Erythronium 2015

[ichristie]

Another few beauties fro the garden cheers Ian the Christie kind

[ichristie]

Weather changed as predicted cold last nigh looks like rain which we need. A few more erythroniums from the garden, cheers Ian the Christie kind

[udo]

nice picture, Ian
here some flowers from this weekend

Erythronium 'Kinfauns Pink'
                    'Kinfauns Sunset'
                    'Sundisc' and
                    multiscapoideum

[Matt T]

Ian's E. japonicum is beautiful. Such an intense colour.

Patrick is in Inverness for a choir rehearsal this weekend and has just sent me the picture below. Seems that someone has been planting Erythroniums in the public planting beds throughout the city.

[mark smyth]

My side ways looking ?Harvington Snowgoose seedling is back for its second year and is still looking side ways

[Roma]

I spent a very pleasant afternoon on Wednesday in Ian and Maggi's garden.  I can see why Ian thinks he is in heaven just now. 

[Roma]

A few more

[Steve Garvie]

Erythronium elegans -Note the small tick on one of the filaments. I'm surprised I don't have Lyme Disease!



Erythronium montanum -Typically it has just come into flower as the weather takes a turn for the worse. The first flower opened facing upward but the flowers turned as the flowering stem extended. The flowers are large and propellor-shaped.





The plant below was bought as Erythronium purpurascens a number of years ago. It has never clumped up and only produces a single flower which takes on a light magenta-hue as the flower ages. I think it might be another Erythronium elegans rather than purpurascens and I would be grateful for opinions.

[Ian Y]

I think you are correct Steve, looks like Erythronium elegans to me, E.purpurescens has a number of smaller flowers on a stem, immature plants may only have one flower but they are much smaller than those of E. elegans.

[Steve Garvie]

I think you are correct Steve, looks like Erythronium elegans to me, E.purpurescens has a number of smaller flowers on a stem, immature plants may only have one flower but they are much smaller than those of E. elegans.

Thanks Ian!
I had hoped I was wrong.

[Ed Alverson]

In case you haven't yet seen it, my various writings on Erythronium from the SRGC web site over the past decade have been compiled into an "Erythronium Special" for issue #69 of the International Rock Gardener, see:

http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Sep251443177809IRG_69_Erythronium_Special.pdf

The issue reprints updated versions of the monthly entries from my 2006 series, "My Erythronium Big Year", as well as some additional material from my Erythronium explorations since 2005/6.

Ed

[Leena]

I have enjoyed and learned a lot from Ed's Erythronium Special and Ian's Bulb Log Erythronium posts.
I planted two bulbs of E.sibiricum in August 2014, they were bought from Janis Ruksans. They came up last April and the other one flowered, but unfortunately I don't have a good picture of it.  Now I read from the Bulb Log about E.krylovii, and started to wonder if this flowering plant is E.krylovii rather than E.sibiricum, because of the plain leaves? I must take a better picture of them next spring!

[Ian Y]

Difficult to say from that picture Leena, post more in spring and by then I may also be clearer in knowing the difference.

[Leena]

Thanks, I will take better pictures next spring.