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mark smyth

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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #510 on: October 20, 2009, 08:43:32 PM »
a white sarniensis? The white veining is new to me
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #511 on: October 20, 2009, 10:07:10 PM »
Mark,

What are you referring to with the white sarniensis?  Am I missing a photo somewhere?

Davey,

I'll check for cultivar name.  I don't "think" so, but will check the pot.

Uli,

Yep, the T. comminsii grows outside without a problem.  It's in an 8 inch black plastic pot, so it gets nothing at all special in the way of treatment.  Where it is it would get very hot in summer.  it flowers for months and months!! 8)
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #512 on: October 20, 2009, 10:10:46 PM »
Paul, Michael bought a white nerine that ended up pink. I asked if it was a sarniensis he bought
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #513 on: October 20, 2009, 10:17:50 PM »
Thanks Mark.  I missed that comment.  I thought my computer may have been playing up and hadn't loaded a pic.  ::)  Instead it was my eyes playing up.  :o
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #514 on: October 21, 2009, 11:00:11 AM »
Another view of my current favorite - Watsonia laccata in a natural setting:
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #515 on: October 21, 2009, 11:14:02 AM »
Hi Rogan, how tall is Watsonia laccata? thanks bye Ray
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #516 on: October 22, 2009, 09:14:46 AM »
"...how tall is Watsonia laccata?"

Short, no more than knee height.
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #517 on: October 22, 2009, 09:51:46 AM »
Quote from: Rogan on October 21, 2009, 11:00:11 AM
Another view of my current favorite - Watsonia laccata in a natural setting:

Such an amazing two tone colour - lovely to see in situ, Rogan  :)
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #518 on: October 24, 2009, 03:59:12 PM »
A few weeks ago I recommended Polyxena pygmaea to David N. Here is a picture of it.
 Following this is P. ensifolia. Compare the leaves with Rogan's lovely picture of it growing wild a couple of pages ago in this thread. Under my lower light intensity this one tends to look a bit drawn up and the leaves don't really lie flat.
 Then there are two pictures of seed raised Lachenalia pusilla. They are not quite in flower yet - they will have a few tiny white highly scented flowers in November, tucked down in the rosette like a little Massonia. They are worth growing for the foliage alone. The first pic is from a collection in the Cedarberg and the second from  Piketberg. I know which I prefer. The Cedarberg ones are a bit more floriferous though.

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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #519 on: October 24, 2009, 04:34:02 PM »
Here is a pic of one year seedlings.... with flowers !!
Lachenalia pusilla and Polyxena ensifolia  :o
Better than Colchicum or Lilium to get flowers  ;D
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #520 on: October 24, 2009, 06:31:37 PM »
Lovely stuff Darren and Fred. I hope to be able to join in later, I have Polyxena paucifolia (one bulb) in leaf but no flowers yet, and corymbosa, oderata, and more longituba from seed with reasonable germination. I also have one bulb each of Lachenalia barkeriana, lactosa, pallida, pustulata, reflexa and unifolia coming along slowly, but nicely. Hope the frost stays away.
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #521 on: October 24, 2009, 10:27:46 PM »
Beautiful, Darren.  I love the ensifolias, but the spotted foliage on the Lach. pusilla is amazing.  And so many leaves for a Lachenalia!!  ;D ;D  All eminently dersirable, that is for sure.  8)
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #522 on: October 25, 2009, 08:01:31 PM »
Hi Darren

Never heard of this plant ( polyxena Pygmaea ) but love it  8), thanks for showing it. Its a must have plant.

Angie :)
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #523 on: October 25, 2009, 10:39:48 PM »
Darren, have you looked at the Octover 2009 in the southern Hemisphere page? Bill Dijk has a pic of Polyxena ensifolia which is quite a deep pink. Does this species vary so much?
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #524 on: October 25, 2009, 10:42:08 PM »
No, scrub that. Bill's pic was of P. paucifolia not ensifolia. But have a look there all the same as he's shown some stunning South Africans recently.
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