Author Topic: Pictures of plants you are growing from Archibald seed (Read 229309 times)

Jon Evans · « **Reply #675 on:** May 27, 2020, 07:27:16 PM »

Hi Ashley
For clarity, it's definitely not Nothoscordum bivalve. It is certainly similar to plants I have seen at AGS shows exhibited as Tristagma bivalve. Bob and Rannveig Wallis grow material like this under that name. But these are not the same plant which Osmani Baullosa posted as Tristagma bivalve on the PBS (Pacific Bulb Society) website. The plant on the PBS most like the one I grow is labelled Tristagma sp. by Osmani. He describes it as "an alpine species from Chile different from T. bivalve. It has scentless flowers that are shaped like a narrow cup facing up.". For now, I am leaving the label as T. sessile and ignoring the suggestion that this is synonymous with I. sessile.

Maggi Young · « **Reply #676 on:** July 02, 2020, 11:25:59 AM »

Note from Panyoti Kelaidis in Denver : " Campanula trogerae from Turkey, introduced to cultivation by Jim Archibald 25 years ago: I believe I was one of the first to bloom and get good quantities of seed in cultivation: thrilled to still have it going in my garden!"

Maggi Young · « **Reply #677 on:** July 02, 2020, 11:32:20 AM »

Some other Archibald plants - photos from Facebook posts ....

Pictures of plants you are growing from Archibald seed

"Alstroemeria garavantae. kept going for a long time ex. seed from Jim Archibald has not spread and increased as some hybrids can do to weedy proportions but slowly declined" Tim Ingram

From Ger van den Beuken ....

Dionysia curviflora JCA2300

Forgive me - I forget who posted these ....

Paeonia rockii JJA4.581.500

Paeonia rockii JJA 4.581.500 a

Tristagma nivale grown as Solaria sp. ex JJA seed

Maggi Young · « **Reply #678 on:** July 19, 2020, 05:38:49 PM »

In a video of his personal garden in Denver, Colorado, Panayoti Kelaidis mentions his fondness for Origanum plants- and picks out one that he has grown for around 20 years, which was collected in Southern Turkey by his friend, Jim Archibald - it has lovely lime green bracts and the cute little pale violet coloured flowers

Video link to film by Adam Taub:

ruweiss · « **Reply #679 on:** July 20, 2020, 07:20:37 PM »

Origanum rotundifolium is also one of my favorite summer plants.
Insects, especially bumble bees love it.

Maggi Young · « **Reply #680 on:** February 12, 2021, 04:14:43 PM »

These from Steve Garvie :

"WEE DIDDY DANFORDIAE!
-This is also Iris danfordiae (JJA585.900). It is from seed initially collected by the Archibalds (JJA 17968). Iris danfordiae has a strange disjunct distribution in Turkey (it’s a Turkish endemic). It is found in an area centered around the Eastern Taurus Mountains and then again over a much wider area well to the north and east (around Ordu, Amasya, Sivas, Gümüşhane, and Erzincan).

The BATM-357 collection is from this latter area but this tiny wee danfordiae was collected at 1800m south-west of the Çiftehan to Maden road in Niğde Province (Eastern Taurus). This form is very much smaller than typical danfordiae and flowers from small bulbs. It also seems to clump up a bit better than typical danfordiae. The last two images show the JJA form compared to the BATM-357 collection.

Only had it a year. Got it from a friend who is a much better Plantsman than me. I think he got it as seed from the Archibalds. Early days but it looks like it might bulk up and seems to flower more reliably than other forms."

Steve Garvie

Maggi Young · « **Reply #681 on:** February 12, 2021, 05:07:56 PM »

From YT ......
Hyacinthella nervosa, JJA 571.360
Turkey, Şanlıurfa, E of Birecik, slopes of Karadağ. 800m. Limestone ledges & fissures.

Maggi Young · « **Reply #682 on:** June 05, 2021, 04:59:18 PM »

Quote from: Tim Ingram on August 08, 2015, 10:27:12 PM

The Bomarea and Calochortus are fabulous plants...

With grateful thanks to Maggi for this information after I put this photo of Cynara hystrix onto Facebook. (Hope our plants might set seed this summer).

Perhaps this, Tim? 372.100 : CYNARA HYSTRIX Morocco, Middle Atlas Mts., above Ifrane. 1700m. Open, stony areas on limestone. (Maintained from seed we collected in 1962, this remains little-known in cultivation as it so seldom sets enough seed for propagation. Desired by almost all who see it, this is one of the most striking of thistle-like plants with 50cm. stems of large heads of royal-blue flowers, surrounded by lilac-pink phyllaries, elongated into stiff, curved spines. In nature, the deeply cut foliage vanishes before it flowers in summer. No trouble & seems to live forever (without increasing much vegetatively) in a really hot, sunny, dry site.) - from the Archibald Archive- masterseedlist page 54 on the SRGC website.

Tim says this plant now seems to have changed name to C. baetica subsp. maroccana Wiklund 1992

Maggi Young · « **Reply #683 on:** July 19, 2021, 06:18:30 PM »

From Kurt Vickery today :

Cynara hystrix Syn C. baetica var moroccana JJA 372 100. Introduced under the latter name is this beautiful modestly proportioned 'Cardoon' . For me one of Jim's finest dicot introductions from the 1960's . I lost it after moving house but my excellent plantsman friend Mike Tucker expertly maintained it for all these years and gave me the seed from which this and many other plants have been raised . perfectly hardy in very well drained soil. The name Hystrix is the latin handle for Porcupine species ..."