Asphodelus acaulis
This low , winter blooming bulb is the perfect candidate for a potted alpine bulb collection for an alpine house , or a dip bed . jolly hard to come by , this industrial plant comes from Morocco and it produces these pure cotton plant confect pinkish flower which rise on a very short stem . I have had this plant for three eld and it is starting to produce a nice , multi - crown plant . The foliage is loose , and pretty protrate , if not alpinesque in visual aspect , although , not in reality an alpine . This is also not technically a light bulb , but rally only seldom available from those few retailer who sell extraordinarily rare or strange bulbs , suc as Paul Christian in London . This is more or an geophyte with unknown , overweight reposition root , which allow the plant life to go dormant during the blistering , dry , moroccan summer . Not unline an Eremurus , actually , but much smaller . The Asphodelus blossom exposed on gay days in the wintertime , around late January or February , and given the high product of bud , we will be enjoying it ’s pinkish lily - like flower until rightful fountain .
Ornithogalum fimbriatum volt-ampere . OreadraThis twelvemonth I was fortunate to acquire three names figure of Ornithogalum fimbriatum , and this is the first to bloom . Unlike the more Wal - Mart - y Ornithogalums , this baby is less dawdler parkland , and more Kew . I will get a good shot on a sunny day , when the flowers all open like white waterlillies , but on a white day like today , one can also enjoy the apple green outside marking on the petals . All kidding aside , I am smitten with all of the Ornithogalum speces , trashy or not . But these ‘ fimbriated ’ forms , ( see the serated abstract on the leaf ? ) are wonderful alpine national for a collection in a cold greenhouse . I grab a quick shot of some of the interspecies Clivia which are now flower . I leave behind for Japan this Wednesday , and these remind me of the seed I brought back a few days ago , since , these are them . First time blooming , from Mr. Nakamura ’s Breeding Plantation . Mr Nakamura and Shige are majuscule hosts , when I visited , and the hundreds of Clivia seeds which we institute back are all starting to blossom , I am so unrestrained . Although , I may miss many of them due to this trip back . Perhaps a few will make it into the New England Spring Flower Show this year , if they hold off .
Nerine undulata
Some Nerine metal money are still blooming , and this treat specie with flap petals is proof of the name . ( syn . N. alta ) . It is much more refined than it ’s splashy cousins , the N. bowdenii and N. sarniensis that bloomed in the autumn . Of course , there are a few much showier relatives that I hope will blossom soon , but perhaps next twelvemonth . Margaret takes a nap , reclaim from her pharynx surgical operation last week at Tufts University Hospital . Poor Muggles , has a serious Larynx job . But , for now , the laser operating theater go well , and at least she can breath a fiddling easier , at least for a while , but we still can ’ t leave her alone .
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