Sternbergia question
John Lonsdale (Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:33:09 PST)

Hi Angelo,

Sternbergia candida and fischeriana are flowering outside
at the moment and both are beautiful (and large flowered)
additions to the garden. Their flowers are certainly
larger than any of the S. lutea I grow, although not
massively so. I the case of S. fischeriana the flowers do
vary in size from individual to individual (but the one I
sent you came from my largest-flowered group. They do
both take time to settle down after transplanting. I'll
check the scent on S. candida, although we are cold now
and expecting a major snowstorm tommorow. I don't have
any of these under glass, other than non-flowering size
seedlings.

All the best,

John