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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 [...]

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Growing Indigenous Bulbs in the Eastern Cape

Great Kei River Valley

The Eastern Cape as a repository of bio-diversity

 

The Border region of the Eastern Cape is so named because it was historically the border between the Cape Colony and the traditional homelands of the Xhosa tribes.   It lies [...]

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Rainlily Cultivation – Zephyranthes

Zephyranthes Basic culture

They are best grown in a sunny spot in a loose, friable, very free draining soil. A sandy loam is ideal. This should be neutral to slightly limey. Zephyranthes atamasco is reputed to like the soil to be just on the acid side [...]

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Smoke treatment, and germination of Australian Natives

In fire-prone floras, particularly those of Mediterranean climate zones, fire has been shown to be crucial for the germination of seed from a wide variety of taxa. Habitat burning is an important cue, for fire-sensitive species, in triggering germination. For many of these taxa, germination under [...]

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Growing bulbs from seed

Growing bulbs from seed is easy and rewarding, and below are some tips for successfully raising your bulbs from seed to flower. To learn how to grow bulbs from seed you can gather ideas from experienced growers, and then implement some of those ideas and learn from your own experience. Trial and error is usually the best recipe for success. Please send in your ideas for raising seeds, as we could all benefit from your success, and also your failures.
Seed generally need to be sown in the season that the parent bulbs grow. So if the seed is from a winter-growing bulb, e.g. Lachenalia, then the ideal time to sow this is in autumn, when the parent bulb starts to grow. Summer-growing species are generally best started in spring, and evergreen species can be sown in spring or autumn, preferably when the temperatures are not too extreme. These are not hard-and-fast rules, as there are always species that do not conform and it helps if you know where the species you are sowing comes from, as then you will know when to sow the seed and what conditions the species normally receives in its natural habitat.

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