Erythronium 2015

[Ed Alverson]

The same weather pattern that has brought record cold and snow to the eastern and central parts of North America has brought a very mild and dry winter to the Pacific Northwest. As a consequence, many late winter/early spring flowering plants are 2 to 4 weeks early. Most of my Erythroniums already have buds showing, and E. tuolumnense and E. grandiflorum now have open flowers. Here is a bugs-eye view of Erythronium grandiflorum (the white-anthered var. parviflorum), taken earlier today.

Ed

[Shadylanejewel]

Gorgeous!

The only one I have close to blooming yet is E. helenae.

[Steve Garvie]

Erythronium caucasicum

[Shadylanejewel]

 

I need to source some seed for E. caucasicum! Beautiful Steve!

[Peppa]

I need to source some seed for E. caucasicum! Beautiful Steve!

Me, too!!! What a beautiful flower, Steve! Does anybody know where we can get seeds?

[Steve Garvie]

Me, too!!! What a beautiful flower, Steve! Does anybody know where we can get seeds?

Many thanks!
Sadly I only have a single clone which isn't self-fertile.
Wild seed is sometimes available from some of the Czech guys such as Dr Vlastimil Pilous (a collection from Chiaturi, Georgia featured in his 2014-2015 list).

I have never dealt with this company but I see that they are offering seed:
http://www.seedspro.com/product_info.php/products_id/1128/language/en

Hope you manage to track some down as it is both beautiful, and very early flowering.

[Peppa]

Thanks so much for the info, Steve! I'm usually pretty good at checking seed lists but for some reason, I failed to check Dr. Vlastimil's seed list this year... I wonder if he still has the seeds... And thanks for the link! I will definitely check the site!

[udo]

first flowers,
Erythronium caucasicum

[Ed Alverson]

Among the Erythroniums I now have flowering are a yellow-flowered hybrid that is flowering for just the first time this year. The plants are E. tuolumnense x E. oreganum ssp. leucandrum. I was aiming for a good, solid yellow in a flower with better flower form that is typical for E. tuolumnense, on plants that increase by offsets. Right now the plants are young/small so it is hard to say how they will do as they mature, it will be interesting to see. I've also crossed E. tuolumnense and E. grandiflorum but those hybrids have not yet bloomed - hopefully next year

[Steve Garvie]

Erythronium howellii


I needed help to get back on my feet afterwards!

[David Nicholson]

Can I buy some of that sky please, mine's very grey.

[Ed Alverson]

One of the participants in the Native Plant Society of Oregon's list serve, Travis Owen, recently posted a link to a blog entry of his describing a visit to Upper Table Rock in southern Oregon, which features many native wildflowers, including good populations of Erythronium hendersonii now in bloom. See http://amateuranthecologist.blogspot.com/2015/03/upper-table-rock.html

Ed

[mark smyth]

Ian Y this is the first flower to open of the Erythronium from the local nursery. Small flowers I guess because they are in stupidly small pots

[Steve Garvie]

Erythronium albidum

Photographed at dusk -which accentuates the blue colouration that some albidum flowers show.


Erythronium Ardovie Bliss

Many thanks to Ian Christie for this beautiful hybrid.

[Ian Y]

Ian Y this is the first flower to open of the Erythronium from the local nursery. Small flowers I guess because they are in stupidly small pots

Looks like a White Beauty type Mark, possibly a seedling as it has darker leaves than WB itself.

We have many similar seedlings all good garden plants.