Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Specific Families and Genera => Amaryllidaceae => Topic started by: fermi de Sousa on February 27, 2020, 09:51:42 AM
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Sternbergia lutea is the first to flower in our garden this year
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fermi
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More Sternbergia lutea - this clump came from a friend who was clearing a customer's garden of bulbs and presumed that they were narcissus ;)
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fermi
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Finally, Sternbergia sicula is starting - this is the original cluster where I planted a few grown from seed from Rannweig Wallis at the end of the 1990s
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fermi
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Fermi, every time I see such happy 'Mediterraneans' in your garden I feel like apologising to mine for the suffering I put them through ;D 8)
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Fermi, every time I see such happy 'Mediterraneans' in your garden I feel like apologising to mine for the suffering I put them through ;D 8)
I feel the same way about things like primulas and hepatica in our garden, Ashley, :-[
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fermi
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Australian climate is perfect for all mediterranean bulbs, Fermi your Sternbergia clumps are very nice.
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Thanks, Yann. I'm glad they like our climate!
I did have the winter flowering S. candida for a few years but one year they didn't reappear :'( I think because the bed above them was watered during the summer and the water seeped down and rotted them while dormant
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fermi
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About three weeks earlier than previously, Sterbergia sicula
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Mines don't have any roots same for those in the garden, David moved to Greece while we were away :+)
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Mines don't have any roots same for those in the garden, David moved to Greece while we were away :+)
;D ;D ;D
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Brian and I grew two different kinds of Sternbergia leaves for several years. :(
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Sternbergia sicula opened first and then these colchiciflora, just three years after sowing.
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Sternbergia sicula opened first and then these colchiciflora, just three years after sowing.
Great achievement with the colchiciflora !
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Finally first Sternbergia lutea and sicula open here
Gerd
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Despite of a cold summer this Sternbergia sicula is flowering well
Poul
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Sternbergia sicula opened first and then these colchiciflora, just three years after sowing.
The stemless flowers of S. colchiciflora are truly spectacular Stefan.
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Despite of a cold summer this Sternbergia sicula is flowering well
Poul
You inspired me to start Sternbergia from seeds Poul after seeing that they can flower well even in a cold climate.
I only have few seedlings (nothing visible yet), last year they appeared in late fall and thus had a very short growing season. I was wondering what triggers them - cooler nights or the first early fall rains?
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You inspired me to start Sternbergia from seeds Poul after seeing that they can flower well even in a cold climate.
I only have few seedlings (nothing visible yet), last year they appeared in late fall and thus had a very short growing season. I was wondering what triggers them - cooler nights or the first early fall rains?
I am glad I have inspired you to grow Sternbergia, as I think they are a little overlooked maybe because they have a reputation of being shy-flowering. In general sicula and greuteriana flower very well for me in many different places and in both fertile compost and in almost pure sand without any feeding.
But they require some sun to flower well. Lutea do not flower as well as the other for me.
I think it mostly is temperature gradient which trigger the growt, but also humidity has influence.
Grown in a humid place the leaves appear before the flowers (as the one in my previous post). In dry places they often flower without leaves. But the flowering time is almost the same for the same clone.
The ones below are the same clone but placed in dryer soil.
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I am glad I have inspired you to grow Sternbergia, as I think they are a little overlooked maybe because they have a reputation of being shy-flowering. In general sicula and greuteriana flower very well for me in many different places and in both fertile compost and in almost pure sand without any feeding.
But they require some sun to flower well. Lutea do not flower as well as the other for me.
I think it mostly is temperature gradient which trigger the growt, but also humidity has influence.
Grown in a humid place the leaves appear before the flowers (as the one in my previous post). In dry places they often flower without leaves. But the flowering time is almost the same for the same clone.
The ones below are the same clone but placed in dryer soil.
Thank you Poul. We have plenty of sun in the summer, I think the main problem in our climate is that sometime winter begins in November and so they get a very short growing season. This is the reason not many people here bother growing fall Crocus or Colchicum although they are so beautiful.
For now I only have few S. lutea + greuteriana seedlings obtained from SRGC seedex; they showed up in October in the past years. If you say a clone will flower at the same time no matter what it means the planting spot doesn't really matter.
Last year I also obtained from a kind forumist S. sicula. I am looking forward to the seeds germinating especially that you mention it flowers better for you.
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I bought three bulbs of Sternbergia clusiana from a Dutch supplier this autumn and am pleased to find they are not clonal but have slight variation in flower shape and colour. I've tried cross-pollinating so am hoping I get seed set.
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