August 2024

[Too Many Plants!]

Well, I definitely need to get better at marking, and/or tags that don't break or go MIA...in my garden!

Lachenalia? sp...?   (Found purchase history) - Ledebouria revoluta (Tanzania).

Just spied this little guy this morning (not sure how I missed it thus far) that's been doing his thing in full sun in the 100°F+'s we've been having! Yesterday's high was 107°F...you GO little bulb!

I LOVE those spotted leaves.

[David Pilling]

Today in North West England

Lily Manisa
Lily Manisa
Lily Leslie Woodriff
Lily Scherherazade
Crocosmia

[Robin Jangle]

Well, I definitely need to get better at marking, and/or tags that don't break or go MIA...in my garden!

Lachenalia? sp...?

Just spied this little guy this morning (not sure how I missed it thus far) that's been doing his thing in full sun in the 100°F+'s we've been having! Yesterday's high was 107°F...you GO little bulb!

I LOVE those spotted leaves.

That's a Ledebouria - as to a species - there's many with those leaves.
Check out pza.sanbi.org - do a search for Ledebouria - select the species that appear as recommendations - don't search "Ledebouria" otherwise every entry that has the word Ledebouria will load (100's)!

[David Pilling]

That's a Ledebouria - as to a species - there's many with those leaves.

A top all time page on the PBS wiki is that for ledebouria socialis Out in the world there must be a lot of interest or lack of information.

There is quite a lot of information on the wiki for ledebouria in general https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Ledebouria

I did look but did not see on the wiki one like the photos above.

[Too Many Plants!]

That's a Ledebouria - as to a species - there's many with those leaves.

A top all time page on the PBS wiki is that for ledebouria socialis Out in the world there must be a lot of interest or lack of information.

There is quite a lot of information on the wiki for ledebouria in general https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Ledebouria

I did look but did not see on the wiki one like the photos above.

Thank you both for your thoughts. I did some searching and found what is likely the purchase of that bulb...

Ledebouria revoluta (Tanzania)

[Robert_Parks]

Front and back yards. Very wet in front, and the rain gauge under the tree in the back shows 1.5"/35mm of tree rain filtered out of the passing fog.

Dieramas are flowering, but the flowers don't present well when continuously wet. All the (mostly dormant) bulbs in the sidewalk beds have to tolerate summer moisture.

The view in the back is mostly Andean tubers: Oca (Oxalis tuberosa), Potato (Solanum tuberosum), and Mashua (Tropaeolum tuberosum)...the mashua collects enough fog that it reduces irrigation!

Begonia sutherlandii has decided not to wait for fall to bloom.

Robert in the San Francisco dry season,
cool, wet, and windy...some of the winter bulbs are being stored on top of the light chamber inside for a non-cool dormancy

[David Pilling]

Photos from North West England today, and you can see we're doomed, cyclamen hederifolium is flowering and the end of Summer cannot be far behind.

[Too Many Plants!]

Update on my Ledebouria Revoluta (Tanzania).

Flowers! First post was 1 flower stem, then a second came, now you can see a third coming...

[Too Many Plants!]

Agapanthus update...more flowers are coming around looking decent despite our record hot July, and continuing hot conditions into August.

You can see the "Amethyst" hybrid showing more true purple. None of these plants have been established in the ground long term. 2-3 years I believe. I'm speculating I'm zone pushing their growing conditions with my mostly full hot summer sun? The plants look fine as long as I water them, but so far it seems the flowers are less of fans of hot full sun conditions.

[Too Many Plants!]

Ledebouria Revoluta (Tanzania) flower update. I'm really impressed with how this bulb has been doing in full H☀️T summer sun! 

[CG100]

I like "interesting" foliage, for good or ill and have 3-4 clones of L. revoluta here.

The species varies quite a bit and the ones here vary from a pale greyish-green to a mid green base color, from greyish-green to deep chocolate brown spots.

They also put out so many flowers each year...............................

I really like L. socialis in all its forms too, LLLLOL

I can wait for superb scent or really spectacular flowers and forgive any plant, no matter what it looks like if it gives me that, but interesting foliage last a long while.

[Too Many Plants!]

More summer action from my Crinum Macowanii!

This bulb has really come into its own this year. I believe this is at least the third flowering this season. What's weird is it seems to like to flower when it's hot 🥵, but the flowers DO NOT like the heat! They look like crap the next day after opening. Or maybe it's the sun, and not the heat?

Open flower pics added.

[Too Many Plants!]

Moraea PolyStachya showing up very late for my garden! It's been in flower in my garden early July in recent years

https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/MoraeaSpeciesSeven#polystachya

[Too Many Plants!]

I have this coming up amongst my sea of M. PolyStachya. I know in the past I've planted a couple other things in this spot, but don't remember seeing any come up before. Anyone have speculations on even the genus based on form?

On second thought...maybe this is just an M. Polystachya that's deformed, a bit bigger, and looks different.

[Martin Bohnet]

that's strange - in my climate the M. polystachia hasn't come up yet and always struggles to flower at the very end of october. seems to be a very adaptable plant..

Then again, i've got all the signs of fall ahead: Colchicum x agrippinum and Prospero autumnale

are in flower right now, Acis autumnalis

Height:	10-20 cm (3.9-7.9 inch)
Flower Colors:	white, pink
Flower Season:	early autumn
Life form:	bulb

' first flower was almost 3 weeks ago.

But it's not all just the fall classics - There is Ceropegia tavalla (former Brachystelma), definitely a tiny thing, but dealing far better with the heatwave compared to Hedychium densiflorum

Height:	80-100 cm (2.6-3.3 ft)
Flower Colors:	orange
Flower Season:	late summer to early autumn
Climate:	USDA Zone 7-8

, which burned its candles in only 3 days. This is still the potted specimen, but I've planted some out - one of the borderline hardy things climate change could enable for me.

I've been lazy, so let's get back to the beginning of the month: there was of course Eucomis pole-evansii

(amidst a completely unhinged Cichorium intypus, and Eucomis bicolor, which once got me started with the genus. There was also the variegated clone of Dioscorea polystachia in flower, and I got the best display of Hesperantha coccinea

, pink form, ever in the bog, where it contrasts beautifully with Sarracenia flava. Staying with the irids, there also was what's sold as Gladiolus papillio ruby, which I'd consider a primary hybrid with Gladiolus flanaganii

Flower Colors:	red
Climate:	summer rain climate

based on looks alone.

Let's end the back-flash on a group photo with, front to back, Berkheya ciirsifolia (definitely not a geophyte), Gladiolus murielae

Flower Colors:	white
Special:	fragrant
Climate:	summer rain climate

, a Kniphofia bought as citrina, not too sure about that ID but later than any uvaria-hybrid complex form I know, and if you look closely you can see my newly planted white form of Passiflora incarnata

Height:	250-500 cm (8.2-16.4 ft)
Flower Colors:	purple, white
Flower Season:	mid summer to early autumn
Special:	climber, edible fruits
Life form:	deciduous rhizome
Climate:	USDA Zone 7-9

in the very background.