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hi, here is my hippeastrum I've got few years ago from my friend. I'm wondreing if it's a specific species or some hybrid. I tried to identify it but I'm not an expert and differences between similar species are hardly visible for my. Please help

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???

THANK YOU ULI! I got down on my hands an knees and really checked the offset and as it turned out it is connected to the bulb and apparently does not have a plate of any size.   in addition I found another offset on the opposite side of the mother bulb, same height.  

I have no idea if such a thing occurs in the wild.  THis is also the same mother bulb who's inflorescence grows sideways after emerging.

Jim Foster
Santa Barbara

Here are a few photos from Griffith Park (eastern end of the Santa Monica mountains) in Los Angeles taken May 26th.  This is the first time I have seen Calochortus here - there were only a few.  In previous years I have seen Dipterostemon capitatus and something, possibly a lily with ruffled leaves, but it has never made it to flowering.  The Calochortus are more common in the San Gabriel mountains, a higher range.  

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 🍷 

Another geophyte aroid with an inflorescence out of scale from the plant. Helicodiceros muscivorus "Pig Butt Arum". I wasn't able to get the full effect of the scent due to the wind...supposedly rotting fish, for this coastal plant.

Wrapping up a move half a block up the street...the front yard still needs to be cleared of pots, but everything else is out, and the landlord is at least paying something for the in ground plants (enough to rebuy the species).

"Must See" is definitely some crazy thing. Love the lighting on the Madonna!

So, what's happening at my garden to wrap up May? Lets start with something I try to multiply for an exchange, but it is really difficult as the root crown of Weldenia candida

is quite dense, no eager splitting like in other Comeliaceae. On the other end of multiplying spectrum is Moraea huttonii

, which clumps up nicely - I hope I find a way to split it without hurting it too much.

No splitting possible for Kniphofia northii, it's just a huge tangle and maybe all one stem anyway. Here's also a Iris sibirica

-group cultivar and the weedy but beautiful Allium cristophii

in the background. Another group picture, though there's only one geophyte here: Phlomoides tuberosa - the none-geophytic one being Buddleja globosa. I guess we should put more Lamiaceae on the wiki. Next image is Ixiolirion tartaricum - a genus that will stay alone on it's familiy page as a monogeneric family  

I started my month on orchids so let's end there as well - This year actually the open garden Bletillas started before the potted ones. The clump of Bletilla striata

Height:	10-30 cm (0.3-1 ft)
Flower Colors:	pink, purple, blue, white
Life form:	deciduous rhizome
Climate:	USDA Zone 7-9

albostriata unfortunately pulls aphids in the garden just like in the pots.  Last one is a Calanthe hybrid with the unceremonial description of "yellow Green" in trade. Lokks like sieboldi x tricarinata to me, which could explain its hardiness

That species is a late summer bloomer that does not require full sun, although it needs some sun. It should be old enough to bloom based on when you planted it. Try giving it more sun.