June 2024

[MLoos]

Last of the Tulipa, first Crinum

Tulipa sprengeri from scattered seed about 6 years ago, seed from Alan Street, makes it even more special.  He liked to scatter it along the roadsides.  

Crinum 'Schreck' that has been in the same pot at least 8 years, probably needs a little more space but blooms seem unfazed.  

[Arnold]

Mike

Sometimes they flower better with a tight root run.

I'd re-pot only with a small increase in diameter.

[Arnold]

Amorphophallus dunnii 

Large leaf 12-14 inches across.

[Carlos]

Zephyranthes filifolia (I think) ex Uli 

[Arnold]

Sauromatum venosum

Amorphophallus henryi

[Carlos]

Hi, prior to my article on Allium featuring part of my research, and partly funded by an MSI grant, for which I am so grateful, here goes one of the Allium sp. nov. I have been lucky enough to identify since I started in June, 2021:




Description and illustration are under process, I can only tell thet I received these yesterday from somewhere in Seville province, Spain.

Stay tuned.

[Mikent]

Hippeastrum hybrid called Lagoon. This is the third time it has bloomed in the last six months. The current bloom is actually a carmine pink color. The smart phone camera shifted the color into the carmine red zone.

In previous years, it has always bloomed as a saturated carmine red color. This is the first time it has been more carmine pink. The first blooming (late December) was interesting. The blooms were a mix of carmine red and carmine pink. It looked kind of like a watercolor painting, the more color saturated areas showed as carmine red, the less saturated as carmine pink. I was worried it might be an early sign of virus infection. Both the second blooming (later March) and third (just dying off now - this picture is from May 30) were carmine pink with no carmine red shading. No sign of any viral issues. Maybe the weird coloration was a result of warmer winter temps than previous years?

[Arnold]

Cyrtanthus obliquus coming along

[OrchardB]

Last of the Tulipa,
Tulipa sprengeri from scattered seed about 6 years ago, seed from Alan Street, makes it even more special.  He liked to scatter it along the roadsides. 

My T. sprengeri (almost certainly from Alan / Avon Bulbs seem to have managed to self seed, and flower this year, ~40 feet from my original planting. I collect and send off seed to AGS most years, if I don't sew myself. They could not have been in this garden more than ~8 years. Something ate the seed head off though; but still have original patch to ripen.
Brian SE UK

[David Pilling]

Pictured today - my pot of red, orange and yellow Asiatic lilies. Zantedeschia aethiopica has been having a good year here, in a few neighbouring gardens - it has been a cold Spring in the UK.

[Carlos]

Allium pruinatum. A delicacy from SW Iberian Peninsula.



Allium ionicum. A delicacy from Southern Greece.

[Arnold]

Cytanthus obliquus
Taccarum caudatum

[David Pilling]

Cytanthus obliquus

Cyrtanthus brachyscyphus

is flowering here at the moment. The large flowered Cyrtanthus sanguineus

is well worth having.

[Wylie]

It has been a month since the Neomarica hybrid I have started flowering, and it and the Neomarica northiana are still flowering. Since this is the first time I have grown this, it is all pretty amazing.

[Uli]

Sinningia speciosa Regina Serra da vista. Not a cultivar but a local form. Raised from a single leaf given to me exactly 10 years ago. Flowers every year.