Scilla 2011

[mark smyth]

Chips - 4, 6 or more. Twinscales maybe 30

[bulborum]

Will be a long time before there are 1000 FS bulbs

[mark smyth]

Very true but first I need to get extra stock. Maybe chips will flower quicker.

[Janis Ruksans]

Scilla bifolia var taurica 'Pink Kubalatch' - phantastic plant, found by Dima
Scilla sibirica, most likely new subsp. Note color of leaves.
Janis

[Maggi Young]

Scilla bifolia var taurica 'Pink Kubalatch' - phantastic plant, found by Dima

WOW! What a flower

[Onion]

 

[Carlo]

What a flower...and what LEAVES on the other!!!

Outstanding.

[winwen]

Scilla bifolia var taurica 'Pink Kubalatch' - phantastic plant, found by Dima

With Janis, it is always the same.
Every time you think there is nothing more left to look at, because you have already seen the most beautiful of all plants, he comes up with something that is even more stunning and beautiful  
Just one question, Janis:
What is a "Kubalatch"??

[bulborum]

Its a mountain

kubalach

Roland

[Palustris]

Looking at the clumps of Scilla sibirica in the garden yesterday I noticed these. Now I have only planted sibirca and not the white one either. Anyone seen this before? Not sure if it is Winter weather or environmental, except that there are three or four separate bulbs of these colour. There are also a pair of purple ones, rather than the normal deep blue, but the camera does not want to pick up that colour.

[gote]

Looking at the clumps of Scilla sibirica in the garden yesterday I noticed these. Now I have only planted sibirca and not the white one either. Anyone seen this before? Not sure if it is Winter weather or environmental, except that there are three or four separate bulbs of these colour. There are also a pair of purple ones, rather than the normal deep blue, but the camera does not want to pick up that colour.

Populations of S.s can be quite variable. Also I have variations between ligt and dark forms but usually not as wide spread as these. I try to collect unusually dark or light forms and vove them to separate places. Usually they keep the colours.
Göte 

[Alisdair]

On the subject of white scillas, I have a white form of Scilla messeniaca. In the general picture below the leaves are particularly gross as they are growing in low light (as this species normally does in the wild). In brighter light they are better but still to my mind slightly too big for the flowers.
I'm sufficiently old-fashioned to think that - S. mischtchenkoana notwithstanding - scillas ought to be blue, but as the close-up below shows this form is perhaps redeemed by the dark blue anthers!

[mark smyth]

What a stunner. Where did you buy it?

[Gabriel B]

Scilla mischtschenkoana - how do I say it?

I would offer Mischenkoana with ch more palatalized than in English. For us it is easier than Tubergeniana. Actually, Mischenko is a rather typical Ukranian surname, widespread also in Russia. The enigmatic thing is why so many consonants. We use only one Мищенко, not 6 of them as Mark has shown  

I know something about alphabets and languages, so I'll try to explain. (I can't claim the credit, though, since this is information that I read in Wikipedia articles.)

The difficulty is the Russian or Ukrainian Cyrillic letter щ in Мищенко. In English, щ is written shch, because in older Russian and in Ukrainian today, the letter is pronounced that way.

(In modern Russian, according to Wikipedia, the letter is pronounced as a long palatalized shsh, but if we spelled it that way, it would be similar to the letter ш, which is written as sh.)

In German, English shch becomes schtsch, because sh is written as sch and ch is written as tsch. So Mishchenko in English becomes Mischtschenko in German.

So, the Russian or Ukrainian letter is written in German with seven letters, but with only four in English. But in reality, both spellings represent only two consonants. English uses two letters for each, while German uses three and four. Written in Czech spelling, you can see them: Miščenko.

So, the way I remember to spell Scilla mischtschenkoana is to break it up: misch-t-schenkoana. Or I tell myself, it's just another way of writing mish-chenkoana.

[Paddy Tobin]

I think that the photographs below show scillas. Which species, I'm afraid I don't know but I'm sure someone here will inform me - please do. I'll post a photograph of a single plant first and then show some of the views from Mount Usher Gardens in County Wicklow, Ireland, which I photographed yesterday. I cannot exaggerate the big stretches of blue which were in the garden. These were complimented by large stretches of Anemone nemerosa and all were interplanted with varieties of narcissus.

Paddy