Day: November 27, 2009

Still on autumn flowers

This is a paler and perhaps more usual form of N. x alleniae, with one of its parents N. miniatus at the bottom of the picture. In rushy/grassy habitat, near Arcos,  in S. Spain Brian

First flowers

Hi,     My second n. romieuxii from seed sown 3 years ago.  The first flower to bloom a few weeks ago was white, this one is more what I expected; a pale yellow.  It’s been wet here ( N Ireland)…

Ceylon blooms facing the sun

Here is a shot of a drift of Ceylon. Each bloom has six little curved solar reflectors cupped and bent just right to reflect sunlight back onto the sides of the trumpet. The trumpet is flared to ricochet the rays…