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Bulbs => Bulbs General => Topic started by: Maggi Young on April 06, 2021, 06:33:53 PM
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More bulbs growing in the collection of Janis Ruksans .... comments from Janis.
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Iris willmottiana seedlings bloom abundantly
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Anemone biflora CMIR-0727 collected in Iran by late Colin Mason, great friend of Janis R.
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Anemone biflora DZ-01-24 from Iran - unfortunately not easy even in greenhouse. My stock of of this species decrease from year to year
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A beautiful and very tiny daffodil from Portugal - Narcissus scaberulus 15PTGS-030
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Another beauty named after my granddaughter Corydalis solida 'Louise-Elisabeth'
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A seedling of Corydalis solida -'Rosalia'
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A form of Iris svetlaneae
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Both plants here grown up from C. cf. veluchensis (Serbian species) pollinated with Crocus gramensis. In front seedling 21-03 with cold white slightly bluish shaded flowers in background 21-02 - light creamy yellow.
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Chionoscilla x allenii - hybrid between former Chionodoxa and Scilla, but now Chionodoxa is incorporated into Scilla - so how to name this hybrid now?
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Corydalis solida cultivar Zbraslav
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Crocus minimus Bavella - Archibald's form with orange stigma
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Crocus minimus Bavella. A.Edwards form has white stigma (Archibald's Bavella - orange stigma)
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Cyclamen kusnetzovii in garden under shrubs is growing, blooming and even self-sowing if one isnot too tidy in clearing in autumn.
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Excellent albino of Tulipa humilis 18IRS-009 from Iran
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Fritillaria aurea from Ziyaretpesi gec in Turkey, the most Northern locality of this species.
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Fritillaria caucasica
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Fritillaria collina from Georgia. Good grower in open garden, too.
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Fritillaria macedonica 13MCY - this year unusually short
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Fritillaria yuminensis from China
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Helleborus cultivar in garden, in background Crocus heuffelianus selfsown group.
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Hyacinthella lineata - hyacinthellas need shallow planting and hot summer to insure beautiful blooming.
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Iris bucharica with black spots on falls - got from Leonid Bondarenko
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Iris nusairiensis - beautiful Juno iris.
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Iris willmottiana - from Berkara gorge in Kara-Tau
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Iris zaprjagajevii
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comments are from Janis ....
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Just started blooming the latest form of Crocus minimus which in open garden here blooms in second half of May.
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My Corydalis solida seedling 'Cats Paw'
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My selection from Corydalis solida 'Royal Cherry'
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Narcissus bulbocodium 19PTS-015 from Portugal with green flower segments
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One of the best my varieties Corydalis solida 'Falls of Nimrodel'
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One of the very last crocuses this season as usual is Crocus x gotoburgensis. Still only some stocks of Crocus minimus didn't start flowering.
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Scilla bifolia Norman was found in Turkey by Norman Stevens. Although it is forming anthers and pollen I never got seeds from it.
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Scilla decidua
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Scilla siberica Alba - cultivated form with very white flowers, blooming later than other albino in my collection and if placed isolated from blue ones, perfectly replace itself from seeds.
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Seed parent of this cross - Crocus cf. veluchensis S&Z 88-102 from Serbia
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Seedling of Corydalis solida named 'Royal Red'
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Still unnamed seedling Corydalis solida 01-02
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This one is named after a granddaughter - Corydalis solida 'Paula'
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Tiny Fritillaria poluninii WHIR-182 from Iran, near border with Iraq.
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Tulipa kaufmanniana Agra (Early) - cultivar raised by Latvian bulb breeder Juris Egle - the earliest of T. kaufmanniana. Some 50 years ago I was growing Dutch cultivar 'The First', now I haven't it more, so I cant judge - which one is the earliest.
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White bulbocodium type from Portugal - Narcissus cantabricus 19PTS-023
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Our nursery was visited by ex-President of Latvian State - Valdis Zatlers.
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Corydalis gorinensis - seem to be the rarest Corydalis, known only from one hill ("bik") on Gorin-riverside. Unfortunately I have only vegetative progeny from single tuber and as species is selfsterile - only hybrids comes out from seedlings.
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Collection of Corydalis from section Leonticoides with perennial tubers, again increasing only from seeds, but easy hybridizes forming beautiful hybrids - but they are not true to name of species.
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Great surprise - the white seedling which appeared between seedlings of Iris willmottiana.
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Close up of Iris willmottiana white seedling - is it true species or hybrid? I will pollinate it with blue ones.
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Narcissus triandrus lusitanicus 15PTGS-025 from Portugal
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a couple more....
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During CMGG trip to Georgia organized by Georgian Institute of Botany our team was mainly interested in Galanthus, but I and Henrik Zetterlund from Gothenburg BG used day on huge field with Scilla rosenii searching for special colour forms. This one has violet shaded flowers.
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Very special was this one form of Scilla rosenii - white with blue tips of flower segments, but pure albinos were found as well.
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from Janis....
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Tulipa hissarica from Tajikistan - has up to 4 flowers on stem and can vary in height. The usually earliest and shortest form has still not started blooming, season is quite strange.
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This Fritillaria sp. JJJL-023 from NE Turkey still isn't identified - looks intermediate between several species - could be new species
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New Tulipa species from Iran - its publication is in processing.
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Another new species of Muscari, could be published this year.
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Narcissus fosteri 20SPS-038 from Spain
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Three more ...
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Hyacinthella nervosa BATM-024, Turkey.
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Start blooming Fessia greilhuberi (former Scilla) from Iran
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Scilla taurica 'Pink Kubalatch' - found in Crimea (Ukraine) just before it was occupied by Russia by Dima Zubov and kindly shared with me.
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from Janis : " Weather every day changes - sun, rain, some snow and again sun. Few pictures from yesterday."
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Alrawia bellii SLIZE-304 from Iran
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Anemone blanda RUDA-021 from Turkey with very rounded flowers
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Erythronium "revolutum" 07-241 from Ron Ratko seeds - but this is E. californicum
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Iris rosenbachiana Tovilj-Dara (or I. popovii?) - in greenhouse finished long ago but now blooms in open garden where it is growing far better than under cover and not suffer from even hard night frosts
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Muscari coeleste KPPZ-318 from Gothenburg BG
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and ....
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Selection from Anemone blanda #18-01
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"This beautiful Tulipa kaufmanniana I got from Bishkek Botanical garden as Tulipa ferganica"
a comment from Eric Breed wonders if it may be a hybrid.
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Tulipa kurdica from Iraq Kurdistan - similar to T. humilis but of very special flower colour and well separable from that.
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Now for some of Janis' Corydalis.....
"Now in full bloom are Corydalis. Of course - far from this glory, when I grew them in outside garden. In pots (now) they are too crowded and growing capacity is much poorer. Stems are brittle and replacing of pots outside is not easy, too. This winter I lost some very nice things - from species they are ussuriensis, repens, fumariifolia, magadanica, bracteata (the last in greenhouse only, some selfsawn seedlings left in outside garden on Hosta bed) and few of my very first cultivars - Blushing Girl, Snowstorm, Zarja Povolzja and may be few others. They all were selected around 50 years ago and I think that it was age what bring death to them. Only propagation from seeds are renewing plant, but during vegetative multiplying (splitting) plants became elder every coming year and once comes end... That is why I recommend to.... buy all colour types and to allow them selfsowing in garden, in such a way keeping all colour types as renewed tubers."
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Sic transit gloria mundi - my Corydalis beds in outside garden 16 years ago...
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From Far East species my favorite is Corydalis ornata with its rainbow of white-blue-lilac-pinkish colours
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Corydalis ornata
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The best white form of Corydalis ornata
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Corydalis solida Guna-3 - selected by my wife Guna from her hosta bed.
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Corydalis caucasica 'Clown' - it was selected by Russian botanist Sergey Banketov.
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Corydalis wendelboii 'Abant Wine'
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Corydalis x allenii 14-01 is hybrid between bracteata and solida and every year somewhere in garden appears new slightly different types.
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Excellent hybrid between Corydalis gorinensis x magadanica
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It is registered as hybrid between Corydalis bracteata x gorinensis 21-12 - both parents are yellow. From where came this fantastic pink shade ?
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Corydalis solida 'Zbraslav' - from Czech Republic
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Now will follow unnamed seedlings of Corydalis solida - 01-02
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Corydalis solida 14-03
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Corydalis solida 14-04
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Corydalis solida 20-05
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more Corydalis solida selections ...
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Corydalis solida 14-06
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Corydalis solida 19-31
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Corydalis solida 14-08
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Corydalis solida 14-09
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Corydalis solida 97-19
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Corydalis solida 97-32
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Corydalis solida 98-13
and two more C. solida named forms ...
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Corydalis solida 'Smile of Spring'
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Corydalis solida 'Spring Jewel'
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Hi Maggie fantastic collection of flowers. Janis has lots of stunning varieties of plants. Thanks for showing them.
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Wonderful Corydalis!
Somehow my favourite from the unnamed is the first on 01-02, the smoky blue shade is very nice.
C.ornata is fabulous. I tried it once maybe 9 years ago, but it died the first winter (outside).
I'm sad to hear about Janis losing so many Corydalis this winter.
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I'm sad to hear about Janis losing so many Corydalis this winter.
I think the problem has been them not growing so well in pots now as they did in the open and he has less time to repot them.
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"Some pictures from yesterday afternoon when the sun came back and clear skies provided minus 3 C island at night."
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"Tulipa berkariense clone 'Little Ilze' - it was my first species nova found during my very first visit to Central Asia but validly name was published only recently when its status was confirmed on gene level."
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Erythronium oregonum leucandrum 07-239 grown up from NW Native seeds
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Fritillaria kurdica 16IRS-038 - Iran, Kuh-e Sendan Dag, alt. 2415 m
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Fritillaria minima - Karabel gec., Turkey
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Fritillaria pinardii Ole Sonderhausen - got from Gothenburg BG
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Fritillaria reutheri - Iran
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Fritillaria serpenticola JATU-050 -Dirmil Gec., alt. 1580 m.
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Juno iris hybrid 'Moonlight' raised by Arnis Seisums
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Population of Puschkinia scilloides BATM-148 - S of Tendurek gec. alt. 2645 m with the largest flowers seen by me
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Romulea sp. from Italy
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Tecophilea cyanocrocus - Chile
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Tulipa humilis WHIR-111 -Iran, Kuh-e Sendan Dag, alt. 2395 m
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Tulipa humilis WHIR-111 -Iran, Kuh-e Sendan Dag, alt. 2395 m
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Very special Muscari neglectum 18IRS-007 with black seedpods - between Aligudarz and Khoramabad, alt. 2396 m
Thanks, again, Janis!
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It is too bad when good cultivars are lost; saddening to hear about their loss. Hope is that some will survive in people gardens.
I don't have a Corydalis favorite, I like them all :)
I wished many will read and trust what Janis recommends:
"That is why I recommend to.... buy all colour types and to allow them selfsowing in garden, in such a way keeping all colour types as renewed tubers."
It may hold true for other bulbuous/tuberous species.
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more from Janis' collection ....
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Anemone banketovii clone 19-03 - very similar to blanda by flowers, but completely different tubers - they resemble thin branches.
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Anemone blanda
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Anemone blanda
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Anemone blanda 'White Splendour'
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Another clone of anemone banketovii 19-04
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Anemone caucasica flowers are very tiny - not larger then 1 cent Eurocoin
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Corydalis solida George Baker
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Corydalis solida seedling #98-13
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Fessia vvedenskeyi has nodding inflorescence. From Tadjikistan. Earlier regarded as Scilla.
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Fritillaria strausii - Iran
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Crocus heuffelianus dārzā with bee
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Crocus heuffelianus dārzā
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Hyacinthella acutiloba BATM-370 - Turkey
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Hyacinthus litwinowii 16IRS-130 - from Iran side of Kopet-Dag
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Hyacinthus litwinowii from Kopet-Dag in Turkmenistan
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Narcissus calcicola 19PTS-034 - Portugal
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Ranunculus ficaria 'Double Bronze'
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Tulipa dasystemon Kugart, Kirghizia
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Janis Ruksans' greenhouse - photo by Sanda Bogomazova 12-04-21
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From Janis : "Waiting for the second vaccine, hoping the ′′ vaccination office ′′ chaos will not delay it. Meanwhile, I'd let the pots out, those who don't like warmth and also take photos.
Some pictures from last day."
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Anemone coronaria JATU-052 - Turkey, 40 km after Finike, alt. 750 m - short form
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Erythronium americanum - this spring blooms very well. Needs deep planting.
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Erythronium oregonum
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Fritillaria latifolia
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Fritillaria meleagroides 12KZ-118 -Kazahstan, Altai, alt. 930m, very checkered form
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Narcissus bulbocodium dwarf & late blooming form
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Still unidentified Tulipa sp. WHIR-157 - Iran, before Takht-e Soleyman, soon after Takab alt. 2070 m
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Tulipa greigii x S-14-38
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Tulipa humilis 18IRS-009 - Iran, Aligudarz to Khoramabad, alt.2956 m
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Tulipa kaufmanniana Ihnachsai, Uzbekistan
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Tulipa kaufmanniana Ugam, Uzbekistan - tallest of all kaufmannianas - 50 cm
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Tulipa turkestanica Schachimardan
edit to add comment from Janis: " One of my customers asked me about locality where was collected Tulipa turkestanica Schachimardan. Unfortunately I not remember who asked me and now I try to reach him via Facebook. I got this tulip from Arnis and today met him and asked - where is this place. This tulip was collected on mountain pass at heights of river Schachimardan. More detailed reply I found after remembering about Allium schachimardanicum and in Monograph of Reinhard Fritsch about Central Asian alliums I found: (47) Allium schachimardanicum Vved., Opred. rast. Srednej Azii 2: 84, 317 (1971). —Allium "fetisso-vii" sensu Vved., Flora URSS 4: 263 (1935), p. p. min. quoad pl. Alaic. —Type: Kirgizstan: Alaijskij khr[ebet], bass[ein] reki Shakhimardan, ushch[el'e] Mashalang, v teni skal [Alai range, drainage of Shakhimardan river, gorge Mashalang, in the shadow of rocks]
So it was collected in Kirgizstan, Alai mnt. ridge, at place where starts river Shakhimardan. "
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From Janis 16th April
"Yesterday I was too busy watering pots and I was going for bumble-bee family for pollinating my peaches and apricots, grown instead of bulbs (I'm shortening commercial growing) in one of poly-tunnels - the first flowers opened just yesterday - now no need to "play bee" with paintbrush. So pictures are from former days."
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Fritillaria assyriaca WHIR-189 -Iran, after vil. Tizh Tizh on side road from Marivan to Sanandaj via Sarv Abad, alt. 1730 m
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Fritillaria bithynica R2CV-025 - Turkey, Rd from Muģla to Kale, alt. 940 m
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Fritillaria chitralensis
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Fritillaria crassifolia WHIR-183 -Iran, Avroman ridge, Kuh-e Sahu before Nowsud, alt. 2270 m
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Fritillaria fleischeriana LST-091- Turkey, Damm near Saryar vil., alt. 470 m
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more frits
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Fritillaria imperialis T4Z-192 -Iran, Fritillaria imperialis valley, alt. 2718 m
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Fritillaria kittaniae OS 1310
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Fritillaria kurdica Aurea - Iran, Avroman ridge, Kuh-e Sahu before Nowsud, alt. 2270 m
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Fritillaria obliqua
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Hyacinthus orientalis RIGA-053 - Turkey, after Gokbelen towards Gulnar, alt. 1100 m
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Iris bucharica yellow&green form - origin unknown
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Iris vicaria Tupalang - Uzbekistan, near border with Tajikistan
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Muscari azureum BATM-299 -Turkey, Sakaltutan gec., alt. 1840 m
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"...Now back to the flowers. Although cruel wind and hard for Gunite to work outside, it's easier for me in greenhouses. Researching microscope crocus leaves, pollinated, photographed and continue to bring out pots - yesterday Eurasian eritrons and cyclamens.
Again back to flowers. Regardless of strong and cold wind, in greenhouse working was easier than on open field for my wife. I'm still bringing out pots with bulbs which don't like hot weather. Last Thursday I brought bumble-bee family to pollinate my apricots and peaches which just started blooming in my former bulb greenhouse."
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Apricots started blooming in greenhouse
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Anemone : In wild very distant, in cultivation grown side by side Anemone caucasica hybridizes with Anemone blanda, Seedling # 20-01 is intermediate by flower size.
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Brown form of Fritillaria strausii from Gothenburg BG
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Ficaria verna 'Collarette'
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Ficaria verna 'Double Bronze'
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Ficaria verna 'Randal's White'
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Ficaria verna 'Sulli'
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Iris pseudocapnoides - one of the my very first new species found at Chimgan during my first trip to Central Asia, but published only in 2008
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Iris willmottiana white mutation found between seedlings
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Iris zaprjagajevii now is in full bloom
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Last flowers of the very last blooming reticulata iris - Iris winkleri
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Muscari pseudomuscari SLIZE-057 from Iran
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Rarest and not easy to grow Corydalis gorinensis
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Tulipa humilis 16IRS-024 - Iran, near Alvand, alt. 1860 m
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Tulipa humilis 16IRS-188 - Iran, Aligudarz to Khoramabad, alt. 2960 m
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Tulipa sp. 17IRS-067 - Iran, Aligudarz to Khoramabad, alt. 2130 m
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"Beautiful weather and so much to do that I haven't time to work on pictures, so this morning only very few from garden, not from greenhouse."
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Fritillaria raddeana in my outside rockery - the first bloomer this season
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Tulipa dasystemon - here were thrown out small seedlings which in two years grew up to blooming without any attention
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Another spot under birch and oak tree where used soil with some seeds in it and may be some bulb were thrown out - now turned to nice field with various Corydalis, Scilla and other bulbs
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This one is from greenhouse - one of my very first selections from from Tulipa greigii, made some 40-45 years ago and named 'Sunset' (Saulriets) - excellent grower and best increaser between pure T. greigii (not hybrid with other species).
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Photos from Janis ......
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Iris vicaria Tupalang, Uzbekistan, near border with Tajikistan
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Muscari azureum
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Narcissus calcicola 19PTS-034 - Portugal
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Narcissus obessus 19PTS-005 - Portugal
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Various colour forms of Hepatica nobilis from local forest
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two tulips ...
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Tulipa praestans seedlings
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Tulipa biflora aff 12KZ-059 from salt-steppes in Kazahstan
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"The flower festival continues, the culmination of tulips is just beginning, but other 'onions' ( bulbs) are blooming too."
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"Tulipa praestans from Hodji-obi-Garm, Varzob gorge, Tajikistan, originally collected in 1982 during 39 years it gave no one offset and no seeds up to 2010 when I got another bulb of this species and crossed both. Almost incredible longevity of single bulb, only one T. fosteriana bulb lives with me longer - 44 years."
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"The name Tulipa binutans means that this species twice bends flowers down - at first in buds, before opening and again after end of blooming. Quite unique feature and I can't understand those botanists who regard it as synonymous to T. biflora."
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It is the best form of Tulipa hissarica - here blooming in my collection - with undulated leaves and forming up to 4 flowers from bulb. Usually blooms much earlier than other forms, but this year - as the last from my Tulipa hissarica samples.
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This picture is scanned slide from 1982 - Tulipa hissarica from Hodji-obi-Garm, Varzob gorge, Tajikistan as it was found in wild.
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Tulipa humilis alba
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Yellow form of Tulipa albertii - Kazakhstan
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Fritillaria crassifolia crassifolia from Turkey
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Fritillaria olivieri
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Fritillaria tortifolia - China
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Muscari latifolia alba
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Muscari sivrihisardaghlarense from locus classicus, Turkey
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Now this bed is full with spring blooming bulbs but from mid-May it will be covered by collection of hosta leaves.
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more photos from Janis ....
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Bellevalia cyanopoda EGO.IQ-107 - Iraq Kurdistan
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Fritillaria grandiflora as it is regarded by Russian botanists - I got it from Dima Zubov
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Fritillaria hermonis ssp. hermonis
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Seedling from Tulipa greigii aurea
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Tulipa cf. armena 16IRS-030 Iran, after Sultaniyeh, alt. 2160 m - could be new species
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Tulipa vvedenskeyi hybrid 'Girlfriend' belongs to 'chameleon' type - it changes colour during blooming from yellow to almost red.
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The same 'Girlfriend' pictured in 2000 at world exhibition Floriade in Holland where it was awarded with diploma (scanned from slide)
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Tulipa humilis JJJL-029 - Karabel pass, Turkey - in cultivation
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And the same Tulipa humilis JJJL-029 - Karabel pass, Turkey as seen in wild - everywhere forming clumps and very uniform throughout population, medium tall
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Tulipa humilis SLIZE-008 - Tochal, Iran
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Tulipa heteropetala 12KZ-101 - Mramornij (Marble) pass, W end of Altai. alt. 1400 m
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Tulipa hewerii from Afganistan - multiflowering relative of T. praestans
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Tulipa kolpakowskiana selection Voronin #4
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Tulipa systola from Iraq
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"This afternoon I decided to show few of the most famous cultivars raised by me - they just now are in full bloom."
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Incredibly gigantic and bright hybrid between Dutch cultivar of Tulipa greigii 'Lovely Surprise'(raised by Lafeber?) with wild T. fosteriana. Certainly polyploid, with very thick and strong stem around 60-70 cm tall, huge flowers and good increaser. Single "fault" by Dutch bulbgrower's opinion - makes too large bulbs and can't be packed in standard box sufficient number of bulbs... Named 'Akadēmiķis Saharovs'
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I raised it in Soviet time and named after famous dissident of soviet regime as 'Academician Sacharov'
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Another excellent increaser - Tulipa greigii aurea cultivar 'Saulriets' ('Sunset').
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Tulipa kaufmanniana hybrid with T. greigii named 'Latvian Gold' - 'Latvju Zelts'
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Close up of 'Latvian Gold' - really flowers are something more yellow shaded.
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Janis: "My most famous daffodil cultivar 'Freedom Stars' ('Brīvības Zvaigznes') raised from cross between N. triandrus 'April Tears' and split corona 'Canasta'. Named after 3 stars on top of Freedom monument in center of Riga - capital of Latvia. Most often it bears 3 flowers on top of stem, but could be even 5."
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'Freedom Stars'
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'Monument of Freedom in center of Riga after which I named my daffodil cultivar. Picture from Internet.'
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Narcissus 'Freedom Stars'
'To get this hybrid I pollinated 50 flowers of 'April Tears' and got only 15 seeds, 8 of them reached flowering and turned that 4 were ordinar split corona, 4 showed triandrus shape - two were split coronas and 2 ordinary looking. The first blooming was 8 years after sowing.'
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Janis' photos from today ....
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Anemone banketovii clone 19-04
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Corydalis vittae from N Caucasus is one of the latest bloomers from solida type species.
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Erythronium citrinum from Gothenburg BG
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'Erythronium krylovii at first was published by me as E. sibiricum subsp. altaicum, but later status was raised by Russian botanists and it needed new name. It don't like greenhouse but marvelously is selfsowing in garden'
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Erythronium revolutum 'Rose Beauty'
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Iris khasanovii ARJA-9761 - Uzbekistan
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White seedling of Iris warleyensis, in background typical form.
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Ornithogalum luschanii - JJJL-044 - Turkey, Nemrut-dag
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Erythronium purdyi hybrid - raised by Eugenius Dambrauskas, Lithuania
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Tulipa stapfii I got from Norman Stevens, Cambridge Bulbs - stock comes from Iran
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Tulipa ophiophylla bestashica - Krim, Ukraina, at present occupied by Russia
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Tulipa berkariense now blooms in outside garden, where it spread staying without replanting for the 4th year
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Another tulip pictured in garden - Tulipa orthopoda - dwarf relative of T. turkestanica from Kara-tau mountains
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Another tulip pictured now in garden - Tulipa turkestanica - Uzbekistan
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from Janis ....
"Pictures from greenhouse and garden - pictured 2 days ago, yesterday it was too cold, rain and snow..."
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Anemone blanda in my outside garden rockery
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Erythronium revolutum seedlings I got from Antoine Hoog
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Erythronium x Joanna
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Fritillaria rixii EZ-99
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Very fragrant Muscari macrocarpum I got from Chris Brickell
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some more tulips ...
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Tulipa berkariense Little Ilze (Mazā Ilze) I named after my daughter
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Tulipa clusiana
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Tulipa fosteriana x Rigas Barikades (Barricades of Riga - remembering our fighting for freedom against Russian occupation) - selected by Latvian tulip grower Gunārs Eltiņš. It is mutation of Dutch Tulipa fosteriana hybrid Toulon, raised by van Tubergen company.
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Tulipa kaufmanniana Parsteigums (Surprise) - semi-double hybrid raised by Latvian breeder Juris Egle - in greenhouse very tall and finished blooming long ago, in outside garden dwarf and beautifully blooms just now.
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Tulipa koktebelica Lisja Bay - I got it from Dimitri Zubov
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Tulipa micheliana WHIR-041- Iran, Kuh-e Hazar Masjed ridge, between Emam Qoli and Kabkan, alt. 1900 m
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Flowers from Janis' poly tunnel
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Iris bucharica selection 'Swan Wings'
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Iris capnoides - from locus classicus in Uzbekistan, collected by me and Arnis Seisums
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Tall form of Iris warleyensis from Tahta-Karacha (Aman-Kutan) pass in Uzbekistan. I collected it during my 2nd trip to Central Asia in 1978.
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Muscari armeniacum Gul (Pink) was found wild in Turkey by Rob and Rannweig Wallis
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Muscari sp. from Iran. Unfortunately label was lost and I don't know where this beauty was collected.
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Muscari turcicum JP 87-76 - one of the most gorgeous grape hyacinths in my collection with long large flower spikes
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Ornithogalum platyphyllum from Vardahovit, Armenia, collected by Arnis Seisums. I'm not so sure about correct naming.
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Red form of Tulipa kolpakowskiana found wild by Arnis Seisums ( - in Kirghizia ? )
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This beautiful hybrid ('Amberland') I raised pollinating Tulipa vvedenskeyi with cultivar registered as T. fosteriana 'Toulon' (which by themselves is hybrid between T. fosteriana and most likely T. greigii due dark purple striped leaves)
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Tulipa tubergeniana I got from Sjaak de Groot, who collected it in Central Asia
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On the day that we learn that the RHS is giving the first Sir Daniel Hall award, in recognition of his significant personal achievement relating to bulbs, to Janis Ruksans we have some more of Janis' photos to share. The RHS said that Janis' commitment to cultivation, exploration and education has produced an impressive collection of work that earned the RHS Bulb Committee’s commendation.
Great news!
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Iris warleyensis x unknown - raised from open pollinated seeds
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Juno iris hybrid from Alan McMurtrie - Iris x McM Cool Elegance
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Short Iris bucharica form with deep yellow flowers
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Muscari bourgaei RIGA-014 - near Akseki, Turkey
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Ornithogalum sp. JJVV-031 from Turkey, between Silifke and Gulnar, alt. 730 m
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Tulipa carinata from Sina, Uzbekistan has very variable colour of flower's inner base.
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Tulipa dubia usually is yellow with pale red back of outer petals, rarely are red individuals but this unique form with striped flowers I ( Janis R.) collected in 1978 and it still is growing with me.
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Tulipa patens 12KZS-086 from near Tarbagatai mountain ridge, Kazahstan, altitude ~500 m, near very damp roadside lowering with sticky clay, on dryer spots.
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Tulipa rosea received from Sjaak de Groot
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Tulipa ulophylla orange form - 16IRS-153 - from Olang pass, Iran
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more from Janis...
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Allium libani ARGI-008 - collected in Syria before the war started there.
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Allium paradoxum var. normale from Aserbaijan Talish here is selfsowing in shady spot of garden
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As I wrote before, my tulip cv. 'GIRLFRIEND'during blooming changes colour from yellow to nicely orange-red
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Bellevalia hermonis I got from Oron Peri
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Corydalis bracteata grown in pots I lost, but it excellently is selfsowing in my wife's Guna hosta bed
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Cultivar of Fritillaria eduardii 'Amberland' marvellously blooms in open garden
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Erythronium howelii received from Art Guppy (USA) has the darkest leaves in my erythronium collection
Edit to add: Learn more about Art Guppy and his writings, here: https://artguppy.wordpress.com/
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Flower of Tulipa undulatifolia - difficult in cultivation.
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Tulipa undulatifolia (T. boeotica from Greece) pictured in wild - very different and very distantly growing from both T. eichleri and T. micheliana. Regarding as same is possible may be only if you saw them only in herbariums, not in nature.
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Tulipa micheliana T4Z-116 from Kopet-Dag in Iran - another "synonym" for T. undulatifolia - I regard this as ridiculous joining
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Tulipa eichleri described from Caucasus (I got it from Georgia) now regarded as "synonym" of T. undulatifolia what seem to be at least very strange for me.
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Fritillaria drenovskyi from Greek Islands was grown up from Vlastimil Pilous seeds
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Iris caucasica from NE Turkey
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Juno iris hybrid raised by Alan McMurtrie - Iris x McM 'Smile of Sun'
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Muscari leucostomum WHIR-036 from Kopet-Dag in Iran, this sample was collected on Kuh-e Hazar Masjed ridge, between Emam Qoli and Kabkan, alt. 1670 m
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Most amazing inner base colour has Tulipa affinis received from Sjaak de Groot, originally collected in Central Asia
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Ornithogalum bungei - along way up to Olang Pass in Iran, just after Shesh Ab. alt. 1830 m
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Peaches in greenhouse now are in full bloom
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Some of Helleborus cultivars in Guna's hosta bed in spring surrounded by Corydalis and other small bulbs.
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Tulipa anadroma is one of the most gorgeous tulip species.
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Very spectacular colour form of Tulipa montana from Iran collected along road from Fulad Mahalleh to Mehdi Shahr between dwarf spiny shrubs at alt. 2280 m
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Last images from Janis' collection for April 2021!
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Tulipa corynestemon 12KZ-062 from Kazakhstan is very similar to Tulipa kolpakowskiana but easy identifiable by very unusual shape of filaments which are club-shaped and widest at top - 12KZ-062 - Kazakhstan, 70 km before Taldy-Kurgan, just on district border. Sun-baked stony steppe with low hills. alt. 1080 m
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Tulipa wilsoniana flava 16IRS-168 - Iran, Mazandaran Province, near Reza Abad, alt. 2250 m - Leaves very variable – undulate and straight, on very hard clay on rocks. In wild always dwarf and compact, whilst similar T. montana usually twice as long. In shorter light conditions inside greenhouse - longer, but in outside garden still compact.
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Tulipa vvedenskeyi hybrid 'Amberland' - raised by me during experiments for graduation work finishing University
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Tulipa sp. WHIR-101 from Iran, between Astaneh and Fulad Mahalleh, alt. 2350 m
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Tulipa montana WHIR-206 - from Iran, at road junction to Asad Abad. Only on very tops of small hills, alt. 2000 m, very special colour form.
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Tulipa juliae from Armenia
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One of my very first tulip selections, late 70-ies of XX century (1970s) - Tulipa kaufmanniana 'Lords Supper' - wild hybrid with T. greigii
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My Tulipa greigii selection 'Evening Fire' - from 80-ies of last century ( 1980s)
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Another hybrid from cross between T. vvedenskayi pollinated with Tulipa greigii - 'Earth Song'
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Another my hybrid raised from crossing of Tulipa vvedenskeyi with T. greigii aurea - 'Dream Pearl'
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Tulip bed in Janis' gtreenhouse 2 days ago.
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Bellevalia pycnantha BATM-170 - Turkey, 43 km after Kars on Ardahan rd, alt. 2175 m - the darkest blue grape hyacinth
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Excellent form of Muscari armeniacum RUDA-026 - Turkey, between Ermenek and Gulnar (14 km from road cross), just before Moca gec
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Fritillaria bithynica KJGR-071 - from Samos Island, Greece
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Fritillaria eduardii from Tajikistan in our garden
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Fritillaria pallidiflora collected wild in Kazakhstan, Kol-Asuu valley at Dzungarian Gate. Altitude from 1233 - 1700 m
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Fritillaria messanensis gracilis
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Fritillaria raddeana from Iran in open garden rockery is growing and blooming for years without any attention
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Fritillaria verticillata Urdzhar - from Kazahstan, originally collected by Arnis Seisums
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In my inside rockery start blooming of Eremurus lactiflorus from Uzbekistan, Ihnachsai.
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In Tulipa kolpakowskiana 12KZ-060 - filaments are widest at base - Kazakhstan, on road to Altyn-Emel pass of Dzungarian Alatau, alt. 1450m
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Juno hybrid raised by Alan McMurtrie - 'Creme Brulee'
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Muscari hybrid 'Valerie Finnis'
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One of the best Juno hybrids raised by Alan McMurtrie - 'Sunny Side' (not - Sunny Side Up)
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The latest blooming traditional Scilla in my collection is Scilla amoena