Muscari 2018

[David Nicholson]

Muscari latifolium

[Rimmer de Vries]

Hi Tatsuo
It had the wrong tag, got mixed up in the move  but since there are so mamy it must have been a potfull of seedlings and Gul gave the most seeds so I think you are correct as my other pink forms are blooming now. Probably from the Wallis’s.

 

Hello, Rimmer. Where did your pink muscari come from? That looks similar to "JJA 688.012 : MUSCARI ARMENIACUM from PINK FORM".
It is described as "From a selection made in Turkey by Bob & Rannveig Wallis over a decade ago. This has now been named ‘Gul’, Turkish for rose." on the JJA Master List of Seed Numbers (download the pdf file here)
I posted the pictures of it several times on this forum before.
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=8371.msg240465#msg240465
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=13877.msg353838#msg353838

[Rimmer de Vries]

Muscari mcbeathianum, JJA 690.080

Hi Tatsuo
Wonderful!
How do you grow this plant.
I have tried several times in fine sand in cold frame while in Michigan and it never lasted long.
Now i cannot find a source.
Rimmer

[Rimmer de Vries]

Another muscari / leopoldii / bellevalia with a lost tag (birds?). Probably grown from Wallis or JJA seed. Any ideas?
blooming now in Mid April i think this blomed in May in Michigan.

[Yann]

Bellevalia forminii, south of Armenia

[Neil]

I have a Muscari macrocarpum that has bulked up from 1, in  2016 to 6 plants this year however exch time it has flowered as soon as all the flowers have opened it falls over. The stem is not strong enough to support the weight.  Any ideas why it does this?

[David Nicholson]

I have a Muscari macrocarpum that has bulked up from 1, in  2016 to 6 plants this year however exch time it has flowered as soon as all the flowers have opened it falls over. The stem is not strong enough to support the weight.  Any ideas why it does this?

So does mine!

[Maggi Young]

Good question!
In cultivation it seems to me that good forms will make very large flower heads- which must be hard to support.
Perhaps  there is not enough moisture being taken up /applied at this time to enable the stems to  hold the flowers?  Quite how to get the roots to be able to enable a greater uptake of  fluid to strengthen the stems is another  question.  

[ArnoldT]

I have my M. macrocarpum growing among some Ornithogalum  umbellatum.
The foliage of the Ornithogalums seem to hold the large flower heads of the M. macrocarpum erect.

Not sure how they grow in habitat but it may be an answer.

[Neil]

Where did you get yours from David,  mine was from Aberconwy Nursery,  may be worth getting some from another nursery and seeing how their do. 

[David Nicholson]

Haven't a clue where I got it Neil, I've had quite a long time.

[Harald-Alex.]

first time grow Muscari macrocarpum in our garden and survived frosts in begin of march till -18°C. They Looks well and stands stabil, Foto1.
The Foto2 Shows the Muscari-Sortiment, all are well and undamaged, the M. macrocarpum flowes at last!

[Maggi Young]

Heinz-Harald's M. macrocarpum growing outside  certainly have nice short stems - which probably helps in keeping them upright. 

[Harald-Alex.]

Heinz-Harald's M. macrocarpum growing outside  certainly have nice short stems - which probably helps in keeping them upright.

Hallo Maggi, I got the bulbs of M. macrocarpum late in autumn and planted they late in November, maybe is this the reason of the short stems. I was very surprised about the frostresistence of this variety, I thought, that they are more fragile!
Also Bellevalia I planted first time and they are hardy also, one of the flowerstems are dubbled!

[Rimmer de Vries]

Unknown large bellevalia from Turket with very long pedicels. Not mich colour to flowers but interestimg to look at, like a pine seedling