March 2024

[Too Many Plants!]

Another exciting first flowering of some of my most recent bounty from our last BX. Again I'd like to say a Big Thank you to those generous folks that spread the bulb Love! 

Moraea Aristata

 

 

[Uli]

Is it really four-petalled?

[Too Many Plants!]

Is it really four-petalled?

I didn't even question that, but it sure appears so...

[Wylie]

Homeria flaccida

[Carlos]

Hi, Robin, many thanks!

Some wild daffodils in NE Andalusia

Narcissus coronatus (= pallidulus)





Narcissus longispathus









Narcissus hedraeanthus

[Carlos]

More N. hedraeanthus





And a tiny endemic, Tractema (Scilla) paui

[Too Many Plants!]

Somewhere along the way I lost the ID tag on this Ferraria. If memory serves me, it looks different this season, it doesn't have that typical Ferraria form which I believe it usually has, but it's a different color of a unique locale.

 

[Robin Jangle]

A bit strange looking (tepals quite narrow) but nonetheless Ferraria densepunctulata.

[Arnold]

Lachenalia liliiflora
Moraea polyanthos

[Too Many Plants!]

Another of my Favorites...such rich vivid display in the garden!

Babiana Rubrocyanea

 

[Too Many Plants!]

I have several different color variations of Ferraria Crispa. 

 

[Carlos]

The Oncostema peruviana 'ifniensis' is already in bloom



And Moraea mediterranea

[Too Many Plants!]

A bit strange looking (tepals quite narrow) but nonetheless Ferraria densepunctulata.

Thanks Robin. Maybe this will help confirm. I went back through previous years pics, and know by location of my garden...here's the flowers looking as they typically do. I wonder, we've been getting more rain and with more frequency this late winter/early spring than we have in most of the last 10 years at least. Could that contribute to the flowers looking odd this year??? On that note, many of my bulb flowers are off this year, smaller than normal, and in a couple cases much smaller than normal. For a while I thought that might be an indicator of cooler temps this time of year than typical. But I don't think that's really the case, I think the main difference is the rain. My Moraea Polystachya finished earlier than normal this year, which I've been told here in California they're sensitive to the amount of winter rain we get.

[Too Many Plants!]

Is it really four-petalled?

Well Uli, I guess now I see why you asked...
the second M. Aristata flower appeared today.

 

 

[Judy Glattstein]

With the weather flip-flopping from pleasantly mild before the calendar flipped over to spring on March 19, and now back to winter-y chill (I've again been making fires in the wood burning stove) I wanted to post a picture of Bulbocodium vernum that's nicely flowering in my garden. But I keep getting an error message so you'll just have to take my word for it.