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Hoy
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I bought a bulb of this plant when I visited South Africa in 2003. Now I have a potfull of them and they flower from a long time every spring with nicely scented flowers.
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The Tulbaghias all seem to look pretty
This is a summer grower? It goes out for the summer?
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I grow it in a pot and put the pot outside in spring/summer. It is completely dry during winter (stored in a cool but frost free room) and when I see new buds in early spring I bring it into a slightly warmer room and give it a little water. When the laves get bigger I give more water if necessary (depending on rain if it is outside). When the flowers are done in summer I put the pot behind something else and let the leaves die down during late summer/fall. It is an easy plant and seems to like that the bulbs are crowded.
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Ferraria crispa
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Trond, I think I even saw some common Tulbaghia for sale at Walmart as dry bagged bulbs for summer planting- they've had a Nerine too.. I was going to say I wasn't sure if my summer was warm enough, but I guess (apart from risk of frost) my summer can't be much cooler than yours
And people do grow the big Gladiolus in the garden in summer...
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Quote from: Michael J Campbell on April 12, 2012, 12:58:41 PM
Ferraria crispa
Michael, you are sure it is a flower and not a artistically decorated chocolate cake?
This was a special one
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Quote from: cohan on April 12, 2012, 01:35:07 PM
Trond, I think I even saw some common Tulbaghia for sale at Walmart as dry bagged bulbs for summer planting- they've had a Nerine too.. I was going to say I wasn't sure if my summer was warm enough, but I guess (apart from risk of frost) my summer can't be much cooler than yours
And people do grow the big Gladiolus in the garden in summer...
Cohan, your summer is definitely as warm as mine. I would have problem growing the big gladioli as it often is too cool in summer.
I grow another Tulbaghia in a pot too. It is as easy as simmlerii but much smaller in stature. It flowers later in the summer and all summer till fall.
I once had Nerine bowdenii in the garden all year for several years and it flowered regularly every fall, but I moved it - shouldn't have done for it died.
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Re: South African Bulbs
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Quote from: Hoy on April 12, 2012, 01:46:39 PM
Michael, you are sure it is a flower and not a artistically decorated chocolate cake?
This was a special one
This is just what came to my mind, too: a chocolate dessert. The colors are so distinct and pure!
Nature is so marvelous.
And what an excellent showcase, Michael!
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I forgot to mention that Ferraria- they are quite amazing, Michael
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First flowers from last years seedlings
Babiana tubiflora
Sparaxis grandiflora ssp grandiflora
Sparaxis grandiflora ssp violaceae
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It is interesting that the subspecies violaceae is yellow
. Are the names mixed up on the photos?
Also intriguing on the yellow flower is the looping appendages. Looking at the purple one, they look to be the stigma?
Are these spraxis small, like
sisyrhincium
Sisyrinchium?
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April 21, 2012, 01:07:33 AM »
You are probably right Rick
the seed are from wild collected source
it was the only flowering one this year in the pot
and I didn't control the name on the label
so no idea what for sp. it is but it isn't violaceae
I will have a look later
Quote from: RickR on April 20, 2012, 07:16:54 AM
Are these sparaxis small, like Sisyrincium?
What do you mean by this
the plant or flowers
Today is Gladiolus quadrangulus in flower
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The
sisyrhinium
Sisyrinchium we grow here have small flowers, about 10-12cm. Are those Sparaxis grandiflora that small?
The petals are so symmetrical on your Gladiolus quandrangulus, except for the stamens and pistil, it looks like a lily!
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Quote from: RickR on April 21, 2012, 06:54:54 AM
The sisyrhinium
Sisyrinchium
we grow here have small flowers,
about 10-12cm.
mm?
Are those Sparaxis grandiflora that small?
The Sparaxis flowers where about 3 cm diameter
so by long not so small as Sisyrinchium (I can't find sisyrhinium)
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Sorry that I blundered on both accounts.
Sisyrinchium
flowers here are 10-12
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