Pulsatilla 2019

[Gerdk]

Pulsatilla patens - somewhat sad about cold (+ 5 ° C) and wind
and
Pulsatilla grandis - selfseeded in a trough

Gerd

[kris]

Gerd your Pulsatilla patens looks really beautiful.
It looks different from the one that grows wild here.
Today I went for a walk near the Saskatchewan river and I saw lots and lots of Pulsatilla patens flowering.
1. Pulsatilla patens
2. pulsatilla patens.
3. the field of pulsatilla

[Gerdk]

Gerd your Pulsatilla patens looks really beautiful.
It looks different from the one that grows wild here.
Today I went for a walk near the Saskatchewan river and I saw lots and lots of Pulsatilla patens flowering.
1. Pulsatilla patens
2. pulsatilla patens.
3. the field of pulsatilla

Thank you Kris. Yours are looking fine also!

Are they called ' Prairie Crocus'?

Gerd

[kris]

yes. The field where I went for the walk has the name"crocus prairie"

[Gerdk]

Pulsatilla grandis ex Puchberg/Austria

and

Pulsatilla albana hybrid 'Renate'

Gerd

[Rick R.]

Pulsatilla flavescens hybrid from traded seed.

A few days ago in the rain


Today

[Gabriela]

Pulsatilla albana hybrid 'Renate'

Gerd

What a rich yellow colour on this albana hybrid!

Pulsatilla flavescens hybrid fom NARGS seed.

Great rain-sun pictures

[Gail]

A few days ago in the rain
Today

I love that transformation from bedraggled kitten to sun-worshiper!

[Gerdk]

What a rich yellow colour on this albana hybrid!

Thank you Gabriela - the hybrid was raised in the Alpine Staudengärtnerei/Rodeberg inThuringia and got its name after the owner Renate. The parentage was not fully known.

Gerd

[kris]

Gerd that is a beautiful yellow  shade and The Pulsatilla flavescens is fantastic.
Rick I have a question for you
is the pulsatilla flavescens need acid soil?
Here are two pictures from my garden. The first one I got the seeds as pulsatilla grands.
The second one I have no idea. Any Pulsatilla experts please identify for me.
1.Pulsatilla grandis.
2. Pulsatilla sp

[Rick R.]

Rick I have a question for you
is the pulsatilla flavescens need acid soil?

The seed was  was labeled P. flavescens.  We've determined here that it is more likely a hybrid of the species.  Nevertheless, I think it is a beauty!  The pH is about 7.  It grows to the south and outside the canopy of a white spruce in clay based, black soil.  I sure the tree sucks up any excess moisture.   I can even grow Iris suaveolens well there, as long as nothing encroaches on its sun.

[Rick R.]

Kris, regarding your second pic, Pulsatilla sp.: did you expect it to have a double flower?

Second year plants from your Allium pseudojaponicum seed are coming up now!

[Gerdk]

Additionally these two pics added

Pulsatilla vulgaris rubra - of commerce
and
Pulsatilla rubra hispanica  - ex AGS seed, sown December 23rd, 2016

Gerd

[Rick R.]

Seed for this one came as Pulsatilla halleri, from Harold McBride.  But it must be a hybrid (?) since the leaves come out at the same time as the flowers....

Really BIG flowers, too.

[Rick R.]

The wild Pulsatilla patens here in Minnesota are like yours, Kris.  Just a hint of lavender on the petal tops.  I am told that there are dark forms (somewhere), but have never seen them myself.  The ones in southern Manitoba are light colored like the ones I show here from southern Minnesota.

So this is a sand prairie, of mostly stabilized sand dunes.  There are still a few active blowouts, and you can see a remnant in the center background in the first photo. The evergreens are Red cedar (Juniperus virginiana).  This area is managed as a prairie, and is regularly burned as it would in nature.







Baptisia lactea from last year can break off and act like a tumbleweed.