South American Bulbous Plants 2010

[angie]

Hi Peter  I do like the first alstromeria 

Angie 

[David Nicholson]

Here's a couple of pics from the garden today from my clump of Tigridia pavonia. The bulbs were purchased about four years ago from one of the "Sheds" so were probably Dutch raised. They have flowered every year since although they don't seem to have increased. I never raise them and dry them off, all they get, if I remember, is a composted bark mulch just after they have gone dormont but I forgot last year and they survived probably our worst winter in many years. This year I planted a second clump from a similar source and although the bulbs were quite small I've had a couple of flowers.

In the greenhouse I have one plant of Tigridia van-houttii which is all I have left from a sowing of 13 seeds from the SRGC Seed Ex. in March 2008. It looked big enough to flower this year but didn't-maybe next year!

[Maggi Young]

The blooms are a really good size, aren't they?  
 When I've bought packet Tigridias they've never b flowered to that size.... well, most have never flowered at all.... I don't think this place agrees with them
I think Roma grows a few of these bulbs,  under glass in her colder garden..... drat her!! 

[PeterT]

The blooms are a really good size, aren't they? 
 When I've bought packet Tigridias they've never b flowered to that size.... well, most have never flowered at all.... I don't think this place agrees with them
I think Roma grows a few of these bulbs,  under glass in her colder garden..... drat her!! 

mmy feelings too Maggie-very succinctly put

[David Nicholson]

The blooms are a really good size, aren't they?  
 When I've bought packet Tigridias they've never b flowered to that size.... well, most have never flowered at all.... I don't think this place agrees with them
I think Roma grows a few of these bulbs,  under glass in her colder garden..... drat her!! 

Forgot to mention that they always get a sprinkle of the magic white powder as the leaves start to brown. Apart from that it's just luck!!

[Gail]

Could someone remind me what this South American irid is?  I know I should know it but the label has gone walk about and so have my brain cells...
Pleated, virtually evergreen leaves.

[arisaema]

Cypella coelestris?

[Michael J Campbell]

David, here are a couple from your seed sown on the 12/01/2009.

[Maggi Young]

Could someone remind me what this South American irid is?  I know I should know it but the label has gone walk about and so have my brain cells...
Pleated, virtually evergreen leaves.

Cypella plumbea ?

[David Nicholson]

David, here are a couple from your seed sown on the 12/01/2009.

That was quick Michael. It just shows the hand of the "master"-I lost all mine

[Maggi Young]

Cypella coelestris?

 Hmmm..... I think my suggestion of Cypella plumbea may just be a synonym, or a colour variant of what may be Cypella coelestis
.... no "r" ..... though references  can be found to both spellings!


This note from Mary Sue Itttner is handy, I think...
http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/pbs/2002-August/012180.html

[Diane Clement]

Hmmm..... I think my suggestion of Cypella plumbea may just be a synonym, or a colour variant of what may be Cypella coelestis
.... no "r" ..... though references  can be found to both spellings!

This note from Mary Sue Itttner is handy, I think...
http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/pbs/2002-August/012180.html 

This information is useful, though a tad out of date   

Cypella plumbea and C coelestis were subsumed into Phalocallis coelestis about 4 years ago.   
http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?accepted_id=324327&repSynonym_id=327865&name_id=324245&status=false

Phalocallis is a single species genus, other species in Cypella have stayed put. 

[Maggi Young]

Diane, I really don't know how you keep up with all this info.... but I am SO GLAD you do, for it keeps the  rest of us clued in and we're very grateful for that.

[Diane Clement]

Diane, I really don't know how you keep up with all this info....

Glad someone appreciates it  
It's this time of the year that I check all my plant name database, ready for Seed Reception in a few weeks.  It's a tedious job, but with some interesting corners.  It also gets increasingly more difficult to decide which way to go, as the resources I use don't keep up with each other.  

In between doing this, I'm trying to pot up bulbs .... (iris done, cyclamen done, galanthus done) ...  I'll get back to that now. 

[Gail]

Many thanks all - new label written as Phalocallis coelestis, though the chickens will probably pull it out anyway.....