Spider lily.

Thanks for starting this, Jan:) I love red spider lilies. Yours is so nice.

Beautiful spider lilies.

Bev & Tami, thanks! the only other bulbs flowering now and then are the rain lillies & Burbines.

I have a couple of glads that are putting up another bloom. The first gingers are going past. It's been tough here this year with record high temps and a lack of rain. I do also have rain lilies now and then.

Tuberose (w/ frog and moth)

Dahlias

Love that tuberose with moth & frog! I can't grow dahlias, it's too hot & humit here.

My tuberoses did very little this year. It sent up nice tall stalks with tons of buds, yet the heat was so intense that burned up before they opened. With my small lot, I really don't have another place to put them. I think they'll be traded or given away.

JoAnn I dont think its the heat because they bloomed extensively during our above 100F summers, here is their pic when they started sending spikes in late June this year:

same tuberose, next night:

Thanks, Izhar. I don't know what it is then. They just a;; burned up before the buds opened. Mine are i full sun all day long. I wish they did look as lovely as yours. Plus I love the preying mantis. I could use some of those also.

Amazing pics, jmorth!

Tuberose is one I haven't tried before, and really must next year. Jmorth, how much sun do yours get? How do you winter store them?

JoAnn, had you grown them successfully before? I wonder if afternoon shade would help?

Izhar, is your climate humid? Your Tuberoses look so happy! I love the grace of those single blossomed ones. Do you leave them in the ground year round?

I have received more Sinningia tubiflora (bulbs/corms) then I was anticipating on planting. If anyone wants to try them let me know and I can Postage them

These are great pics Jmorth.. depicting a simple food chain process.. loved them...

Neal I can grow them outdoors all year round but giving them rest in winters ensure a good blooming cycle next season, so I dig them out by mid November , humidity is around 60%. As soon as the sun sets they start emitting their heavenly fragrance which remains in the air till sunrise... out of 50 bulbs I ordered one bloomed double

Kim, those are so cool! I remember reading about them in a Plant Delights catalog- it said they're hardy to zone 7! Are you trying some outside?

Izhar, interesting that you need to dig them to induce a dormancy, a lot of bulbs are like that though, and like a dry period to bloom well. I'm curious if the high humidity of JoAnn's climate had something to do with the browning of the blooms? Heat combined with humidity is problematic for a lot of plants through the south here in the US.

Did y'all notice our new banner? Klstuart designed it for us! Thanks, Kelly!

When I opened this forum this morning, I thought it looked a little different. Really nice. Thanks for all the work.

I'm so disgusted with my burned up tuberoses. These were newly planted 2 years ago. Last year, a few flower stalks came up & the blooms were wonderful. This year, lots of flower stalks and and all burned up blossoms. I think these will have to be given away.

Both the heat & the humidity were terrible this year. Plus a pretty bad drought early in the year. I can always tell how much I've been watering by my water bill. Last month it was $85 compared to the usual $35.

JoAnn, it must be due to the heat and humidity like Neal said because my haven't bloomed at all this year. I have three pots of beautiful, healthy foliage but no blooms.

Neal, Great new banner. Would you like for me to send you a pot of tuberose? If so, c-mail me your address. Have you dug up the daffodils yet?

With the tuberoses, in considering Izhar's treatment of them, I'm wondering if digging them and allowing them a dry dormancy is the solution. That lead me to think container culture may be best, but then I realized Tami's are potted.

Tami, how do you grow and store them? I'm very tempted, but curious if I'll have any better luck than you have. Oh, and those elusive daffodils! I was so sure I'd have no problem finding the bulbs to dig them, because I have them in an area I had tarped off to kill the grass and weeds, and had left only small openings where the Daffs were growing. I'd planned to dig them while the foliage was yellowing, but ended up going on a surprise trip to the beach for a week (we'd thought all along we weren't going to be able to make it, at the last minute, circumstances changed and allowed us to go), and was shocked when we got back the foliage had completely dried off. Folks at home said it had been quite hot that week, hotter than at the beach, LOL. Anyhow, when I did go digging for them, I just kept digging and digging and finding no bulbs! How deep can they work themselves? I had to have gone down 18".

I haven't given up though, when we get a decent rain I'm going to go searching again. I really want to cover the whole area, so they need to come out of there.