Meconopsis 2018

[Claire Cockcroft]

This is the first Meconopsis aculeata I've grown from seed to flowering.

[P. Kohn]

Very nice. Our batch of aculeata is not quite open here (Sheffield UK) yet but your plant has a better colour than what I grew last year. M. racemosa is in full full flower, though, and is an even better blue. I t seems to be one of the easiest small blue 'alpine' meconopsis species.

[Maggi Young]

"Meconopsis superba from Bhutan starting to flower in woodland Garden. What a majestic white flower and beautiful in leaf also."  John Mitchell  RBGE 

[Maggi Young]

Meconopsis 'Marit' from Ian Christie  " very special -yes Meconopsis should be blue -would not be without this one."





and also from Ian , his very special perennial form of Meconopsis punicea ....




Meconopsis punicea 'Sichuan Silk' -  the perennial form

[David Shaw]

A new little cutie (for us) is M. yaoshanensis from the seedex 2016/17. There is negligible information on Google but it is obviously of the Horridula group and undoubtedly monocarpic. Just hoping that the local insects find it interesting.

[Maggi Young]

 I see what you mean by not much info around, David!

Section: FORRESTIANAE

    M. forrestii (Type Species)
    M. lancifolia
    M. yaoshanensis    and that's about it.

 John Richards described  it in a blog in 2017  as one of the "most desirable Mecs"  ... but that's all.
It may be that membership of the Meconopsis Group, with access to their reports and  private members' areas might yield  more  details.

[arisaema]

Full text of the description is available here: http://journal.kib.ac.cn/EN/article/downloadArticleFile.do?attachType=PDF&id=3044

[Maggi Young]

Oh, that's great, Bobo, thank you. 

[David Shaw]

Many, many thanks for the link, Arisaema.

[johnw]

Meconopsis 'Jimmy Bayne' buds yesterday at 10:40, picture 1.  Then the temperature shot up to 25c.  Photo 2 taken at 20:24 on the same day. Picture 3 this morning.

johnw - +8c and damp.

[johnw]

Meconopsis 'Slieve Donard' yesterday, such an arresting colour.

johnw

[David Nicholson]

John, what beautiful colour, these really do make we weep. I've tried Mecs a number of times; from offsets that Angie sent me; from plugs a few years ago when Susan Band had some and also from seed. My last try from seed gave me good germination but I lost the ones I had potted on, on the other hand the three I passed on to a friend thrived and indeed flowered this year- but his garden is a lot shadier than mine. I bet Barry Starling's garden has them in spades!

A few weeks ago I went to see Logan Botanic Garden and bought a pot of Meconopsis botanicifolia there. I'm proud to say that it flowered but it doesn't look terribly healthy.

[Steve Garvie]

Meconopsis integrifolia ex Balang Shan, Sichuan. Image taken in mid May.


Meconopsis henrici -currently in flower.

[Carolyn]

Beautiful mecs, Steve, especially henrici - perfect. i hope it is still perfect after yesterday's wind. My mecs and cardiocrinum have been torn to shreds by the wind, which first came from the south then moved to the west to inflict more damage. And we have our garden open on Sunday.....

[Steve Garvie]

Thanks Carolyn.
Sorry to hear about your wind damage. My small garden hasn’t suffered too badly other than a few tall blue mecs flopping over in the swirling winds.

Henrici is quite dwarf producing a fairly wind-resistant compact leaf rosette and a series of flowers on sequential multiple basal scapes. Sadly it is monocarpic. I have about 8 unflowered young plants which I plan to plant out in a sunny shale scree raised bed in the hope that I can keep it going from seed.