Miscellaneous spring bulbs 2012

RickR wrote:

A wonderful start to a new thread for the year.

That Fritillaria raddeana is very healthy and vigorous!  (As are all your bulbs!)   When I planted seed of this species (and closely realated frits), I was very surprised at their huge size!  The seedlings have a long way to go, and I don't think they are nearly as happy. :-\

Thanks Rick,

about that F. raddeana: it's been in my garden for 3 years now and this year it's flowering in January (the two last years it flowered in March) on a stalk of only 30 cm heigh, while normally it flowers on a stem of at least 50 cm! Probably because of the strange winter we've been having!

Hoy wrote:

Wim, when do you work? With a garden and plants like that I hadn't remembered to go to my job.

I'm unemployed for the moment  :'( So I have time to photograph my plants :-\ and study some languages (something I love a lot too) in between looking for a job!

Hoy wrote:

WimB wrote:

Hoy wrote:

Wim, when do you work? With a garden and plants like that I hadn't remembered to go to my job.

I'm unemployed for the moment  :'( So I have time to photograph my plants :-\ and study some languages (something I love a lot too) in between looking for a job!

Oh so sorry to hear that! But anyway you are lucky to have a nice garden to enjoy while waiting for a job! I thought maybe you were a kind of gardener whose job was his hobby too ;)

I wish, but no such luck  ;) ;)

Great start to spring! Still months away here, even if it hasn't felt like it ;)

cohan wrote:

Great start to spring! Still months away here, even if it hasn't felt like it ;)

It was a great start but yesterday it started snowing here, we have a layer of about 10 cm of snow now and temperature went down to - 12°C last night!
I think a lot of plants will have had a shock!

Oops! So you got some of that cold weather after all! We will get a couple of colder days this week, but only closer to normal, nothing serious, then back warmer again.. Hope your cold weather, and elsewhere in Europe, does not last!

Hoy wrote:

We also got 10cm of snow yesterday! But the coldest so far in my garden is -7C. As long as the fjord is open it usually doesn't get colder here. But they have had -37C on the other side of the mountains!

Thank goodness for open water! -37C would not be record breaking for us at this time of year, but the lowest we will see this week is -6day/-15C night, with most days above freezing this week.. normal is -4day/-17C night.. so this is very warm for us...

cohan wrote:

Oops! So you got some of that cold weather after all! We will get a couple of colder days this week, but only closer to normal, nothing serious, then back warmer again.. Hope your cold weather, and elsewhere in Europe, does not last!

Hope so too, but they predict temperatures won't rise above freezing before next Saturday.

Hoy wrote:

We also got 10cm of snow yesterday! But the coldest so far in my garden is -7C. As long as the fjord is open it usually doesn't get colder here. But they have had -37C on the other side of the mountains!

cohan wrote:

Thank goodness for open water! -37C would not be record breaking for us at this time of year, but the lowest we will see this week is -6day/-15C night, with most days above freezing this week.. normal is -4day/-17C night.. so this is very warm for us...

You guys really live in a freezer ;)
Normally we don't get temperatures that go as low as they are now in Belgium (and most certainly not in West-Flanders (where I live) since it's the province which is nearest to the sea)
But I'm not complaining, I can deal a lot better with cold temperatures than with high temperatures....it's just a shame for the plants

So we'll wait a little longer for the next set of spring bulbs.. unless some of our British friends are staying warmer...

cohan wrote:

So we'll wait a little longer for the next set of spring bulbs.. unless some of our British friends are staying warmer...

I guess not, Cohan. Great-Britain has been hit by the snow too!

:(

Nothoscordum felipponei, (Ipheion dialystemon)

No winter here yet,just two nights frost at-2c, all spring flowers are in full bloom.

Michael wrote:

No winter here yet,just two nights frost at-2c, all spring flowers are in full bloom.

Nice to know someone is getting spring! Still mostly very mild  here- but I don't think you'd find our mild, mild by your standards...lol

Narcissus cyclamineus
Narcissus pseudonarcissus
Narcissus obvallaris
Narcissus bulbocodium filifolius- that's what is says on the label  :-\

Hyacinthella dalmatica is starting to show it's color over here!

Very nice, Wim!  It looks like a really tiny thing, perfect for a trough.
Beautiful sunny narcissus, Michael!

Lori wrote:

Very nice, Wim!  It looks like a really tiny thing, perfect for a trough.
Beautiful sunny narcissus, Michael!

Only 5 cm high, Lori..growing in a trough indeed!

Narcissus obesus x triand
Narcissus obesus x triand

Narcissus minor Douglasbank

Romulea bulbocodium

Some Eranthis are flowering here now:

Eranthis hyemalis
Eranthis hyemalis 'Schwefelglanz'
Eranthis hyemalis 'Grünling'
Eranthis hyemalis 'Schlyters Orange'
and Eranthis x tubergenii 'Guinea Gold'

Hoy wrote:

Always nice to see these "sunny" flowers bloom. I have tried winter aconite in my garden several times but they disappear after a year or two - I suspect slugs. Have some in my garden now planted last fall. Hope they'll survive some years!
I had some of the whiteflowered E pinnatifida for several years but they started dwindling when we had a couple of very dry springs - I grew them at a somewhat dry place too to avoid the slugs :'(

I really love these plants, Trond. They bring very early color and over here they are quite easy and perfectly hardy. I've never had a slug or snail eating these plants and I have a lot in the garden (slugs and snails, I mean). Maybe Belgian slugs don't like Eranthis  :rolleyes:
E. pinnatifida can only stand dry weather after it has lost it's leaves, indeed!

Michael, is the Romulea in the open garden or greenhouse?
Wim, like the Eranthis :) I've sown seed of a couple, hope they show up this year :) Is  'Schwefelglanz' a different colour as it appears?

cohan wrote:

Is  'Schwefelglanz' a different colour as it appears?

Cohan, over here 'Schwefelglanz' appears in the colour as you see on the picture, but it turns whiter as it ages!

Thanks, Wim- nice one, then!

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Michael, is the Romulea in the open garden or greenhouse?

The bulbocodium are outside although I keep a few in a pot as well, all the others are in pots in the greenhouse. Had a lot of them outside but they were getting weedy and popping up everywhere so I keep them in pots for control. Difficult to weed out when they get into good soil.

This is the earliest flowering Chionodixa (now moved to Scilla) luciliae Valentine's Day. Only a week late!

Nice one, Palustris :)

Michael- I guess that pot full of Romulea  looks like it could be a pretty eager plant in the right conditions, so I see why you might need to keep in under wraps!

Erythronium dens-canis 'Rose Queen' and Scoliopus bigelovii are starting to flower over here!

WimB wrote:

Erythronium dens-canis 'Rose Queen' and Scoliopus bigelovii are starting to flower over here!

Nothing is nicer than Erythroniums :) and Scoliopus are very cool!

cohan wrote:

WimB wrote:

Erythronium dens-canis 'Rose Queen' and Scoliopus bigelovii are starting to flower over here!

Nothing is nicer than Erythroniums :) and Scoliopus are very cool!

I have to agree with that!

Hoy wrote:

...the Trilliums are showing up now :)

They are over here too, Trond!

The proof that Eranthis hyemalis can be quite weedy when it likes the place where it grows

I sowed some Eranthis last year or the year before (my solution to impatience is to not pay too much attention!).. hope I may be able to achieve weedy some day!

cohan wrote:

(my solution to impatience is to not pay too much attention!)

;D ;D

cohan wrote:

hope I may be able to achieve weedy some day!

It takes some time, but it will happen...