SCILLA 2019

[Steve Garvie]

Scilla libanotica

[Hannelore]

As Scilla peruviana is doing so well here, I'd like to plant also the white form Scilla peruviana alba. A Google search found only British nurseries who sell them. Could someone recommend me a relyable seller?

BW
Hannelore

[zephirine]

Hello Hannelore,
You could order them from the french nursery where I bought mine. Didier, the owner of the "Planteurs de Brigaudière" Nursery (a few miles away from Grenoble, in the Alps), is a long time and very nice friend. He is very reliable.
If you contact him, don't hesitate to say that I (Zephirine) gave you the address....
https://www.lesplanteursdebrigaudiere.fr/mobile/catalogue/page/detail/plante/447_scille-du-peacute-rou-hyacinthaceae-scilla-peruviana-alba.html

[Hannelore]

Thank you!

[Yann]

first flowers of Scilla morrisii sown in october 2015
Scilla ingridiae var. taurica, from the Wallis

[Tomte]

This little gem opened today: Scilla winogradowii from Janis.

[Karaba]

Hyacinthoides aristides

[Tomte]

One more photo of my S. winogradowii in bright sunlight 

[Steve Garvie]

Scilla nana (Chionodoxa cretica) courtesy of the unseasonal mild weather (there is a Honey Bee in there somewhere).

[Gail]

Very lovely Steve. Way ahead of any of my Chionodoxa. (And we've had some lovely warm days bringing the honey bees out).

[Yann]

In the garden many Scilla are already faded hopefully somes are still at their best:

Scilla armena
Scilla siberica

[Tomte]

Yann, your Scilla armena is lovely. It is much lighter than mine, which is now at it's best I suppose. Strangely enough, I have some multipetaloid flowers on this one.

[Yann]

It happens sometimes when the bulbs has a too warm period inside the pot.
I also saw this on Narcissus.

Scilla messeniaca mistake from my side during photomontage , messianca has larger and thicker leaf. I'll correct that later when i'm able to reach the garden.
Scilla bithynica

[fielding]

Scilla nana now flowering here in London on a miserable wet day, much like it can be on Crete at this time of year! Mostly blue but variations often occur.

[Tomte]

It happens sometimes when the bulbs has a too warm period inside the pot.
I also saw this on Narcissus.

Thanks Yann. That might explain it. Last summer I started watering a little bit too early, then it got quite hot again in September. Killed off half of my Crocus collection, so it might also be responsible for my multipetaloid S. armena.