Spring Anemones (A. blanda)

Ellen Hornig hornig@earthlink.net
Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:30:56 PDT
John Grimshaw wrote (of Anemone blanda):

> Does 'White Splendour' ever set seed? I have never seen a seedling of it 
> in
> over 25 years. Nor, though it's grown here adjacent to long-naturalised
> (i.e. at least 90 yrs)  normal blue A. blanda, have I seen an evident 
> 'son'
> such as Ellen describes.

Looking at the distribution of seedlings, I would say that it is possible 
'White Splendor' has produced a tiny handful of seedlings, but the great 
preponderance of evidence is that it has provided pollen to the blue strain. 
I was out inspecting them a little while ago, and among the blues there are 
now some whites and many intermediates, including a few very beautiful 
individuals that are sky ble with a white central zone (worth isolating if I 
can work up the energy to do it).  There are also, oddy, a very small number 
of reddish-lilace and pinkish ones - some long-lost gene has worked its way 
to the surface there.

Ellen

Ellen Hornig
Seneca Hill Perennials
3712 County Route 57
Oswego NY 13126 USA
http://www.senecahillperennials.com/
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Grimshaw" <j.grimshaw@virgin.net>
To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 7:13 AM
Subject: Re: [pbs] Spring Anemones (A. blanda)


> Ellen Hornig wrote, on 8 April:
>
> Both the beautiful rich blue A.
>> blanda, and 'White Splendor', have been established here for - oh - 15-20
>> years?  the blue ones self-sow everywhere, like crazy, ad nauseam, etc,
>> and
>> they've picked up some genes from 'White Splendor', so we now have some
>> large pale blues as well
>
> Does 'White Splendour' ever set seed? I have never seen a seedling of it 
> in
> over 25 years. Nor, though it's grown here adjacent to long-naturalised
> (i.e. at least 90 yrs)  normal blue A. blanda, have I seen an evident 
> 'son'
> such as Ellen describes.
>
> The usual Dutch trade stock of blue blanda varies somewhat in the shade of
> blue but I like this as when planted out it looks like a variable, natural
> population rather than a selected clone as so many commercially bulbs are.
> Here it is planted in light grass with a good bright pink lot of Cyclamen
> coum and the combination is quite striking.
>
> John Grimshaw
>
> Dr. John M. Grimshaw
> Sycamore Cottage
> Colesbourne
> Cheltenham
> Gloucestershire
> GL53 9NP
>
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