Autumn 17#4

Hi Christiaan,

I am delighted by your seedlings, particularly if they are happy in your impossible conditions.

The season progresses here with the first viridiflorus hybrid flowering.

Bill Welch’s earliest Autumn Colors  (09_13T) is flowering as are a couple of its seedlings.

A nice new Autumn Colors seedling from Bill Welch appears to be one of his tetraploids, which is very handy because it is much earlier and I may get some autumn seeds from it.

And of course there are elegans hybrids.

   

A plant from the elegans collection that is the parent of First Stanza is flowering.

 

 

4 comments for “Autumn 17#4

  1. Lawrence,

    All of your  seedlings in the pictures are beautiful and extraordinary. It is astounding that your First Stanza comes from this elegans with its star-shaped and irregular flower. Is the species from Maroc?

    I crossed your Gold Step this spring with the very little bulbocodium ectandrum and got some seeds. From selfing it I harvested one seed grain.

    Theo

  2. Thanks Theo.

    The elegans was grown from Michael Salmon seed, N. elegans fallax S.L. 324 Tunisia, Bessari. Unfortunately a few less come up each year. I think the summers are often too wet. This remnant bulb may not be as good as the actual parent of First Stanza. This collection may explain why, in the seedlings, green can persist for quite a while after opening.

    The first bulbocodium has broken spathe here and there may be a convincing new 8O-O about to flower so I may post again soon.

    I don’t think I’ve used Gold Step as a pollen parent although it has almost certainly selfed. I was not convinced the pollen was very fertile and by the time I realised it was a reliable seed parent I had enough flowers not to worry about pollen. I am sure you will get some very nice vigorous floriforous hybrids from it.

     

     

     

  3. Lawrence, these are extraordinary!  The W-O from elegans is about as perfect as they come, and I’m jealous, and envious, too, because none could grow here, except under lights. (and I believe I wouldn’t have a bank of lights strong enough for their requirements.)  About all I can do is drool. Definitely show us the 8O-O!  :)  Congratulations!

    Suzy

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