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To close out March...here's a pic from a few days ago. I missed the full flowering (if it did), I think this guy was affected by the unusual amount and frequency of rain we've been getting this season.

G. Radians. 

This plant has taken many years in the ground from a planted bulb to develop into much to see. 

And my Ferraria Crispa ssp. Nortieri ⭐️🐠 flowers starting to go off 💥...with a little yellow friend hanging out with them.

 

 

 

Here's one of my nicer red Sparaxis Tricolor.

 

Here's an Albuca just starting...I'll have to find the species on it (I know I've got it somewhere).
* Albuca Acuminata

Here's another March flower'er...(lost my tag) 

 

Quote from: Robin Jangle on March 27, 2024, 12:00:08 AM@Too Many Plants! The Sparaxis are all hybrids the first set are tricolor X pillansii with tricolor dominant. The second is the same hybrid but with pillansii dominant. The third is tricolor X elegans with tricolor dominant.

The Ferraria is most likely F. foliosa.

Wow! Cool. Thank you Robin. Stoked about my hybrid Sparaxis Tricolor bulbs. Most of them came from a long established garden in SoCal. Probably at least 15+ years of flowering in that garden before I got them.

Another different color variant of my Ferraria Crispas.

 

Another couple different S. Tricolor colors have popped up. I really enjoy my Sparaxis!

 

 

I have this unusual Sparaxis Tricolor orange flower plant that looks like the flowers were blushed with metallic silver. 

 

Quote from: Uli on March 17, 2024, 04:35:08 PMIs it really four-petalled?

Well Uli, I guess now I see why you asked...
the second M. Aristata flower appeared today.

 

 

Quote from: Robin Jangle on March 20, 2024, 10:25:43 PMA bit strange looking (tepals quite narrow) but nonetheless Ferraria densepunctulata.

Thanks Robin. Maybe this will help confirm. I went back through previous years pics, and know by location of my garden...here's the flowers looking as they typically do. I wonder, we've been getting more rain and with more frequency this late winter/early spring than we have in most of the last 10 years at least. Could that contribute to the flowers looking odd this year??? On that note, many of my bulb flowers are off this year, smaller than normal, and in a couple cases much smaller than normal. For a while I thought that might be an indicator of cooler temps this time of year than typical. But I don't think that's really the case, I think the main difference is the rain. My Moraea Polystachya finished earlier than normal this year, which I've been told here in California they're sensitive to the amount of winter rain we get.

I have several different color variations of Ferraria Crispa. 

 

Another of my Favorites...such rich vivid display in the garden!

Babiana Rubrocyanea

 

Somewhere along the way I lost the ID tag on this Ferraria. If memory serves me, it looks different this season, it doesn't have that typical Ferraria form which I believe it usually has, but it's a different color of a unique locale.

 

Quote from: Uli on March 17, 2024, 04:35:08 PMIs it really four-petalled?

I didn't even question that, but it sure appears so...