#drimia

[poop-me-a-flower]

Drimia haworthiodes is enjoying being outside!

[ruthbancroftgarden]

Drimia media

Drimia is a genus of bulbs formerly placed in the Hyacinth Family, but with the re-shuffling of monocot families in recent years, it has wound up in the subfamily Scilloideae within the Asparagus Family. D. media forms a clump of relatively small bulbs with tufts of almost cylindrical upright-growing leaves. The slender flower stalks come in late summer to fall, bearing small off-white flowers with curled-back tips (note that the flower stalks appear in the upper photo above, but it is easy to overlook them). Though the flowers aren't showy, they are a delight if you bend close enough to see them up close. This species comes from the winter-rainfall region in the southwestern part of South Africa, but its eastern populations are in places that also get rain at other times of the year, and it does not go dormant.

-Brian

[botaniqueer]

I kept forgetting to mention!! I finally joined a plant society! They're great ways of connecting to people, getting expertise, and also trading seeds and plant material!

The one I joined is the North American Rock Garden Society, but there are a ton of different ones out there around the world. After paying all the dues and stuff, they let me put in seed repository requests! I got waaaay more than I thought I would, and a good variety of different stuff! (Unfortunately no super weird Claytonias like I was hoping :P)

Some of them have even been sown and have germinated by now! The little specks of green Anacampseros rufescens (12 days) and Rhadamanthus (=Drimia) platyphylla (12 days) respectively.

[morphons]

New plants from the Spalding Cactus Mart: Haworthia cooperi v. truncata, Haworthia truncata v. maughanii, Plectranthus rotundifolius, Plectranthus ernstii, Dudleya farinosa, Drimia uniflora, Echeveria 'Derosa', Aeonium 'Mardi Gras', Adromischus marianae f. herrei (green form), Adromischus uitewaalanus, Pterocactus decipiens WG202. April 2019.

[tkk21]

Drimia platyphylla

2018.10.20

去年の9月にまいたドリミア プラティフィラから小さな葉が出てきました。

[eriospermum]

Schizobasis intricata  (Baker) Baker

[botaniqueer]

I am trying to decide on whether to sell my trumpet and/or DSLR camera in order to scrape up some cash for basic needs + being able to progress my gardening hobby with some upgrades.

I ended up using the camera for the first time in a while (I thought I lost the charger in a move years ago, but then just found it as I bought a new one rip) and now this decision has been complicated because I remember how much I like having a dedicated camera I have full manual control of. The quality gap between phones and dedicated cameras has been closing but I'm still able to get better quality out of my ten year old Nikon it seems. Plus I can swap lenses and take nice macros. Here are some photos I took just now!

Adenium obesum (38 months)

Monilaria sp. (81 days)

Gonialoe variegata (50 months)

Cotelydon tomentosa

Echeveria peacockii

Mother of Thousands (Kalanchoe or Bryophyllum daigremontiana?)

Drimia intricata (47 months)

Haworthia var.

[botaniqueer]

The Orbs have awakened. (Drimia intricata, 41 months)