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Bulbs => Ian Young's Bulb Log - Feedback Forum => Topic started by: Maggi Young on August 26, 2015, 02:15:03 PM
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Latest Bulb Log - Bulb Log #34 26th August 2015 - loss of a Lily and decisions about new plantings
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Aug261440585855BULB_LOG_3415.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Aug261440585855BULB_LOG_3415.pdf)
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So sorry at your loss, although we are cat people the companionship our furry friends bring has a special quality.
Lots of observations from a very interesting Log.
Codonposis Grey Wilsonii - you are lucky if the snails only get to nibble the flowers, I have lost every living part of the codonopsis I planted out this year to slugs and they waste no time in doing it :(
Corydalis Craigton Blue, in it's third summer in East Anglia has really suffered from the heat and drought we have had until the last few weeks ..... but it has survived with new growth now around the edge of the spreading patch - nothing like as vigorous as in your fertile garden though.
I also grow Eucomis bicolor which has begun to self sow however Maurice (Arduaine) shared this gem with me recently:
"This plant was the means of my making a horticultural breakthrough many years ago, probably as many as 30. I cut the top off a fading flower and put it in a propagator, as it reminded me of rooting a real pineapple top when I was a kid.
To my surprise, not only did it root, but produced a circle of bulblets all of which developed into bulbs and grew on fast. I then discovered that if I cut a leaf into horizontal sections and inserted them upright into the propagator then a row of bulblets formed across the cut too.
In a couple of years my single Eucomis bulb had become fifty!"
I shall be experimenting in due course.
It is a fine thing, I love colour combination.
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Bulb Log from Ian Young #36 of 2015 Autumn storms and more
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Sep091441809177BULB_LOG_3615.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Sep091441809177BULB_LOG_3615.pdf)
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Bulb log 37 (http://Bulb log 37) now online along with some more video diary supplements.
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Bulb Log 38 of 2015 from Ian Young - fungi and fruit
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Sep231443002261BULB_LOG_3815.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Sep231443002261BULB_LOG_3815.pdf)[attachimg=1]
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latest bulb log 39 online now.
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Sep301443608360BULB_LOG_3915.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Sep301443608360BULB_LOG_3915.pdf)
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Bulb log 40 of 2015 - http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Oct071444212871BULB_LOG_4015.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Oct071444212871BULB_LOG_4015.pdf)
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Log 41-15 link http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Oct141444818644BULB_LOG_4115.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Oct141444818644BULB_LOG_4115.pdf) - not surewhy got missed at the time!
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Autumn bulbs prevail this week in Ian Young's Bulb Log - 21st October 2015 www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Oct211445417125BULB_LOG_4215.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Oct211445417125BULB_LOG_4215.pdf)
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This weeks Bulb Log #43 is another chapter from Ian's book on Erythroniums in Cultivation and looks at them growing in the garden beds along with other plants.
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Oct281446032640BULB_LOG_4315.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Oct281446032640BULB_LOG_4315.pdf)
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Dear Maggi and Ian
I thoroughly enjoyed this week's posting. Would it be possible to have a thread which pulled together links to all the chapters of this wonderful opus as they are published ? Having read this one I immediately want to delve backwards and re-read all the others.
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Thank you , Jon - Ian's intention is to draw all the chapters into a single pdf when the work is finished - but he says he will give thought to making an list to be going on with.
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Jon
As Maggi states when I have written all the chapters I will combine them into a single PDF for downloading and reading on a tablet, a book reader such as Kindle, a PC or what ever device you want to use - I still hope I can complete this by the end of this year.
For now here are the links to the Bulb Logs that include a chapter-
Seed Bulb Log 0215
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Jan141421233053BULB_LOG_0215.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Jan141421233053BULB_LOG_0215.pdf)
The Bulb Bulb Log 0515
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Feb041423060721BULB_LOG_0515.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Feb041423060721BULB_LOG_0515.pdf)
The Flower Bulb log 0815
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Feb251424858341Bulb_log_0815Ebook.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Feb251424858341Bulb_log_0815Ebook.pdf)
Erythronium Caucasisum Bulb Log 1305 http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Apr011427876967BULB_LOG_1315_erythronium.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Apr011427876967BULB_LOG_1315_erythronium.pdf)
Growing in Containers Bulb log 2815 http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Jul151436956306BULB_LOG_2815_plus.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Jul151436956306BULB_LOG_2815_plus.pdf)
Repotting Bulb Log 3115
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Aug051438771931BULB_LOG_3115_plus.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Aug051438771931BULB_LOG_3115_plus.pdf)
Eryhtoniums in the Garden Bulb Log 4315
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Oct281446032640BULB_LOG_4315.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Oct281446032640BULB_LOG_4315.pdf)
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Thank you Ian
That's really useful.
I find it tricky to get Erythroniums to thrive in pots, but to grow them in the garden here, which I and they would much prefer, I need to prepare a suitable bed, and find a way of keeping out the cherry tree roots which get everywhere, and suck all the goodness out of the soil. I'm still thinking about how to achieve this.
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BulbLog 44 of 2015 now online :
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Nov041446638673BULB_LOG_4415.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Nov041446638673BULB_LOG_4415.pdf)
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OOPS! Neither Ian nor I noticed that Melvyn Jope's beautiful Crocus goulimyi MELJ 9562 is actually now called Crocus goulimyi 'Agai Sofia' and not Sofia Agia! Sorry, Melvyn!
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Bulb Log 45 ( log 669 in total) now online includes Erythroniums in Cultivation, the Erythronium dens-canis chapter.
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Nov111447235136BULB_LOG_4515.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Nov111447235136BULB_LOG_4515.pdf)
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It's Wednesday - that must mean another Bulb Log - Bulb log 46 featuring the chapter on the very beautiful Erythronium japonicum now online.
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Nov181447845730BULB_LOG_4615.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Nov181447845730BULB_LOG_4615.pdf)
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Bulb log 46 of 2015
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Erythronium japonicum
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Hi Maggi. Having trouble logging into the bulb log. I click on date but nothing happens. I have adobe reader. Help....
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seems that all is well from the site , Sue . It must be a setting on your machine just downloading it without opening it ( which was happening with pdfs on my new laptop for a while till Ian figured out the setting change I needed ) or perhaps your Adobe reader needs updating.
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Hi Maggi. Having trouble logging into the bulb log. I click on date but nothing happens. I have adobe reader. Help....
Might be worth deleting (uninstalling) the present version and downloading the latest version from the Adobe website, that often does the trick
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Sorry Maggi, I missed your post.
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No worries, David - good to get backup advice.
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Thank you. I managed to open in another browser :)
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Oh that's good, Sue.
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Latest Bulb Log No. 47 of 2015 including Erythronium sibiricum chapter from Ian Young
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Nov251448456813BULB_LOG_4715.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Nov251448456813BULB_LOG_4715.pdf)
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Bulb Log 48-2015 Another chapter of Erythronium in Cultivations this time E. revolutum - but with Narcissus on the cover to keep you thinking!
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http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Dec021449055632BULB_LOG_4815.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Dec021449055632BULB_LOG_4815.pdf)
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Thanks Ian for the Erythronium's adventure ;), again very instructive.
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It was wonderful to see Ian's latest installment on my favorite erythronium. It was especially nice on a day when the crazyies seem to be winning (see San Bernardino).
Jan Jeddeloh
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...with Narcissus on the cover to keep you thinking!
Indeed it has, apart from thinking "that's a beautiful wee daffie", obviously. You know how I love a puzzle! Is it the aberrantly coloured tepal?
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Thank you everyone for your comments, it is always encouraging to get the feedback helps me keep up the drive to complete the project and get Erythroniums in Cultivation completed and online.
It will be a struggle for me to get all the chapters done before the target I set myself of the end of this year but I may still achieve this and if not it will not be far out.
Matt the puzzle over the Narcissus is that there is no mention of them inside - I wanted to have an image of what is flowering just now on the cover but the added work load the Web Team have when the seed exchange goes online means I have not had time.
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Matt the puzzle over the Narcissus is that there is no mention of them inside - I wanted to have an image of what is flowering just now on the cover but the added work load the Web Team have when the seed exchange goes online means I have not had time.
Lovely to see them. I thought I saw a curiously dark coloured tepal peeping out from behind one of the Narcissus flowers, but it's maybe a leaf tip.
Well done to you all on another smooth and easy seed ex from the user end. We're like swans - the users gliding thought he system and the web team frenetically paddling away behind the scenes to make it work.
Hope to finish my seed packeting to get them back in the post by the weekend.
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Well done to you all on another smooth and easy seed ex from the user end. We're like swans - the users gliding thought he system and the web team frenetically paddling away behind the scenes to make it work.
Hope to finish my seed packeting to get them back in the post by the weekend.
All over the country there are SRGC members beavering over boxes of seed to be packeted ready to be sent around the world - it's all such a huge system, with so many volunteers involved.
I always think it's a dangerous time of year - some seed is bound to be spilled and if a drink is then spilled on the rug - will the seed packeters end up with a green carpet? ::) ;D
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Bulb Log 49 of 2015 : Comments on SRGC success in embracing the internet and news of friends' Crowdfunding efforts - as well as a chapter of Erythroniums in Cultivation - this time it's E. oregonum
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Dec091449666371BULB_LOG_4915.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Dec091449666371BULB_LOG_4915.pdf)
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The link doesn't work for me, Maggi. I have accessed it via another route but your might want to check it.
Chris
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Chris this one will work http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Dec091449666371BULB_LOG_4915.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Dec091449666371BULB_LOG_4915.pdf)
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Thanks Chris and Herman :-* - I have edited my post to add the correct link - not sure how the first became wrong! :-\
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This week Bulb Log 50 has three more chapters from Erythroniums in Cultivation.
Erythronium californicum
Erythronium citrinum
Erythronium howellii
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Dec161450265242BULB_LOG_5015.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Dec161450265242BULB_LOG_5015.pdf)
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Thank you so much Ian for all these bulb logs !!!
I'm now fond of Erythroniums, and I've sown my first ones this autumn !
Please give us more and more logs !
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Ian,
Amazing are your Erythroniums in pictures and comments. Thank you! In your garden, my dreams come true.
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Thankyou Ramato I know you will enjoy growing your Erythroniums.
Thank you Franz for your kind words, I also dream that I could have a garden like yours full of many plants we cannot grow here.
Ian
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Penultimate Bulb Log for 2015 is now online featuring Narcissus and Erythronium hendersonii and a link to Ian's latest video diary.
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Dec231450868200BULB_LOG_5115.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Dec231450868200BULB_LOG_5115.pdf)
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Your picture of etiolated narcissus leaves made me realize that the extra length gives them
extra chlorophyll to compensate for dim light. I wonder if someone has measured photosynthesis
at various latitudes to see if this really works.
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Yes the plants grow to compensate for the low light, it would be an interesting experiment for someone Diane.
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Ian,
I've read almost all the bulb logs but I didn't find the way you keep your strains pure...i.e. how do you avoid hybridizing?
I can see you grow most of your Erythronium oudoors...do you keep some of them in the greenhouse well protected? Do you wrap the flowers in a bag or something else?
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Ramato,
Good question, none of the Erythroniums are grown under glass they are either in open frames or the garden. I grow all the bulbs raised from collected seed in plunge baskets or pots so I know they are pure. If I want true seed I make sure that I am the first pollinator so most of that seed will be true species although there is still a small risk of an occasional hybrid from a later pollination.
Other times I just let nature do the pollination and see what grows and surprisingly there are relatively few hybrids,among the Erythroniums.
It is much the same in the bulbhouses except the Natcissus are so promiscuous that I have to control pollination when I want true seed. Old tea bags are great to protect pollinated flowers.
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The last Bulb log for this year no. 52 is now online and features three more chapters on Erythronium montanum, E. elegans and E. klamathense.
I have more chapters to write so I am moving the date for the full combined book Erythroniums in Cultivation going online to the end of January.
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Dec301451476368Bulb_log_5215a.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Dec301451476368Bulb_log_5215a.pdf)
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Another enjoyable read. Thank you so much. Never really taken much interest in Erythroniums before but going to have to read up more on them. Very beautiful and lovely pose and grace.
Dave