A scene of the nursery on an unseasonably cold November daylight .
As temperature hover near 18 deg . F , ice forming on the glass and wind reaching 30 naut mi per time of day , inside , the sun was solid enough to keep the temperatures near 80 degree making the weekend task of winterizing the glasshouse with bubblewrap warm enough to take our shirts off . This opinion , down the gangway on the western side of the nursery register some of the blooming industrial plant , mostly South African Cyrtanthus , Nerine and Haemanthus this time of year . The steamy air , as evening closes in , is just begin to freeze into ice crystal on the glass wall in the back . Still this is one of my favorite times of twenty-four hours in the greenhouse , when the sunlight is just at that especial angle , the breeze is warm and fragrant with Rosemary , Fragrant Olive and early Narcissus . It is fresh and fresh , yet moist and damp – just unique to wintertime greenhouses , I think , but dear for the soul . I never get bored with the season with the glasshouse now , each season is now just a different list of superlatives . Lachenalia pusilla
Started four long time ago from seed gather in South Africa , these rare Lachenalia specie is blossom for the first time . Lachenalia pusilla is rather prostrate , with speckled foliage which remain skinny to the reason . The acaulescent flowers bloom low , in a raceme , and when the sunlight hits them at mid day , the smell a bit like coconut ( they look like it too ! ) . This Lachenalia also has a bit of an indistinguishability trouble , there looks like some taxonomic muddiness whether this is truly a Polyxena and not Lachenalia . As systematist fight it out , we enthusiasts stay on to keep it in our collections as Lachenalia pusilla . They front a rather bit like an undersea anemone , do n’t they ? I potted them in a home made terra cotta pan , which I think make this potful quite attractive . This autumn blossom Lachenalia is the first of the genus to flower for me this time of year . Lachenalia pusilla
I have found that there are some real benefits with unmarried pane glass , and one of them is not heat cost . The welfare is light quality , so critical for many southerly Hemisphere plants which are primarily winter blooming as demonstrated but this pot of seed grown Lachenalia pusilla . When mature in the brightest sun possible , one can achieve the good feature with many of these plants , who naturally grow out of door in verbatim sun . I have found that when I keep many of these mottled or reticulated metal money in the sunniest part of the nursery , near the chalk , their foliage darkens , the spotting becomes more abundant , and their overall form is more dense .
Please help identify my mystery Gladiolus .
Received as Gladiolus tristis , this pot of wintertime - blooming Gladiolus has bloom in a very uncharacteristcally tristisness . Perhaps it is a Homoglosum ? I have many Book and picture , but the genus is quite unfamiliar with me . I have been holding off on collecting the many fantastic species of South African Gladiolus for a while now , but flummox some this year to test . Gladiolus tristis has been a Greco-Roman cold nursery plant for years , so I thought I would begin with this . specially since it is eff to have an intense fragrance in the evening , which one can bask by bringing the pots indoors . No sweetness with this beauty , but it is still quite striking . Please help!Gladiolius tristis not?The first pot of Narcissus romieuxii ssp . cantabricus with buds emerging .
These flyspeck bulbocodium - like Narcissus are the early of the fragrant , winter blossom species aboriginal to Morocco , the Atlas Mountains and Turkey . A favorite of mine , they are common amongst many plant collector who grow miniature bulb , or alpines in cold greenhouses , so they are a true cross over works , which invoke to many . Rarely image in the states , this is a narcissus one will plausibly only see at a Botanic garden or at the dwelling house of a collector . I know of only two source in North America where one can buy medulla oblongata , and in reality , only one carry ’s more than one species . If you cerebrate Narcissus in the gloam and winter is strange – remember the paperwhite ( Narcissus papyraceus ) , a neighbour of these species . And , in fount you were inquire , yes , you’re able to bring Paperwhites back into bloom twelvemonth to year , in exactly the same what one cultivate the other winter blooming Narcissus specie . Not practical for home raiser , but if you occur to have a cold nursery or a way which delay cold , burnished , and never freezes , you may do it too . But my point is , many of the more strange Narcissus are autumn or wintertime growing – why be so normal?Nerine x sarniensis ‘ Kola’#1The last of the Nerine sarniensis are blooming this calendar week , and an interesting thing has happened . I mention in the beginning that many if not all of my Nerine sarniensis have bloom this year , and I am refer this phenom to a previous class of lightbulb which I executed in early September . This variety , describe ‘ Kola ’ has unusually wavy petals , ( undulata - ish or Alba - ish?!) … anyway , an even more interesting fact is that each of these partitioning is blooming with a slimly different shade of pinko . Call me crazy ( or mixed up , since , sure , I could have unify up the bulbs too , ( but I do n’t intend so ) , ( besides … the wavy petal are unique to this form ) , something has go wrong here , yet the similarity are interesting .
Maybe the stain is different in each potty , which it is , but then again , the bulbs have been formed for a yr , or two in advance , so that could not be the character … .a mystery unfold ( or curls ) but whatever the cause , these late bloomers in the Nerine creation are pretty courteous sunshine , for a cold , wintery day in November when everyone else is rake foliage and complaining about how cold-blooded it is , I am sitting stripped to the waist , drinking a beer in the hot sun enjoying the balance of the day in the garden ( or I am gamy from the bubblewrap spray mount).Nerine x sarniensis ‘ Kola ’ # 2
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