Pictures of plants you are growing from Archibald seed

[Maggi Young]

Rimmer de Vries' picture, copied from elsewhere in the forum :

Crocus  biflorus ssp. crewei JJA 034.1150 ex Turkey Denizli
 

[YT]

690.700 : MUSCARI PSEUDOMUSCARI *
Iran, Mazandaran, S of Chalus. 1500m. Ledges on limestone cliffs. (Lovely endemic Chalus gorge on the wet Caspian slope of the Elburz, described as M. chalusicum in the 1960’s, but M pseudomuscari has priority. Refined heads of open mouthed, china-blue bells.)

  Seeds from: NEWSLETTER & SEEDLIST / SEPTEMBER, 2008
  Sowing: Nov. 2008
  Germinating: Dec. 2009
  First blooming: Mar. 2013
  Pictures taken: 9 Mar. 2015

[YT]

160.303 : ANEMONE BIFLORA *
Iran, Markazi, SW of Arak. 2300m. Exposed gravelly sites on summit ridge. (One of the finest and most striking plants of the Zagros Range. Much-cut, rich-green foliage a few cm. high & branching 5-8cm. stems carrying cup-shaped crimson-scarlet flowers an inch or more across, maturing to coppery honey shades.)

  Seeds from: NEWSLETTER & SEEDLIST / DECEMBER, 2008
  Sowing: Oct. 2009
  Germinating: Nov. 2009
  First blooming: Feb. 2013
  Pictures taking: 17 Mar. 2015

[YT]

706.250 : NARCISSUS SEGURIENSIS *
Spain, Jaen, Sierra de Segura. Ex JWB01-05. (From type-locality material of this recently described yellow trumpet daffodil, in effect a ‘split’ from N. longispathus. A plant of seasonally wet sites.)

  Seeds from: NEWSLETTER & SEEDLIST / AUGUST, 2003
  Sowing: Jan. 2004
  Germinating: Feb. 2005
  First blooming: Mar. 2013
  Pictures taking: 17 Mar. 2015

[Maggi Young]

I am indebted to Bill Squire for his kind  permission to share these photos of  his of Narcissus atlanticus JCA 694-109. From a collection by Jim Archibald in the High Atlas mountain at 2000 metres.

[ashley]

Narcissus alpestris     JJA 693.701 from the October 2009 seedlist, & flowering here for the first time.

Spain, Aragon, above Cerler, SE of Benasque.  1500m.  Ex JWB 94-06 & 94-08 (Maybe the lovliest but often the most difficult trumpet-daffodil.  About 15 cm tall with drooping, white flowers & glaucous leaves.  Included under N. moschatus in 'Flora Europaea' but much choicer and dwarfer than this old, cultivated form.

Not only are these smaller than N. moschatus (30-35 cm) in my garden, but the foliage is markedly more glaucous and semi-recumbent rather than upright.  They are also smaller and earlier than other N. alpestris clones I have from Cerler & Castejón de Sos, courtesy of Tony W.

[johnw]

Ashley - What a beauty and  what a shock as I grew the same seed lot  - Archibald 95 #693.701 - in 1995!  Mine stuck around until a couple of years ago. They got into trouble when I started to pay attention to them!

john

[ashley]

I'll be trying for seed John, as an insurance policy.

[Maggi Young]

 Fritillaria stenanthera JCA 503.209 , sown 2000  (- picture from the Kent AGS show by Yann )

[Maggi Young]

Ruben Billiet is growing this Iris pumila JJA 199590 ( photos copied from elsewhere in the forum)

[Maggi Young]

Iris urmiensis JJA 600.600 - grown by Peter J. Zale in Columbus, Ohio who kindly shares the  picture of this fine plant.



This is the info from the packet -  from Bob Nold in Denver!


600.600 : IRIS URMIENSIS (Sect. Oncocyclus) (I. barnumae subsp. barnumae f. urmiensis) Iran, West Azerbayejan, S of Salmas. 1780m. Montane grassland over crystalline rock & on open, stony slopes. (A very beautiful & unmistakeable Iris, a restricted endemic from a range of hills S of Salmas, running at a right angle from the Turkish-Iranian border mountains towards Lake Orumiyeh. About 20cm. high with clumps of little, curved, grey-green leaves & large clear-yellow flowers, varying a little in depth of colour, with beards of dense, orange-yellow hairs above deep-yellow signal-patches on the falls. Hand-pollinated seed from our 2000 coll.)

[Maggi Young]

Tulipa  sp.  (JJA17284): collected NNE of Hashtiyan 1500m in W-Azerbzaijan Iran- grown by Luc Scheldeman

[Maggi Young]

A juno from the Jim A. list of september 1998:

Iris bucharica x vicaria JCA6.575.495 – a hand pollinated hybrid from Alan McMurtrie -  grown by Luc S.

[Tony Willis]

Narcissus alpestris     JJA 693.701 from the October 2009 seedlist, & flowering here for the first time.

Spain, Aragon, above Cerler, SE of Benasque.  1500m.  Ex JWB 94-06 & 94-08 (Maybe the lovliest but often the most difficult trumpet-daffodil.  About 15 cm tall with drooping, white flowers & glaucous leaves.  Included under N. moschatus in 'Flora Europaea' but much choicer and dwarfer than this old, cultivated form.

Not only are these smaller than N. moschatus (30-35 cm) in my garden, but the foliage is markedly more glaucous and semi-recumbent rather than upright.  They are also smaller and earlier than other N. alpestris clones I have from Cerler & Castejón de Sos, courtesy of Tony W.

Ashley

I am sure these will be from the same site as mine at Cerler where they are growing on quite steep slopes near the ski resort.

Those from Castel jon de Sos were growing in wet fields. They are both just coming into flower with me.

[Maggi Young]

Grown by Peter Taggart - Iris orchioides JJA 0591331 ex Tashkent, Chimgan