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November  is a gamble in my climate - there are things still in flower like this Hedychium of which I'm not sure if its a pure deceptum or a hybrid, but the tropical look becomes more and more surreal with all the trees dropping leaves. Other things may or may not open up depending on if there's a warm and sunny day or not - luckily, this 1st was one, so there's Crocus melantherus

, Crocus pallasii

, Moraea polystachya

and a small golden Oxalis in flower.

Last one is not a geophyte, but Berkheya cirsiifolia may show how far off normal the weather is - this year continues to be a wild ride.

Which ones are growing outside in your garden?

the Crocuses and the Berkheya - everything else is potted and will move into the frost free shelter if we get more than a slight touch of frost, though the Hedychium should take -10 °C in theory

Some of our recent bulb activity...our Gladiolus (heirloom hybrid?) finishing. We've had these Moraea Polystachya really setting up shop (naturalizing) in our garden for the last couple years! So far, I've tracked them flowering at least from August through February. And this Amaryllis was sold to us by an old-timer plant collector as an Amaryllis X Crinum hybrid.

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Quote from: Too Many Plants! on November 05, 2023, 07:22:34 PMAnd this Amaryllis was sold to us by an old-timer plant collector as an Amaryllis X Crinum hybrid.

It is. The leaves are obviously from the crinum side. likely behaves evergreen under most conditions.

Thank you for verifying, Martin! That stuff is completely outside my wheelhouse. It's nice to know what I'm telling people is accurate. And yes, it does seem to be around at least most of the year, and I do believe it flowers more than once a year too.

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Freesia caryophyllacea
Lachenalia pygmaea

The days are getting shorter...nights are getting colder...and it's beginning to look a lot like bulb season!  ;D

Boophone, Velthemia, Ferraria, Ixia, Babiana, Lachenalia, and others I can't recall due to CRS...

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Quote from: Martin Bohnet on November 06, 2023, 09:15:53 PM

Quote from: Too Many Plants! on November 05, 2023, 07:22:34 PMAnd this Amaryllis was sold to us by an old-timer plant collector as an Amaryllis X Crinum hybrid.

It is. The leaves are obviously from the crinum side. likely behaves evergreen under most conditions.

Hi Martin, I'm curious if you have anything to say about this...I don't believe this hybrid sets seed like my other Amaryllis, Crinum, and SA bulbs do. Is this something like an intergeneric Mule palm being sterile?

absolutely possible - I've never had seeds on the wide crosses like xAmarine and xAmacrinum. To be fair I don't have any other related amaryllids in flower when the Amacrinum is.

Quote from: Martin Bohnet on November 09, 2023, 07:54:49 PMabsolutely possible - I've never had seeds on the wide crosses like xAmarine and xAmacrinum. To be fair I don't have any other related amaryllids in flower when the Amacrinum is.

I have some bulbs growing that were a result of crossing xAmarine with Amaryllis belladonna. If it would stop raining, I want to try a xAmarine with Nerine sarniensis since both are in flower.

First time in my life I can see this amazing flower with my own eyes.... Paramongaia.

Quote from: Uli on November 13, 2023, 07:11:04 AMFirst time in my life I can see this amazing flower with my own eyes.... Paramongaia.

FANTASTIC! Thank you for sharing.

Congratulations!! I got three bulbs and they refuse to sprout, they might have been killed by the extreme heat of last summer, I should have unpotted them.

Carlos

We have now the 18th of November and still there wasn't a single day without rain this month - everything beyond my rain shelter capacities is drenched, and I fear for a lot of rot when the weather finally forces me to put things into the unheated greenhouse with limited air movement. There's an arctic outbreak forecast about a week ahead, but I'm still hopeful things will slip a few hundred  kilometers west or east, which often means the complete opposite in meridonal weather...

As threatened in the October topic, the weather was stable enough to allow Tropaeolum tuberosum

Flower Colors:	orange, yellow, red
Flower Season:	late summer
Special:	climber, edible flowers, edible storage organ

to flower. By chance it mingled with my Bomarea not quite edulis (could be a hybrid as it behaves a lot different than my other clone, as in being later, smaller but more intense in color). Hmm, two Andeans with similar color scheme and overall flower shape and nodding angle. Something screams common pollinator here.

A few days older is this picture of an Oxalis donated by Uli in the EX05. As it is typical for winter growing Oxalis in my climate, I had to trick it into opening up by taking it inside für half an hour. then again, the flower's just a bonus to the cute speckled foliage.

Hi.Crocus in northern Alicante province, Spain, at the foot of the Sierra Mariola.Not sure about how it should be called because Flora Iberica treated all similar plants as C. serotinus but this name has been 'fixed' for the plants with reticulated fibers growing in acid sandy soils and slate on the Atlantic basin, so only Crocus salzmannii is left. Rukšans and Mathew seemed to agree on this.

Carlos

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And two pics of what from now on has to be called Crocus serotinus.

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Thanks to Carlos for these beautiful photos, showing exactly how a Crocus species should be documented.

Lachenalia pygamae

Very nice!

Mine are going by one of the many names Lachenalia pygmaea

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Peter

I believe you're correct with your name.

I checked the label  and it is L. pygmaea

I don't think I can go back in and change the caption ofn the photo.

@Arnold You can use either "Quick edit" or "More..."->"Modify" to change the text of your post. With  the latter you also could re-upload the photos with a new filename. Changing the filename is, strangely enough, not possible - even though it is actually NOT used on our server, where uploaded files are renamed to a hexadecimal number code.

Martin

Thanks I think I was able to correct my error.

More Crocus serotinus (as things are now). This is part of my research but it's not really something I found myself: it grows not only on sandy places by the sea, also on acid forest soil ruch in humus, mainly cork oak forests.

First photo in habitat in Odemira, Algarve. 

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Carlos

Othonna gymnodiscus
Othonna cakiefolia