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Paul T

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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #720 on: November 21, 2009, 09:48:04 PM »
Actually, I just reactivated that link and it now leads to a Freesia laxa page.  It didn't go there when I first activated it..... it pointed to the main page with all the other pages off it.  Now I am even more impressed with Michael's Fressia laxa, seeing them all together like that.  Wow just isn't a strong enough word.  So many colour combination I've never seen before.  Such great pinks.
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #721 on: November 22, 2009, 10:52:38 AM »
Quote from: Lesley Cox on November 21, 2009, 09:14:29 PM
Quote from: Maggi Young on November 19, 2009, 07:43:20 PM
"Termonfeckin" refers to the annual discussion weekend of the Irish AGS,

Reminds me of "Father Ted" and the elderly, booze-loving foul-mouthed ex priest whose name I can't remember but don't wish to.

Father Jack. One of my heroes ;D
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #722 on: November 22, 2009, 06:56:29 PM »
Kept outside untill now after first watering in September, thanks to the warmer
weather still flowering rather late:

Oxalis hirta   
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #723 on: November 22, 2009, 07:03:00 PM »
Very nice indeed Luit. I'm about to do some digging around the Forum pages to see if there is anything to help me get my 'Ken Aslett' to flower. Not one in two years :(
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #724 on: November 22, 2009, 07:47:44 PM »
Luit, lovely Oxalis and nice to see the sunshine make it glow.

David when you have done your digging please share your findings my Ken Aslett grows great but no flowers in two years.
Angie :)
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #725 on: November 22, 2009, 09:38:10 PM »
Join the (srg)Club Angie. Two years ain't nothing. I've had it at least 25 and never a single flower!!!!!
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #726 on: November 22, 2009, 09:38:47 PM »
Likewise for O. palmifrons!!!!!
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Lesley Cox - near Dunedin, lower east coast, South Island of New Zealand - Zone 9

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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #727 on: November 22, 2009, 10:27:28 PM »
Oh Lesley, What are we doing wrong, if you cant flower it over there with your climate what chance have I.
I wonder if Roma has this plant.
Angie :)
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #728 on: November 22, 2009, 10:39:23 PM »
I've had 'Ken Aslet'  for about 3 years never repotted - even trying to escape through the holes in the bottom of the pot, dry all summer and...... no flowers.
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #729 on: November 22, 2009, 10:48:57 PM »
Roma, I don't feel so bad knowing that an expert like you is having a wee problem getting it to flower, but if Lesley has had it for twenty five years without a flower then there is no hope for me.

WHO CAN.
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #730 on: November 23, 2009, 08:18:34 AM »
The Wallises repot 'Ken aslet' every year but only keep the biggest 'corms'. Seems to work for them. I think it gets overcrowded otherwise and starves, depite all the 'no repotting' advice. Mine has been planted out in the garden now - it is quite hardy here. Doesn't flower though!.  Palmifrons has never flowered for me either but I grow it as a foliage plant anyway.
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #731 on: November 23, 2009, 09:50:12 AM »
I'm glad it isn't just me! ;D
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #732 on: November 23, 2009, 11:07:08 AM »
I probably get a half dozen flowers each year, in the pot they've been in for years without any care or attention.  Never more than a few flowers though.  And I too can't flower palmifrons.  ::)
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #733 on: November 23, 2009, 12:00:27 PM »
A couple of years ago I saw a lovely pot full of 'Ken Aslett' in the alpine house at Wisley in very early autumn in full blossom. I've dropped a PM to Paul Cumbleton in case he is able to offer us some advice.
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David Nicholson
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Re: South African bulbose plants 2009
« Reply #734 on: November 23, 2009, 06:03:54 PM »
Hi David et al.,
The only thing that I can think of which may explain our flowering of 'Ken Aslet' (and Oxalis palmifrons which has flowered for us the past two years) is that the glasshouse they are in gets VERY hot in the summer, so it may be they need heat. Perhaps try putting them in a sealed coldframe to build up the heat in summer?

A few more South African things appear in my latest log   http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/index.php?log=wisley

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Paul
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