Pulsatilla 2013

[Hoy]

All those beautiful Pulsatillas!
After a very long and cold spring the warm weather paid us a visit for a few days. We went to our mountain cabin where the snow had barely gone, just a few patches left. The lake was however still icecovered.

The only flowering plant except a few sedges was the mogop, Pulsatilla vernalis. From snow one day to + 22C the next day! The buds opened quickly. A few were eaten by hares (or elks), they are always there in the spring nibbling the first green stuff appearing in the meadow. A frog crawled out of a heap of snow probably woken by the sunrays penetrating to the bottom of the snowcover.

We got a thunderstorm after the very hot day and the flowers shut for the night.

[Hoy]

Some butterflies also were awakened by the warmth!

[greenspan]

@susann

this is an older foto of a Pulsatilla got as "campanella" from a german nursery, which is specialized on alpines. i know, that his seed sources often come from czechia. the seed source Pavelka could be rather likely. meanwhile i lost the plants but collected seed before + distributed them. i got seed back + now growing some seedlings. a conspicuousness i remember were the petals...the inner ones were a bit longer than the outer ones, especially to see, when the flower closes. but of course, this Pulsatilla has nothing to do with the true campanella, olga showed. but what could it be?

[Olga Bondareva]

Although Susann is out here for P. rubra I'd like to post images I promised. P. campanella another (cloudy!) day. Very typical look I think.

[Olga Bondareva]

Trond, I am so envious you can go and see wild Pulsatillas! Beautiful vernalis!

greenspan, I also have this blue one. No suggestions sorry. By the way leaves are very similar to P. campanella and P. albana.

Thank you Tim! I am not sure about your blue flowered plant. But I totally agree it is extremely beautiful and elegant. 

I'd like to find true P. bungeana. It is a species seems never seen in culture. According to literature and herbarium it should be very small, 5-8 cm tall.

[greenspan]

i got this plant as Pulsatilla bungeana ssp. tenuiloba in 2009 from a german nursery. don't know if it was labelled correct. it only flowers in 2011, still alive but never flowered again. the leaves are very ..wispy? thin? (don't know the right english term).

[Olga Bondareva]

i got this plant as Pulsatilla bungeana ssp. tenuiloba in 2009 from a german nursery. don't know if it was labelled correct. it only flowers in 2011, still alive but never flowered again. the leaves are very ..wispy? thin? (don't know the right english term).

I like your nursery! 
The plant looks very interesting and could be P. bungeana or P. tenuiloba! Sad it does not flower.

[Maggi Young]

the leaves are very ..wispy? thin? (don't know the right english term).

'wispy' is a good term for such leaves - they are delicate, light and feather-like = wispy 

We also use the word for "wisps of straw" - tiny thin pieces of straw, such as might blow around.

Lovely foliage on your plant and the blue is beautiful - I hope you can restore it to flower in future years - no matter what it is calle

[Natalia]

For more variety Pulsatilla - recent blooming.

 Pulsatilla ambiqua - seeds of my collecting - Khamar-Daban.



Pulsatilla alpina - seeds of Polar Alpine Botanical Garden(Kirovsk)

[Jozef Lemmens]

Greenspan, you are quicker than me. I was waiting for taking a picture until this Scottish weather should have gone back home  . In the meantime some of the flowers are already damaged.
This is a Josef Jurasek collection from Mongolia (2003).
There are 2 plants on the picture and between them is a slight difference in flower colour.

Pulsatilla bungeana v. tenuiloba 'JJ-464/03'

      

[Olga Bondareva]

This is a Josef Jurasek collection from Mongolia (2003).

Yes! It should be true. Thank you very much Jozef!

[Olga Bondareva]

One of my P. albana show fasciation this year.


P. dahurica starts to bloom. It's not of real beauty for me. But it is very vigorous and has the most impressive seed heads.

[Hoy]

Trond, I am so envious you can go and see wild Pulsatillas! Beautiful vernalis!

Hi Olga, I did believe that you were able to see a lot of wild Pulsatilla species! And many are as beautiful as vernalis
You have very beautiful pics of them anyway!

[greenspan]

@jozef

please tell a bit about the substrate you are using for the P. bungeana ssp. tenuiloba. is it a place in full sun or semishade? do you fertilize your plants?

[Jozef Lemmens]

@jozef
please tell a bit about the substrate you are using for the P. bungeana ssp. tenuiloba. is it a place in full sun or semishade? do you fertilize your plants?

I have these plants in normal clayish garden soil mixed with a lot of grit.
They get full sun from about 1 PM till sunset. And I use a Geranium fertilizer twice a year (May and July).