Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: ChrisB on August 16, 2017, 03:30:04 PM
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This, I hope, is Polemonium brandegii, it has just come into flower from seed sown 2016. Is this the right time of year for it? I thought polemoniums flowered in mid-late spring?
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Polemonium pauciflorum flowers from July onwards here.......
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True Maggi, it is summer flowering. It's just that I saw this sp on the show bench at Easter a couple of years ago....
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Hmmm, brought on early by being grown under glass, perhaps?
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Probably, but still a big gap.... in time. Wondering if any of our US people knows when it flowers in the wild....
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I have had it flowering in mid summer and also in fall. It flowers later than Polemonium caeruleum anyway.
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Extracted from "Alpine Plants of North America" by Graham Nicholls (Timber Press-2002)
""Polemonium brandegei ranges from Wyoming to Colorado, Utah and New Mexico. It is occasionally mistaken for P. viscosum, although it has longer, more upward-facing blooms. Flower colour varies from white to straw- or golden yellow. Jim Archibald found a lovely , snowy-white form in the Laramie mountains of Wyoming as well as a colony with golden-yellow flowers near Albuquerque, New Mexico. Although this species makes a lovely alpine house specimen, it can be short-lived. It is not grown very often, probably because seed is difficult to obtain""
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And from Kenton Seth - speaker at the SRGC Summer event this coming Saturday - it was in flower the other week when he was in the mountains, though depending on site and season it might flower a bit earlier.
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Hi Chris,
you look like you've got a good form of it too!
I hope that you are able to save seeds for the Seedex ;)
cheers
fermi
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Thanks everyone, I shall do my best to save seed, it is rather nice!