One to guess!! ?

[Chad]

How about a Sunday trio; less obscure than some things I've put here!

[charlie]

Going to stick my neck out and say the top picture is Salvia patens large ?

[Chad]

Species and form for the first one are correct.

Salvia × jamensis 'Nachtvlinder' [the flowers are small]

Salvia serboana [NOT S.vitifolia which is small and inferior plant].
Smells of Christmas mandarin peel.

Chad

[Chad]

'Late summer' or even autumn is arriving here.

Two bulbs;







Anyone any ideas?

Chad

[AndyC]

Is the second one a Tigridia? (vanhoutii?)
First one I'm even less sure about, Amaryllis?

[Chad]

Spot on with the Tigridia vanhouttei ssp. vanhouttei.

Small brown flowers invisible at a distance!

The other is South American [though quite common in the southern USA now].

Rhodophiala bifida. It should have gone dormant for the summer to be awoken with the first rain [or watering - it is the tunnel], but it got confused with the hot May and put up new leaves before I had started its summer rest, so I have kept it in growth right through the summer this time.

Chad

[Chad]

One more, rather out of focus. It is a bit windy here this week!




Chad

[Paul S]

Gladiolus papilio?

[Chad]

Gladiolus papilio?

Yes. Too easy?

It is an impossible balance between 'too easy' and 'no one will ever have heard of that'!

How about these harbingers of autumn?







Chad

[Paul S]

Hedychium wardii?