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Title: Caloscordum nerinifolium
Post by: Palustris on August 13, 2020, 02:18:26 PM
Hope I spelled that correctly.
Question,
Do they change from bright pink to a lovely pale pink as the flowers age. Or have I got some  colour variant coming into flower?
Cheers!
Title: Re: Caloscordum nerinifolium
Post by: Maggi Young on August 13, 2020, 04:24:47 PM
 Caloscordum neriniflorum (syn.Allium neriniflorum) does  indeed  fade  colour  from its  flowers  as  they  age - so I think you  can  be   confident  in  your  plant !
Title: Re: Caloscordum nerinifolium
Post by: Maggi Young on August 13, 2020, 04:25:31 PM
Caloscordum neriniflorum (syn.Allium neriniflorum) does  indeed  fade  colour  from its  flowers  as  they  age- and  there  are  known colour  variants  depending  on  provenance - so I think you  can  be   confident  in  your  plant !
Title: Re: Caloscordum nerinifolium
Post by: Palustris on August 15, 2020, 03:46:06 PM
Beginning to wonder if I DO have two different  Alliums in the same clump.
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Standard Allium
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Different one.
What do you think?
Title: Re: Caloscordum nerinifolium
Post by: Maggi Young on August 15, 2020, 05:38:12 PM
Ooh, errr um.... well yes those  do seem like  two different types!
Title: Re: Caloscordum nerinifolium
Post by: Rimmer de Vries on August 30, 2020, 02:53:53 PM
Not many alpines sirvive in the hot and soggy Kentucky summers but Caloscordum neriniflorum seems to have survived in a pile of sand and limestone
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