Popular Posts

  • The 2022 Summer Catalog is online now!
     Please visit: www.illaherareplants.com   to see the new catalog! We are phasing out this old blog server so you need to go visit the new ...
  • Exit March
    Fritillaria eastwoodiae I've always loved plants named after Alice Eastwood. My old mentor Jack Poff would tell stories about her, I ...
  • All apologies
    I got called out for calling peonia brownii an ugly duckling.... so here I am apologizing for that. Just for reference here is another ...
  • Its Juno time
    One of the raised beds. Double post today, aren't you lucky. I was doing an evening stroll and noticed the junos doing there thing. ...
  • Cactus weather
    Pediocactus simpsonii var. Nigrispinus. I bought this tiny little golf ball sized plant at a NARGs winter study weekend probably 7 years ...
  • The New Website and summer availability list: www.illaherareplants.com
     Hi all,  This is a momentous occasion that has only been about 15 years in the making. illahe finally has a website! This will be the end o...
  • Feel the Darkness............Fritillaria obliqua
    “Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.” Mary Oliver That quote is...
  • The first affinis
    Fritillaria affinis-Vancouver Island  Fritillaria affinis-Vancouver Island This is from  Jane's plant labeled Vancouver Island. It...
  • The First Frost.......well almost
    So the weather folks were talking about frost all weekend and into the week, there was this big cold front moving in that they swore if it ...
  • Fritillaria crassifolia ssp. kurdica
    Fritillaria crassifolia ssp. kurdica JJA 17242 I've pointed out the variability in these before, but I've been trying to seperate ...

Sunday, February 4, 2018

A Solid Month Early

I covered this group of flowers pretty intently last year, but they were blooming in early March and here they are this year in early February. We are definitely way ahead if these are blooming before Valentines day.
Some day when that monograph comes out, I'll get these dialed in exactly, we all know they are in the Fritillaria complex Fritillaria JJA 17255


Ornithogalum balansae
The Star of Bethlehem doing it's thing in the early season, i'm curious when it normally blooms in it's native, Balkans, Turkey and Georgia.

Mild week in the forecast, It was in the 60's this weekend and I got a sulfur spray on the orchard, a bunch of work done on the boat and some weeds pulled in the rock garden. Still no frost in the forecast, which is kind of mind boggling for the season. 

Cheers, 
Mark

Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)