown seed which appeared in pots growing near to the Resonova and Ledebouria, currently it looks like the Ledebouria species ( I hope!! ). I have attached a picture of the seedlings.

[Alessandro.marinello]

this plant obtained from seed, seeds 2007 first flower
Dietes iridioides

[fermi de Sousa]

These are two of the nerines we have still in flower here.
the first is what we think is N. undulata


The second is what I presume is the pink version of what we've known here as N. flexuosa, but is probably re-classified as N. humilis,


cheers
fermi

[Paul T]

Fermi,

Doesn't the second one just look like a bowdenii, or is it smaller than it looks in the pic.  N. humilis is quite a diminutive little thing, with a lovely dark stripe down the petal..... well at least what I grow as that is definitely that description.  More than enough of it to share with you if you'd be liking some next dormancy?

[Hristo]

Alessandro, Fermi those are some very nice looking flowers, I love the N.undulata Fermi, very wrinkly in an elegant manner!

[David Nicholson]

Here's my Ornithogalum dubium. Chris asked if this was still Ornithogalum but no-one answered. Is it?

[Ragged Robin]

Wow    the colour is exuberant David

[Diane Clement]

Here's my Ornithogalum dubium. Chris asked if this was still Ornithogalum but no-one answered. Is it? 

According to Kew monocot database, it is. 

http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?accepted_id=283153&repSynonym_id=-9998&name_id=283153&status=true

but do notice that they put it in Asparagaceae     

[Lesley Cox]

Most of my Nerines are finished now except for flexuosa alba which is always last. Here it is today. Brrrrr.

[ranunculus]

What a lovely clear white form, Lesley!