Erythronium 2012

[bulborum]

David,

The getting down isn't a problem.... the getting back UP is the difficulty.  You can always lie down to take pictures.... the problem is needing the paramedics afterwards.

Girls are more clever
They use a mirror 

R

[yijiawang]

E.siberica in flower now, it is the first time bloom in my hand, so small....

[Jonny_SE]

Erythronium albidum....5 years from seed to flower.....

[WimB]

Erythronium helenae flowering now!

[Brian Ellis]

Erythronium albidum....5 years from seed to flower.....

But well worth the wait, well done Jonny

[Jonny_SE]

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But well worth the wait, well done Jonny
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Thanks..slow on growing but thankfully extremly good germination....only 20 out of 100 pots flowers this year..but who's in a hurry?...soon enough we are on the compost anyway so why rush it...

[Jonny_SE]

yijiawang and Wim...Really nice once....congratulation!!!

[Guff]

Japonicum

[brianw]

Japonicum.

I have found this more fussy about conditions than most others I have tried. Maybe it likes cooler conditions than I give it. I have seen some with great central markings in AGS shows so someone in the south can grow it well.

I thought low/high photo shot problems went out when fold out viewers came in. I will no longer have to get wet knees taking the sundews in the highlands, when I next go back.

[Garden Prince]

I got wet knees taking a picture of Erythronium revolutum!

[Gerry Webster]

That is very nice Garden Prince, though it looks as though it might be an E. revolutum hybrid. I have one in flower now that is very similar.

[fredg]

Girls are more clever
They use a mirror 

Isn't that what patent leather shoes are for?

[WimB]

And once more Eryhtronium helenae, from a bee's view...no muddy knees here, but dusty knees  

[Ed Alverson]

I went for a walk in a local oak forest today with nice patches of Erythronium oregonum in full bloom.  This flower with red anthers caught my eye - I've never seen a red-anthered E. oregonum before.  There were a couple of plants among the normal yellow-anthered ones.  This is the white-flowered version of E. oregonum that represents ssp. oregonum.  The yellow-flowered Erythronium grandiflorum is the only western species that has red anthers (only in some places), but it does not grow at all near this site so this can't be any kind of a hybrid.

Ed

[Afloden]

Johnny, curious about the origin of your albidum -- where is from? I would think that the conduplicate (folded) leaves without spots looks like mesochoreum which is far better!

 Aaron