Corydalis from April 2014 (record low temperatures here, but the corydalis didn't mind). These aren't the best pictures, but, whatever.
Corydalis schanginii subsp, schanginii (two pictures), and subsp. ainae.
Thought I'd start a new cyclamen subject. This is about the middle of the cyclamen season which started with "Cyclamen fatrense" a couple of months ago, in the garden here.
First, Cyclamen cilicium. Then a self-sown cilicium and, in the lower part of the photo, a C. coum. (C. coum is one of my favorite "weeds.)
Third, Cyclamen mirabile 'Tile Barn Nicholas', and then a regular mirabile.
Bob
CAN ANYONE ON THE FORUM OFFER SOME ADVICE ON GROWING "GRASS WIDOWS -OLSYMIUMS"
i know they are related to the blue eyed grasses - Sysirhincums - should the culture be similar. I have always been fascinated by the Chilean bulb flora and hope I am sucCessful with these unique plants!
I had almost forgotten these plants - some kind of Iris sown several years ago. They have come to age and flower now, not for the first time, but as early as I have never seen before. Usually they flower while I am away in the summer.
No names (of course!)...
I bought this from a local nursery as Allium maximowiczii alba. It seems like a dead ringer for what Mark identified as Allium maximowiczii ssp. shibutsiense 'Alba' on the PBS site:
http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Chives
The climate here is not the best for tulips although a few seem to thrive.
15 years ago I planted 6 red ones (name forgotten long ago) in a bed and they have been there ever since - and increased a little too. And they have changed colour.
I can't remember for sure but think the red ones with black eyes are the same as the original stock, but some have lost their black eye and some has gotten yellow spots!
We grow a number of autumn flowering Colchicums and these are the latest.
This one we got as "Princess Astrid" - I think it's a form of Colchicum cilicium
This is a pale form of Colchicum cilicium
I thought I should start a new topic as the previous Sth African Bulbs Thread seems to have 3 identical pages at the end!
The main flowering of South African Bulbs at present are the Amaryllis belladonna cultivars - most likely they are hybrids with other amaryllids,
cheers
fermi
While googling hypogeal germination, I found this page. It's very detailed, and all about trillium growth.
More than most will every want to know........
http://www.trilliumresearch.org/your_trillium_studies/ys_01_john_gyer.htm
I had a nice surprise in the greenhouse this week. In 2009, as a doorprize from the Portland Western Winter Study Weekend, I took home a trough that had been planted using soil from Jane McGary. As bulbs germinated, I transferred them to a pot and ignored them. This week this narcissus showed its first flower. Thank you, Jane!
Can anyone put a name to this little darling?