Epimedium 2012

[RickR]

I had hoped someone would pipe up with a well educated guess.

Thanks, Mark.

[gerrit]

#1 and #2.Epimedium stellulatum 'Long leaf form'
#3 and #4.Epimedium x youngianum 'Beni-Kujaku'.

[ErnieC123]

I like all the pictures you have made!

Here a some pictures from my Epimedium, i hope you also like them.

First picture is from E. acuminatum


This is E. 'Akebono'


E.fargesii 'Pink Constellation'


Close-up from 'Fire Dragon'


A type of E.grdfl.ssp.koreanum


An other type of E.grdfl.ssp.koreanum (big flowers)


E.grdfl. 'Creeping Yellow'


E.myrianthum (this leaves let me dream of an perfect cultivar)


E.grdfl.var.higoene 'Bandit'  (It grows quiet well , Hoy)


E.pauciflorum


And now i want to say something about E.pallidum! I ask somebody about this mystery plantname.
Breader is Mr.Pagels (Germany) and it should be different to E.versicolor 'Sulphureum' and may be a seedling of that!
I don't know quiet well, but i will plant them next to each other and try to compare!

Maybe later i send other pictures of some Epimedium! And i love to see more pictures from you all!

The new gardenvision catalog is really nice :-) But the prices aren't nice :-(

[ErnieC123]

I am sorry ! I mean Gerrit with the 'Bandit'!

[ErnieC123]

So here are some other Epimedium

A new one :E.grdfl. 'Kotobuki'


E.omeiense 'Akame'


E.omeiense 'Stormcloud' (i like it so much)


E.Seedling


E.Seedling


E.stellulatum 'Wudang Star' (where is the difference to the long leave form??? is it a big difference?)


E.sutchuense


E.'William T Stearn'


and two pictures of my mosted loved E.grandiflorum
'Freya' also called 'Nanum Violaceum'



And an other question from me: Why do some Epimedium seem not to flower this year? (for example : E.grdfl. 'Red Beauty' , E.macrosepalum)

[gerrit]

Some great species you grow in your garden. Most of all I like E. 'Fire Dragon', a cross between 'davidii x leptorrhizum by Robin White. A super plant with two-tone flowers. Very floriferous. Lost mine during last winter by extreme frost of - 23 in a trogue.
Another fine species, E.fargesii 'Pink Constellation', a young plant, I can see. A great future for this excellent cultivar.
The 2 koreanum-types, I'm not familiar with it, so Mark will probably answer.
Another very good choose is E.gr.var.higoense 'Bandit'. Like 'Saturn' beautiful foliage and nice small white flowers. A good one for even the alpine-garden. Vulnerable because a little sunshine will damage or destroy the plant.
A surprise which occurred last week, the GVE catalogue arrived with a lot of new species and cultivars, but not for us Ernie. Prices and shipping are to expensive. So we can only dream of it.

[gerrit]

And an other question from me: Why do some Epimedium seem not to flower this year? (for example : E.grdfl. 'Red Beauty' , E.macrosepalum)

Your last question about flowering this year. I could asked the same question to you. Flowering on my E. this year is very irregular. I presume, due to the extreme weather conditions. !n March it was very hot. A Row of many days with temps of 20 degrees, so the plants developed stems with flowers to soon. After that a period with cold arrived a the development of flowers stopped.

[gerrit]

E.omeiense 'Stormcloud' (i like it so much)

E.stellulatum 'Wudang Star' (where is the difference to the long leave form??? is it a big difference?)

E.'William T Stearn

and two pictures of my mosted loved E.grandiflorum
'Freya' also called 'Nanum Violaceum'

Freya is a beautiful cultivar, you are definitely Wright. Deep purple flowers.
And William Stearn, a superb Epimedium.
About stellulatum 'Wudang Star'. The difference you can see in the 'long leaves' indeed.
Stormcloud, almost brown flowers. A rare colour. I like it very much as you do indeed.

[ErnieC123]

And weather is getting more worth next week for our Epimedium! Too hot for a long flower! I get disapointed now!

But i have forgoten E.wushanense nova


I like this one and enjoy it all day!

[Hoy]

And weather is getting more worth next week for our Epimedium! Too hot for a long flower! I get disapointed now!

But i have forgoten E.wushanense nova

I like this one and enjoy it all day!

I like them all! But if I should choose one, I would take E. fargesii! (Excuses to the others.)

I can't understand why Epimediums are so hard to get in Norway.

[WimB]

First some comments, then some pictures  

Mark,

I love your 'Bandit-hybrid', it's a lot better than 'Bandit' or 'Saturn'. (Btw Gerrit, 'Bandit' and 'Saturn' are quite easy over here, pics to follow, they aren't in flower yet!)
'Circe' is a superb cultivar. Daniëlle has it in her garden since last year...and it was to first one to catch my eye when I entered her nursery last week!

Gerrit,

I especially like your Japanese hybrids. 'Togen' and 'Ko Zakura' are stunning!

Ernie,

I love your E. acuminatum and 'Stormcloud'. I had never heard of E. grandiflorum 'Creeping Yellow' before...it looks to be a very pale yellow!
I've never seen a real Epimedium pallidum, all the one's I've ever seen, turned out to be E. x versicolor 'Sulphureum'. I hope you have the real one!

[WimB]

And now some pics, as promised:

Epimedium 'Akebono'
Epimedium 'Beni-Kujaku'
Epimedium grandiflorum 'Akagi Zakura'
Epimedium grandiflorum 'Freya'
Epimedium grandiflorum 'Lilafee'
Epimedium 'Hagoromo'
Epimedium 'Spine Tingler'
Epimedium x youngianum 'Hana Guruma'

[McDonough]

Hello fellow epimedium fans; much has been posted, the epimediums are looking superb, much to respond to.  But I promised myself  on this fabulous crisp sunny day, I will tear myself away from the forum and the processing of hundreds of photos, to go work in the garden instead.  But before I head out to the garden, I wanted to take a moment to comment on an ID.

#1 and #2.Epimedium stellulatum 'Long leaf form'
#3 and #4.Epimedium x youngianum 'Kozakura'

Gerrit, I believe there might be a mixup in the one labeled as E. x youngianum 'Kozakura'.  I believe the plant you show is actually E. x youngianum 'Beni-Kujaku'  (Wim shows a photo of this).  I am posting two photos of each variety to compare.  Kozakura is an odd one, with deciduous sepals and little open cups of pale lavender with the middle of each petal stained a deeper lavender-pink.  It's not very showy, more of a curiosity.  It's in flower now (photos taken today), whereas E. youngianum 'Beni-Kujaku' is one of the earliest to flower (well, at least here that's the case), fairly showy with lots of deep red-violet flowers, until the quick-to-appear second flush of leaves overtakes the flowers.

E. x youngianum 'Kozakura'


E. x youngianum 'Beni-Kujaku'


Love the E. stellulatum 'Long Leaf Form', I have put this one in my order to Garden Vision Epimediums; I currently have the regular form and it's a favorite.  More later

[WimB]

Very nice, that 'Ko Zakura', Mark...maybe I should buy that one too!

[McDonough]

Very nice, that 'Ko Zakura', Mark...maybe I should buy that one too!

Wim, where does one find the correct syntax of a Japanese cultivar name?  Everywhere I have looked, including the RHS Plant Finder, the cultivar name is listed simply as 'Kozakura', I have not seen it as 'Ko Zakura'.  Is there a reference for how the cultivar was first described?  Googling, it seems that 'Kozakura' is a Japanese surname.  Just curious, as I'm a stickler for details
http://apps.rhs.org.uk/rhsplantfinder/plantlist.asp?code=XPou+&name=Koen+Van+Poucke&id=2966