Erythronium 2011

[Michael J Campbell]

Erythronium Kinfauns pink

[David Nicholson]

It's a beauty Michael.

[mark smyth]

Good angle Michael.

[Janis Ruksans]

During my mooching around several Erythroniums in greenhouse finished blooming, but many came up. I tried to picture some.
Erythronium albidum
Erythronium Early White Beauty
Erythronium multiscapoideum
Erythronium oregonum
Erythronium  revolutum
Erythronium taylorii
Janis

[Maggi Young]

Does anyone know the name of the lovely white Erythronium on the Beechgrove Garden tonight

 Just whizzed through the i-player to see the white erythronium .... it is E. hendersonii - probably sourced from Ian the Christie kind 

[udo]

Janis, nice pictures.
Here some from me:
Ery.elegans
     helenae
     'Joanna'
     'Kinfauns Pink'
     'Pink Beauty'
     'Sundisc'

[jshields]

One of the few Erythronium I've tried in my garden that has survived -- other than the two native species -- is E. multiscapoideum.  I don't think this one is increasing, and I don't recall ever seeing seeds set, even though I have two separate accessions.  Here is one of mine in bloom right now.

E. americanum and E. albidum are apparently all finished here already.

Jim

[johnw]

I know these are long since over elsewhere but here are a few E. dens-canis from today.

Forumists kindly indentified these two in the photos which came in this lot:

Erythronium dens-canis 'Frans Hal'-Abundantly flowering nicevariety  with bright lilac flowers, brown throat
Erythronium dens-canis 'Lilac Wonder' - a chocolate brown spot at the base of the flower
Erythronium dens-canis 'Moerheimii' - sem-double flowers, which are deep purple
Erythronium dens-canis 'Pink Perfection' - clear pink flowers
Erythronium dens-canis 'Rose Beauty' - RB is a revolutum - could it be Rose Queen?
Erythronium dens-canis 'Snowflake' - Large white flowers with reddish brown ring in the center but shld have marbled leaves, olive at the base of flwr, faint ring of red spots inside

Unfortunately I can't find the labels again. Can anyone hazard a guess as to what they might be?

johnw

[johnw]

In 2009 I reported we had only 3% germination on E. revolutum.  We tried again that autumn with more fresh revolutum seed from a Vancouver garden (with species and hybrids growing side by side) and have done a little better.    No markings yet, should we expect some hybridity?

johnw

[art600]

In 2009 I reported we had only 3% germination on E. revolutum.  We tried again that autumn with more fresh seed from a Vancouver garden with species and hybrids and have done a little better.    johnw

What does 100% germination look like John?

[Gerry Webster]

John - your E. dens canis are extremely attractive. However, I'm not too clear as to how the names relate to the photos.

[johnw]

John - your E. dens canis are extremely attractive. However, I'm not too clear as to how the names relate to the photos.

Of the six in the list only two cultivars remain, those photographed.   The labels have again disappeared so I'm trying to figure out which ones they are.

johnw

[Gerry Webster]

John - your E. dens canis are extremely attractive. However, I'm not too clear as to how the names relate to the photos.

Of the six in the list only two cultivars remain, those photographed.   The labels have again disappeared so I'm trying to figure out which ones they are.
johnw

John - I think  you have an uphill struggle here. According to Brian Mathew in AGS Bulletin 66 (3) p.309:  "they have become muddled in cultivation and the original descriptions are often lacking in precise detail so that it is difficult to be certain what the plants should really be like."  I suspect that there are also lots of seedlings around. But Good Luck!

[Guff]

Nice pictures everyone.

1-2 Frans Hals, first time flowering. Maybe tomorrow it will be warmer.
3 Revolutum seedlings(first spring)

John how many springs old are your revolutum seedlings?

[johnw]

Nice pictures everyone.

1-2 Frans Hals, first time flowering. Maybe tomorrow it will be warmer.
3 Revolutum seedlings(first spring)

John how many springs old are your revolutum seedlings?

Guff  - I think my pink one in the photo is very close to your Frans Hal.  Thank-you. I am very surprised that mine is ahead of yours as it has been a very cool Spring here.

The revolutum seeds were planted in the autumn of 2009 and came up Spring 2010.  So they are about 13 months old, a bit ahead as they were stored frost-free for the winter.

johnw