Pictures of plants you are growing from Archibald seed

[hamparstum]

Hi Tatsuo, I suppose that there is something not correct in your post:
"Sowing: Jan. 2004
  Germinating: Dec. 2004" Is it the year later or even more?. It took a long time to flower!
Arturo

[YT]

Hi Tatsuo, I suppose that there is something not correct in your post:
"Sowing: Jan. 2004
  Germinating: Dec. 2004" Is it the year later or even more?. It took a long time to flower!
Arturo

Hi Arturo,
YES, it took long time after sowing.
You have green fingers so all your plants can germinate and grow quicker than mine, I suppose

[Maggi Young]

700.322 : NARCISSUS DUBIUS * Spain, Valencia, Alzira. Ex JWB 02-05.

  Seeds from: NEWSLETTER & SEED LIST / AUGUST, 2003
  Sowing: Jan. 2004
  Germinating: Dec. 2004
  First Blooming: Mar. 2016
  Pictures: 26 Feb. 2019

I think it is a long time from germination to flowering.  After taking  11 months to  germinate ?
 Can you clarify this, please  Tatsuo?

[YT]

In my experience I think it is not unusual wild plants seeds taking more than a year to germinate.

I don’t know the exact reason why my N. dubius seeds took nearly a year from sowing to germinating. Perhaps the seeds had already gone into dormancy when I sowed them and required summer heat in moist condition to break it? Or I could not create conditions for their germination when I sowed them and they went into dormancy once?

It seems this N. dubius is a kind of slow grower with me. Perhaps I could not grow them in their moderate condition. I sowed N. papyraceus JJA702.720 seeds on same date and they germinated at almost same time (it took nearly a year, too) but the seedlings put their first flower in 2009.

[hamparstum]

Tatsuo it is amazing for me! Thank you for clarifying. It happens that my family from my mother's side was originally from the Sivas province, the town of Merzifon and I'm particularly interested in the flora from the north Central Pontic mountains. So I pay great attention to your pictures when the original seed is from that region. I admire your patience and it deserves headlines in the news!.
Arturo

[Maggi Young]

Wonderful winning plant from George Elder of Fritillaria stenanthera at the recent  AGS  show at Pershore  - grown from Archibald  seed it seems.  Robert Wallis on Facebook questions the area the seed is stated to have   originated .... " JJA Seeds stated that it originated in Afghanistan: (503.209 : FRITILLARIA STENANTHERA * Afghanistan, Balkh, S of Mazar-i-Sharif. 2000m. Grassy hillsides.) but I cannot find any other records of it in the that country or even anywhere near the border. All other records are from N Uzbekistan and adjacent Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan."



503.209  FRITILLARIA STENANTHERA - grown by  George Elder, photo by  Paddy Parmee

[Maggi Young]

From elsewhere in the forum , from Colin E.

Another Fritillaria stenanthera has recently opened for me; it is stenanthera ex lilac blue forms JJA 503 201. I am as yet undecided if I like it but it is different. It also for me has not been the best of growers. I will see how it does from now on.
Colin

Fritillaria stenanthera ex lilac blue forms JJA 503 201

[YT]

696.600 : NARCISSUS BULBOCODIUM var. PALLIDUS
Two different seedlings from same seed packet.

  Pictures: 04 Mar. 2019

696.600 : NARCISSUS BULBOCODIUM var. PALLIDUS *
Morocco, High Atlas, Tizi Gourane above Amizmiz. 1800m. Schist fissures. (From our type-locality coll. of the little hoope-petticoat recently named N. jacquemondii by the Spanish 'splitter' Fernandez Casas. Suit yourselves whether you use his name or Maire's, both are valid. A good alpine-house plant with pale to deeper primrose flowers in early spring (much later than N. b. subsp. praecox). About 10cm. high.)

  Seeds from: NEWSLETTER & SEEDLIST / OCTOBER, 2009
  Sowing: Feb. 2010
  Germinating: Dec. 2010
  First blooming: Feb. 2015
  Pictures taken: 25th Feb. 2015

[YT]

703.605 : NARCISSUS PROVINCIALIS var. BICOLORANS w France, Alpes-Maritimes, S of Grasse, Bois de Gourdon. J.W.Blanchard 09-03. (Wild seeds of the bicoloured form of this dwarf trumpet-daffodil. An intriguing species, growing in a locality far from any of its relatives. Cream tepals with a pale yellow corona according to Pugsley's description.)

  Pictures: 08 Mar. 2019
  Another seedling in the fifth picture: 19 Mar. 2019

[Maggi Young]

Twitter pic from Kit Strange  today  -  Fessia greilhuberi, a Jim and Jenny Archibald collection. At the AGS Loughborough alpine show

[ashley]

494.800 : Fritillaria ehrhartii Greece, Evia, E of Karistos.  200m.  Seasonally damp, N & W-facing sides of gulley on mica-schist.  (A beautiful native of S Euboea & the Kiklades.  Big, bloomy, yellow-tipped, grape-black bells glow to ruby in the evening sun.  Stout 20-30cm stems can carry up to 6 flowers.  Not often seen but easy here under glass).

[YT]

688.012 :MUSCARI ARMENIACUM from PINK FORM * Turkey, Konya, S of Beysehir Golu. 1100m. Roadside verge. Ex. R. & R. Wallis 90-50. (From a selection made in Turkey by Bob & Rannveig Wallis over a decade ago. Pinkish white flowers blush to deeper pink as they mature. A good percentage now come ‘true’ after two generations.).

  Pictures: 19 Mar. 2019

[YT]

491.800 : FRITILLARIA AUREA * Turkey, Sivas, Ziyaret Tepe. 2000m. In turf, among limestone rocks. (Big, broadly bloated, bright citron-yellow bells, with ghostly browner chequering. Usually opens almost at ground-level & the stem gradually elongates to about 15cm. in height. A good form of this endemic of the high, central Turkish mountains from near Bolkar Dag NE into Sivas & Malatya. A plant of alpine-steppe, usually on limestone, between 1800 and 3000m.)

  Seeds from: Jenny Archibald EXCLUSIVE SEEDS : JANUARY 2011
  Sowing: Dec. 2011
  Pictures: 22 Mar. 2019

 It got slug attack I'll post better pictures next time.

[YT]

497.680 : FRITILLARIA aff KARELINII * Uzbekistan, Baison-Tau, Pulkhakim. Ex. ARJA 9830. J Ruksans spectacular white flowered Rhinopetalum which has the appearance of a dwarf F bucharica, described by him as "one of the most beautiful ever seen"!

  Seeds from: Jenny Archibald EXCLUSIVE SEEDS : JANUARY 2011
  Sowing: Dec. 2011
  Pictures: 25 & 27 Mar. 2019

[YT]

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

  Seeds from: NEWSLETTER & SEEDLIST / OCTOBER, 2009
  Sowing: Feb. 2010
  Pictures: 27 Mar. 2015