June 2025

[Robert_Parks]

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).

[Arnold]

Haemanthus humilis

[Too Many Plants!]

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 🍷 

[Too Many Plants!]

Rogue post!... 

Lets see if anyone can guess what it is???

[Too Many Plants!]

And these came up the other day! Nice to have a few bulbs flowering past winter/spring!!

Forget what they are... anyone?

[Martin Bohnet]

@Too Many Plants! I'm not even sure with your 1st one - anything in Brunsvigia? The rogue post looks plant-wise like Dasylirion, but they seem to have mostly unbranched inflorescences? And the rain lilies? they don't work for me at all so I'm totally clueless about the specifics.

Now to my Pictures - first is of course the Merwilla plumbea

- a few days ago, since it was very hot it "burned up" quickly. Next is, to me at least, another blue in perfect combination: Allium caeruleum

Height:	30-45 cm (1-1.5 ft)
Flower Colors:	blue
Flower Season:	late spring to early summer
Life form:	deciduous bulb

(from EX09 @Fedde ) with Digitalis obscura.

Meanwhile in the bog, you can see that orchids never get weedy - yes, that are dozends Pogonia ophioglossoides - and one Pogonia japonica in the extra pic, in case you can't find it on the wide shot...the Calopogon tuberosus

pic is taken a few days later. That one is also multiplying quite well, though not at Pogonia speed.

In the one day wonder department we have Tigridia chiapensis

Flower Colors:	white, yellow
Life form:	deciduous bulb

together with Ferraria welwitschii

Height:	30-45 cm (1-1.5 ft)
Flower Colors:	yellow, brown, patterned
Flower Season:	early summer

, which again are in the darker range of their color spectrum, likely due to a few very hot days. I have yet to find out why they "choose" different times of the summer to flower and then vary from bright yellow to this orange.

Another thing from the open garden is Brodiaea minor

syn purdii from @Antoine Hoog 's donation to EX09, which came well through the winter, hope it establishes well as I think it's really cute.

Last one was a huge surprise for me: Tropaeolum cilliatum finally flowers in the open garden after not freezing down completely last winter - unfortunately no one will see as this is hidden inside my huge elderberry...

[Wylie]

I have no idea what I am doing right to get a Sprekelia formosissima to bloom. I have it outdoors all the time, so lots of water in the winter and very dry in summer. Other bulbs get leaves, but no flowers.

[Sylvia]

Your photo replicates exactly my plant that has just ended blooming, sending up its first and only flower a few weeks ago.   I bought the bulb in spring 2018 and clearly had no idea how to handle it.  For some reason I got its dormancy season right last year, set the pot out in the garden and out of the blue it shot up a bright red flower.  Or maybe it just needed to grow on for 7 years.

Sylvia in day 10 of persistent June Gloom garnering 2" of fog drip in that time