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Flower identification
Mark Homer
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I have a flower coming on well since late autumn and has been flowering the last few weeks. It doesn't seem to be bothered by the ice and cold. I would like to know what it is should anyone know. Thank you.
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Hello Mark
It looks to me like Schizostylis coccinea, aka the Kaffir Lily, a native of S. Africa - usually flowers in the late autumn - but it's been a funny old year
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Kaffir Lily, they just go on and on dont they?
They multiply very quickly, became a pest in my daughters garden, you can easily dig them up and translant.
we call them schizophrenic...helps to remember the name!
I just love them when nearly everything else is over a nd gone.
A good one for the New Year's Day flower count Mark.
I haven't got any of those
In the sticks near Peterborough
I could post some up to you Nut, you sent me such a lovely lot of seeds that I was absolutely thrilled with. They soon spread, bit like Montbretia, you will be digging them out soon!.
Just to be pedantically accurate this is now Hesperantha coccinea.
That would be great Lyn, yes please. What do they like? I have had them in the past but they dwindled away.
I need to give them something better. I know my soil and garden better now so should be able to accommodate them with anything except permanent bog or acidity
Yes, I like a bit of pedantry Berghill, especially that one, far easier to spell
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thanks - I stand a chance of being able to remember that one rather than having to put Kaffir Lily into Google
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I found this link but have to disagree with some points. My daughter lives in St Austell, home of english china clay, they grow rampant in her garden. I bought a pot and split it hers have done much better than mine, she is forever digging them out.
Mine are in acid moorland soil, they do well, I have moved some to around the new pond.
I never really worry about what should go where, just plant them in and off they go.
May have been a bit cold for yours up there, although mine have been covered with snow and frost and do well.
Just try them and perhaps a covering of leaves or compost next winter.
I'll give them the best I can Lyn
I have seen them growing in other gardens in the area
In the sticks near Peterborough