oxalis lobata , a rarefied South African bulb-shaped sorrel speciesNow that I am back from traveling , a busy calendar week at workplace was finalized by a rush to get home Friday with enough clip to pull the plant into the nursery . Not an well-to-do undertaking with declamatory tubs and many big clay sess from around the property . I really enjoy this 24-hour interval , one of the tent C. W. Post days of the gardeners year . First frost point both the final stage and the showtime of dissimilar gardening season .
The summertime dormant , fall and winter bloom bulb from South Africa , peculiarly the bulbous Oxalis are make thier prime time of year . As well as the Nerine sarniensis , Nerine hybrids and the Cyclamen species . The Oxalis metal money which I produce are coming into blossom now direct by Oxalis order Lobata , a new pet , with small , half inch bright yellow bloom which come up before the foliage , and are fragrant and thick , expecially since this yr I continue many of the slew out on the pit walk in front of the greenhouse to gather as much of the direct sun as possible before Robert Lee Frost . This has work out amazingly well , and now I have oxalis industrial plant that are more in part to what one would find in thier aboriginal habitat of sunny South Africa , and not etoliated as one can well rule in a northern hemisphere greenhouse . This increase light strength is really noticable with the species , O. heptaphylla , which is just starting to produce it ’s pink , genus Petunia - like blossoms jell agains thread like almost succulent foliage . This yr , my plants have dumb mounds of leafage instead of looser tufts . It ’s amazing what a departure there is between single pane glass , and pure , unadultered sunlight .
While traveling last week , I stopped by and visited with horticulturist , John Lonsdale in Pennsylvania . We exhanged some plant , and I was very impressed with his naturalised Cyclamen in the Grant Wood behind his home . I may try on that here in Massachusetts . For now , my Cyclamen purpurascens aggregation will probobly persist in the spyglass sign of the zodiac , where they is protected from frost . Potted collection of Cyclamen species in the sand plunge
Back in the nursery , the Cyclamen assembling is recuperate from this past summer calamity where I lost about half of the collection due to missmanagement . I still need to master the finish of these untamed form of Cyclamen , perfect which metal money need some summertime moisture during thier dormancy , and which coinage need thoroughgoing dryness . At least , as you will see shortly in a posting in a week or two , I am start out to achieve some succeeder with the Nerine sarniensis aggregation . With the new declamatory plenty sizing , and fecundation program , twelve of the seventeen pots which I am testing are blooming , which for me , break down a record since ususally I accomplish about one third of that .
Speaking of frost , last Nox it reach 29 degree here in fundamental Massachusetts . The plants which I allow out of doors only suffered modest harm , although the bananas and morning glory took a good collision from female parent nature and are transparent , and basically done for the time of year . The bright and colorful Leonitis is still bloom in front of the Greenhouse , and on this brilliant autumn day , it ’s persimmon coloured flowers challenges any fall foliage motif on a Vermont Life calander . Not quite New England , but horticulturally talk it ’s visual candy .
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