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Lesley Cox

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Re: March 2012 in the Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #30 on: March 18, 2012, 10:45:43 PM »
When they're past flowering Anthony, I'll send up some of the late June Keeley's dwarf forms. Regular Nerine colours but shorter, slimmer stems and flowers in proportion. They are not flowering well for me, maybe not warm enough through the summer, especially this year. Terry Hatch was given the Keeley collection when June died in 1993 or thereabouts. But I think they were too small to interest him and have probably vanished for good now.
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Re: March 2012 in the Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #31 on: March 18, 2012, 11:12:11 PM »
those shorter Nerines would be the ones that I would appeal more to me. Pity about the water in between.
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Re: March 2012 in the Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #32 on: March 18, 2012, 11:26:07 PM »
Thanks Lesley. I may pop down to Joy Plants and see?
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Re: March 2012 in the Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #33 on: March 18, 2012, 11:44:17 PM »
Thanks Lesley. I may pop down to Joy Plants and see?

Ask Terry, or his son or whoever is there, what happened to them. They were unique and so lovely. I've lost it now but had one June called 'Chanticleer.' It was her earliest flowering and was a rich deep lipstick red absolutely stunning, and speckled with gold. She also had a line of smoked shades and lovely apricots and coral colours. I may still have it as some haven't flowered for 2 or 3 years but it was one of the most reliable for me. June grew them in sun but with high, overhead dappled shade, from limbed-up birches. The drainage under the birches was very severe and the ground always quite dry except briefly after heavy rain.
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Re: March 2012 in the Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #34 on: March 19, 2012, 10:57:44 PM »
Anthony,

Isn't 'Fothergill Major' such a good nerine?  Finished here already, but flowers well every year for me.  Always the first or nearly the first Nerine each year.  
If this is a "wee" one it might be 'Fothergilla Minor' rather than 'Major'. Ours are still in bloom here with one spike only just poking through!
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Re: March 2012 in the Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #35 on: March 19, 2012, 11:27:51 PM »
Fermi,

I find that 'Minor' always blooms after 'Major'.  My 'Minor' is sending up buds and should be open shortly, whereas the 'Major' are all over now.
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Re: March 2012 in the Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #36 on: March 19, 2012, 11:52:25 PM »
But isn't it Nerine sarniensis anyway? ???
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Re: March 2012 in the Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #37 on: March 20, 2012, 07:48:56 AM »
A Guernsey lily by any other name. 8)
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Re: March 2012 in the Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #38 on: March 21, 2012, 06:21:35 AM »
I have this Colchicum flowering in my garden at the moment labelled 'Conquest' . Have I got the correct name ? it is a darker rosy-lilac colour than the photo .
and two more  in flower today

Colch. 'Conquest'009 (13) ?
Colch. autumnale 'Alboplenum'
Colch. polyphyllum
« Last Edit: March 21, 2012, 01:49:09 PM by Maggi Young »
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Re: March 2012 in the Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #39 on: March 22, 2012, 02:54:33 AM »
Nerine rosea is now in bloom
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This is the "common" colchicum in many gardens- is it "The Giant"?
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Re: March 2012 in the Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #40 on: March 22, 2012, 07:21:18 AM »
Fermi,

Yes, it is 'The Giant' as far as I know.
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Re: March 2012 in the Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #41 on: March 22, 2012, 07:53:25 AM »
Thnaks, Paul.

Does anyone have any idea on what this one might be?
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I grew it from seed as C. bivonae - which it's not! It's just a little bigger than C. corsicum.
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Re: March 2012 in the Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #42 on: March 22, 2012, 08:04:52 AM »
Thnaks, Paul.

Does anyone have any idea on what this one might be?

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It's a Colchicum, Fermi.  ;D :P
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Re: March 2012 in the Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #43 on: March 22, 2012, 10:33:51 AM »
My Grandmother would have called them naked ladies. 8)
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Re: March 2012 in the Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #44 on: March 22, 2012, 10:35:28 AM »
Really?  I know Amaryllis belladonna as Naked Ladies, not Colchicums.
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