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Ferraria variabilis

Flowered a week later last year.

Some Lachenalias currently in bloom.

Interesting. My L. quadricolor are long finished and L. aloides have not even started their flower scape.
Shmuel
Jerusalem Israel 
Zone 9b

Is Amana anhuiensis definitely different from Amana edulis? It looks very similar, and one reads that Amana is a monotypic genus.

Lachenalia carnosa

Quote from: janemcgary on February 15, 2023, 02:23:57 PMIs Amana anhuiensis definitely different from Amana edulis? It looks very similar, and one reads that Amana is a monotypic genus.

Plants Of the World Online lists 6 species these days. Since I only grow one species I can only say what it was sold as.  From what I've seen on pictures, edulis has a red net with distinguished lines on the outside, and mine has a soft reddish shade.

Some hoop-petticoats from Spain:

Narcissus bulbocodium subsp. bulbocodium var. ectrandrus, or just subsp. ectandrus for some, after its well exerted style and stamens:



Narcissus cantabricus SL 432 (Almería, Spain, thanks to Dylan Hannon)



Narcissus x bastitanus, an invalid name which will have to be replaced sometime. Narcissus blancoi x cantabricus.



Narcissus bulbocodium from above Ifrane towards the sources of the Oum er Rbia river, Middle Atlas, probably at 1200 m or more. This circulates as subsp praecox but it is not, as praecox was described from coastal areas being light yellow (ochroleucus) and with included stamens. Not jeanmonodii, not jaquemoudii, not peroccidentalis...





More to come

Carlos Jiménez

So there must be two different ways to include photos. One produces the thumbnails with a filename that can be clicked on to open a much higher resolution image. The other just seems to insert the photo at maybe not it's highest resolution but is much bigger than a thumbnail image. But I don't see any icon in the Reply box to insert a photo. It wasn't till I "previewed" my post that a button appeared for "Attachments and other options". But it only gives the method to insert attachments by dragging and dropping or pressing an Add Files button. I don't know how to insert photos that produce the thumbnail with hidden but included high resolution image.

Quick reply (which appears by default) has no option for photos. But if you click on Reply, you get the full fat version with a button for attachments.

Secrets of photos
1 - use the Reply button
2 - Find "Attachments and other options" down at the bottom.
3 - cue up your photos and then click upload (by which I mean drag and drop on the upload area, or browse for them, having selected photos for upload they then have to be uploaded)
4 - you can now use "Insert" which puts "attach" markup in your reply (or copy the markup) (square brackets with the word 'attach' and an image reference in).
5 - Or do nothing at step 4 and your photos will appear as thumbnails at the end of the post

Quote from: Lee Poulsen on February 14, 2023, 03:44:31 PMSome Lachenalias currently in bloom

Dang! That's impressive, Lee!

A few warm days finally did the trick, the garden almost explodes...

While the yellow "Spindlestone surprise" graces me with two flowers in its first season, it's the nondescript basic Galanthus nivalis

that throws around spring excessiveness.

Talking about garden center species, the Iris reticulata

-clones and hybrids also almost explode from the ground - and, as always, Scilla monanthos

opens the blue star season for me.

Meanwhile in the house, Trimezia steyermarkii

has reactivated a stalk I thought I had lost for good via side growth - see that nibbled away leaf in the lower corner? fascinating how one always manages to get a geometer moth caterpillar or two into winter quarters...

Ferraria crispa

Is this the world's tallest crocus - growing through another plant has apparently elongated the flower. A whole new hobby growing extra long flowers by forcing - they do it with leeks.

Two photos (of the same plant) of (Clivia caulescens x mirabilis) X self, blooming now for the first time since I sowed the seed (from South Africa) 5 years ago.  This is very typical of the flower shape and color of the five Clivia species other than Clivia miniata, which is the one most people think of when they think Clivia.  These can be, and are being bred with Clivia miniata, resulting in a flower sharing traits of both parents to varying degrees.