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Quote from: Too Many Plants! on June 22, 2024, 03:42:41 PMWell, I wasn't expecting to be able to post a bulb flowering in the 101°F of late June. But here I am! Unfortunately I can't seem to locate the tag, and I'm not into disturbing the bulb while flowering or digging on my knees in 101°F for a tag 🏷�. To kill a gopher in my garden...for sure! But a 🏷� will have to wait. Maybe someone will recognize this (should be) South African species???

Forgot to mention...excited to see this bulbs very first flowering!!

It is a Crinum species - foliage resembles that of C. lugardiae but flowers will be needed to confirm.

Arisaema cf. consanguineum Dark Leaf and a few views of the grove of Amorphophallus ongsakulii inside.

Not a lot of excitement with the Amorphophallus yet (I started them late, and it's been cold once they get outside), so I think I'll put in a batch of pretty summer bulb flowers that are keeping the local bumblebees happy: (mostly) Indigenous varieties of potato. They flower and set seed fairly easily. Very fast to bloom from seed or tuber.

MORE June heat action! Pictured on a late June 101°F afternoon...here's a new round of Habranthus Robustus, (Mike thought was) Habranthus Robustus 'Russell Manning'.

And something else coming up I'll have to see if I can look up.

Well, I wasn't expecting to be able to post a bulb flowering in the 101°F of late June. But here I am! Unfortunately I can't seem to locate the tag, and I'm not into disturbing the bulb while flowering or digging on my knees in 101°F for a tag 🏷�. To kill a gopher in my garden...for sure! But a 🏷� will have to wait. Maybe someone will recognize this (should be) South African species???

Forgot to mention...excited to see this bulbs very first flowering!!

Couple updated flower bud pics 6/26/24

I have one that is similar. I bought it at the local farming supply store. There was a display with several bulbs, Hippeastrums, those tall Gladious hybrids, the usual stuff. Only there wasn't a way to label each one and in Europe, not providing plastic bags is a thing. So I lumped the ones I wanted together and the names are lost.

Someone once remarked in the AHS Journal (Daylilies) that the most common parent for new hybrids is 'Unknown'. If I don't know or am unsure, I go with 'Unk', and just give the one I have like yours the garden name of Red & White.

I get it. You have won some seeds of "number 5".Those other taxa closer to 'n° 15' seem to mimic dry grasses, for some reason, maybe to escape herbivores looking for the last green leaves to eat before the long summer drought..

Here another tiny jewel from Portugal. Number 20?

Greg is interesting. I only looked at the website and did not run the app.

It reminded me of "Dave's Garden" website. They seem to have got lots of user input, something PBS has struggled with on the wiki.

Problems I foresee are that some plants want watering when they are dry, rather than just once a week. An app. can remind you once a week, but can't see the plant is dry. The usual qualitative description fuzziness, "full sun" varies with where you are. And plants can survive in different conditions - just because your conditions are not optimal does not mean you can't grow something.

Commercial offering which allows them to do things... the business model is people are anxious about keeping plants, offer them reassurance.

"Sharing photos and moments" -- I've certainly had some plant moments in the garden best not shared.

I see some people get a Greg QR code with plants. Maybe PBS could be supplied in the box too.

There's an Amazon advert on UK TV at the moment where a young person moves into a bare and forbidding apartment and makes it friendly by buying plants and gardening supplies on Amazon. This is gardening for the future.

Hello Peter,

I cannot comment on Blue Curls.

But I have been growing Albuca fragrans for some years, originally from Silverhill seed. A beautiful tall late spring flowering plant, about 120cm tall in flower, summer dormant. Hanging yellow flowers with some green, the yellow is dominating. A good potful makes quite a show. Distinct from Albuca clanwilliamigloria which is much taller and which has much larger flowers in pure yellow.
One interesting feature in Albuca fragrans is that the tip of the inflorescence is hanging down as long as it is in bud, it later straightens up. I could never detect any fragrance whatsoever, neither during the day nor at night. Very easy from seed, flowers the second year from seed if well fed. I find that first time blooming bulbs perform best, they tend to decline after flowering, producing lots of offsets. Sets copious amounts of seed. No idea where the name fragrans comes from and no idea if my plant is correctly named.