Eranthis 2015

[Brian Ellis]

I took up all the tubers that had smut and got rid of them.  I think if it is only one clump Olive I'd do that.  I then sprayed other seedlings that came through in that area (I saw the infestation early in the year).  Sorry to hear you have it, is it just that we are telling each other or do you think it is a result of the weather for the last few years?

[Alan_b]

The website at http://www.wildbulbs.eu/ seems to have defeated me.... 

..... but Jan Jilek can be contacted via the forum.

Jan Jilek read this thread and found my message in his spam folder so he contacted me.  As it had been a bad year for seeds he persuaded me to buy corms instead; these arrived yesterday.  I purchased E. sibirica and stellata and got corms the size of a large pea which I'm very pleased with.  Everything went smoothly after the initial false start.  But it remains to be seen if my plan to try to grow these outdoors will come to anything.     

[johnstephen29]

Hi Alan what is jan's forum name on here as I would like some corms of these eranthis species if he has any left.

[Maggi Young]

  It's Jan  !

[stick]

Jan Jilek read this thread and found my message in his spam folder so he contacted me.  As it had been a bad year for seeds he persuaded me to buy corms instead; these arrived yesterday.  I purchased E. sibirica and stellata and got corms the size of a large pea which I'm very pleased with.  Everything went smoothly after the initial false start.  But it remains to be seen if my plan to try to grow these outdoors will come to anything.   

I have contacted Jan several times and asked him for more detailed information on growing Eranthis stellata and E. sibirica in the garden, but have never received a reply.

[Maggi Young]

Members will be aware that the Japanese Nursery, Yuzawa Engei are SRGC members who advertise in "The Rock Garden" - they have announced on Facebook that
they have  added Shibateranthis pinnatifida (Eranthis pinnatifida) to their  list.
http://www.yuzawa-engei.net/…/12SummerSele/12SummerSele.html
"This is rarely offered in last few years."

 Shibateranthis pinnatifida (Eranthis pinnatifida)

[fermi de Sousa]

Not as exciting as the last pic, but this is the first flower on Eranthis cilicica from seed from Peter Korn in 2007!
For Redesdale this is quite an achievement - I have to grow it in a shade house!
cheers
fermi

[Brian Ellis]

Not as exciting as the last pic...

Perhaps not in how photogenic it is, but exciting that you can manage to grow it where you are

[Alan_b]

Good old Eranthis hyemalis but flowering weeks earlier than usual.

[WimB]

Good old Eranthis hyemalis but flowering weeks earlier than usual.

WOW, very early and a bit pale looking 

[Alan_b]

Now two flowers and both pointing skyward.  I have one particular spot where they flower first - but that's usually around 1st January.  I don't know whether its a favourable micro-climate or the gene pool in that little area. 

[Peppa]

I've heard from lots of people that they are having a warm winter... I usually start checking my Eranthis pinnatifida pots around early January, but I just happened to take a look at them yesterday. I'm glad that I did, because they've already started to germinate!

[ruben]

Eranthis hyemalis 'Winterzauber' - the first to flower this winter

[WimB]

Eranthis are starting to flower 

Eranthis hyemalis 'Birte' in bud
Eranthis hyemalis 'Double Strike Group'
regular Eranthis hyemalis
and Eranthis 'Schlyters Gigant'