Ranunculus 2010

[Miriam]

Ranunculus asiaticus from my garden: orange and red forms.

[Lesley Cox]

These are beautiful Miriam. Are they close to the wild plants?

[fermi de Sousa]

These are beautiful Miriam. Are they close to the wild plants?

No, they're probably on the other side of the fence
cheers
fermi

[Hans A.]

Wonderful plants Miriam!
I wonder single forms are so rare in cultivation, in my opinion much better (even shorter flowering) than the double (monster) forms.

[BULBISSIME]

Miriam, veyr nice flowers, that seems to be quite smaller than western plants

[ranunculus]

Magnificent blooms Miriam ... many thanks for posting.

[Miriam]

Thanks for your comments!
Lasley,
This species is quite common here, growing not far from where I live.

Hans,
I think we have a similar taste in plants 

[Otto Fauser]

Thanks for your comments!
Lesley,
This species is quite common here, growing not far from where I live.

Hans,
I think we have a similar taste in plants  

Miriam , like you and Hans I adore the single Ranunculus asiaticus - so beautyful . Could the orange form be a cross between the red and the yellow one ?
      
         Otto.

[Tony Willis]

Miriam

lovely flowers and good to see. I think they would probably be the least hardy forms for us to grow. I am hopeful of mine surviving the winter with just a covering of bubble wrap. Previously I have always kept them frost free.I have the Mt Hermon form coming on from seed but I am keeping this warm at the moment

[Darren]

One of my favourite plants! I grow several single flowered colour forms from various locations, and I also really dislike the double forms. The clone 'Ken Aslet',which has broad overlapping petals and often looks semi-double, is beautiful though.

I've never seen an orange one. My crosses of red x yellow often produce yellow flowers with a reddish tint on the back of the petals but I've never had a true orange. Lovely pictures Miriam.

Tony - I've a number of accidental two year old seedlings in my bulb frame, with only a top cover for protection, and they have been unaffected by the recent cold weather. Newly germinated seedlings were killed though. 'Ken Aslet' (originating from Rhodes I think) is reputed to be fully hardy and it probably helps that it comes into growth very late here. I've not tried any of my plants from Israeli seed outside and suspect you might be right about these being the least hardy.

If anyone is interested - I've written up my experiences with growing this in the UK as a little article for the Rock Garden. Anton hopes to publish it in July.

[ranunculus]

If anyone is interested - I've written up my experiences with growing this in the UK as a little article for the Rock Garden. Anton hopes to publish it in July.

Very much looking forward to reading that Darren.

[Miriam]

Otto and Darren,
The common form here is the red form. Orange and yellow forms are more rare.
The yellow color is present also in the regular form (the red form) as a back ground color, but it is hidden by the red color, so it doesn't appear (yet it contributes to the color tends to orange in the red form).
When the the red color is lacking (partially or entirely), then the orange (red+yellow) or yellow colors will appear.

I have raised my orange form from seeds collected from a red form X red form.

[Lesley Cox]

The only asiaticus I have is a garden centre "monster" double red and like everyone here I think, I like the singles much more. I have a few seedlings from mine which I hope will be single, but the red was pollinated with R. cortusifolius.

[Darren]

This is my first to flower this year. It is the same clone which featured in the 2009 Northumberland Show report and is one of the results of my crossing the yellow & red forms. I did have a much better clone with an almost solid bronze/red reverse but it was soon lost. I'm pretty sure this isn't a viral effect in this case.

[Tony Willis]

Darren that is nice a lovely colour. Hope you are bringing it on Thursday evening so I can see it in the flesh