Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Bulbs => Bulbs General => Topic started by: mark smyth on November 25, 2010, 03:54:43 PM
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A very impressive Scilla at Kew http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/giant-madeiran-squill.htm (http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/giant-madeiran-squill.htm) and I want one ::)
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wow, that is impressive. I like the pots with just the mounded bulbs before any leaves or flowers!
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I do also. They look like Hyacinthus non scripta bulbs that have been eposed to the sun
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I WANT it.
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I saw them last week in the Kew Alpine house and was completely bowled over. There were two large terracotta pots filled with these magnificent flowers, about 2 1/2 ft high, sorry 75 cm. The flowers looked like a sky blue form of Scilla peruviana.
What also struck me was that the foliage was completely pristine and unmarked. I took a chance and said to the attendant: "Amazing what they can do with plastic these days!". Fortunately she understood the joke and that it was meant as a compliment. We had a long chat about cultivation. Sadly I didn't have my camera on me. I may go back next week. :) :)
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By chance, Mary brought back a plant, a single growing bulb, from Madeira recently. We saw it growing in the Botanic Gardens in Funchal though only a very few were in flower. It looked as though clumps had been divided earlier in the year and there were many single growing spikes and only a few clumps. Those in clumps were in flower while the single bulbs were not, obviously delayed by the disturbance.
Photograph from the Botanic Gardens, Funchal, below.
Paddy
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I WANT it.
So do I
Mark thanks for showing us it, it's really nice.
Angie :)
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If you want to try it from seed, you can find it here: http://www.rareplants.de/shop/product.asp?strParents=&CAT_ID=0&P_ID=8770&strPageHistory=search&numSearchStartRecord=1
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A kind Madeiran forumist sent me some seed a couple of years ago. Take a hint from the pictures and grow it with the bulbs at the surface . I didn't realise this and now have few survivors as they are prone to rot if buried :(
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Strikingly beautiful. Thanks for showing us Mark and Paddy. :o
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Even the colour of the tunic of the bulbs is amazing! :)