Flowering Now October 2007

[annew]

Here are a couple of good value plants for this time of year - Aruncus aethusifolia(us?) in its autumn dress and Schizostylis 'Mrs Hegarty' at the start of its long flowering season.

[johanneshoeller]

An interesting plant. Does anybody know its name?

[annew]

Pteridophyllum racemosum.

[Lesley Cox]

Paul, according to the RHS Dictionary of Gardening (1956 edition) there are around 40 species of Myosotis. Our own Flora says more then 50 species. I'm still surprised there are not more as 34 are endemic to NZ or 1 or 2 shared with Australia.

Is your Chinese forget-me-not a Cynoglossum by any chance?

[Anthony Darby]

Some coming out in the greenhouse in today's sunshine. Sternbergia greuteriana; a couple of S. sicula; likewise Scilla autumnalis and Galanthus reginae-olgae.

[Paul T]

Is your Chinese forget-me-not a Cynoglossum by any chance?

Yeah, that sounds about right!    Lovely strong blue to the flowers, which is why I grow it.  Any good blue flower is welcome in this garden!!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Beautiful Scilla Anthony !

[Anthony Darby]

Thanks Luc. I have a white one coming out too. Here is Sternbergia colchiciflora flowering outside in a trough. For the last three seasons it has never flowered but regularly produced seed pods. This year I divided the bulbs between this trough and a pot in the greenhouse. No sign of anything in the greenhouse.

[Anthony Darby]

Derek Bacon sent me this pic of Androsace wiedemanni. It is the first time he has flowered it. Unusual leaf structure.

[hadacekf]

Anthony,
A very nice unusually rosette, but A. wiedemanni is a synonym of the most attractive annual or biennial A. albana.

[derekb]

Anthony thanks for posting the Androsace picture I think My PC is back to normal,
Franz thank you for the explanation that is why I could find no pictures.

Derek

[Anthony Darby]

Pleasure Derek. Here's some pics of the above two forms of Sternbergia sicula. #2 came labelled as such from Ian Young and is a lovely wee thing with short leaves. I like the way its stigma protrubes from the closed flower. Note the unequal sized petals compared with the other form.

[Maggi Young]

Got these photos today from Alan Newton of a plant he received as Polyxena sp.
 


Same plant, different angle

[David Nicholson]

http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Polyxena

Polyxena pygmaea??

[Lesley Cox]

It does look like  Polyxena pygmaea doesn't it? I see I must rename my P. odorata as P. longituba. Bother. Besides, it is highly scented. I have seed on it now, ripening maybe about Christmas time, if anyone would like to try it.

No way am I going to start calling these Lachenalia. They're nothing like.