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Duality – Bulbs with Interesting Pairs of Leaves

December 1, 2008

Dormant for one year, this lone, single leaf on a Resnova megaphylla shows how stunning even a single leaf can be. Native ot a…

Nerine Timey

October 13, 2008

Nerine sarniensis as cut flowers indoors. (The mural in our kitchen was painted by my dad in 1948, it features all of my brothers…

Comparing Clivia Blossoms

April 4, 2008

Various Cyrtanthiflora group blossoms A decade ago, a yellow Clivia or a variegated Clivia, often topped the list of the most wanted, if not…

Rare South African Lachenalia from Seed

February 10, 2008

Rare species, such as this green-flowering variant of the more common, L. aloides, Lachenalia aloides var.Vanzyliae can only be obtained by seed. Now that…

Early South African Bulbs

November 14, 2007

Bench of the larger South African Bulbs I am trying som elarger pots for some of thebigger, and more challenging S.A. bulbs, and this…

late season Lachenalia

April 4, 2007

Lachenalia aloides var. anzyliae If you grow Lachenalia, most likely you grow one of the new Lacehalia aloides clan. This species is by far…

Romulea season

February 25, 2007

Romulea bulbocodium ssp. leichtliniana The Genus Romulea is relatively unknown by most, since one rarely finds the corms available in the trade, and thus,…

New Years Eve Clivia

January 1, 2007

Our first seedlings are blooming that are crosses between Clivia miniata and Clivia gardenii. Many of these are F2 crosses from seeds that we…

Peak Nerine sarniensis bloom

November 5, 2006

A selection of Nerine sarniensis crosses, most from the United Kingdom’s National Collection, kept by Ken Hall at Springbank Nursery on the Isle of…

Bulbous South Afrifan Oxalis

October 23, 2006

A sandbed filled with blooming Oxalils species The bloom season is peaking for the bulbous Oxalis, and both the species from South Africa and…

Growing With Plants

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