Sternbergia 2008

[johnw]

How to print off the Sternbergia key........ I may have  right-clicked on the text and selected "print picture"...... that certainly works 

If you use a Mac you can click on it & drag it to the desktop (or elsewhere) as you would with a picture. Then deal with it as you wish.

Thanks for that Gerry. It's a function I keep forgetting about.

johnw

[Oron Peri]

Sternbegia clusiana is in flower now in many localities across Israel,
usually on dry Eastern facing slops.
I took a picture this week of this particularly nice plant; big Tulip sized flower with green tips.

I grow mainly S. clusiana leaves, they are really 'spoilt' and generally just refuse to flower in any size pot.

It is easy to notice the nectar glands at the inner tip of the petals, ants are really attracted by it to than slip inside the flower and climb the anthers...very clever technique.

[Gerry Webster]

Oron - that S.clusiana is very handsome. Thanks for showing it. I've had a bulb for 10 years & never seen a flower even though it is planted out under cover. Last year there were not even leaves though the bulb is still alive. It's interesting that, even in Israel, it can be difficult to flower.

[dominique]

Hi Oron
Gorgeous plant ! I have received yesterday S.clusiana seeds from Israel and sow them to day. I hope they germinate this spring. Marvellous species. Hans, thank you for all you show and say. here my S. greuteriana

[Oron Peri]

Thanks Gerry and Dominique.

Dominique, clusiana germinate easily and grow relatively fast, in my experience it is better to plant it out in the garden in its 3ed season, in the hottest spot. they are quite hardy, some colonies get snow here.
They flower really nice if they are undisturbed in the garden.

[Pauli]

Hello Dominique,

I think your greuteriana is the real thing !
Very fine plant indeed!

All the best from Linz

Pauli

[pehe]

My Sternbergia has flowered very well this year.

St. greuteriana MK.0187 from Karpathos has about 25 flowers.
This is placed at a sunny wall.

St. lutea flower even in light shadow in my kitchen garden

St. lutea between beans and leeks

[Hans J]

Hi Poul ,

Sorry to say but I dont believe this is a St. greuteriana - from where they came ?
For me looks it more like a St. sicula ....could you maybe mesure the wide of the leaves ?

Best wishes
Hans

[Hans A.]

Oron, Dominique and Poul - very nice plants

This Sternbergia sicula flowers well - others still are below soil...

[Oron Peri]

Hans,

Great photo of  a very healthy, shiny looking plant.
Congratulations!!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

A very very well grown specimen Hans !!! 

[Gerry Webster]

Hi Poul ,
Sorry to say but I dont believe this is a St. greuteriana - from where they came ?
For me looks it more like a St. sicula ....could you maybe mesure the wide of the leaves ?
Best wishes
Hans

Poul - Sorry, but I'm inclined to agree with Hans. It doesn't look like S. greuteriana to me either.

[mark smyth]

Poul, in the veg patch is that a solar heater for the Sternbergias?

[pehe]

Hi Poul ,

Sorry to say but I dont believe this is a St. greuteriana - from where they came ?
For me looks it more like a St. sicula ....could you maybe mesure the wide of the leaves ?

Best wishes
Hans

Hans, It is from Paul Christian. He claims it is from Karpathos acquired from Bonn Botanical Garden.
I admit it looks like a sicula, but it makes offsets on stolons so I am pretty sure that it is greuteriana. I have not heard of any sicula doing that.
The width of the leaves is about 4 mm.

Poul

[pehe]

Poul, in the veg patch is that a solar heater for the Sternbergias?

Mark,
You are right, I put some stones behind the Sternbergia to get a warmer micro climate.
I do not serious mean to grow Sternbergia in my kitchen garden, but these had increased very well in my rock garden (in fact too much, as my rock garden is pretty small). I therefore put them temporary on a free space in the kitchen garden until I found a better place. But time flies and now they have been there for 3 years and they are doing quite well.

Poul