Janis Ruksans' plant collection - mostly bulbs April 2021

[Maggi Young]

More bulbs growing  in the  collection of Janis Ruksans .... comments from Janis.


 Iris willmottiana seedlings bloom abundantly


Anemone biflora CMIR-0727 collected in Iran by late Colin Mason, great friend of Janis R.


Anemone biflora DZ-01-24 from Iran - unfortunately not easy even in greenhouse. My stock of of this species decrease from year to year


A beautiful and very tiny daffodil from Portugal - Narcissus scaberulus 15PTGS-030


Another beauty named after my granddaughter Corydalis solida 'Louise-Elisabeth'

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A seedling of Corydalis solida -'Rosalia'


A form of  Iris svetlaneae


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.



Chionoscilla x allenii - hybrid between former Chionodoxa and Scilla, but now Chionodoxa is incorporated into Scilla - so how to name this hybrid now?


Corydalis solida cultivar  Zbraslav

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Crocus minimus Bavella - Archibald's form with orange stigma


Crocus minimus Bavella. A.Edwards form has white stigma (Archibald's Bavella - orange stigma)


Cyclamen kusnetzovii in garden under shrubs is growing, blooming and even self-sowing if one isnot too tidy in clearing in autumn.


Excellent albino of Tulipa humilis 18IRS-009 from Iran



Fritillaria aurea from Ziyaretpesi gec in Turkey, the most Northern locality of this species.

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Fritillaria caucasica


Fritillaria collina from Georgia. Good grower in open garden, too.


Fritillaria macedonica 13MCY - this year unusually short


Fritillaria yuminensis from China


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.


Iris bucharica with black spots on falls - got from Leonid Bondarenko


Iris nusairiensis - beautiful Juno iris.


Iris willmottiana - from Berkara gorge in Kara-Tau


Iris zaprjagajevii

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comments are from Janis ....


Just started blooming the latest form of Crocus minimus which in open garden here blooms in second half of May.


My Corydalis solida seedling 'Cats Paw'


My selection from Corydalis solida 'Royal Cherry'


Narcissus bulbocodium 19PTS-015 from Portugal with green flower segments


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.


Scilla bifolia Norman was found in Turkey by Norman Stevens. Although it is forming anthers and pollen I never got seeds from it.


Scilla decidua


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.


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'


Still unnamed seedling Corydalis solida 01-02


This one is named after a granddaughter - Corydalis solida 'Paula'


Tiny Fritillaria poluninii WHIR-182 from Iran, near border with Iraq.


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



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.


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.


Great surprise - the white seedling which appeared between seedlings of Iris willmottiana.


Close up of Iris willmottiana white seedling - is it true species or hybrid?  I will pollinate it with blue ones.


Narcissus triandrus lusitanicus 15PTGS-025 from Portugal

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a couple more....   


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.


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....


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.


This Fritillaria sp. JJJL-023 from NE Turkey still isn't identified - looks intermediate between several species - could be new species


New Tulipa species from Iran - its publication is in processing.


Another new species of Muscari, could be published this year.


Narcissus fosteri 20SPS-038 from Spain

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Three more ...


Hyacinthella nervosa BATM-024, Turkey.


Start blooming Fessia greilhuberi (former Scilla) from Iran


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."


Alrawia bellii SLIZE-304 from Iran


Anemone blanda RUDA-021 from Turkey with very rounded flowers


Erythronium "revolutum" 07-241 from Ron Ratko seeds - but this is E. californicum


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


Muscari coeleste KPPZ-318 from Gothenburg BG

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and ....


Selection from Anemone blanda #18-01


"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.


Tulipa kurdica from Iraq Kurdistan - similar to T. humilis but of very special flower colour and well separable from that.