Eranthis 2019

[Carolyn]

You should be able to get flowers in the 3rd year of growth, certainly the 4th. I have just flowered Orange Glow and Schwefelglanz from seed, sown fresh as soon as ripe in May, germinated the following January - you just get the cotyledon leaves in the first season. Feed with very dilute tomato fertiliser till the cotyledons go dormant. 2nd season - true leaves, feed by sprinkling some of Ian Young's magic potion - sulphate of potash (or more tomato fertiliser).  By the end of the 2nd season of growth I plant them out in the garden and sometimes am rewarded with some flowers in season 3. If you get seeds from the seedex, they will not be fresh and are unlikely to germinate well. I bought some GA3 a couple of years ago and tried it with eranthis. 100% germination by the next spring!

[Mariette]

Oops! Thanks for moving my post to the correct thread! 

Mariette, Thanks! is it too cold to grow them at your place?

In this part of Germany we enjoy zone 7 b - 8 a, too. But the boggy rural area where I´m gardening is infested with slugs, which renders the culture of the white species unreasonable. They´d look so wonderful combined with black or blue hellebores. Eranthis stellata flowers together with Adonis amurensis in Eastern Russia, a beautiful sight I once admired seeing a report featuring that area.

[David Nicholson]

Eranthis hyemalis but it would be nicer to see them open.

[Maggi Young]

They're  a lot further on than here, David - a touch of sun (google it - you'll remember it  when you see some photos) and they'll be lovely.

I fear there is a lot more nasty weather to come yet, so I'm not too worried about our  flowers  being a little "shy" !!

[David Nicholson]

They're  a lot further on than here, David - a touch of sun (google it - you'll remember it  when you see some photos) and they'll be lovely.

I fear there is a lot more nasty weather to come yet, so I'm not too worried about our  flowers  being a little "shy" !!

Ah, yes. Round thing, gets hot?

[Maggi Young]

Ah, yes. Round thing, gets hot?

That's the one - not to be confused with a set of similar things in the kitchen!!

[David Nicholson]

That's the one - not to be confused with a set of similar things in the kitchen!!

Even I can tell the sun from a teapot

[Gail]

Flowering here 'Pauline' and 'Copenhagen' (syn of Flore Pleno according to Wim's article in IRG)

[Maggi Young]

Ian got a couple of nice  plants of  different Eranthis from Chris Ireland-Jones of  Avon  in Co. Carlow last weekend.. only slightly squashed after their  journey home!

[Herman Mylemans]

Eranthis hyemalis 'Orange Glow'



Eranthis hyemalis 'Schwefelglanz'



Eranthis x tubergenii ‘Sachsengold’

[barnclos]

For the last week, it has been clear skies, 8 °C maximum, -1 °C overnight. Eranthis seem to be loving it. There were a couple of pots with flowers last year, but this is the first year with a ‘full house’. Unnamed variety bought at garden centre, seeds sown fresh in May 2014.

[Mariette]

Some seedlings of ´Lady Lamortagne´.

[YT]

Eranthis pinnatifida, a pink form

[Steve Garvie]

What a cracking wee plant Tatsuo!

[Roma]

Eranthis cilicica
It's taken a few years to get this established and I'm not sure they are all correct.  I twice bought a potful at the SRGC Early Bulb Display.  I have grown some from seed and they have self seeded.  They are much later flowering than hyemalis.  The tall ones on the left look as if they might be hybrids.