Pulsatilla 2013

[Olga Bondareva]

About seeds. Now I see there are more seeds than people.  I'll take all to make sure everybody will be supplied.

Another Halda collection (Mt. Suukanskaya/Caucasus - JH-118/'97).
This is a garden seedling. The original plant is smaller (more compact), but isn’t flowering yet.
Pulsatilla georgica

What a beautifil plant Jozef! And I see it differs from P. violacea. May I ask about seeds? 

This is a J. Halda collection from N-Tadjikistan ( JH-244/06 ). Don't kill me if the name is wrong 
Pulsatilla amoena

The name is wrong.  It looks like P. ambigua. 

[Olga Bondareva]

The great thing about pulsatillas must be that you need to see them in nature to really understand them (a little bit). So of these in my garden I am now only sure about two - P. vulgaris and vernalis! P. ambigua came from Julian Sutton (Desirable Plants nursery in Devon), so that's my provenance of it (it's a nice plant anyway), and P. halleri,

Tim what a beautiful plants!
"P. ambigua" is tripinnate as I can see? So it is not ambigua. Who knows is it true P. turczaninovii or garden hybrid with it's blood.

[Olga Bondareva]

BREAKING NEWS!
My Pulsatilla magadensis has not only survived the winter but decided to produce a bud! However, it is the absolutely tiniest little bud I have ever seen

Susann! That's a miracle! So tiny plant and so tiny bud! Magadanensis! 
Don't know what you should do but please ask the plant to produce seeds! Tell it please one lady in Russia waiting for them very-very much!  And Sweden is much closer to her than Magadan. 

[Darren]

This came to me as Pulsatilla patens nuttalliana and is a seedling from Lionel Clarkson's show plant illustrated in the Hexham show thread.

First flowering for me and I like it a lot!

[Jozef Lemmens]

What a beautiful plant Jozef! And I see it differs from P. violacea. May I ask about seeds? 

I will put a big sign near the plants ;-).

Is there anyone who can identify the plant of reply 263 or make a guess?
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9988.msg274870#msg274870



Beautiful plant, Darren.

[Olga Bondareva]

Is there anyone who can identify the plant of reply 263 or make a guess?
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9988.msg274870#msg274870

Thank you Jozef!
The plant of course is not P. turczaninovii. I can't say which species (or hybrid) it could be.  Seeds from Berkutenko was confused.  Probably the seeds were not wild collect but took from botanical institute collection where species hybridized.

[Armin]

Seriously Armin, you lost yours, oh that's a shame.
I will most certainly collect the seed and happy to share.  The only thing I have to watch out for is that dang phantom bunny in my yard, I never see it, only the damage done.  I read a tip, about using a pump spray bottle, and mixing hot tabasco sauce (1 tablespoon per gallon of water), then nightly spraying on plants favored by rabbits; I may have to do that, as they certainly demonstrated their munching love for this plant last year.

McMark,
yes it is true - I lost this beautiful red pulsatilla last summer after strong rainfalls. It simply rotted at the base. When I noticed it it was already to late for rescue. It is nice to see it comes true from seed. Would be glad to raise it from seed again.
 
Rabbits are nocturnal - best chance to surprise the culprit might be the morning dawn 4.00 AM... I believe they are muching the herbs (our loved rarities) cause they can't find them anymore in the wild - at least this is the case here. I had this annoyance ~12-15 years ago - now the rabbit population is distinct by increased mechanised agri(mono)culture, more traffic, ongoing urbanisation...
I'm a nature lover - my heart is severed

[Jozef Lemmens]

The plant of course is not P. turczaninovii. I can't say which species (or hybrid) it could be.  Seeds from Berkutenko was confused.  Probably the seeds were not wild collect but took from botanical institute collection where species hybridized.

Thank you Olga. I have always been in the belief that the seeds from A. Berkutenko were wild collected. I have had Androsace seeds of only one species from her list and also this was with a wrong name. She promised to send a picture, but never did  .

[Jozef Lemmens]

Two P. albana forms.
Pulsatilla albana

   

Pulsatilla albana ssp. sulphurea

[Roma]

This Pulsatilla with a very large flower is in bloom just now.  I am afraid it has become separated from the label with its origin which sometimes happens if I do not label all seedlings individually.  There is one pot labelled grandis cream but the leaves look different and it is not going to flower this year.

[Susann]

I promised Aarie to contribute with something to this thread, but I am sorry to say I can not post any pictures. It was very stupid of me deciding to use RAW instead of jpeg before I have any applications for it. You just have to believe me when I say that finally the Pulsatillas are in flower in southern Sweden. My favorite this year is a greenish white flower with origin from Scottish seed list, said to be "P montana f alba". it is very beautiful, but not a montana of course. Could be an albana involved?

I do not think my "P rubra" are correct either, I have to check them with Flora Europea. All the nice P cernua seedlings except one rotten in their pots this winter ( stupid to keep them in the pots, I know). The survivor has moved to England.

Last year all seedlings from Jelitto said to be P alpina ssp alpina flowered, all were nicely white, but far from alpina. I always thought that people collecting for Jelitto were trustable? Does anyone have experience growing Pulsatillas from Jelitto? Their P occidentalis were all correct. The only problem with the seedlings was that my dear neighbor thought they were fishes.

You mentioned Dr Berkutenko earlier. I have got seeds from her, wildcollected with details of locality. However, a lot of the seeds arrived with fungus, packed when not completely dried I guess. My pride," P magadanesis" is from a lot from Dr Berkutenko. But of course, with my usual luck, it is not a magadanensis. Beautiful dwarf bungeana, though. I should have paid more attention to the leaves in the past. Sorry for misleading you all with my "breaking news". Now my credibility is like for the tabloid newspaper, I suspect? I do not blame the origin of the seeds. As only one seed germinated it might as well has been a seed that jumped into the pot next to it when sowing.

Good thing is that three P aurea has germinated, after one and two years. One P alpina ssp apiifolia is finally in flower after two three years in the border. The other two in borders are still too shy.  The task tomorrow is to repot all the P alpina ssp apiifolia that have spent both one and two and three years in the sowing pots. In some of the pots there are still new seedlings this year, together with the ones that have germinated before. This shows that one should never give up on the Pulsatillas; often said to be only fresh germinating. I have found that apiifolia germinates sparingly after one period of stratification,  but a lot second spring, just like the Paraquilegias do.

What else? Ambigua, dahurica and campanellas are in bud, vernalis has already said goodbye for this year, but lots of halleri, montana and patens in different color forms shows their beauty.  ( By the way, someone mentioned "P patens nutteliana". "Nutteliana" is an invalid name for the Northamerican bluish form of P patens, so it is really like saying "patens patens").

Also different ssp of albana are in flower. The pratensis are a delight, and I have to say, whatever my "hackelii" is, it is not a true pratensis but very very beautiful. ( We discussed it earlier and some of you suggested it was a plain pratensis and not the natural hybrid with patens)

Finally, there are lots and lots of vulgaris hybrids kept in a vegetable plot ( the neighbor´s to tell the true). They come in all colors,  and with normal, double- and triple petals. Most of them are fringed. Talking about fringed. I just learnt that there is a locality with fringed P vulgaris in the south of Sweden. It has been reported for 70 years. I really have to go and see it. But when? The Pulsatillas tend to flower when I am away in springtime.  And talking about vulgaris hybrids. Many persons in the conference in Czech Republic told me that they where growing `Red Cloak´. I thought that was fun, because the danish word "klokke" means "bells". The Germans has translated it as it was meant to be; "Rote glocken". Someone, somewhere got the danish name translated wrongly into english and now it seems as the British nurseries all name the hybrid the same?
I will just finish with some old pictures of some of the fringed vulgaris forms.

[Susann]

Some more pictures. ( Using my pocket camera) I have a P vulgaris f alba in a border at the front of the house. Last year it seems to have been a very good year for germination with all the rain and cold. You can clearly see that the wind always blows at the same direction in our village, it is a northern wind (all tress in garden are leaning towards southeast).

I have only taken away a few seedling to prevent them from being to crowded. I was surprised that so many came white, I would have expected most of them to be purple.

The poor seedlings in the middle of the pathway has been stepped on and disturbed by the snow shovel, but still looks quite fine. There are some more in the pathway that does not show in the image.

[tozi]

Pulsatilla grandis in nature 

[Jozef Lemmens]

A Vojtech Holubec collection from Kazakhstan.
Pulsatilla campanella 'VH-336/09'

   

[Susann]

Wow, the left picture was very nice, Jozef!

I found a P dahurica hybrid in one of my rockeries yesterday, very nice with purple nodding flowers. It really looks like a dahurica, only slightly different shape of the flowers and the color of them.  I will show you a picture later, when I learn how to convert my images into jpeg. Or anything...