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Here's a Rogue post from my SA Garden (well, mostly), of some Winter POW 💥 for y'all...

Aloe Ferox, standard color form, and White Flower form!

Here's an updated pic of L. Viridiflora pushing new leaves out. We just had a couple days of rainy weather, and probably got around an inch to two of rain. A nice drink for my many SA bulbs pushing new growth!

I only had one L. viridiflora send up a scape this year.  Many other things blooming but I have been to busy to get any decent photos.

Nice plants, Arnold!

Variability in Narcissus × montielanus (blancoi × cantabricus). The white one is an F1 plant, and the other two are backcrosses with blancoi. They have a smell (pleasant, unlike cantabricus), but the white one doesn't (like blancoi). All have long, thin leaves like cantabricus.

Taxonomical notes: Narcissus blancoi is also lumped within N. hedraeanthus as subsp. luteolentus, but it has a very different ecology and a different chemical profile. Anyway, if you choose that name, the hybrid with cantabricus is to be called N. × cazorlanus nothosubsp. montielanus because cazorlanus was named first, even if all the evidence shows that it is an imaginary hybrid made up by the phony Fernández Casas. Hedraeanthus simply grows above cantabricus, above 1000 m, and no one has found the hybrid after the publication.

Moraea polystachya 

A larger bloom as the season progresses, beet light as well.

I have had the bulbs of Chasmanthe floribunda var. duckitti for several years, but this is the first time they have flowered. The plant is tall and the wind does its thing with them, this year it just knocked them over but they bloomed anyway.

Then I have a Gladiolus seedling that is flowering for the first time. The species and their seedlings are better suited to here because they are not affected by the wind.

I've been knee deep building out our new well sight, and switching over our water supply. Whew!

A couple I'm excited about.

Small yet developed, showing all the right stuff of that great V. Deassii leaf form!

Always a special one in flower, just making its stage entrance. L. Viridiflora!