Lets honour all our other spring treasures...

No the best picture but I found this while weeding. I like the peach color.

I tried so hard to capture the color on this one, but the picture does not do it justice.

Thanks all!

I was out all day yesterday, helping to plant around 600 young native trees and bushes in a Pine forest that needed more variation, came home late and very tired, but happy because after the planting I got the chance to visit a nursery specialised in shadow-loving plants and got 4 more types of Corydalis, a beautiful Dicentra, another Trillium from the Sessile type, but forgot to note down the name, and a couple of non-bulb plants ( Epimedium flavum and a very special Chinese foliage plant Beesia calthifolia.).


Chris, that Scilla peruviana is so beautiful, but probably just not hardy enough for my zone.
Oh I think I have found the name of my unknown Hyacinthoides with the broad foliage, because one of them looks exactly like your Hyacinthoides hispanica Excelsior. Mine are not blooming yet but here's a pic. from last year;

a detail;

Muscari armeniacum Cantab is lovely too, I have a dark and pale type I don't know the name off, bought them some years ago blooming in a pot without plant tag. The bees love them!

Marie, you have some very special Glads! I like them much better than the large showy ones.

Bonitin, 4 more types of Corydalis, wow! There are some gorgeous species I really would love to have, but they are usually very expensive. I love Beesia too, I found a site selling some hardy orchids which are still expensive but not as expensive as I have seen them! They sell a wide range on species Narcissus seeds too, sending them out from late August. I might have to check those out, they are cheap.

http://www.simplyspecies.co.uk/Docs/orchids/

Marie, your first one I'm not sure of, but looks like Watsonia. The second I'm sure is Babiana, another gorgeous Sth African species.

This is one of my Muscari which seems to have set itself, I have M. latifolium and armeniacum but this is much taller than any I can find, and looks like a cross between the two. The leaves are more like armeniacum but on steroids, the flower head is much longer and it has the top knot of latifolium. The flower stems are taller than others too.

Thanks wallaby both of those sound correct. I started trying to put name tags next to my plants but I have a 3 year old who thinks they are quite fun to play with.

Wallaby, the 4 types of Corydalis I got are;
Corydalis anthriscifolia
Corydalis buschii
Corydalis squilegioides
Corydalis 'Kingfisher'; a hybrid from C.cashmeriana and C.flexuosa.
In fact I bought all the types they had!
They were more specialised in Hellebores and Epimedium.
Luckily for me most Hellebores were past their peak performance,lol, so I was not tempted to buy more of them!

Corydalis buschii is not blooming yet, but according to their catalogue it blooms with pink-purple flowers and reaches a height of 20 cm. It goes dormant in summer. It has the normal Corydalis foliage.

Corydalis anthriscifolia is not blooming yet either but has a different looking foliage. It will bloom with purple flowers. The joung foliage has a bronze hue and a reddish rim that gradually fades out.

detail of the leaf;

Corydalis squilegioides is a new Corydalis of Chinese origin, it is closely related to C. leucanthema and seems to be winter green. It blooms with mauve-pink-purple flowers and can reach a height of 50cm.
The foliage on mine looks doesn't look so fresh because its still the worn out winter foliage, but there is some newly fresh ones emerging from the soil. It has only one flower stalk and here is the pict.;

from another angle;

the whole plant

Then there is 'Kingfisher'; The catalogue says it blooms from March until November! That's really exceptional for a Corydalis.

Wow love that flower!! Nice plant. Plants like these are what makes me wish for a different climate sometimes.

I'm not sure if Dicentra is a bulbeous plant, but anyway I would like to show it; Dicentra eximia 'Percy Picton', still very young;

How strange Marie, lol! and I'm always longing for a warmer climate..

And I found out the name of my new Trillium: T.luteum.
The flower is not open yet;

Wallaby: I wonder if your muscari could be Muscari neglectum (syn M. atlanticum, M. racemosum, et al)? It has narrow leaves like armeniacum and a light blue top knot like latifolium, and the darker flowers have a narrow white rim. In the Rix and Phillips book they claim it is very variable in size, and show a specimen that is nearly 50% taller than their armeniacum.

Here is a photo from my garden, today. Mine have been blooming for some time so the flower colors and forms are more mature and the bottom ones are way past their prime. But I think you can still get an idea.


Chris

I think we always think the grass is greener on the otherside. I need some place that is not too hot and dry but not too cold and wet either. Any suggestions?? :o)

Great corydalis--if I could grow them here, they would cover the property--lol

This is a native Texas bulb--Herbertia lahue, which has insisted on seeding itself in the middle of my Crinum hildebrantii bed. Triteleia is blooming, its blue but I haven't taken a picture of it yet. Herbertia pulchella is also definitely blue, and its budded up real well and should bloom soon. It does have the "sorta" blue theme to it.

I also have Zephyranthes atamasco, Z morrisclintii, Z lindleyana, and Habranthus martinezii blooming but those are pink or white. Freesia laxa white is blooming.

edited to correct my poor ability to spell

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Debbie pictures of the others please!!

I haven't heard of Corydalis squilegioides, very pretty flowers! I like the foliage of C. anthriscifolia, the flowers will be nice too!

http://www.asianflora.com/Fumariaceae/Corydalis-anthriscifolia.htm

I saw Kingfisher when someone put it in PlantFiles, such a bright blue, and if it does flower that long well worth having!

Love the other plants too, if only we could have them all, lol.

Deb, Herbertia lahue has nice broad foliage, I think mine will be a while before they look like that!

Chris, I don't think it is Muscari neglectum, the top knot is the same as M. latifolium and the dark colouring much the same. The plant has grown only in the last 2 or 3 years and I doubt if any of the few people I have near me would have anything other than the ordinary ones. I really think I have a hybrid of the two. The foliage is very long, almost rubbery in appearance, there's masses of it and it flops along the ground. I'll have to get a pic of the whole lot.

Looking at this pic it does look very similar, the flowers are less compact than on mine though. Who knows!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Muscari_neglectum.jpg/400px-Muscari_neglectum.jpg

Wallaby--the broad foliage is the crinum (although it is a small species of crinum, as far as crinum's go, anyway). The foliage on Herbertia lahue is small and thin--looks a lot like H pulchella foliage but even smaller and thinner. Length never over 8-10cm--lol. Here's a pot of about 4 bulbs--shows the H lahue foliage size more realistically.

Maybe you European members could do a group buy from Janis for more corydalis plants. I know I would love to see them--I think one of the NARGS chapters up in Northeast USA has done a group buy from him. Should be better and easier for those already in EU, no phyto's needed there between countries, right?

Lol, I thought it wasn't like mine although mine are only young yet. The flowers look to come from those leaves, until I look closer!

There is a place here selling lots of Corydalis, among other things desirable! I bought a few things in late autumn and got a Corydalis Blackberry Wine, it had one tiny leaf and now nothing. A bad time to buy things like that, but I wanted other things which might have sold out.

http://www.adhocplants.com/

oohhhh, they have: Corydalis schanginii ssp ainae at adhocplants!
http://www.odysseybulbs.com/corschainlge.jpg

--you better get one for me to look at Wallaby--lol

If they have that one, they probably have a lot of other of Janis' corydalis too--I am soooo jealous.



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Very interesting! It's just too easy to spend more money than I have got at a place like that, lol. He has a lot of unusual bulbs, look at Fritillaria and Arisaema. Give me a few hundred quid and I will go mad there!

This one opened up this week.
Arlene

My daffodils are all blooming and they are awesome. This was one of the best purchases I have made. Elaine

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And they will increase your joy every year Elaine.
Gorgeous color on that one Arlene.

I got this one at the end of Feb just to make a landscape statement in the front (and to divert attention away from fence construction out back) in between the daff's and the crinums and other slow-starting tropicals out front.

Ludwig, dazzling the neighbors...

Another reticulated iris is now starting. 'Natascha' I think it may fade quickly, but it is very pretty. Patti

Natascha is very pretty Patti, mine flowered in late February along with Margeurite. It's a very delicate blue. This is their second year, I have 5 of each in the pot and they have returned well but a couple are stunted.

Here's my self set Muscari, the first flowers are leaning now. The tallest is 9.5", foliage around 20" long. You can see M. latifolium behind, these flowers have the compact form and deep purple-plum colour in the middle as latifolium has, and the top knot is similar.

Love those muscari!!
Natascha is very pretty!!

M. latifolium flowers, the stems are quite tall but flower heads short.

Thanks Marie, the Muscari is a nice one, and if it's my own hybrid I have something very special!

Long shot of M. latifolium, it has one upright broad leaf.

I was going to add my Narcissus bulbocodium ssp. bulbocodium to the daffodil thread but it's too long to load. This is a little diferent anyway, I bought it in a packet as named but there are many 'vars.' which leave me wondering! It is true to form though, it flowers very little. I had 3 bulbs in the spot which has increased to a mass of foliage, maybe I should try moving some, they do look happy where they are.

http://andrelevy.net/narcissus/#bulbocodium

It has little tufts of white hairs on the tips of the tepals.

What do you suppose those tufts do for the plant? Great shot. Thanks for sharing your always great pictures. Patti