Summer flowering Gentians

[ichristie]

Super sunshine today after yesterdays monsoon. I post another picture of the Gentian hybrid with a Wasp enjoying the flowers plus a picture of the white hyb just opening, cheers Ian the Christie kind.

[ichristie]

Another gentian flowering just now is G. paradoxa, I do know that this is variable and many hybrids are around this is what I have, cheers Ian the Christie kind.

[Olga Bondareva]

It's very interesting spring comes much earlier to GB than here but sumer flowers bloom at the same time. My G. paradoxa is flowering now too. It's true because came directly from Caucasus.



Also some septemfidous gentians are in bloom.

[Olga Bondareva]

Gentiana szechenyii from Chinese seed also dislikes too dry places.
...Gentiana georgei

Rudi
Are you sure? Your Gentiana szechenyii looks like G. sino-ornata or something near it, and Gentiana georgei looks like... Gentiana szechenyii.  

[ichristie]

Very nice indeed Olga thanks for the pictures, cheers Ian the Christie kind.

[ichristie]

I have been looking again at the pictures of g georgei white and I think the flowers look like Gentiana stipitata var tizuensis

[Olga Bondareva]

Ian
Gentiana stipitata var tizuensis is much smaller and differs in habit. Big flowers and rosette of leaves are typical to G. georgei and szechenyii.

[ichristie]

Thanks Olga, the pictures are very interesting and what I have seen in China were different sure all plants are variable, wish I could go back. cheers Ian the Christie kind.

[ruweiss]

Gentiana szechenyii from Chinese seed also dislikes too dry places.
...Gentiana georgei

Rudi
Are you sure? Your Gentiana szechenyii looks like G. sino-ornata or something near it, and Gentiana georgei looks like... Gentiana szechenyii.  

Olga,
you are right. I made a mistake and gave a wrong name to the blue gentian. Sorry, the true name is
Gentiana veitchiorum and not G. szechenyi! (Would be grateful if Maggi could change it.) The plant was
raised from wild collected seeds. The attached photo shows the entire plant.
Got the white G. georgei from Vojtech Holubec and am quite sure that he gave me the true thing. As you
can see, it is now out of flower.
 You are right, G. stipitata v. tizuensis is smaller than G. geogei and szechenyi.
An Ice Blue seedling of G. angustifolia is flowering now.

[Maggi Young]

(Would be grateful if Maggi could change it.)

I have done so with pleasure, Rudi 

[ruweiss]

Thank you,  Maggi!

[ichristie]

Hi Rudi, super pictures especially G. stipitata tizuensis thanks for posting.

[Olga Bondareva]

Wow Rudi what a pretty G. angustifolia seedling!

[David Nicholson]

I'm not sure if this should be here as I think it's an autumn flowering Gentian but it's still summer (or what passes for it in these parts).

I can claim no skill at all for this, it's one of 6 autumn flowering Gentians I bought over the last few weeks to give some colour to an ericaceous bed I've created to try to cure a sick Camellia. I know next to nothing about growing them but I'm becoming quite besotted>

Gentiana 'Strathmore'

Further research tells me that 'Strathmore' was a sport from Gentiana 'Inverleith'

[Roma]

David has just shown an autumn flowering gentian.  Here is a spring one.  Gentiana acaulis or maybe angustifolia.