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Gunilla

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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #315 on: August 14, 2009, 05:36:02 PM »
Thanks Paul, I think I'll have to try 'Sparkling Burgundy' as well.
My 'Oakhurst' will not flower this year so I'll just have to wait and see  :-\  The foliage has been a nice dark purple all summer but is now beginning to turn more green.  
Another Eucomis has started to flower here but I am not sure what it is.  I probably buried the label with the bulb  ::)

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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #316 on: August 14, 2009, 08:46:23 PM »
Gunilla,

your Eucomis look like E. autumnalis. Get the species from a friend this year and it flowered.
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #317 on: August 16, 2009, 07:58:02 AM »
Howdy All,

A couple of South Africans that are flowering at the moment.....

The Lapierousia oreogena is the same one that I showed the first flowers on nearly a month ago.  This was taken about a week ago and there are even more of them now.  Pollinated when I can find pollen on them!!  ;D

Moraea macronyx is courtesy of Fermi.  An absolute stunner of a flower, positively glowing in white and gold.  Thanks Fermi!!  8)

Please click on the pic for a larger version.  If pics are too large, please let me know.
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #318 on: August 16, 2009, 09:19:58 AM »
Paul, The Moraea is STUNNING !!! pure jewel  :o
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #319 on: August 16, 2009, 09:49:49 AM »
It's even better in person.  There is something about the purity of the two colours that makes it so much stronger.  Small, but perfectly formed.  ;D
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #320 on: August 16, 2009, 11:03:25 AM »
A cracker it is Paul !!!
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #321 on: August 16, 2009, 11:10:18 AM »
Fabulous and the connection makes it even better  ;)
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #322 on: August 16, 2009, 01:09:47 PM »
A couple more....

Spiloxene linearis is just starting up for the season.  Glowing orange!!
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #323 on: August 16, 2009, 03:09:10 PM »
Another fantastic colour paul, and species that we're not used to grow in France  :o :P
Do you grow all your bulbs in pots ?
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #324 on: August 16, 2009, 06:13:23 PM »
Quote from: Paul T on August 16, 2009, 01:09:47 PM
Spiloxene linearis is just starting up for the season.  Glowing orange!!

Delightful species - what a colour!

Paul, How long does a single flower lasts?

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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #325 on: August 16, 2009, 11:11:38 PM »
Fred,

Not all my bulbs, but the majority.  Much easier to keep them all identified and separate (and in conditions to their liking) in pots for me.  It's a lot of hand watering, but most do much better in my pots than with competition in the ground.

Gerd,

I think each flower on the Spiloxene lasts maybe a week or so, but you get them over a fairly long period of time (I have never noted exactly how long) and get lots of seedset.  They're a strange corm in that they produce this strange nest of outer tunics that I assume are for insulation purposes or something like that.  Unlike normal tunics they're almost like a tiny birds nest, or one of those constructions that some caterpillars make by picking up bits of stick and debris and sticking it to their bodies?  I think I photographed it at some point, if you want me to go looking for the pic.  I've never come across a construction like it with any other plant I have grown.  The flower colour is so bright, and the flowers open in the sun.  They can be kept totally dry inside in summer, as I found out accidentally last summer when I forgot a few in a pot in the garage.  Even months in a warm and dry situation don't bother them at all.
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #326 on: August 17, 2009, 12:44:22 AM »
Hi Paul,
Glad to see the Moraea macronyx has flowered for you - none here yet! But the other one we decided is M. ciliata has flowered.
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Still flowering are the usually easy red lachenalia, L. bulbifera (syn L. pendula) but which I have to grow in the shade-house due to frost!
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This Bulbinella came to me as seed of B. caudafelis, but I'm having my doubts! Any suggestions?? perhaps B. barkerae?
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #327 on: August 17, 2009, 04:17:06 AM »
Fermi,

Is that the Bulbinella you've posted recently?  I just LOVE it. 8)  No sign of anything on my nutans as yet.
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #328 on: August 17, 2009, 06:16:18 AM »
Paul,
Thank you for this detailed description of an extraordinary species.

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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #329 on: August 17, 2009, 07:52:31 PM »
Quote from: Onion on August 14, 2009, 08:46:23 PM
Gunilla,

your Eucomis look like E. autumnalis. Get the species from a friend this year and it flowered.

Thanks Uli for help with ID, I did plant E. autumnalis, E. pole-evansi and E. montana this spring but only this one flowers.
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