Erythronium 2019

[Herman Mylemans]

Erythronium californicum

[Herman Mylemans]

Erythronium japonicum

[Herman Mylemans]

Erythronium oregonum and Erythronium oregonum ssp leucandrum

[David Nicholson]

Erythronium 'Bryn Meifod'






Erythronium 'Susannah'

[David Nicholson]

Erythronium tuolumnense

[Claire Cockcroft]

Erythronium albidum, with most flowers open
Erythronium americanum (six more flowers ready to open)
Erythronium californicum (wire mesh to protect it from voracious rats!)

[David Nicholson]

Erythronium 'Knighthayes Pink'  the light was strong today and reflected from the leaves which in any case are much greener than they were last year?

[David Nicholson]

Erythronium 'Craigton Cover Girl'

[Gabriela]

Erythronium 'Craigton Cover Girl'

What a nice clumper the 'Craigton Cover Girl', you are so lucky to have all these 'Craigton' varieties out there

[Gabriela]

Erythronium albidum.  Many more flowers opened after I took this picture (of course).

Flowering is so well advanced in your region Claire. I hope to obtain few albidum this year, they are scarce in the wild in S. Ontario, actually never got to see them
growing wild.

[David Nicholson]

What a nice clumper the 'Craigton Cover Girl', you are so lucky to have all these 'Craigton' varieties out there

We so are

[Claire Cockcroft]

My friends from the Midwest tell me they remember Erythronium albidum and E. americanum carpeting the forest in the spring.  What I've learned is that both are very slow at colonizing for me but patience can be rewarded.   

[David Nicholson]

This is the third year I have grown this plant and I've never been sure if it is Erythronium oregonum as I bought it or if it is actually E. californicum. A study of Ian Young's book shows clearly that pollen colour in oregonum is white (mine is yellow) and the flower on my plant does look very much like californicum. Ian help please!

[brianw]

I have 2 groups of Erythronium tuolumnense in my garden. ~50 or so round a tree, originally planted 2 years ago as small offsets, but now flowering size, and another smaller group under another tree, just large enough to produce some flowers. The latter group has lost all its flowers and nearly half of the first group. Just stalks left. Very neatly disbudded.
Can't make up my mind which creature is responsible. Deer or Pheasants most likely. I fenced off the first group so we can see something this year. Is something attracted to yellow/green buds? Not noticed the deer being choosy about the tulips they eat.

[alant]

This erythronium is a hybrid from a friends garden in Monefeith.  There is probably a bit of E Hendersonii in its parents.  She named it 'Ardovie Bliss'.  It has proved to be a bit difficult to please.  This clump has sadly gone.