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Here's an example of color change in a Lachenalia callista.  Same plant

Here is a Lachenalia calcicola that has started to fade from a soft purple to a softer pink. Seed grown and I seed a few more germinating this year.


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Lachenalia quadricolor
Lachenalia bulbifera

 Lilliputian forest of of Massonia bredasdorpensis.

Close up of Lachenalia bulbifera

Hello Arnold,

Is the miniature forest of Massonia a bunch of seedlings?

Uli 

Uli

Yes, I gang seeded them and this is two years after germination.  Seeds from a PBS distribution.

I'll probably re-pot and send some to the SX

Moraea elegans.

A close up of pollen laden anther.

Gladiolus venustus

Gladiolus uysiae

Narcissus asturiensis.  It's real cutie.  I've been hand pollinating it.tempImagemNHNio.jpg

I love them!! I saw that tiny form once at the type locality of "jacetanus" which is just this (better called minor after some experts).

Here it is grandae / albicans, a fertile 'new' species arising from a crossing between bulbocodium and cantabricus in SW Spain (I think it is a 'Spanish albidus',). 

I meant to take a photo of the  whole pot with about 15 flowers but I pollinated them so quickly that they faded much earlier than usual. But I hope to have seeds to share!

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Carlos Jiménez

Veltheimia bracteata

Cyclamen coum 'Yayladagi'

Lachenalia quadricolor

Second half of January was disappointing, as in cold and wet, so I've only got a snodrop (Green fingers) and a somewhat battered Gymnospermium albertii

Height:	10-20 cm (3.9-7.9 inch)
Flower Colors:	yellow, red
Flower Season:	late winter to early spring
Life form:	corm

Are they growing outside in your garden?

Quote from: Diane Whitehead on January 29, 2023, 01:19:59 PMAre they growing outside in your garden?

I Try to have as much growing in the open ground as possible - I only recently learned how risky that is: my parents got glass fiber to their home. The workers sent them inside to clear the place they'd intend to enter the basement with the cables, and when they came back out they found a 1m wide ditch was gaping in the garden, straight from the street to the house - luckily most they lost seems replaceable - a few Hemerocallis, a basic Iris sibirica

... If that had happened to me in my garden and my density of treasures, I'm not sure if there had been any surviving construction workers.

Hi Martin, fibre is on the way here - they have surveyed the street. Tales are of how discretely they can fit it using the old cable route. I am not saying of your story, "it could not happen here" because I'm sure it could. Nearby a company has set up in opposition to the major operator, their enterprising approach fill the streets with "telegraph" poles, along with huge masts with microwave transmitters on.

We have a nearby town that have installed free Wifi in their down town.  Just put the transmitters on already existing poles

Quote from: Arnold on February 03, 2023, 06:55:13 AMJust put the transmitters on already existing poles

Problem is that one person's improved home entertainment, is another person's G5 alien lizard mind control tower.

In other words the folk saying lots of poles would spoil the neighbourhood did not get universal support.

There was a UK company Ionica that was going to supply internet via microwaves to houses. It went bust when Spring came and it turned out tree leaves proved effective at screening radio waves.

David

The poles are already there.  We are a bit behind here the rest of the world.  Much of our  utility  infrastructure is above our heads.

Newer communities have buried them but my area was first built in the later 1800's so utility poles are the fashion.

One of those things, like driving on the wrong side of the road - so what, but it is interesting given the same problem how there are different solutions.

I'd say the typical phone line in the UK is overhead. New developments not, but of course the UK is a very old place, there is a lot of old stuff.

What would shock us, is overhead electricity to the end user.

Anyway enough off topic, today I have daffodils (2), croci (4) and snowdrops (many).