Jan. 2025

Started by Arnold, January 04, 2025, 01:32:25 PM

Previous topic - Next topic

Uli

Quote from: Too Many Plants! on January 05, 2025, 10:09:18 AM
Quote from: Uli on January 04, 2025, 03:22:14 PMHello All,

Greetings and best wishes for the New Year to everybody!
And some impressions from today's walk round the garden, rain announced, black clouds but no rain so far....

The yellow fireworks is Aloe arborescens ssp. mzimnyati.

Nice Garden tour, Uli! Here in California where Aloe Arborescens has long been a landscape plant in many milder USDA 9B and up areas, that is an unusual color. Our common color is Orange, or sometimes a pinkish or reddish orange. The more straight red is rare and sought after, as well as we have yellow forms which are very uncommon. But that looks to be kind of a peachy yellow...
As promised, I had another look at the yellow Aloe and took this picture during a sunny spell. I don't see much red in the flowers.
Uli
Algarve, Portugal
350m elevation, frost free
Mediterranean Climate

Carlos

Lovely Aloe @Uli 

I decided to start gathering Mediterranean Romukea as they are the kind of group that I like: dozens of names, often for the same plant but in a different island, or across the border of a country, etc.

Tempskyana seems to be fairly stable and well defined, these deep purple flowers are stunning

20250110_164130.jpg

From Episkopí, Cyprus (or the part of Cyprus under British rule).

:
Carlos Jiménez
Valencia, Spain, zone 10
Dry Thermomediterranean, 450 mm

Too Many Plants!

#17
Quote from: Carlos on January 10, 2025, 03:05:31 PMLovely Aloe @Uli

I decided to start gathering Mediterranean Romukea as they are the kind of group that I like: dozens of names, often for the same plant but in a different island, or across the border of a country, etc.

Tempskyana seems to be fairly stable and well defined, these deep purple flowers

Very nice, Carlos! I have a yellow Romulea with a similar shape flower and size (I'm guessing). Forget the name (I'll have to check my tag tomorrow) edit: I looked it up tonight, R. Setifolia. They are naturalizing for me very nicely. I've gotten good amounts of seed from them the last couple seasons. Would that interest you???  pics attached...

Carlos

Hi, @Too Many Plants! , only Northern species... Thanks.
Carlos Jiménez
Valencia, Spain, zone 10
Dry Thermomediterranean, 450 mm

Too Many Plants!

Quote from: Carlos on January 11, 2025, 06:06:33 AMHi, @Too Many Plants! , only Northern species... Thanks.

Carlos, what do you have against South African Fynbos Cape species!?! 😜

Carlos

#20
1. I think that their taxonomy is better resolved. Here it is a mess of names, 'species' which have never been relocated, etc. Even the choromosome number has not been correctly studied for some species.

2. They can hybridize with what I have. I am already thinking about how to prevent this on my native plants.

3. My collection is getting difficult to manage.

4. There are many more interesting plants for me to spend money on first.

5. Speaking of SA, I prefer to focus on Amaryllidaceae, and maybe Massonia and Gladiolus.More tempskyana, this accession came from Samos island.

20250112_110622.jpg

Crocea, or bulbocodium subsp. crocea

20250112_113737.jpg

Bulbocodium (subsp. bulbocodium,) from southern Italy, maybe Apulia (ex Angelo Porcelli as I've been told).

20250112_115212.jpg

Another take of the Hyacinthoides aristidis, showing how in this genus the first flowers to open are those at the top.

20250112_111412.jpg

Allium canariense

20250112_113754.jpg

Narcissus dubius

20250112_115446.jpg


Carlos Jiménez
Valencia, Spain, zone 10
Dry Thermomediterranean, 450 mm

Too Many Plants!

Very Nice purple Romulea, Carlos! As well as the yellow flower too.

Who said anything about spending money...I was offering to send you some seed. 

BTW...I have some seed of a few different SA Gladiolus, are there any in particular you might like to have?

Carlos

Carlos Jiménez
Valencia, Spain, zone 10
Dry Thermomediterranean, 450 mm

Carlos

Hi, I am having spring in January. I didn't dxpect so many Romulea to flower so early. But after two days of rain at 8-10°, we got 18° again... so pollinatirs are active.

Romulea leichtliniana. It has been considered as a variety of bulbocodium, but it is more robust and the flowers are 1.5 times bigger. Fascinating.

20250118_120625.jpg20250118_120602.jpg

Sternbergia vernalis (fischeriana)

20250118_131429.jpg

Allium chamaemoly, eastern form, from Greece

20250118_134013.jpg
Carlos Jiménez
Valencia, Spain, zone 10
Dry Thermomediterranean, 450 mm

Too Many Plants!

I've been knee deep building out our new well sight, and switching over our water supply. Whew!

A couple I'm excited about.

Small yet developed, showing all the right stuff of that great V. Deassii leaf form!

Always a special one in flower, just making its stage entrance. L. Viridiflora!

Wylie

I have had the bulbs of Chasmanthe floribunda var. duckitti for several years, but this is the first time they have flowered. The plant is tall and the wind does its thing with them, this year it just knocked them over but they bloomed anyway.

Then I have a Gladiolus seedling that is flowering for the first time. The species and their seedlings are better suited to here because they are not affected by the wind.

Arnold

Lachenalia aloides quadricolor
Arnold T.
North East USA

Arnold

Moraea polystachya 

A larger bloom as the season progresses, beet light as well.
Arnold T.
North East USA

Carlos

Nice plants, Arnold!

Variability in Narcissus × montielanus (blancoi × cantabricus). The white one is an F1 plant, and the other two are backcrosses with blancoi. They have a smell (pleasant, unlike cantabricus), but the white one doesn't (like blancoi). All have long, thin leaves like cantabricus.

Taxonomical notes: Narcissus blancoi is also lumped within N. hedraeanthus as subsp. luteolentus, but it has a very different ecology and a different chemical profile. Anyway, if you choose that name, the hybrid with cantabricus is to be called N. × cazorlanus nothosubsp. montielanus because cazorlanus was named first, even if all the evidence shows that it is an imaginary hybrid made up by the phony Fernández Casas. Hedraeanthus simply grows above cantabricus, above 1000 m, and no one has found the hybrid after the publication.

20250124_164053.jpg
20250124_164013.jpg
20250124_163858.jpg
Carlos Jiménez
Valencia, Spain, zone 10
Dry Thermomediterranean, 450 mm

Randy Linke

I only had one L. viridiflora send up a scape this year.  Many other things blooming but I have been to busy to get any decent photos.