Sternbergia lutea

Kathryn Andersen via pbs pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net
Mon, 24 Aug 2020 15:29:44 PDT
Dell,

I really cannot believe that you have Sternbergia lutea setting seeds in your garden now.  Mine are still dormant. In my Pennsylvania, zone 7 garden, pots of rain lilies have recently finished blooming and setting seeds.

Almost 50 years ago, my husband and I were chaperoning a group of junior and senior high school musicians on a Black Sea tour.  When visiting the Nikitsky Botanical Garden near Yalta,  I purchased some black bulbs that looked like daffodil bulbs to me. The guide wrote down the name for me in Russian which a friend tried to translate when I got home.  The original Sternbergia lutea bulbs and progeny have survived two moves and are now planted in several different microclimates.  They will emerge in late September to early October, and  I will be able to find bulbs blooming somewhere for a month. 

Kathy Andersen


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Subject: Re: [pbs] Sternbergia lutea

 Well, Jane and Jim, could my Sternbergia actually be a late blooming Zephyranthes? 

Dell
     On Friday, August 21, 2020, 06:02:33 PM EDT, Jane McGary via pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote:  
 
 My Sternbergias sometimes set seed. I advise sowing the seed as soon as the capsules open, since this is what would happen in nature. I've grown most of the species I have from wild-collected seed, but the several forms of S. lutea here were originally commercial bulbs. They include the usual S. lutea, one called 'Dodona  Gold', one grown as S. cilicica but I can't tell the difference (in nature, the one identified by a group leader as that seemed to grow on slightly different terrain), and a half-size form of S. lutea grown from seeds collected in Crete. 
Growing most Sternbergia spp. from seed is not problematic (though requires patience), but I've never managed to keep S. colchiciflora past one flowering.

Jane McGary, Portland, Oregon, USA


On 8/21/2020 1:00 PM, ds429 via pbs wrote:
> My tiny clump of Sternbergia has survived seven winters here in West Virginia zone 6. This year it looks like it is setting seeds. If it happens, can anyone give me advice on growing this beauty from seed?
>
> Dell
>
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