Bulbs from South Africa - 2010

[bulborum]

David

sometimes I think Botanist or Taxonomist
just want there name behind a plant
see discussion Maianthemum and smilacina
they don't even see the difference between 4 and 6 petalen
First a study from 15 years and an other study from over 10 years
to bring it back to how it was before

I just wonder who is paying those ......... (this word is not in the Oxfort)

The good part is that they can't change the beautiful plants
They can't take that away from us

Roland

[Diane Clement]

Whilst preparing some stuff to add to our local AGS Group Web Site http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/groups/South-Devon
I just had a check on the Kew Check List for Polyxena longituba and find that the accepted name is now Lachenalia longituba (M van der Mawe) Manning and Goldblatt, Edinburgh J. Bot. 60:565 (2003 pub 2004) and it's in the family Asparagaceae.
Now I'm not a Taxonomist, nor a Botanist but to me Polyxenas, by and large, don't even look like Lachenalias

All Polyxena has now gone into Lachenalia.  I'm afraid that to a botanist or taxonomist, (external) looks count for little   it's all in the genes.  
What's more, they certainly don't look like Asparagus  

[Darren]

I won't be changing my labels anytime soon....

For example; I still use Galaxia , despite it being sunk into Moraea. As Diane says - taxonomists care little for how something looks but in this case Galaxia are so distinct a group that I find it useful to retain the name.

[bulborum]

I learned my lessons

I don't change the first 15 years labels

Roland

[David Nicholson]

I won't be changing my labels anytime soon....

Nor me!

I'm told my legs closely resemble Asparagus when i'm in jeans.

[PeterT]

Nor I !

[Maggi Young]

I'm told my legs closely resemble Asparagus when i'm in jeans.

 Slim and tasty, huh?   Whooppeee!

[Michael J Campbell]

You obviously don't get the hassle that I get about pots on window sills

David, I have my own room, 

[David Nicholson]

I'm told my legs closely resemble Asparagus when i'm in jeans.

 Slim and tasty, huh?   Whooppeee!

Well, now you come to mention it

[David Nicholson]

You obviously don't get the hassle that I get about pots on window sills

David, I have my own room, 

Never thought of that Michael. Good idea

[PeterT]

You obviously don't get the hassle that I get about pots on window sills

David, I have my own room, 

Never thought of that Michael. Good idea

I think the better option is" love me - love my pots "

[mark smyth]

Until now I have forgotten about my Empodiums in the greenhouse

[bulborum]

You mean this pot with Empodium plicatum
I fount it
you forgot it in the RHS showgarden

Roland

[PeterT]

I have an Empodium labled namaquensis which  got frozen. It has lost leaf but the stems are still firm and green. I think it is ok. I understand there are several species but that the names in cultivation have got mixed up. Raanveig Wallis told me theirs came as namaquensis and proved hardy last winter, but that the name was wrong. I have heard that other people lost their (other species) last winter.
Does any one know any more about the different species or their habitats and hardiness?

[cohan]

Lovely Daubenya Michael. You obviously don't get the hassle that I get about pots on window sills

i'm confused--why would you have windowsills if not for pots--or windows at all, for that matter...