Flowering Now October 2007

[Anthony Darby]

I love these plants, but not got that one, so yes please Lesley.

[Lesley Cox]

Will do Anthony. A while yet so I'd better make a note

[Gerdk]

Here are some pics from species which I found flowering after an absence of one week

1. Bessera elegans - a little bit late this season
2. Nerine filifolia
3. Viola palmensis -  from La Palma - a large pansy, easy with some
    protection
4. Cyclamen (coum) elegans - from Iran - with silver leaves, very early
   this year
5. Cyclamen cyprium - marbled with silver
6. Cyclamen cyprium - rose colored flower

Gerd

[Maggi Young]

My goodness, that Cyclamen cyprium with the marbled leaf is a stunnner... what leaves!

[tonyg]

I like the nerine Gerd - I saw it at the SRGC conference.  It looks like you grow it outside.  How hardy is it?

[Gerdk]

I like the nerine Gerd - I saw it at the SRGC conference.  It looks like you grow it outside.  How hardy is it?

Only outside to take pictures.
I cultivate this plant in a small lean-to greenhouse. Winter temperatures are around zero (C). For obtaining flowers a  resting periode in July and August without a drop of water is recommended but according my experience this is not necessary.

Gerd

[JPB]

Scilla latifolia , from La Palma, Canary Islands
Conophytum ssp. obcordellum var. ceresianum, not a rock-garden plant, but beautiful night-flowering & strongly scented.

[Michael]

Hello friends!

I am sorry for being here so few times. Here is one special photo for all of you, Scilla maderensis flowering right now.
Sorry about the quality, but i canīt do better thant that. I hoope you like it

[Michael]

Hi Hans!

I like your Scilla, it is closely-related to mine, almost sisters!!
The suculent is also pretty!

[Lesley Cox]

I ADORE the Conophytum.  Looks like one of those beautiful sea anemones which exert little tentacles and wave them around to catch passing morsels of pasta and chocolate cake (well not together, of course

[annew]

Which sea is this then, Lesley?

[John Forrest]

Thought some of you might be interested in this very wee Trollius vaginatus cf collected by Holubec 4500m stony clay N slope Beima Shan Yunnan. The grit is the usual 5mm size so you can see how small it is. It flowered end of Sept this yer from a sowing in 1/02
Also lots of seedlings of Leucojum have popped up in the sand plunge. I have started sowing all the seed from any plnts directly into the sand around the pots, with a label to remind me what is there.

[Maggi Young]

The Trollius vaginatus cf is quite the little charmer, isn't it?  I'd expect its small stature, given the altitude it was collected at but it is great if it will keep this neat habit in cultivation.

Cheering to note how well seedlings do in he sand plunge, I agree. Less bother to look after, too!

[annew]

Leucojum roseum is something of a problem in my plunges, beware!

[tonyg]

Leucojum roseum does grow at least as well in the plunge as in a pot.  However it is not an aggressive spreader here ... yet!  Thanks for the reminder that it is time to colect the seed.

Sternbergia greuteriana is so distinct from the Sternbergia sicula sometimes seen as an imposter that is difficult to see how they could be mixed up by accident.  This arrived here as a gift from a good friend - now I must find something nice to send him