Bulbs – Page 4 – Ellis Hollow

Spring, quickly

I missed a month of spring in the week or so I was working close to 24/7 on the titan arum blooming at work. But I did have a few minutes to shoot some pix as the early spring bloomers rushed by with the unseasonably warm weather.

Crocus

Hellebore

Iris reticulata

Iris histrioides ‘Katharine Hodgkin’ (thanks Lynn!)

Don’t know how this pulmonaria hitched a ride into the garden. Ugly foliage but great flowers.

Pussy willows were in their prime one of the few days I was home early enough to take pix.

Titan arum time lapse

‘Wee Stinky’ draws crowds to Cornell – The towering titan arum
(Amorphophallus titanum) attracted about 10,000 visits, including more than 3,500 on March 19 alone. Read more in the Cornell Chronicle.

Time lapse:

Shows spathe opening on March 18, 2012. Audio description by graduate student Gwynne Lim is from March 19. Larger version at CornellCast. HD version coming next week.

The spadix collapsed on March 22, 2012. Don’t fret. Ph.D. candidate Gwynne Lim told me early that day that it was hollow and could go over anytime. “We went to the greenhouse early this afternoon and the appendix was ripping at the seams just above the male flowers,” says Lim. “It looks so sad.” View the 7-hour collapse in 30 seconds below or on YouTube.

More info at Titan arum blog.

Titan arum pix

I was way too busy to take many pictures of the titan arum bloom. But if you missed the event, there are plenty of places you can see why it was so exciting:

Huffington Post slideshow – Must see!
Titan arum at Cornell University
Ithaca Journal slideshow – Great article too.
More images via Google

About to bloom!

Craig is sequestered on campus waiting for the Titan Arum to bloom. It’s starting now and should be open tonight. Craig is making updates on the Cornell Titan Arum blog if you want to follow along.

Titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum): High quality feed

We had some real pros donate some time to come in and set up a high quality live feed. Might be Saturday might. Might be Sunday. When it flowers, we’ll light it until 11 p.m.

Here’s a screen capture from the lighting test tonight:

arum light check