October 2022 photos

[MLoos]

Good Lord, those are lovely!  Arnold, your photographic skills are impressive.  Really nice capture.

[Arnold]

Thank you, Mike.

[Carlos]

Wonderful stuff.

Do you know if they have pure botanical Nerine at Exbury? I am looking for  wild types of N. Sarniensis and/or others.

Here a photo taken two weeks ago in my local botanical garden, Valencia. Could it be a wild type?




They have some more interesting things, though mist ofcthe bulb framesxonly have empty spaces with lonely labels... This goes on in this garden since I was a child, even if my land is know as the "land of the flowers" in a popular song.

The other problem here are misidentified plants. The more I look at sarniensis photos, the more I think the plant above is something else...

[Martin Bohnet]

I doubt that you will find "botanical" clones of Nerine sarniensis or bowdenii in European trade - both have been subject to too much selection. I don't even think that my direct SA imports of Nerine masoniorum could be considered as such.

[Martin Bohnet]

so, what's left of October? not much, even though it was very warm for the season - the Hedychium and the Nerine I showed before still are in flower, as are the last few Tricyrtis, the Oxalis both from this and earlier EX...

So, of the things I didn't show before, there's Hypoxis villosa

which I donated in EX04, but that's almost constantly flowering outside of deepest winter. I've got Kniphofia typhoides

Height:	80-100 cm (2.6-3.3 ft)
Flower Colors:	brown
Flower Season:	late summer to early autumn

in flower, one of those plants you grow from seed for curiosity and then can't bring yourself to let it go - it's really just something curious, no beauty. Typically for the time there are of course Iris foetidissima

berries. And then there ist this picture of this floral visitor on Tulbaghia violacea

, where you ask yourself "How did it get there?? - and why ?!?"