Sternbergia 2013

[krisderaeymaeker]

Sternbergia lutea is also in bloom
cheers
fermi

Fantastic show Fermi ! 
Wish we could grow them outside like that .

[Angelo Porcelli]

Very nice Fermi, I do grow that form from R. Wallis ex Crete ad is a good increaser, although quite small compared to my other forms

[fermi de Sousa]

Very nice Fermi, I do grow that form from R. Wallis ex Crete ad is a good increaser, although quite small compared to my other forms

Hi Angelo,
yes, Otto has given me a bulb of the form he got from...Paul Furse, I think. It is still one bulb but flowers consistently - it is half way in size between "Rannweig's" S. sicula and the "commercial" form of S. lutea.

Fantastic show Fermi ! 
Wish we could grow them outside like that .

Hi Kris,
we always want what we can't get
I'm impressed with what you can grow where you are. The Sternbergias grow themselves here - we just try to make sure they don't get watered during the summer when they are asleep!
cheers
fermi

[Otto Fauser]

Hi Angelo,
yes, Otto has given me a bulb of the form he got from...Paul Furse, I think. It is still one bulb but flowers consistently - it is half way in size between "Rannweig's" S. sicula and the "commercial" form of S. lutea.
Hi Kris,
we always want what we can't get
I'm impressed with what you can grow where you are. The Sternbergias grow themselves here - we just try to make sure they don't get watered during the summer when they are asleep!
cheers
fermi

 Fermi , for the record : the S. sicula I gave you came from Alan Edwards and was collected in the Selia Gorge ,Crete.

[Anthony Darby]

Lovely Sternbergia spp. there. Do they set seed?

[fermi de Sousa]

Lovely Sternbergia spp. there. Do they set seed?

Hi Anthony,
occasionally I manage to catch a few few before the wasps and ants disperse them
I'll keep an eye out and let you know,
cheers
fermi

[krisderaeymaeker]

Fermi , for the record : the S. sicula I gave you came from Alan Edwards and was collected in the Selia Gorge ,Crete.

This is one of the best forms I ever seen Otto  !

[fermi de Sousa]

The white Sternbergia is in flower again!
It's being protected by an overgrowth of a DBI!
cheers
fermi

[bulborum]

Nice one Fermi

Roland

[fermi de Sousa]

More blooms open on our little clump of Sternbergia candida
cheers
fermi

[pehe]

The autumn season has started in the northern hemisphere.
In this through of an early form of Sternbergia sicula there is 60+ flowers.
It normally spent the winter, spring and summer in my green house along with some other big Sternbergia pots.
But this year I was short of space and in June I placed them outside against a south facing wall. At that time it was very rainy, so I covered them with an almost closed plastic mini green house.
We had a warm and sunny summer, and they got a god 'baking'. At the end of July i checked the temperature inside the mini green house and I was chocked to see that the surface temperature of the through was 53^oC and the soil temperature was 46^oC 5cm below the surface. I removed the cover immediately but as this was not the warmest day of the summer, I was sure all the bulbs has been killed.
Luckily they were not, but they have had the baking of their life!

Poul

[Maggi Young]

The autumn season has started in the northern hemisphere.
In this trough of an early form of Sternbergia sicula there is 60+ flowers.
It normally spent the winter, spring and summer in my green house along with some other big Sternbergia pots.
But this year I was short of space and in June I placed them outside against a south facing wall. At that time it was very rainy, so I covered them with an almost closed plastic mini green house.
We had a warm and sunny summer, and they got a god 'baking'. At the end of July i checked the temperature inside the mini green house and I was chocked to see that the surface temperature of the through was 53oC and the soil temperature was 46oC 5cm below the surface. I removed the cover immediately but as this was not the warmest day of the summer, I was sure all the bulbs has been killed.
Luckily they were not, but they have had the baking of their life!
Poul

Oh! My goodness, how wonderful they look!
After such high temperatures  you might have thought they were roasted enough to eat 

[pehe]

Oh! My goodness, how wonderful they look!
After such high temperatures  you might have thought they were roasted enough to eat 

Yes, I did. But I think they are poisonous. If they were tulips I would certainly have eaten them

Poul

[krisderaeymaeker]

In this through of an early form of Sternbergia sicula there is 60+ flowers.
Poul

    What a great show Poul . What a season opener ......

Interesting experience , again some evidence that they need baking in summer ....

[Luc Gilgemyn]

The autumn season has started in the northern hemisphere.
In this through of an early form of Sternbergia sicula there is 60+ flowers.
It normally spent the winter, spring and summer in my green house along with some other big Sternbergia pots.
But this year I was short of space and in June I placed them outside against a south facing wall. At that time it was very rainy, so I covered them with an almost closed plastic mini green house.
We had a warm and sunny summer, and they got a god 'baking'. At the end of July i checked the temperature inside the mini green house and I was chocked to see that the surface temperature of the through was 53^oC and the soil temperature was 46^oC 5cm below the surface. I removed the cover immediately but as this was not the warmest day of the summer, I was sure all the bulbs has been killed.
Luckily they were not, but they have had the baking of their life!

Poul

Superb and very impressive Poul !