Winter bulbs outside today

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My climate is great for growing most winter-rainfall bulbs outdoors. Here is a grouping.

The annual with flower spikes is Linaria maroccana, also known as fairy snapdragon. It reseeds itself every winter, and flowers come in a full range of color, except blue and green.

Right now I only have some south African Oxalis flowering there. The photo shows one of the many color forms of Oxalis obtusa, growing in a container with the West Texas cactus Echinocereus dasyacanthus. These are winter-wet, summer-dormant Oxalis, growing from small corms. The flowers only open in full sun. I have a lot of other kinds in containers. In the spring they go dormant; I put the containers, bone-dry, into storage boxes, and keep them out of the rain until nights begin cooling the next fall.

[No-Pro-mwa]

Looks like allot of work to me.

[Leafmite]

What a nice collection! You should add a few saffron crocuses!

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There's a large pot of those in there just out of the photo, but they haven't bloomed. I don't know why not.

[Leafmite]

Mine are not blooming as they are too small. I lost the mature ones during a rainy autumn and managed to save a few of the little bulblets. I think this fall, the oldest ones will finally be mature.
I'll bet yours will bloom this fall and you will be showing off wonderful pictures (while mine are just putting out leaves)! Good luck!

[RosieC]

Looking good!

[Tindomul]

Awesome display!!! Show them how it's done Estación!

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Still no flowers on my saffron crocus. I suspect it's too late for this year. I don't know why they didn't bloom. I just hope they come back. I know the ground squirrels didn't get them; no holes in the soil in the container.

[Tindomul]

If you do see them bloom, get us a picture please.