profligate seed-droppers

Joe G joseph.andrew.gorman@gmail.com
Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:12:29 PDT
At some point in my childhood, my parents' Chlorophytum comosum (spider
plant) lost its variegation and started throwing endless flower spikes and
setting loads of seed in addition to its usual vegetative babies.

They look a lot different depending on how much light and water they get,
tricking me into thinking they're anything from low-light Amaryllids to
desert Asparagoids.

-joe in Southwest Virginia, where the Sternbergias just finished blooming
and we're under a tornado watch today and a freeze warning tonight


On Thu, Oct 31, 2019, 1:36 PM Diane <voltaire@islandnet.com> wrote:

> Which species do you grow that seed themselves into nearby pots?
>
> I was so pleased to see the first flower stalk emerging on Onixotis
> stricta, (now changed to Wurmbea) from Silverhill seeds sown in 2009.  It
> has now developed enough that I can see the bumps of flowerbuds.  Oh, oh.
> Very familiar looking, and when it opens, it is going to reveal itself as
> Nerine undulatus.
>
> And the healthy plants in my pots of Gladiolus arcuatus and G. maculatus
> are the same nerine.  I do like the nerine, but I need to pay attention to
> where its tall stems bend over and drop seeds.
>
> Diane Whitehead
> Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
>
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