September 2011 in the Southern Hemisphere

[ashley]

Lovely plants all.  Anemone coronaria seeding about Anita?  The problems some gardeners have    And what a great aril Fermi

Yes isn't Gagea fibrosa a real beauty Dave.  Here it flowered last spring from exchange seed, and I also liked how the segments turn progressively greener as the flower goes over.  New season's growth is just emerging now, and popular with local gourmand slugs unfortunately.

[Ezeiza]

Anita, those Ixia hybrids you people preserve in cultivation in Oz are stunning.

[Lesley Cox]

Suffering from Rugbyitis at present so it's nice to have some things in the garden to come home to. These are Crocus minimus 'Bavella' still at its peak (but the last crocus for the year) and Sax. burseriana 'Gloria.'

[Lesley Cox]

OK, so reverse the order of those two. The "attach" bit didn't work properly.

Here are two more, the first I apologise for the weediness as it's still very soggy in that shady bit and I need some warm days to get rid of winter growth of weeds. It is x Chionoscilla allenii which I first saw at Otto's and fell for heavily, then was delighted to be able to import it from Marcus. (Both parents are on the Bio Index.) The colour here is NOTHING compared with the rich, intense blue of the real thing. The second rather quiet plant is Azara microphylla (I think), the vanilla tree which has an inccredible icecream scent for a couple of weeks in Sept then can be forgotten for the rest of the year. I always bring some twigs inside to have the scent nearby.

[fermi de Sousa]

Some pics from the Ferny Creek Horticultural Society's Spring Show on the weekend:
Helene and Karin performing Stewarding duties


Blue ribbon in [Rock garden] potted plants, Fritillaria meleagris, shown by Lois Lucas


More entires in RG hereunder,
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[fermi de Sousa]

I'll borrow from Lesley and claim the "attach" didn't work properly!
Some more pics now - and just to please Maggi, there were plenty of Rhodies!
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[fermi de Sousa]

More for Maggi

[fermi de Sousa]

Even more!
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[Lesley Cox]

Funny how one's own choice is often different from that of the judge.

[Brian Ellis]

Funny how one's own choice is often different from that of the judge.

Of course Lesley, but that's not to say that the judge had to choose the one they themselves didn't like as it was a better specimen!

[daveyp1970]

Funny how one's own choice is often different from that of the judge.

The Trillium did it for me!

[David Nicholson]

Interesting Show Fermi.

[Maggi Young]

Funny how one's own choice is often different from that of the judge.

Of course Lesley, but that's not to say that the judge had to choose the one they themselves didn't like as it was a better specimen!

Such as in Draba classes.........

[anita]

Just a few more pics from the garden in Adelaide. Another of the self sown anemones – this time in the lawn.. my other half somehow manages to mow around these wildlings. They also pop up in our gravel drive and even in our paving.
However, the highlight this weekend was the first flowering of H papilio.. I can’t boast that I grew it from seed. I was given a bulb last year by a generous friend in Sydney but it’s still stunning. As it’s evergreen it’s flowering months before the other hippies in the garden send up their heads. Interestingly the parent bulbs in Sydney are flowering in the same week although our climates are very different (Sydney is subtropical and Adelaide is mediterranean with cool winters) and the cities are thousands of kms apart.
And finally Fritillaria pontica which despite rather ordinary management on my part keeps coming up each year.

[arillady]

A few shots this afternoon and the other day.
grasses taking over
new growth on a foundling hybrid perpetual rose
tag has disappeared - possibles according to planting plan is Iris vicaria ex Sangardak ex ABW or Iris histrio aintabensis Vlastimil
Tulipa clusiana ex Marcus
first flowering from seed: Iris paradoxa ssp paradoxa x Iris kirkwoodii ssp kirkwoodii ex ASI seed exchange ex Hans Achilles
Iris hermona hybrid dark form ex David Shahak seed - my favourite
Iris innominata x self ( original seed from Monocot)
Auricula - certainly not the bulb seed that it was supposed to be.
Helleborus lividus
variegated hellebore ex Rosemary Brown