Scilla 2009

[olegKon]

Gote,
This is Scilla amoena. My plant looked like this last year (it is still to flower this year)

[gote]

Gote,
This is Scilla amoena. My plant looked like this last year (it is still to flower this year)

Thank you Oleg,
It looks exactkly the same. Nice to have confirmation
Göte

[Sinchets]

Flowering now, and trying not to look like a green sweetcorn cob:
Scilla hyacinthoides

[Paul T]

Simon,

I quite like that one, corn or no corn!

[Armin]

Simon,
very interesting flower stem.
What size (height) is the total plant?

[Sinchets]

Sorry for the late reply, Armin. It started flowering at about 80cm and will be about 1.5m when it stops flowering.

[Alessandro.marinello]

Mervilla plumbea var.bauerii
today in flower

[Sinchets]

Thanks Alessandro-  I've never seen one before.

[mark smyth]

Scilla hyacinthoides - what a stunning plant. How hardy is it?

[Sinchets]

I was growing it outside in Lincolnshire, and outside here too, with no protection.

[Paul T]

Is Merwilla plumbea a type of Scilla hyacinthoides, or is it synonymous?  I have grown in the past (not sure whether i still have it) Scilla hyacinthoides and it is a fairly tall thing isn't it?  I grow a purple leaf form of Merwilla plumbea (I was told at the time I bought it that the two were now synonyms, but the person I bought it from, like me, thinks they are quite different) that is only maybe 6 inches tall at the most.  Lovely dark leaves.  I wouldn't have put them together at all in my mind as the same thing, in fact far from it?  I can dig up pics, probably not very good, of my purple leaf Merwilla if anyone is interested for comparison?

[Sinchets]

Sorry, Paul. I assumed Mark was talking about the Scilla I posted a while back and not the Merwilla. I thought Merwilla was a 'new' genus made from some of the South African Scillas, whereas Scilla hyacinthoides is European.

[Paul T]

Simon,

Maybe my memory was incorrect as to which species, but I know that when I bought the Merwilla plumbea I was told that it was now a particular Scilla species which I was familiar with.... I just can't remember which one.  I recall it being a larger species, which is why it fixed in mind as being so strange that the tiny little Merwilla was part of it.  With Mark's response, I thought that must have been the species.  I'll have to try to work out which species is supposed to be the synonym now..... providing of course that I WAS informed correctly when I bought it (and knowing the person I bought it from, he does his homework very well so it should be correct).

Sorry for confusion.

[fermi de Sousa]

Simon,

Maybe my memory was incorrect as to which species, but I know that when I bought the Merwilla plumbea I was told that it was now a particular Scilla species which I was familiar with.... I just can't remember which one.  I recall it being a larger species, which is why it fixed in mind as being so strange that the tiny little Merwilla was part of it.  With Mark's response, I thought that must have been the species.  I'll have to try to work out which species is supposed to be the synonym now..... providing of course that I WAS informed correctly when I bought it (and knowing the person I bought it from, he does his homework very well so it should be correct).

Sorry for confusion.

If it was GR it could possibly be Scilla natalensis as I got a dwarf form from him which had purplish foliage.
In Australia you would often get Scilla hyacinthoides when you ordered S natalensis, to add to the confusion.
cheers
fermi

[Paul T]

Fermi,

natalensis was the other name that rang a bell.  Yes, came from him as Merwilla plumbea - purple leaf form with his explanation that it is a synonym with S. natalensis, which to me makes no sense from appearance at least?