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Delightful Double Daffodils In The Garden

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Narcissus, Daffodils, Jonquil’s, (I call them Daffies) doesn’t matter what you call them there all the same to me, Absolutely Delightful! 

The varities of Daffodils are so large over 13,000 different known hybrids from around the world. The color range of daffodils is lovely to, with yellow, white, peach, pink, and orange, red, line-green, [...]

Narcissus cyclamineus, or is it Daffodil ‘Jetfire’?!

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 'Jetfire' Daffodil was introduced in 1966 by the late American hybridizer Grant E. Mitsch, who has created a number of other miniature narcissus including 'Pipit,' 'Bell Song,' & 'Hillstar'. This hybrid is a recipient of the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

Grant E. Mitsch began hybridizing daffodils in the 1930s and [...]

Moraea aristata (D.Delaroche) Asch. & Graebn.

Family : Iridaceae (Iris family) Common name : Blouooguintjie (Afr.)

Moraea aristata is a beautiful late winter- and spring-flowering peacock moraea with white blooms marked with light to deep iridescent blue eyes or nectar guides. Although critically endangered in the wild, it is easily cultivated in sandy or clay [...]

Flowering Bulbs by Sarah Guest

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A comprehensive, colourful and easy-to-use guide to bulbs. Learn how to choose the kinds of bulbs that will provide an annual display in your garden for years to come and, with each passing year, bring you a more lavish and glorious display. Stunning colour photographs allow easy identification and inspiration for even the [...]

Where to Buy Calla Lily Bulbs in Australia

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The beautiful Calla Lilies, we see them in peoples garden’s, or more we often see them as cut flowers, at weddings in bouquets and as table flowers, but the big question is – where can we find Calla Lilies (Zantedeschia aethiopica, Zantedeschia elliotiana [...]

Bulbs in Containers by Rod Leeds – Book Review

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Fantastic color photographs and excellent writing make this an inspirational and accessible guide for specialty plant collectors, alpine and rock gardeners, and city gardeners, as well as anyone gardening in small spaces.

 

Readers will learn about the ease and practicality of growing bulbs in containers-bringing year-round color and interest to one's [...]

Australian Bulbs – Burchardia – Milkmaids or Star Flowers

Burchardia umbellata

A botanical description of the genus Burchardia.

Family: Colchicaceae

Genus: Burchardia

Burchardia is a genus of herbs that are endemic to Australia. The genus is named for Johann Heinrich Burkhardt (1676–1738), a German botanist and correspondent of Leibnitz.

Species include:

• Burchardia bairdiae Keighery

• Burchardia congesta Lindl.

• Burchardia monantha Domin

• Burchardia multiflora Lindl.

• Burchardia rosea Keighery

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The Colourful World of South African Moraea

Moraea is a genus of plants in the family Iridaceae. The genus name is a tribute to the English botanist Robert Moore. The technical botanical material in this entry is abstracted largely from “The Genera of Southern African Flowering Plants”

Moraeas have iris-like flowers and were at first regarded as members of [...]

Calochortus, the Mariposa Lily

 Calochortus is a genus of bulbous plants that includes 70 species from British Columbia to Guatemala and east to Nebraska. Calochortus is the most widely dispersed genus of Liliaceae on the North American Pacific coast.[2] Of these, 28 species are endemic to California.[3] The genus Calochortus includes Mariposas (or Mariposa lilies) with open [...]

Zantedeschia, the Calla Lilies we all know and love.

Yellow Calla Lily

Zantedeschia is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to southern Africa from South Africa north to Malawi. The name of the genus was given as a tribute to Italian botanist Giovanni Zantedeschi (1773–1846) by the German botanist Kurt Sprengel (1766–1833). Common names include arum lily for Z. aethiopica, calla, [...]

Pocket Guide to Bulbs by John E. Bryan – Book Review

Pocket Guide to Bulbs - by John E. Bryan

Pocket Guide to Bulbs

John E. Bryan

 This handy guide provides descriptions of more than 700 of the best garden bulbs along with 300 color photographs. Descriptions include basic information on cultivation, maintenance, pests, and bulbs for specific landscape uses.

 

Gardeners of all levels will appreciate this sturdy, handy pocket guide's [...]

12 Common Digital Photography Mistakes

 12 Common Digital Photography Mistakes

With digital cameras at their most affordable, anybody can be a photographer these days. Problem is, it takes more than a camera to take good pictures.

It takes a certain eye, a way of seeing things, to take pictures that make people go "Wow!". Fortunately, it can be learned. [...]

Caesia parviflora var. vittata – Pale Grass Lily

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Caesia parviflora, the Pale Grass Lily is a common small plant found in many parts of Australia, mainly in the Eastern States.

Caesia parviflora is a small plant growing up to 50 cm tall, and it is found in heath, woodland and dry sclerophyll forest. Often on growing on sandstone based soils. The lily type flower [...]

Lycoris aurea & Lycoris radiata in Australia

Lycoris radiata

Lycoris is an eastern Asian genus from the Amaryllidaceae family and they superficially resemble the South African genus Nerine and are sometimes confused with it in the horticultural trade.

Various Lycoris species have been grown as ornamental plants in China and Japan for many centuries, and have been hybridised and selected during that [...]

Freesia laxa – a wonderful garden bulb

Freesia laxa

Freesia laxa is a wonderful species from both the winter and summer rainfall areas of Southern Africa, and can be grown and flowered all year round. The plants prefer a slightly shady aspect especially when grown in hot and dry areas, although they will grow in full sun in [...]

Calla Lilies from Nature Hills Nursery

Australian Gardeners Can Find A Great Selection Of Calla Lilies (Zantedeschia) At Garden Express. Click Here To Check Out Their Range

Calla Lilies are well known florist flowers and come in a range of colours both in leaf and in the flowers. Commercially many color forms are now available [...]

Dichopogon strictus – CHOCOLATE LILY

Arthropodium strictum - Chocolate Lily

A plant up to 90 cm tall with tuberous roots that are usually between 15 mm long and

5-10 mm wide. Leaves: The leaves are flat and up to 40 cm long and 1-7 mm wide.

Flowers:The inflorescence is either racemose (succession along stem where oldest

flower is at the base) [...]

BOOK REVIEW – Bulbs for Garden Habitats

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Bulbs for Garden Habitats [Illustrated] [Hardcover]

by Judy Glattstein

 

To paraphrase Gertrude Stein, a bulb is a bulb is a bulb, right? Wrong, according to Glattstein, and after planting and cultivating tens of thousands of bulbs, corms, tubers, and rhizomes (collectively termed geophytes), she should know. Whereas bulb gardening is often thought to [...]

Choosing the Right Greenhouse for your needs

Hope you are hard at gathering all relevant information to begin building your dream greenhouse! Your greenhouse is really, really special simply because it is your own to build, care for and use! No matter what you build it with it is guaranteed to bring you joy.

Find Out How to Start Your Own Worm Farm

HERES HOW TO START YOUR OWN WORM FARM – COMPLETLEY FREE NEWSLETTER WILL TEACH YOU TO MASTER THE ART OF COMPOSTING WITH WORMS…

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Step-by-step instructions to build a low cost, highly productive worm farm or wormery to supply your garden with a [...]

Tulip Bulbs – from Nature Hills Nursery

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Fall is well and truely here in the Northern Hemisphere and it is time to get your Tulip bulbs ready for these beautiful flowers in Spring. Nature Hills Nursery Inc. have been producing and selling wonderful Tulip bulbs in the United States for many years and they are a trusted bulb nursery that produce quality bulbs [...]

The Random House Book of Bulbs

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Describes over 1,000 bulbs and bulblike plants from all over the world. Arranged in the calendar order in which they flower. Text and illustrations guide gardeners on how to plant and grow bulbs.

Ideal for plant identification and selection, this terrific series features immaculate photography (one picture for virtually every entry) and clear, concise [...]

Bulbs ablaze – a miracle of survival

Cyrtanthus breviflorus

By Cameron and Rhoda McMaster,  The Croft Wild Bulb Nursery, Stutterheim.

 

We are constantly amazed at the tenacity of some geophytes. Not only can they survive drought and fire, but also such [...]

Why use Biodynamic colloidal humus compost in your garden?

What is biodynamic colloidal humus compost, and what are the real benefits of using it in your garden?

Imagine how you would feel to have a garden that’s healthy and glowing with life…

Where the plants hardly ever [...]

The Atlas of Living Australia

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The Atlas of Living Australia is improving the linkages between all forms of information about Australian biodiversity and building tools to enable researchers and others to access, combine and visualise data on Australian animals, fungi, microorganisms and plants. The Atlas project is a unique scientific collaboration between the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), [...]