February 2024

[Carlos]

A bit late due to unusually (getting to be usual) hot weather in autumn and early winter.

Narcissus × bastitanus (blancoi × cantabricus). Two individuals.

 

And Uli's early strain of bulbocodium, which is not just bulbocodium, but I still don't know how to name (NOT obesus).



Carlos

[Too Many Plants!]

FFF...First February Flower!
Moraea Elegans.

  

[Carlos]

Amazing!!

[Arnold]

Moraea elegans

[Arnold]

Gethyllis villosa leaf detail

[Robin Jangle]

That's Gethyllis villosa. Gethyllis ciliaris has glabrous leaves with ciliate margins as well as ornately spotted cataphylls.

[Too Many Plants!]

Moraea elegans

Nice Arnold! You can really see the difference between your greenhouse plant and my out-in-the-open-in-ground plant. I tried to pull pollen off of it today to apply to the few straggler Polystachya still hanging around with all the rain we've been getting. But there was no pollen to come off on my paintbrush!
I will try on the next dry day we have...

[Arnold]

Robin

Right.  label mix-up.

[Wylie]

First Ferraria divaricata and Dietes grandiflora starting to bloom again.

[Uli]

A fantastic Arum hybrid has opened its first flower.
Arum creticum x palaestinum 

[Too Many Plants!]

First Ferraria divaricata and Dietes grandiflora starting to bloom again.

Very nice Ferraria, Wylie!

[Martin Bohnet]

Uli, that's a very beautiful color. considering the parents, is this another dark Arum that doesn't smell bad?

Meanwhile I enjoy a few warm days with my Sternbergia candida

Height:	0-20 cm (0-7.9 inch)
Flower Colors:	white
Flower Season:	late winter to early spring

growing outside in Germany - I was really concerned, but the buds tolerated more than a week with sub zero average and night temperatures down to -7°C unharmed. They may need some more warmth to fully open up as wide as Carlos' specimen.... Second pic is galanthus 'green fingers', slowly clumping up.

Last one is Måns criticizing my tree cutting skills. he may have a point here...

[David Pilling]

Resorting to cute cat photos...

The first daffodils opened here in the North of England on Monday (6th Feb), quite early, in the teeth of yet another storm. There is also a good crop of crocus by now. The daffodils are "Rijnvelds Eary Sensation"

[Arnold]

Uli

Does the Arum have scent.

I've read that there are two A. palaestinum.

One pleasantly scented and the other not.

[Uli]

I have not detected any scent, neither good nor bad in this hybrid Arum.