Summer Bulbs - Pictures and Discussion - Part Deux

The anther? Are you concerned that it will pollinate a bloom that you'll collect seed from? I did'nt think TBV was spread genetically.

But will transmit through pollen with the sperm-tube thing that follows the calcium trail in the style. (Someone please fill in forgotten terms) -To ultiamately infect the plant that receives the pollen. I'm not serious enough to collect seed. I'll leave that to you, mate.

Actually, I'm glad you got me worried, because I went out with a flashlight to have a closer look. That spot in the picture must have been a shadow, because it is not there. A slight color variation is on some flowers surrounding area that the wiggs nibbled. That is, until I squished their fetid little evil bodies.

I HATE those earwigs. And they're EVERYWHERE!!

This is for our local entomologist who swears up and down that they do not possess the mandibles (jaws) to chew through plant tissue. What is this, then, eh? Have they all gone down to the earwig corner-of-the-woodchip drugstore and all bought little Fiscars-brand scissors to cut out bits of leaf to make festive seasonal holidy cut-outs for their children? Maybe.

They definitely chew on my things, including ME. Yes, they bite.

You make me laugh! I think they got fitted with cheap dentures myself.

K, I do hope you are feeling better after a good nights sleep! Perhaps those earwigs could do you some nice little cut-outs to cheer you up?

Red Hot, and Donau, both gorgeous!

Tigridia I also grew a few years ago, they can be bought quite cheaply and have the most gorgeous, silky, colourful flowers. I had some survive a few years in a dryish patch but they dwindled away eventually. I also grew heaps from seed off them, and kept them in a greenhouse the next winter while still young. Many of them had flowered, they are very easy to grow from seed, but it was a very cold winter and with being in a large tray and perhaps too wet they rotted. I am thinking of doing it again, if they are put in a sunny, well drained, dryish spot planted deep, they can live awhile.

Watch out Kenton, you may wake up with the words "You're next" chewed into your leaves, lol.

They're just creepy, with they're mushy soft bodies and they move fast. They're as disgusting as cockroaches, to me, which I also see in my gardens from time to time. ICK.

Tammy, on the Google search for Tigridia, you can try Mexican Shell Flower too.
I'm lousy in searches so I'll leave it up to you, lol.
Andy P

Spelled it wrong! That was the problem.
Tam

Zantedeschia Pink Mist

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Ooo.. what a lovely pink tint at the base.

It's a large spathe too, and a tall plant, it's very robust, and I think one of the best if not THE best.

You're living in the tropics there, aren't you!

I see you grow it in a pot - would it be hardy there for you?
Tam

I made my own tropics! yes it is supposed to be hardy, but I got it as a division in early autumn 2004 and it has bulked up quickly. I want to get some new growths from it, there is some now making arond the edges, so I will take some off perhaps early September and grow them on. It gets through in a cold greenhouse, I don't put extra mulch on and as you may know we had a very long, cold winter. Outside I would mulch of course. In warmer climates it will stay green and flower almost perpetually.

It's always a good idea to start these palnts in a pot to give them a good start, but it is supposed to be hardy outside. I will find that out! They do like lots of organic compost, and watering can be controlled more easily in pots. This is supposed to be one of the more reliable ones, whereas here Z. aethiopica is not a 'rated' plant at all, it will grow in a greenhouse but not well outside and can be finicky. This is a Z. aethiopica cross.

Just a study in combinations, in the garden of one of my clients.

I tend to hyperveniiiiiiiii-
hic. cough. -If I look at this plant too much.
L. henryi

My latest lily Green Godess.

Better carry around a paper bag to breath into while touring the garden K!

Green Godess - very pretty. I don't see any green though - is it at some stage?

Tam

L henryi is a hot lily! Whew, those long filaments, here's an interesting article for you K.

http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/59/5/505

boojum your lily has class, green or not. perhaps it has a green throat? We had a fitness woman on TV here years ago, in her leotard doing all the exercises, called 'Green Goddess', she wore green I believe!

No idea about the green but I'm in love, whatever her name is! I have 3 orchids with "green" in the name (green elf, green hornet, and green lantern) and only one (elf) is green. I bought this from buggycrazy so I'll ask her 'bout the name.


BTW, my lilies look terrible this year-spots on the buds and blooms, bottoms all brown and they aren't even the ones with the lily beetles!! Was it all the rain? Are the bulbs rotting down under the ground??

It doesn't sound like a virus, but then they can live with some, read this article. Could the bulbs be rotting, it sounds more like that to me. If the roots are too wet and not well enough drained it is a possibility. I don't know about too dry, the leaves on mine are beginning to brown a little at the tips but that is the hot weather we are having, there's no spotting.

http://www.lilybulb.com/virus.html

Here is a pic of my sad lilies (blackjack).

is that the end of cycle or are they sick?

They are trying to OPEN! Horrors!

Boojum, That doesn't look good.
My Lollipop bloomed fine but faded fast, hardly got a week out of them. The leaves are only so-so.
I lost many Day Lily buds because of the wet, that's for sure.
Andy P

boojum, they don't look good. In fact, they look very sick. The green leaves to the right are coming down with the same. If I were you I'd post it somewhere else, perhaps ID forum? Lily forum too, someone might be able to tell you what it is.

Calla Lily, 'Black Forest', also know as 'Schwartzwalder'. Beautiful dark burgundy/black flowers with spotted leaves.

boojum, I had one clump of lilies mysteriously do that. I saw another post with a pic of something very similar looking and a member posted that they thought it was boitritus(sp?), a fungal disease. Poor air circulation was given as a cause, but yours look like there would be good air circulation there, and mine are in one of the few spots I have'nt over planted. Hmmmm....

Nice combination Kenton, and L.henryi is awsome. I can't wait for mine to open!

I am considering digging up a bulb to see what is happening below. There are a hundred stars of bethlehem that bloomed at the base this year. Could they be fighting for nutrition or compromising the asiatics health? Most of my Dancing eyes look better behind these but they always seem more vigorous overall..

That's a wierd thing with mine too. The lilies around them are fine, and they're within a foot or two. And that is a spot where I had some shell pink Asiatics that grew and multiplied like crazy. I moved those out and replaced them with 'Chianti' because I wanted a true pink there. I have a couple of pretty blooms and all the leaves are brown.

I posted on the lily forum. See what they say.

FUNGICIDE RECIPE-(splashes up from ground when rains)
1 ts baking soda
1 litre water (about 1 quart)
1 ts dish soap or safer's soap

Mix together, spray on. Be sure to cover the complete plant, including stems, leaves and top of soil. Also be sure to spray both sides of leaves. Spray every 3-5 days to control the problem, especially while weather conditions favor fungal diseases. Use preventatively every 2 weeks.

Thanks boojum! I did a big thin out last week and opened the dense areas up for better air circulation. So that would be a great next step, especially for the lilies that have'nt been effected (yet).

Yup Pollyk said she sprays early in the year on phlox and monarda and never has mildew-I think they are the same fungus. This bed is white Phlox and lilies, too.

Shirley, I have tried twice for a Schwarzwalder, and you have a lovely one! About 3 years ago I bought a tuber from a Mail Order catalogue, paid a fortune for it, it didn't grow, it was like a dry cork, not rotten. This year I was thrilled to find a Black Forest at a supermarket, in a package with the supermarkets brand on it, but very reasonably priced.

This is what I got..

The monster still roams the countryside!

Well it is an interesting monster! It has an interesting spathe, interesting leaf, and now an interesting leaf spathe ~ or spathe leaf! And it's long lasting!