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And these came up the other day! Nice to have a few bulbs flowering past winter/spring!!

Forget what they are... anyone?

Rogue post!... 

Lets see if anyone can guess what it is???

Well... I've been non present. Sorry. I'm going through a tough time in life, the big D.

Anyway... had this exciting first in my Garden!! So had to share.

Cheers to all the PBS peeps 🍷 

Ixia Polystachya

Moraea Polyanthos

Happy Easter to all the PBS Geophyte peeps!

Watsonia Aletroides

Given to me by a generous SA bulb aficionado...

Quote from: Wylie on April 14, 2025, 11:44:30 AMBabiana melanops that I got from the Fall BX.

NICE! I acquired this sp. as a bulb a few years ago. Planted in the ground (like all my SA bulbs you see me post), never to be seen again! 

Ixia Paniculata

Boophone Disticha - with current M. Polystachya working on blooming year 'round.

Gladiolus Carneus

2023 BX 

Babiana "Jim's choice" from a BX a couple years ago. Beautiful!

Adding pic IMG_3210, you can see the flower color has shifted the second day it's open.

Watsonia *Borbonica

* I bought these as bulbs off the internet, so I'm not certain the sp. is correct. Please chime in if you're a Watsonia buff!

Beautiful IMHO

Moraea - I understand these were Homeria before being lumped in Moraea. Don't remember what I got these as...Collina? They look like they could also be Ochroleuca. And of course, possible hybrids.

I'm sure I told the story before, but it's interesting so... I planted a patch of these yellow and orange flowered bulbs together in my early bulb days. We had a gopher come through the patch, and the next year, what appeared to be somewhere around the normal # of yellow flowers came up, but not ONE SINGLE orange flower bulb was left. NOT ONE! How is that possible!?! Seems like the orange bulbs must have tasted or smelled different, or maybe the yellow flowering bulbs were not appealing. There must be something to this...?

Moraea Polystachya

I believe this is the first time I've seen them actively growing and flowering beyond February. They typically come up starting in July if I'm watering well, and finish by end of Feb if it's a drier winter. Sooner in a wet winter. At this point...we're less than 3 months from them actively growing and flowering through an entire year! Based on a few plants I'm seeing around my Garden, I'm thinking it's possible it could happen.

CRAZY!

Quote from: Wylie on April 07, 2025, 12:23:47 AM

Quote from: Too Many Plants! on April 06, 2025, 06:51:11 PMWell...I forget, so hopefully someone will chime in on these guys???

These have a nice sweet vanilla scent.

My guess is Albuca. I have Albuca humilis

Thank you Wylie, and cg100. Albuca rings a bell 💍🛎...

They grow easily for me in ground in my garden, and I pay them ZERO attention. They are spreading, slowly, so not a weed like the damn Freesia Laxa have become, and are quickly escalating!!