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Erythronium californicum 'White Beauty'

Erythronium californicum 'White Beauty'

$14.00 NZD
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More available so mass plant them, these bulk up well. Dormant period and bulbs available soon.

Erythronium 'White Beauty' or trout lily features pale cream to creamy-white  petals that are strongly  recurved (swept backward) with a distinct cinnamon-orange or copper-orange ring in the central throat and an unlobed stigma. White pollen. Patterned green speckled leaves. A great and strong plant. Adaptable for me and bulking well. 


From Ian Young's bulb log; "If your garden is likely to have hot sunshine when the Erythronium are in growth then some shade from the mid-day sun would be desirable to prevent the ones particularly with broad leaves from being scorched. Their relatively soft leaf structure indicates to us that they need some shelter from strong winds which at their worst can shred and snap the leaves and flowering stem – so those species with the larger leaves such as Erythronium tuolumnense and its hybrids need more shelter than smaller growing species. 
and... 

"The one thing that may prevent you from growing Erythronium well is if your garden gets very hot and dry in summer – Erythroniums can survive quite long dry periods during the summer, provided they are in the ground, but it seems that they suffer if the ground around them heats up too much – this is part of the explanation why their bulbs grow so deeply into the ground. I have been asked how deep you should plant bulbs. There is no definitive answer it depends on your garden soil and weather because what the bulbs are seeking is not simply a definable depth of soil above them but the best environment, being a combination of moisture and temperature, they can tolerate." 

Ian recommends planting them with 7cm of soil on top of the bulb, at least for all the western US coast species.

You really must check out Ian's bulb log number 2016. 

Dr. Alexey Yakovlev, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons


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