Meconopsis 2014

[ichristie]

Super picture of Meconopsis delavayi well done to get so many flowers as for M. x cookie I would plant it out get the roots into the ground, a few more flowering here with my M. delavayi only one flower, cheers Ian the Christie kind

[ichristie]

A few more Meconopsis showing buds and flowers just interesting we have a supposed M. betonicifolia from wild seed that is different to the other form known now as M, baileyi, cheers Ian the Christie kind

[ichristie]

Another group of pictures taken this morning the weather has been cold and wet some flowers are more purple than others really getting good now, cheers Ian the Christie kind.

[ichristie]

A few more, Ian

[Steve Garvie]

Very nice Ian!!!

As Mec. Sichuan Silk is a named form -is this a perennial type of M. punicea?

[Margaret]

Lovely Meconopsis, Ian. Such a pleasure to see.

[arisaema]

As Mec. Sichuan Silk is a named form -is this a perennial type of M. punicea?

Is it the same as the 1/8th hybrid, or a different cross?

[ichristie]

Hello sorry should have said that M. punicea Sichuan silk is the perennial form flowering here since 2005 had some friends from Sweden this week and they tell me that big clumps of this form now grow in their garden it is superb here, cheers Ian the Christie kind

[ichristie]

Hello again as far as I know this form is not a hybrid sets viable seed although not all offspring are perennial I have never crossed this with anything and all plants we sell are divisions from the original collection from 2003 did not flower till 2005, cheers Ian

[Steve Garvie]

Hello sorry should have said that M. punicea Sichuan silk is the perennial form flowering here since 2005 had some friends from Sweden this week and they tell me that big clumps of this form now grow in their garden it is superb here, cheers Ian the Christie kind

Thanks Ian!
Good to hear that there's a perennial form.
Even better to hear that you have got it! 

[arisaema]

Hello again as far as I know this form is not a hybrid sets viable seed although not all offspring are perennial I have never crossed this with anything and all plants we sell are divisions from the original collection from 2003 did not flower till 2005, cheers Ian

Thank you from Sichuan as well! James Cobb once sent me pictures of one of his ([cookei x punicea] x punicea) hybrid, nicknamed "1/8th", and I wasn't sure if this was the same plant. Did your 'Sichuan Silk' originate from a 2003 wild collection, or from garden seeds?

[alanelliott]

Home to find Meconopsis quintuplinerva out and M. punicea Sichuan Silk with a big bud.

[johnw]

 Alan  - Wonderful to see those Meconopsis rarities.  That's an impressive array of chimney pots on your potting shed.

johnw

[alanelliott]

Alan  - Wonderful to see those Meconopsis rarities.  That's an impressive array of chimney pots on your potting shed.

johnw

Thanks John. Ha I hadn't noticed the chimneys. I actually put a new living roof on the shed Couple of weekends ago. The seeds are currently germinating merrily. Will post pictures when it's in full swing.

[johnw]

Thanks John. Ha I hadn't noticed the chimneys. I actually put a new living roof on the shed Couple of weekends ago. The sreds are currently terminating merrily. Will post pictures when it's in full swing.

I thought erphaps you had bottom heat in there.