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http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/670040/#new
Close up of L. duchartrei night shot with infrared.
Some interesting species bulbs (part 2)
Oh beautiful!
A Tasmanian fern, how exotic! My first thought with a species name of antartica: I thought it was a mistake.
I haven't grow martagon var. album either, so I can't say if that foliage arrangement is a particular trait.
All these photos have been just so interesting!
I think Dave's Garden wants pics to stay under 80kb (kilobytes) file size, so they will load in a respectable time for us dial up users. Bonitin, your last two were 1200kb and 700kb. Excellent detail, but they take a really long time to load on slower computers, like mine and Beaker's. I use a program called PIXresizer to reduce file size of photographs. VERY easy to use, and free. http://bluefive.pair.com/pixresizer.htm
I think I have martagon var. album. I think it will be blooming soon.
Fabulous...if you have others, please share.
Deb
Definitely nothing too unusual or fancy....cute nonetheless.
Wallaby, your opening shot is perfect!
Leftwood, the alternated position of the leaves of L.martagon 'album' doesn't seem to be normal; just got a d-mail where someone asked me to send through the picture for passing over to a martagon specialist.
I'm sorry about the heaviness of the pictures I've send ; I was in the illusion that I was diminishing them before sending; but it doesn't seem to work. I'm using Adobe Photoshop to diminish them in size, and then when I ask to save, it gives me to option for the amount of kb I want it in. Lately I usually ask to save it in 56 kb or 139 kb. But now, I checked in my map where I save them in, and found out that most of them were not diminished.
I'll try out the program you advised! Thanks!
I think some of my pics are fairly large too, I just crop some off and when I save they go from over 2MB to anything from over/under 100kb to over 1MB, it depends on the picture content and size cropping to. They are automatically resized on DG to a number of bytes, and always 100 x 100 pixels which seems strange.
There will be more! L. majoense has a single bud, it shouldn't be long.
Lefty, Dicksonia antarctica is sold widely here, they are clearing a lot in Tasmania and other places. Some people spend a lot of money on them and kill them, they are usually £30 per foot of trunk but can be £25, it depends on the thickness I think. I have often thought of getting one but a suitable spot is needed, and it is a lot of money!
Here's a close up of the anthers, the filaments holding them are so thin at the ends. Look at that moist stigma, they collect water droplets ready to transport pollen, it's also spotted. I want the other to open now, it's not far off but this one may be too old to cross polinate, I should put some pollen in the fridge then I can try it on the other but the reverse may not work.
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Impressive shots wallaby1.
Thanks jmorth! It is as nature made it, I wish I could post it's heavenly scent too!
Very nice, Wallaby. I have always wondered about the purpose of extra thin filament ends. It's a common trait across the flowering kingdom. My only guesses are that it aids in shaking the pollen off, or allows for better positioning of the anther in relation to the stigma. Quite amazing how strong those supper thin connections are; I've never seen an anther fall off yet.
martagon var. album, before the high winds make a mess out of it...
Thank goodness this thread is going again. I've become addicted to the pictures in particular. I hope they'll keep coming! These species lilies remind me of certain orchids -- delicate, rare, exquisite. That martagon is so lovely. I have one standard martagon and one Mrs. R.O Backhouse about to open -- they'll be my first lilies this year and my first martagons ever. I'm very excited. Hope the winds and hail take a detour around you, magnolialover. And us too.
Lefty, I think the reason for thin filament ends may be to shake the pollen about in winds. When I moved the pot they certainly did that! Your other reason could also be true though!
Magnolia, perfectly pure blooms! I hope they stay that way, there are advantages of growing in a greenhouse! Is it scented?
I suppose I can post the pic of my Nomocharis, it was one of the bulbs I got at the same time and is in the Lilium family.
It is supposed to be Nomocharis pardanthina, looks more like N. mairei to me. This site shows the one I expected, but I got it from rareplants which hasn't got it listed just now.
http://www.blackdown-lilies.org.uk/Lilies/Lilies-Trumpet/lilies-trumpet.htm
On this site they are the same thing! It doesn't have a pic of it but states white with heavy spotting. Mine is pink with a little spotting near the centre. That makes two I have that look totally different!
http://www.hythe-alpines.co.uk/Bulbs.htm
Even if it wasn't what you expected, it is very petty Wallaby.
These interesting sites you give makes me forget the time and starts me of dreaming of all these beauties I didn't know the existence off. What a wealth! Perhaps it was providence that I only got a tiny place, because I'm sure I would ruin myself financially with wanting so many and probably wouldn't do anything else but caring for them.
Lovely, Magnolialover, your martagon 'album'. Yours looks more mature than mine. I wonder if yours also only has alternated leaves along its stalk, then it would be normal for this subspecie ?
Wallaby, it has a soft fragrance, I think it is nice, but my 9 yo says it smells like rotting fruit, in a soft way. Now, to check on those leaves.....
They are alternating, bonitin. The other martagon I have coming is whirly leaved.
Is the other one also an 'album' , magnolialover?
Such purity (the martagon), Magnolialover.
Nomocharis . . . yes, YES, YES !!!
Those will be my next venture. I am convinced (sorta maybe) that at least one of the species will be hardy here. You're always several steps ahead of me, Wallaby.
But I wanted the white Nomocharis with big spots on and frilly edges! 3rd time lucky?
Both are of the same lily. You can't even see this poor thing in my garden.
I must say, it isn't blooming yet, but I am fascinated by L.superbum and the snazzy foliage.
Snazzy is the word! It looks like you should put light bulbs on it and hang it from the ceiling!
Cool, Mags! :)
I thought it looked like a hula skirt ;0)
Aren't the species plants fascinating? The blooms are small but have delicate details I don't see in the big hybrids.
As nature made it........where man gets his inspiration!
My martagon 'album' has almost finished flowering and now its the turn for the others.
From the 9 I have 6 have flower buds, also the one with the strange pale-coloured foliage.
What a beauty bonitin!
It's so heavily spotted towards the centre that they join together, now I am jealous!
My second L. duchartrei has two flowers open, they don't have such dramatically curved back petals as teh first one. The flowers are perhaps slightly more spotted. The scent is very sweet, but strangely doesn't quite have the same Lily of the Valley scent.
This was getting late so is fairly dark, but I like the effect.
This is a wonderful lily, Wallaby! I looks related to the martagons.
Another view of the same martagon;
and the whole lily;
Janet, are you sure you didn't "sugar coat" that first picture...lol It looks like it was dipped in sugar! How beautiful!
That gets more amazing all the time bonitin!
Oh yes janet, of course I sugar coated it! It did look to have some fuzzy stuff in the throat, the other one doesn't look to have it in the pic, I have been noticing that myself. It also looks to have a more widespread green throat, it's obviously from a different population as it has spotted stems too.
I will have to get a night shot of the second one too to compare!
Such beautiful blooms! I especially like the composition on your first pic, bonitin. Perfect, in my eye. :)
Thanks Moby, it is easy to move around your model when it is still in a pot to find the right setting for it. But its harder once they are planted.
I love those bloomin' species. Keep them rollin'...
Boniton, that martagon has such an beautiful strawberry pink color. Very nice. While the fusing of spots is a strong possibility in martagons, the color of the spots is atypical. The open habit and long pedicels also seem uncharacteristic of martagons I know. Nor do the flowers have that stubby, heavy substance quality to them. There must be some extreme variability that I have not seen in this species, because I don't think I have ever seen a plant like that before.
Comments please?
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Wallaby, I'd consider yourself lucky to have such widely genetically diverse specimens of duchartrei. I prefer the second one myself, there are qualities in both I like.
Thanks Leftwood! This is the first one to bloom, apart from the 'album'. There are 4 more that are going to bloom soon.
I suppose they will be all different, as their foliage had a great diversity when I bought them; probably because they were grown from seeds collected in the wild.
Hi -- just adding my own very modest contribution to this. A fall planted martagon coming up through a bleeding heart. Just started opening this morning. I'd put it in the daily thread, but it's seems such a subtle beauty compared to the gorgeous voluptuous bombshell hybrids. Anyway, waking up and finding a martagon has started opening is my new favorite way to start the day. Laura
