Nerine 2011

[majallison]

Is there one of the members who knows an good nursery
to buy Botanical  and hybrid sarniensis Nerines
would be nice if we can visit the nursery too
best not to far from Dover (I mean not 200 or more km)

Roland

Exbury sell sarniensis hybrids, mainly over the internet; it's also a fabulous garden to visit at any time of year, with a lovely site sloping down to the Beaulieu river. I would think Exbury is less than 200km from Dover.
Springbank nursery on the Isle of Wight has a National Collection of sarniensis & also quite a number of species. But my top tip for obtaining material of all kinds of Nerines is to join the Nerine & Amaryllid Society ~ the NAAS have two bulb exchanges a year & you do not have to offer bulbs in order to receive them.

[majallison]

"My memory is totally unreliable, but I think 'Inchmery Kate' is a polyploid.  Someone some years back looked at the chromosomes or DNA of several of the cultivars of Nerine sarniensis (maybe Ben Zonneveld?).  Some were not simple diploids like the species sarniensis, bowdenii, etc.  'Kate' is bigger and more robust than the dozen other sarniensis hybrids I have here, and she sure looks polyploid to me.  Could she be a true sarniensis-bowdenii hybrid?  In actual fact, I really have no clue.  But I'd like to know."

It's controversial & different investigations have given different results, so it's uncertain whether 'Inchmery Kate' is diploid or tetraploid; its parentage is reported to be either a selfing of 'Alice', an Exbury hybrid with the parentage 'Aurora' x undulata Flexuosa Alba group, or a seedling from 'Alice' pollinated by 'Lady Foster' (a pink sarniensis hybrid bred by H.J. Elwes before 1922).

Further on parentage: 'Aurora' is a bowdenii x sarniensis, so 'Inchmery Kate' theoretically has some bowdenii genes, but you would never know that just by looking at the plant or growing it (behaves like a pure sarniensis type).

[bulborum]

Here an unnamed Nerine
For the first time in flower
I found this one in-between the Nerine bulbs I bought last year .
looks as a hybrid one with very wide leaves (2,5 cm)
in real the colour is a little darker as on the picture

Maggie maybe better to put a new name without October for Nerine
to start a new tread for November is a little ....
Nerine season is almost over
and there is an other Nerine thread in Amaryllidaceae

Roland

 

[Maggi Young]

Maggie maybe better to put a new name without October for Nerine
to start a new tread for November is a little ....
Nerine season is almost over
and there is an other Nerine thread in Amaryllidaceae

Roland

 

Thanks,  Roland, I had missed that there were two threads... I've joined all to one now.

[bulborum]

Thanks   

[majallison]

Here an unnamed Nerine
For the first time in flower
I found this one in-between the Nerine bulbs I bought last year .
looks as a hybrid one with very wide leaves (2,5 cm)
in real the colour is a little darker as on the picture


Roland

 

This looks like a 'Mansellii' type ~ sarniensis hybrids that owe their late flowering due to their other, undulata, parent

[bulborum]

Thanks Malcolm

looks very much like that one

Roland

[majallison]

Another attempt at posting a picture of late-flowering nerines in the greenhouse: these are 'Jenny Wren', 'Grania', 'Rose Camellia' & 'Bennett Poe', all rather similar to one another, but 'Jenny Wren', rather a lovely deep cerise.

[bulborum]

I am visiting today the Springbank Nursery, Isle of Wight
and hope there is something left
to make some nice pictures
maybe even a few plants for sale

Roland

Edit by maggi to add  postal contact details of this nursery:
Springbank Nursery, IOW. Ken Hall can be contacted by post at Springbank Nursery, Winford Road, Newchurch, Sandown, Isle of Wight PO36 0JX

[Maggi Young]

I am visiting today the Springbank Nursery, Isle of Wight
and hope there is something left
to make some nice pictures
maybe even a few plants for sale

Roland

Happy hunting, Roland!

[Maggi Young]

Another attempt at posting a picture of late-flowering nerines in the greenhouse: these are 'Jenny Wren', 'Grania', 'Rose Camellia' & 'Bennett Poe', all rather similar to one another, but 'Jenny Wren', rather a lovely deep cerise.

These darker shades are very appealing 

[monocotman]

Roland - I can recommend the Exbury nerines. I bought a batch of 10 mixed seedlings in August three years ago.
When they arrived Nick had generously sent more -15 and all were beautifully packaged in individual bags with a note of flower colour.
They're now fully established, growing well and all flowered nicely this autumn.
If I had more room I'd now try some of the more expensive clones.
I can cheat a bit as I take them to work in December.
We have heated, quite cool glasshouse space ( around 15 degrees daytime) with plenty of supplementary lighting and they really love these conditions.
Most plants will need potting on this year.
If you want to extend the flowering period try giving some of the bulbs water earlier than the rest in late summer.
This happened to mine accidentally this year and I had flowers from early September to late October,

Regards,

David

[bulborum]

It was a good hunting
Very (80 years young) nice guy
and interested in a lot of plants (Cyclamen , Galanthus and so)
Many Nerines where out of flower
many half out of flower
but I took some fantastic pictures
And bought over 150 Nerines for selling later
I will post the pictures later
because stupid as I was
I took the wrong connection cable for the camera with me

Roland

[bulborum]

Roland - I can recommend the Exbury nerines.

David

We will try to visit them Friday
if there is enough time left over
not sure because we have to catch the Channel-tunnel train Dover - Calais

Roland

[majallison]

Here's the perfect Xmas gift for the nerine-lover(s) in your life:

http://www.nerineandamaryllidsociety.co.uk/52589.html

It's a book on cultivating nerines, written largely by UK-based members of the Nerine & Amaryllid Society (I should own up here)