John Grimshaw wrote (of Anemone blanda): > Does 'White Splendour' ever set seed? I have never seen a seedling of it > in > over 25 years. Nor, though it's grown here adjacent to long-naturalised > (i.e. at least 90 yrs) normal blue A. blanda, have I seen an evident > 'son' > such as Ellen describes. Looking at the distribution of seedlings, I would say that it is possible 'White Splendor' has produced a tiny handful of seedlings, but the great preponderance of evidence is that it has provided pollen to the blue strain. I was out inspecting them a little while ago, and among the blues there are now some whites and many intermediates, including a few very beautiful individuals that are sky ble with a white central zone (worth isolating if I can work up the energy to do it). There are also, oddy, a very small number of reddish-lilace and pinkish ones - some long-lost gene has worked its way to the surface there. Ellen Ellen Hornig Seneca Hill Perennials 3712 County Route 57 Oswego NY 13126 USA http://www.senecahillperennials.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Grimshaw" <j.grimshaw@virgin.net> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 7:13 AM Subject: Re: [pbs] Spring Anemones (A. blanda) > Ellen Hornig wrote, on 8 April: > > Both the beautiful rich blue A. >> blanda, and 'White Splendor', have been established here for - oh - 15-20 >> years? the blue ones self-sow everywhere, like crazy, ad nauseam, etc, >> and >> they've picked up some genes from 'White Splendor', so we now have some >> large pale blues as well > > Does 'White Splendour' ever set seed? I have never seen a seedling of it > in > over 25 years. Nor, though it's grown here adjacent to long-naturalised > (i.e. at least 90 yrs) normal blue A. blanda, have I seen an evident > 'son' > such as Ellen describes. > > The usual Dutch trade stock of blue blanda varies somewhat in the shade of > blue but I like this as when planted out it looks like a variable, natural > population rather than a selected clone as so many commercially bulbs are. > Here it is planted in light grass with a good bright pink lot of Cyclamen > coum and the combination is quite striking. > > John Grimshaw > > Dr. John M. Grimshaw > Sycamore Cottage > Colesbourne > Cheltenham > Gloucestershire > GL53 9NP > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/