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Title: Puschkinia 2011
Post by: mark smyth on March 16, 2011, 08:50:24 PM: not Scillas but I would like comments on a couple of Pushkinias in my garden. They are seeding nicely and I have two really good plants that appeared last year. The flowers are much larger, more of them and flower much earlier. They are at their best right now while the others are just showing buds. I've added a normal blue from last year just for comparisson

Are they worth chipping?
Title: Puschkinia 2011
Post by: David Nicholson on March 16, 2011, 08:55:19 PM: Quote from: mark smyth on March 16, 2011, 08:50:24 PM

Are they worth chipping?

I agree Mark, they are nice little plants. I would have thought it wasn't worth the effort of chipping them as they can be so chesap to buy. For example I got mine from a local garden centre a couple of years ago where, because they had finished flowering, they had been chucked on the sale table at two pots for 50p.
Title: Puschkinia 2011
Post by: Tony Willis on March 16, 2011, 09:04:39 PM: Thank you I think it is nice but as you will see it has not been prolific in its increase in eighteen years
Title: Puschkinia 2011
Post by: mark smyth on March 16, 2011, 09:05:53 PM: You've missed what I'm asking. I have 100s in the garden but I now have two that are larger, with larger flowers that flower earlier
Title: Puschkinia 2011
Post by: daveyp1970 on March 16, 2011, 09:13:30 PM: Quote from: mark smyth on March 16, 2011, 08:50:24 PM
not Scillas but I would like comments on a couple of Pushkinias in my garden. They are seeding nicely and I have two really good plants that appeared last year. The flowers are much larger, more of them and flower much earlier. They are at their best right now while the others are just showing buds. I've added a normal blue from last year just for comparisson

Are they worth chipping?
I would Mark,thats a lovely white,think of me when you have a spare.
Title: Puschkinia 2011
Post by: bulborum on March 16, 2011, 09:19:58 PM: Mark does it come true from seed
as many Pushkinias do ??

Roland
Title: Puschkinia 2011
Post by: mark smyth on March 16, 2011, 09:22:37 PM: Roland and Davey, yes.
Title: Puschkinia 2011
Post by: bulborum on March 16, 2011, 09:25:57 PM: So why chipping
seeds are faster and cheaper
Title: Puschkinia 2011
Post by: mark smyth on March 16, 2011, 09:30:07 PM: Roland it because these are the best that have appeared. Their seeds may not be as good as the parents

They open from cream buds. I must look tomorrow and see what colour the smaller whites open from
Title: Puschkinia 2011
Post by: bulborum on March 16, 2011, 09:40:36 PM: Looks very good
for sure an improvement
Title: Puschkinia 2011
Post by: mark smyth on March 16, 2011, 09:41:45 PM: Quote from: bulborum on March 16, 2011, 09:19:58 PM
Mark does it come true from seed as many Pushkinias do ??
Roland

Roland it is a Puschkinia - P. libonata

I think it's too misleading what I have done. Maybe Maggi will move it.
Title: Puschkinia 2011
Post by: fermi de Sousa on March 17, 2011, 08:16:44 AM: Quote from: mark smyth on March 16, 2011, 09:30:07 PM

They open from cream buds. I must look tomorrow and see what colour the smaller whites open from
They look good - I guess they would only need green inners to make them perfect! ;D
cheers
fermi