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Title: Gentiana 2016
Post by: Tristan_He on May 07, 2016, 09:17:01 PM: Getting the ball rolling (appropriately enough)... G. verna. These look like it might be their last year, fortunately I have some seedlings in the pipeline. Maybe one day they will self seed... ???

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Title: Re: Gentiana 2016
Post by: Gabriela on May 08, 2016, 03:08:57 AM: Congratulations Tristan! I never get lucky with this one, probably I love it too much :'(
Title: Re: Gentiana 2016
Post by: Gabriela on July 30, 2016, 06:59:54 PM: It seems no many contributions to this thread so a couple of summer gentians.
Gentiana septemfida var. lagodechiana
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I found contradictory images on the web about G. cachemirica; this one is true (at least one of its forms). I'll take a picture with an open flower later. Not in great shape but doing well considering in the last 2 years it was transplanted, divided and grown in a pot for a while!
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Title: Re: Gentiana 2016
Post by: Roma on August 02, 2016, 04:42:02 PM: Three gentians flowering with me now.
Gentiana hexaphylla
Gentiana 'Black Boy' grown from seed many years ago. Name seems odd. I wonder if it is a corruption of black bud?
Gentiana loderi
Title: Re: Gentiana 2016
Post by: David Nicholson on August 02, 2016, 08:01:08 PM: Roma, do all three of those need acid soil please?
Title: Re: Gentiana 2016
Post by: Roma on August 02, 2016, 10:30:58 PM: Haven't a clue, David. I think my soil is fairly acid. Will have to look it up.
Title: Re: Gentiana 2016
Post by: Lesley Cox on August 03, 2016, 12:26:52 AM: I love that very delicately coloured G. hexaphylla Roma. I think only gentians have this palest of pale blues occasionally. Your 'Black Boy' looks very like what I recently bought as septemfida Dwarf Form.
Title: Re: Gentiana 2016
Post by: Gabriela on August 03, 2016, 02:43:57 AM: Yes, hexaphylla is very beautiful, also has a particular foliage - I will look for it in the seedex!
Title: Re: Gentiana 2016
Post by: Roma on September 10, 2016, 11:29:54 PM: Gentiana paradoxa
Gentiana asclepiada (2)
Gentiana asclepiada pale blue form
Gentiana farreri ~~'Conwy Star'~~'Silken Star group'. Did not get the name quite right.
Title: Re: Gentiana 2016
Post by: Leucogenes on September 11, 2016, 11:46:27 AM: Every year in September the same picture with me...Gentianella saxosa
Title: Re: Gentiana 2016
Post by: astragalus on September 11, 2016, 01:06:14 PM: Roma, you are growing so many beautiful gentians. Thanks for showing the pictures. Whatever you are doing must be what they need and want. Do the spring gentians do this well for you also?
Title: Re: Gentiana 2016
Post by: Leucogenes on September 23, 2016, 06:32:45 PM: Tonight in my rock garden...Gentiana sino -ornata "Blauer Kobold "
Title: Re: Gentiana 2016
Post by: Tristan_He on September 23, 2016, 08:37:19 PM: Quote from: Leucogenes on September 11, 2016, 11:46:27 AM
Every year in September the same picture with me...Gentianella saxosa

Very nice. Mine is flowering as well but not as good a clump as that one. I like the combination with the Raoulia.
Title: Re: Gentiana 2016
Post by: Leucogenes on September 23, 2016, 09:37:47 PM: Quote from: Tristan_He on September 23, 2016, 08:37:19 PM
Very nice. Mine is flowering as well but not as good a clump as that one. I like the combination with the Raoulia.

many thanks ... that's Raoulia tenuicaulis. It grows very well with me.

Today I got seeds of Gentiana divisa. Also a beautiful species.
Title: Re: Gentiana 2016
Post by: Leucogenes on September 24, 2016, 07:54:17 AM: Quote from: Tristan_He on September 23, 2016, 08:37:19 PM
Very nice. Mine is flowering as well but not as good a clump as that one. I like the combination with the Raoulia.

Here's a picture ... (macro)
Title: Re: Gentiana 2016
Post by: Roma on October 22, 2016, 10:40:54 PM: Gentiana 'Braemar' flowering in September
Gentiana 'Amethyst'
Gentiana 'Edith Sarah' - an older variety
Gentiana 'Berrybank Snowflakes'
Gentiana melandrifolia
Title: Re: Gentiana 2016
Post by: Roma on October 22, 2016, 10:45:35 PM: A few more
Gentiana 'Eugen's Allerbester' x 2
Gentiana 'Saltire'
Gentiana 'Silken Night'
Gentiana 'Silken Seas'
Title: Re: Gentiana 2016
Post by: Roma on October 22, 2016, 10:48:26 PM: Last two
Gentiana 'Weisser Traum'
Gentiana 'The Caley' last to flower
Title: Re: Gentiana 2016
Post by: Gabriela on October 22, 2016, 11:55:02 PM: What a 'feast' of Gentiana! All this cv. are non-existent here.
Title: Re: Gentiana 2016
Post by: Leena on October 23, 2016, 08:01:43 AM: Wonderful Gentianas, Roma! :)
Title: Re: Gentiana 2016
Post by: David Nicholson on October 23, 2016, 08:55:09 AM: You do grow Gentians well Roma.
Title: Re: Gentiana 2016
Post by: astragalus on October 23, 2016, 12:05:48 PM: Roma, your gentians are wonderful. You grow so many different ones so beautifully. Gentiana 'The Caley' was the big winner at the Scotland Discussion Weekend, grown by the McNaughtons. It was the first time I saw this one and it was breathtaking.