Allium 2012

[wmel]

some photos from today
allium protensum

[TheOnionMan]

Weitse, that middle photo is freakin UNBELIEVABLE!  What an amazing sight!!! 

[wmel]

Weitse, that middle photo is freakin UNBELIEVABLE!  What an amazing sight!!! 

Thanks! , Here two more made the same time. (late in the evening, while the sun was going down, and made against the sunlight)

[wmel]

Last week we had very high temperatures in Holland, up to 30oC and more, so at last the alliums are growing and flowering in high speed now (a little to fast), we also started harvesting 2 and 3-year old seed from the alliums, and as I have promised I post some photo's from the harvesting and washing of the bulbs

[Stephenb]

Weitse, that middle photo is freakin UNBELIEVABLE!  What an amazing sight!!! 

I'll second that! 

[Lina Hesseling]

Weitze, wat een prachtig gezicht!
Thank you for showing us and explaining how you work.

Lina.

[David Nicholson]

From the garden today-Allium 'Purple Sensation'

[Oron Peri]

Weitze, your Allium fields are just stunning, congratulations!!!
David, on a smaller scale, yours too

[Janis Ruksans]

Last two days I had very famous visitor exploring Iranian Alliums - Dr. Reinhardt Fritsch - at present leading authority in Melanocromium alliums - from Gatersleben Institute of Plant Genetics in Germany. We checked names of my Alliums and found between my Iranian gatherings two new, still unknown to science species. Few got new names, too. Here two beauties:
Allium chloropetalum
Allium ellisii
Janis

[daveyp1970]

Last two days I had very famous visitor exploring Iranian Alliums - Dr. Reinhardt Fritsch - at present leading authority in Melanocromium alliums - from Gatersleben Institute of Plant Genetics in Germany. We checked names of my Alliums and found between my Iranian gatherings two new, still unknown to science species. Few got new names, too. Here two beauties:
Allium chloropetalum
Allium ellisii
Janis

WOW,WOW,WOW again Allium chloropetalum is just stunning,so far new plant of the year for me.

[wmel]

Last two days I had very famous visitor exploring Iranian Alliums - Dr. Reinhardt Fritsch - at present leading authority in Melanocromium alliums - from Gatersleben Institute of Plant Genetics in Germany. We checked names of my Alliums and found between my Iranian gatherings two new, still unknown to science species. Few got new names, too. Here two beauties:
Allium chloropetalum
Allium ellisii
Janis

I think allium ellisii flower looks a lot like allium christopii??, Is it higher or lower, or are there other differents in plant or flower?? allium chloropetalum is spectacular !!!. How high is this allium, and what size are it's bulbs??, and when will you offer some....   very beautifull !!

[Carlo]

Janis,

I must join the chorus singing the praises of A. chloropetalum...wonderful! I can't think of anyone who wouldn't welcome it into their garden. What a thrill it must be to have a range of plants verified--and then find that you have two new species. I can only imagine the excitement.

[Janis Ruksans]

I think allium ellisii flower looks a lot like allium christopii??, Is it higher or lower, or are there other differents in plant or flower?? allium chloropetalum is spectacular !!!. How high is this allium, and what size are it's bulbs??, and when will you offer some....   very beautifull !!

Allium christophii has round inflorescence and it is larger. There soon will be two subspecies included - one looks as traditional (subsp. christophii), another has very hairy leaves, is shorter and not so bright in color. You can see both on attached pictures.

[mark smyth]

Allium chloropetalum

wow that is a beauty

[TheOnionMan]

I'll chime in with all the others showing admiration for Allium chloropetalum, a striking inflorescence.  Also, relative to the hairy subspecies of Allium cristophii, I showed photos of plants from Iran grown by Kurt Vickery, showing the whole plant with those plush hairy leaves;
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=5766.msg137868#msg137868

On true Allium ellisii, I find it fascinating that the tepals recurve just slightly backwards or past 180 degrees, to define/mimic the curvature path of the composite inflorescence globe.