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As antipicated, the New Year starts with some nice plants here, the last two Sternbergia species.Sternbergia candida, hasn't reach its peak yet, I find this species very slow to increase.Now I would like to start a discussion about S. fischeriana, now renamed S. vernalis.I have two forms of this species, one with dull green leaves, which I see is the oone most of you show in photos and another with gray leaves. The gray form is undoubtely a great performer, at least in my climate, this year I think I have got the maximum result, yesterday I counted 46 open flowers and there are a lot of small buds. This form flower well above the leaves, which are rather short at this time, but they grow long later resembling truly a Narcissus . The green one instead has short stemmed flowers which are the same height of the leaves, so flowering is less showy, not only this but the size of the flowers are about half those of the gray form. Of course that clump of gray form is 10 years old, the green ones are much younger, but even when single head bulbs the gray form has been always better.
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Same problem hereluckily there are computer to store all that infoand Fora to searchHow did they do that 30 years ago Roland
Here S. candida blooming, 2 weeks ahead of last year.John B