Leucojum and Acis

Jim Archibalds seed seems to have come from stock of a John Blanchard collection. Easily referenced thanks to the Scottish Rock Garden Club.
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Peter Taggart (UK)

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From: "Jane McGary" <janemcgary@earthlink.net>
Sent: ‎31/‎01/‎2018 19:45
To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>
Subject: [pbs] Leucojum and Acis

I just looked up some information on /Acis tingitana/, which is
flowering in my bulb house now, and was confused by the text of the
entry in the PBS wiki. The information is credited to John Grimshaw, but
apparently written up by someone else. I can't tell from the way it's
written whether Acis is now moved back into Leucojum, or whether both of
them are to be referred to Galanthus. The problem is the phrase "that
genus," whose referent is unclear. Could someone please clear this up
for us?

As mentioned in said text, I've found A/L tingitana/um much hardier than
British references state. My plants are under winter cover but have
always been exposed to ambient outdoor temperatures usually reaching
minus 6 C for short periods. A/L valentina/um, a fall-flowering species
also considered tender by some, got out into my present garden in error
when I moved 6 years ago and is doing very well there. Both of them
increase readily and I must also make more of an effort to collect the
seed, which matures rapidly. They would be very welcome in mild-climate
gardens.

Incidentally, the PBS wiki text speculates that plants exhibited by the
Archibalds and illustrated on the wiki may have been the same collection
as my photographed plant. They aren't -- mine came from a seed
collection with the identifier SBL, S being Michael Salmon, who sold the
seed. They may have come from about the same place in North Africa, though.

It's interesting that quite a few bulbs thought of as (semi-)tender in
the UK and Europe do well outdoors in the Pacific Northwest USA, where
winters are colder than in much of Britain and just as wet and gloomy. I
don't think it's our dry summers, because I irrigate the areas where
some of these bulbs grow weekly in summer. Could it be our lower
latitude and correspondingly greater day length during the plants'
growing season?

Jane McGary

Portland, Oregon, USA

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