November

[Martin Bohnet]

November is definitely not my most floriferous month, but Pleione 'Marmoset'

Height:	0-10 cm (0-3.9 inch)
Flower Colors:	white, red, purple, patterned
Flower Season:	early winter

gave me a nice early flowering surprise, possibly due to the warm October. All in all it had been a difficult year for Pleiones, summer was too hot and too dry to their liking, and I'll only see the extend of the damage to the spring flowering ones, well, in spring.

[Arnold]

Veltheimia capensis at full color

[KenP]

Paramongaia weberbaueri (winter growing)

Three years ago I purchased one near flowering sized bulb. Second year in flower. I also purchased 5 'summer' growing bulbs. The 5 came up in summer for two years but this year nothing. Fall of this year they emerged. I guess they are not summer growers after all. 

[KenP]

Worsleya procera

I'm 2014 I purchased an offset 3 leaf bulb of Worsleya procera. I repotted it this spring. My son noticed today new 'leaves' growing maybe three to the left of the growing point. Could this be a flower forming? 

[Wylie]

Paramongaia weberbaueri (winter growing)

Three years ago I purchased one near flowering sized bulb. Second year in flower. I also purchased 5 'summer' growing bulbs. The 5 came up in summer for two years but this year nothing. Fall of this year they emerged. I guess they are not summer growers after all.

I used the microwave method Uli wrote about, and it looks hopeful for seed! It has been a month, and the pod, while not very large, has not withered and the scape is still strong.

[Arnold]

Flowers to follow.  Cyclamen coum "Yayladagi"

[David Pilling]

Arnold that cyclamen leaf pattern looks a bit like a Christmas tree.

Often there are reports in the 'papers that famous faces have been found in pizzas etc.

[Arnold]

I thought it would make a nice holiday card.

[David Pilling]

I thought it would make a nice holiday card.

Good idea. With a bit of layout.

Yayladağı is a town and district of Hatay Province in southern Turkey, on the border between Turkey and Syria, 51 km (32 mi) south of the city of Antakya.

According to Google, it is Uzbek for "on the plateau".

[KenP]

Nerine sarniensis

[Wylie]

My current background photo on my computer is of 'Abu Simbel' from the Exbury Nerine collection:

[Jan Jeddeloh]

Galanthus peshmenii blooming in my garden

[David Pilling]

Hi Jan, beautiful snowdrop, the ones that flower before Christmas have passed me by.

[Arnold]

One of the very few hysteranthus Galanthus

[David Pilling]

hysteranthous

Adjective. (botany) Having the leaves emerge after the flowers have opened. It typically refers to geophytes that flower when the plant is dormant and without leaves during a dry season. This contrasts with synanthous plants that flower at the same time as the leaves are present.

I never knew that word. I can now say it about amaryllis.

Fancy owning such snowdrops.