September 2011 in the Southern Hemisphere

[fermi de Sousa]

Iris taochia with Marcus Harvey's Narcissus "Hillview Triquil"


Linum campanulatum grown from seed from F. Hadacek via Hubi!


Tulipa kolpakovskiana


Velleia trinervis, an Australian native plant,


cheers
fermi

[Lesley Cox]

One for Cliff, the stunning Ranunculus insignis.
Cheers.
Doug.

That's a Cliff hanger all right.

[arillady]

Iris trojana just starting to flower.

An auricula. Certainly not the bulb that I ordered as seed from the seed exchange. It is a genus that I would never have tried as I had dismissed them as not suited for our conditions and probably too hard to grow from seed, but in the nursery this Auricula (?) has grown and flowered. WOW
Which species is it please?
This is an older arilbred which might be Kalifa Baltis but does not fit all the description. Certainly not Dorcas as labelled.

[Rogan]

Spring is still in full force here with this attractive pair from South America:

Cypella hauthalii opalina and Calydorea xiphioides.

This is a rather dull picture of the magnificent South African Veltheimia bracteata. This is a seed-grown plant of a 'yellow' form; interestingly its siblings all turned out to be pink (visible in the background).

[arillady]

A few arilbreds and other iris flowering now
Rebekah of Aram
Noble Warrior
Mehetabel
PT0586 and PT0584 on right
Came as seed of Iris germanica f. florentina
03B017 Iris sp. coll. Varda Gorge Macedona
09MB447 Iris pumila ex Jensen #2 seedling - pods forming (this was a purple that I showed earlier)
The first of the Iris lactea clumps to start blooming.
Calochortus amabilis starting to bloom

[Anthony Darby]

Judging by the swathes of Allium triquetrum and other imports growing in the countryside around Auckland and beyond, I would suggest any weed that could become established in New Zealand is already here! The yellow flower is cape weed (Arctotheca calendula), a low-growing annual (perennial?) from South Africa.

[Ezeiza]

Anthony, no one volunteers to spray them? With a herbicide, that is.

[Lesley Cox]

It's not only foreign weeds EPA is bothered with but all kinds of animal pests, or pathogens or anything living in fact that isn't native. Also threats to habitats of native flora and fauna, also threats to established commercial or economic crops, etc.

[Anthony Darby]

I was thinking of the Narcissus and Aristolochia seeds that have been selected out of my recent imports and confiscated.

[Anthony Darby]

Anthony, no one volunteers to spray them? With a herbicide, that is.

The stretch of grass containing the yellow flower was sprayed. These seemed to fare better than the grass! I am against spraying hedgerows and ditches as they tend to kill off everything except the plant you are aiming for!

[Hoy]

An auricula. Certainly not the bulb that I ordered as seed from the seed exchange. It is a genus that I would never have tried as I had dismissed them as not suited for our conditions and probably too hard to grow from seed, but in the nursery this Auricula (?) has grown and flowered. WOW
Which species is it please?

Don't you think it is the auricula? (Primula auricula).



Magnar´s picture: http://magnar.aspaker.no/Primula%20auricula%20P5242544.jpg?a=

[arillady]

Trond if I was playing cards I would say SNAP
Yes it is the same if the centres have the little white circle too.
 

[kiwi]

Leptospermum scoparium (Manuka) 'Kea'
Magnolia 'Genie'
Trillim chloropetalum

[kiwi]

Pulsatilla vulgaris.

Salix species, can anyone id for me please?

Last year we were stunned by Dave and Steve's yellow Celmisia spedenii, this spring I have a nice form of Celmisia gracilenta with very yellow buds. It will be interesting to see how much they fade to white.

Narcissus hybrid.

Beginning of our garden move, Magnolia 'black tulip' not to bothered being bagged up.

[Maggi Young]

Doug, I am full of admiration for you.... you are good enough to share pix of your plants with us even as you are in the midst of this enormous move. I wonder you can keep an even keel in all this.
Best of luck for a truly happy outcome to all this.