Bulbs: All this rain, 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
That's an unusually hot summer's day for us! I thought the Cypella foliage resembled Dietes, they are both Iris family, and Dietes are a touch and go plant here, oneof those that very few people will try. Iwill try some outside when they are bigger.

I like the blue Sisyrinchium and have often thought of getting some, I have had a yellow short one self set from the nighbours, she lost hers, but it was getting to be invasive and as I don't like the neighbour neither did I like her invasive plants! They get a bit shabby over winter then take over.

My Ipheion Wisley Blue has gone ape this year, it's flowered since early winter but now is full of flower. They are amongst the Fuchsias and G byzantinus ssp communis, it looks to be a battle for supremacy! The glads are very tall now, Fuchsias regrowing from most of the stems, moles lifting soil around them and I can't tread it down, a happy healthy lot!

I 'wanted' to do a lot today in that lovely sunshine they promised us! I might have to get my head around it and just go mix up some compost to get warm anyway, I used all the last lot when I tipped out Zant. Majestic Red yesterday. They had gone to near the bottom of the pot, and it was jam packed full! Each of the 4 huge ones I put in their own pot, 3 of the four small ones I'm passing to others, the smallest I will grow a bit more. The small ones are about the size you would normally buy them, the biggest is 3.5" across, they don't look so big in the pic but are deep and heavy. The pots I put them in are fairly large, smaller cut flower buckets, but they were only just big enough really with the roots going around the edges. I think it was summer 2003 when I got it in a very small pot already flowered, the next year it had several tiny bulbs near the surface, I repotted the lot and in 05 had large leaves and 3 flowers. Last year the leaves were huge, and as you see it increases well! It likes my compost.