Bulbs from South Africa - 2010

[Michael J Campbell]

Veltheimia bracteata

[Diane Whitehead]

What interesting red-striped leaves your Ledebouria has.

[Michael J Campbell]

Freesia Laxa.
Raised from the seed of Freesia laxa plum hyb.
Could it be a virus or just reverting back to type?

[Michael J Campbell]

Moraea lurida.
2-5 Ixia ?

[David Nicholson]

Lovely stuff Michael, that Moraea is a stunner. Here are a couple of my Ixia hybrids bought from B&Q about three years ago they stay in the garden and seem to take the frost without any problem.

[Onion]

Michael,

the Morea wonderful!    Do you grow the Ixia (?) in a greenhouse?

[Michael J Campbell]

No,they are in a 30cm high south facing raised bed, 50-50 soil and grit.

[Onion]

Is it a alkaline or a acid soil?

The south facing raised bed will be build this year.

[Michael J Campbell]

It would just be  on the alkaline side of neutral, it is the old used potting compost left after potting on Crocus and Narcissus and other bulbs. They get no feeding of any kind so the soil is very poor in nutrients.

[Michael J Campbell]

Tritonia crocata 'Tangerine'

[mark smyth]

  Tritonia!! All I ever get is one or two flowering stems and lots of leaves

[bulborum]

To small bulbs Mark
give them something to eat
or you keep them to cold during the dormant period
or to short rest period
or to late planted
pity because they are beautiful

Roland

[PeterT]

Has anyone got experiance of how hardy Crinum bulbispernum is, can it live in an unheated green house in the UK? I have run out of space for amyrylliads in the house and need to move some out to make room for the more seed pots of new ones

[bulborum]

Hello Peter

This one of the most hardy ones together with
Crinum X powellii
they are both hardy in the garden
plant them 25 - 30 cm deep

Roland

[Paul Cumbleton]

Almost all my South African winter growers are now dormant, except for Ornithogalum dubium. But Gethyllis roggeveldensis has pushed up a flower today

Paul