Pulsatilla- Spring 2012

[peter hood]

I had been meaning for a few days to send these to cheer people up, the arrival of other  Pulsatilla pictures encouraged me to get round to it. The plant is Pulsatilla rubra (even if it doesn't look like it!) The first picture is taken on the 24th February, and the second on the 15th March

[Maggi Young]

While enjoying the pulsatilla photos, I've  been trying not to think too closely on those in our garden. Peter's picture tonight of those wonderful silky, hairy buds has finally made me face facts.... I fear that a lot of Pulsatillas in our garden have not survived.
This is odd because they had mostly taken the last two horrible winters in their stride.. and the one just passing hasn't been severe, so I wonder what has happened. Will investigate tomorrow to see if they are just "slow" 

[ruweiss]

This Pulsatilla halleri ssp. slavica is about 12 years old, I raised it from seed collected by ZZ in the
Tatra Mountains and hope,that the plant is true to name. It is always the first flowering species
in my garden
Thanks to all the Pulsatilla freaks for your photos and comments, Karl's find of the double flower
is a real highlight, I have never seen such a miracle before.

[Armin]

Rudi,
what a lovely P. halleri. I'm waiting mine to show the first buds too.

[olegKon]

Maggi,
 Severe winters don't have a serious impact on Pulsatillas here. But from time to time they disappere for no certain reason (life span, may be). Last year I lost all P. slavica and parcially P.vulgaris gotlandica and alba becouse of the very hot and dry summer we had in 2010, which can't be the case for summers in Aberdeen

[peter hood]

Maggi,

The plant in the photo (and its brother) are way ahead of the rest of the Pulsatillas in the garden, (it always is); most of them are only just stirring in this very early season we are having; I have a few beautiful sky blue buds on plants flowering for the first time claiming to be Budapest Seedlings; I must get my camera onto them. The rest are hairy buds at best - and Pulsatilla vulgaris alba is only just moving. After all, the English name of Pasque flower says that they should be there for Easter.

[Palustris]

My P. grandis is the only one really open at present, though the various P. vulgaris are showing colour.
The first seedling from the lilac P. grandis has flowered and it is.......................purple. Rats!

[zvone]

Hi!

Pulsatilla Grandis from My Garden:




Best Regards! zvone

[mark smyth]

I've got a very exciting seedling

In 2009 I sowed open pollinated seeds from Pulsatilla pratensis subsp. bohemica. One is flowering now. The flower isnt black but purple just like P. vulgaris and it holds its head like the parent.

[zvone]

I've got a very exciting seedling

In 2009 I sowed open pollinated seeds from Pulsatilla pratensis subsp. bohemica. One is flowering now. The flower isnt black but purple just like P. vulgaris and it holds its head like the parent.

Hi Mark!

Congratulate!



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Best Regards!  zvone

[mark smyth]

My Pulsatilla seedling is changing shape and the pedicel is extending

[Palustris]

Pulsatilla in a pink form, self seeded between P. vulgaris (or one of its forms, but purple flowered) and Pulsatilla rubra.

[Paul T]

Palustris,

Is that an unusual colour for Pulsatilla?  I can't recall ever having seen such a lovely clean pink before?  I've only ever seen white and purple in person, but that pink is far better tome than either of the "normal" colours.  Or has that colour been inherited from P. rubra?  Definitely a plant worth keeping.  I can just imagine a drift of that in full flower.  :ot

[Palustris]

There is a P. vulgaris called Eva Constance which I think is similar in colour and another 'Baron's Pink' which I have never seen.

[Paul T]

Well I've never seen either, and I like yours!!    Keep up the good work.