Sternbergia

Sternbergia greuteriana

Numerous, bright yellow funnels in September, shaped like a miniature Sternbergia lutea but on long tubes. Increase is by pea-sized offsets made on the end of short stolons.

The true plant from Karpathos, acquired from Bonn Botanic Garden some years ago. Sunny, well drained loam soil, dry in summer and recorded as hardy to -12°C. Also a superb subject for the alpine house.

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Sternbergia lutea ex Greece

Wide green leaves, with golden yellow autumnal goblets on 10 cm stems from September onwards.

Good in the garden, classically at the base of a South facing wall (as in our picture). A deep, fertile, loam soil and a dry summer rest will give good results and can, in time, this clone can make massive bulbs, certainly the largest Sternbergia bulbs that I have ever seen.

Vegetative propagations from a stock originally found near a ruined farmhouse between Olympia and Tripolis, Peloponnesus in 1978.

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Sternbergia lutea ex Iran

Authentic, vegetatively propagated material from the eastern edge of the range of the species, which came to us via a German Botanic garden.

Glowing yellow flowers from September onwards, this starts to flower 7-10 days after the time that our Greek stock is already in full bloom.

First offered 2010.

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Sternbergia sicula Arcadian Sun

Collected in 1966 at 300m in S. Greece by Herbert & Molly Crook. It passed eventually to the late Michael Hoog of Haarlem. Under his care it was increased before being named by his son Antoine.

Narrow dark green leaves (lighter than Dodona Gold) and buttercup-yellow flowers but on much shorter stems.

This is readily grown and increased but the outstanding feature is that it usually has two flowers on each scape, rather than the normal one!

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Sternbergia sicula Bisceglie

We received this as seed in 2002 from a find in Italy and it has proven to be a nice form of sicula with longer leaves at flowering time than the Greek ones and the foliage makes a nice foil to the superb, wide faced yellow goblets which have very good colouring and are [produced readily.

This may be only in cultivation here.

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Sternbergia sicula Dodona Gold

This is the very best, and most free-flowering, form from the very north of the plant’s range, close to the ancient amphitheatre at Dodona.

Large golden goblets borne reliably every September and October, over prostrate silver-lined leaves. This does very well and flowers reliably in our climate.

Originally discovered by Dr. J.R.Marr many years ago.

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