Who has some Calla lilies to show us?

How about my Z Pink Mist seedlings? Growing quick and soon need moving!

Pink Mist has mader another 2 spathes, but the first are always the best.

I have a 3rd one on Cameo, the other two are shrinking and greening up, looks like I will get seeds.

The 2nd spathe of the red one lays down amongst the 'Baby's Breath', self flower arranging style. It can just be seen at the bottom.

You bloody show-off Janet with your gorgeous photos..is that baby's breath so cleverly juxtaposed????

Nope, it's growing on the bank behind the bath tub, where the pots are nudging each other for space!

You can just see it to the right of the pic here, with the callas peeking at the side of it. This I took on the 25th to prove we had rain.....actually I was taking a pic of my Musa Williams Hybrid.

bloom show off, i like that!

My turn:)))))


Here is one (don't think it is anything special) grown from seed just 1 year ago. It is taller than me now and has done most of its growing this summer. I am getting seed of Velutina next week and am very keen to get it to fruiting stage as soon as poss!!!! It's feed feed feed with these naners isn't it...oooops have I veered off topic????? Sorry........you know what these proud mums can be like

Right - back to the topic in hand...my *pot* grown Calla rehmannii ? the one I was telling you about. I have left 3 seed heads on. I don't see any new ones coming now so I would like to know if I should continue to feed the plant to build it up for next year, keep it watered but not feed, or should I leave it to die down without watering and take the seed heads off when they have dried too?

Sorry to be so ingnorant of such a special plant but everyone's got to start somewhere!

TIA
Lizzy

Continue to feed/water as usual until yellowing so the tubers do not use themselves up too much in seed production.

As always Wallaby, supreme photos. The last ones are very verdant and lush. Mmmm.

I'm all for a little detour on musoids. (I have a few, but Wallaby will sack the house, you watch) What species is that one, Lizzy? And "proud mums "? No olvidenos- ilos papás tambien!
Kenton

Thank you Kenton.

Musa ornata (if memory serves) I should have kept the seed packet darnit!

You speak Spanish? I'm learning...I think you said something about proud Dads too?

Lovely lines in that. The banana too. (I like the sort-of cloistered area.)

Yea, there are those of the creed that anything pretty is good for pretty and the name does not effect how pretty it is, but what if it isn't readily propagatable and the neighbors (or fellow DGers) want one too? Or it dies and one wants to replace it? Just my justification for being a named-plant-snot.
Not good Spanish- Northern Mexican. "Don't forget us- fathers too."

Kenton..........You have no idea how badly I beat myself up about that lost name! I am ususally such a stikler for getting latin names correcto!

Cloistered area is part of my house - called a naya here in Spain - it's a large porch where you sit of an evening (or afternoon) and sip vino calapso ;)))))))))

Hasta luego

I don't feed my nanas much at all, nor my callas, I just grow them in lots of good compost. Here you should stop fertilising by August so they can toughen up for winter, a soft plant won't survive the same. Besides, it's another job I don't need! They would be lucky to get 3 small waterings of tomato food.

Of course, Spain is a little different! Nice nana Lizzy, the heat will help it's growth. I'll add that the calla bulb will probably make offsets so you do need to water until it's time for it to die back, most bulbs build and increase after flowering.

The calla that wants to be in a flower arrangement.........well it keeps us amused....

Fancy. And so much better than a Rose.

Love that red calla, Wallaby.

Whatzit?

Robert.

That's my no name 'Majestic Red' but that's just a guess, I haven't found another closer.

The petals don't fall off.

I'm enjoying the Calla photos James and Wallaby. I need to find a red!!!
Captain Kloon gave me a thrill this afternoon, even though the humidity and heat makes breathing difficult. I'm in awe the flowers are doing as well as they are. This is my first full double Calla in my 11 or so years of growing them. Pulled sweetheart out to the garden to see and he thought it was nice, but rushed quickly back inside to air-conditioning and a car race. :)

Tussee

Tussee, at least you got him outside!

Funny you should get a double after that length of time, I wonder if the heat has something to do with it. OR we have an alien Calla lily imposter taking over all the Callas in the world!

They must like the heat, I hope it din't take your breath away altogether!

Now I'm being silly, but it helps!

OooooH, that Captain Kloon!

Robert.

I dropped into Pennels garden centre yesterday, they have a reduced section where I have come across some gems. The red Calla was a reduced item from there, they are mostly ones finished flowering or not good enough to sell at the full price.

They had about a dozen priced £4.99 reduced to £1.50, not huge plants but they will grow. A couple had old green spathes making seed, one was a double, they had a broad shape but small.

I love surprises, cheap ones at that, but the one that caught my eye had no spathes. It did have patterned stems, the leaves with very good substance and developing spots. It reminds me of Zantedeschia aethiopic in leaf shape, I do wonder if this is the larger spotted leaf one.

What a lovely photo W! Great deal too!

Thanks knip, now I'm thinking I should have got more!

My little pot of albomaculatas are starting to put out third leaves. I potted them up a coupla days ago.

Mine look about the same as yours Robert, they are in need of pricking out.

This is mine on13th July, I haven't taken a 'now' pic, it's raining at the moment and cool.

Special for Janet:

Stem mottling!

As far as I know (tee-hee) this is "Solar Flare", the 1 out of 4 local bulbs I think is correctly identified. It put up a spathe-leaf with vivid yellow, then stopped and has only produced leaves.

Robert.

Lots of nice stems, lovely mottling! I saw some in the supermarket with yellow flowers that had similar mottling, but I didn't buy any.

I have to wait years for my Z jucunda to mature and flower! It has lovely large yellow flowers and spotty leaves, only found one pic I think, I saved it for reference. I couldn't say where I got it from.

If anyone sees it and recognises it I apologise for not referencing the website!

Nice Wallaby1! (J)

I've never even heard of that one.....love the different spathe shape and those leaves are so "ACTIVATED"!

Here's a bloom coming on "Captain Chelsea".

R.

Can't wait to see that one! It looks purple with a greeen edge, you have more edges!

Chiltern had Z. jucunda, no?

Yep K, they still have. I've just been looking. 10 seeds for £3. something, I have 2 germinated so better than none, they have a pic on there now too. They are growing quite quickly and look to have brown patterning on the stems already. I took a pic today.

They say 6" flowers, I imagine tall.

You all thought you got away without another one of the same cultivar, eh?
A dramatic leaf-spaethe.

95 degrees here every day and some are blooming but this one is kind of a strange shape.

Interesting never the less K, not quite the form one would expect but it has a certain 'something'.

And you all thought you would get away without seeing my lovely red again, didn't you?

I just had to post this, I took it on the 3rd, it was quite a cold day, 15C at past noon (27C today!). The colour in the pic is true, it was a stark, stark, very stark red. I don't think words can describe it!

Captain Kloon continues to surprise me. Today I noticed this bloom and the open stem well down from the flower, with another flower coming out. Is it my soil? Lol. BTW, I always buy 3 plants, so this is not the same as the double.
Wallaby, love that red. It is so rich.
James, wouldn't we love to have red speckled leaves with say a yellow Calla.

Another angle -

Tussee

Tussee, that is what my *not* Black Forest did, the date on mine was the 15th, prob 14th for you.

It's a sort of leaf spathe, the spadix being made in the stem. They seem to do all sorts of strange things.

wallaby, that red one simply spectacular. I bought flame (which, BTW, did not bloom this year) thinking that would be the closest I would ever get to red. sigh....

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I'm loving it, I don't know why that one has gone so red, the other hasn't, but it is a nice deep colour. The cold did seem to affect it, let's have another angle, this one on the 4th.

double sigh..........

The first one, which is still stood, taken on the 4th. The camera is reading the reds on these perfectly, some it just doesn't cope with. Perhaps they are basic colours the camera is programmed to recognise.

I love the swirl, and the tube has stripes on the outside. You wouldn't think they were from the same plant, come to think of it, I did buy a pot with it already growing. There was several stems, so they could be different.