Bulbs from South Africa - 2010

[Hristo]

Flowering now on the windowsill in the 'smallest room';
Polyxena ensifolia

[fermi de Sousa]

Flowering now on the windowsill in the 'smallest room';
Polyxena ensifolia

Chris,
You must be flushed with pride
If you'd like some seed of H. bachmannii, let me know otherwise I'll be dead-heading it!
cheers
fermi

[Hristo]

ROFL

[David Nicholson]

Must tap in to your expertise Chris

[Paul T]

Flowering now on the windowsill in the 'smallest room';
Polyxena ensifolia

Chris,
You must be flushed with pride
If you'd like some seed of H. bachmannii, let me know otherwise I'll be dead-heading it!
cheers
fermi

Fermi,

If not with pride, then he'd be flushed with success at the very least.    Definitely very successful Polyxena by the look of it.

[Hristo]

Cheers Paul and David for your humour! I'd make another little room joke, but I don't want to faucet!! Ooops!
Another windowsill, far far away, first time growing this species for me, another wee cutie.
Strumaria discifera ssp. bulbifera

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The ixias are starting!


The names are a bit muddled and hybridizing has occurred but these were ones I grew from seed as Ixia maculata amongst others!






A nice mix of ixias, sparaxis and babiana given to us by friends who found them a bit too exuberant!


A close-up of the babiana (?B. stricta?)


A clump of yellow sparaxis and aninterloper!


A couple of Lachenalia bachmannii showing the damage done to the foliage of one by the cockatoo vandals!


cheers
fermi

[BULBISSIME]

Polyxena ensifolia is also flowering here, from 2 years old seedlings.

[Maggi Young]

The Indigenous Bulb Association of South Africa (Inheemse Bolplant Vereniging van Suid-Afrika) is an interest group that  specializes in South African Bulbs.  The members of the club are growers of bulbs with a special interest  in  South African natural species. 

This is their website:   http://www.safricanbulbs.org.za/

This announcement has been placed on the PBS pages by Rachel Saunders... a person well known to those interested in SA bulbs!!

"The Indigenous Bulb Society of South Africa (IBSA) is holding a Bulb
Symposium in August and September 2011.  The Symposium will take place from
the 28th August to the 2nd September at Goudini Spa (a hot water spring)
near Worcester (about 100km from Cape Town).  During the first 2 days of the
Symposium there will be lectures on a wide range of subjects including the
taxonomy of Freesias by John Manning, Bulbs of the Little Karoo by Dee
Snijman, botanical art by Vicki Thomas, Amaryllids by Alan Horstmann,
Iridaceae by Rod Saunders, and many more. There will also be a display table
showing pots of bulbous and cormous plants grown by IBSA members.  There
will be a discussion of these plants during the Symposium.  The next 3 days
will be dedicated to field trips to the surrounding areas to see some of the
plants discussed, in their natural habitats.  Attendance at the Symposium is
not restricted to IBSA members.

If you are interested in more details, costs etc, please contact Errol Scarr
at ejscarr at iafrica.com   "

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I've just received the latest catalogue for Bulbs and Bulb Seed from Gordon Summerfield in the RSA.
I've converted it to a 106KB pdf so if you'd like a copy please send me a PM.
cheers
fermi

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The rather different and quite tall Babiana spathacea

cheers
fermi

[Ezeiza]

Fermi, what a super collection you have. And your plants always look neat and in character.

[Ray]

A couple of SA plants flowering now.bye Ray
Ixia viridiflora
Babiani tubulosa
Babiana tubiflora

[fermi de Sousa]

Ray,
that's a stunning Ixia! Sadly my seedlings are yet to reach flowering size.
In the garden Albuca maxima is just starting to flower,




cheers
fermi

[Ezeiza]

Sadly, Fermi, the current name for A. maxima is A. canadensis. Canadensis was for long used for a species with yellow flowers that is now known as A. flaccida.