Flowers and Foliage September 2008

[Armin]

Gerd,
I'm anxious to see your little treasuries soon

[Paddy Tobin]

Gerd,

The red cyclamen is C. cilicium (?) normally sold here as a house plant but I  planted it out when it died back and it has grown away here for several years. Reputedly it is tender but is doing fine.

Paddy

[Gerdk]

Gerd,
The red cyclamen is C. cilicium (?) normally sold here as a house plant but I  planted it out when it died back and it has grown away here for several years. Reputedly it is tender but is doing fine.
Paddy

Paddy,
Your C. cilicicum rang a bell for me - Pasche's Colchicum spec. could be Colchicum cilicicum.
I believe your Cyclamen house plant is a small form of Cyclamen persicum, isn't it? 

Gerd

[art600]

Paddy

I agree with Gerd - the houseplant is almost certainly a Cyclamen persicum.  Our local florists claim that they are now hardy, but I doubt it.  I am aware that there are breeding programmes to i'inject' some hardiness into the tender species.

Cyclamen cilicium is one of the hardy species.  As its flower is gnerally smaller than hederifolium or coum, it is planted in rock gardens and at the edge of gardens.

[Paddy Tobin]

Gerd and Arthur,

You are both perfectly correct. Cyclamen persicum it is, indeed.

Mary usually purchases a few of these each autumn to put in pots outdoors. When  the pots are needed for something else the cyclamen are turfed out and end up in the garden somewhere. This stray has been in this spot for three or four years. When Mary has forgotten about it, I will throw it out as I don't like the clash of colours.

Paddy

[Tony Willis]

A couple of things in flower today

sternbergia gruteriana
 biarium ohridense.

[Anthony Darby]

I like Biarum ohridense. Certainly not 'orrid!

Garden centres sell packets of Cyclamen cilicium with doctored pictures showing red flowers. This lie seems to be perpetuated every year. The plant in the picture is Cyclamen hederifolium photoshopiensis!

Here are Sternbergia sicula and S. greuteriana.

[olegKon]

Tony, a fantastic biarum. Congratulations

[Gerdk]

A couple of things in flower today
sternbergia gruteriana
 biarium ohridense.

Tony,
Can't find this Biarum. Kew doesn't list it - is it a new described species?
Wonderful tinted spatha!

Gerd

[Gerdk]

Sorry,
I found it (googled with an uncorrect spelling), but the question still remains.

Gerd

[Tony Willis]

Gerd

I have it from two sources both many years ago and they look the same. I  have it from Monocot bulbs who no longer trade, a collection numbered MT4629 and also Paul Christian. I have never looked into the species description but you can see from the time I have had it and the MT reference it is not new.I also have a collection of my own from Mt Parnassus which is very similar. Lake Ohrid is of course not that far seperated geographically from Parnassus.

I have spare if you want one.

[Gerdk]

Thank you Tony! I'll send a pm.

Gerd

[mark smyth]

Ashley that's a very nice Alstroemeria. Flowering in one season great. Do you grow many others?

Edit by Maggi : refers to this post on page three of this thread....... Re: Flowers and Foliage September 2008
« Reply #36 on: September 08, 2008, 09:13:01 PM » 

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Some plants flowering here over the last few weeks:

Alstroemeria pallida, sown January 08                               /color]

[ashley]

Only a few so far Mark, and most of these yet to reach flowering size.  The pallida was unusually quick.

[gote]

For various reasons I have not been able to take many photos but I have Crocus speciosus, Lilium rosthornii and Kirengeshoma in flower, The weather is not really nice and I got a cold.
I got a pic of some seed, however. Paeonia ovalifolium I think.

Last month was a boletus month. We got more than we could take care of.

Also various other fungi (sorry for the bad focus)

I also ask forgiveness for posting a month too late.

Göte.