Bulbs from South Africa - 2010

[bulborum]

I love the Green pustulata
and the red leaved pustulata
marvelous leaves
If you have a few seeds spare next year
you can make me happy
I have normaly in 2 years (maybe one year)seeds from the
Massonia depressa Special dwarf form red flowers
see http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=5630.msg174000#msg174000

Roland

[Michael J Campbell]

Brian, here is a pic taken today.

Daubenya marginata

[Michael J Campbell]

No problem Roland, I have been tickling them with a brush but the temperature has been very low for the past couple of weeks. Hope they set seed. I will put your name on my list. Can you PM me your full address please.

[Brian Ellis]

Brian, here is a pic taken today.

Daubenya marginata

Great Michael, thanks for showing us that burst of sunshine in the middle of winter.

[angie]

Wow Michael I am so  what a wonderful collection. I hope I manage to get a great collection like you someday. Glad I joined this forum you see so much amazing pictures.

Angle 

[Paul T]

Wow, Michael.  Spectacular.    The Daubenya is brilliant, but your mass picture of Massonia is amazing.  Thanks so much for showing us.

[jshields]

I'm still mystified by Massonia depressa-M. echinata.  I have plants from seed that might be either or both.  In one case, the seed came labeled Androcymbium pulchrum, so I think the seeds at least originated in the natural range of A. pulchrum (= a. latifolium).

[bulborum]

Hello Jim

Do you have pictures from that collection

Roland

[fermi de Sousa]

Here is what I have as Cyanella hyacinthoides from AGS Seedex a few years ago.




It has been grown in a shadehouse and has gotten a bit lanky because of that,
cheers
fermi

[cohan]

Memo to anyone building a new house:
Might be a good idea to consider  llllooooonnnnngggg thin building, with long corridors full of glass to accomodate many pot plants!  

believe me, i have thought of that 

[cohan]

a couple of items in my barely existent bulb collection 
my only Eriospermum, E dregei, from eden plants in 08 (or was it 07?) received as a small tuber, which i raised; i think the  tuber activity has resumed below the soil, the tuber surface looks hard and woody now, or just dry; this was confirmed by a recently seen picture on a japanese site where the tubers were sort of piled up below the surface like a badly braided bread!
my plant is still immature, as this species produces branched enations growing up from the leaf surface when mature..
for me, thus far, it produces one leaf each year, in late august or so, which persists until around july;this is a 4inch pot, so the leaf is around 1 inch..
i have had no luck finding viable seed of any eriospermum i pack from silverhill and 4 from penrock (2 of which were replacements) all failed to produce anything; i'm no seed expert, but would expect to see at least one or two out of that many seeds!

the other is Rhadamanthus sp, which i grew from penrock seed in the winter of 08/09;
 described by penrock only as:
'A minute species with two prostrate leaves covered in fine silky hairs rendering the leaves cryptic when covered in dust or grit particles. Found in the Matjiesfontein and Fraserburg area, Western Cape'
this is still also immature, presumably, since leaves are single--tiny indeed-the largest of the 4 plants in a 3 inch pot has a leaf about 1/2 inch, the others are smaller...

[bulborum]

Cohen

It looks that you have a long way to go
maybe in 10 or more years
you can post some nice flowers from these plants

Roland

[cohan]

i'll keep you posted

[PeterT]

Thank you for showing them Cohan, it is good to see the obscure and how others are trying with them. If no
one had the patience to try they would never be grown and almost never seen

[cohan]

tks peter--i come to SA bulbs from a cactus and succulent background, so to me its about cool/weird plants, not pretty flowers (not that i would mind flowers  so i want plants that look interesting in foliage-fortunately, it seems...lol