Leucojum

[fermi de Sousa]

Leucojum-Forest:

Wow!
That is amazing, Uwe!
Which part of the country do they grow like this? Were they originally there or were they introduced?
cheers
fermi

[Herman Mylemans]

Leucojum aestivum 'Gravetye Giant'

[Uwe]

here in Thüringen in East-germany are some great wild stocks

[Armin]

Herman,
a nice clump Growth is much advanced compared to mine in Germany.

[partisangardener]

Seemingly nobody likes them anymore?
This year my nearly flawless white did not flower. But at the same market, a farmer had again one. This time pure white. I went straight to the garden where I found a nearly white one and exchanged pollen.
Mine did not take the pollen but the ones from the special garden did set seed and came up this spring.

[partisangardener]

Another find of this year at a public park near my home.
They keep their bell form, only draw back the flower is small. It is a quite big clump, all the remaining flowers are the same.
Somebody picked half of it for home decoration

[Maggi Young]

Seemingly nobody likes them anymore?
This year my nearly flawless white did not flower. But at the same market, a farmer had again one. This time pure white. I went straight to the garden where I found a nearly white one and exchanged pollen.
Mine did not take the pollen but the ones from the special garden did set seed and came up this spring.

The pure whites are very beautiful. Thanks for showing them Axel.

[mark smyth]

Seemingly nobody likes them anymore?
This year my nearly flawless white did not flower. But at the same market, a farmer had again one. This time pure white. I went straight to the garden where I found a nearly white one and exchanged pollen.
Mine did not take the pollen but the ones from the special garden did set seed and came up this spring.

very nice. I hope you have chipped them?

[johnw]

ei gude Axel

These are wonderful finds and a super plan to cross the two whites.  I wonder if you will have to go to the F2 or if the F1 will produce all whites.

There are a couple of reported naturalized stands here in Nova Scotia, I intend to have a look at them this spring.  Both are in northern Nova Scotia so maybe they will be in flower by early April.

Are your native vernums green or yellow-tipped?

john

[partisangardener]

Here there are both colours found aside in nature and therefore in the gardens too. Most have only one flower but quite often there are plants with two.

Variations apart from this in nature are here very rare. I have found none yet and there are thousands and much more at one place.

Maybe they are more frequent in the gardens because they are usually deriving from few taken in nature. So it might be because they are inbred. So mutations express themselves more often.
Nobody here looks for variations, apart from me.

The same farmer brought this pot with the pure white with normal ones to the market without noticing it. I haver already asked for such variation because the almost white one from last  year was from his gardens too.

I believe there will be some white ones in the cross (F1) if mine has taken, but I don't know if not a bee was faster than me.
I have been to his farm two days before. Found none. But he has them at different places and the one he took this plants from he missed to show me then.

I have not yet chipped any bulbs so I don't dare.

[Carlo]

Loving the white! I've had Leucojum in prior gardens and need to bring them in here--a beautiful alternative to the wild yellows of early spring....

[François Lambert]

Leucojum aestivum 'Gravetye Giant'

Nice clump 

My Leucojums are also flowering - which is rather early for them, and even more unusual is that the snowdrops are still flowering (they have been flowering for almost 2 months), I can't remember previous years that these two plants flowered simultaneously

[partisangardener]

Usually yellow and green tipped ones grow next to each other.
Now I found a small garden where there are only yellow ones. Some look quite interesting.
This yellow fanged one is odd.



If these are next year the same? I doubt ist jet. but as it grows near my studio I will see.
At any rate I will ask for seeds.

[annew]

Fascinating variation, Axel.

[partisangardener]

I have asked dor seeds and bulbs from the last garden. The lady agreed to let me take the seeds and a few bulbs.
Yesterday I went there.
A big heap of earth and stones covered some hundred of the plants there. Not shown in the picture.  I did not have the chance to have a close look before they were destroyed.
They tried to build a small parking place for their car.
A few bulbs are saved now and a small amount of fruits wait for ripening.