Scilla 2010

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I'm sure several of you have Scilla blooming. My first ones opened today...S. miczenkoana (aka S. tubergeniana)

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Trond Hoy

Fri, 04/02/2010 - 10:51pm

This was a nice gang!
Some of mine opened before I left, I'll give report when coming home after Easter.

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Trond Hoy

Mon, 04/05/2010 - 11:25am

Lots of them flowered when I came home. Here are two, the white one is probably a white S. verna selection.

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Trond Hoy

Tue, 04/13/2010 - 12:00am
Boland wrote:

Scilla bifolia 'Rosea'...self-seeded in the lawn.

When do you start mowing the lawn? I have to wait till June because of the bulbs. (My wife don't approve.)

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Todd Boland

Tue, 04/13/2010 - 4:36am

I never planted any bulbs in my lawn but over the years, several crocus, two species of scilla, chionodoxa and erythronium americana have moved in.  Much to my chagrin, I notice Allium aflatuense has also started to pop-up in the lawn!  I generally mow by late May...perhaps a bit early for the bulbs but it does not seem to have slowed them down.

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Lori S. (not verified)

Sat, 04/17/2010 - 12:54pm

I'm a bit peeved!  I saw a band of house sparrows out eating puschkinia blossoms last weekend... curious, I thought... as I had never seen that behavior before.  Anyway, it appears the little buggers also ate all the buds off my grove of Scilla miczenkoana!  Grrr!  >:(

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Mark McDonough

Sat, 04/17/2010 - 5:03pm
Skulski wrote:

I'm a bit peeved!  I saw a band of house sparrows out eating puschkinia blossoms last weekend... curious, I thought... as I had never seen that behavior before.  Anyway, it appears the little buggers also ate all the buds off my grove of Scilla miczenkoana!  Grrr!  >:(

Yes, I have them too, they like to shred crocus blooms.  They seem to be partial to an old mixed planting of Crocus chrysanthus hybrids in my front "foundation planting" area, so it's not much of a loss, so far they ignore the rarer species crocus on the other side of my house.

Todd: regarding bulb lawns, some of the photos of bulb lawns posted on the Scottich Rock garden Club forum will knock your socks off; visually compelling they are.  But then I wonder too, how to manage the mowing part... how long to let it look unkempt while bulb foliage is still green.

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Todd Boland

Wed, 04/28/2010 - 3:22pm

My favourite scilla is now open...Scilla rosenii, from Ruksans.  The flowers are huge for a scilla.

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Trond Hoy

Thu, 04/29/2010 - 3:42am

They are good! I thought I had some but I can't find them or they are disguising as something else!!

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Todd Boland

Tue, 06/22/2010 - 5:14pm

Mine is not blooming yet....I'm not sure it is even going to bloom...much too crowded by one of my Astilbe.

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Tim Ingram (not verified)

Thu, 05/19/2011 - 12:23pm

Here is a really fantastic Scilla, often described as like a blue Eremurus! I had this from Bob and Rannveig Wallis, bulbous growers and exhibitors par excellenze, and it is the first year it has ever flowered for me (perhaps something to do with our long warm and very dry spring) - Scilla hyacinthoides. It may look a bit less dramatic from my poor photo but it still has most of its flowers to open. Quite a contrast to all the little blue beauties!

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Trond Hoy

Thu, 05/19/2011 - 1:01pm

Each small flower is unmistakable Scilla but the whole plant is not! Remarkable :o