Germinating now- - photos of seedlings

[Robert]

Thomas,

There are many documented varieties of Lupinus lepidus. Variety lobbii is a real gem and one of the smaller varieties. There can be issues with predation from insects, slugs and snails outside their native environment.

The seedlings look good. Good luck and may you successfully bring them to blooming age. 

[Leucogenes]

Thomas,

There are many documented varieties of Lupinus lepidus. Variety lobbii is a real gem and one of the smaller varieties. There can be issues with predation from insects, slugs and snails outside their native environment.

The seedlings look good. Good luck and may you successfully bring them to blooming age. 

Hi Robert

Lupinus lepidus var. lobbii is a real treasure.  From 8 seeds I could win 7 young plants.  I have countless fantastic photos of this gem from different locations.  My source told me that almost no seeds have been found in the last two years.  Therefore I am very happy about the successful germination.  This form is very variable not only in the growth height...  also the colour is a little bit different.
 
I could show many more photos of great young plants...  but I don't want to bore the people here.

By the way...  I have many wonderful young plants of Penstemon newberryi var newberryi...  the seeds I got from a friend from northern California... his name is Robert...  maybe you know him... 

[hamparstum]

Hi Robert

I could show many more photos of great young plants...  but I don't want to bore the people here.
By the way...  I have many wonderful young plants of Penstemon newberryi var newberryi...  the seeds I got from a friend from northern California... his name is Robert...  maybe you know him... 

So do I, also from the same source...
Arturo

[Leucogenes]

The first young plants of this year's sowing were pricked.  More will follow...  hopefully not all at once.

;-)

[Lesley Cox]

Your Lupinus seedlings look very happy and healthy Thomas. And I particularly like the background against which you've photographed them. They'll be wanting some of that rock when you plant them out.

[Leucogenes]

Your Lupinus seedlings look very happy and healthy Thomas. And I particularly like the background against which you've photographed them. They'll be wanting some of that rock when you plant them out.

Thank you dear Lesley...

actually I am very grateful for the good quota of this small growing Lupinus. 8 seeds...7 young plants. Also the other seeds germinated very well...luckily not all of them...otherwise it would be too much. With the native NZ I would wish myself of course a larger quota. :-)
...but I will wait patiently.

Until the stones find their actual destination, it will still take some time. I also like this structure very much.

Greetings
Thomas

[Lesley Cox]

Do you belong to NZAGS Thomas? Their seedlist will be out soon and I think there will be some good natives. I was given some seed last month of Aciphylla dobsonii (and a seedling  and I think the collector (Hamish Brown who is President) will have given more to NZAGS for the list.

I had a horrible dream last night about the seed and couldn't think what I had done with it. I dreamed I had lost it somewhere and though I looked everywhere I could think of, I couldn't find it. This morning I went to search my potting shed and found, to my great relief that I had sown it, the day after Hamish gave it to me. We are having a beautiful Indian summer with warm days and cool nights. It should be ideal weather for germination.

[Leucogenes]

Do you belong to NZAGS Thomas? Their seedlist will be out soon and I think there will be some good natives. I was given some seed last month of Aciphylla dobsonii (and a seedling  and I think the collector (Hamish Brown who is President) will have given more to NZAGS for the list.

I had a horrible dream last night about the seed and couldn't think what I had done with it. I dreamed I had lost it somewhere and though I looked everywhere I could think of, I couldn't find it. This morning I went to search my potting shed and found, to my great relief that I had sown it, the day after Hamish gave it to me. We are having a beautiful Indian summer with warm days and cool nights. It should be ideal weather for germination.

Yes, Lesley... I've been a member of NZAGS for three years.  Getting precious seeds from native alpine NZ once a year is a welcome bonus...  but the membership was more for emotional reasons...  After all, NZ's alpine flora was my entry drug into the world of plants.

I hope no medicine will ever be found against this beautiful addiction. 😀

Good luck with the Aciphylla seeds.

[Véronique Macrelle]

what a beautiful seedling!
 the installation with the fence is against the slugs?


a very amazing sowing by its vigor here with Arisaema tortuosum var helleborifolium: 8 seeds out of 9 sprouts and seedlings more than 10 cm high!
they already produce a second sheet ...

[Leucogenes]

what a beautiful seedling!
 the installation with the fence is against the slugs?


a very amazing sowing by its vigor here with Arisaema tortuosum var helleborifolium: 8 seeds out of 9 sprouts and seedlings more than 10 cm high!
they already produce a second sheet ...

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Vèronique...This net is used for shading...at night it hangs down and keeps the snails away.  This provisional construction does not correspond to the beauty sensation of my better half...but it is effective...you have to set priorities. ;-)

[fermi de Sousa]

Cyclamen mirabile sown fresh 3 months ago are now germinating
cheers
fermi

[Catwheazle]

Dryas octopetala and Pulsatilla patens

[Rick R.]

Both from fresh seed, I presume?

[Catwheazle]

Yes. fresh seeds, Dryas cool, outside,
Pulsatilla warm/hot  in day, cool at night in greenhouse, soil without humus.
Bernd

[Leucogenes]

Here is another attempt to cultivate South Americans...

Leucheria candidissima
Lecanophora ameghinoi