March 2012 in the Southern Hemisphere

[Lesley Cox]

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.

[arillady]

those shorter Nerines would be the ones that I would appeal more to me. Pity about the water in between.

[Anthony Darby]

Thanks Lesley. I may pop down to Joy Plants and see?

[Lesley Cox]

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.

[fermi de Sousa]

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!




cheers
fermi

[Paul T]

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.

[Lesley Cox]

But isn't it Nerine sarniensis anyway?

[Anthony Darby]

A Guernsey lily by any other name.

[Otto Fauser]

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

[fermi de Sousa]

Nerine rosea is now in bloom


This is the "common" colchicum in many gardens- is it "The Giant"?


Lycoris aurea


cheers
fermi

[Paul T]

Fermi,

Yes, it is 'The Giant' as far as I know.

[fermi de Sousa]

Thnaks, Paul.

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


I grew it from seed as C. bivonae - which it's not! It's just a little bigger than C. corsicum.


cheers
fermi

[Paul T]

Thnaks, Paul.

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

cheers
fermi

It's a Colchicum, Fermi. 

[Anthony Darby]

My Grandmother would have called them naked ladies.

[Paul T]

Really?  I know Amaryllis belladonna as Naked Ladies, not Colchicums.