Germinating now- - photos of seedlings

[Kristl Walek]

And because I am always improvising with large, deep flats for mass sowing---these pink "berry collecting" bins were put to use for the left-over native species---Trilliums, Asarum canadense and Hepatica.

Germination has now started in all the flats in a rather intense way---and these thousands of seedlings will be my challenge this season.

The close up of the Asarum is typical of what I see in all the flats; with seedlings jostling for space; everything on top of each other. I will show you more as the days progress and I figure out how to best deal with the happy problem.

[Garden Prince]

With me the germination also continues:

Acer palmatum ex Seiryu (from Ebay/UK)
Acer palmatum ex Sumi nagashi (from "Don't let me in your garden when the seed is ripe" [OK, I asked if I could pick some seeds])
Echinacea tennesseensis (from Gardens North)
Fagus sylvatica (special to me because this seed is from a very tall 'hedge' that was planted by my grandfather or even great grandfather probably somewhere in the early 1920s. My father, born in 1933, has known this hedge all his life)

[Lesley Cox]

Fagus sylvatica in its green and dark red forms is my most favourite tree of all time. I love the way the dark ones start pink then darken to black almost overnight and I love the way the greens go rich tan in the autumn. It is a beautifully shaped tree too. There's a golden one in a garden near me too. Not the commercial gold form which has a different shape but the "ordinary" one, but gold-leaved.

[brianw]

I watched a large Copper Beech being "reduced" in size a few weeks back. The red colour is present in the cross sections of all the wood. For 6 or 7mm or so from the outside edge (on the trunk) there is a red ring when you cut across. Even on quite small sections it is visible. Not as showy as Laburnum so you could not use is as veneer oysters, but quite pleasing.
My favorite Beech is when the normal forms new leaves reach that wonderful glossy golden green in late spring. The bluebells are just starting in the Beech woods here at present, together with last years Beech mast germinating.

[Lesley Cox]

In reply 126 a month ago, I showed what wasn't Colchicum luteum. Here they are now, and I'm wondering if they may be one of the balsams, an Impatiens species. Any suggestions though would be welcome. Chris Chadwell thinks two lots of seed, these and the colchicum have accidentally been put in the same packet and this could be right as about 50 of these are up, in 3 pots while I sowed hundreds of seeds.

[Lesley Cox]

Also from Chris Chadwell, Codonopsis lanceolata. A number of his others have come through well too, especially Lilium nepalense and Kirengeshoma palmata.

[Lesley Cox]

Helen's 3 Geranium farreri are due for potting on now and I would like a suggestion as to what the next might be. It was to be a Camellia but there are teeth at the base of the newer leaves.

[pehe]

Germinating now:

Colchicum corsicum
Colchicum parnassicum
Colchicum speciosum album
Colchicum vernum
Crocus scharojanii
Crocus vallicola

Poul

[pehe]

And some more.

Eranthis pinnatifida
Narcissus asturiensis
Muscari adilii
Ranunculus bullatus
Tulipa sprengeri
Trillium sessile

Poul

[daveyp1970]

Poul lovely stuff germinating.Can i ask where you managed to get Muscari adili seed from?

[pehe]

Poul lovely stuff germinating.Can i ask where you managed to get Muscari adili seed from?

Hi Davey,

Yes, I am quite satisfied with the germinating rate this year, even Colchicums germinate quite well. The Muscari adilii seeds are harvested from my own bulb.

Poul

[Garden Prince]

Some more germination news:

-- Hovenia dulcis (Japanese raisin tree). I have tried to germinate this species before but to no avail. This seed has a very tough seed coat and sand papering is almost impossible. You can soften the seed coat with sulphuric acid but that is not my kind of gardening and I don't think you can buy it in a Dutch store. I have given my seed a hot water treatment followed by two months of cold (5 degrees C.) This seemed to do the trick, at least for some seeds.
-- Enkianthus campanulatus
-- Rhododendron luteum.  Has anybody any idea who long it takes before R. luteum starts to flower from seed?

[Lesley Cox]

Referring back to Reply 126 and 139, I am delighted to note that among the whatevertheyare, there is a Colchicum seedling, arrived yesterday. Hopefully many more over coming weeks/months.

[Lesley Cox]

Playing about here trying to get smaller pics but larger text. Not quite there yet.

[ArnoldT]

Poul:

Wonderful to see the Colchicum seedlings.