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mostly here to test the new upload interface - which seems more intuitive. Happy to hear your thoughts about.
That said, here are
Sinningia 'Banana Foster',
Ipomoea linosepala subsp. alpina, another tropical southern Africa caudex morning glory, and the proof that I got my
Ismene x festalis finally to flower again, using the method of removing the substrate all the way down to the root level over winter, as before that they either sulked for loosing their roots when taken out completely or took time recovering from mold if I kept them fully covered no matter how dry...
The new upload interface - better - because it is not two step - selecting what to upload and then having to upload it caused problems for some people.
Here on Ubuntu, drag and drop does not work, so I was worried at first, but as it says "click" and you get the old select a file interface.
A Sinningia pusilla seedling. I snipped of the first flower bud, and now it is ready to produce...
Lilium speciosum var. gloriosoides flowering now, from seed planted March 2021.
That is amazingly fast.
How did you manage it?
Diane - thinking back, I didn't do anything particularly special. I recall that the seeds germinated fairly quickly and easily, and I grew them on in the small pots they were planted in until the foliage died back in the fall, when they were potted up into bigger pots. I did keep them in a frost-free greenhouse, which I think was important, as these lilies have a short winter-dormancy. This was the same in both winters, where they were back growing again by January or thereabouts. Of the dozen or so seedlings I have only four will flower this year, so these four are the pacesetters and the majority, I expect, will flower in their third year. Hope this helps.
Hello Steve,
This all sounds very interesting indeed. Will you try to make them set seed?
Uli
Yes, I will cross a few (that is my plan, at least). It may weaken the bulb, but if I can repeat this growing success then I feel it is worth taking the risk. I have found it always a risk when crossing lily species in their first year of blooming as they can be short-lived thereafter.
Dahlia - yellow cheerfulness
Cyclamen hederifolium
Lilium - Scheherazade
Amaryllis belladonna Rose Foncé is always the first belladonna to flower at this time of the year. Here in front of Petraea volubilis. This is a combination made by the plants themselves, the Petraea was meant to cover the wall below this terrace but decided to scramble up....
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Love amaryllis belladonna - will be interesting to see if any flowers put in an appearance after the cold wet Summer here in the North of England.
Quote from: David Pilling on August 21, 2023, 06:17:49 AMLove amaryllis belladonna - will be interesting to see if any flowers put in an appearance after the cold wet Summer here in the North of England.
Cold and damp, but not wet, however the Amaryllis under tree drip lines (2"/5cm water per month from fog this summer), are also blooming.
From my front yard. All planted in the last 3-4 years.
My Amaryllis belladonna 'Rose Fonce' is also open and the 'Fred Meyer White' is about to open. What I also have is a Crinum blooming for the first time. I had bought a bulb and kept it in a pot where it didn't do much of anything except put up a few leaves. Then earlier this year I finally put it in the ground and with the wet spring and summer we have had, it finally put up a flower spike. It has been so long that I don't remember its name, but it isn't 'Ellen Bosanquet', which has already flowered.
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Hello Wylie,
Is the picture showing the Crinum or the Amaryllis? I know that Rose Foncé is variable in color but this one is exceptional if it is not the Crinum.
The bulbs I photographed are stealing some water from a nearby irrigation, all the others, including Fred Meyer's White are still dormant. It is very hot and dry here.....
Uli
That is the Crinum which has growth during the summer and dies back in the fall. My 'Rose Fonce' looks like this:
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Hello Wylie,
Also more color intensive than mine, very nice!
Uli
This is the set of tubers from
Dracunculus canariensis. Interesting to see that it produces stolons. Some are still attached to the mother tubers, whereas with others the attachment point had withered and the stolon is detached. These are seed grown plants but I remember having seen wild plants in habitat in Tenerife always growing in colonies. The ball pen serves as a comparison for scale.
Seedling presumably from Sinningia 'Bananas Foster'
Seen in the Val d'Aran, Spanish Pyrenees in late August.
Allium ericetorum
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Swertia perennis
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Lilium pyrenaicum. Unripe seeds!!
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Colchicum montanum, including a white one.
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The white C. montanum
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And some of the Saxifraga given to the EX-07
S. media
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S. umbrosa
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S. pubescens subsp. iratiana
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S. aquatica
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S. oppositifolia - much showier in bloom
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Carlos
Every August this white intergeneric hybrid of Amaryllis blooms. I do not know its parentage. I got the bulb as part of a huge pile of Amaryllis, mostly the ordinary pink, that was dug out to build a parking lot back in the 1990's. It has multiplied and it blooms true from seed, although quite a few years later. I have sent in some recalcitrant seed collected today and the past week. For me, here, every seed sprouts whether planted or not. I just set them on top of sand and neglect them. Some seeds sunburn pink but whether white or pink all seeds bloom white. Occasionally blooms are double, not nested double, more like conjoined twins. Since it blooms in August, I put the photos in this topic.
Gastil - beautiful flowers which I envy. In the first photo they look smaller than typical.
the stalks are thicker but about the same length and the individual flowers wider and longer than ordinary Amaryllis belladonna. The groups of flowers is the thing so much bigger because it is radially symmetrical, not all flopping to one side like the ordinary pink ones, nor the ordinary white variety. I do not have a photo with a grid or ruler. Normally these do not overlap in bloom time with the pink ones but in 2020 they did so here is a photo with both, for comparison.
Hello
@gastil,
Very interesting! Your white Amaryllis hybrid could be the famous hybrid Hathor or an offspring of it. I have seen the true Hathor in the greenhouses of the late Harry Hay in England but never managed to get hold of a bulb. It certainly is one of the best if not
the best white hybrid. The radially symmetrical arrangement of the flowers is due to the Brunsvigia parentage of this group of hybrids.
On checking I came across this old contribution in the PBS list archives.
:) https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbslist/2005-August/isomehpv7sccr9us0lp4ia1ur3.html
Hi
@Uli , Interesting to read that PBS List post from 2005. Someone had told me mine were most likely a hybrid with Brunsvigia. My bulbs do grow with 2/3 above-ground and are more round in shape than the A. belladonna bulbs. I'm pretty sure mine are self-fertile, as they set seed w/o any other similar ones nearby. In the rare case the ordinary pink ones are still in bloom, I cut those to prevent cross-pollenation (in the years I pay attention.)
The petals are not very "ruffled" but are not completely straight either. So maybe this is more like 'Harbord'. And 'Hathor' was infertile. Mine are quite fertile. I also have an all-white A. belladonna with the shape and size of ordinary pink A. belladonna and those are completely infertile, and bloom latest. Also in a follow-up list post Hathor is described as having a "deep apricot centre". Mine have more of a "lemon" center.
I searched the PBS List Archive for Hathor and found a photo (http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/attachments/20200529/989c4e44/attachment.jpe) with the same coloring as mine but hers had only 3 flowers on one stem whereas mine have zillions. And her petals are more ruffled.
The last post was by the late Bill The Bulb Baron, who likely could have identified my bulb. He mentions 'Hathor' needs "hot dry spring-summer followed by heavy late summer rain." That happened this year and I did get the best bloom ever. He mentioned leaves. My bulbs have leaves the same color as ordinary A. belladonna, but wider and thicker. There is no sign of a glaucous color but the thickness does attest to the Brunsvigia heritage. I've never seen disease spots in their leaves. Also I notice these need less sun than ordinary A. belladonna.
As I originally wrote, mine came to me without a label, part of a huge scale bulb rescue.
Well mine are in the mail on their way to Lisa who will be offering these recalcitrant seeds so some PBS members will get to grow them, whatever its parentage.