White blossom bulbs from around our satellite , show how hopefull the winter solstice can be . Just imagine a world without humans for a moment . In meadows from Iran to Turkey , to Iraq to South Africa – blossom are bloom that ignore borders , religion , government and hatred .
Tiny light bulb like these winter raiser are deserving collecting and growing if you have a cool greenhouse with bright luminosity . One will never lose around the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere , if one wake up to a display like this with ones sunrise coffee during a vacation break from the place , it too reminds one that the world is exceptional and rarified too .
observe the early flowering Lachenalia viridiflora , a rarly plant near white but truly teal - green flowering medulla from South Africa that balances out the rest of the Lachenalia which lean to be orange and yellow flowering , or weedy - white . It is one of those uncommon colors in the works earth , remarkably found in two south african bulb – L. viridiflora and Ixia viridiflora .
genus Ornithogalum fimbriatumThis tiny member of the the Ornithogalum kindred , a group of interesting yet still not wide jazz nor grownup genus cluster in the Family Hyacynthaceae , is pure for small pots , and blossom in cool to dusty greenhouses in the winter . Slow to increase , it is not as common perhaps as other Ornithogalum ’s . like one would see as a cut bloom at a florist shop , is low and dense growing , more alpine care , and thus , often produce in shallow alpine quite a little in a protected cold alpine house . Native from the Ukraine to Turkey , this is a tiny lightbulb worth find and cultivate if you have a spot for it .
Sure , the Holidays are basically over , but I require to share a small container that I impart back from Japan ( a interest box ) that I filled with tidy rows of plant material gathered from the greenhouse , and from the garden in December . Aranged in floral foam , this small showing should last for a few weeks .
Freesia fucata from cum
A few years ago I purchased a encumbrance of South African bulb seed from Silverhill cum , and this year some are starting to blossom . As I have said before , if you have a cool greenhouse protected from frost , this is the most economical way if not the only way to get rare metal money that are not sell in the barter . The plebeian Freesia may look liek this , but this species is a minute more treasured , and unquestionable . This Freesia fucata grow on mountain incline and hillside in the southwestern part of the Cape , it is fragrant and flushed with purple mark , another of the Freesia that grow in the winter rain areas of the Cape in South Africa .
Mendera trigyna
This congenator of the Colchicum is sometimes group with the fall and winter - blooming Colchicum , but from Armenia and Azerbajan to Northern Iran , and differs from Colchicum intelligibly because it has no electron tube , and has six segments . Tulbaghia simmleri
Somtimes clossified as Tulbagia fragrans , this white and wintertime anthesis species of the more common , T. violacea lacks the skunky - ness that gives this genus the common name of Society Garlic . Instead , the foliage is not scented , but the beautiful white blossoms are , and they total at the complete meter for such smell – winter . I know these are quite common in Claifornia and other tender area , but in the Cold of a December winter in New England , they are welcome and quite special .
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