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Jim Dronenburg with some of his lycorises; photo Anne Mazaitis |
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Lycorises: the ones with broad, unruffled tepals and pale yellow color might be hybrids of L. longituba and L. chinensis; photo Anne Mazaitis |
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Lycorises: the big white one is Lycoris longituba, the one in the middle with the blue streak is L. sprengeri; photo Anne Mazaitis |
Last weekend our local chapter, the Potomac Valley Chapter, of the North American Rock Garden Society held a meeting to give members a chance to show slides. I was out of town for a family reunion, but the images here will show what I missed. Thanks to Anne Mazaitis for having the presence of mind to get some pictures. Chapter president Jim Dronenburg arrived with a stunning show and tell: in the first image above, that's Jim with a selection of the lycorises blooming in his garden now. If you look carefully, you can see
Lycoris longituba (big white),
L. sanguinea (orange, small),
L. chinensis (yellow),
L. sprengeri (pink with a conspicuous blue flash),
L. ×
squamigera, maybe a
longituba-chinensis hybrid (light yellow with broad, un-ruffled tepals). Have I named them all?
Jim has been collecting lycorises for years and has written about lycorises for
Washington Gardener Magazine.
We have two members who have been collecting lycorises avidly for years. Jim is the king of our chapter lycoris growers. I'll try to have something about the queen later this week.
1 comment:
Fabulous picture of Jim and his flowers!
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