{"id":4471,"date":"2015-04-03T22:36:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T03:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/?p=4471"},"modified":"2015-04-03T22:36:33","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T03:36:33","slug":"back-to-the-greenhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/?p=4471","title":{"rendered":"Back to the Greenhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Moraea<\/a>

Moraea elegans<\/p><\/div>\n

The greenhouse has been celebrating the oncoming springtime with a celebration all its own. \u00a0All those South African plants that don’t really make it on the outside in Maryland are just having fine time in the greenhouse. \u00a0Everyone that opens up is another surprise when I go out to the greenhouse.<\/p>\n

Speaking of surprises I need to resolve the nocturnal dilemma that I mentioned in my last posting. \u00a0I had asked for an ID for the lovely white flowers that surprised me by opening only at night. \u00a0As it turns out I got two helpful replies that pointed toward Hesperantha cucullata. \u00a0I followed up by looking at the NARGS seed distribution for 2013 where I had gotten the mislabeled seed and found that there was Hesperantha falcata in the distribution. \u00a0I looked at the characteristics of the flower and I think this is the most probable identification. \u00a0However, Mary Sue Ittner notes that H. cucullata is frequently mislabeled as H. falcata. \u00a0At her suggestion I took the flowers into the house where we could observe the after dark behavior. \u00a0It turns out that they gradually opened as the night progressed, being fully open after about 9pm, with a gradually increasing jasmine-like fragrance that peaked about 2am. \u00a0It’s a wonderful plant.<\/p>\n

\"Hesperantha<\/a>

Hesperantha falcata in the house<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Hesperantha<\/a>

Hesperantha falcata<\/p><\/div>\n

I’ve just returned from a week-long trip to Florida to photograph birds and many of the outside springtime flowers are beginning to come out. \u00a0But just to finish the greenhouse theme, let me share some of the other greenhouse flowerings that have occurred.<\/p>\n

\"Gladiolus<\/a>

Gladiolus tristis<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Corydalis<\/a>

Corydalis wilsonii<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Sparaxis<\/a>

Sparaxis Hadeco hybrid<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Moraea<\/a>

Moraea setifolia<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Lapeirousia<\/a>

Lapeirousia enigmata<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Calandrina<\/a>

Calandrina spectabilis<\/p><\/div>\n

And then to close with two of the Ferrarias.<\/p>\n

\"Ferraria<\/a>

Ferraria crispa form 5<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Ferraria<\/a>

Ferraria divaricata<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The greenhouse has been celebrating the oncoming springtime with a celebration all its own. \u00a0All those South African plants that don’t really make it on the outside in Maryland are just having fine time in the greenhouse. \u00a0Everyone that opens up is another surprise when I go out to the greenhouse. Speaking of surprises I need to resolve the nocturnal dilemma that I mentioned in my last posting. \u00a0I had asked for an ID for the lovely white flowers that surprised me by opening only at night. \u00a0As it turns out I got two helpful replies that pointed toward Hesperantha […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,4,34],"tags":[11,38,53],"class_list":["post-4471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulbs","category-flowers","category-greenhouse","tag-bulbs","tag-flowers","tag-greenhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4486,"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471\/revisions\/4486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}