Erythronium 2010

[udo]

Afloden, a really unusual Erythronium.
Here some pics from my garden:
E.americanum, around fifty plants and only two flowers, this in the roots from a shrub,
E.hendersonii
E.'White Beauty' and 'Pagoda'
E.'Sundisc', similar 'Pagoda', but with darker yellow in the flower and more brown in the leave

[cohan]

Here is an Erythronium I saw in the Great Smoky National Park two days ago leading wildflower walks. Not sure on the species as both americanum and umbillicatum grow in the area and we had seen both. I did not bother with this one, but there were only a few small leaves besides a few mature plants in the area. The variety of umbillicatum in this area was called variety monostolon at one time.

 Aaron

wow--among the nicest colour forms i've seen.. (of course, white and pink are nice, and...)

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Two Erythroniums doing well here this season :

1) E. 'White beauty'
2) E. 'Kingfaun's pink' from Susan band - unfortunately a beasty attacked the leaves... 

[gote]

When I say that my form of dens-canis niveum is a weakling I mean that I have had it since 98. I have tried in three different places and still only one flower and three leaves. It is very beautiful but I want more of them
Cheers
Göte

[Diane Whitehead]

Aaron, if I had been near that red and yellow flower, I would
have collected some of its pollen to put on a flower at home.

[gote]

Erythronium sibiricum. The red is somewhat later than the white altaicum.
E. japonicum and Corydalis. Uintentional mixture - I should separate them really.
Göte

[Gerry Webster]

Erythronium californicum

Erythronium californicum 'White Beauty'

[olegKon]

American erythroniums are still flowering here. I'm enjoying many of them thanks to Susan Band
1. Erythronium californicum
2. Erythronium elegans
3,4 Erythronium Janette Brickell. Is the name really true?

[t00lie]

Just about Erythronium season down here --found a couple of flowers open on E.tuolumnense late this afternoon and i see a number of various hybrids that i received a couple of years ago have settled down and are in bud.

Back in autumn i dug down a distance to locate a clump of Erythronium umbilicatum and fearing i would harm a number of other plants growing in very close proximity if if lifted the Ery, i gingerly cut down through the side of the clump with a knife and with some difficulty lifted 2 'bulbs'.(i had no room in which scrape away the soil from the side).
      
Thankfully there appears to be no damage.

[Guff]

Recieved my Erythronium Japonicum today, plan on planting them out tomorrow. How deep, about 3 inches? Thanks for info.

[Lesley Cox]

E. tuolumnense is in flower here too Dave and also E. caucasicum, much later than usual. It is in flower in mid July most years. Very slow to increase for me. Must go and have a look for umbilicatum. I haven't noticed it yet. Yours is flowering well.

[gote]

Since the Erythronium thread is awake again I remember something that I intended to convey.
In the summer I discussed E. americanum with an employee of Gothenburg botanical garden.
He told me that he had moved some of the surplus bulbs, which had been flowering well, to his own garden not very far away.
They immediately stopped flowering!
The conculsion is, I think, that it is not a question of which bulbs we get but of how we grow them.
It seems to be to test them in as many different positions as we can.
Cheers
Göte

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Hi Göte,
When I visited Gothenburg botanics 3 years ago and was amazed by the good flowering of E. americanum I asked for the secret to Gerben Tjeerdsma and his answer was : manure ! lots and lots of manure dug in before the bulbs were planted !!! 

[gote]

Hi Göte,
When I visited Gothenburg botanics 3 years ago and was amazed by the good flowering of E. americanum I asked for the secret to Gerben Tjeerdsma and his answer was : manure ! lots and lots of manure dug in before the bulbs were planted !!! 

That is quite en unusual advice and that is perhaps the reason wy so few are successful. In most cases extra manure causes mor greenery and less flowers. I assume most of us are afraid to use to much manure on wild plants. Time to rethink.
Cheers
Göte
 

[Maggi Young]

Don't be too hasty to apply lots of manure....... Henrik and Gerben did attribute their flowering to that but it happened to  begin the same year as our non-flowering patch turned into a flowering one... and we had not lifted or dug at all, and certainly no manure!