Flowering now in the garden March 2009

[gote]

Cuttings aren't an option and division is risky. Better to grow some fresh seed from your best forms. They germinate quickly and freely and once potted up or pricked out, grow quickly. Usually they flower at about 18 months from seed depending on the time of year the seed was sown.

You can make them flower a second time - good for a late show - by feeding with a high potash fertilizer about 2 months before the required date.

I have not tried myself but I have read that choice pulsatillas can be propagated by root cuttings.
Göte

[Jo]

Erythronium dens canis forms are nearly over here these two are still reasonable but I must admit they look very similar to me 

Erythronium dens canis 'Old Aberdeen' and E dc 'Purple King'

[Gerry]

Erythronium dens canis forms are nearly over here these two are still reasonable but I must admit they look very similar to me 

Erythronium dens canis 'Old Aberdeen' and E dc 'Purple King'

I had a decent clump of Old Aberdeen for several years from one bulb via Paul Christian. I let a dealer have most of them [foolish], and the remaining couple of bulbs just 'faded away'. They were re-planted in the same place.

I've no idea why this should happen as DC seems to be a good doer. Anyone had similar experiences?

Gerry

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Not really the same situation Gerry, but I had an old clump of E. dens canis that had become overcrowded and didn't flower any more.
I dug it up two years ago, enriched the hole with quite a bit of dried cow dung, planted them back in the same spot and gave them the potash regime I. Young advocates, I had one flower last year and 4 this year.... 

[Tony Willis]

a minute but very nice viola

Viola spathulata

[Luc Gilgemyn]

What a beautiful little treasure Tony !

[Sinchets]

Very nice Tony- i just googled it- from Iran. Is it from seed?

[ichristie]

Hi all some fantastic pictures, I am pleased to say that we are back to spring today and hope that winter is now over a few plants flowering today,  cheers Ian the Christie kind.

 Callianthemum anemonoides
 Cordalis solida
 Erythronium dens canis Frans Hals
 Erythronium dens canis from Ascreavie
 Erythronium japonicum
 First butterfly on primula denticulata
 Rhododendron forrestii repens
 Sebaea thomasii
 Primula Wharfdale Ling

[annew]

Beautiful, ITCK.
Here are a couple from Yorkshire. Veronica 'Georgia Blue' flowers for months in winter and spring, and likes to climb through Pinus 'Winter Gold'. Somewhere in the second picture is a large bumblebee hiding amongst the flowers of Pulmonaria angustifolia (a little blurred because it was very windy here today). The third photo shows Trillium 'Roy Elliot' in the process of turning pink after pollination.

[Paddy Tobin]

Anne,

I think you should offer a prize for whoever can spot the bumble bee - say, a plant of Trillium 'Roy Elliot'

It's worse than "Where's Wally?" I can't spot it at all.

Paddy

[annew]

Neither can I, the flippin' thing dipped inside a flower every time the wind eased off enough for me to take a picture.

[Lesley Cox]

I have not tried myself but I have read that choice pulsatillas can be propagated by root cuttings.
Göte

I too, understand this to be the case but like you Gote, I've not tried it. I imagine the roots would need to be those reasonably close to the plant and quite thick, not the further out stringy ones. I don't like the thought of disturbing the plant to the extent where I'd be able to clip some of those off.

[Tony Willis]

Very nice Tony- i just googled it- from Iran. Is it from seed?

No I got it from my friend Dieter Zschummel when I visited him last summer.

[Sinchets]

Very nice Tony- i just googled it- from Iran. Is it from seed?

No I got it from my friend Dieter Zschummel when I visited him last summer.

Well it's a stunner Tony- I know nothing about Viola from that area. Is it a year round grower or does it have a dormant period?

[Hristo]

In the bulb frame, Iris aucheri and sindeprs, I have posted earlier pics on the Juno pages but all the aucheri that had buds are now flowering and the sindpers is onto flowers 2 and 3. The puschkinia is an old friend that has been with me since I first got interested in bulbs, probably bought from Findlay Clark as was in Aberdeen, this plant is a seasoned traveller!