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Flowering unseasonably?
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This, I hope, is Polemonium brandegii, it has just come into flower from seed sown 2016. Is this the right time of year for it? I thought polemoniums flowered in mid-late spring?
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August 16, 2017, 05:03:38 PM »
Polemonium pauciflorum flowers from July onwards here.......
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August 16, 2017, 05:18:13 PM »
True Maggi, it is summer flowering. It's just that I saw this sp on the show bench at Easter a couple of years ago....
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August 16, 2017, 05:18:54 PM »
Hmmm, brought on early by being grown under glass, perhaps?
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August 16, 2017, 05:22:18 PM »
Probably, but still a big gap.... in time. Wondering if any of our US people knows when it flowers in the wild....
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August 16, 2017, 06:31:26 PM »
I have had it flowering in mid summer and also in fall. It flowers later than Polemonium caeruleum anyway.
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August 16, 2017, 07:11:17 PM »
Extracted from "Alpine Plants of North America" by Graham Nicholls (Timber Press-2002)
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Polemonium brandegei
ranges from Wyoming to Colorado, Utah and New Mexico. It is occasionally mistaken for P. viscosum, although it has longer, more upward-facing blooms. Flower colour varies from white to straw- or golden yellow. Jim Archibald found a lovely , snowy-white form in the Laramie mountains of Wyoming as well as a colony with golden-yellow flowers near Albuquerque, New Mexico. Although this species makes a lovely alpine house specimen, it can be short-lived. It is not grown very often, probably because seed is difficult to obtain""
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August 16, 2017, 07:50:32 PM »
And from Kenton Seth - speaker at the SRGC Summer event this coming Saturday - it was in flower the other week when he was in the mountains, though depending on site and season it might flower a bit earlier.
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August 17, 2017, 01:20:44 AM »
Hi Chris,
you look like you've got a good form of it too!
I hope that you are able to save seeds for the Seedex
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August 17, 2017, 11:54:05 AM »
Thanks everyone, I shall do my best to save seed, it is rather nice!
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