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Bulbs => Bulbs General => Topic started by: Yann on January 19, 2019, 03:43:16 PM
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Muscari leucostomum the first one of this winter.
it's very easy to grow and hardy.
Muscari szovitsianum, i didn't water it enough and then the last frost damage the leafs. Will do better next year ;)
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Hyacintella milingenii OP211298, sown in october 2015, from Oron's seeds
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Hyacintella milingenii OP211298, sown in october 2015, from Oron's seeds
The colour is "neon" isn't it?
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led ring flash, not the best flash but the cheapest ;D my camera also produces dark colors as i resetted it after a sensor cleaning.I need to caliber it.
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Pseudomuscari inconstrictum from seed from Kurt Vickery collected in Jordon. One of these days I'll remember about them and get a picture with them fully open.
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very nice colors
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Hyacinthella siirtensis, from Turkey
and an unknown species ???
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Hyacinthella lazulina
Muscari sivrihisardaghlarensis
Hyacinthella heldreichii
Hyacinthella leucophaea subsp. atchleyi
despite the lack of light these beauty are blooming so well this year
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Nice Yann.
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They all pop up the last 2 days, really strange
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Hyacinthoides reverchonii
Bellevalia romana
Hyacinthus orientalis
I don't think it's the right place to post this, may be should we open a thread named Asparagaceae?
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I don't think it's the right place to post this, may be should we open a thread named Asparagaceae?
Well, we can - but I'm not sure when I would have time to trawl through all the hundreds (977) of existing threads to move any relevant threads to a new section! :-X
Wikipedia says "Asparagaceae includes 114 genera with a total of ca 2900 known species.
Unless otherwise noted, the alphabetical list below on this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asparagaceae (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asparagaceae) is based on genera accepted by the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families as in the family Asparagaceae (with synonyms from the same source). " I could post a list of genera to a new thread so people would know what to search for elsewhere in the forum. :-\
IPNI list of plants in Asparagaceae : click here (http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do?find_infragenus=&find_isAPNIRecord=true&find_geoUnit=&find_includePublicationAuthors=true&find_addedSince=&find_family=Asparagaceae&find_genus=&find_sortByFamily=true&find_isGCIRecord=true&find_infrafamily=&find_rankToReturn=all&find_publicationTitle=&find_authorAbbrev=&find_infraspecies=&find_includeBasionymAuthors=true&find_modifiedSince=&find_isIKRecord=true&find_species=&output_format=normal&chunk_size=100&start_row=0)
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Here's Muscari sivrihisardaghlarensis flowering non stop for a month or so :o
Muscari aucheri, from the 2014 seedex
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Muscari muscarimi, 2 weeks ago...
Muscari pulchellum JKP 98024
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that sivrihisar muscari looks like a robust one.
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Muscari kerkis, it's still a bit dark today. I've ordered a packet of sun hope there won't be any delay in the delivery 8)
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I've ordered a packet of sun hope there won't be any delay in the delivery 8)
Brilliant idea - which supplier do you recommend? I could really do with some... (and a switch to turn the wind down)
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My first post so please forgive me if I’m in the wrong thread!
But I think I’m definitely in the right place to get good advice at SRGC :)
I am developing a collection of Muscari (and Pseudomuscari and Bellevalia because I very quickly became obsessed by them all :)
This is the first year that I have germinated seeds, both ones which I have collected and ones which I have purchased. I have been pleasantly surprised by my success so far, but now I have all these lovely seedlings how should I look after them?
Has anyone got any top tips or good advice, should I feed? With what? Do I let them dry out like the adult bulbs? Should I keep them in same pot for the next year of growth? Any advice greatfully accepted thank you :)
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Hello Deb, and welcome!
My "other half" Ian Young (- aka the Bulb Despot, who writes the weekly Bulb Log Diary - ISSN 2514 6114 - on the SRGC Website) is in charge of seedling care here in our Aberdeen garden - he prefers to keep seedlings growing for a s long as possible when they are young to build them up. He feeds them in growth with Sulphate of Potash powder.
If the babies are kept slightly cool and watered and fed they will tend to keep growing longer than an mature bulb will be in growth and this gives them extra time to get bigger each year and usually leads to flowers a bit sooner than you might think. We also prefer to grow the babies on en masse - re-potting the whole potful without splitting into a larger pot rather than pricking out the little plants. Pricking out any plant, be it a bulb or whatever, is often the most dangerous time for the babies - they can suffer leaf and /or root damage and infections can enter more easily. The potting on en masse has proven to be a very successful method for many of us.
You can search the Bulb Log Index about feeding, also from the main Bulb Log page, where all editions of it are available http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/index.php?log=bulb (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/index.php?log=bulb) A
lso a Google search of whatever you are looking for, accompanied by Bulb Log and SRGC can get very useful results quickly!
I hope others will chime in with their methods.
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Maggi,
what about the dormant period? Do you usually keep first year bulbs a little cooler at dormancy as well? With some I am afraid whether they can handle total dryness when they are so small. My Nothoscordum dialystemon for example likes a good dry rest, but the plentiful bulbils it makes never seem to come up. So I am inclined to treat baby bulbs a little less harsh than I would the adults..
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Oh, and back to Muscari..
Muscari anatolicum is flowering here, a pretty stout stem it has. And reddish, too.
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Maggi,
what about the dormant period? Do you usually keep first year bulbs a little cooler at dormancy as well? With some I am afraid whether they can handle total dryness when they are so small. My Nothoscrdum dialystemon for example likes a good dry rest, but the plentiful bulbils it makes never seem to come up. So I am inclined to treat baby bulbs a little less harsh than i would the adults..
Yes we would keep the young ones cooler - and often then they grow almost the whole year, they always get some water when growing of course. Yes, it is harder for little ones to cope with severe drying out and heat than mature bulbs - the young ones may not have the strength to cope with that. But here in Aberdeen, we do not often have to worry too much about great heat!
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I see.
I, on the other hand, really can't keep them growing longer than June, I guess. Even on the north side of our balcony (it is nearly a 360° balcony) it gets pretty hot at some point. Keeping them not that warm when they went dormant should not be such an issue, though.
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Bellevalia dubia
Chionodoxa sardensis
Muscari kerkis
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Muscari latifolium
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Maggi thank you so much for the top tips for my seedlings :)
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I had a selection of named Muscari in a large pot for a couple of years and last year tipped it out and planted the large number of bulbs in the garden. I have forgotten where they all are but was pleased to see this one appear among the Scilla bifolia.
Muscari 'Pink Sunrise'
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Muscari armeniacum, a pink form, JJA688.012.
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Muscari comutatum, a white form
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as usual Tatsuo that's marvelous ;)
Muscari spreitzenhoferi, last year it didn't bloom at all and i try a new soil mixture, it was the good equation.
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-1 Muscari chalusicum and Muscari macrocarpum
-2 Muscari latifolium, extraordinary colors
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Some Muscari-like flowers.
The first is Alravia bellii from Iran
Then unidentified Bellevalia sp. from Syria - could be new species
and the last three pictures are of very miniature Bellevalia, resembling pycnantha but from dry spots and very tiny, certainly new species, but not easy to grow - from 5 collected plants now I have only two and the white one was lost, too. At locality it was very sparsely situated and such group of several together was the single one.
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I might be a little late in showing this, as it bloomed by the end of March. Nevertheless, the flowers of my Hyacinthella dalmatica are well worth seeing for their sky blue color and dark anthers. But I still wonder whether it might be virused. Any thoughts?
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Muscari (Pseudomuscari) inconstrictum in flower earlier this month
cheers
fermi
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I might be a little late in showing this, as it bloomed by the end of March. Nevertheless, the flowers of my Hyacinthella dalmatica are well worth seeing for their sky blue color and dark anthers. But I still wonder whether it might be virused. Any thoughts?
Hyacinth mosaic virus is common with Muscari and Hyacinthella.
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Muscari macrocarpum - growing in too much shade I think :-\
Might have to move it before next season
cheers
fermi
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Muscari muscarimi - two forms
I think that these are both Muscari muscarimi but the first came to me from Marcus Harvey many years ago, the second came from Hillview last year as Muscari mcbeathianum but I presume it's a yellow form of Muscari muscarimi - unless someone else can give me another identity for it,
cheers
fermi
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Muscari muscarimi - two forms
I think that these are both Muscari muscarimi but the first came to me from Marcus Harvey many years ago, the second came from Hillview last year as Muscari mcbeathianum but I presume it's a yellow form of Muscari muscarimi - unless someone else can give me another identity for it,
cheers
fermi
I've always known that yellow muscari as M. macrocarpum - but I don't know if that's correct!
This is what M. mcbeathianum looks like ....
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Could somebody name this muscari for me please.The label has been long lost. I am pretty sure I grew it from seed from the Gothenburg Botanical Seed-ex, some years ago. I am searching through my garden diaries for some past entry. The colours in real life are grey & white.
Thank you.
Edna
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Hello Edna. This looks like Muscari pallens, and clearly happy with your conditions.
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Thank you Ashley. Yes I was thinking maybe it was M. pallens but in my search of the internet and various books I have never come across another that emerges with such deep colouring.
edna
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Flowering now in the Northern hemisphere:
Muscari aucheri 'Autumn Glory' - the autumn flowering variant of M. aucheri.
Most seedlings of this also flower in autumn.
Poul
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Muscari armeniacum in full blossom for Christmas :o
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Muscari armeniacum in full blossom for Christmas :o
A different kind of Christmas Bell!
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Indeed!!