Meconopsis 2017

[Maggi Young]

Word from Kevock Garden Plants  - "Meconopsis are us  busy repotting and planting them -lots of new varieties too....."

[Steve Garvie]

Meconopsis pseudointegrifolia


Meconopsis racemosa -from Bjørnar Olsen seed.


Self-sown seedling from Mec. Lingholm.

[Claire Cockcroft]

I was out spreading mulch in the garden and finally looked up to discover not only had the first blue meconopsis opened, but a white one showed up too.  Surprise!  I have no idea from which seed packet the white one came.

[Steve Garvie]

Meconopsis punicea -first flag of the year unfurling.


Meconopsis integrifolia -clearly different from pseudointegrifolia (see image further up page).


Meconopsis delavayi -growing in a clay pot in a shaded frame, it has remained compact and has 4 flowers this year (one last year).

[Claire Cockcroft]

Meconopsis horridula flowered for the third year in a row.  I suspect it is a series of offsets that keep this particular plant going.

A nice, pale "fertile blue" meconopsis added some variety to the darker blue mecs.
...Claire

[Roma]

Meconopsis rudis or ?horridula
I sowed seed from a pale blue and a white with pale green leaves and no spots. 
First two to flower

[Thorkild Godsk]

Meconopsis baileyi alba double.
I have had Meconopsis for many years, but have never had a Meconopsis that becomes double, is it common?
Thorkild DK.

[Maggi Young]

Seems to happen from time to time - but not always as pretty as yours, Thorkild.
 This   blue one was just pictured by Chris B in a  garden she visited -

[Thorkild Godsk]

Thanks for the information. Maggi

Thorkild. DK

[ChrisB]

The people who have the garden I visited seemed to think it was a perennial.  There were certainly two double flowers on it. They have saved seed apparently. Don't think they had a name for it though...

[Maggi Young]

Andrew Luke from Kew writes  for the Hardy Plant Society about growing Meconopsis  in the south of the UK ....
http://www.hardy-plant.org.uk/blog/potm-1706



Thanks to Miranda Janatka for the link.

[ChrisB]

Thanks Maggi, interesting....

[Maggi Young]

From Alan Elliott‏  - one of the many SRGC contributors to the new Meconopsis for Gardeners book -on Twitter....

Updated this Saturday's @TheBotanics #Meconopsis workshop with 'above inflation rise' in new info including new potentially devastating pest with @ MeconopsisGroup

[Thorkild Godsk]

Meconopsis hybrid
From my garden today
Thorkild. DK

[johnw]

It's is a wonderful & long Meconopsis season this year with temperatures and rainfall just about perfect.  At a friend's garden today I spied a row a small-flowered dark blue (forget the picture) which was really quite lovely.  I asked the name and he said 'Mrs.  ___', I said  'Mrs. Jebb', no 'Mrs. something else'.  I still say 'Mrs. Jebb'.  Am I right?

The Mecs in question are in the back row, save for a pair of stray large-flowered ones.

john