Spring Bulbs - Pictures and Discussion: Part VII

'Pipit' and 'Lemon Beauty'. 'Pipit' has two flowers on one stem.

'Leen vander Mark'

Very pretty Kylee!

Must be very pretty around your house ~ inside and out. :)

Thanks! I do love walking around outside AND inside. This is just such a wonderful time of year! :-)

That Hermione is lovely.
I had a couple new ones open today.
Name ? What name?
Andy P

The other one.
These came in a 'mix' bag of late Tulips from a 'bigbox' store.
Andy P

Very pretty. Andy, I keep meaning to tell you I love your worm's eye view pics. Those flowers look like they belong on Easter Island. :)

Thanks Moby, They are fun to take.
Something different, ya know?
Andy P

I ordered Cistula tulips but got these instead - I think they are Elegant Lady.

Still pretty!
Tam

Tulip Angelique & May Wonder (quite a few years since they were planted. Starting to fade).

And these tulips must have been planted more than 10 yrs ago! They sure are going strong.
Tam

Frittilaria Pallidiflora

A yellow Calla Lily grown forced to early bloom in my greenhouse

Nice! I especially like the (?)Elegant Lady. What are the blue flowers to the left of the kittie / hand?

What superb pictures!

Kylee, Tulip 'Hermione' is so unusual.

Tam, do you know the Zantedeschia cultivar?

Arisaema triphylla.

Ed. : Arisaema triphyllum

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A happy Mistake. I had no idea that they would bloom together. Black tulip and black iris.

Dracunculus stems.

Some things here are bulbs. Black and White.

N. Bellsong

Moby - those are a small clump of the muscari that are all over this property.

Kenton - sorry no. I bought it as "yellow calla lily" at a box store a few years ago.
And you are surely a collector of many beautiful bulbs & have planted them in quite
interesting combinations.

Here's a greenhouse-grown arisaema sikokianum (I started from seed 4yrs ago).
I'm slipping it in since Kenton obviously enjoys arisaema and I'm just so proud of
my baby. :-)

Tam

Tammy, you are the Seed Queen! That arisaema is so awsome! Love the foliage and the flower. Your outdoor display is wonderful! And that frittilaria is such a nice color to.

Kenton, you've tweeked my interest in "black" flowers, and I've been really enjoying Queen of the Night. I've been carrying around a bloom and looking at the color with different things growing in the garden, and am finding so many striking combinations. They look wonderful with maroon leaved Heucheras and anything with gold leaves. I even like the way they echo the black strips in Jack in the pulpit.

Tammy, your Arisaema sikokianum is awesome! No wonder you are proud of it.

Where did you get the seed? Was it difficult to grow? I have been wanting one of these for a long time but don't want to break the bank for it. LOL

Tammy I have also wanted one of the variegated leaf A sikokianum. I too would love to know where you got the seed. 4 years from seed to flower is fantastic! We are all so jealous! I also love the calla, a nice red/orange flush.

*blush* thanks for the compliments!

I got the seed from the NARGS seed exchange. (North American Rock Garden Society). I didn't see
them this year - I was going to grow more since I lost most in a flood of my greenhouse. I'm gonna keep
an eye open for them in future years. I'd have to look up the seed started regime but I don't recall it was
especially difficult. I keep them in a cooler part of the greenhouse (near the evaporative cooler).

Here a picture of the greenhouse after the flood. (Hurricane Ivan of fall 2003.)

Tam

Oh, Tammy, what a heartbreaker that must have been. Somehow I never think of Pennsylvania getting hurricane damage. I don't know why, since it isn't unusual to get flooding here in Ohio due to hurricanes.

How about a recent picture of the greenhouse to cheer us all up? LOL

Tammy, What a shame. I hope you didn't loose too much or anything 'important'.
I'll bet it's better than ever, now.

Remember those nice little blue Chionodoxa?
Some should have set seed by now.
All you 'Neat and Clean' gardeners out there, don't weed them out or cover them with mulch.
Here is what they look like a few weeks after the flowers fade.
They will get a bit larger, then break open in a month or so.
Andy P

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My Replete daffs did not bloom and leaves are already beginning to turn yellow, so I would say no blooms. I am annoyed as these were the replacement bulbs that Bloomingbulb sent me when Salome daffs did not bloom the previous year. The daffs are in full sun, precious real estate. Can I yank them out now? If I do that, would these bulbs be of any use to somebody up north, or do I need to just dump them?

tahnks for your help.

Hmmm. That's a good question. But in your neck of the woods daff foliage will probably be dying off soon anyway, so the bulbs may be ok. If they look ok I'm sure your northern gardening buddies (wink wink, nudge nudge) would gladly try to save them, lol.

I would be more than happy to share. I let the Salome die in place in 2005 and this year not one single leaf, let alone plant, returned. I have no reason to believe Replete will come back either. So might as well give it to somebody that can use it. Tomorrow I will yank one out. if the bulbs look good, I will post in the bulb forum or in plant trading.

I had Salome in pots for a couple of years, then put them in the ground. They took a couple of years to recover but some are flowering this year and the flowers ae better now they are established. The colour is also paler, the trumpets are a really solid texture but look like matt silk, the perianth seems perfect, the whole flower is lasting forever. I am really impressed now! The colour on these is true

Andy, that's exactly what my chionodoxa look like right now. I'm just going to let them go, as you suggested. When they're breaking open, should I just let the seed fall to the ground, so they self-seed naturally or do I want to actually collect them and plant them?

Well done, Seed Queen Tam. Four years is warp-speed. The variegated form is most sought-after. I wonder if it will self-pollenate and give you seed this year?

Kylee- I have done both methods to sowing, but have ended up in-between: I point the pod-heavy stems where I want to have a clump of bulbs. Otherwise, they will tend to reseed downhill or only towards the light- where the flowers faced. Still, you can spread them farther by picking and scattering the seeds to have one of those wonderful spring flower suprises in a new place after two years.

I'm on the eastern most part of Pa so we do get remanents of hurricanes but Ivan was the worst for me
personally. I just remembered all the folks who get REAL damage and spent two days cleaning it out.
Big job but it looked better than ever when I was done. I'll attach a current shot of the fully loaded greenhouse.
(Barely an inch of free space left).

And I found one of those Arisaema's outside today! Yippee!!! It doesn't look as nice as the one inside
but its "blooming" too. Woo Hoo.

Andy - I noticed those little chionodoxa seed pods yesterday. Of course with my seed obession, I never clean
up seed pods that look promising. (It does cause issues when they were some unrecognized weed. LOL).

Tam

Kenton.............'downhill'??? ROFLMBO.

I live in the flattest county in the state of Ohio. Seriously. It's documented. It was once part of the Great Black Swamp. Last area of Ohio to be settled. Look it up. LOLOLOL.


But thanks for the advice! :-)

Kbaumle - is the soil very rich then? Living on a very steeply sloped property, I occasionally have
flatland envy.

Tam

Tammy, your GH looks great. And so do those epis in bloom!! I have 5 epis of various sizes and ages (the oldest is 4 or 5) but have never gotten them to bloom. I hope I will succeed this year. They spend winter in a semi-dormant state in my cold garage. I just woke them up at the end of March so I am hoping that they will produce buds soon..... I see lots of pictures of buds and blooms on the epi forum but they seem to be from people who live in much warmer zones or have GHs so maybe there is still hope for mine. LOL

What zone are you in? I bought an Arisaema candidissimum on sale a few years ago. Some sources say it is hardy to zone 5 and others say zone 6 so I have been afraid to plant it outside. I grow it in a pot and it is still alive but not thriving. I guess I should just take the chance and put it in the ground. I am in zone 5b.

Tammy, much of the soil is indeed rich, but we are also known in this area for extreme clay. In fact, the town I grew up in (and live near) has a clay tile factory. They no longer make the clay tile, it's all PVC tile now, but they still could. What happens is, if you have a house and you don't have them scrape away the top 12 inches or so when they build it, below that is solid clay. Rock solid. Horrid stuff. And when they dig for the foundation or basement, then backfill, you've got that clay on top. UGH.

At the back of our property, the soil is wonderful. Loose, rich, and dark. Of course, we also live at the edge of a former woods, and near a creek, so there's that, too. Still, I have that clay mess to deal with up around our house. I've been amending each planting season and it's getting there...

Kylee, You will have to be vigilant to harvest the Chio seed. The pods don't look ready until they break open. Then it's too late, the seed has already been released, LOL.
Good luck.
Here is what year old seedlings look like now.
Andy P