Sternbergia 2011

[Gerry Webster]

Congratulations Fred!. I've had a bulb for nearly 10 years & never seen a flower.

[Miriam]

Sternbergia clusiana is also flowering now, 1 month earlier than usual.

Great picture and plant!
Here there are still no signs of autumn, but the weather is much milder compering to last year...

[BULBISSIME]

Be patient Miriam 
Autumn will come , with lots of flowers 

[pehe]

Sternbergia clusiana is also flowering now, 1 month earlier than usual.

Nice to see clusiana in flower! I have never succeeded with this. I grow them in a deep pot, but they like to go still deeper. The best will be to plant them directly in the garden, but if I do so, I doubt they will flower in our cold and wet summer. Maybe I should plant them in the garden and feed well, and then when the bulbs have grown big in some years, dig them up and give them a hot summerbake in a pot?

Poul

[pehe]

Sternbergia sicula in the garden.

Poul

[Pauli]

Hello,

here pictures of my (up to now) best type of sicula: It is from the top of Pantokrator, the highest mountain in Corfu.
It is hardy, floriferous and multiplies very well for me here in Austria!

Unfortunately we now have the hottest week in the whole summer (up to 34C  !!!), so the flowers do not last very long this season!

[pehe]

WOW Herbert,

Then it is a pleasure to grow Sternbergia!

Poul

[Gerry Webster]

Wonderful Herbert! I'm very envious.

[Gerry Webster]

Sternbergia sp.

Some might regard this as a form of S. sicula.
A gift from Hans Joschko. From his own collection on Corfu.
The first flowering here.

[pehe]

Some Sternbergia flowering under glass.

Sternbergia sicula from Corfu.
Sternbergia lutea

Poul

[pehe]

More Sternbergias:

Sternbergia lutea X sicula, 4 year old seedling flowering for the first time
Sternbergia lutea from the local garden center
Sternbergia lutea ex Greece
Sternbergia lutea has started flowering in the garden

Poul

[Gerry Webster]

Poul - Your Sternbergias are looking very good. After the rather cold summer I think flowering here is going to be poor.

[udo]

Nice Sternbergia from all,
here two forms Sternbergia sicula,
left from Dodona in N-Greece with long leave
right from Olynthos in NE-Greece, free flowering

[David Nicholson]

Poul - Your Sternbergias are looking very good. After the rather cold summer I think flowering here is going to be poor.

No change for me then!

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Poul - Your Sternbergias are looking very good. After the rather cold summer I think flowering here is going to be poor.

Thank you Gerry! But not all are doing well. We had a dry and hot spring, so many of my Sternbergia pots were forced to dormancy too early resulting in smaller bulbs or even bulbs splitting up in many small ones. When growing in pots it is essential to feed them well and give them a long growing season. And then they need a warm and dry rest to flower well.

Poul