Erythronium 2016

[WimB]

Anyone here know where I might be able to obtain Erythronium 'Joanna'?

[Steve Garvie]

Many thanks John, Ian & Diane.
The leaf damage is irregular and not typical of leaf-cutter bees. I have checked the plants overnight for the last two nights and have seen no evidence of any caterpillars/cutworms. I placed a ventilated (small holes) polycarbonate cylinder around E. montanum and there has been no further damage since. I now suspect that the damage may be due to rodents as the nibbled flower buds resemble similar damage that occurred to some Pleione buds stored in my garage over winter.

Does anyone have similar experience of rodents nibbling leaves/flower buds in the open garden?
Why is it always the rarest/most difficult plants that get targeted (I have extensive growths of E. revolutum which have not been touched!)?

[ashley]

Does anyone have similar experience of rodents nibbling leaves/flower buds in the open garden?
Why is it always the rarest/most difficult plants that get targeted (I have extensive growths of E. revolutum which have not been touched!)?

Bank voles, Myodes glareolus, can be a big problem here, often lopping off juicy stems and shoots then leaving most uneaten.  Discerning little gourmands that prefer the rarest plants or those long awaited from seed    They were accidentally introduced to Ireland in the 1920s but have spread dramatically in the last few decades, initially via waterways.

Every last cyclamen pod can be taken overnight once they reach a palatable ripeness.  Trillium rivale is another favourite.  However erythroniums are hardly on the menu in my garden because the slugs usually get in first  

[Maggi Young]

Another of Ian Young's Bulb Logt video supplements on Erythronium
 

[Maggi Young]

An earlier one 

[Tristan_He]

'Joanna'





'Kinfauns Pink'. This needs to be moved, NOT a good combination with the primrose!

[Tristan_He]

'Sundisc'

[Brian Ellis]

'Kinfauns Pink'. This needs to be moved, NOT a good combination with the primrose!

Yet very similar to the colouring of E.'Joanna'.

[Ian Y]

Just as well Erythroniums are hardy.

[Tristan_He]

Yet very similar to the colouring of E.'Joanna'.

Funny isn't it? I think it's the greater contrast and more vivid colours of 'Joanna'.

[illingworth]

Erythronium caucasicum  flowered today well ahead of E. sibericum just emerging nearby.

[Maggi Young]

E. caucasicum is always the first to flower here in N. E. Scotland too - I think of it as being particularly obliging!

[Matt T]

Particularly beautiful too. Even the Hepatica is gazing up at it in adoration.

[Steve Garvie]

I found the cause of damage to my Erythronium montanum -apologies for the unpleasant nature of this image:


Erythronium elegans -A small group raised from seed. They burst out of the ground and came quickly into flower.

[Maggi Young]

Now, just to play Devil's Advocate here - just because you caught a mouse, does that prove a mouse did the damage? He may have just been passing through.....