February photos

[Arnold]

Blooming today.

Lachenalia sp. unknown

Ferraria sp. unknown

Cyrtanthus obliquus coloring up

[Rick R.]

Sinningia concinna
  It's been  blooming since mid December. 

14 November 2022
 

27 December 2022
 

2 February 2023

[David Pilling]

Hey Rick R - that's a very nice plant.

[Wylie]

This is finally blooming, a dark leaf Oxalis purpurea 'Garnet'.

[Martin Bohnet]

Still too dark and cold for the crocus to open up, but at least there's one first Cyclamen coum

. Galanthus-wise, today Alison Hillary (pic 2), Mrs Thompson and Greenbrush (pic3) showed some enthusiasm. Biggest surprise of the day was Himantoglossum robertianum

Height:	45-80 cm (1.5-2.6 ft)
Flower Colors:	pink, purple, white, patterned
Flower Season:	mid spring
Special:	fragrant
Life form:	tuber

in the cold house under lights - the warm time "in between the years" phase has started it early, usually blooms 3-4 weeks later for me.

[Arnold]

Lachenalia callista

Cyrtanthis obliquus

[Michael Mace]

Daubenya aurea, one of the weirdest-looking bulbs ever in my opinion. To me it looks like something you would find underwater on a coral reef. You need a bright sunny day to get the flower head to open fully.



I have this one growing next to Daubenya zeyheri, which bloomed in December. I saved some pollen from it, and if everything works out, maybe in a few years we'll have an even weirder hybrid.

[Arnold]

Lachenalia splendida

[Arnold]

Leucocoryne macropetalum

[Uli]

Dear All,

Here are some impressions from my garden.

We had a long cold spell and now rainy and windy weather, so some flowers look a little unhappy.

Cyclamen persicum, pure white form 

Gladiolus carinatus. I had to hold the flowers for the photo because the shoots were pushed sideways by the bad weather 

Lachenalia bulbifera 

Bulbinella eburnifolia, from Silverhill Seeds 

Tropaeolum hookerianum 

Native Narcissus bulbocodium in a friend's garden 

[Arnold]

I have this as Lachenalia namaquensis, but I have some doubts.

Literature doesn't state leaves are pustulate.

[Martin Bohnet]

@Uli how dare you calling that a cold spell, having lived in Germany for so long

Just envious ;-)

[Shmuel]

Trying to do my first post on the board.
This is Belvallia flexuosa, a very common plant here in Jerusalem Israel. Zone 9b  I love the purple scape.

Sorry, couldn't do it on my phone. Will try later.

[Uli]

Hello Martin,

It was cold! Frost! In the very Southwestern end of Europe.....
It is the first time since 2017 that this has happened, I did not like to see this but finally there was only very marginal damage to the most fragile plants. It was early morning frost for several days in a row but daytime temperatures always went up to about 15 degrees.
We now have overcast weather with more or less the same temperatures day and night between 12 and 15 degrees.

[Martin Bohnet]

well, my cold spell is more like -6°C at night - which may still be mild for some out there...

Anyway, my plant of the day from the cold house would be Amana anhuiensis which flowers for me the third year now and finally seems to start to clump up a bit, even if it's still just one flower. I got it out for some sun today to open up the flower, but it went back to frost free conditions for the night....