June 2016 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Maggi Young]

Lilium akkusianum is just stunning.  Love the hairy bits ( that's the technical terminology I'm sure! )

[shelagh]

Is that why Ian is sporting a hairy chin

[shelagh]

Brian tells me the pan is 32cm Maggi, so room to grow a bit more before the 36cm cut off point.  It's by far the most impressive Rhodohypoxis we have.

[Maggi Young]

Is that why Ian is sporting a hairy chin

[Maggi Young]

Brian tells me the pan is 32cm Maggi, so room to grow a bit more before the 36cm cut off point.  It's by far the most impressive Rhodohypoxis we have.

Wow!  It is a super potful.

[Carolyn]

Lilium Akkusianum.  Success at last.  I obtained seeds some 6/7 years ago from Henry and Margaret Taylor. Germination took a year and I had about 6 seedlings.

I sowed some seeds of this from this year's seed ex. Useful to know I'll need to wait for germination. There doesn't seem to be much information on this species (or I just couldn't find it)
What a super plant!

[TC]

Some pictures from Branklyn on Saturday

[TC]

Last 5.

[Rick R.]

Lilium akkusianum seed germination is delayed hypogeal, according to Henry and Margaret Taylor. 

Fabulously grown plant, Tom!  What would you say the preferred soil pH is?  And what do think did many of them in over winters: too cold? Wet? or?

[TC]

I got the seeds in October at  a talk given by Henry and Margaret at the local SRGC branch in Ayr.  Henry said that I could sow them immediately in a well drained compost.
I made up a compost from finely ground composted bark-(Melcourt in the UK) and a proprietary seed compost. I had seven seeds and by next April they had germinated--I kept them in the glasshouse for safe keeping until June and then they were put out on a bench..  The growth was about 2" and the leaves died back in late September. Back in the glasshouse for winter and growth started again in April although I had only 5 now. Same again in summer and back in again in winter.  I knocked them out the pot in March and saw 5 very small bulbs, repotted and let them grow on.
 Next winter was unusually cold with freezing rain and did not do them much good.  Next years growth was poor.
 The next winter was even wetter and colder and a couple more succumbed .
I was now left with two so I planted one in the garden and kept the other in a pot.  The one in the pot had vanished this Spring.....not a trace...possibly eaten by a slug.
The one in the garden has flowered  as you can see.  Not very scientific but at least I got one .
I also got Lilium Mackliniae at the same time and I am awaiting these to flower also.

Also attached seed grown Nomocharis.  Easy to germinate BUT favourite slug food !!!

[Jupiter]

Love the hairy bits ( that's the technical terminology I'm sure! )

I'm not saying anything... nope.. nothing. Thinking but not saying. 

[Maggi Young]

I sowed some seeds of this from this year's seed ex. Useful to know I'll need to wait for germination. There doesn't seem to be much information on this species (or I just couldn't find it)
What a super plant!

The plant was only found in 1993 and described in 1998 in the AGS Bulletin 66  no. 3  page 378 -388
- I have a copy of the article but it is too large to post here - I will email it to anyone interested.

This link to an AGS Ireland  newsletter has a brief mention from Margaret and Henry Taylor.

[pfirsich48]

Hoy-your Arisaema looks a lot like A. erubescens that I grew from NARGS seedEx several years ago.

[TC]

A few more Irises.  The yellow one was grown from seed supposedly Iris Forrestii but I don't know.
The large one is "Japanese Iris cultivar" obtained from the Duchy of Cornwall nursery .
The group of blue irises are Siberica obtained from a cheap warehouse just marked Irises

[johnw]

Always great to see our native Hudsonia ericoides in the wild and especially rare to see it in a garden.  Yesterday at Jamie's in the Annapolis Valley.

johnw - overcast & 12c