Sternbergia 2010

[Gail]

I admired marvelous clump of this Turkishe odalisque in the garden of Kelaidis family in Denver (back yard). But Panayoti divorced with Gwen and in this way he divorced with Sternbergia candida. I would like to try it in my hot garden in Bohemia one day. Sternbergia lutea is Qeen of Autumn there.

I would definitely want custody of any Sternbergias in event of a divorce too!

[fermi de Sousa]

Sternbergia candida is now flowering in Central winter in the depths of winter.




This was grown by Otto Fauser from seed and I received one of the 2 bulbs he raised! It seems to have settled into life in the country quite nicely!
cheers
fermi

[Paul T]

Fermi,

If you have the second bulb he raised, are you collecting pollen to cross pollinate with his?  No, I'm not asking for seed, just raising that it probably won't set seed alone and having two clones would be far more likely to produce them?

[pehe]

My first autumn Sternbergia in flower is colchiciflora under glass. Some of my sicula show their flower buds now.

Poul

[fermi de Sousa]

If you have the second bulb he raised, are you collecting pollen to cross pollinate with his?  No, I'm not asking for seed, just raising that it probably won't set seed alone and having two clones would be far more likely to produce them?

 
We have clever bees in Redesdale!
cheers
fermi

[Tony Willis]

first sternbergia to flower

Sternbergia sicula 'John Marr'

[Maggi Young]

Sunshine in a pot, Tony: it  does my heart good to see them on this rather grey day.

[pehe]

Lovely sight Tony! They look very pretty in the sunshine.

Poul

[pehe]

I have made an Sternbergia experiment this year. At the end of July one of my pots of sicula was watered unintended during my vacation. The water hose from my automatic watering system had a leak and the sicula pot got a lot of water. That resulted in a lot of leaves in August. Pic one shows how it look today.
Another pot was watered two weeks ago. Pic two.
The third one was watered yesterday, when I saw the first flowerbuds. Pic three.
The leason I learned from that experiment is that the amount of leaves at flowering time highly depends upon watering, but the flowering time is almost independent of watering.
Al the siculas are the same clone which I got from Janis Ruksans last year.

In the garden Sternbergia lutea 'Villa Carlotta'  have shown the first leaves.

Poul

[TheOnionMan]

Poul, an excellent experiment, thanks for sharing the results.  Regarding dryness, I noticed Colchicum montanum flowered with virtually no water for 2-1/2 months; I noticed it flowering while the soil was bone dry and in 93 F heat (34 C), although the flowers looked floppy and sort of miserable.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

first sternbergia to flower

Sternbergia sicula 'John Marr'

A real cracker Tony !!

Very interesting info Poul - I'm sure we'll be seeing much more flowers yet !

[krisderaeymaeker]

I have made an Sternbergia experiment this year. At the end of July one of my pots of sicula was watered unintended during my vacation. The water hose from my automatic watering system had a leak and the sicula pot got a lot of water. That resulted in a lot of leaves in August. Pic one shows how it look today.
Another pot was watered two weeks ago. Pic two.
The third one was watered yesterday, when I saw the first flowerbuds. Pic three.
The leason I learned from that experiment is that the amount of leaves at flowering time highly depends upon watering, but the flowering time is almost independent of watering.
Al the siculas are the same clone which I got from Janis Ruksans last year.

In the garden Sternbergia lutea 'Villa Carlotta'  have shown the first leaves.

Poul

Very interesting experiment Poul .Thank you for sharing.
In the wild on the other hand (Crete e.g) they never start to flower before the first autumnshowers get them wet ?
Here in my collection ,also the first one in flower today : S. sicula 'Arcadian Sun'
In the garden they will flower in a few days .   

[krisderaeymaeker]

The first to flower here is Sternbergia sicula 'Arcadian Sun '

[Hans J]

First Sternbergia pics from South West Germany :

Sternbergia sicula ex Corfu

 

[udo]

Great Sternbergia from all,
here my first flower: Sternbergia clusiana