February 2025

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My first Ferraria flowers of the season!

Ferraria Crispa

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I'll post a progression here of this Gladiolus from a 2023 BX. I planted two bulbs, and only one is sending up a flower stalk. I wonder...is the other bulb gone, or just sleeping...?

As always I offer a Thank You, to those generous PBS folks that share the bulb Love!

Gladiolus Bonaspei - fm SH seed Silvesmere locale.

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My second Ferraria to open this season. MIA tag 🏷�, sooo if anyone has a guess or knows please chime in.

Ferraria ?

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It has begun!

Sparaxis Elegans

[Uli]

I'll post a progression here of this Gladiolus from a 2023 BX. I planted two bulbs, and only one is sending up a flower stalk. I wonder...is the other bulb gone, or just sleeping...?

As always I offer a Thank You, to those generous PBS folks that share the bulb Love!

Gladiolus Bonaspei - fm SH seed Silvesmere locale.

If it flowers without leaves the other corm might come up later with a leaf only. A bit strange, though that a leafless flower appears now, I would have expected that kind of behavior in autumn.

[Arnold]

I have a number of Arums that have suffered the same condition

Leaves yellow and wither,  I first thought it was due to the type of fertilizer I was using, but haven't use any on the pictured plant which is a hybrid of   Arum creticum  and Arum palaestinum created by a friend in Italy
Angelo Porcelli 

It's potted in a gritty mix with only about 20 percent commercial potting mix.

Lives in a cool greenhouse along side all my SA bulbs.

Any suggestions as to what's ailing the plant?

[Uli]

Hello Arnold 
Has your Arum got dry accidentally?

[Arnold]

Uli

It's in a fairly large pot.  I water once per week.

[Robert_Parks]

I'm guessing it is a fungal rust, I just haven't gotten around to spraying for that...only some species, and mostly where it is moister and shadier...the ones in the sun and wind out front have less.

Robert

[Martin Bohnet]

@Too Many Plants! That second ferraria should be crispa, too - they are quite variable.

later than usual, spring has started for me, too - of course with Galanthus (Spindlestone Surprise and Green Fingers shown here). My spring colchicums only came through after some iron phosphate "fertilization" - that's a late Colchicum serpentinum

, and Colchicum robustum

(syn jolantheae) - the rescue seemingly came too late for luteum.

In the cold house, Asphodelus acaulis

finally opened up - last year I had it flowering all February on the front stairs, but as I said before, this February was colder by far.