March 2012 in the Southern Hemisphere

[Lesley Cox]

Nicole, thank you for that excellent link. The technique couldn't be made more clear and says and shows everything needed. It is interesting too that they can apparently be done from leaves from the base, as one would a Ramonda. I'll try both ways. Just in passing, I wonder therefore, would it be worth trying the same methods, either one, on the leafy bit at the top of the flower stems. I might try that too, just to see what happens, if anything.

[Brian Ellis]

Just in passing, I wonder therefore, would it be worth trying the same methods, either one, on the leafy bit at the top of the flower stems. I might try that too, just to see what happens, if anything.

Cor I must be getting old, I never thought of that Lesley

[Lesley Cox]

Maybe it wasn't worth thinking about. We'll see.

[Paul T]

Lesley,

The topknot can be grown successfully as well.  This way I think was known and used much earlier than leaf cuttings.

Interestingly, this year I had Eucomis 'Sparkling Burgundy' flower for me then continue right on growing, producing a new growth shoot net to the flower stem.  The strange weather has done all sorts of wierd things.  The leaves are still growing happily now, showing full purple, while the flower stem is maturing and the older leaves have faded out.  I'm not quite sure when it is going to have a rest. 

[fermi de Sousa]

Some bulbs to finish off the month,
Brunsvigia gregaria


Red Hybrid nerine


Pink Hybrid Nerine


Pale pink Cyclamen graecum in the rock garden


Narcissus viridiflorus


cheers
fermi

[Anthony Darby]

Gosh, now you are teasing me Fermi. Narcissus viridiflorus but the clump! I feel as if I'm starting a new family with loads of pots of seeds and seedlings. My Cyclamen graecum (and C. africanum) from 2012 SRGC seed are just sprouting.

[Paul T]

Fermi,

the viridiflorus is amazing.  Just doesn't like flowering for me.  Yet miniatus does fine in pots..... when the other species doesn't.    Go figure.  I love the Brunsvigia, and that pale pink Nerine is very nice as well.