Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Specific Families and Genera => Amaryllidaceae => Topic started by: udo on February 16, 2015, 05:24:32 PM
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the first flower Sternbergia candida 'Creme Diamond', :D
a cross between St.candida and fischeriana from 2009
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=2940.0 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=2940.0)
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Hello very nice good colour hope this increases for you, cheers Ian the Christie kind
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the first flower Sternbergia candida 'Creme Diamond', :D
a cross between St.candida and fischeriana from 2009
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=2940.0 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=2940.0)
Wonderfull cross Dirk ! Nice colour , and we hope it get established ....
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the first flower Sternbergia candida 'Creme Diamond', :D
a cross between St.candida and fischeriana from 2009
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=2940.0 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=2940.0)
Absolutely superb Dirk. New colour in Sternbergia.
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Congratulations, Dirk,
Is this the first one to flower from the cross? Did you raise many seedlings?
cheers
fermi
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Very successful cross!
I also hope, it multiplies well (and I get a chance to try one :P)
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Many thanks for all. ;D
Fermi, yes the first flower from this cross. I have four seedlings, the other three hopefully in flower next year.
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Fantastic cross Dirk!
Grow both species side by side, but normally they do not flower the same time here.
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Thanks Hans,
here flowers from this two species in the same time, also this year. ;)
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I was amazed to see the first "autumn" sternbergia in flower!
Sternbergia sicula in flower in the Rock garden (through the remains of the dianthus and other detritus!)
cheers
fermi
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Nearly a month later and Sternbergia lutea is also in bloom; more S. sicula are also coming into flower,
cheers
fermi
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Sternbergia candida is in flower in our garden,
cheers
fermi
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Fermi,
The Sternbergia are certainly cheery. I had S. lutea in the garden however it is gone now and have had to start over with various species from seed. I appreciate seeing the photographs as it is good for me to think beyond California native plants.
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The Sternbergia season has started in the Northern Hemisphere.
Sternbergia sicula is flowering in my garden along with Colchicum montanum
Poul
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It may look nothing to you mate but to me it's a miracle ;D For over five years I've been trying to flower a Sternbergia..... zilch. This is one from a few bulbs my friend Mike Quest gave me (it must be six years ago) and has produced a few leaves every year but nary a flower. Last year I gave it a right telling off and told it it was for the bin if it didn't flower this year. I wouldn't mind if it had been a glorious Summer and it had been baked to the point of cremation but.............. (and it's got a friend too)
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David, nice to see that you finally succeded!
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Thank you Poul, it would be nice to see two flowers next year!
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Sternbergia lutea loves my lawn.
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They look very happy indeed in your lawn, Franz. It is a joy to see them.
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It may look nothing to you mate but to me it's a miracle ;D ...
Congratulations, David! Some things really are worth waiting for.
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Sternbergia greuteriana just coming into flower.
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Photo from KAVB on facebook:
Koninklijke Algemeene Vereeniging voor Bloembollencultuur (KAVB)
Wim Granneman uit Hillegom showt Sternbergia op glas. De linker twee zijn triploide en de rechter twee komen uit Ligurië. Vermoedelijk is het niet S. lutea maar mogelijk S. sicula. S. lutea heeft een bijna zwarte bolhuid.
Which translates approximately as :
Wim Granneman from Hillegom shows sternbergia on glass. The two on the left are triploid and the two on the right come from Liguria. Perhaps it is not S. lutea but possibly S. sicula.
S. Lutea has an almost black bulb coat.
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Those poor bulbs! A little profligate to be growing Sternbergia in this fashion, no? I'm simply irked because we struggle to flower them here. Bonny flowers.
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Those poor bulbs! A little profligate to be growing Sternbergia in this fashion, no? I'm simply irked because we struggle to flower them here. Bonny flowers.
Never flowered a one here Matt so don't feel bad. Not even the first year after importing from a place where they set flowers.
johnw
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I have a couple in flower/bud now but they are new bulbs bought this season so have clearly had a summer in much better climes. However, one potful that I acquired last year is pushing up a bud despite our miserable summer - so excited!!
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Which species is budded for you Matt? Perhaps it's time again to torture ourselves with this Genus.........
john - a warm summer night, rare this late in the year, 18c at 23:23
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Hi John,
I picked it up as S. lutea, but the leaves are more like those of S.sicula. I suspect that it may be the plant known as S. lutea var. angustifolia (or 'Angustifolia' if you prefer). The identity of that plant is unclear and might be a hybrid, but it seems to be the easiest and most reliable. I'll post a pic when it's out - hoping that it doesn't bloom and go over whilst I'm away at the Discussion Weekend... :-\ There may well be a spare bulb at repotting time next year, I'll let you know.
M
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Sternbergia sicula after a hot, dry summer.
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First bit of sunshine for days, and Sternbergia greuteriana has opened fully.
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Hi John,
There may well be a spare bulb at repotting time next year, I'll let you know. M
Thanks for the offer Matt, sadly I'm on the wrong side of the pond for bulbs.
john
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Oh yeah, forgetting that ::)
Maybe it will set some seed though.
M
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Sternbergia sicula "Pantokrator" after an almost mediterranean summer
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A huge patch of sunshine!
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Sternbergia sicula "Pantokrator" after an almost mediterranean summer
Wow
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Sternbergia sicula "Pantokrator" after an almost mediterranean summer
Very impressing, Herbert!
Poul
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Sternbergia sicula "Pantokrator" after an almost mediterranean summer
What a great form ....
Doing very good here in the garden to .....(many thanks to the fine people who share a few bulbs)
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The one I grow for more years in the rockgarden and sure an old favorite ..... 'Arcadian Sun '
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One more ....
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Hi John,
I picked it up as S. lutea, but the leaves are more like those of S.sicula. I suspect that it may be the plant known as S. lutea var. angustifolia (or 'Angustifolia' if you prefer). The identity of that plant is unclear and might be a hybrid, but it seems to be the easiest and most reliable. I'll post a pic when it's out - ...
She's out and enjoying the sunshine!
I also have a flower out on a recently acquired plant purporting to be S. greuteriana (third photo). I doesn't look like the plants I've seen in the wild and I think it's S. sicula. Opinions?
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Two several forms from Sternbergia sicula,
the great is from Greece Mainland, the smaller from Crete
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Just a few steps down the kalderimi/mule track and we were finding more interesting specimens ... Then a couple of flowers that seem to me to clearly be Sternbergia colchiciflora (31) ...
Quote from post here (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=12363.msg316635#msg316635)
This has been bugging me today. I'm pretty certain that this is S. colchiciflora, but I can't find any sources (online or books I have here) to confirm that it occurs on Crete, i.e.: http://e-monocot.org/taxon/urn:kew.org:wcs:taxon:288134 (http://e-monocot.org/taxon/urn:kew.org:wcs:taxon:288134)
Any thoughts on whether my ID is correct, sources confirming a distribution that includes Crete or has anyone else seen this species on Crete themselves? Thanks.
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Does S. Lutea set seeds? In my garden and around there are so many of them but I havent seen their seeds.
And the rain came only two days before , so just nothing there..
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Matt,
why should the Sternbergia colchiciflora be?
Nevertheless, one already sees foliage sheets, it is certain greuteriana or sicula.
ikizzeki,
with me attaches Sternbergia lutea even very few seed, Sternbergia sicula against it really well.
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Thanks, Dirk. I was wondering if it was perhaps S. greuteriana due to the leaves starting to show at flowering.
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A nice surprise this morning, Sternbergia lutea greuteriana is blooming
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Sternbergia lutea subsp. graeca 'Connie Greenfield' - had a problem fitting that on the label. And a nice clump of Sternbergia lutea just coming into flower in the open garden.
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This is the same clump as in the second photo of the last post - seems very happy here.
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- seems very happy here.
Yes, it does.