South African Bulbs2012

[Michael J Campbell]

Angie you don't need a greenhouse,I grow most of my plants outside in open frames with overhead shelter.

The first  one with the shading is where the neighbours hedge used to be,reclaimed land.
When I run out of space I just go up.

Yes I know, I am not very good at the timber work.

[Lesley Cox]

If it holds together Michael, you're good at it. I liked the benches Kristl showed somewhere, fat concrete blocks with wooden pallets on top of them. I've got Roger interested in somthing of the sort, so far as seeing what pallets are available aroundf town (at no cost of course )

In a previous house I made a very successful bookcase of concrete blacks spray-painted with gold lacquer, and green MDF shelving. It went 4 high and never wobbled or collapsed so I was very happy with it. The wallpaper at the time was a Chinese green and gold one and the bookcase looked quite good actually.

[Brian Ellis]

...where would we be without clothes pegs?  It works Michael so its a success.

[Michael J Campbell]

 

[Ezeiza]

Consider using large containers as community pots, it will solve most of your cultivation problems.

[angie]

Michael thats brilliant. Now that has given me some ideas. I have plenty of building material lying about so I just need to tiding up what I call my dumping are and get some shelves made. Not very good with joinery but if I wait till hubby does it I will wait forever. Concrete blocks might be the way to go.
Once this rain stops I will give it a go. I will post some pictures but only if you don't look to close. I never saw any cloths pegs so had to go and have another look.

Angie 

[Brian Ellis]

We even buy clothes pegs just for the garden

[bulborum]

I thought I was the only one using wooden clothes pegs
to hold my aluminium shade cloth 

R

[Michael J Campbell]

We even buy clothes pegs just for the garden

€2 for 50 in the Euro store.

[arillady]

Good to see others using cloth pegs for shadecloth. Michael I do wonder if you have ever fallen when trying to negotiate your paths between pots in some of those areas.

[Michael J Campbell]

Nope, not yet, I have it carefully measured so that I can walk in a comfortable manner with a tray of plants without bumping into anything. The camera probably gives a slightly distorted view.

[Lesley Cox]

Clothes pags are great in the kitchen/pantry too of course, to hold shut and airtight, packets of any number of food products.

[Angelo Porcelli]

Ferraria crispa, self sown in an Amaryllis belladonna patch
Veltheimia bracteata, a rather dark pink form, althought is looks pale in photo

[daveyp1970]

Your G. radians are looking great Davey - I hope you are pollinating them?

The first flower on mine has been in advanced bud for days but we have had constant cloud and low temperatures so no chance of it opening yet. I've also an intriguing looking bud in a pot of seedlings of a 'Moraea'. It looks like a Geissorhiza and when (if) it opens will probably be white with a dark centre - I'm thinking G. tulbaghensis, which would be nice as I've never grown it.

Could it be an alba form of radians Darren,i have seen pics of the alba form and it is incredible(i say alba very loosely because of the dark centre more like light coloured form).I have pollinated so there will be a seed,the one with yellow anthers is sterile.

[Darren]

Your G. radians are looking great Davey - I hope you are pollinating them?

The first flower on mine has been in advanced bud for days but we have had constant cloud and low temperatures so no chance of it opening yet. I've also an intriguing looking bud in a pot of seedlings of a 'Moraea'. It looks like a Geissorhiza and when (if) it opens will probably be white with a dark centre - I'm thinking G. tulbaghensis, which would be nice as I've never grown it.

Could it be an alba form of radians Darren,i have seen pics of the alba form and it is incredible(i say alba very loosely because of the dark centre more like light coloured form).I have pollinated so there will be a seed,the one with yellow anthers is sterile.

I've not managed to catch it fully open yet thanks to the poor weather over easter and it being shut by the time I got back from work on the first sunny day since. However it isn't radians as the leaves are wrong (in fact they don't much resemble any Geissorhiza I grow). I did manage to prise open a flower enough to confirm the centre is a kind of grey/purple colour and not especially attractive.

The semi-albino radians is gorgeous, going by the picture in Curtis's botanical magazine recently.