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jacqueline
Thankful Gardener
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
28 Oct '06 3:49 am
Delightfully beautiful blooms! Love the soft colours. Thanks for sharing, Goose!
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Jack Holloway
Passionate Gardener
SEQUOIA FARM Haenertsburg South Africa
Hi again Goose!28 Oct '06 10:23 pm
Nice to catch up with you again, Goose! Isn't this a wonderful time of the year!!
Yellow clivias! Are they as horrendously expensive for you as they are in SA, the home of the clivias? We had the closest to tulipomania here when they were first released, with SEEDS selling for 20 times the cost of a normal clivia, and mature plants 50 times as much. Now they have come down considerably, and there are wonderful new intermediate hybrids available, but a good yellow is still easily 5 times the cost of a normal orange one! I gave up on clivias 10 years ago, but now that my garden is more sheltered they might survive the frost and I am 'getting into' looking after them again. Perhaps in a year or two I shall try a yellow...
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Dixie
garden enthusiast
Waikato-New Zealand
lovely29 Oct '06 8:48 am
I do love subtlety in colours ,Goose - I have never seen day -lilies that colour ,and your granny bonnets are early ! mine are not budding yet -I only planted them last Autumn ,though .
Referring to Jack's comment about expensive plants - a visitor from England couldn't believe when she saw white Arum lilies growing wild in country areas here "Do you realise how MUCH THOSE COST in England for ONE stem ???"
Have an enjoyable weekend in your garden -it is raining down here ,so I will go on with making the mosaic stepping stones inside -
Dixie
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Anna
Gone to seed
Hamilton, New Zealand
29 Oct '06 11:27 am
I love your Granny's Bonnets! And how great that everyone seems to call them that too. I've always known tham as Granny's Bonnets not Columbine. 
I only have a couple and they're not flowering yet either. Must be a regional thing.
My foxgloves aren't flowering yet either, but I do have an oyster plant 'getting there'.
Your blooms are lovely, thank you for the pictures.
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goose
Weekend Gardener
Coatesville , Auckland
Re: Hi again Goose!29 Oct '06 5:02 pm
[quote="Jack Holloway"]Nice to catch up with you again, Goose! Isn't this a wonderful time of the year!!
Yellow clivias! Are they as horrendously expensive for you as they are in SA, the home of the clivias? /quote
Yes, Yes, I think it is the best time of the year too!
Not too hot for me a redhead - sunburn and the heat of summer tends to zap me so I have to follow the shade to do my weeding ETC.But having said that it is still very unsettled weather with lots of spring rain which also keeps me out of the garden - like today argh!
Yellow clivias are very expensive here as well, I was lucky enough to be given the one in the pic and I have put it under a large native tree to avoid the frost. It seems to be happy and has flowered twice now but the plant itself hasnt grown much. My friend says hers are the same so I think its o k there. I was surprised how dark the pics have come out though, all flower & no sign of the plant itself, I quite like that look.
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goose
Weekend Gardener
Coatesville , Auckland
Granny Bonnets & Day Lily29 Oct '06 5:18 pm
Dixie & Anna
The Granny Bonnets have been flowering for the past two weeks now, there are still a lot of flowers but I wish they lasted longer as I just adore them.The Foxgloves have just started here and I noticed in Mooseys Diary a foxglove behind the Lupins.My Lupins are still getting their leaves so it seems its very different all over NZ.
I have had that Day lily for about twelve years and have propagated new plants from it. The ones you see in the picture are about 2 years old. I didnt bother too much about names of plants back then so unfortunately I cant tell you its name. 
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moosey
head gardener
30 Oct '06 9:03 am
Gosh your dayllies are early! Yet, yes, I've got a few foxgloves (the weedy magentas) in flower. Do you know - it really depends on what I help along in October with watering. I love the Aquilegias - though when I pick them for the house they all fall down! Oops.
Ha! Perhaps our individual micro-climates are responding to global warming! Eek! Shouldn't make jokes about such a serious issue.
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Anna
Gone to seed
Hamilton, New Zealand
31 Oct '06 3:02 pm
Shows how observant I am, but down at our local garage the grannys bonnets are a'bloomin' extremely well.
I gather that if you cut them back after flowering you get a second showing, is this true for any of you? I've never tried, although this year I'll be encouraging the seed heads so I can increase my numbers.
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Jack Holloway
Passionate Gardener
SEQUOIA FARM Haenertsburg South Africa
Bonnets and Arums31 Oct '06 6:40 pm
In reply to Anna - yes and YES! They do reflower, but one harvests lovely seed from the first flowering. About 13 years ago I harvested and propogated very successfully. Not many came to the farm and I've been right out of the McKana hybrids for ten years on the farm. I've got numerous white and blue (vulgaris? flabellata?) aqualegias though and the not-very-true descendents of 'Nora Barlow', the un-bonnet-like pink 'n green hybrid, which I first bought in the UK in '95.
As for arums (Zantedeschia aethiopica) they grow wild in large parts of Africa, mainly in wetlands in cooler, moist areas such as we have here. For my colleague Stephan's memorial last month we simply contacted one of the parents who encourages her wild arums by feeding and dividing them. We must have had 300 perfect heads in the school hall, some with flowrs 25cm from base to tip, all for free! They made a major contribution to the gravity of the occasion.
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I went for my usual Friday walk around the garden (planning what to do at the weekend walk ) and found these flowers I wanted to share with you... I hope you enjoy them as much as I do... 
