Re: Erythronium

Thanks, Bill.  But I went to Gene's site this afternoon because he said he
still carried two of the native Erythronium species.  I only found one, E.
americanum, the yellow trout lily, but I will be happy to have that!  

I'm on the perennials digest, so when I wrote telling you there were native
species, I had not received your message about all the Erythronium growing in
your woods.  Lucky you!  

I see now that you want Erythronium like they grow in England.  I've  been to
England and it certainly is easy to be envious.  Perennials grow so
beautifully in the that climate.  I was absolutely enchanted with the gardens
there and by the graceful landscape of the English countryside.  But when I
got home the first thing I noticed was how big and gorgeous the trees were
here.  I really do think nothing compares to our eastern U.S. deciduous
forests.  And you've got a woodland filled with trout lilies.  I think that's
pretty special.

Your white to pink to violet flowers with mottled leaves sound like E.
albidum to me.  Are they?  No doubt you are right that the yellow ones are
not 'Pagoda'.  They could be either E. americanum or E. rostratum.  Gene has
a photo of E. americanum on his web site.  E. rostratum is similar except
that it has triangular appendages near the base of the petals.  Whatever they
are, it won't be long now until they are blooming.  Boy, do I have spring
fever!  --Janis

In a message dated 2/8/01 11:05:05 PM Central Standard Time, Bill wrote:


Janis, Gene Bush said nobody bought erythronium so he stopped stocking them.
 
On a trip to the Seattle area and a tour of Heronswood last spring I saw
some
amazing Pacific coast species--several times larger than our midwest
natives.
Bill Lee


===>I love erythroniums, Gene.  I have in the past bought some I don't have,
but they haven't survived--I suspect like Galanthus and Eranthis, they are
better transplanted in leaf, than as bulbs.  But except in England, I don't
know where to buy them like this.  My woods is full of the native one, in
varying shades from almost white to pink and light violet, and varying
degrees of mottling on the leaves, and I have yellow onces, although they're
scarcer.  I don't know what they are for sure, but doubt they're 'Pagoda'.
Bill Lee

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