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Quote from: Carlos on December 26, 2024, 06:10:19 AMI wonder 'how many plants' do you have...

G. equitans is really cool! I spent a little fortune on small portions of about 25 species from Seeds and all, they took three months to arrive and nothing sprouted, so I was quite deceived, specially by the seller. I am about to be equally deceived by Julian Slade in Australia. I mean, I am good at making seeds sprout. And I send good seeds, usually for free or against other seeds.

Seeds and small bulbs from SX are doing quite well, but more uncommon species are hard to come by.

I wanted to take a moment and Thank @Carlos, for his generous seed Christmas card!! We were originally going to trade some seeds, then later Carlos decided he wasn't interested in the seeds I had, but still sent a very generous Christmas card gift of seeds. 

Carlos, I still would Love to return the seed Love! If there's anything you see me post that you're interested in, please ask about it. Again, our primary focus is the SA winter rain med type species. Sunny warm/hot summers, cooler winters with some cold winter nights, winter rain/summer dry. I could also send you Aloe seed if that is something you might be interested in. We have a fairly extensive collection, and get OP seed from many of our Aloes. Which if you germ and grow on a decent amount some should come out pure sp., along with some hybrids. Some hybrid Aloes make incredible garden subjects, and some of those have absolutely AMAZING flowers! In some cases rivaling some of the best flowers in the Aloe Kingdom. And that's saying something!

Updated pics of our Veltheimia Capensis "Deasii" type. To me, (though these are still small, and years from equal size) these look distinctly different than my or any Capensis species I've seen here in Cali.

Hi, I'm glad that you got the card. Sow everything quickly, I already have seedlings on what I sowed from the same batches.

I say yes to arborescent Aloe as my Bolivian contact likes them and he will give wild Hippeastrum in return (he is working with a national herbarium, he is not a poacher). 

Happy new year!!

Ferraria densepunctulata

In better light.

Quote from: Arnold on December 27, 2024, 01:07:58 PMFerraria densepunctulata

In better light.

LOVE IT, Arnold! I believe I spied leaves coming up from our Densepuctulata bulbs I planted last year from one of our recent BX's...excited to see them come up and flower in our Garden.

Here's another Christmas flower cheer rogue post...from our SA Garden. Not a Geophyte, but imho a SA closely allied plant- in terms of being a resource storing survival plant.

Cheiridopsis Purperea. A mesemb native to SA Richtersveld. (I lost my tag, but am fairly confident this is the sp., (I know I have it and it looks correct).

Hi

Well, Aizoaceae are not even remotely allied to geophytes, at least to true bulbous plants in class Liliopsidae (monocots). 

But Moraea pritzeliana is

Wild Dipcadi serotinum. First photos show plants on a southern exposure, a bit stressed. The two last ones of plants growing in shade.

I saw over 50 plants and not the slightest sign of a flowering scape, but that's what is to be expected of serotinum.

Oron Peri messaged me and he was surprised at how big the siblings of my Dipcadi fulvum that I sent to him are (also in flower at his place). They are not  'big', that's the size of fulvum.




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Quote from: Carlos on December 29, 2024, 01:49:42 AMHi

Well, Aizoaceae are not even remotely allied to geophytes, at least to true bulbous plants in class Liliopsidae (monocots).

I didn't mean it literally, or that it is in any way genetically related. Just as an SA collecting fan, in a fun-loving way, it's a habitat cousin/neighbor to our many SA bulbs, and it is also a resource-storing survival plant.

One thing to keep in mind when I post...we are in no way botanists, of scientific background, and our interests/views don't come from a place of scientific/botanist thinking and strictly science. Our point of view is from a place of being Garden/landscape plant geeks with a fascination and passion for plants, their beauty, unusual shapes/forms/colors, and the interest they bring to our Garden!

Quote from: Carlos on December 29, 2024, 01:49:42 AMHi

Well, Aizoaceae are not even remotely allied to geophytes, at least to true bulbous plants in class Liliopsidae (monocots).

But Moraea pritzeliana is

Very cool! We are excited to see our M. Pritzeliana from a recent BX is leafing out now for the first time.

Any help...would be appreciated! This is from a recent '23 BX, and we planted Dec 2023.

Daubenya Alba

https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Daubenya

First emerging leaves since planting, and to me they don't look correct. I searched the web, and found no corresponding pics.

Any thoughts, opinions, experience on these guys???

Thanks and Happy New Year 🎇🥳🎆

@Too Many Plants! : could be helpful to post ID requests over in the mystery bulb section(edit: as you did. sorry!). other than that: no idea, but I also would expect wider leaves from anything remotely Daubenya-ish.

All I can give at this time of the year and after a bright, sunny but painfully cold week  is a cybister Hippeastrum called 'Chico' (I use it that way around since I can't be sure it is a pure Hippeastrum cybister

) I obviously planted one week too late for Xmas flowering - it was "by-catch" with something more close to my core interests (I really have to learn to restrict myself and not just add this, that, and that, too, to my core orders...), and if one is only used to the huge tetraploid hybrids flowers may look small, but it certainly has charm.

Quote from: Too Many Plants! on December 29, 2024, 11:03:41 AM

Quote from: Carlos on December 29, 2024, 01:49:42 AMHi

Well, Aizoaceae are not even remotely allied to geophytes, at least to true bulbous plants in class Liliopsidae (monocots).

I didn't mean it literally, or that it is in any way genetically related. Just as an SA collecting fan, in a fun-loving way, it's a habitat cousin/neighbor to our many SA bulbs, and it is also a resource-storing survival plant.

One thing to keep in mind when I post...we are in no way botanists, of scientific background, and our interests/views don't come from a place of scientific/botanist thinking and strictly science. Our point of view is from a place of being Garden/landscape plant geeks with a fascination and passion for plants, their beauty, unusual shapes/forms/colors, and the interest they bring to our Garden!

I understand, sorry. I am thinking of taxonomy most of the time, I can't help it.

So 2024 is coming to an end.

Best wishes for 2025. 


Acis tingitana

Colchicum (Androcymbium) europaeum

Me again.

 I got permission to post these photos of Dipcadi fulvum at Dar Bouazza, near Casablanca in Morocco, taken by Élias Laraqui. 

There are some wonderful geophytes there, but the area will soon be 'developed'.