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#91
General Discussion / Re: Invasive Bulbs
June 04, 2022, 12:17:43 PM
Uli: We have the Oxalis pes-caprae in the Azores. There are some of the little squares that the farmers have that are completely yellow with them. Cows won't eat them so there is no control.

The wild Allium is probably A. subvillosum, commonly called Wild Garlic. I have a few plants growing wild, but it needs to be thinned every couple of years. I do have another Allium that has fairly small bulbs and stalks that are 2 meters tall with purple flowers. I pull it out and it keeps returning - it is also in flower now.

Hedychium gardnerianum is an invasive rhizome. But the leaves are used when making traditional bread. My house has a traditional oven. It looks like a giant pizza oven and is built of lava rocks to help retain heat. You make the fire inside of it and then put the dough wrapped in the Hedychium leaves off to the side to bake. It grows in just about every dry stream bed on every island in the Azores. Tourists like it, so they don't go overboard pulling it out.

#92
Current Photographs / Re: Black background
May 05, 2022, 01:11:32 AM
For these I used the insert from an Ikea shelving unit. It is 3 sided, 12" flat black. Give it a little angle so there is no shine from the sun. It is mobile and easy to arrange in the back. Also, if the flower is in a pot, I use stairs to position them. I tried using GIMP to edit photos, but it is way too hard with no one around to explain how to do things, so I have to get inventive.
#93
Thanks - that link works for me, although I didn't see a difference in the one I was using. The diamond dusting on their nerines is captivating.
#94
Talking about not being able to see a site, Exbury Nerines is the same way. It uses the excuse that I am not secure, but that only happened since Brexit took effect. Fortunately I panic bought and a lot of unnamed seedlings were included in my last order, so I do have a lot of their nerines which are now going dormant.
#95
Current Photographs / Black background
April 26, 2022, 07:20:33 AM
I post photos on Flickr (www.flickr.com/photos/wylieyoung/) and one of the groups I am in is for flowers with jet black backgrounds. Since a lot of the bulbs I grow are in pots, this can be easy to arrange the pot and a black backdrop. Others require a little work, but it really highlights the flower. These are some of the bulbs in bulb now.