March 2025

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My very first flowering of my M. Vegeta from a 2023 BX I believe...these first flowers in the ground in full sun are pretty small.

Moraea Vegeta

[Uli]

It is Ipheion uniflorum. There are different colour forms around, the one with the most intense blue for me is ,Jessie'
,Rolf Fiedler' is also a good blue but apparently it is a separate species of which I do not recall the name.
The regular uniflorum is relatively pale blue, older flowers fading to a paler hue, so that is probably your plant 

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It is Ipheion uniflorum. There are different colour forms around, the one with the most intense blue for me is ,Jessie'
,Rolf Fiedler' is also a good blue but apparently it is a separate species of which I do not recall the name.
The regular uniflorum is relatively pale blue, older flowers fading to a paler hue, so that is probably your plant

Last year they came up from the start basically looking white. Some flowers barely had a hint of blue hue in certain light.

[Robert_Parks]

Melasphaerula graminea is a small flowered bulb that has a lot of flowers on a single stem.

Still blooming in my greenhouse (volunteer in an Amorphophallus pot). It appears the musty scent is an evening thing, replacing the sweetness of the day.

Robert
about to get hammered with rain in San Francisco

[Aad]

Tecophilea violiflora

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Sparaxis Tricolor. 

Though Robin says many of my S. Tricolor are hybrids, with most likely elegans and Pillansii. Some of them look hybrid to me. So I guess I don't know which are, and are not. Even so...I look forward to their winter cheer every year!

Interesting note on the clump pictured. These pink and white flowers look quite different than they have in past years. Darker pink, and less white. 

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First Flowers of my Babiana Rubrocyanea. OR, are they B. Regia???

Everything in cultivation circulation here in the US is called B. Rubro as far as I know, but I've often wondered...I have 4 different clumps in my Garden. (I can't remember how many for sure, but from at least two different sources)

[Martin Bohnet]

Ipheion uniflorum seems to be very variable in its flower colors depending on temperature - that may explain your experience.

Talking about variable color: When Antoine Hoog described "EX09_522 Crocus seed-raised from Crocus exiguus, multi-colored" I was hopeful, and I have not been disappointed - just the kind of variation I adore: lines, patterns, and differences between inner and outer petals. That patch is a little bit weather worn as we just have left a a wet and cool week, but they are still lovely in their individuality.
Even more color power is of course in Tulipa kaufmanniana

- thanks to an all day conference I missed them being open over a week ago as first tulips every year, but they also handled the week of bad wetter quite well. But color power isn't everything - Colchicum szovitsii

'Tivi' is one of my favourite spring colchicums, and the pale ice blue of Puschkinia scilloides

is quite charming as well - and at least for now it's not such a weed like the Chinoscillas which pop up everywhere.

[MLoos]

Just a few crazy snowdrops.  I think there are two duplicate cultivar flowers, the remaining are different.  Overnight it went down to 24F/-4C and they're all down on the ground.

The orchid is Pterostylis curta from the BX last year.

Michael
Interlaken NY z6

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Cyanella Orchidiformis in FULL flower now.

[Arnold]

Amorphophallus dunnii

No  discernible scent

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Babiana Rubrocyanea in Full GLORIOUS bloom!! 

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Sparaxis Tricolor.

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Morning Sunshine 🌞 on my Moraea Aristata! Most photos don't do it justice...

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Moraea Vegeta