Bulb Log online 2015

[Maggi Young]

Latest Bulb Log  -  Bulb Log #34  26th August 2015 - loss of  a Lily and decisions about new plantings

http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Aug261440585855BULB_LOG_3415.pdf

[tonyg]

So sorry at your loss, although we are cat people the companionship our furry friends bring has a special quality.

Lots of observations from a very interesting Log. 
Codonposis Grey Wilsonii - you are lucky if the snails only get to nibble the flowers, I have lost every living part of the codonopsis I planted out this year to slugs and they waste no time in doing it 
Corydalis Craigton Blue, in it's third summer in East Anglia has really suffered from the heat and drought we have had until the last few weeks ..... but it has survived with new growth now around the edge of the spreading patch - nothing like as vigorous as in your fertile garden though.
I also grow Eucomis bicolor which has begun to self sow however Maurice (Arduaine) shared this gem with me recently:
"This plant was the means of my making a horticultural breakthrough many years ago, probably as many as 30. I cut the top off a fading flower and put it in a propagator, as it reminded me of rooting a real pineapple top when I was a kid.

To my surprise, not only did it root, but produced a circle of bulblets all of which developed into bulbs and grew on fast. I then discovered that if I cut a leaf into horizontal sections and inserted them upright into the propagator then a row of bulblets formed across the cut too.

In a couple of years my single Eucomis bulb had become fifty!"

I shall be experimenting in due course.

It is a fine thing, I love colour combination.

[Maggi Young]

Bulb Log from Ian Young #36 of 2015 Autumn storms and more

http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Sep091441809177BULB_LOG_3615.pdf

[Ian Y]

Bulb log 37 now online along with some more video diary supplements.




http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Sep161442400879BULB_LOG_3715.pdf

[Maggi Young]

Bulb Log 38 of 2015 from Ian Young - fungi and fruit
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Sep231443002261BULB_LOG_3815.pdf

[Ian Y]

latest bulb log 39 online now.

http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Sep301443608360BULB_LOG_3915.pdf

[Maggi Young]

Bulb log 40 of 2015  - http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Oct071444212871BULB_LOG_4015.pdf

[Maggi Young]

   Log 41-15 link http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Oct141444818644BULB_LOG_4115.pdf - not surewhy got missed at the time!



  Autumn bulbs prevail this week in Ian Young's Bulb Log - 21st October 2015   www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Oct211445417125BULB_LOG_4215.pdf

[Maggi Young]

This weeks Bulb Log #43 is another chapter from Ian's book on Erythroniums in Cultivation and looks at them growing in the garden beds along with other plants.

http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Oct281446032640BULB_LOG_4315.pdf

[Jon Evans]

Dear Maggi and Ian
I thoroughly enjoyed this week's posting.  Would it be possible to have a thread which pulled together links to all the chapters of this wonderful opus as they are published ?  Having read this one I immediately want to delve backwards and re-read all the others.

[Maggi Young]

Thank you , Jon -  Ian's intention is to draw all the chapters into a single pdf when the work is finished - but he says he will give thought to making an list to be going on with. 

[Ian Y]

Jon

As Maggi states when I have written all the chapters I will combine them into a single PDF for downloading and reading on a tablet, a book reader such as Kindle, a PC or what ever device you want to use - I still hope I can complete this by the end of this year.

For now here are the links to the Bulb Logs that include a chapter-

Seed Bulb Log 0215
 http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Jan141421233053BULB_LOG_0215.pdf


The Bulb Bulb Log 0515
 http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Feb041423060721BULB_LOG_0515.pdf



The Flower Bulb log 0815 
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Feb251424858341Bulb_log_0815Ebook.pdf


 
Erythronium Caucasisum Bulb Log 1305  http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Apr011427876967BULB_LOG_1315_erythronium.pdf



Growing in Containers Bulb log 2815  http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Jul151436956306BULB_LOG_2815_plus.pdf


Repotting Bulb Log 3115
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Aug051438771931BULB_LOG_3115_plus.pdf


Eryhtoniums in the Garden Bulb Log 4315
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Oct281446032640BULB_LOG_4315.pdf

[Jon Evans]

Thank you Ian
That's really useful.
I find it tricky to get Erythroniums to thrive in pots, but to grow them in the garden here, which I and they would much prefer, I need to prepare a suitable bed, and find a way of keeping out the cherry tree roots which get everywhere, and suck all the goodness out of the soil.  I'm still thinking about how to achieve this.

[Maggi Young]

BulbLog 44 of 2015 now online :
  http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Nov041446638673BULB_LOG_4415.pdf



 OOPS!   Neither Ian nor I noticed that Melvyn Jope's beautiful Crocus goulimyi MELJ 9562 is actually now called  Crocus goulimyi 'Agai Sofia' and not Sofia Agia!  Sorry, Melvyn!

[Maggi Young]

Bulb Log 45 ( log 669 in total) now online includes Erythroniums in Cultivation, the Erythronium dens-canis chapter.
 http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Nov111447235136BULB_LOG_4515.pdf