Rain lilies (Habranthus, Zephyranthes etc)

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Fermi

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Re: Rain lilies (Habranthus, Zephyranthes etc)
« Reply #60 on: January 22, 2015, 02:42:40 AM »
More of the same after some summer rain!
Zephyranthes 'Grandjax'
Zephyranthes primulina
Zephyranthes macrosiphon
Habranthus robustus 'Russell Manning'
Habranthus martinezii
Habranthus martinezii x Habranthus robustus ("commercial form")
Habranthus martinezii x Habranthus robustus 'Russell Manning' Seedling #1 (appears identical to "commercial form")
Habranthus martinezii x Habranthus robustus 'Russell Manning' Seedling #2
Habranthus tubispathus
Habranthus tubispathus "pink form"
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Re: Rain lilies (Habranthus, Zephyranthes etc)
« Reply #61 on: February 05, 2015, 12:59:45 PM »
Lovely pictures, Fermi - and these come to flower so quickly from seed, I'm always surprised that more people don't grow them in med climate areas.
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Re: Rain lilies (Habranthus, Zephyranthes etc)
« Reply #62 on: February 10, 2015, 02:45:38 AM »
If anyone would like seed of those I collect, please send me an e-mail or Personal Message,
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Re: Rain lilies (Habranthus, Zephyranthes etc) -2015
« Reply #63 on: December 31, 2015, 03:51:56 AM »
At the tail end of the year we are once again getting some rain-lilies flower after recent showers.
Habranthus tubispathus - clump and close-up
Habranthus tubispathus "Salmon pink" form
Habranthus robustus x H. martinezii
Habranthus robustus in bud and open the next day (this morning)
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Re: Rain lilies (Habranthus, Zephyranthes etc)
« Reply #64 on: March 25, 2016, 03:53:36 PM »
Zephyranthes candida is flowering well this autumn
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Re: Rain lilies (Habranthus, Zephyranthes etc)
« Reply #65 on: January 27, 2019, 05:58:49 AM »
This little patch of Habranthus tubispathus have seeded themselves here and are a mix of pink and salmon-pink forms
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Re: Rain lilies (Habranthus, Zephyranthes etc)
« Reply #66 on: January 27, 2019, 08:20:13 AM »
Very pretty!
Alisdair Aird
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Re: Rain lilies (Habranthus, Zephyranthes etc)
« Reply #67 on: January 27, 2019, 12:01:02 PM »
Thank you Fermi.  Once more lovely flowers to enjoy.  After our heavy rain we have been having sunshine and the wild flowers are out. Yesterday  I was pointing out to our granddaughter the orchids which are growing at the base of  their hill.  She was excited and was taking photographs to show her Dad.
I garden in Cyprus, in a flat old farming field, alt. approx. 30 m asl.

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« Reply #68 on: March 12, 2019, 03:29:38 AM »
Habranthus brachyandrus growing in a pot which has been getting regular water during the summer
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Re: Rain lilies (Habranthus, Zephyranthes etc)
« Reply #69 on: March 12, 2019, 04:31:47 PM »
Golly!
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Re: Rain lilies (Habranthus, Zephyranthes etc)
« Reply #70 on: November 10, 2019, 02:19:19 PM »
This is what I've been growing as Zephyranthes drummondii though it might actually be the smaller Z. chlorosolen
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Re: Rain lilies (Habranthus, Zephyranthes etc)
« Reply #71 on: January 31, 2020, 01:57:23 PM »
Habranthus brachyandrus managed to open two flowers at once!
I either need to get a bigger pot or try a bulb in the open garden though I think this one likes water through the summer
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Re: Rain lilies (Habranthus, Zephyranthes etc)
« Reply #72 on: February 15, 2020, 11:20:33 AM »
This cluster of Habranthus had lost their label but I think they might be a 3rd clone from  the Habranthus martinezii x Habranthus robustus 'Russell Manning' cross I made many years ago and posted pics of in 2015
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« Reply #73 on: February 15, 2020, 12:19:40 PM »
A very appropriate posting after the rains have finally arrived and doused the fires. Thank goodness. Hope neither you nor anybody you know has been badly affected by the fires.
I have a small garden in Rome, Italy. Some open soil, some concrete, some paved. Temperatures in winter occasionally down to 0°C. Summer temperatures up to 40°C in the shade. There are never watering restrictions but, of course, there is little natural water for much of June, July and August.

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Re: Rain lilies (Habranthus, Zephyranthes etc)
« Reply #74 on: February 16, 2020, 09:43:10 AM »
... and what a lovely subtle colour
Alisdair Aird
Gardens in SE England (Sussex); also coastal Southern Greece, and (in a very small way) South West France; MGS member (and former president); vice chairman RHS Lily Group, past chairman Cyclamen Society