Early bulbs 2012

[Maggi Young]

You're right, Maggi, normally they bloom here in the end of February. It's allready springtime here in Vlaanderen.

I'm thinking that with your Crocus pictures, too, Frankie 

It makes my heart sing when crocus season is here! 

[TC]

My large bowl of K.Hodgkin has flowered at last.  Much as I like them in the garden, they are too low growing to see without the effort of getting down to ground level.  The problem then is how to get up again !!

[David Nicholson]

Nice pot full Tom. I do struggle with reticulate Irises. If I grow them outside they seem to flower once and die and if I grow them under glass they flower once and then break down into rice grains.

My one and only Eranthis hyemalis in the garden is in flower but doesn't seem to bulk up for me and I've had it for three years now. I bought ten tubers of E. cilicicum last autumn and potted them up, after soaking them, and kept them outside but so far nothing showing in any of the pots. Are they usually later than hyemails?

[Maggi Young]

Eranthis cilicicum are later with us here, David.

[Hagen Engelmann]

Here is a new Eranthis hiemalis, called WINTERZAUBER. It should be the first of all.
But how, if the ground is frozen. This year the ground is frostfree.
And yes,
he blooms really weeks before all the others.

[David Nicholson]

Eranthis cilicicum are later with us here, David.

You've restored my faith Maggi.

Nice one Hagen.

[TC]

 

author=David Nicholson link=topic=8291.msg226894#msg226894 date=1327073076]
Nice pot full Tom. I do struggle with reticulate Irises. If I grow them outside they seem to flower once and die and if I grow them under glass they flower once and then break down into rice grains.

In reticulate iris, Kath. Hodgkin seems to be the only variety that flowers reliably, both in situ and in pots.  I have a couple of small groups in the garden that have now been flowering regularly for 10 years.  The same can be said for those in pots.  What I do not understand is why the pots,(which are protected from the weather), flower at exactly the same time as those in the garden.
My success with other varieties is mixed.  They flower well in the first year and then the next year produce leaves.  Then the next year they may produce the odd flower and then they disappear.

I have made a mess of posting this  - it looks as if all the message came from David, whereas I was trying to reply to his original posting.  Is this clear?


edit by maggi... I think it is now!

[art600]

Maybe this should be the start of Fritillaria 2012

Two pots of the same Iranian fritillaria - think it might be assyriaca

[YT]

Acis tingitana SB&L 202 (Checaouan, Morocco), from Monocot Nursery. Its flower stalks are shorter than SB&L 203

[ronm]

A lovely little Frit, Art. Is this the one you collected the seed of yourself? How is it doing at the moment? Maybe an update pic?

[fermi de Sousa]

Acis tingitana SB&L 202 (Checaouan, Morocco), from Monocot Nursery. Its flower stalks are shorter than SB&L 203

That's a sweetie, Tatsuo.
We have Acis autumnalis in bloom here (Southern Hemisphere) at the moment!
cheers
fermi

[YT]

Thanks, femi
This tiny acis is the one of my most favorites