Janis Ruksans plant collection -mostly bulbs March 2021

[Maggi Young]

Iris reticulata seedling-  of huge size - 1.5 times larger by flower size and by height than any other reticulata iris known by me.


Iris rosenbachiana from Harangon


Iris rosenbachiana Varzob


Iris sisianica - unique between reticulatas as forming side growing stolones with large bulbs at tips. Found in Armenia by Dima Zubov and Leonid Bondarenko.

 Iris sisianica Zubov & Bondarenko, Int. Rock Gard. 99: [23] (2018).  Iris sisianica described by Zubov and Bondarenko in the IRG for March 2018   http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2018Mar291522354177IRG100.pdf



Iris stenophylla RIGA-017 - Turkey

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Hybrid from Crocus gramensis pollinated with C. cf. veluchensis from Serbia 
( edit by maggi : oh, a Crocus sneaked in!)


Iris svetlaneae hybrid from  bee pollinated seeds of Iris svetlaneae


Iris willmottiana from Kara-tau mountains


Iris winogradowii is almost extinct in the wild. Those are seedlings from original stock presented to me (Janis)  by Dr. George Rodionenko.


Iris winogradowii - the first flower opening   on 15 th march

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Iris zagrica - from Zagros Mountains, Iran - from locus classicus


John Grimshaw's  selection of Crocus tommasinianus


Muscari sp. WHIR-036 - collected as M. leucostomum in Iran, on Kuh-e Hazar Masjed ridge, between Emam Qoli and Kabkan, after the  pass  at 1670m


Last flowers of Iris pskemense



Muscari polyanthum - regarded by some as synonym of M. armeniacum but  it is very different - forming much wider leaves only in spring and growing in different ecological conditions

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Most unusual and most beautiful form of Muscari cf. discolor named as "sausage form"


Muscari discolor sausage form - pity, I lost origin of this unusual beauty. Label was lost and can't find in my files from where it came and where it was collected.



Narcissus calcicola 15PTS-002 from Portugal


This beautiful wild hybrid named as  Narcissus x susannae was collected in Portugal


New in my collection Ficaria verna Aurantiacus

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Scilla cf. caucasica from Georgia and Armenia has very dark, purplish shaded leaves - could be new species


Puschkinia bilgineri published by Turkish botanists and only 12 days later by  me as P. kurdica


Puschkinia scilloides alba 14ARM-042 - from Armenia


Puschkinia scilloides from Alaverdi, Armenia


Puschkinia scilloides from Hustup, Armenia

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Ranunculus ficaria Alba Plena


Romulea bulbocodium 12-001B from near vil. Ossa, Vertisko Ridge, Greek Macedonia


Romulea bulbocodium ENE Larissa, Greece


Romulea bulbocodium from Karpathos Island, Greece


Romulea clusiana from Morocco

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Romulea crocea from Turkey was the first Romulea sp. seen by me in wild.


Romulea sp. from Karpathos Island Greece


Scilla bifolia JATU-010 from Turkey


Scilla bifolia R2CV-057 - Turkey


Scilla hohenackeri

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Scilla leepii BATM-278 - Turkey


Scilla libanotica from N of Beirut Lebanon


Scilla mischtenkoana from heights over Megri, Armenia - earliest of Scillas. Thank you, Dima!


Scilla siberica Alba - from Ukraine 2


Scilla siberica Alba - from Ukraine, slightly pinkish toned and much earlier than Dutch Scilla siberica Alba

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Spring blooming Colchicums


Sternbergia fischeriana - Armenia Karabah


Tulipa biflora aff 12KZ-059 from Kazahstan, S end of Dzhungarian Alatau. Very salted soils, desert. alt. 879 m.


Tulipa kaufmanniana seedling with semi-double flowers -Latvian Juris Egle  raised Tulipa kaufmanniana seedling with semi-double flowers - 'Pārsteigums'


Tulipa kurdica - from Iraq Kurdistan

[Tristan_He]

Thanks for posting these beauties Maggi. Do you know is Janis still selling to the UK? Between Brexit and the Latvian business regulations it's quite hard to work out whether we can order anything, and if so when!