Latest Bulb Log 2016

[Ian Y]

Latest Bulb Log on line not surprisingly Erythroniums are once more to the fore.



http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2016May041462356590BULB_LOG_1816.pdf

[Ian Y]

Join me in a trip to see Primroses at the seaside in the latest Bulb log plus plenty of flowering interest in the garden including a magnificent dandelion!
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2016May111462963255BULB_LOG_1916.pdf

[Tristan_He]

Ian you have a beautiful garden and I love your naturalistic planting style. I tend to aim for something similar but have yet to achieve something as successful as yours. Or so many Erythroniums!

[Maggi Young]

We've been working on it for a long time though, Tristan - you've got time to catch up!

[Ian Y]

Bulb log 2016  has lots of colour both in the garden and the Bulb Houses also new Video Diary Supplement- after the rain.


http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2016May181463568692BULB_LOG_2016.pdf

[ian mcdonald]

Ian, I could give you a run for your money with dandelions. My front lawn is covered with them.

[Cfred72]

Ian, I see your Cardiocrinum will be in bloom. At home too, the three I bought this year, two will flower this year. I hope they will have enough roots to keep from falling with the weight of the flowers ...

You also have beautiful hybrids Trillium erectum.
I have one that is nice as I think outside the usual dark purple color.

[Carolyn]

Ian, that pteridophyllum is a lovely plant - which I haven't seen before. I read that it is a Japanese woodland plant. Does it grow easily for you? Did you grow it from seed? There don't seem to be many suppliers of plants. Do please tell us more about it.

[Maggi Young]

As I said of a plant by Anne and Viv Chambers at Perth Show in 2010 - Pteridophyllum racemosum .... this "ferny" foliaged beauty is usually listed as being in the poppy family! It is a species of flowering plant endemic to Japan. It is the only species in the mono-generic family Pteridophyllaceae, which is sometimes treated as a subfamily of Papaveraceae.

Not something that wants too much sun, even in Aberdeen.  There  have been some great pix from the shows over the years, two of the best grown by Anne and Viv and by John Lupton.
 oops- better if I add the photos!

Anne and Viv's 2007  pic by Dave Millward
 

Anne and Viv's  2010 pic by me


John Lupton's  both pix by me

[Maggi Young]

Now a plant of Ian and Carole Bainbridges - photo by Peter Maguire



and close up of foliage and flowers at another show - photos by me

[Maggi Young]

I think the foliage colour is much darker when the plant is grown outside. It's still a very striking green though.  As you can see by John L's plant - it can get  to be a lovely specimen.  Hard to get it that good when growing in the ground - it's tasty to munching critters and can just dwindle  - we've lost  one from being too dry  I think, when it got too much competition form other plants.  The one pictured this week in the Bulb Log  is in a shadier, cooler spot.

Ian Christie grows it well  in Kirriemuir.
Edrom offer it at times, as do  Crug Farm .....  both worth a try, I think.

[Carolyn]

Thanks, Maggi. I will have to try this. I notice that Growild lists it too. Why do slugs always go for the more choice, expensive items?
We have just had our first rain for a fortnight and the slugs have been out in force. I've lost count of how many have been chopped in two today.

[Maggi Young]

I've had plants and seeds from Lisa at Growild - if they have it I'm sure it will be good.

[Diane Whitehead]

I eagerly await the photo of your hybrid of Tropaeolum azureum and Tropaeolum tricolorum.

Perhaps a contest showing what people think it might look like?

[Maggi Young]

  Well Diane, it's anyone's guess as to what it would look like!  Never been any sign of hybrids so far - we'd need  one of the Tropaeolum specialists to comment on whether these two will ever cross.