Topic: Galtonia

[Palustris]

Sometime back I asked for opinions on how best to gorw on a lot of Galtonia seedlings. Either on here or on the Beeb I got different suggestions, so having a lot of plants I tried the sensible ones out. Here are the results.


First one is one of the mother bulbs left in situ in the garden.
No.2 is one left in situ as a self sown seedling in the gravel path
No.3 is one kept dry/just damp in soil over Winter in a frost free shed.
No.4 is one kept as a dry bulb as one would keep a tulip.
As you can see, the only difference is when they start flowering.
And for the thrifty out there, we saw 3 bulbs in flower for £3.75 . We have planted out over a 100 and there are still as many looking for homes.

[Lady Cosmos]

The flowers of those bulbes are beautiful. Are they real white or a bit light-green-white? Here we call them summer hyacint or Kaapse hyacint (south africa). They are not winterhard and should be in the ground in april, about 10-15 cm deep and in oktober dig them up en keep them dry and cool frostfree.
It is nice to get little ones by the bulb or from seed.
Your garden must be very nice next july, when they all are in bloom.  

[Palustris]

They are very slightly greenish, but I also have lots of seedlings of a Galtonia with green flowers. They should flower next year. I did not bother digging up any of the mother bulbs last Autumn and most of them seem to have survived.