Epimedium - various threads gathered together here

[johnw]

We have seedlings of The Giant and The Giant x wushanense, both from Philip.  We have not had to raise the greenhouse roof or open the louvres just yet.

I will let Philip know he is being beckoned on this thread.

I hear you got a rattling today in New England Mark. 

johnw       - +1c and getting cold.

[TheOnionMan]

We have seedlings of The Giant and The Giant x wushanense, both from Philip.  We have not had to raise the greenhouse roof or open the louvres just yet.

I will let Philip know he is being beckoned on this thread.

I hear you got a rattling today in New England Mark. 

johnw       - +1c and getting cold.

With the limited flowering on my division of "The Giant" I did use every flower for hybridization, and sowed what little seed I got.  We can compare notes in 3 years time to see what develops

John, I'm not sure what the "rattling" is that you refer to, was there an earthquake report of some significance someplace?

[johnw]

I hear you got a rattling today in New England Mark.  
johnw       - +1c and getting cold.

John, I'm not sure what the "rattling" is that you refer to, was there an earthquake report of some significance someplace?
[/quote]

Yes Mark, there was a 3.9 earthquake in New England England yesterday. Did you sleep through it?

johnw  -   -3c

[Mick McLoughlin]

There was an eathquake in Northern England last night.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-12109625
Not felt in this far south though.

[johnw]

Mick  - Only 3,000+ miles off!

johnw

[Lesley Cox]

Christchurch is still getting aftershocks of up to 4.9 and even Haiti is still moving, a full year after the mainevent.

[manicbotanic]

thankyou mark..there the pics that made me first aware of it..looking at them again makes me want it more..am sure there must be few others in uk willing to split an order to garden vision..if not its empty suitcase and flight to hubbardston..

[Philip MacDougall]

More a lurker than a poster but I'm sitting at home with the flu and have little energy to do more than surf the web. Feeling a bit better today and with a nudge from John Weagle I'll post some pics from last spring. Note a few seedlings of Epimedium The Giant flowered the same year they germinated, I anxiously await the rest and to see how they perform as mature plants. Hopefully many will be crosses with the equally good Epimedium wushanense, which should never be confused with the plant marketed as E. wushanense Caramel. Philip


Epimedium the giant.JPG
Epimedium the Giant spray.JPG
Epimedium The Giant 1.0.JPG
Epimedium The Giant Hybrid1.JPG
Epimedium The Giant Hybrid 2.JPG
Epimedium The Giant hybrid 3.JPG
Epimedium brachyrhizum.JPG
Epimedium brachyrhizum1.JPG
Epimedium chlorandrum.JPG
Epimedium davidi or something close

[Philip MacDougall]

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Epimedium davidii.JPG
Epimedium dolichostemon.JPG
Epimedium epstenii.JPG
epimedium fangi.JPG
Epimedium fargesii.JPG
Epimedium Hotlips.JPG
Epimedium ogisui.JPG
Epimedium pauciflorum.JPG
Epimedium pink champange.JPG
Epimedium Skydiver.JPG

[Philip MacDougall]

Epimedium wushanense. I've never been happy with my photos of this plant, they never seem to convey how good it is. I'll make another concerted effort this spring. Philip

[johnw]

Sitting in a hotel room in St. John's. Just had supper with Todd B. and Bodil L. and much plant talk.

My that E. chlorandrum is a beauty in new leaf.  Also the wushanense is spectacular.

Philip - I hope you don't have the Yin Yang Huo flu, it is said to be very nasty and said to cause delusions in height.

johnw - about -3c but wallflowers in bloom outside the door!

[TheOnionMan]

Philip, I nearly fell out of my chair looking at those scrumptious Epimediums.  I know that your are trialing some of Darrell Probst's plants, and it seems that they are doing extremely well for you.  The bounty of flowers on 'The Giant' is utterly ridiculous (and I mean that in a good way), all I can say is WOW!  I hope my new 2009 start of this plant reaches even half the proportions and floral bounty of your plant.

Interesting to see the hybrids... amazing that you had flowering in the first year from seed, it must make a world of difference having a greenhouse than not having one.  Are all three hybrids with E. wushanense, or are other species/cultivars possibly involved?  On the darker purplish one, I'd have to imagine some other parent is involved.

Regarding E. 'Hotlips', I recognize this as one from Diana Reeck of Collector's Nursery, although it is one I don't grow... very attractive!  Just googled and I find that E. 'Skydiver' is yet another one from Collector's Nursery... not familiar with that one, looks distinctive.  I would like to know more about the possible parentage of these two.

The foliage on your E. chlorandrum is spectacular, as is your E. wushananse plant... I like the buds in the 3rd shot.  I grow the one Darrell calls "Spiny-leaved Forms", which grow shorter and has more compact closely spaced white and yellow flowers; I think I like the taller more upright growing E. wushanense for white flowers that are much better displayed, although the foliage on the "Spiny-leafed Forms" is worth growing for the foliage alone.

Thanks for showing all these.  May you feel better and recover quickly from the flu, although you do realize that you are probably highly contagious and have certainly spread Chinese Epimedium Flu through the forum by now

[Brian Ellis]

Philip I am sitting here absolutely stagmogrified, that Epimedium 'The Giant' is something else   and the E. wushananse is most attractive too.  Thanks for stunning us

[Maggi Young]

Philip, I'm sorry to hear you are suffering with the 'flu.... but I have to say that it is great for the rest of us, since it has given us the chance to get you posting here!
 Thanks... and get well (quite) soon!! 

[gerrit]

During this dark period we all can use an injection, which let us feel somewhat better, but on the other hand makes us long to the spring still so far away. Fine pictures Philip.



  May you feel better and recover quickly from the flu, although you do realize that you are probably highly contagious and have certainly spread Chinese Epimedium Flu through the forum by now
[/quote]

Good joke Mark, and true words Maggi

Gerrit