Pictures of plants you are growing from Archibald seed

[Maggi Young]

I would like to express the thanks of the SRGC and Web Team to all those who are supporting the Archibald Archive by these photo additions.

It is great to see the continuing contribution of Jim's work to the garden of so many people and to celebrate that in this forum, open to all, as, of course, is the Archive on the main site made available as a tribute to Jim's work and as a resource for all, as part of the SRGC's committment to sharing and information and disseminating it to as wide an audience as possible. 

[Maggi Young]

Posted by Bob Nold on  FaceBook : Bellevalia forniculata. JJA 227.770.

[Maggi Young]

Iris meda JJA 591.060 from an Archibald collection in northern Iran.

from Peter J. Zale in PA, USA, who says they are  " beaten down by the recent heavy rains, but producing more flowers than ever before."

[Maggi Young]

Peter J. Zale added 2 new photos

For comparative purposes, Iris meda JJA 561.061. About half the size of 561.060 with distinctly different flower colours.




Iris meda JJA 561.061

Many thanks to Peter for these photos.

[penstemon]

I know this is not a fantastic display of flowers; rough winter. Daphne alpina JJA 380.420

[Maggi Young]

From Luc Scheldeman : Iris kirkwoodii JCA 590256

[YT]

590.256 : IRIS KIRKWOODIAE (Sect. Oncocyclus)*
Syria, W of Aleppo, Bishmishli. Rocky outcrops between cultivated fields. Ex R.& R.Wallis 95-09 (From a type-locality collection of this spectacular relative of I. gatesii from around the border of Turkey & Syria. Somewhat intermediate between this and the dark-veined, more southern species centred on I. sofarana. About 30-40cm. tall with huge flowers with tucked-in falls. Standards veined & stippled with violet on a whitish ground.

  Seeds from: NEWSLETTER & SEEDLIST / NOVEMBER, 2007
  Sowing: Nov. 2008
  Germinating: Dec. 2008
  First blooming: Apr. 2015
  Pictures taken: 28th Apr. 2015

edit to change name to   Iris kirkwoodiae   :   Iris kirkwoodiae Chaudhary

[Maggi Young]

Grown by Luc Scheldeman - "A pot of almost mature seedlings of allium karataviense rubrum (Archibald seed JJA133014 - Chatkal Range UZB.) with a first flower"

Allium karataviense rubrum JJA133014

[Maggi Young]

Iris polakii JJA 584.750 grown by Peter J. Zale

[Maggi Young]

MUSCARI MASSAYANUM 690040 (Subgen. Leopoldia) Turkey, Nigde, SW of Ciftehan to Maden. 1200m. Loose, igneous, rock detritus on steep, open slope.   Photo Janis Ruksans

[penstemon]

Scutellaria sapphirina (S. nana var. sapphirina), JJA 1.840.650.

[Melvyn Jope]

Iris acutiloba subsp. lineolata JCA 583.101
Iran West of Ardabil  Kuh-e-Sabalan 2400m
Among steppe vegetation on tufts volcanic ash

[Melvyn Jope]

Iris iberica subsp elegantissima JCA 589.600 SE of Horasan

[Maggi Young]

 Moraea robusta  3.557.800

3.557.800 : MORAEA ROBUSTA (Subgen. Grandiflora) Free State, Drakensberg, Mont-aux-Sources. 2700m. Among grasses onopen slope. (This occurs quite widely, if locally, in mountain-grassland, from SE Mpumalanga into KwaZulu-Natal & Lesotho. In the Subgenus Grandiflora, like M. alticola, & with similar large flowers, very pale-yellow to cream in this case, but a much dwarfer plant, about 30cm. high. This will be perfectly hardy & should prove a satisfactory plant in most UK gardens.) 

Thanks to  Brent Hine, Curator, E.H. Lohbrunner Alpine Garden at UBC Botanical Garden    (http://www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org ) for the photos.
"Moraea robusta, living up to its name."




Comment from Panayoti Kelaidis :  What a wonderful plant! I have seen this on Mont-aux-sources: it never has more than one or two flowers. Really spectacular: bravo! (in fact, I collected seed with Jim Archibald in March, 1998)

[Maggi Young]

Paeonia caucasica (mascula)- in seed  -  grown from Jim Archibald seed in 1998- from Mike Kintgen in Denver