Eranthis 2019

[Janis Ruksans]

Eranthis byunsanensis from Korea

[kot]

Eranthis coll. Kot

[Leena]

I'm still having trouble identifying Eranthis. I have bought all these from garden center as E.hyemalis and they flower at the same time.
I'm thinking could the first one be E.cilicica?
How about the second and the third picture, are they E.hyemalis?

[Herman Mylemans]

I'm still having trouble identifying Eranthis. I have bought all these from garden center as E.hyemalis and they flower at the same time.
I'm thinking could the first one be E.cilicica?
How about the second and the third picture, are they E.hyemalis?

Leena look at http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2014Jan291391022895IRG49.pdf   there is a fine description of Eranthis.

[Leena]

  Thank you Herman. E.cilicica is easier because more pinnate and bronze leaves, but I'm not sure how to tell E.hyemalis and E.x tubergenii.. It seems that when you buy Eranthis from garden centers you can not be sure what you get. Here also they flower at the same time, so even that is not a feature I can use to tell which is which.

[Alan_b]

In my old very dry garden Eranathis hyemalis grew like a weed whilst Eranthis cilicica always died out very rapidly; mostly it never returned the following year. 

[Leena]

I am struggling with all Eranthis, the conditions in my garden are not ideal for them, because I know people here in Finland who can grow them well, so it is not the climate.

[Carolyn]

Leena,
I struggled to grow Eranthis at first in my garden, I bought some "in the green" and planted them. The slugs soon finished them off.... then I tried buying some in pots, pollinating the flowers and harvesting seeds. After repeating this process for several years I now have a nice colony of self-seeding plants in the garden - including cilicica (and I live on the wet west coast) and 'Schwefelglanz'  and 'Orange glow' which come true from seed. I think sowing very fresh seed is the answer. I have found that older dry seed can germinate if treated with GA3, so seeds fromthe seed exchanges can be of use too.

[Leena]

I haven't had very good germination from seed ex seeds, but will try them again. Getting different colour forms of Eranthis would be nice.
I have waited for Eranthis to form colonies by self seeding, but I will try your method, Carolyn, and collect the seeds and sow them in pots! Then all the seeds have a good chance of germinating, if left to seed to the ground there may be too many perils for them.

[Mariette]

Two new seedlings.

[Tomte]

I have shown these Eranthis pinnatifida seedlings in the photos of seedlings thread a week earlier, but today they had a much more pleasant appearance, so I‘ll show them again. The were just sown in 2017 from the few seeds I harvested from my first flowering plant, and they grew to flowering size quite quickly. Given that this species is still quite pricey, growing from seed is fairly attractive indeed!

[Mariette]

Very beautiful, Tomte! Unfortunately, the white species are not happy in my garden.

The buds of ths Eranthis ´Sachsengold´look fascinating, I think.

[barnclos]

Very happy to find this pot with E. pinnatifida. I bought them from Japan in autumn 2018 but there was no growth 2019 so I assumed their journey had been too much for them. Clearly they’re tougher than I thought (especially as they were neglected and left outside all winter).
Maybe some flowers next year.