Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Specific Families and Genera => Amaryllidaceae => Topic started by: Hans J on March 23, 2010, 03:03:42 PM
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spring has reached my area and a lot of plants are flowering :D
One of my favorites is:
Acis nicaeensis ( grown from seeds ex AGS )
It is in a pot in my greenhouse - I grow also some other plants of this species free in my border they are much later ( and smaller )
Today I notet a fine fragrance on this flowers - different from Galanthus
Hans
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Nice little potful Hans !! :D
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Thank you Luc ;D
....not only beginners luck ;)
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Hans what a delightful view! and the scent, I hope to see my blooming too!
Alberto
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Thanks Alberto :)
the wether forecast says for tomorrow 22° ....more flowers will open !
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Lovely Hans, mine are in the garden and not flowering yet. I'd never realized that they were scented - I shall be down on hands and knees when mine flower!
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Hi Gail ,
I have also some bulbs of A. nicaensis outside ....no sign of buds
This was also the first year thats I have realized the fragrance !
Good news from today :
My A. longifolia ( also from AGS seeds grwon ) has also a bud ( I hope it comes more ) ;D
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Now has start with flowers :
Acis trichophylla
Hans 8)
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today now a pic of a real Acis longifolia ;)
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Hans:
Please describe your potting mix in detail, also your feeding regimen.
I love the small Acis species, but have never had great success with them in pots, except for A. rosea and A. nicaeensis. If you can grow these so well in Germany, I ought to be able to get even better results, thanks to our milder winters and drier summers.
My problems may be cultural: overwatering (a great vice of mine), or soil overheating due to sun on the side of the pot.
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Roger :
Like you I like all this Acis + Leucojum plants !
I can grow only A.nicaeense + A.autumnale outside ....all other are not hardy here.
There is for me not a problem with growing in pots -they are in summer totaly dry under my tables in greenhouse - watering from September until March ( all two weeks )
Sometimes I give them Phostrogen fertilizer
It is good to know in which substrate this plants grow in nature .....p.e. I have seen A.rosea grows in Corsica not in calcy area - only in granite stones, but A.nicaeense grows in calcy areas in southern France .
Please dont forget I live here in the warmest area of Germany -I can grow here many plants which impossibly to grow in other areas
Good luck
Hans
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I found Acis autumnale in South Portugal on a small hillside
in small pockets of soil 1 - 5 cm under water in a small stream
together with Fritilaria sp. They are hardy here in Normandy (-10ºC)
later visiting the same spot in early summer the place was sun baked
and bone dry
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Sorry forgot the pictures
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Some interesting species in there, Hans. Lovely!
Thanks for posting.
Apologies to all who get irritated with me dredging up topics from a couple of months ago. Such nice pics of unusual genus/species that I can't help but comment. I hope no-one minds too much. ::)
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Apologies to all who get irritated with me dredging up topics from a couple of months ago. Such nice pics of unusual genus/species that I can't help but comment. I hope no-one minds too much. ::)
Of course not, Paul,
And here's Acis tingitana for those who didn't see it on the SH thread ;D
cheers
fermi
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Looks huge
very big plant
are you sure it is Acis tingitana
Roland
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Looks huge
very big plant
are you sure it is Acis tingitana
Roland
Not very big, just a close-up ;D
It looks more to scale here. It's about 20cm high.
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cheers
fermi
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Fermi,
Mine of that species are out too, although very short flower stems at this stage for some reason. I think they need a repot. Like most of the things in my pots. ::)
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Fermi + Paul :
here are my plants of A.tingitana :
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=2784.0
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Hans,
Those are just what mine look like normally...... just very short this year. I love the pure white of them, without any markings or shadings, and the fact the flowers open out so well which gives them more impact.
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Can it be autumn here already? I spotted a stem of Acis autumnale with two flowers in my garden today.
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Yes it can Its storm here looks like autumn
I have seen them in flower end of June
I have the first Cyclamen ciliticum album in flower
Roland
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Can it be autumn here already? I spotted a stem of Acis autumnale with two flowers in my garden today.
Roma - Ours started flowering about 3 weeks ago. This is the craziest and earliest spring?/?summer I have seen. July is usually dry here but we've had torrents of rain in the past week, 6cm yesterday afternoon alone. 27c here today but a bit south & slightly inland where I was visiting it was a blistering 32c, happy to get out of there.
johnw
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Surely not autumn already, Roma, even given the weather..... our Arisaema candidissima is only just through the ground!
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I have the first Cyclamen ciliticum album in flower
Roland
Roland, did you mean Cyclamen cilicium? If you did that is an early one?
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Hello David
I just think it's the wether
intaminatum starts flowering too
But it does not belong in this topic
Roland
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First Acis rosea
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An other wiew of Acis rosea and autumnale
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Some time ago I show pictures of Leucojum valentinum!
Acis ionica is now the new name for Greek plants formerly, identified by botanists as Leucojum valentinum. A. valentina does exist but is wholly a Spanish plant.
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Franz,
Your Acis ionica is very elegant! Are they growing in the garden?
My pot of ionica have been watered yesterday, so I hope to see flowers in some weeks.
Outside Acis autumnalis continue flowering.
Poul
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Poul,
I grow this Acis for some years outside in my meadow. By the way, Acis autumnalis is not hard in my garden.
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Poul,
I grow this Acis for some years outside in my meadow. By the way, Acis autumnalis is not hard in my garden.
That is strange. I have tried Acis ionica (or valentinum as they were named then) in a raised bed in my garden without any luck. First year only leaves and the next year it has disappeared. So I thought it wasn't hardy. So now I have it under glass.
Acis autumnalis does very well without any protection. They selfseed almost like weed. Some of them I have in a southfacing raised bed in full sun others in the border of a rather humid peat bed in partly shade. They do equally well both places.
I will get lots of seed, if you are interested I can send you some to try in your marvelous meadow.
Poul
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Poul,
Thank you, the A. autumnalis is too small for the meadow.
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The tiny Acis rosea, from Corsica, is flowering now
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Nice one, Fred! I have real trouble getting it to flower!
This one is a bit rosey ;D but is actually Acis trichophylla,
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cheers
fermi
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Very nice form Fermides ! it's usually white and ir's the first time I see a pink form.
Does it come from Morocco ?
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Hello Acis fans
I can offer in this time fresh seeds of Acis ;D
from my collection :
Acis rosea ( ex Corsica )
autumnale
autumnale f. pulchella
further I have still some seeds of Acis ionica ( w.c. from Zakinthos + Kephallonia in my last holiday )
If anybody is interestet to swap with me so please send me a PM
Hans 8)