{"id":278,"date":"2007-10-30T17:14:19","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T00:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=278"},"modified":"2007-10-30T17:14:19","modified_gmt":"2007-10-31T00:14:19","slug":"janis-ruksans-bulbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=278","title":{"rendered":"Janis Ruksans’ bulbs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday before last, our Adirondack Chapter of the North American Rock Garden Society<\/a> was treated to a spellbinding presentation by Latvian Bulb expert Janis Ruksans.<\/p>\n

Now I’ve had my eyes glazed over by what we called back in the days of carousel slide projectors the ‘two-tray presentation’ — photo after photo ad nauseum until it’s all just a blur. But the three PowerPoints Janis presented will stay with me for a long time.<\/p>\n

His first presentation was an overview of the incredible bulbs he’s gathered in his plant explorations throughout the former Soviet Union. It included this startling image of Anemone ranunculoides<\/em> mutations gathered from around Chernobyl. Scary.<\/p>\n

\"mutated<\/a>
\nPhoto by Janis Ruksans, used with permission.<\/p>\n

This Scilla armena<\/em> caught my eye among the scores of other images of unusual bulbs he showed.<\/p>\n

\"Scilla<\/a>
\nPhoto by Janis Ruksans, used with permission.<\/p>\n

The first presentation was followed by hour-long presentations on fritillarias and corydalis. They were all amazing.<\/p>\n

I wish I could point you to Janis’s website for more information. But he doesn’t have one. He puts out a print catalog in January. Propagates plants until August. Then fills orders. If you want his catalog, you have to send $5 cash (with the declining dollar, maybe he’ll raise that this year) to: Janis Ruksans, Bulb Nursery, P.K. 441, LV-1010 Riga, Latvia. I’m trying to talk him into letting me post his catalog online. But it looks like he gets all the business his family needs the old-fashioned way.<\/p>\n

I haven’t had a chance to read it yet, but friends I trust tell me his book published this year by Timber Press, Buried Treasures: Finding and Growing the World’s Choicest Bulbs<\/a>, is a great read. It will be on top of my reading pile before the snow flies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sunday before last, our Adirondack Chapter of the North American Rock Garden Society was treated to a spellbinding presentation by Latvian Bulb expert Janis Ruksans. Now I’ve had my eyes glazed over by what we called back in the days of carousel slide projectors the ‘two-tray presentation’ — photo after photo ad nauseum until it’s … Continue reading “Janis Ruksans’ bulbs”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}