Author Topic: Pictures of plants you are growing from Archibald seed (Read 229201 times)

Maggi Young · « **Reply #300 on:** May 07, 2016, 09:30:06 PM »

Tony Goode posted these photos of one of the plants of Tchihatchewia isatidea - a second generation seedling ex JJA seed and the accompanying notes from the grower, Robert Rolfe , from the AGS show at Wymondham today.

Pictures of plants you are growing from Archibald seed

Tchihatchewia isatidea

......a second generation seedling
from a JJC gathering in 2005 sown 2014

ashley · « **Reply #301 on:** May 17, 2016, 08:22:26 PM »

583.101 Iris acutiloba subsp. lineolata (Sect. Oncocyclus) Iran, Ardabil, W of Ardabil, Kuh-e-Sabalan. 2400 m. Among steppe vegetation on tuffs of volcanic ash.

From September 2007 list. Sown Sept 2007; first flower May 2016.

Maggi Young · « **Reply #302 on:** May 17, 2016, 08:35:59 PM »

I have been kindly given permission by Plant World Seeds to show these photos, used on their website of plants from Archibald seed.

Plant World Seeds, St. Marychurch Road, Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ12 4SE, U.K. http://www.plant-world-seeds.com

Albuca 'Jim Archibald'
"This is one of the late great Jim Archibald collections (JCA 15856)with strap shaped basal foliage and racemes of white goblet-like flowers, the outer tepals of which are striped green and the inner tepals tipped pale yellow."

Campanula choruhensis (sometimes called Campanula troegerae )
"This rare, low-growing rock plant from Turkey with large, beautifully-shaped white flowers in midsummer, is an an amazing alpine plant that grows in narrow vertical rock crevices in Turkey. It forms small tufts of grey, toothed leaves and bears disproportionately-large, open-faced, creamy-white bells that pop open from huge ribbed pink buds. This fabulous species is not too difficult to grow if provided with sharp drainage and winter cover, or is grown in an alpine house as a show plant. Jim and Jenny Archibald collected many campanula species, and it was they who introduced the famous white bellflower Campanula troegerae, from the area close to the river Choruh near Yusufeli. And it was they who were probably the first collectors offering seed of Campanula choruhensis, which was initially listed as C. troegerae, as C. choruhensis was as yet unknown to science!"

Maggi Young · « **Reply #303 on:** May 17, 2016, 08:40:09 PM »

John Lonsdale is growing this Scopolia carniolica from Archibald seed. There are two possible collections :

879.005 : SCOPOLIA CARNIOLICA Slovenia, SE of Ljubljana, near Grosuplje. c.400m. Woodland at bottom of doline. W. McLewin 98-11. (A fascinating woodland plant in the Solanaceae, recorded in very local, widely separated colonies through central Europe, from Lithuania to the Ukraine. Big horizontal rhizones, like flattened potatoes, spread slowly on the surface of the earth and in early spring send up stout stems of cylindrical bells, hanging on thready pedicels, before the leaves expand. Though the flowers open near the ground, the stems elongate to about 50cm. to carry large potato-leaves in summer. Typically, the bells are a delicately veined, lurid violet-red-brown but in a handful of sites in the karst country of Slovenia, of which this is one, a beautiful, translucent yellow colour phase occurs with the dark reds. This has been called S.c. subsp. hladnikiana, a name sensibly disregarded by 'Flora Europaea', though useful for gardeners to distinguish it. Both colours occur here so expect both from the wild seed.)
879.015 : SCOPOLIA CARNIOLICA subsp. HLADNIKIANA No data. A fascinating woodland plant in the Solanaceae, recorded in very local, widely separated colonies through central Europe, from Lithuania to the Ukraine. In a handful of sites in the karst country of Slovenia, this beautiful, translucent yellow colour phase occurs among the usual dark reds. This has been called S.c. subsp. hladnikiana, a name sensibly disregarded by 'Flora Europaea' but it remains useful for gardeners to distinguish it. Big horizontal rhizomes, like flattened potatoes, spread slowly on the surface of the earth and in early spring send up stout stems of cylindrical bells, hanging on thready pedicels, before the leaves expand. Though the flowers open near the ground, the stems elongate to about 50cm. to carry large potato-leaves in summer.)

Scopolia carniolica var.brevifolia - which seems to be a synonym.

Maggi Young · « **Reply #304 on:** May 17, 2016, 08:45:31 PM »

Some Alliums grown by Luc Scheldeman

Allium karataviense ssp. henrikii JJA133014

Allium komarowii JJA133070 Antara-Sara valley Tadjikistan

Allium roseum JJA136200 Portugal

Allium shatakiense JJA137045 Turkey

Allium shelkovnikovii JJA137050 Kuh-e-Sabalan Iran

David Nicholson · « **Reply #305 on:** May 24, 2016, 12:59:53 PM »

Heuchera pulchella JCA 9508.

Maggi Young · « **Reply #306 on:** May 31, 2016, 03:14:27 PM »

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Quote from: Maggi Young to Jon Evans on Wimborne Show report notification

Enjoying your report immensely - may I use your photos of Diane's plant of Iris lineata JJA 590.625 to add to the Archibald Archive?

First three pix are from Jon Evans's AGS show report

Quote from: Diane Clement on May 31, 2016, 01:38:11 PM

The story is that the seed was not originally collected by Jim, being a 6 digit number. The seed actually came originally from SRGC seed which the Wallises grew on and passed seed to Jim who in turn grew it on, and hence the source of the seed on his list.

This is Jim's information about the plant:

" 590.625 : IRIS LINEATA (I. karategina) (Sect. Regelia) * Tadjikistan. No further data. (Raised from seed received as I. stolonifera from material collected in Tadjikistan. Stoloniferous it certainly is but the rhizomes are smaller & thinner than I. stolonifera. The blue-bearded, darker segments of the flowers on 30cm. stems are more pointed & it floweras about a month earlier with us. I. lineata was merged with the allied I. darwasica by Dykes but not by Brian Mathew. These species are obscure and all three may run into each other in the wild. Not too difficult but less vigorous than the clones of I. stolonifera we grow."

I have found it easier than other Regelias which I have, usually finding they need a warmer summer than I can give them . This particular plant was completely overlooked and spent all winter outside in a pot, unprotected, not a regime I would have normally followed for Regelias and Oncos. It must have been OK as it flowered well, although typically for that group, the flowers typically lasted a couple of days before the next ones opened, not ideal for showing.

Here's a couple of pix I took on the day, struggling to sort out depth of field with a new mirrorless camera

Diane's photos...

Thanks to Diane and Jon for their contribution.

Maggi Young · « **Reply #307 on:** May 31, 2016, 03:20:16 PM »

Now for some photos garnered here and there....

an Iris with an unknown JJA number from a Facebook query

Paeonia from JJA seed from locality of P. wendelboi grown by Zdenek Zvolanek

David Nicholson · « **Reply #308 on:** May 31, 2016, 05:11:07 PM »

Heuchera pulchella (JCA 9508) is mine Maggi.

Maggi Young · « **Reply #309 on:** May 31, 2016, 05:21:01 PM »

Quote from: David Nicholson on May 31, 2016, 05:11:07 PM

Heuchera pulchella (JCA 9508) is mine Maggi.

Thanks David - I'm clearly suffering brain fade.

And posted by you some time ago ... http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9360.msg358554#msg358554 - Sorry!!

Maggi Young · « **Reply #310 on:** June 22, 2016, 11:37:29 AM »

Update from Viv Condon on some of her Archibald plants :
Seed collectors
Sometimes great men come along and we seem to take it for granted they will be around for ever and we will be able to buy seed and plants from them as long as we feel like it, but it is not the case at all.

Cyclamen coum forma albissimum from Archibald seed 2001 collection No.0.360.100 , with little or no colour on the nose at all, just a shading. A bit trickier to grow than Cyclamen coum, likes high shade and good drainage, but moisture as you can tell by the moss around the Cyclamen.

Acis tingitanum syn. Leucojum tingitanum they are from Archibald seed 630.480 collected in 1996 and flowered in 2000 only four years to flower, not long to wait really. They grow beautifully off the Mt and do not mind the heat and a clayish soil in Montrose as well as doing quite well here in the Dandenong Ranges in a sunny position. The Acis do well in Australia as in a previous blog I showed a photo of Acis valentinum from Marcus doing incredibly well, but I must stress well drained soil and lifting every few years.

A collection of Cyclamen elegans two forms or colours. Seed collected by Archibald in Iran 2001 362.000 and 362.001 they flowered in 2006, and I had a few spare corms to sell last year at our meeting.