In the sunroom, the Brunfelsia lactea is blooming wildly with 20+ flowers at once. It fills the whole house with its fragrance in the evening. One of my new favorites! Just have to shape it into a pleasing form now.
Quercus agrifolia, Coast Live Oak, are evergreen and tend to keep their leaves for about 24 months, I think. So the new leaves come out just as the two year old leaves are falling, leaving a perpetual green cycle.
Dierama pulcherrimum is impossible to take a good photo of. It constantly tosses its flowers about in even the slightest hint of a breeze. South African Iridaceae native to the mountains, so is hardy to about Z8.
Bletilla formosana continues to put up lots of flowers. I've tried pollinating a bunch because the seeds always germinate at a very low rate.
Shown is the crop of seed from 2009 Fall from one location in SW Oregon. Unfortunately, I didn't understand Brodiaeoideae at all so the seed collection was misidentified. Most likely, these are Dichelostemma congestum with possibly a few others mixed in for good measure. I always like seeing the variance in the shape of bulbs when I dig them. The seeds all look very similar, and then the bulbs come out brown and red and white and tall and fat and round and deformed.
Some of the Tropaeolum polyphyllum bulbs from seed from Chileflora last fall. Pretty weird.
The Calochortus venustus rugellus did open a bit more, but not all the way. Maybe next year.
The regular Calochortus venustus did open well. Very pretty flowers. Too bad it's just a stem with a flower at this point. Two forms: petal spot.
No petal spot.
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