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Fortunately we can still buy peat.  My rhododendrons and blueberries wouldn't be happy with coconut shells.

Quote from: David Pilling on March 24, 2022, 07:56:17 PMI like Anemone nemorosa - but I suspect mine are lost.

How could one ever lose it?  I have many forms, but one is so vigorous I am trying to lose it. Every year I dig out a bucketful. Its stick-like rhizomes had covered the ground so thoroughly that Erythronium revolutum couldn't emerge.  

Parrot is OK.  They got the colour wrong, though.

Nice daffodil but it would only make you rich if it were a snowdrop.

Here is the same Nerine undulata posted in early January.  It is an incredibly long-lasting flower, and is finally setting seeds which will sow themselves into nearby pots if I don't remove them.

The length of bloomtime is very unusual as many South African flowers last for only a few hours.

One of my thousand gardening books is A Book of Blue Flowers by Robert Geneve.

Bizarre.  It looks like it belongs down in the bottom of the sea.

The fourth photo looks a bit like Crocus heuffelianus.

I can't grow reticulate iris - I've spent many years trying from purchased bulbs and seeds.  There is never any evidence of a squirrel digging the bulbs, though they do bury nuts - I have walnut trees growing as a result.

Whiteheadia bifolia, now Massonia bifolia

This was the only plant named for a Whitehead, but now it has been changed to Massonia.

I saw it growing under an overhanging rock in Namaqualand, South Africa, blooming in early spring.

It blooms in winter in my unheated greenhouse, and seeds itself, despite not having any mice to pollinate it.

He doesn't even let me look at his website.

I have been getting this message for a couple of years:

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Diane
in Canada

I turned off spell check in my computer.  It was such a nuisance having to correct words I had spelled correctly which had then been changed by the computer.  These were mostly words to do with plants - whatever dictionary spell check had been loaded with did not include many flowers.

Uli,

The Nerine photo I posted was taken with my iPad.  I mailed it to myself on my Mac laptop, then selected it to go on the forum.

Nerine undulata is native to the Eastern Cape of South Africa, growing at the edge of woodlands, in rocky places, or in wet areas.

The seeds I bought from Silverhill arrived already germinated, but took six years to flower.  It is growing in my unheated frost-free greenhouse where it flowers in midwinter and has seeded itself into nearby pots.  Since I have more than a dozen bulbs, I intend to grow some in the garden.

When I clicked on Gastil's first three photos, they each enlarged slightly.

The M polystachya photo enlarged a lot more.

What makes the difference?

Two photos of Othonna were posted that looked identical.

 When I clicked on the first one, it leaped up off the page into my Downloads file and then appeared as a large photo in Preview. 

That did not happen when I clicked on the second.  It just opened up as a larger photo, as I expected.

What was different about the first one?

I will now click all the other photos to see how they behave.