Rhodohypoxis tangles

Rhodohypoxis Fred Broome of cultivation

Rhodohypoxis Pictus?

x Rhodoxis Summer Stars Pinky Sonja

My Rhodohypoxis collection is in a bit of a tangle for several reasons. For one I seem to have mixed up the labels and can't remember what I originally purchased years ago, and because stocks are often a bit mixed up in the first place.

The first one, Fred Broome is an old cultivar but was described then as being deep pick - what we grow now is more icing sugar pink with broad petals. Whatever the proper name is it's a pretty plant and seems to do well for most people.

The middle plant I had labelled as "Shell Pink" which it definately isn't. Looking at pictures it looks more like "Pictus" which I vaguely remember getting many years back.

The final plant is a hybrid between Rhodohypoxis and Hypoxis which gives a different flower form. I picked this one up at a show and it looks rather fine.

Ramonda myconi

This is the other species of Ramonda I grow, Ramonda myconi. This one is fairly pale, others are much darker and the there are white and pink forms too. I happen to have kept this one in the greenhouse - mainly because I bought a batch of various forms and when the first ones flowered and were clearly not to name I decided to keep the remainder back before planting out. It seems quite happy in the greenhouse and for now that's where it will stay.