Ranunculus gramineus Moonlight

[Margaret]

My Ranunculus gramineus Moonlight (pale yellow) has died this winter and I'd love to replace it but can't find a source. Does anyone know who sells it?

Many thanks.

Margaret

[mark smyth]

Its been on my wants list for a few years.

My only plant of gramineus has a white flower this year

[Alan_b]

You may have tried this yourself, but a Google search for "Ranunculus gramineus Moonlight" (using quotation marks to specify the exact phrase) reveals only this thread.  So, whilst it may exist in gardens and nurseries, it does not exist on the Internet. 

[Margaret]

I've just done the search in inverted commas, and google found only our SRGC conversation in 0.09 seconds!! I didn't realise I was growing a rare plant. 

[Alan_b]

Unfortunately it would seem so.  Is 'Moonlight' a pale form of the normal Ranunculus gramineus?

[Margaret]

Yes, Alan.  It is a soft pale yellow and rather beautiful. I'm very cross with myself for not taking better care of it. It appeared so reliably every spring that I stopped giving it TLC. 

[Maggi Young]

Tim Ingram has written of

Ranunculus x arendsii 'Moonlight' (a cross between amplexicaulis and gramineus 'Pardal' made at Washfield Nursery)

R.  gramineus 'Pardal' may well be available from Cotswold Garden Flowers , while Washfield seemed to be the best source for  this 'Moonlight' [/size]

[Alan_b]

My experience of Cotswold Garden Flowers is that their online catalogue features many plants that they no longer stock, possibly never sold, and never intend to stock again.  Some of these appear to have gone on the compost heap - so it's no good if you would have given that plant a loving home in your garden.

Thus their catalogue is a useful repository of information but also a frustrating one, because it includes plants that no longer exist.

[mark smyth]

Susan Band used to list it

[Alan_b]

Maggi's quote from Tim Ingram comes from here http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/discussion/inthegarden/Plants+at+Copton+Ash+in+Kent/537/ (Contribution from Tim Ingram 23 May 2011, 13:52).  He says he got 'Moonlight' from Jennie Maillard, details here http://www.uuplants.co.uk/

[Mick McLoughlin]

Missing the gramineus off gives this picture as aresult.

http://www.diomedia.com/public/;jsessionid=E996A91868F6E64D2201247D34C646A4.worker2en/5915518/imageDetails.html

[Margaret]

Thank you for your help everyone.

Alan you solved the problem. Jennie Maillard has one plant left which she has agreed (rather reluctantly) to hold for me. She calls it  Ranunculus x arendesii Moonlight. I hope it is the same as my original plant which was labelled gramineus. Anyway I'm committed to buy it now. Let's hope it sets seed!

Margaret

[Maggi Young]

Anyone interested in finding this plant can also try Wisley sales and www.elworthy-cottage.co.uk

[Roma]

I bought Ranunculus x arendsii (without a cultivar name ) from Susan Band in 2008.  I have two plants now still in pots.  The local rabbits have a liking for ranunculaceae so I am reluctant to plant them out.

Ranunculus x arendsii with its parents Ranunculus gramineus and Ranunculus amplexicaulis

[Margaret]

That is a very useful photogragh, Roma. Thank you.  Your R arendsii is very similar but maybe a bit taller than my now deceased plant.

Margaret