January 2024

[petershaw]

Out of season hybrid lily....

I forced a bunch in my class for students to see how cuts are often grown (Oregon Bulb Company is way beyond).

Picked a few to take home and what do you know?

[Lee Poulsen]

A couple of things that have bloomed this month (plus one I won't post a picture of because it's one lone flower and it's really early for me: Tecophilaea cyanocrocus

, which I posted pots full last year).

My first Paramongaia weberbaueri of the season. These flowers are big. The first photo, just the part that is yellow, is about the length of the palm of my hand to the tip of my middle finger.




And a rebloom since I got it last summer, so I've kept it alive! Anigozanthos 'Masquerade' (kangaroo paw). The flowers of my pot of Lachenalia viridiflora

have already faded, so I can't take a side by side comparison photo of both of them. And Ixia viridiflora

isn't anywhere close to blooming yet. (I suppose I could go over to the Huntington to see if either of the teal Puyas are in bloom yet (P. alpestris and P. berteroniana). I don't suppose that their Jade Vine (Strongylodon macrobotrys) in the big greenhouse is in bloom right now. And I've never seen in person Oron Peri's beautiful hybrid creation of Iris palaestina × I. postii <https://seedsofpeace.info/product/iris-palaestina-x-i-postii/>.

[Carlos]

Hi, wonderful!

I am trying to get some people in contact to swap pollen of Paramongaia, it would be for next season as yours is the last flower among adult plants I know of. But you would receive much fresher pollen...

Ever tried to ask for cuttings of Strongylodon?

Carlos

[Arnold]

Gladiolus venustus with reproductive parts showing.
Massonia bredasdorpensis forest with a coin for scale
Lachenalia canaliculata close up

[David Pilling]

Arnold - interesting plant details.

[Arnold]

Ferraria divaricata

[Rdevries]

Received as Narcissus romieuxii. I make no claims on id correctness

In outside covered frame. One day after a 3 day gully washer and warm humid air above 60°F, preceded by a week completely below freezing with lows down to +4°F . I put a frost blanket single layer in the frame ad closed the plastic lid when it got below 15°F

[Rdevries]

This group is shorter than the previous post.

These came as Narcissus cantabricus foliosus. Again i make no claims on id accuracy 

[Rdevries]

Lachenalia trichophylla blooming now. From 2 seed packets i have 3 different leaf forms.
 fine hairs, pustulate and an Intermediate 

[Rdevries]

Always a favorite Lapeirousa oroegena

[Rdevries]

Lachenalia luteola volunteer in leucocoryne tray. Reaching for light after 3 weeks in somewhat darkness

[Rdevries]

Sinningia bullata. I like this plant best when it is just sprouting and not growing all over. This is a 8" pot of seeds Dell sent me in 2016 that i never separated, just increased pot size as needed 

[Rdevries]

Picture from last week of sinningia tuberosa started in 2021

[Rdevries]

Albuca villosa. Fuzzy leaves

[Rdevries]

Cyanella orchidiformis from BX 368 john wickham.  about 30" tall. The earliest and tallest Cyanella i have tried. 

I put a bunch of these in the BX last fall