Acis/Leucojum 2012

[Menai]

Acis nicaense
I got these in 2006 and nearly managed to kill them in the first couple of years but seem to have found a watering regime that suits them.

Erle
Anglesey, overcast again after nearly a week of cloudless skies. Too warm in greenhouse.

[Lesley Cox]

I have two flowers out on Acis roseum today, the first to flower from seed sent by Rodger Whitlock in BC. I lost my established group about 4 years ago, I think just because they were too overgrown with other stuff. Anyway, I'm thrilled to have these replacements. Too small and wide apart to photograph successfully, I did notice that they have a delicious perfume on such little flowers. All the more reason to have a good clump and in a pot for ease of sniffing.

[bulborum]

Hello Ina

Am I missing a nice small picture
(you can upload in the moment with a free Photobucket account see: photobucket.com )
use the IMG code

Here I have an Acis in flower
which was in-between Acis roseum
But it is flowering now
and not in September as normal here with Acis roseum

Roland

[fermi de Sousa]

Acis tingitana in the rock garden this week
cheers
fermi

[Paul T]

Fermi,

So far ahead of mine.  Mine in their pot are maybe an inch high in leaf, that's all.  Has been a cold winter here, at least in average overnight minimums.

[pehe]

Here in the Northern hemisphere Acis rosea have started flowering in the greenhouse and acis autumnalis in the open garden.

Poul

[pehe]

Acis autumnalis is peeking now.

Poul

[pehe]

A few more Acis:

1, 2. Acis autumnalis
3. Acis rosea is still flowering. I have harvested the first seeds.

Poul

[julian]

Just thought I'd dig up growing bulbs of Acis trichophylla today. All of us who grow it will know how the offsets are crowded around the apex of the elongated bulb (first picture if I've managed this business right, taken when dormant in September). Three months later (second pic) those offsets have fallen away and are independent; new offsets are being produced and have leaves, but few or no roots. Dissecting a bulb shows that they are produced from the surface of a scale leaf (third picture), far from the basal plate. Unusual but not unique: think of the small 'bonus' bulbs which form away from the basal plate on some chips of Galanthus plicatus and some of its hybrids. And I've seen the same thing happen in damaged Nerine bulbs. What fun it all is!

[Maggi Young]

What fun it all is!

Julian,  I could not agree with you more - it is indeed  great fun and utterly fascinating to see in details what these plants are doing underground and how complicated their lives are.

So much more of interest to these things than the mere pleasure of a bloom 

[fermi de Sousa]

Thanks, Julian,
I'd wondered why there are so many bulblets around the parent bulbs!
cheers
fermi