Oxalis comosa

I have some interesting bulbs planned for next year. I had to pot some of them up, because they weren't well established and their hardiness is in question.

One of these is Oxalis comosa. Unfortunately I don't have my own photos but you can look them up on the Internet (just follow the link). It has large blossoms out of scale with the small leaves, in tropical shades of yellow, salmon, and pink. Like many Oxalis, it is a native of South Africa, where the Mediterranean climate encourages many plants including this one to come up in the autumn, live over the mild and rainy winter, bloom generously in the spring, and do dormant during the dry summer.

Its going to live in a rock garden that turns hot and sunny in the summer. Its neighbors include a lot of southern-hemisphere natives, including a lot of fellow South Africans like Osteospermum barberae compactum, Diascia vigilis, and Agapanthus 'Stormcloud'. It should be one of the first to bloom, and once established the flower show should be quite good.