Pictures of plants you are growing from Archibald seed

[Maggi Young]

From Colin E.,  elsewhere in the Forum -  Fritillaria kittaniae JCA0497 700

[Maggi Young]

Narcissus triandrus var. alejandrei, JJA 707.380. Spain, Burgos, Peňahoradada. R.D.Dominguez coll.
 photos  Tatsuo Y.

An update on Tatsuo's plants  of  Narcissus triandrus var. alejandrei JJA 707.380

[YT]

Muscari mcbeathianum, JJA 690.080

Pictures: 1st Apr. 2018

690.080 : MUSCARI MCBEATHIANUM (Subgen. Pseudomuscari) * Turkey, Adana, ENE of Tufanbeyli. 1200m. Open areas among Pinus in fine sand. (Racems of open-mouthed, ice-blue to white flowers from porcelain-blue buds on 10cm. stems. A charming, delicate little species we discovered in 1985. Needs careful watering in the alpine-house.

  Seeds from: NEWSLETTER & SEEDLIST / SEPTEMBER, 2008
  Sowing: Nov. 2008
  Pictures taken: 02 Apr. 2016

[Maggi Young]

From Colin E.
"Fritillaria reuteri JJA 502 450. Jim’s seed list description is Iran, NW of Esfahan. (Extremely local in the Bakhtiari country of the central Zagros range but numerous in a few, seasonally moist, stony meadows at 2500-3000m. Wide mahogany bells, broadly bordered with yellow, not unlike F. michailovskyi but taller & more delicate, both in habit & constitution. Not easy & scarce in cultivation, though several growers have found it takes well to life outside in N Europe. It certainly prefers not being too dried-out in summer.)
 I do find this does have a more pleasing growth habit than my other reuteri which looks a bit untidy."

[Maggi Young]

Last year I put pictures of this JJA493.310 Fritillaria crassifolia subsp. crassifolia on what was the Fritillaria Group Forum. They were all like the first picture but this year one has flowered and looks like this second picture. 
JJA seed list description: 493.310 Fritillaria crassifolia subsp. crassifolia Turkey W. of Erzincan ex BATM 286 unstable terraced slopes of black stones.

Colin

[YT]

688.101 : MUSCARI AUCHERI

　Pictures: 04 Apr. 2018

688.101 : MUSCARI AUCHERI (Subgen. Botryanthus) * Turkey, Bolu, near Abant Golu. 1000m. Ex N. Stevens 2541 (A striking bicoloured form. Mid-blue and white flowers over short, neat foliage. From a cool, moist part of Turkey.)

  Seeds from: NEWSLETTER & SEEDLIST / SEPTEMBER, 2008
  Sowing: Nov. 2008
  Pictures taken: 02 Apr. 2016

[YT]

590.256 : IRIS KIRKWOODII (Sect. Oncocyclus) * Syria, W of Aleppo, Bishmishli. Rocky outcrops between cultivated fields. Ex R.& R.Wallis 95-09 (From a type-locality collection of this spectacular relative of I. gatesii from around the border of Turkey & Syria. Somewhat intermediate between this and the dark-veined, more southern species centred on I. sofarana. About 30-40cm. tall with huge flowers with tucked-in falls. Standards veined & stippled with violet on a whitish ground. Falls veined with deeper purple. A vigorous plant, possibly needing richer treatment than the Iranian steppe-species.)

  Seeds from: NEWSLETTER & SEEDLIST / NOVEMBER, 2007
  Sowing: Nov. 2008
  Germinating: Dec. 2008
  Firdt blooming: Apr. 2015
  Pictures taken: 05 Apr. 2018

  Though this iris was not listed on Nov. 2007 list, they sent me the seeds as a substitute.

[SJW]

Bellevalia dubia ex JAA 227.702

[Maggi Young]

From Tom Waters in an Iris thread :  "T013-01 an Iris reichenbachii plant raised from Archibald seed. A striking specimen vigorous and floriferous."

[Maggi Young]

Via Laurence Hill/ Fritillaria Icones
 


"Fritillaria from Jim Archibald seed JJA 0.503.600. Hybrid or unusual population?"

http://www.fritillariaicones.com/icones/ic100/Fritillaria_Icones101.pdf

[Maggi Young]

 From Adrian Cooper - who describes the Archibalds as "remarkable plantspeople"    ... this is  " Paeonia clusii enjoying the heat - this is from Archibald seed and is about 25 years old"

[Maggi Young]

Another from Adrian Cooper :
"Paeonia ruprechtiana- I am using this name as it comes from a distinct location and is nothing like daurica!  It came from Imeretia, Georgia - very distinct Archibald again. "

[Maggi Young]

Tim Ingram in Kent - who has previously shred  his photos from the Archibald garden, wirte :
 "Wish I'd had more peony seed from Jim Archibald... This is a picture of one of his stock tunnels for collecting cultivated seed from wild origin plants - the bed on the left was full of rare Paeonia species, including P. parnassica! These make superb plants in our warm and dry south-east climate."

[Maggi Young]

Shown at SRGC Glasgow Show in Milngavie  on 5th May 2018 - by  George Young ( his photo too)

Fritillaria liliacea seed grown from a JJA collection  by George  Young

[Maggi Young]

The next few posts will share photos from around the forum  by Janis Ruksans, of plants he has grown from Archibald seed, or was given by Jim and  Jenny.
Comments are those made by Janis with the original posting. 


Crocus aff. mawii aff. Akseki-Seydishekir -one unidentified sample collected by Archibald, looks quite similar to C. mawii


and

 are : Crocus crewei Honaz-dag  - noted as having buff-coloured  seeds


2016  and

 2017   are  Crocus  kotschyanus with white throat.
Here C. kotschyanus grown under label "White throat" collected in Syria by Jim Archibald when it was a  peaceful and friendly country. This autumn in its throat suddenly appear yellow spots and stigma turned much more divided. Here you can compare pictures from the same stock in 2016 and in 2017.