April 2025

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Tritonia Duesta just getting started.

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Gladiolus Equitans...progress pics

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More Sparaxis Tricolor (hybrid ?)

[Arnold]

Leucocoryne purpurea

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Ixia ?  I believe this is one of the commercially grown hybrids. Still, I enjoy them. I have some yellow ones too.

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Well...I forget, so hopefully someone will chime in on these guys???

These have a nice sweet vanilla scent.

[Wylie]

Well...I forget, so hopefully someone will chime in on these guys???

These have a nice sweet vanilla scent.

My guess is Albuca. I have Albuca humilis

[CG100]

Looks like what I know as A. polyphylla. In trade it gets several names, some of them just Albuca sp., with various locations added - in the UK, usually Namibia.
I am unsure that I'd call the scent vanilla, but whatever, it is nice and will scent an entire greenhouse with a few open flowers.
You should find that there are just 2-5 flowers per peduncle. The peduncle completely dwarfs the bulbs, which offset freely.

Fantastic plant!!

Of interest to @Uli   

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Well...I forget, so hopefully someone will chime in on these guys???

These have a nice sweet vanilla scent.

My guess is Albuca. I have Albuca humilis

Thank you Wylie, and cg100. Albuca rings a bell 💍🛎...

They grow easily for me in ground in my garden, and I pay them ZERO attention. They are spreading, slowly, so not a weed like the damn Freesia Laxa have become, and are quickly escalating!!

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Moraea Polystachya

I believe this is the first time I've seen them actively growing and flowering beyond February. They typically come up starting in July if I'm watering well, and finish by end of Feb if it's a drier winter. Sooner in a wet winter. At this point...we're less than 3 months from them actively growing and flowering through an entire year! Based on a few plants I'm seeing around my Garden, I'm thinking it's possible it could happen.

CRAZY!

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Moraea - I understand these were Homeria before being lumped in Moraea. Don't remember what I got these as...Collina? They look like they could also be Ochroleuca. And of course, possible hybrids.

I'm sure I told the story before, but it's interesting so... I planted a patch of these yellow and orange flowered bulbs together in my early bulb days. We had a gopher come through the patch, and the next year, what appeared to be somewhere around the normal # of yellow flowers came up, but not ONE SINGLE orange flower bulb was left. NOT ONE! How is that possible!?! Seems like the orange bulbs must have tasted or smelled different, or maybe the yellow flowering bulbs were not appealing. There must be something to this...?