Summer flowering Gentians

[Roma]

Gentiana paradoxa grown from seed many years ago.  They are not identical so I am not sure if they pure or hybrids.

[ruweiss]

Now flowering in the mountains:
Gentiana asclepiadea in 1500 m

[ichristie]

Hello David, you are correct Gentian Strathmore was a sport from G. Inverleith as it is known in Horticulture we produced it first in 1986 named it after the Valley of Strathmore where we live and sold many at Glamis castle home of the earl of Strathmore it was one of the first really pale blue commercial gentian. cheers Ian the Christie kind.

[David Nicholson]

Many thanks for that Ian, I love to learn the history of plants. I bought mine from Ray Brown at Plant World here in Newton Abbot and it had one flower out when I bought and the colour sold it to me. Since I photographed it the weather here has been deplorable and the lack of sun has provided some darker flowers. Nice plant, I love it.

Here's another of my summer/autumn flowerers Gentiana 'Serenity'. I must have been having a bad photography day today, sorry about the fuzzy close up.

[Lvandelft]

Now flowering in the mountains:
Gentiana asclepiadea in 1500 m

Flowering in the garden...at 0 m.

[Knud]

I have enjoyed this thread on gentians, thank you all for sharing nice pictures and interesting information. We have had a very wet summer, and our summer-flowering gentians have never bloomed so well. What surprises me is that they do not seem to mind the almost complete lack of sunshine for three months or so. The G. asclepiadea has grown into a sizeable clump after six or so years in its current position, at elevation of 5 m, by the way. The G. dahurica in the second picture always does well, but never quite like this year, same for the G. lutea in the third picture; a few years since that bloomed last. The last two pictures are of the same plant, I am not sure which, possibly a G. paradoxa? It has thin, wiry stems about 20 cm (8") and quite large flowers with attractive silvery dots. The one in the picture had a single-flowered heat, but some heads have at least three flowers.

Knud

[David Nicholson]

Another one of mine Gentiana x macaulayi. According to G H Berry (1951) this is a cross between G sino-ornata and G farreri but it wasn't known which was the seed parent.

By the way, the slug is no more!

[Olga Bondareva]

Knud, your unknown gentian looks like paradoxa. If it has many 6-7 petal flowers it is true.





Not very rare but my own victory. For many years I tried to get G. asclepiadea rosea and alba. And this year some seedlings shown pink and white flowers. I am happy even with small plants.

[David Nicholson]

Lovely pink Olga.

[Knud]

Knud, your unknown gentian looks like paradoxa. If it has many 6-7 petal flowers it is true.

Thank you, Olga. As I remember, most of the flowers had five petals. I went out to check, but the flowers have now finished, I will check next year.

I like your G. asclepiadeas, especially the pink. I have a couple of white ones, and they are much less vigorous than the blue one.

Now an autumn flowering gentian has started blooming, G. 'Gunvor'.

Knud 

[David Nicholson]

Very nice Knud. Is 'Gunvor' a new hybrid I haven't heard of it before.

[Maggi Young]

Very nice Knud. Is 'Gunvor' a new hybrid I haven't heard of it before.

Exactly what I was thinking.... I remember that Knud told us the history of Meconopsis 'Gunvor' ....
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=5740.msg191442#msg191442    .... I wonder if there is a connection with this gentian.......

[Graham Catlow]

Some in flower now. They came through yesterdays gales.

Gentiana 'Gellerhard'
G. stevenagensis 'Bernardii'

G. ''Ishu Zuki' close up

The above is what I have on the label but it is probably Gentiana scabra ssp. ishuzuki - can anyone help with this.

[Graham Catlow]

G. 'Ishu Zuki'

 or Gentiana scabra ssp. ishuzuki

[David Nicholson]

Very nice Knud. Is 'Gunvor' a new hybrid I haven't heard of it before.

Exactly what I was thinking.... I remember that Knud told us the history of Meconopsis 'Gunvor' ....
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=5740.msg191442#msg191442    .... I wonder if there is a connection with this gentian.......

Many thanks for the Link Maggi.