Asarum

[WimB]

The ones with the brown and yellow flowers look particularly edible, they remind me of small easter eggs filled with "advocaat" (now I have to go and eat some chocolate...)

[Carlo]

Might be able to help out next week. I've got a fair selection here...and an even better reference (you know the one Maggi).

[Lesley Cox]

The ones with the brown and yellow flowers look particularly edible, they remind me of small easter eggs filled with "advocaat" (now I have to go and eat some chocolate...)

Well it's almost Easter Sunday. Chocolate and advocaat eh?

[Maggi Young]

Carlo: I do? 

Lesley: two minds with but a single thought! 

[Tony Willis]

here is where I dig myself into a hole.
1,3,4,5,6 are Asarum maximum
7,8 are Asarum campanulatum

[Lesley Cox]

Lesley: two minds with but a single thought! 

Two hearts that beat as one?  Perhaps not.

[Diane Clement]

here is where I dig myself into a hole.
1,3,4,5,6 are Asarum maximum   7,8 are Asarum campanulatum   

I'll join you in the hole, Tony, agree on all the campanulatums and maximums (although 5 is a bit brown?)
and try for 2 and 11 as Asarum splendens
No.10 & 12 are familiar and I'm sure we've had these before but the names elude me at the moment

[WimB]

Ladies,

I didn't tempt you to much with the suggestion of chocolate filled with advocaat, did I? 

[ichristie]

thank you very much for showing us these wonderful plants, i notice the potting mix has lots of perlite and what looks like a very rough peat. Do you grow these under cover all the time and do you liquid feed them??. I must try and find some plants most interesting,  cheers Ian the Christie kind.

[johanneshoeller]

I grow the Asarum in a green house, but will try to grow outside this year. I use this soil for all Liliums, too.

The flowers are very different. Some A. maximum have black flowers, others brown or brownish. Are these all maximum?

[Tony Willis]

I grow the Asarum in a green house, but will try to grow outside this year. I use this soil for all Liliums, too.

The flowers are very different. Some A. maximum have black flowers, others brown or brownish. Are these all maximum?

some of the brownish ones may be delavayi.

I grow mine in a frame. The biggest problem is slugs which decimate them.I also get self sown seedlings in the sand plunge.

[Lesley Cox]

Ladies,

I didn't tempt you to much with the suggestion of chocolate filled with advocaat, did I? 

Well it does sound very good Wim. Perhaps for Roger's birthday which is today (12th) but really he's a roast beef and Yorkshire pudding man, rather than anything sweet. I'm taking him out for a treat, to an Apple event, put on by the local Slow Food people. There is to be a lot of cider, a press in operation, old apple varieties to sample and many other odds and ends related to apples. The sort of occasion he enjoys.

[Paul T]

Lesley,

Well Happy Birthday to Roger, from across the pond.

[Carlo]

Maggi,

The japanese book we both now have in our libraries with the 400+ photographs of asarum in all their grotesque splendor...

[Maggi Young]

Oh, that book.....yes........ but where have I put it?