A flower a day ...

Trila said:
They are called Cockscombs.....I have grown many of them. The surprising thing is that the flowers and stalks are so big, but the seeds are the size of ground pepper.
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Thank you for this information Trila. Wow....I never heard of seeds being that tiny! I was curious to see if they came in other colors because Carmen only plants the red ones, so I looked them up and yes they do. Here's an internet photo....beautiful ! Do yours have different colors Trila? @MarkD

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OneEyedDiva said:
Thank you for this information Trila. Wow....I never heard of seeds being that tiny! I was curious to see if they came in other colors because Carmen only plants the red ones, so I looked them up and yes they do. Here's an internet photo....beautiful ! Do yours have different colors Trila? @MarkD

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I used to have just the dark maroon color, but I don't have them anymore. For some reason, I can't get them to grow at my house. Maybe because I don't have a formal garden that gets watered regularly? I don't know.

However, I used to plant them in the little tiny garden at the roller rink. The owners of the rink watered the garden daily, and they used some kind of plant vitamins (Miracle Grow?)......and the plants/flowers thrived!!!!! The garden usually only had room for about 3 cockscombs (along with a few other flowers), but they were always amazing!!! The stems were at least 6 inches across and 2 inches wide. Each plant had 8-10 flowers that were about 18 inches across.....they were stunning!!!!

In the fall I would gather the flower heads and dry them in buckets over the winter. In the spring I would gently shake them and the seeds would all fall into the buckets.

I live 2 hours away from the roller rink, so unfortunately, it got to be to hard for me to keep up with their care. I sure do miss them. I still have seeds, maybe I'll try growing them again next year. 💐
 
Trila said:
I used to have just the dark maroon color, but I don't have them anymore. For some reason, I can't get them to grow at my house. Maybe because I don't have a formal garden that gets watered regularly? I don't know.

However, I used to plant them in the little tiny garden at the roller rink. The owners of the rink watered the garden daily, and they used some kind of plant vitamins (Miracle Grow?)......and the plants/flowers thrived!!!!! The garden usually only had room for about 3 cockscombs (along with a few other flowers), but they were always amazing!!! The stems were at least 6 inches across and 2 inches wide. Each plant had 8-10 flowers that were about 18 inches across.....they were stunning!!!!

In the fall I would gather the flower heads and dry them in buckets over the winter. In the spring I would gently shake them and the seeds would all fall into the buckets.

I live 2 hours away from the roller rink, so unfortunately, it got to be to hard for me to keep up with their care. I sure do miss them. I still have seeds, maybe I'll try growing them again next year. 💐
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I don't know why our garden committee keeps planting some of the things they do. Something is not cool with our soil and many of the flowers die too quickly, the cockscombs may be among them. The beautiful hydrangeas that were planted died but the extreme heat may have had something to do with that. Some of them look like they survived though. I wonder if your problem with planting them is similar to ours. :unsure:
 
My lycoris flowers started to come up today. The flower stalks usually grow to full height in one day, and are blooming by the next day. They don't all come up at the same time though.

Right now they are coming up along the tail to the pond, and I only have a few flowers. Here are some pictures from previous years...
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The trail that goes down to the pond.

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An up close look.

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Along the edge of the bulb field

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Next to the house.
 
Kadee said:
What about a frozen stiff plant ..in Canbera :)…..sorry we don’t see many flowers in winter …unless they are artificial :)

This plants normally has nice shiny dark burgundy foliage

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It looks like it still has the wonderful foliage which means much more to me than the flowers anyway. At Hidecote in England I was impressed to see how good bright red flowers look backed by a lot of burgundy and green foliage. They really let a loud flower like these red roses shine on the stage they provide.

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Hey another Aussie … @Wombat ..they grow where I live in S.A ….the ones where I live would be 20 foot tall, I’d think they have been growing there since settlement of the area In the late 1800’s
 
Wombat said:
Unfortunately the flower means it is dying.

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And they are starting to look a bit sad


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Yes, though by now it has probably already off set many pups. The future is secured. Here is one that bloomed a little more than a mile from me near a library. Taken before I retired and shed some weight.

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Mine have never flowered but I'm pretty tired of it any how. I much prefer A. ovatum. Here is one growing in a friend's Orinda garden. Not sure what their flowers would look like.

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