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F. [hermonis amana] 'Goksum Gold' doesn't look right- it should be a good yellow.
QuoteF. [hermonis amana] 'Goksum Gold' doesn't look right- it should be a good yellow.Gerry,that's it as I got it from a well known Bulb Co. it is the greenhouse in full sun and we have had sunshine for the last two weeks.It has not been altered in any way other than to reduce the size
Gerry, can you recommend any other good frit keys apart from the one in Brian Mathews' 'Bulbs'?
Congratulations Alex - well worth the wait Gerry, can you recommend any other good frit keys apart from the one in Brian Mathews' 'Bulbs'?
Arda - is your question addressed to me or to Michael? I have grown fritillaries from seed obtained from the various seed exchanges in the UK such as the AGS & The Fritillaria Group. This seed is often incorrectly named. I have also had seed from the commercial suppliers JJA Seeds who are very good & whose seed is usually true to name. I have never collected seed in the wild because I have never been in the right place at the right time.
Michael - I suppose your plant might be a seedling. The original collection was made SE of Goksun (or Goksum), Turkey by the late Vic Horton & Norman Stevens in 1979. Norman always catalogued it as "...Yellow Form HS 2333. A nice yellow form" or "soft yellow tesselated (sic) darker". He did not bestow the cultivar name & I don't think he liked it. The plant I pictured above, although not grown by me, is identical in colour to plants I have grown from bulbs received directly from Norman & identical to all the plants I have seen under this collection number. Seeds have been available from JJA seeds (497.004) from further collections of yellow forms made more recently(1994) at the same site by Jim & Norman but Jim states that "only a very small proportion, if any, come 'true' in the first generation."