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Specific Families and Genera => Amaryllidaceae => Topic started by: Alex on January 21, 2011, 10:39:00 PM

Title: Sternbergia 2011
Post by: Alex on January 21, 2011, 10:39:00 PM

Sternbergia candida from the late Jim Archibald's collection.

Title: Re: Sternbergia 2011
Post by: Maren on January 21, 2011, 11:37:42 PM

Alex,
that's so beautiful. thank you for showing it to us. :) :)

Title: Re: Sternbergia 2011
Post by: Maggi Young on January 22, 2011, 11:02:51 AM

A beauty, Alex... these white flowers are so lovely... I hope you've had your nose in there for a sniff of the  scent?




Moving this to the Amaryllidaceae thread........ :)

Title: Re: Sternbergia 2011
Post by: Maggi Young on January 22, 2011, 11:03:33 AM

test

Title: Re: Sternbergia 2011
Post by: Hans A. on January 22, 2011, 06:11:01 PM

Beautiful plant and picture Alex!

Title: Re: Sternbergia 2011
Post by: Gerry Webster on January 22, 2011, 08:16:04 PM

Very nice Alex & early. It will be a week or more before my plants are in flower but looking very promising at present.

Title: Re: Sternbergia 2011
Post by: Alex on January 22, 2011, 08:57:17 PM

I've got another form which I've had for at least 4 years but which is only now flowering - it seems to be better shaped, but reluctant to open properly!

Title: Re: Sternbergia 2011
Post by: Lesley Cox on January 22, 2011, 09:20:10 PM

My single bulb has wider petals and does open fully and I endorse Maggi's hope that you've sniffed it Alex. It is delicious. :)

Title: Re: Sternbergia 2011
Post by: Gerry Webster on February 03, 2011, 02:13:09 PM

Sternbergia candida

Title: Re: Sternbergia 2011
Post by: Lesley Cox on February 03, 2011, 07:17:33 PM

That's a beautiful patch Gerry. I can almost smell them from here. I hope my single bulbs does so well and increases nicely.

Title: Re: Sternbergia 2011
Post by: Gerry Webster on February 03, 2011, 07:32:25 PM

Quote from: Lesley Cox on February 03, 2011, 07:17:33 PM

That's a beautiful patch Gerry. I can almost smell them from here. I hope my single bulbs does so well and increases nicely.

So do I Lesley. This lot started as a single bulb 16 years ago.

Title: Re: Sternbergia 2011
Post by: krisderaeymaeker on February 03, 2011, 07:38:46 PM

Quote from: Gerry Webster on February 03, 2011, 02:13:09 PM

Sternbergia candida

Great show Gerry !  Grow candida now for two years but he did'nt flower yet . :(

Title: Re: Sternbergia 2011
Post by: Gerry Webster on February 03, 2011, 08:13:00 PM

Quote from: krisderaeymaeker on February 03, 2011, 07:38:46 PM

Quote from: Gerry Webster on February 03, 2011, 02:13:09 PM

Sternbergia candida

Great show Gerry !  Grow candida now for two years but he did'nt flower yet . :(

Thanks Kris. Try heavy feeding with high potash fertilizer + hot & dry during summer.

Title: Re: Sternbergia 2011
Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on February 03, 2011, 09:56:29 PM

A breathtaking view Gerry !!!  :o :o :D

Title: Re: Sternbergia 2011
Post by: tonyg on February 03, 2011, 11:22:16 PM

Quote from: Gerry Webster on February 03, 2011, 02:13:09 PM

Sternbergia candida

Very impressed - put me on the list for a swap if you see anything of mine that you like the look of.

Title: Re: Sternbergia 2011
Post by: Hans A. on February 05, 2011, 05:28:01 PM

Fantastic Gerry  :o - wish mine would make a similar show as yours!

Title: Re: Sternbergia 2011
Post by: Gerry Webster on February 05, 2011, 08:13:23 PM

Thanks Hans. However, I believe you grow yours in the open garden. Mine are permanently under glass (plastic) which probably helps.

Title: Re: Sternbergia 2011
Post by: Hans J on February 06, 2011, 11:46:00 AM

now after some weeks of cold and not any sun we have here a little spring  :D

So I could now make some pics today from my Sternbergia fischeriana

I have have to say a big "Thank You" to a nice person on this forum - not only for the bulbs ...
Some very good advices how to grow this bulbs was very helpfull ( I have also a other pot with St. fischeriana but it has flowerd only one time before some years ....)
The "secret" for this plants are really deep pots ( I grow it in a pot for roses : 12 x 12 x 20)
Maybe I should repot my St. candida also in such a pot in summer ....

Hans 8)

Title: Re: Sternbergia 2011
Post by: Gerry Webster on February 06, 2011, 12:54:53 PM

Hans - very nice to see these (& great photos). Thanks.

Title: Re: Sternbergia 2011
Post by: Hans J on February 06, 2011, 01:09:47 PM

Thank you Gerry !

I give back your compliment to you for your wonderful St. candida ....I hope one day it will flower also for me  :-\

Hans

Title: Re: Sternbergia 2011
Post by: Renate Brinkers on February 06, 2011, 07:44:01 PM

Hans,

congratulations! A really nice Sternbergia and you can see really differences between S.fisheriana and other Sternbergias.

Title: Re: Sternbergia 2011
Post by: Hans J on February 06, 2011, 08:03:47 PM

Renate 

:D  danke !

Title: Re: Sternbergia 2011
Post by: angie on February 06, 2011, 09:39:55 PM

Hans who needs sun when you have such lovely sunny flowers, real beauties.

Angie :)

Title: Re: Sternbergia 2011
Post by: pehe on February 11, 2011, 11:24:22 AM

Gerry and Hans,

It is a pleasure to see such nice and well grown candida and fischeriana at this time of year!
You have given us a good start of the Sternbergia season.
I have candida in buds  :), but the light level in my green house is too low so the flower stalks are rather long.
I will post pictures in a few days. My fischeriana has only leaves  :(. I hope for flowers next year.

Poul

Title: Re: Sternbergia 2011
Post by: Paul T on February 12, 2011, 09:54:03 AM

Wow, those Sternbergia candida are amazing.  I've tried a bulb once, rotted it out before it ever did anything, and have never been game to try it again. ::)  I didn't realise they were perfumed as well.  That clump of Gerry's is so beautiful.

Congrats to Hans J on flowering the fischeriana!  Well done. 8)

Title: Re: Sternbergia 2011
Post by: BULBISSIME on February 14, 2011, 08:59:54 PM

I'm jealous...
never succeed to get single flower since many years....

Title: Re: Sternbergia 2011
Post by: PeterT on February 15, 2011, 06:38:21 PM

Quote from: BULBISSIME on February 14, 2011, 08:59:54 PM

I'm jealous...
never succeed to get single flower since many years....

so am I Fred  :-X