October 2024

[Carlos]

Narcissus × briffae, from Israel.

I coukd write more about it, but looking at it now brings a sour taste to me. So that's it: deficiens × tazetta, after 14 years now it has a name. At least Michael Briffa was a honourable person.

[Wylie]

Everything is about a month late in blooming, here. Finally, my Nerines from Exbury have started and here is 'Shaka Zulu'.

[Martin Bohnet]

Beautiful black Nerine - my Exburys frum Uli's donation still are not flowering, bulking up is hard for sarniensis in my cold and dark winters, still I bought another set from Wylies donation, one of which already sported a stalk - too dangerous to send that one out to recipients, how altruistic of me . But that flower is from my old and very first (and very basic) non exbury sarniensis

Meanwhile, the crocus keep coming, this time the cute little Crocus goulimyi

. Staying on crocoideae, there is a also cute & little Gladiolus first time flowering, grown from seed as Gladiolus elliotti, but I doubt that - I might open a Mystery Plant topic with a few more images.

I rarely have guests for dinner, but when I do it's the perfect time for the stinker to open up: Arum pictum

is in flower, and obviously the trap works...on the other hand i'm hopeful that next spring the crown will be passed to someone else: my mother bulb of Amorphophallus konjac

Flower Colors:	black
Flower Season:	mid spring
Special:	edible storage organ
Life form:	tuber

has reached 2.3 kg - that HAS to be enough for flowering size (was 800 g last fall)

[Robert_Parks]

I rarely have guests for dinner, but when I do it's the perfect time for the stinker to open up: Arum pictum

is in flower, and obviously the trap works...on the other hand i'm hopeful that next spring the crown will be passed to someone else: my mother bulb of Amorphophallus konjac

Flower Colors:	black
Flower Season:	mid spring
Special:	edible storage organ
Life form:	tuber

has reached 2.3 kg - that HAS to be enough for flowering size (was 800 g last fall)

Flower bud! Thicker and sort of thumb-like = flower bud, flat with a short spike in the middle = leaf bud.

Amid the "autumn color" in the indoor grow area (almost all the aroids are going down now), a last flower on Typhonium violifolium. "Little Stinker" could be used to describe the pervasive essence of staleness from an inflorescence barely 4cm (1.5") tall. Darling little plant with (by the end of the season) layers of adpressed leaves.

[Too Many Plants!]

No flowers...BUT, the Foliage IS the reason I grow these!! SO FUN!

Albuca Concordiana

https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Albuca_concordiana

[Diane Whitehead]

I agree the foliage is worthwhile on its own.

Have they ever flowered for you?

[Arnold]

Crocus cartwrightianus 'albus'
Cyclamen hederafolium
Veltheimia capensis

[Too Many Plants!]

I agree the foliage is worthwhile on its own.

Have they ever flowered for you?

Hi Diane, earlier this year was the first flowering (I believe).

Albuca Concordiana April 2024. We were having a heat wave if I remember correctly...

[Too Many Plants!]

Crocus cartwrightianus 'albus'
Cyclamen hederafolium
Veltheimia capensis

I LOVE my Velthemia! I have a few types. None of mine are active yet.

[Too Many Plants!]

My Moraea PolyStachya continue to slowly spread and naturalize in my garden, and I really enjoy them. There are a couple spots where they're really taking over the plants spot from watering!

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

[Arnold]

Crocus cartwrightianus 'albus'
Cyclamen hederafolium
Veltheimia capensis

I LOVE my Velthemia! I have a few types. None of mine are active yet.

The Velthemia is always up very early for me.  I keep the winter growers in a cool basement completely dry during their dormancy.  This could be a trigger for early flowering.

[David Pilling]

Beautiful black Nerine

Looks very desirable. There's only one place on the Google that knows about "black Nerine" as a flower - and that is here. There's only one other mention and that is a dress on ebay "Black Nerine Knit"

[Maxine Cass]

Spectacular Gladiolus watsonii from Rimmer de Vries, BX 481.

[CG100]

Saunders' guide suggests that G. watsonius has solid orange-red to scarlet flowers, and the proportions of the petals are not a fit, so you may well have another species or hybrid.

[Carlos]

Maybe G. carmineus in it?

A very nice natural Narcissus hybrid, and a rare one as only two natural-occuring hybrids involving Narcissus viridiflorus are known for sure. This is one, N × alleniae, from the coast of Càdiz province. The other parent is the still common N. deficiens (before mistaken for serotinus).