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Plant Collector – Sprekelia formosissima
The Sprekelia formosissima or Jacobean lily You learn something every day. This bulb is what is commonly known as the Jacobean Lily, even though it has nothing to do with the Jacobeans and it is not a...
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Tikorangi Notes; Friday 27 January, 2012
Crocosmia hybrids Latest posts: Friday 27 January, 2012 1) No amount of wishful thinking can alter the fact that we do not in fact have a Mediterranean climate here and romantic recreations of the glam...
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Plant Collector: Crinum moorei variegated
Fragrant Crinum moorei var. Crinums are a large family, belonging to the amaryllidaceae group so having some botanical connection to the likes of belladonnas and nerines. But despite there being over...
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Plant Collector: blandfordia (February bells here)
Blandfordia – Australia’s Christmas bells Christmas bells is the common name. Apparently in their homelands of Australia, these bulbs flower around Christmas. They are somewhat later here but the...
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Plant Collector: Crocosmia “Lucifer”
Red Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’ with yellow anigozanthus When they are roadside weeds, these bulbs are often referred to as montbretia. Treading on thin ice, I admit that we have orange-red ones growing...
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Plant Collector: Tigridia pavonia
Tigridia pavonia – missing the scarlet red one we have which had no flowers open on the day There is nothing rare, choice or difficult about these bulbs which can border on garden weeds, they are so...
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January bulbs for mid summer
Regular readers will know that we are very keen on bulbs here. As I surveyed the January ones, I figured that most bulbs are stars on their day. I guess because they are both seasonal and transient,...
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The January Garden
Auratums and pink lobeliaI don’t cut many flowers to bring indoors. It feels a bit like murdering them to sever them in their prime and bring them indoors to die. We were lucky that Mark’s parents had...
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Plant Collector: Z is for habranthus
Habranthus. Not zephyranthes any longer. Apparently.We have always called this a zephyranthes. It probably came to us as a zephyranthes and in the past it has been referred to as one of that family but...
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I photographed my patch of Alchemilla mollis for my friend, Chris. He, too, had admired the acid yellow froth in English gardens and wanted the same effect in his own home garden but found his efforts...
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