Bulbs from South Africa - 2010

[Lesley Cox]

Is that red gladiolus right out Michael? An odd shape, if so but a super colour.

[Michael J Campbell]

Lesley,that is as good as it gets.

[Ray]

Some SA bulbs flowering for me now,
Polyxena corymbosa
     ''      ensifolia
Lachenalia rubida
Oxalis gracilis
bye Ray

[angie]

Ray ... love the Polyxena ensifolia thanks for showing your lovely plants.
Angie

[Lesley Cox]

I still like the gladiolus Michael. Odd isn't necessarily bad. Often very good, in fact. Just different.

[Michael J Campbell]

Watsonia laccata
Romulea ? I won't even attempt to put a name on these two.
Romulea ?
Moraea atistata

[cohan]

Lachenalia rubida
bye Ray

i really like this one! good leaves and flowers, and seems not too tall

[David Nicholson]

Watsonia laccata
Romulea ? I won't even attempt to put a name on these two.
Romulea ?
Moraea atistata

Michael, just a guess but the first Romulea may be rosea and the second possibly leipoldtii

[dominique]

Michael
Moraea aristata is a stunning. Difficult to find seeds. Perhaps have you some seeds or bulbs to spare ? All the best
Dom

[Michael J Campbell]

No problem Dominique, I have sent you a PM.

[Rogan]

Dear Lesley,

Gladiolus cunonius used to be Anomalesia cunonia (...and Antholyza cunonia?), so no wonder it looks strange - it is totally confused!    

It is a very pretty species and grows adjacent to the beach on the southern Cape coast - here it is growing in nature:

[Alessandro.marinello]

now in flower Tulbaghia  galpinii

[fermi de Sousa]

Just one from our garden and a few more from some friends' gardens taken on the weekend!
Nerine filifolia in our garden,


Similar in flower, but not in foliage, Nerine angustifolia at Cathy Newing's Garden in Macedon,




Still at Cathy's,
Nerine flexuosa "Alba", now considered N. undulata or something...


Nerine bowdenii "Meninya Forrest" (but known as something else in the UK)


A pink nybrid,


From Cathy's we walked down to visit the Garden of Stephen Ryan, who runs Dicksonia Nursery on Mt Macedon and is now the host of ABC's "Gardening Australia". I was most impressed with his rock garden with its array of oxalis and other bulbs.
A most impressive patch of Oxalis glabra


Another Oxalis, possibly Oxalis tomentosa


And Stephen's Oxalis palmifrons had a few flowers open at once!


And what is possibly yet another form of Oxalis flava,


cheers
fermi

[Darren]

Stunned by your Moraea aristata Michael. It frustrates my efforts to flower it in a pot so I will try some in the bulb frame!

Here is what used to Gynandriris cedarmontana (now a Moraea). Biggest flowers of any of the 'Gynandriris' I grow at about 5cm across.

Then Lachenalia glaucina (I think), usually the last to flower for me.

[Michael J Campbell]

Rhodohypoxis white.
Moraea monophylla ?
Ledebouria cooperi
Ledebouria cooperi
Lachenalia ?