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Same genus, but a different species

Sheila also put her photo on our wiki.


The other 6 species of Leucocoryne  I bought from F & W have not bloomed yet - lots of leaves, though.

This is the third year that Leucocoryne macropetala has flowered. 
I bought seeds from John Watson and Anita Flores in 2003.

I sent some of the seeds to Sheila Burrow in Perth, Australia. 
I wonder if hers have flowered.           

Wylie,

You could just exchange pollen - a lot easier than exchanging a bulb.

Several years ago a friend gave me a seedling of a cross he had made:  Clivia miniata x gardenii.

The leaves are narrower than the other clivias I grow, but it hasn't flowered yet.

Hmm - I've just checked the labels on some of my other clivias and several are hybrids (F1 or F2) of the same two species.  I've had them for many years and don't recall them ever flowering either.

After a long wait since I sowed the seeds in December 2007, I am enjoying a potful of Narcissus romieuxii flowers.  I sowed seeds of subspecies rifanus and also romieuxii hybrids, but all six flowers look exactly alike, so I don't think these will be hybrids.

Quote from: janemcgary on December 28, 2023, 01:25:51 PMI have a whole lot of Crocus sativus, apparently thriving in the veg garden

Every few years I buy some Crocus sativus bulbs, but they never flower after the first year.

The instructions say:

General Discussion
Feel free to talk about anything and everything about geophytes in this board.

And "anything and everything" have been discussed.

Here are the topics, though I have left out the numbers of posts.

deer
gopher
mealy bugs & scale   
slugs & snails
spiders
stagonospora
virus

hand pollination
microwaving pollen   
storing pollen
 
Seed cleaning
trading seeds
SX seed results
paper pots for starting seeds 
seed starting times   
starting winter-growing seeds 
sowing old seed
flotation for seed germination   
transplanting seedlings   
time for seedlings to flower
   
chipping bulbs
bulbils
transplanting bulbs

summer growers
summer bulbs planted 
growth cycles
invasive bulbs

adapting imported bulbs

labels
stakes
sand (plunge) bed
soil mixes
fertilizer
gibberellic acid
mychorrizae

flower colors
short-lived flowers     

Oxalis is most popular, with 39 posts, and Lilium is second, with 30.

I find it odd that there was nothing at all about daffodils and snowdrops.

I'll post the whole list next.

I have gone through the 12 pages of the General Discussion and counted how many posts and replies have been made about bulbs.

Guess which was the most written about genus.

Diane

Yes.  Sunset considers topography and temperatures for the whole year.

USDA uses winter low temperatures only.  That is why my cool summer area has the same zone as places like Georgia.

I have only tried germinating colchicum twice - C. bornmuelleri - in 2000.  One seed germinated in 2008.  It continues to put up a leaf every year but has not flowered yet.

In 2007 I sowed C. boissieri which did not germinate at all.

I decided never to grow any from seed again.

Which ones are growing outside in your garden?

I can't remember what postage I had to pay from Silverhill.

I do know how much I pay from the U.S. to Canada - $15, and that is just for a few packets of seed.

I was puzzled why a nerine flower was sitting on a small pot.  Had someone knocked it off?

Then I found one of my hybrids was growing in the pot and was flowering, right at the surface of the soil.  I hybridize nerines every year and didn't write the date on its label, but it might be from 2018.  I was hoping for a brighter colour.

The pot is 12 cm tall (5 inches).

I just bought two more bowdenii from Phoenix Perennials in Vancouver BC - Elegance and Kashmir.  Oh, maybe they are both hybrids.

Kashmir:  Raised by Tony Norris from a cross between 'Blush Beauty' and 'Solent Swan'. In his catalogue  he says:"The strength of bowdenii with an almost white flower, with a pale pink centre. "



I discovered a nursery in the Netherlands that sells a lot of nerines, including a "Breeders' Mix" of bowdenii.  White, various pinks, salmon, bright red.  Really cheap, too - 85 euros each.  It took a lot of reading of the website to discover they don't sell anywhere except within the EU.  Very disappointing.

Then I found the website of Jacques Amand in the U.K. - not as many nerines as Eurobulb, but they are willing to ship anywhere.  The phyto will cost £75, and the postage will be even more than that.

I guess I'll just have to keep on hybridizing.