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Darren

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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #675 on: November 13, 2009, 09:45:19 PM »
I love those Ixia, Fermi - just stunning.
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #676 on: November 13, 2009, 10:49:18 PM »
Darren, more wonderfull plants !
The pustulata is gorgeous !!!!
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #677 on: November 13, 2009, 11:14:05 PM »
Darren I am soooooooooooooo jealous. I was tempted to buy some from Paul Christian  :o but I controlled myself
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #678 on: November 14, 2009, 08:22:21 AM »
Mark,are you going to Termonfeckin? if not I can give a couple to Margaret Glynn for you, if she is going.
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #679 on: November 14, 2009, 08:50:21 AM »
Thanks Michael. I'll be there on Saturday only.
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #680 on: November 14, 2009, 09:00:15 AM »
Darren, amazed at your plants 8), it just makes me more determined to try and grow them. I am so jealous.
Angie :)
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #681 on: November 14, 2009, 07:50:25 PM »
Quote from: Darren on November 13, 2009, 09:09:32 PM
David, Cameron McMaster recommends giving them a short growing season immediately they arrive in January, then giving them a 'normal' dormancy in summer to turn their seasonality around. I can see this working with the true bulbs (which don't replace the whole bulb each year) but I'm not so sure about corms - surely a short season won't give them time to replace the whole corm and you might be left with a smaller replacement?? I'd be interested to hear the answer too!

Thanks for that Darren. Loved your Massonias and Lachenalias by the way. 8)
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #682 on: November 15, 2009, 11:06:50 PM »
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I mentioned the one-off multiple offsetting of one of my 'pink' Massonia jasminiflora a few weeks ago. The offsets were potted up together and here they are. All 6 are flowering but two have taken dominance and I will have to be really careful about botrytis on the hidden flowers later.  The next picture is their mum. Brian Halliwell's book on propagation of Alpines & Bulbs suggests twin-scaling would work with Massonia. Sounds a worthwhile experiment.


Darren - your Massonia jasminiflora looks rather different to mine, (from P. Christian). Nice flower but I am not struck by it's scent, which is hard to describe.
I agree M. pustulata is fabulous & nicely scented.
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #683 on: November 16, 2009, 08:11:21 AM »
Hi Pete,

I do grow that form of jasminiflora too, and I rather dislike the scent as well, which I have graphically described elsewhere.. Especially the pong it leaves on your fingers when removing dead flowers. Thankfully pustulata has it all - lovely flowers, foliage and scent!
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #684 on: November 16, 2009, 08:02:16 PM »
Hi Pete,
Nice massonia 8) like I have said before amazing plants , thanks for showing your plants. I have seen bulbs on eBay that they say are flowering size but they look tiny are the bulbs small.
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #685 on: November 16, 2009, 08:27:54 PM »
Hi Angie,

I find that my pustulata seedlings start to flower when the bulbs reach 10 - 15 mm diam. I am not sure if other species will flower on smaller bulbs.
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #686 on: November 16, 2009, 08:48:32 PM »
Hi Pete

That is a small bulb :o , had to get a tape measure out I am still working in inches, showing my age.
Angie :)
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #687 on: November 19, 2009, 09:59:43 AM »
Darren, Pete, super Massonias, I am jealous as anything!
Many thanks to Michael for the seed, and, now, 8 months later the first flowers
from F.laxa 'Plum Hybrids'!
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #688 on: November 19, 2009, 05:40:43 PM »
Hristo - that is lovely! I don't really like the normal red form. I quite like the white form with red markings (Joan Evans is it?) but the flower you show is the nicest form I've seen of this species. I had not even heard of this series of hybrids so thank you for posting this.

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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #689 on: November 19, 2009, 05:59:18 PM »
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