Pictures of plants you are growing from Archibald seed

[Maggi Young]

From Antoine Hoog,- another pic of Crocus melantherus JJA 341.352
 

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Photo by Torsten Junker
 
Variation in C. cancellatus ssp. mazziaricus from JA seed
JJA 342.008 - Turkey, Denizli, above Cukurkoy to Kazik Beli.

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Another photo found from Torsten Junker on Facebook.....


Crocus pallasii ssp. dispathaceus JJA 349.910

[YT]

702.259 Narcissus miniatus Turkey, Içel, E of Akdere. 185m. Open areas among Quercus coccifera scrub on limestone. R. & R. Wallis 08-122.
(N. serotinus, flowering between September & December, has recently been cinsidered to encompass two species. As a whole, it is distributed around all of the Mediterranean coastal areas, except of Most of Egypt & Turkey, whence there are very few collections. Bob & Rannveig Wallis tell us the forms here were particularly fine. Sweet-scented white, flowers with little, orange-yellow coronas on 20cm. stems recall a N. miniature poeticus. For the alpine-house or bulb-frame, where it needs a thorough drying-out in a warm temperature in summer.)

Sowing: Oct 2009
Germinating: Oct 2009
First flowering: Oct 2014
Pictures taking: 14 Oct 2017

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Another picture form Torsten Junkers on Facebook .....

Crocus pallasii ssp. turcicus f. alba JJA 349.970

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Cyclamen persicum from JCA 1050 - photo from Facebook by Melvyn Jope

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From Tim Ingram, a photo of Fritillaria stenanthera  from Archibald seed, grown by George Elder  - this plant has won an AGS Farrer Medal


 Now from George Elder himself on Facebook :
"The JJA 503.209 seed from which these plants were grown came from northern Afghanistan. Plants increase well. The photo below shows the yield form about a dozen bulbs after two years' growth."

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From Antoine Hoog on Facebook ...
Colchicum decaisnei JJA 313.300

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702.259 Narcissus miniatus Turkey, Içel, E of Akdere. 185m. Open areas among Quercus coccifera scrub on limestone. R. & R. Wallis 08-122.
(N. serotinus, flowering between September & December, has recently been cinsidered to encompass two species. As a whole, it is distributed around all of the Mediterranean coastal areas, except of Most of Egypt & Turkey, whence there are very few collections. Bob & Rannveig Wallis tell us the forms here were particularly fine. Sweet-scented white, flowers with little, orange-yellow coronas on 20cm. stems recall a N. miniature poeticus. For the alpine-house or bulb-frame, where it needs a thorough drying-out in a warm temperature in summer.)

Sowing: Oct 2009
Germinating: Oct 2009
First flowering: Oct 2014
Pictures taking: 14 Oct 2017

more from YT.....

"The flower stalks are getting taller than usual because of dull weather But I found a seedling with wide and flat petalled flower #2

[Maggi Young]

David Nicholson has been visiting his friend Mike Quest  - these  are  from his greenhouse ( other Cyclamen from Mike  in the Cyclamen thread)
"From Mike Quest's greenhouse today, Cyclamen africanum, a Jim Archibald collection that Mike obtained from Jo Hynes a couple of years ago.  The label reads as follows "C. africanum, Archibald 0358000. Ex Algeria, Labylie. E. of Azazga, 850m. Oak scrub. 1/08 ". Ex Algeria, Labylie. E. of Azazga, 850m. Oak scrub. 1/08 "


Cyclamen  africanum  JJA 0358000

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Shown on Facebook by  Fritillaria Icones - this photo of Colin E's plant of
Fritillaria kurdica  JJA 17242


 
and Fritillaria legionensis grown  RHS Wisley  from JJA Seed  in 2008
 

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Again from Laurence Hill and Fritillaria Icones -
Fritillaria straussii JCA 0.503.350


www.fritillariaicones.com/icones/ic600/Fritillaria_Icones608.pdf

Laurence comments :
Fritillaria straussii is not for the open garden. Although it is hardy this species need protecting from summer rains.


A further comment from Robert Wallis:  F. straussii is one of the plants we aim to see in the forthcoming AGS Expeditions Tour to Iran. In fact the very spot where the seed of this introduction came from is on the list of places we will visit. We call it 8-Frit mountain!

[Maggi Young]

From Tim Ingram:
Apropos growing Fritillarias in the garden. This is F. elwesii - originally a potful given to me by Jim Archibald - growing in a slightly raised bed beneath an old cherry tree, enriched with spent gritty compost from the nursery. The soil is rich - it supports nettles rather too well! - but has also been topdressed with leafmould and compost so is open-textured and well drained.


Fritillaria elwesii in the garden at Copton Ash, Faversham, Kent.

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Posted by forumist Ian McEnery on Facebook - Crocus cambessedessii grown from Archibald seed

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From Ian Young - taken from a Bulb Log....


Eucomis autumnalis  subsp. amaryllidifolia  JJA 3.330.050


Eucomis schijffii JJA 3.230.800