Scilla 2009

[Sinchets]

That seems utterly bizarre to supply S.hyacinthoides as S.natalensis. I have had S.autumnalis as S.hyacinthoides before, but at least they are from the same continent

[Anthony Darby]

Here is my flower of Scilla scilloides, which has flowered without water.

[Ragged Robin]

Not sure what to make of that, Anthony, but I love the colour and delicacy of your Scilla scilloides

[Sinchets]

Maybe you should enter it for the next round of "Survivor". 

[Anthony Darby]

It'll soon be September when it rains heavily in my greenhouse.

[fermi de Sousa]

Here's Scilla greilhuberi


cheers
fermi

[Sinchets]

Scilla lingulata flowering indoors here. We haven't tried this one outside yet, maybe next year  

[Anthony Darby]

A lovely colour. My S. autumnalis is just coming out in the greenhouse.

[Sinchets]

The hillside up the road should be covered in S.autumnalis, but we will have to wait until early October for that. 

[Sinchets]

First flowering of bulbs grown from seed as Scilla hanburyi (SL87 Jordan)

[Hristo]

Then again maybe the Scilla autumnalis will start flowering in August!
Thousands of stems in the Sinite Kameni at around 1000m.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Very delicate flower on S hanburyi Simon !
I love it !

[Anthony Darby]

I have Scilla autumnalis flowering now.

[tonyg]

Scilla lingulata flowering indoors here. We haven't tried this one outside yet, maybe next year  

Here in East Anglia Scilla lingulata (now reclassified as Hyacinthoides lingulata) survives close to the house but dies away when planted in more exposed places.  The foliage is vulnerable to frost damage which weakens the bulbs over the years.  It is a prolific increaser in pots under cold glass.  I have a feeling your winters might defeat it although the snow cover might protect the leaves from the worst frost?

[Sinchets]

Scilla lingulata flowering indoors here. We haven't tried this one outside yet, maybe next year  

Here in East Anglia Scilla lingulata (now reclassified as Hyacinthoides lingulata) survives close to the house but dies away when planted in more exposed places.  The foliage is vulnerable to frost damage which weakens the bulbs over the years.  It is a prolific increaser in pots under cold glass.  I have a feeling your winters might defeat it although the snow cover might protect the leaves from the worst frost?

Thanks, Tony. I was wondering where it had toddled off to in the recent reshuffle 
I will try one bulb outside next year. As you say the snow may help protect the leaves, though March frosts between snow melts did burn off a lot of leaves on Muscari grandifolium and Scilla melaina. Both went on to flower, but I will see next year whether this affected bulb strength.