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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Hans J on March 09, 2014, 05:29:37 PM

Title: which bulb plant is this ?
Post by: Hans J on March 09, 2014, 05:29:37 PM

Hi all ,

today by a walk I saw in a old neglectet garden a plant which was new for me ...
Maybe anybody knows it ?
It was around 30 -35 cm high - flowers pale blue ( with a little fragrance )
On the same place grows Gal.nivalis ( flowers finished ) and Anemone nemorosa ( flowering now )
This bulb plant reminds me a little on a big Scilla ...but which ?
In my garden flowering in this time S.bifolia + S.sibirica ...but they are much smaller
Hyacinthoides non-scripta and Hyacinthoides hispanica are later ..

Thank you in advance
Hans

Title: Re: which bulb plant is this ?
Post by: Matt T on March 09, 2014, 05:32:30 PM

Is it the Roman Hyacinth, Hyacinthus orientalis?

Title: Re: which bulb plant is this ?
Post by: Maggi Young on March 09, 2014, 05:39:50 PM

That's what I was going to suggest, Matt - but I call it  Hyacinthus orientalis var. albulus...........

Title: Re: which bulb plant is this ?
Post by: Hans J on March 09, 2014, 08:26:55 PM

Thank you Matt and Maggi

Thats a interesting ID  :D
I had for a short moment also the idea with Hyacinthus ( when I noted the fragrance ) but I know only Hycinthus from garden Centers ...and they look really different  ::)

Interesting that this plants can grow here without any protection many years in the wild !

Hans

Title: Re: which bulb plant is this ?
Post by: Maggi Young on March 09, 2014, 08:36:59 PM

Yes, marvelous that these old species can survive.  Quite a journey to breed the florist's fat hyacinths from these dainty flowers, too, eh?

Title: Re: which bulb plant is this ?
Post by: partisangardener on March 15, 2014, 07:27:24 PM

I have some in pure white. Could you ask for some bulb to swap with my white one. Mine sets no seed because its only one clone. I have already crossed it with a blue one. But this light blue will probably be nearer to my white form.

http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=4707.msg127707#msg127707 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=4707.msg127707#msg127707)
They are now very prolific here. I take them up every second year and plant the bulbs again separate.

Title: Re: which bulb plant is this ?
Post by: Hans J on March 16, 2014, 08:30:06 AM

I can nothing promise Axel ...