South African Bulbs 2013

[angie]

Really nice Pete 

Angie 

[fermi de Sousa]

Good work with the paint-brush, Pete
I got this gladdie as G. permeabilis from NARGS Seedex a few years ago, but I think it's Gladiolus wilsonii.
Another misnamed one came from NZAGS Seedex a couple of years ago as Ixia polystachya but it appears to be a white form of Freesia laxa! Which is okay for me as I only had the type form so far!
cheers
fermi

[SJW]

I sowed 3 pots of Massonia seed back in September.  The pustulalatas are fine but of the other two pot the 3 seedlings in one pot died off and nothing came of the other.  Should I toss those two pots or water ocassionally and keep very cool or dry off and keep them cool?

John - not sure what others would do but I'd dry the pots off now and water again next September.

[Ezeiza]

Fermi, that is not the white form. Instead an uncommon pretty one. Let's see what Freesia laxa guru Michael has to say about it.

[Mark Griffiths]

The laxa looks like the form Joan Evans.

I got it originally as a stow away in a pot - it's pretty but has been a bit of a nuisance in the greenhouse. It doesn't sem to do so well in a pot on it's own but loves growing in the sand beds in the greenhouse and in the pots of other plants. I'm trying it again outside but I think it may be too cold and wet here.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=freesia+laxa+joan+evans&client=firefox-a&hs=6jR&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=11ecUprvNuy07QaehYGICA&ved=0CD8QsAQ&biw=1280&bih=855

[Maggi Young]

Some  pix - and discussion  of F.  'Joan Evans' on this page ....   
 http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=4787.msg134209#msg134209  great pic from Michael and also from David N.
 http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=4787.msg134145#msg134145

Hristo : http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=4787.msg134125#msg134125

[fermi de Sousa]

Some  pix - and discussion  of F.  'Joan Evans' on this page ....   
 http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=4787.msg134209#msg134209  great pic from Michael and also from David N.
 http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=4787.msg134145#msg134145

Hristo : http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=4787.msg134125#msg134125

Thanks, Maggi,
I've just re-read some of those discussions so I guess this one is a seedling of 'Joan Evans' and not the named one as such,
cheers
fermi

[johnw]

John - not sure what others would do but I'd dry the pots off now and water again next September.

Steve  - Sounds like a reasonable solution.  I'll tuck them under the bench dry and let them follow the seasons, then a good August rainstorm and stand clear.

thanks

john

[johnralphcarpenter]

The laxa looks like the form Joan Evans.

I got it originally as a stow away in a pot - it's pretty but has been a bit of a nuisance in the greenhouse. It doesn't sem to do so well in a pot on it's own but loves growing in the sand beds in the greenhouse and in the pots of other plants. I'm trying it again outside but I think it may be too cold and wet here.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=freesia+laxa+joan+evans&client=firefox-a&hs=6jR&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=11ecUprvNuy07QaehYGICA&ved=0CD8QsAQ&biw=1280&bih=855

This was from AGS seeds sown 13th April, labelled as Freesa laxa Red Spotted. Is is the same plant? (I'll try to take a better photo).

[Michael J Campbell]

That's a Joan Evans seedling, they don't usually come true and you need to rogue them and only keep the good coloured ones. You can't call them Joan Evans though.   

[Mark Griffiths]

Interesting, as said my plant came as a stowaway and it's seeded everywhere and as far as I can tell they are all identical. I thought I had a pic but it seems not.

[Michael J Campbell]

If you have no others in the vicinity then cross fertilization will not occur and then they will probably come fairly true.

[Diane Whitehead]

Romulea hallii flowering for the first time from Silverhill seeds sown in 2003.

There are three buds, not quite open, but perhaps they won't get a chance
because we are threatened with night temperatures of -7 in a few days.

I could go out and throw a quilt over the plant, but then I won't know if it could
have managed on its own. 

So what is it to be?  Information about hardiness, or a look at the inside of the
flowers?

Diane

[ArnoldT]

Diane:

All measures to have a peak at the flowers.

[wooden shoe]

Hi Diane,

Better let them flower well and protected and try to get seed from them. Once you have seed, you will always have a backup and can test the parent plants on hardiness.