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Bulbs => Bulbs General => Topic started by: Gail on January 16, 2021, 12:03:15 PM
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Our first significant snow this morning (significant for us that is) although it is already rapidly melting.
I love the gold of aconites with snow;
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Eranthis hyemalis ‘Winterzauber’
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Eranthis hyemalis ‘Pauline’
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Our first significant snow this morning (significant for us that is) although it is already rapidly melting.
I love the gold of aconites with snow;
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Eranthis hyemalis ‘Winterzauber’
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Eranthis hyemalis ‘Pauline’
Pretty! I love the soft color of ‘Pauline’! My E. hyemalis is still in buds, but E. pinnatifida in the garden has started to open.
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They are really lovely Peppa. Those blue anthers and the deep bronzey foliage is very attractive. The leaves and the ruff of eranthis are as interesting as the flowers.
When 'Dooze' first started it was an intense khaki-green, not really captured in my photo;
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and one seedling ex. 'Orange Glow' that I'm keeping my eye on, has a ruff with quite a golden glow to it. Again better in life than in my photo;
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Sorry Maggi, would you be able to rotate those? I seem to be having problems with the attachments at the moment!
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Pretty! I love the soft color of ‘Pauline’! My E. hyemalis is still in buds, but E. pinnatifida in the garden has started to open.
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Lovely indeed. E. pinnatifida belongs to my absolute favourites. Seeing your photo makes me want to plant out mine, too. In a few years perhaps, when I have enough progeny.. Yours seem to thrive, how are they situated?
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They are really lovely Peppa. Those blue anthers and the deep bronzey foliage is very attractive. The leaves and the ruff of eranthis are as interesting as the flowers.
When 'Dooze' first started it was an intense khaki-green, not really captured in my photo;
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and one seedling ex. 'Orange Glow' that I'm keeping my eye on, has a ruff with quite a golden glow to it. Again better in life than in my photo;
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The outer sepals of your ‘Dooze’ are indeed very green, Gail! It is quite striking!
I also like the contrast of the bronze leaves against the white flowers of E. pinnatifida! And each plant is slightly different; some have much greener leaves even. I have heard from friends of mine in Japan that there are local variations of E. pinnatifida, but I don't have enough examples to be able to tell the difference.
Lovely indeed. E. pinnatifida belongs to my absolute favourites. Seeing your photo makes me want to plant out mine, too. In a few years perhaps, when I have enough progeny.. Yours seem to thrive, how are they situated?
Tom, I have planted them in several places in the garden and also keep some in pots, but the picture I posted previously was taken in the north east side of my garden. There are also Erythronium japonicum and several different species of Trillium growing in that bed.
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I’m posting here in anticip.....ation of everyone in the northern hemisphere’s Eranthis pics for 2021!
I’m also wondering whether anyone has had much luck with E. pinnatifida from seed? Given my location (Tas, Aus) seed ex are really my only chance of sourcing. I imagine dry storage = death for these seeds, does this sound right? I have had some luck coaxing E. hyemalis out of dormancy after a good 9m of dry storage.
Apples and oranges?
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I’m posting here in anticip.....ation of everyone in the northern hemisphere’s Eranthis pics for 2021!
I’m also wondering whether anyone has had much luck with E. pinnatifida from seed? Given my location (Tas, Aus) seed ex are really my only chance of sourcing. I imagine dry storage = death for these seeds, does this sound right? I have had some luck coaxing E. hyemalis out of dormancy after a good 9m of dry storage.
Apples and oranges?
There is actually a Eranthis 2021 thread started Matt here; https://www.srgc.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=18284.0
But we can go retro if you prefer! :) And actually the reminder of Mariette's lovely picture of Eranthis ´Sachsengold´ buds was much welcomed.
Can't help on the pinnatifida seed, I'm afraid although agree that dry storage doesn't sound like a good idea for them. I've just sown some seed of Eranthis longistipata received from Vlastimil Pilous so will be interested to see how they do.
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I’m posting here in anticip.....ation of everyone in the northern hemisphere’s Eranthis pics for 2021!
I’m also wondering whether anyone has had much luck with E. pinnatifida from seed? Given my location (Tas, Aus) seed ex are really my only chance of sourcing. I imagine dry storage = death for these seeds, does this sound right? I have had some luck coaxing E. hyemalis out of dormancy after a good 9m of dry storage.
Apples and oranges?
Matt,
I was lucky enough to get E. pinnatifida seeds from the January 2019 seedex. I treated them with GA3, as I have found that this works well on dried eranthis seeds. However, nothing germinated in spring 2020. I have my fingers crossed that they will germinate soon.... but somehow, I doubt it!
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Eranthis hyemalis 'Noël Ayres'
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Eranthis hyemalis 'Schwefelglanz'
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Eranthis hyemalis 'Zitronenfalter'
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Eranthis pinnatifida
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Sowed my ripe Eranthis pinnatifida seed in April 2019 and they germinated at the end of
January 2020. The second picture is from today and the young plants look quite promising.
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Those are looking good! It makes a big difference to germination with very fresh seeds, I think.
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Eranthis hyemalis, double form, grown from seeds from Rick Lupp.
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Eranthis fans may appreciate the opportunity to hear a talk by Wim Boens (as per https://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2014Jan291391022895IRG49.pdf ). Wim writes ""... everyone (from all over the world) is welcome. During this 1h long talk, I’ll be focusing on two of my favourite genera (Eranthis and Leucojum), but I’ll discuss many other Winter and Spring flowers which combine well with Galanthus too." I have posted details in Events here: https://www.srgc.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=18327.0
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Wim's talk was excellent with some lovely images of desirable plants, so of course the shopping list is now even longer...
This is Eranthis hyemalis 'Clare Swales', some scent but not as strongly honey-fragrant as Pauline.
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This is Eranthis hyemalis 'Clare Swales', some scent but not as strongly honey-fragrant as Pauline.
Fragrant Eranthis sounds interesting. Although might require me having to bend down so far I may never get up again! ;D
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Eranthis x tubergenii ‘Sachsengold’
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Eranthis hyemalis 'Noël Ayres'
Eranthis hyemalis 'Schwefelglanz'
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Lovely barer of spring.
Today was first time I saw them open here in Sweden. I have not seen cultivars spread as the normal so difficult to determine how different these are from a distance. Up close I see the difference but these plants are to be loved in bulk and from distance I think.
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Eranthis hyemalis 'Noël Ayres'
Eranthis hyemalis 'Schwefelglanz'
Spring has arrived !!
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Eranthis hyemalis
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Eranthis 'Guinea Gold'
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Eranthis hyemalis 'Schwefelglanz'
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Eranthis hyemalis Flora Plena
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Once again I don't know what Eranthis I have:(.
These all came in the same bag as E.hyemalis.
The first one is E.hyemalis, and the second one is E.cilicica, I think.
But what is the third one? It has much darker/browner leaves than the first one, and it has also set seeds last year (while around the two first ones there are no seedlings).
It is also a little different shade of yellow, more golden, than the first E.hyemalis. Difficult to see today when flowers were closed but obvious yesterday in sunshine.
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Lena, nice to see early spring again. About Eranthis you should reread this article :
https://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2014Jan291391022895IRG49.pdf
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Thanks Herman, that is a good article:). Green leaf E.hyemalis and E.cilicica are clear, but the brown leaf one is unclear to me. If it is E. x tubergenii, I didn't think it could form seeds,
but x tubergenii can be fertile? Or can there be different leaf coloured E.hyemalis and it is still just another form of E.hyemalis? All these flower at the same time now, E.cilicica started a few days later than the other ones.
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Eranthis x tubergenii ´Sachsengold´is a fertile seed-strain, and Yours may belong to these. That was a very worthwhile bag You bought! :)
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Mariette, thank you! My plants must be something like that, because they come up brown, and leaves are different colour than normal hyemalis. And golden colour matches 'Sachsengold'. Maybe these are seedlings of it from big commercial growers, and found their way to cheap bag of Eranthis, especially when in the same bag there was all three sorts of Eranthis. It was a bargain. :)
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In my garden, Eranthis x tubergenii ´Sachsengold´already set seed. The plant top left was acquired in 2017 under that name, the plant to the right is already a chance -seedling which flowered for the first time this year. Below is a piece of a plant from elderly friends which they got as "fertile Eranthis x tubegenii" before the seed strain was named ´Sachsengold´for commercial purpose. These clones, which prolifically set seed compared with Eranthis hyemalis, differ slightly and are offered wholesale by the hundreds.
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These clones, which prolifically set seed compared with Eranthis hyemalis, differ slightly and are offered wholesale by the hundreds.
Thank you Mariette, mine must be just one of them!
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This was the first year I have seen flowers from seed grown. Wondering the best way to collect seeds?
I use empty tea bags and staple ends to collect seeds from Hellebore's, suppose I could do that.
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That's as good a way as any, Guff.
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Maggi. thanks.
A couple years ago I had bought 10 bulbs each of two different types of Eranthis and they never showed above ground. Seeing flowers for the first time, they are nice plants and the honey bees seem to like them. Thought I would grow more from seed.
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Got a few different ones and they flowered well
Yesterday I saw that 1 of the plants had strange black spots on two of the leaves
I tried to wash it away but it did not go away totally
Anyone know what it is?
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Yes, sadly! It is a fungal infection, Urocystis eranthidis (Winter Aconite Smut) Spores of all of the smut species can contaminate the soil for long periods of time. There are no fungicides available for the control of smut diseases for amateurs in the UK. Best to dig up and dispose of infected plants (and surrounding soil) to prevent it spreading to the rest of your collection.
I moved county and so far that has been successful!
These were in Suffolk;
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Thanks for the info Gail
I removed the affected foliage and later I removed other foliage that got damaged a few weeks later. I will continue to look out for any more sign of any black spots. It is my only plant of the sort so would like to keep if there is any chance. There are a lot of the normal plants around here and never seen any infected before.
If more tendency I will remove the plant and the soil around it.