Erythronium 2011

[Maggi Young]

I wrote an article on growing Erythroniums from seed in the Rock Garden. It is bigger than the permitted attachment on the forum but I can send you it as a PDF file if you would like.

 I've split the article down to three parts to allow loading it here......

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 Cultivating Erythronium comp SRGC 119-2_Part2.pdf (443.54 kB - downloaded 218 times.)

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[alpines]

Guff, we have americanum with yellow anthers, brown anthers and dark maroony-pruple anthers... only colours we haven't seen is really pale yellow/cream/white.

Maggi.........does this qualify as pale yellow or not. i thought at first that this was E.rostratum as it is completely devoid of red spots and has yellow anthers, but I have it on good authority that this is definitely E.americanum

[alpines]

..and another shot of the purple-anthered E. americanum

[Maggi Young]

Guff, we have americanum with yellow anthers, brown anthers and dark maroony-pruple anthers... only colours we haven't seen is really pale yellow/cream/white.

Maggi.........does this qualify as pale yellow or not. i thought at first that this was E.rostratum as it is completely devoid of red spots and has yellow anthers, but I have it on good authority that this is definitely E.americanum

No Alan, that's  a clear yellow  non-spotty americanum. The "pale yellow" would be really pale, creamy coloured. 

[alpines]

OK Maggi....I'll let you know if I find one !!!! Must be one around here somewhere.

[Maggi Young]

OK Maggi....I'll let you know if I find one !!!! Must be one around here somewhere.

Well, you would think so, wouldn't you?
 Happy hunting! 

[David Nicholson]

Many thanks Ian and Maggi, I've saved them to a file.

[Ed Alverson]

For those of you in the vicinity of Salem, Oregon, the "2011 Erythronium Festival" is scheduled for next weekend.  See http://www.historicdeepwoodestate.org/historic/estate/calendar_event/378/ for a schedule of events.  Unfortunately there may not actually be any Erythroniums blooming by next weekend.  Our weather has been unusually cold and rainy lately, and I still don't have any open flowers, not even of the earliest western species (E. hendersonii and E. tuolumnense), just buds.  This year we are more than 2 weeks behind the flowering times of last year.  But of course last year was unusually early.

Ed

[udo]

Here my first Erythronium for this spring,
E.caucasicum
E.dens-canis ssp.niveum

[mark smyth]

I only grow 3 different Erythroniums - Snowgoose, dens- canis and citrinum var. roderickii. Snowgoose isnt up so far this year, most dens-canis have extra petals and citrinum var. roderickii hasnt got a flower bud.

[WimB]

E. dens-canis 'Charmer' in flower today.

[David Nicholson]

My first one of the season

Erythronium 'White Beauty'

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Here's two from me !


E. tuolumnense

and

E. hendersonii

[Ed Alverson]

Nice photos of Erythronium tuolumnense, Luc.  This just confirms for me what I said when you posted photos last year, that your patch of E. tuolumnense looks much more like the wild plants (at least the ones I have seen) than the various clones I have obtained through commercial sources.  Yours appear to have larger flowers with the tepals more strongly curved/reflexed.  I also see some newly germinating seedlings in the foreground of the first photo!  This emphasizes to me the value of propagation by seed.  The commercially available clones have probably been increased by division of bulb offsets, so selection has perhaps been more for vegetative vigor rather than good flower form.

Ed

[Gerry Webster]

Very nice erythroniums Luc.