Video Diary - Bulb Log supplement

[Ian Y]

"Take a walk on the wild side"

do be do be do be do be do ......

[Maggi Young]

EEK!  Fast pans again -  seasickness tablets  needed!

You could relax with the  blissfully static Bulb Log, of course:
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Apr291430300305BULB_LOG_1715.pdf   

[Ian Y]

Another video from 'Shaky Hand Productions' name given by our dear friend ZZ.

Join me as I compare three Erythronium revolutum hybrids.

[Arum]

-- We are loving your wonderful videos Ian. Thank you for giving us so much pleasure, inspiration, ideas & dreams. We are enjoying them so very much - so clear & vivid. Almost as good as having you here with us again.
Regards Edna
Christchurch
New Zealand

[Ian Y]

Thankyou Edna, I have fond memories of friends and the  time I spent in NZ.

[Brian Ellis]

How about a Craigton 'Shakey hands'    Seriously like the first of the three and the foliage of the third, what if they were crossed?

[brianw]

EEK!  Fast pans again -  seasickness tablets  needed!

I have been trying to imagine rails throughout the garden and Maggie pushing Ian along on a "dolly", if that is what they are called, travelling camera style like in films. Maybe the dogs can pull him ;-)
We must have a cartoonist amongst the members somewhere, or does Ian do that too?

Ian mentions growing Erythroniums in baskets. When I grow these in anything other than very deep pots they inevitably try and escape or form weird shapes in the restricted vertical space. How do they do in the often very tapered baskets Ian? Some of these hybrids form quite large bulbs.

[Ian Y]

BrianW - No rails or dollies to steady the camera, although one of the TV crews that came to fil the garden did set up the railway buisness - still seems like over kill to me. You just get me camera in one hand trying to keep steady and not move or pan too fast, I am learning.

I replant the Erythroniums in baskets every second year otherwise they do try and escape through the tiny holes -weather permitting I will be replanting this year so will demonstrate fully then or if you prefer follow the link to see the report on the last repot in 2013.

http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2013Jul171374058461BULB_LOG_2913.pdf

Brian E

How about a Craigton 'Shakey hands'    Seriously like the first of the three and the foliage of the third, what if they were crossed?

Yes it is ever thus the best flowers and the best foliage often comes on different plants  - yes I have crosspollinated - but these are only three out of maybe 20 similar that I am watching in the garden.
 

[admin]

I have just watched them all Ian, one after the other.

Stills and text are fine, but video and commentary make your feel you are there. It really brings it all to life.

Terrific effort as usual. 

[brianw]

Thank you Ian. Missed the Erythronium repotting bulb log previously. I find I use more and more sand in my mixes as time goes on. Now if only I could get the leaf mould.

[Leena]

Thank you Ian for these videos and the bulb log.
I was wondering is there something that can be done if Erythroniums just make leaves and stolons and doesn't grow the bulbs to flowering size? Does more fertilizing help?

[Ian Y]

You can certainly try fertilizing Leena but I am not convinced that helps much with the flowering. I am assuming that you are meaning Erythronium americanum which if you check the video I posted a while back showing our groups you will see that we just left them to run and eventually after some years they now produce a good number of flowers each year.

[Ian Y]

Bulb Log video diary supplement - Erythronium and Rhododendrons in and around the Raised Bed,

[Ian Y]

Bulb Log video diary supplement -Spring bulbs in humus bed.

[Tim Ingram]

Some rain at last - after coming back from the East Anglia AGS Show yesterday - so a chance to look at the videos of erythroniums. Really nice to see. I've never grown E. americanum but heard how shy flowering it can be so it's enlightening to see how it can flower so well when well established. It's amazing how much you can learn in a short time from seeing plants compared and contrasted like this, and magical to see such strong stands of plants. I remember 'Craigton Cover Girl' really standing out amongst a display that Ray Drew did for the Essex AGS Group a couple of years ago, but what is so nice is to see such variation across the plants - quite difficult to choose between the three revolutum hybrids. We need to work on our woodland beds for maybe another ten or twenty years and erythroniums will definitely figure more in the future. Thanks Ian and will keep watching (look forward to seeing some 'Shaky Hand Productions' from the Czech gardens in the future?).