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This beautiful South African bulb is a short robust subspecies of the pineapple lily Eucomis autumnalis. It is summer growing and deciduous in winter. Rosettes are moderate in size, with soft wide leaves, with crisped and wavy margins.
South African bulb with exotic paintbrush inflorescences. It thrives in mediterranean conditions, slow but steady. It is used in traditional medicine to treat chronic coughs and also has antiviral activity.This is the form found in East London, very close to the sandy beach, in the sea-facing scrub on rocky soil.
South African bulb with exotic paintbrush inflorescences. It thrives in mediterranean conditions, slow but steady. It is used in traditional medicine to treat chronic coughs and also has antiviral activity.
These bulbs are now about five years old, sown from seeds in 2016.
Evergreen haemanthus with leaves laying on the ground, not flat but with some "bumps", which ar typical of this species. White brush-like inflorescences. These bulbs are now about three years old, sown from seeds in 2018. They belong to the populations found in KZN
Evergreen haemanthus with leaves laying on the ground, not flat but with some "bumps", which ar typical of this species. White brush-like inflorescences.
It is native in southern Namibia and north-western South Africa. The bulb can grow to five or even 13 centimetres in diameter, the entire plant to 20 centimetres in height. The flowers are scarlet. This is a winter-grower.
This Hippeastrum has delicate crimson flowers with a yellow throat. H. blossfeldiae is native to sandy coastal areas in South Brazil, not too far from Sao Paulo. It does not stand frost but it grows in cool conditions with no need of really hot weather.
This wild Hippeastrum species builds large white-yellow flowers. The yellow colour is rare in this genus so this species has been used a lot to create new hybrids with some yellow.
This bulb grows easily and produces abundant scarlet flowers with a very elegant shape. Their colour is hard to describe and hard to portrait in pictures, of a spectacular, bright, salmon-crimson orange.
This is a lovely small species from SE. Brazil with the most unusual leaves in the genus: these are dark green with a bright white central stripe. Then it bears "reticulate" pink coloured flowers. This is the true wild species, not one of the hybrids commonly found in the trade under this name.
Hippeastum striatum is easy to grow and bloom, since it requires no special dormancy. Flowers are not really large but they show out very well with a rich glitering red. This form is originally from the location named Saltao, in SE Brazil.
Mrs. Garfield is an old hybrid made in the UK around 1880, between a Dutch Hippeastrum hybrid and the diminute H. reticulatum var. striatifolium. It is different and resilient. it is also a classic... It is worth it!
This deciduous species is grown as an ornamental in different areas of Mexico. Nevertheless it is scarce in the wild, as it is found in small and scattered populations in dry areas of C-SE Mexico.
If it is named "imperialis", then there must be a reason! It is the largest species in the genus, with wide leaves and large flowers.
Evergreen South American bulb. The cultivar 'Alberto Castillo', has white, larger flowers and was collected in the 1980s by Alberto Castillo, the owner of Ezeiza Botanical Garden, from an abandoned garden in Buenos Aires.
Ipheion uniflorum is a free-blooming evergreen bulb from Argentina and Uruguay, with leaves smelling like garlic.
This selection of Ipheion has bright, deep blue overlapping perianth segments.
Bright blue selection of Ipheion uniflorum, a free-blooming evergreen bulb from Argentina and Uruguay, with leaves smelling like garlic. It blooms from late winter throughout spring.
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