Miscellaneous spring bulbs

[Todd Boland]

Figured there weren't enough Chionodoxa species to warrant their own thread so this one can include the miscellaneous spring bulbs.  This is my first Chionodoxa forbesii (luciliae) of the season.

[Hoy]

Figured there weren't enough Chionodoxa species to warrant their own thread so this one can include the miscellaneous spring bulbs.  This is my first Chionodoxa forbesii (luciliae) of the season.

Nice plants! Here Chionodoxa, Scilla (incl. former Scillas), Muscari, tulips, daffodils, Corydalis and different early dicots have replaced Crocus.

[Lori S.]

The chionodoxa are starting to bloom here too, seemingly very early.
Puschkinia libanotica, seeding freely all over the yard, and a white version of same.

[Todd Boland]

Like that white version!

[Hoy]

Hyacinthella libanotica (or is it something else?) Anyway it is a sure bloomer every year.

[McDonough]

Hyacinthella libanotica (or is it something else?) Anyway it is a sure bloomer every year.

Trond, beautiful azure color on that one. 

As you'll probably hear over and over from me, I'm drawn to blue flowers, azure to pale blue; hope to post a photo in a day or two (although rain is predicted for the next couple days, after a LONG stretch of sunny weather) of a baby blue one; actually more of an ice blue one, Triteleia grandiflora var. howellii.

[Todd Boland]

Trond, I think your Muscari is M. azureum (good call on the 'azure blooms' Mark!)

[Hoy]

Trond, I think your Muscari is M. azureum (good call on the 'azure blooms' Mark!)

Is Muscari azureum synonymus with Hyacinthella libanotica?

[Todd Boland]

From my googling, seems like it might well be...I'll have to investigate this further.

[Todd Boland]

Trond, Muscari azureum is indeed now Hyacinthella azurea...I found no reference to it being H. libanotica.

Here is Chionodoxa forbesii 'Pink Giant' I planted in a rock nook at the BG.  Its been here 10 years now!

[Hoy]

Trond, Muscari azureum is indeed now Hyacinthella azurea...I found no reference to it being H. libanotica.

OK, thanks.

Here is Chionodoxa forbesii 'Pink Giant' I planted in a rock nook at the BG.  Its been here 10 years now!

This is nice! I have always placed those bulbs in the turf but they seem to flourish in crevices too!

[RickR]

Spring Beauties (Claytonia virginica).

And a nice, heavily colored form.

[Hoy]

C. virginica seems to be a tidier plant than the coarse C. sibirica I have! (not blooming yet)

[Todd Boland]

Much tidier than siberica indeed!  My siberica have now moved into the lawn!

[RickR]

Claytonia virginica disappears rather quickly as the season progresses, and is truly ephemeral.  Of the two sources of C. sibirica I grew from seed last year, yours, Todd, were the only ones that survived the winter.  Although, a few of those croaked too.  Even of the ones I held over in pots, Todd's were the only survivors.  I do see volunteer seedlings in the garden (and in pots) already.

My original Spring Beauties came accidentally with the root ball of a tulip tree I brought from a friend's place in Chicago.  Over the years, Claytonia virginica has jumped over a lawn section in favor of another bare piece of ground under a Sambucus nigra 'Laciniata', and has established there.