Nerine filifolia
Grass leaved Nerine.
This floriferous summer-growing plant produces delicate, bright pink flowers which bring a magnificent colourful display to your garden towards the end of the warm summer when not much else is flowering.
Semi-deciduous, perennial bulbous herb. Bulb grows to about 30 mm in diameter with the top of the bulb just protruding from the ground. They grow well in full sun and in most soils where the bulbs multiply rapidly into nice compact clumps. If replanting place in small groups to get a nice flowering display.
In New Zealand they get enough summer rain to keep them growing. Dryer climates will see them loose some or all of their leaves.
Leaves filiform (slender, thread-like), semi-succulent, green, up to 300 mm long, glabrous (no hairs/smooth) with a tendency to hang down or droop.
In full flower it looks really smart from a distance and the closer you get you realise that the petals are very fine and it is the number of flowers that make it spectacular. Each flower stalk holds up to nine flowers and this umbrella shaped flower head can be up to 150mm across. The stalks grow up to 300mm tall and are covered with fine white hairs bearing the dark buds which open to dark pink. The delicate, bright pink flowers with their prominent pink stamen and style re very interesting and attractive to study.
They can be used for cut flowers at home or commercially.
Once flowered they produce dark reddish brown seed readily inside dark red seed capsules.
Native of the Eastern Cape, South Africa they grow in large colonies in heavy clay soils on exposed rocky outcrops.
Further images can be found on my Pinterest page Nerine filifolia
This floriferous summer-growing plant produces delicate, bright pink flowers which bring a magnificent colourful display to your garden towards the end of the warm summer when not much else is flowering.
Semi-deciduous, perennial bulbous herb. Bulb grows to about 30 mm in diameter with the top of the bulb just protruding from the ground. They grow well in full sun and in most soils where the bulbs multiply rapidly into nice compact clumps. If replanting place in small groups to get a nice flowering display.
In New Zealand they get enough summer rain to keep them growing. Dryer climates will see them loose some or all of their leaves.
Leaves filiform (slender, thread-like), semi-succulent, green, up to 300 mm long, glabrous (no hairs/smooth) with a tendency to hang down or droop.
In full flower it looks really smart from a distance and the closer you get you realise that the petals are very fine and it is the number of flowers that make it spectacular. Each flower stalk holds up to nine flowers and this umbrella shaped flower head can be up to 150mm across. The stalks grow up to 300mm tall and are covered with fine white hairs bearing the dark buds which open to dark pink. The delicate, bright pink flowers with their prominent pink stamen and style re very interesting and attractive to study.
They can be used for cut flowers at home or commercially.
Once flowered they produce dark reddish brown seed readily inside dark red seed capsules.
Native of the Eastern Cape, South Africa they grow in large colonies in heavy clay soils on exposed rocky outcrops.
Further images can be found on my Pinterest page Nerine filifolia