Erythronium 2016

[Cfred72]

I did my first purchases of Erythronium in autumn 2015 (Except Erythronium 'Pagoda'). The early warning signs of démarage in the garden.

Erythronium dens-canis 'Lilac Wonder'

Erythronium dens-canis 'Frans Hals'

[Steve Garvie]

Erythronium caucasicum


Erythroniun californicum -A form with markings similar to "White Beauty"

[Garden Prince]

Looks like art!

First flowering of Erythronium multiscapoideum with me. Seeds sown 21 September 2013.

[Susan Band]

You don't have to wait very long for E. multiscapideum to flower from seed. All the other species take at least another year.

[David Nicholson]

I bought half a dozen Erythroniums last Autumn and none of them showing yet (all my others are above the soil), am I worrying too early?

[Cfred72]

I bought half a dozen Erythroniums last Autumn and none of them showing yet (all my others are above the soil), am I worrying too early?

At home, some are in bloom, others have not pointed their noses through the ground ...

[Brian Ellis]

At home, some are in bloom, others have not pointed their noses through the ground ...

Much the same here David, panic not

[Cfred72]

When I say are blooming .... Rather will be in bloom.

Erythronium dens-canis 'Frans Hals'

Erythronium dens-canis 'Lilac Wonder'

Erythronium dens-canis 'Snowflake'

[Cfred72]

Question: Is it normal that the flower buds are plated on the floor? Is it because it's the first year and they are still well placed deep level? Or the stem will grow along with the flower will open?

[Ian Y]

The stems should continue to grow as the flower opens.

[Carolyn]

I bought half a dozen Erythroniums last Autumn and none of them showing yet (all my others are above the soil), am I worrying too early?

David,
Same here - my established clumps of E. Dens canis are in full flower, but my new dens canis (which spent the winter in long tom pots while I decide where to plant them) have only just appeared in the last couple of days. I splashed out on one plant of E caucasicum which has not yet appeared, so I know how you feel!

[Steve Garvie]

Erythronium howellii


Erythronium albidum


Erythronium dens-canis

[Maggi Young]

I was surprised to read a comment the other day that all  the  commercially available Erythronium dens-canis cultivars are shy flowering. Have others found this to be the case? 

[David Nicholson]

David,
Same here - my established clumps of E. Dens canis are in full flower, but my new dens canis (which spent the winter in long tom pots while I decide where to plant them) have only just appeared in the last couple of days. I splashed out on one plant of E caucasicum which has not yet appeared, so I know how you feel!

Sorry not to have replied earlier Carolyn but have been away from home since Sunday. A couple of hours today were spent 'hammering' the kid's inheritance (yet again!) at Ashwood Nursery and, as a result I shall have one Erythronium in flower tomorrow as well as some Hepaticas which, my having followed my normal procedure, I shall kill in the next few weeks!

When I left the garden early on Sunday morning I had no Erythroniums at all in flower.

[Carolyn]

Hard to believe that spring is further advanced here on the Solway coast than it is in Devon. We have had some lovely mild, sunny days in the last couple of weeks. In fact my waterbutt at the greenhouse has just run dry, we need some rain.