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Bulbs => Bulbs General => Topic started by: Ed Alverson on February 28, 2015, 10:35:50 PM
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The same weather pattern that has brought record cold and snow to the eastern and central parts of North America has brought a very mild and dry winter to the Pacific Northwest. As a consequence, many late winter/early spring flowering plants are 2 to 4 weeks early. Most of my Erythroniums already have buds showing, and E. tuolumnense and E. grandiflorum now have open flowers. Here is a bugs-eye view of Erythronium grandiflorum (the white-anthered var. parviflorum), taken earlier today.
Ed
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Gorgeous!
The only one I have close to blooming yet is E. helenae.
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Erythronium caucasicum
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8623/16510183627_82f3de84cc_o_d.jpg)
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8638/16531334659_bb433dd935_o_d.jpg)
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:o :o :o
I need to source some seed for E. caucasicum! Beautiful Steve!
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:o :o :o
I need to source some seed for E. caucasicum! Beautiful Steve!
Me, too!!! What a beautiful flower, Steve! Does anybody know where we can get seeds? ::)
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Me, too!!! What a beautiful flower, Steve! Does anybody know where we can get seeds? ::)
Many thanks!
Sadly I only have a single clone which isn't self-fertile.
Wild seed is sometimes available from some of the Czech guys such as Dr Vlastimil Pilous (a collection from Chiaturi, Georgia featured in his 2014-2015 list).
I have never dealt with this company but I see that they are offering seed:
http://www.seedspro.com/product_info.php/products_id/1128/language/en (http://www.seedspro.com/product_info.php/products_id/1128/language/en)
Hope you manage to track some down as it is both beautiful, and very early flowering.
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Thanks so much for the info, Steve! I'm usually pretty good at checking seed lists but for some reason, I failed to check Dr. Vlastimil's seed list this year... I wonder if he still has the seeds... And thanks for the link! I will definitely check the site! :D
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first flowers,
Erythronium caucasicum
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Among the Erythroniums I now have flowering are a yellow-flowered hybrid that is flowering for just the first time this year. The plants are E. tuolumnense x E. oreganum ssp. leucandrum. I was aiming for a good, solid yellow in a flower with better flower form that is typical for E. tuolumnense, on plants that increase by offsets. Right now the plants are young/small so it is hard to say how they will do as they mature, it will be interesting to see. I've also crossed E. tuolumnense and E. grandiflorum but those hybrids have not yet bloomed - hopefully next year
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Erythronium howellii
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8731/16781495269_e0c5e05b0e_o.jpg)
I needed help to get back on my feet afterwards!
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Can I buy some of that sky please, mine's very grey.
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One of the participants in the Native Plant Society of Oregon's list serve, Travis Owen, recently posted a link to a blog entry of his describing a visit to Upper Table Rock in southern Oregon, which features many native wildflowers, including good populations of Erythronium hendersonii now in bloom. See http://amateuranthecologist.blogspot.com/2015/03/upper-table-rock.html (http://amateuranthecologist.blogspot.com/2015/03/upper-table-rock.html)
Ed
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Ian Y this is the first flower to open of the Erythronium from the local nursery. Small flowers I guess because they are in stupidly small pots
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Erythronium albidum
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7710/17091537591_45e38a92df_o_d.jpg)
Photographed at dusk -which accentuates the blue colouration that some albidum flowers show.
Erythronium Ardovie Bliss
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8787/17066272156_7bff56e46d_o_d.jpg)
Many thanks to Ian Christie for this beautiful hybrid.
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Ian Y this is the first flower to open of the Erythronium from the local nursery. Small flowers I guess because they are in stupidly small pots
Looks like a White Beauty type Mark, possibly a seedling as it has darker leaves than WB itself.
We have many similar seedlings all good garden plants.
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Thanks Ian
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A new seedling in flower,
Erythronium hendersonii x revolutum
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Here is one of my favourite seedlings. Sorry the photo got a bit squashed when being shrunk!
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The sun shines today and the Erythroniums are reaching a peak flowering.
Three of our Craigton forms and hybrids.
Erythronium Craigton Flower ( a selection of E. americanum) , Erythronium Craigton Cover Girl( a revolutum hybrid) and Erythronium Craigton Cream( a helenae hybrid).
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Erythronium revolutum and White Beauty in the sunshine and one of the Erythronium plunge beds.
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Erythronium heaven, Ian !!
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I planted this more than a decade ago and it promptly disappeared, leading me to believe that I couldn't grow Erythronium here, or at least not in this bed. Suddenly it has reappeared in the middle of the Daphne!
Can anyone (Ian Y?) please ID?
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Looks like a californicum hybrid, Ralph.
edit - Ian arrives and says he thinks more tuolumnense involved - perhaps 'Kondo' for example.
He reckons 'Citronella'
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One of the tuolumnense hybrids John, most likely 'Citronella' other parent likely to be californicum.
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Thanks. I do remember buying `Pagoda`. Could it be that ?
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Could well be Pagoda - esp. with the plain leaves - same cross as Kondo, I think.
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Yesterday I saw these white Erythronium blooming around an apartment complex in SE Michigan. The words were filled with the typical yellow ones but a patch in the "lawn" had exclusively white flowers.
the photos were difficult due to the very windy conditions.
is this a special variety?
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Looks like they are Erythronium albidum Rimmer
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Erythronium albidum
Nice, i did not know about this one as local.
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Hello great to see all your pictures we are very busy here so many flowers with the warm weather we are warned with severe cold soon, I post Erythroniums grandiflorum var leucandrum and Erythronium sibiricum alba
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Another few beauties fro the garden cheers Ian the Christie kind
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Weather changed as predicted cold last nigh looks like rain which we need. A few more erythroniums from the garden, cheers Ian the Christie kind
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nice picture, Ian
here some flowers from this weekend
Erythronium 'Kinfauns Pink'
'Kinfauns Sunset'
'Sundisc' and
multiscapoideum
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Ian's E. japonicum is beautiful. Such an intense colour.
Patrick is in Inverness for a choir rehearsal this weekend and has just sent me the picture below. Seems that someone has been planting Erythroniums in the public planting beds throughout the city.
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My side ways looking ?Harvington Snowgoose seedling is back for its second year and is still looking side ways
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I spent a very pleasant afternoon on Wednesday in Ian and Maggi's garden. I can see why Ian thinks he is in heaven just now.
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A few more
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Erythronium elegans -Note the small tick on one of the filaments. I'm surprised I don't have Lyme Disease!
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8721/17107221369_c59e86aca3_o.jpg)
Erythronium montanum -Typically it has just come into flower as the weather takes a turn for the worse. The first flower opened facing upward but the flowers turned as the flowering stem extended. The flowers are large and propellor-shaped.
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8814/16673182673_3d4abee93d_o.jpg)
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7657/17085978977_3c5c221e0e_o.jpg)
The plant below was bought as Erythronium purpurascens a number of years ago. It has never clumped up and only produces a single flower which takes on a light magenta-hue as the flower ages. I think it might be another Erythronium elegans rather than purpurascens and I would be grateful for opinions.
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8806/17291602902_9d77c18cb6_o.jpg)
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8756/17107219879_9453c271a2_o.jpg)
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I think you are correct Steve, looks like Erythronium elegans to me, E.purpurescens has a number of smaller flowers on a stem, immature plants may only have one flower but they are much smaller than those of E. elegans.
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I think you are correct Steve, looks like Erythronium elegans to me, E.purpurescens has a number of smaller flowers on a stem, immature plants may only have one flower but they are much smaller than those of E. elegans.
Thanks Ian!
I had hoped I was wrong.
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In case you haven't yet seen it, my various writings on Erythronium from the SRGC web site over the past decade have been compiled into an "Erythronium Special" for issue #69 of the International Rock Gardener, see:
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Sep251443177809IRG_69_Erythronium_Special.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Sep251443177809IRG_69_Erythronium_Special.pdf)
The issue reprints updated versions of the monthly entries from my 2006 series, "My Erythronium Big Year", as well as some additional material from my Erythronium explorations since 2005/6.
Ed
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I have enjoyed and learned a lot from Ed's Erythronium Special and Ian's Bulb Log Erythronium posts. :)
I planted two bulbs of E.sibiricum in August 2014, they were bought from Janis Ruksans. They came up last April and the other one flowered, but unfortunately I don't have a good picture of it. :( Now I read from the Bulb Log about E.krylovii, and started to wonder if this flowering plant is E.krylovii rather than E.sibiricum, because of the plain leaves? I must take a better picture of them next spring!
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Difficult to say from that picture Leena, post more in spring and by then I may also be clearer in knowing the difference.
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Thanks, I will take better pictures next spring. :)