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Cliff Booker (Booker)
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Votes: 2 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 10, 2005 - 9:29 pm: |    |
Perhaps a less congested page is now in order?
(This forum is becoming wonderfully diverse and incredibly well supported - congratulations to everyone involved).
A few images taken today in my garden in Whitworth, Lancashire to show leaf variation in one of the alpine world's favourite plants.
Two very different flowering plants of the high alpine Ranunculus glacialis illustrating the contrast between a) the lax long-leaved form of my four-year old plant grown from seed received from the NARGS seedlist and b) form number two... a tight cushion-like mat (a six year old split from my fifteen (plus) year old plant grown from seed collected by Lionel Bacon in France) with neat stubby deep green leaves and a flat tidy habit. Both obviously Ranunculus glacialis and both flowering for the first time this year but there is no doubt which one I will be nurturing for the Show bench. I have long had a dream of gaining a Farrer or Forrest Medal with R.glacialis (to emulate my past Farrers with R.seguieri...it's limestone equivalent)and my collection of seedlings and established plants is getting larger but the mirage fades quite quickly each summer when the flowers fail to appear!!
Kind regards to all,
Cliff
LONG LEAVED FORM - COMPLETE PLANT
LONG LEAVED FORM - CLOSE-UP
NEAT CUSHION FORM - COMPLETE PLANT
NEAT CUSHION FORM - CLOSE-UP
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Cliff Booker (Booker)
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In my haste to post my images I forgot to mention that the petals of the 'neat' form have obviously been voraciously nibbled by a connoisseur pest during our recent vacation. I searched, but unfortunately I could not wreak my revenge!!! |
Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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So different Cliff, that if all had been mine I would have assumed the top looser form, was wrongly named, another species altogether. Shows how much I know.
My R. semiverticillatus is still going strong, the crown of the plant about 4 cms in diameter now. The leaf growth hasn't started yet, later than previously, so I hope for more compact growth. We had a lot of rain in the summer and early autumn. Of course I hope for flowers too, but.....
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
Howard Clase (Hclase)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - 1:48 pm: | |
We must try R. glacialis sometime, it should do here. In the meantime here's another white member of the same family which we do have, Caltha palustris ssp himalyensis, which a friend brought back from the wild and germinated. She's annoyed because our plants thrive and self seed while she cannot get them to survive in her garden!
Howard Clase, St John's, Newfoundland. (Where it's 3.5 hours earlier than the time given above!) |
Luc Gilgemyn (Luc)
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Beautiful R. glacialis Cliff - I mean the neat form ! - absolutely brilliant. Thanks for sharing it with us.
I saw it in Austria a few years back and was told there that it takes the plants 3 growing seasons to form the bud and finally flower... that is.. up there at 2500 meters altitude.
Luc Gilgemyn - Harelbeke - Belgium |
J.Ian Young (Iyoung)
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Lewisia tweedii
Rob's Lewisia has spurred me on to show one of our remaining L. tweedyi plants. It goes back to the pre-bulb days when we grew a lot of plants in pots in what was then the alpine house, now one of the bulb houses.
It has fine large flowers and it grows in the lower plunge bed of the bulb house. Well when I say grows in the plunge, it choose its own spot .
It self seeded between the concrete foundation bricks and the plastic board holding in the sand of the plunge and forces its way up between this board and the glass where it flowers for months on end.
Ian Young, Aberdeen, North Eastern Scotland. |
Geir Moen (Gmoen)
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I just posted some pictures to the "Flowers and foliage Start of May 2005", but I guess this would be the right place......SORRY
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Cliff Booker (Booker)
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Looks like it's Lewisia time in Aberdeen AND East Lancashire! Here are my offerings of Lewisia tweedyi rosea in my tiny garden here in Whitworth and a quick shot of two primula flowers whose stems were entwined by the recent cool winds. The Ranunculus glacialis is now showing an increased number of buds...can't see it hanging on for Southport AGS show unfortunately.
Greetings to all and many thanks for all your kind words.
Cheers, Cliff
Lewisia tweedyi rosea
Lewisia tweedyi rosea Close-Up
Entwined primulas
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Franz Hadacek (Fhadacek)
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A greeting to the Southern Hemisphere. Myosotis decora is one of the few plants of New Zealand which I can cultivate in a pot in my garden.
Franz
Myosotis decora
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J.Ian Young (Iyoung)
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Just to prove I am not biased here are two Draba species collected on the ACE expedition.
Draba species1 ACE
I had thought that we had lost this little yellow one and to be honest I did not care, but it has popped up in one of the raised beds as a self seeder.
Draba species2 ACE
A bigger grower is this scraggy white one. There is quite a variation in flowers and habit and as it seeds around one day we might just get a good form.
Androsace sempervivoides in bed
This is a much better plant for a raised bed.
Androsace sempervivoides
I love the way the eye of the flower changes colour.
Ian Young, Aberdeen, North Eastern Scotland. |
Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 12, 2005 - 8:34 pm: | |
Lovely myosotis Franz. I'm not familiar with M. decora but it seems similar to M. colensoi. Have you tried M capitata? It's very easy from seed and makes a nice tufted plant with heads of deep blue flowers. It's from the Auckland Islands in the sub Antarctic so is used to an apalling climate. I have some seed if you'd like to try it. It isn't long-lived but seeds to little colony if permitted. I wouldn't be without it in a raised bed.
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
Marjorie Smith (Grannysmith)
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Lesley, if you have a few more to spare, could I ask for a few. I like to have a few plants from home,and they do well here. Can I swap something? I have some seeds of bomarea kalbreyii just collected. Interested? |
Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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Yes, sure Marjorie. Won't be a lot but enough to get a few plants going. Would you send me your address please? Privately if you prefer. I don't know that Bomarea but like alcohol - I'll try anything once. Some of the Bomareas are very weedy here and are becoming a problem in the native bush around Dunedin but my garden is not bushy, rather, dry and open in general so thanks.
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, May 13, 2005 - 7:47 am: | |
looking around the garden yesterday I have just short of 60 different kinds of plant in flower. I hope everyone in the UK is having an excellent week like we are. 21c yesterday which was preceeded by a -3c frost which luckily didnt harm my bedding scheme. 24 degree difference is some change!
anyway here are a few shots from yesterday
remember I was offering Anemone blanda from work at 10 or 20p a packet? They are flowering now. What a way to extend a flowering season
Erodium rodiei
Ranunculus gramineous which look like saucers spinning on sticks
Mark, Antrim. Northern Ireland. z8+ |
Anne Wright (Annsie)
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That's a nice A. blanda with a white centre. What a bargain! Just come in for a breather between bouts of clearing the veggie plot,in which I was attended by Mrs Blackbird in pursuit of goodies for her 5 babies.
My R.gramineus isn't even in bud yet.
Anne, North Yorkshire, England |
John Humphries (Greenmanplants)
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Here are two Cypripedium macranthos to show the some variation on the "Red" form, I don't have a white one, but it's probably even better. These are both in the open garden in dappled shade and seem a lot easier than in pots.
John H. Hampshire, South West England |
Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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Yum yum but don't we have a Cypripedium thread?
Note from Ian Y. :No, the Cyps are spread about in various threads, from the shows and flowering now!
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
Paul Tyerman (Tyerman)
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Lovely pics everyone!! Those Cyprepediums are wonderful.
Paul T. Canberra, Australia. |
Franz Hadacek (Fhadacek)
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Lesley, thank you very much for you offer to send me seed. I think this Myosotis from Auckland Islands would not be happy in my garden. Vienna, the capital town of Austria in that I lives it geographic situated on the western end of the Panonien Plain. This means that some species of animals and wildflowers of Asia Minor have in this place the western border. I only mention the Iris pumila, Iris arenaria, Crambe tatarica but there grow much more. My garden is situated on a small hill in the South of Vienna. It is one of the driest spot in our district. Vineyards are not far away from my garden. I think therefore it is a large difference between my climate and this from Auckland Islands respectively yours. I think too it is always a miracle, if an plant from the high mountains flowers with me.
Franz
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Howard Clase (Hclase)
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The forecast was right, nothing but rdf (rain, drizzle & fog) and 5C all week - and as far into the future as they are prepared to hazzard. It's more like mid winter in the UK but it's mid spring here. However, there are plants, here are a few pictures from the last two or three days, mostly foliage because that gives some of the brightest colours just now:
Geranium 'Anne Folkard' with colours more reminiscent of autumn.
Euphorbia 'Chameleon'
Haquetia epipactis, a most un-umbelliferous member of the Apiaceae, with lime coloured bracts.
Finally real flowers. I wasn't tempted by Corydalis bracteata since I was put off the yellow flowered Corydalis by the weedy little ones, but Leila insisted, and she was right. The flowers are quite large for this Genus, about 2 cm long.
Howard Clase, St John's, Newfoundland. (Where it's 3.5 hours earlier than the time given above!) |
Margaret Young (Myoung)
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Well done, Leila! Don't suppose it isthe first time you've been right!!C. bracteata is a most handsome plant that I am sure deserves to find a larger audience, it does not seem to be offered often, though, does it?
Having admired Euphorbia dulcis 'Chameleon' and being given it by a friend, we now fing that it does not make neat clumps like Howard shows in our garden... or as it did in the Friend's garden... with us it makes more straggly plants and seeds around everywhere. Not what I had in mind at all!
I am reminded that the Haquetia has all but died out here, after being overgrown too much by bigger plants without us doing our proper job as referees.And I must keep an eye open for this geranium, very good foliage.
Thanks, Howard, form Aberdeen in North-east Scotland, where the sun has been shining for two days in a row!
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Jozef Lemmens (Jozef)
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Inspired by Harry Janstufa wall, here are 2 tryouts in a hole made in a tufa rock.
Androsace villosa from the Pyrenees
And Phyteuma sieberi
Its Cypripediums time.
Cypripedium flavum
And Cypripedium franchettii
It is a pity that Linum flowers are so sensitive and short-lived.
Linum campanulatum 'Dwarf form'
Erigeron compositus 'Mt. Adam's Dwarf' is an easy plant in a trough and self seeding around.
Is anyone growing this South American plant? I thought I planted only one plant, but now there are 4 of them. Or am I getting old?
Lathyrus magellanicus v. gladiatus 'FW-10225'
Jozef Lemmens - Belgium - http://users.skynet.be/jozef.lemmens/ |
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Scilla verna flowering for the first time from SRGC seed.
Anthony Darby, Dunblane, Perthshire. |
Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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More super pics Franz. Many thanks, and especially for the Cypripediums - a closed book for us.
It sounds as if that lovely Lathyrus is going to seed around a bit? If so, will you send some seed to the SRGC seed exchange?
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
Charlotte Jacobson (Charlotte)
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Jef,
Compliments on the use of tufa rock with bore holes; really sets off the plants; they don't look "so planted", if you know what I mean. Beautiful Cypripediums. Could be interested in a few of your Lathyrus magellanicus seed if you have any.
Charlotte |
Franz Hadacek (Fhadacek)
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At present some Lewisia and Hesperochiron species flowering in my garden. I cultivate them all the year outside in strofoam container.
Lewisia nevadensis rose pink form
Lewisia 'Pinkie'
Hesperchiron pumilus
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Brian Wilson (Bwilson)
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Super sunny day today. Paeonia mlokosewitschii (harder to say than cneorum) Molly the Witch was fully out with about 20 huge flowers. Much better than last year.when it seemed to have suffered from the 2003 hot dry summer.
Brian WIlson (Aberdeen)
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Geir Moen (Gmoen)
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Now we have had two nice warm days, and the plants just explode. I spent two days at our cottage and when I came back a lot of new species had started blooming. Here are some pictures from the garden to day.
Tulipa montana. I think this is my favorite wild tulip. This are plants from seed and flower for first time this year. Great color, great leaves, great shape........just perfect to me !!
 
Two nice Androsaces just starting to flower, Androsace hirtella and Androsace helvetica
Globularia trichosantha
Gentiana oschtenica, or should it be Gentiana verna var. oschtenica ??? |
Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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Howard your Geranium leaves look more like those of 'Blue Sunrise'
I bought this Cyp Aki pale form in September 2003 as a flowering size plant. It finally produced a flower this week.
Daphne alpina
Gentiana verna
unknown double Phlox - not mine but I want it!
Mark, Antrim. Northern Ireland. z8+ |
Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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I have Globularia growing and about to flower in a position not very free draining. Do I move it or leave it where it is?
Mark, Antrim. Northern Ireland. z8+ |
John Forrest (Jof)
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Some absolutely corking pictures above. Here are a few of mine, carrying on the Lewisia theme from earlier.
I still remember being spellbound when I first saw Ashwoods yellow
I'm not sure how these 2 managed to self seed into my bulb frame but the Lewisia and Scutellaria indica look rather fetching together so I let them stay.
Next another couple of hybrids of my own
L rediviva x cotyledon Matthew Forrest
L. rediviva x longipetala no name because you can't propagate from this type.
Now 2 species
L. rediviva minor
Lastly one of my most treasured plants given to me over 20 years ago by Wilf Kirby a great shower and a good guy, alas no longer with us. It was a terrific show plant because it used to open its petals on show day when all the others were tight shut and so gained a Farrer.
I have had many seedlings from it but none has inherited this characteristic.
It doesn't make quite the dome of flowers that it used to because the caudex divides at the top into 5 heads which grow further apart with age.
John Forrest, Blackpool, North West England, UK |
Michael J Campbell (M_campbell)
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This is a Rediviva X Little plum hyb
Michael J Campbell,Shannon,Co,Clare.Ireland |
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and a nice yellow Brachycalyx X cotyledon
Michael J Campbell,Shannon,Co,Clare.Ireland |
John Forrest (Jof)
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Today is rather dank and miserable after the glorious weather that opened loads of flowers. Here are a few.
Iris cycloglossa grown from seed collected in NW Afgahanistan.
The next Iris I am not too sure about but came from the exchange as I. longipetala
Ornithogalum nutans I find very attractive and it stands up well
I am not sure whether there are more Rhodohypoxis baurii hybrids than there should be for the differences between them but they are always a welcome sight.
R.Stella
R. Fred Broome
Brimeura amethystina is a lovely delicate little bluebell which doesn't invade the garden like its Spanish relative.
Having bad mouthed the Spanish bluebell it may seem odd that I have just done my annual pilgrimage to what is quintessentially English, the Bluebell wood. The picture can't capture the full beauty and the smell but here it is.
John Forrest, Blackpool, North West England, UK |
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John,
Wonderful pics as always. That Iris cycloglossa is almost ethereal.... just about perfect. The shape and colour is just gorgeous!! Never seen anything like it in the flesh, although irises are a fave of mine. The second iris looks very much like the "comon" type of Iris sibirica that we get here in Aus, but given that they would have been bred from various species I figure that the common one here likely fairly closely resembles one of the species. Very good flowerer each and every year.
Paul T. Canberra, Australia. |
Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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Lovely bluebell wood John I bet you didn't lie on your tummy to get THAT one.
I'm sure the iris isn't longietala, which, among other things, is evergreen, foliage not dying back in autumn. I guess you'll remember if that happened or not. I'd say you pic is a seedling from a sibirica hybrid. There are a millon to choose from. It's not rubbish though so just enjoy it.
Agree with Paul, the cycloglossa is a stunner, a favourite of mine because of being a Juno. Confirms the ID of Anthony's pic a couple of days ago. (Where was that?)
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
Charlotte Jacobson (Charlotte)
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John,
Your photo of Iris cycloglossa is quite wonderful. How many years has it taken to achieve such beauty? Hopefully you will be able to send seeds to the Seed List. I will elbow my way to the front of the line for that one!
Best,
Charlotte
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Herman van Beusekom (Hermanne)
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Hi all,
Here than a few pics from this side of the globe. First than Viola hirsutella with dainty foliage and common, small dark blue (or purple) flowers. It seeds itself mildly around.
Clematis albicormis coactilis is said to come from the States. It is approx. 2 feet tall and always attracts attention. Is it true to name ?
Erinacea anthyllis finally flowers with just these flowers and after many years. Has it heard my threatenings ?
Polygonatum ramossisimum has its stems branched.
May be it is not so good to see here but this Maianthemum bif. kamtschaticum is just 1,5 cm. tall. It is also known as M. dil. yakushimanum.
Anemone nemrosa viridiflora is well known but always interesting.
Anemone nemerosa 'Bowles Purple'is in my eyes more strange or queer than beautiful. Can someone confirm the identity please.
Cheers.
Herman van Beusekom
Groenlo. Netherlands
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Göte K. A. Svanholm (Gote)
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No Herman This is not Bowles purple. The one I grow is fairly dark blue a little on the purplish side compared with say Robinsoniana and of medium size. It is very difficult to get these blue flowers right in the pictures. It is darker than this.
What you got looks as something I grow as 'Monstrosa'. it can look very different from year to year and even from stalk to stalk. Once I even got a rhizome instead of flower.
Your bracteata is better than my. If you have enough of it, I would be happy to exchange it for Bowles purple.
Göte
PS I would be interested in a thread on Anemone of the nemorosa type such as nemorosa, altaica, semannii etc. I grow about twenty different - some of which are not so different. |
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John, How I love Iris cycloglossa; the perfume is delicious, as befits such a beautiful flower.
Geir, I don't grow this Globularia, is it about 15cms or less high? Is it as good a plant outside as other Globularias?
Herman, Erinacea anthyllis is a plant that we will hope to have someone bring a big potful of to the Aberdeenshire Show this Saturday.In the past this has been a good plant for our show, large and with many flowers all over... but it will have been grown in a pot and perhaps under glass, so maybe that is where the flowers come from?
Your Maianthemum bif. kamtschaticum is very charming... does it set seed? She asked, greedily!!I would be grateful for some if it does!! |
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Lesley
I thought the Iris 'longipetala' looked rather like I. sibirica but didn't know whether it was closely related. One always suspects seed from the exchanges. My Aquilegia bertolonii has just produced double, frilly, purple flowers on a 70cm stem (see what I mean) And yes I did actually lie down to take the bluebell shot but it wasn't muddy.
Charlotte
I will put a label in the Iris cycloglossa pot to remind me to give first refusal to the Forum people before I donate to the seed exchange. I sowed the seed in 1988 but it took a long time to flower, due to poor cultivation. I was trying to protect it from winter rot and kept it too dry until an accident to the cold frame helped with the watering.
Margaret
The old Forrest nose has let me down again, I only got the faintest wiff of perfume.
John Forrest, Blackpool, North West England, UK |
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Margaret
I find this Globularia easy to grow. I grow it in my scree garden in a south faced slope. The plant is about 3 cm high and the flowers rise 3 cm above the leaves. My plants are rised from seeds and it seems that some of the plants do not flower so well. |
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Here are a few things that are in bloom in my garden today.
Tritonia deusta miniata
Weldenia candida
Aquilegia canadensis nana
Calochortus uniflorus
Eccremocarpus parnassifolius
Ranunculus parnassifolius
Sisyrinchium macrocarpum
Michael J Campbell,Shannon,Co,Clare.Ireland |
Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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These are interesting plants Michael. But I'll hve to see if my Weldenia can top your Weldenia, come our springtime. I've had 149 flowers out at a time on one memorable day!
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
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Lovely, Michael, this makes me hope that the Summer may be a good one, to see so much colour from plants that I regard as "summer" flowers, already in your garden! |
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Michael
Lovely pics but a little confused about the one labelled Eccremocarpus parnassifolius, what did you mean to put?
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The warm weather has brought out loads of flowers so here are a few.
Androsace albana
An oldy but a goody A.sarmentosa Chumbyi
A.foliosa doesn't like to be out on the rock garden.
They say that the flowers blush when they've been pollinated (as you would) but despite hand pollination I rarely get any seed set.
John Forrest, Blackpool, North West England, UK |
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I wondered about that too John. Eccremocarpus is Bignoniaceae whereas the pic was obviously a pea. Very nice though. What gives Michael?
Lovely Androsaces.
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
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Here is Eminium lehmanii from Janis Ruksans. No flower last year, but quite a small tuber produced this today.
Anthony Darby, Dunblane, Perthshire. |
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Thank you Gote for your reply. It is indeed clear to me that my 'Bowles Purple' is in fact 'Monstrosa' but my 'bracteata' has been labeled 'Viridiflora' which could well be since a search ob Google end with more or less the same picture.
About a deal: I will reply privately.
Cheers.
Herman van Beusekom
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John,
Great images and plants! I love Androsaces!
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some meconopsis in the garden. The firat is (I think) Branklyn
The second is Cookei a nice dark form
And finally Punicea I wished it would stay longer
Ian McEnery Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands |
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Lovely Meconopsis Ian, I think everybody loves the blues and that's a good example.
Here are a few Geraniaceae on the rockgarden
Erodium Spanish Eyes
Geranium Ballerina
Geranium cinereum subcauluescens
Geranium Lawrence Flatman
and a close up
John Forrest, Blackpool, North West England, UK |
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Hi John,
May I ask whether I may use your Androsace pictures on my website: http://www.androsaceworld.com/
As far as I can conclude, I believe your Androsace sarmentosa 'Chumbyi' is an A. studiosorum.
Jozef Lemmens - Belgium - http://users.skynet.be/jozef.lemmens/ |
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Edraianthus serp. Major is for us a reliable plant. Even seeding itself modestly.
Erodium pelargonifolium is not guit hardy but young, self seeded plants usually survives our winter.
Phlox 'Sunrise'is from the States and has survived now five years.
Polygala amoenissima is an interesting plant but not a traffic-stopper. For that it has the wrong plant-shape.
Tropaeolum pentaphyllum comes from our greenhouse and so 'not hardy'.
Cheers.
Herman van Beusekom
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Another interesting primula from our wild China seed primula sichuanica alos a super Aquilegia or Semi aquilegia
Iain McEnery. your Blue mec is not M. branklyn looks like M. 'Lingholm' can I see some more leaves please also if the M. cookei is from me then it is Old rose
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Herman, what is the orange pea? I love that Edraianthus, it was one of the first plant I ever bought, now alas long gone, and not easy to get.
Ian C that Semiaquilegia is lovely!
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I love the Edraianthus too (grown here as Wahlenbergia), though it's a little diferent from mine. I'm intrigued by the note that it seeds modestly as I'd always understood that the `Major' form was sterile. I'll put a pic below of mine, in the corner of a hyperfufa trough. Mine has never set seed but it's very easy from single rosette cuttings.
Is the orange pea Lathyrus aurantiacus (sometimes called Orobus aurantiacus)?
Wahlenbergia serpyllifolia `Major'
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I think both pumilio and serpyllifolius have both been put into Edraianthus with albomarginata and gloriosa remaining in Wahlenbergia. I have gloriosa which spreads all over the rockery but serpyllifolius looks like a much tidier plant.
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Jozef
Please feel free to use my Androsace pics on your website. I haven't had time to look at it properly but I noticed a friend of mine Tim Roberts who lives very close to me. I am also a friend of Dave Mowle who also live in Lancashire.
One tends to use old names on plants that have been with one for 20 or more years.
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I can live with that Anthony. My (previous) understanding was that Wahlenbergia had single flowers per stem while Edraianthus had multiple flowers in a bunch, per stem. On this latest, it seems as if the southern hemisphere species are in the former, while the northern are in the latter. I daresay it's not so simple as that.
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
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Iain C the cookei is from you so thanks for the name. I thought I bought the other as either Branklyn or as Slieve Donard from yourself but hey ho i'm probably gettin old and confused. I have posted another picture with the foliage so you can cast your expert eye over it
Also flowering at present is Europs
This is Stellera which I have hasd for 18 months and hopefully I can get it to grow and flower. Note the protection from the birds. They sem to think everything is fair game the rarer the better to make nests or just tear apart
And finally an interesting Paris bought as Mairei from Crug Farm last year
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Ian McE. ... as Anthony Darby might say "I love Paris in the springtime" Such weird plants, so interesting...so moreish! |
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Yes Margaret this one does have long whiskers
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Ian,
It does indeed look like mairei, final aspect not visible in your photograph, does it have hairy (pubescent) legs...
I think Paris are amazing, there are certainly more than we have names for...If P. polyphylla were American we would have about 20 different species from that alone.
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Two foliage plants
A repeat of the Podophyllum I showed at the beginning of May, now in Flower.
This is a great time of year for the ferns, I have several of these Adiantums but this one always colours up really well, think that makes it A. pedatum 'Japonicum' whereas the others are probably var aleuticum(taller and greener).
I got this from Liz Strangman several years ago and it is pretty slow growing, I must have a go with spores this year as it is a very worthwhile addition to the front of the border. It gets quite a bit of morning sun and is in a fairly moist but well drained spot.
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Ian M
Do you usually use discarded fingers as a mulch on your special plants? [see Stellera above]
Anthony Darby, Dunblane, Perthshire. |
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John H it does have hairy legs - sorry pubescence
Anthony my secret fertiliser has been discovered
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Hi Lesley & Anne,
Sorry for the delay in answering. In my opinion Lathyrus aurantiacus is totally different compared to Lathyrus transilvanicus ssp. luteus (these are the names we received with the plants). Lathyrus transsilv. luteus grows a bit like Asparagus and certain Baptisia's (for example B. leucophaea). This plant has also darker colored flowers. L. aurantiacus grows more like L. vernus = like a bush. Both are very worthwhile gardenplants but unfortunately one sees them not too often.
I might have seeds available, if lucky.
Cheers
Herman van Beusekom
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Herman, I would be delighted to try a seed or two of the Lathyrus aurantiacus, if you have any spare, I'm very fond of the L. vernus varieties and it would be interesting to have this species too.
Yay, John! A FERN! A beauty too. I will post a few of mine in the fern thread.
Anne, North Yorkshire, England |
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Hi Ian McEnery, I agree you have indeed Meconopsis, 'Slieve Donard' thanks for the picture with the foliage. |
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Hi Ian C, just had a loook at your Primula sichuanica which looked like one at Southport Show with the collection number SSSE292 and labelled P. (? handelliana). Are they the same plant?
Meanwhile back at the rock garden
Anacyclus depressus is a common plant from any garden centre but is beautiful with the red reverse of the petal against the shining white front
I have a few different forms of Anemone trullifolia from fesh seed given to me many years ago by Ron McBeath.
Aquilegia alpina so often turns out like this to be A. vulgaris hyb but is a handsome plant and thankfully planted in a place where its tallness,thankfully wasnt too much of a problem.
Centauria stricta is a bit of a creep but can easily be pulled out but quite striking in flower
Another creep is this Veronica which I hope somebody can name. I lost the label years ago but I am happy for it to wander where it pleases
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I may have some seed Anne on Lathyrus aurantiacus but not yet. It's dying off now for the winter. Seed of Herman's L. transilvanicus ssp. luteus would be great. I like peas too.
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I wish we had more than a couple of Paris spp down here. They're beginning to sound VERY exciting. Long whiskers, hairy legs - what's next? bulging biceps? Please keep me in mind, anyone who gets seed from their plants. Thanks
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to Anne/ Lesley,
I might have seeds of the following Pea's vernus albo-roseus, aurantiacus, nigrum, transilvanicus luteus. Please note: might, crop permitting.
Please state your wishes in a privat email along with your addresses. Cheers.
Herman van Beusekom
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John, Your Veronica should listen to its name gentianoides.
Cheers.
Herman van Beusekom
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Ian McEnery (Ianmcenery)
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Lesley - what a complex thought - maybe next time I will be careful. By the way if the Paris sets seed I will let you know
Iain C thanks for the identity on the Meconopsis(and the Cyps) There was atime when I could rely on my memory but ???
John what camera are you using the shots are always good?
Ian McEnery Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands |
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Here are a few Lewisias that are in bloom in my garden this week.
Lewisia Ashwood Hybrid and L. Little Plum are splendid hybrid Lewisias for rock gardens or containers.
Lewisia Ashwood Hybrid
Lewisia Little Plum
Franz Hadacek, Vienna, Austria |
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Thanks for the ID Herman
Ian Mc My camera is Fuji Finepix 2800Z which is good for taking pics in good light but is limited in show halls because you can't turn off the flash. I am still saving up for one that will give me more control over settings but thanks for the compliment.
Franz Great Lewisia pics
Here are a few of mine,first a good old hybrid
George Henley
2 Species Lewisias
L. leeana
L leeana alba
Another form of Aquilegia scopulorum perplexans
Campanula alpestris from a Czech collection
Finally a beautiful but very tiny Gentiana syringea the scale is shown by the 10mm gravel. It is biennial but is very reliable to make a nice pot full. Unfortunately I let the pot dry out and quite a few died. Hopefully there are enough left to set seed for next year.
John Forrest, Blackpool, North West England, UK |
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Amazing gentian John...Oh so beautiful! |
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John. That gentian is superb and one I will definitely be looking out for.
Anthony Darby, Dunblane, Perthshire. |
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These three Lathyrus are for Herman's benefit. I attached them to an email to you Herman, but for unknown reasons they refused to attach. Or rather, a message appeared saying they couldn't be found, which was rubbish, because there they were. Anyway, firstly, L. laxiflorus which is prostrate, fully perennial and in 2 shades of lavender. It flowers 3 times in a year for me, just making new buds now, so it will bloom through winter.
Next is L. nervosus which I may have posted previously, somewhere else. Can't remember. Climber to about 2 metres, or sprawler on the ground. "Lord Anson's Blue Pea." Glorious.
And finally, an annual, L. odoratus `Pink Cupid.' A true sweet pea with appropriate perfume but prostrate so OK in a rock garden if you don't mind the occasional annual. It's a great filler in a new area, until the permanent residents get going.
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
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That's worth getting down on hands and knees for, Lesley. Is your climate equivalent to northern England? L. laxiflorus sounds like it could be a very valuable addition to the garden if it flowers that long.I will watch out for it. Here's another vote of thanks for the lovely little gentian, bet it wouldn't seed around like foxgloves.....
Anne, North Yorkshire, England |
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Thanks Lesley on Lathyrus. I did not know these and the Pink Cupid is most cute. The purple color seem to set the tone among perennial Lathyrus and so I include a red and pink one: Lathyrus grandiflorus. A native of the USA and fully hardy here. About six feet tall and (some say dangerous) creeper but I have always been able to remove unwanted parts.
By the way: do you know Lathyrus bellenensis (I am not sure if I write this well) it is an annual with yellow and orange flowers. Beautiful.
Cheers
Herman van Beusekom
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I don't know Lathyrus bellenensis at all. The colour combination sounds good. I love orange flowers. I'll send a little seed of the LL. `Pink Cupid' and laxiflorus now Herman, if you can let me have your address and some to you too Anne, likewise. Email off the Forum.
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
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Seed of L. bellunensis was bought from Thompson & Morgan.
Cheers.
Herman van Beusekom
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A few years ago I bought this Oxalis as:
Oxalis adenophylla wild form.
Does anybody have the right name for it.
Henk Westerhof |
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Some plants that are in flower at the moment in my garden:
Saxifraga paniculata 'Rosea'
The good old Saxifraga 'Southside Seedling'
Form 2 according to Beryl Bland
Saxifraga 'Spotted Dog' ???????????
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A Saxifraga longifolia waiting for some warm days to bring it into flower. This is a plant from a location in south-east Spain, and it it makes very big rosettes, this plant is 30 cm across.
Geir Moen - 70 km north-east of Oslo, Norway |
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Just for a change I thought I would show a few shots of what is flowering in the gardens of the West coast of Scotland just now.
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Just a quick one (or 2)
first is Rhodo Lady Chamberlain
the second is a Ramonda Myconi
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Now come on John (F), forget about that round thing and get down to earth again quick smart. Focus your mind on what's really important, like Androsace, Bulbs, Cypripedium.......Z
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Re the oxalis above - I shouldn't be surprised if it is, in fact, Oxalis adenophylla, wild form. It's a species which varies quite a lot in the wild, especially its colour from pale pink to deep red. Both the flowers and the foliage look right for that species. Very nice.
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
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Love the spotted dog. Is it from Dalmatia?
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Re Southside seedling.
I have bought it three times and every time every rosette puts up a flower stalk and of course the plant died.
How can I prevent this??
Göte
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I have the same problem with Cardiocrinum. They flower too early and come out as C pygmaeum rather than C. giganteum. |
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Thank you Lesley Isabel Cox for you reaction.
The Sax. 'Spotted dog' I bought it several years ago at a plantsale. I do not much know of its history sorry. It is also not in Beryl Bland
book on Silver Saxifra, so I think it is not the right name. |
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I think it is normal that Sax. 'Southside Seedling dies after flowering.
Buy next time a plant with not only one big rosette but also with smaller rosettes
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Re the spotted dog - I really must get my tongue out of my cheek.
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Hi All,
I found some time to take a couple of pictures. Why only rare and difficult plants.
Yellow, the colour of the sun. Summer arrived in Belgium (30°C today and tomorrow).
In the middle you see the only mistake in my rockgarden. A bulb!!!
Alyssum pulvinare
Ten years ago, I visited the Tatra Mountains in Slovakia. At the entrance of the National Park, they sold a few endemic plants.
Campanula tatrae
I got this silver Saxifraga from Tim Roberts.
Saxifraga 'Reginald Farrer'
Rick, after reading your e-mail regarding the Androsace Group seed distribution, I went back outside and took this picture.
Dianthus subacaulis
More pictures tonight,
Jozef
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Jozef
I remember that Campanula tatrae from our visit to the Tatras, absolutely lovely. Sadly we could not buy a plant to take back to Scotland and it was the wrong time of year for seed. Oh well maybe we will get back there one day.
Carol Shaw, Forres, Scotland |
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Blowing a gale but otherwise sunny - so everything is getting wind burnt and dried out. A few pix. of plants in flower in the garden right now
Papavera pyrenacium
Now two irises we lost their labels years ago! I think they are
Iris douglasiana
and Iris crenatus
Happy to be corrected
Then a wee Lewisia columbiana flowering in a trough
Celmesias in part of our New Zealand bed
From the left C. walkeri, C. incana (towards back) and C. hectori - the seem to love the sunny exposed site they are on
Finally a few Dodecathions which have set seed all across the woodland path - it is now out of bounds until they are big enough to lift
Carol Shaw, Forres, Scotland |
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Soon be June and we can start another theme...160 plus photos under one theme is wonderful and totally stimulating but they do take a while to download!! ...And what does this moaner do but add to the problem by posting a few images captured today in my garden in Whitworth, Lancashire. The first day of sunny weather for weeks. Can't possibly last.
Kind regards to all,
Cliff
Gentian acaulis
Gentian acaulis close-up
Geum
Geum close-up
Tiny Linaria - only 5 ctms high.
Could anyone identify please?
Linaria close-up
Rhododendron camtschaticum
Rhododendron camtschaticum close-up |
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Jozef, I doubt if our Moderator will be happy for you to call your bulb a "mistake." Sometimes unplanned plantings turn out to be very lovely and that's the case with your blue and yellow combo. But of course those are my province's colours so I think it's always the best. The oval ball rules here.
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
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Congratulations Carol, on your NZ bed. I wish mine looked as healthy. You in the northern parts of the UK and Ireland grow our native alpines much better than we do. I think it's because we have hot and especially dry summers and it's hard to keep their roots cool. Yours look great - to rival H. McB's.
About the irises, I wonder if they are both forms of douglasiana? They'd probably both fit into that huge and often glorious group called "Pacific Coast Hybrids" which are based on douglasiana, innominata, tenax and several others which are native to the western coast of North America, even on the shoreline for some}. They all seem to be as promiscuous as the kitchen cat so that it's almost impossible to obtain true species without some cross blood. Even collecting seed in the wild is a bit of a gamble where species' habitats overlap. They make great garden plants though. I'm pretty sure there is no iris called crenatus.
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Such wonderful pics from you all since my last visit and Lesley the reason for my silence was of course because I was shouting like my little friends in the garden.
LIVERPOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!
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Well yes 'Well done Liverpool F.C.'
Thanks Lesley for the iris i.d. wait until I finally get the Cyprus pix up! You can all have a field day!
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Carol, the most beautiful flower in the Tatra Mountains was Gentiana frigida, but this plant is ungrowable in the garden.
I keep my Stellera chamaejasme in a humus rich soil, maybe thats the reason why it looks so lax, compared with plants in the wild. They call it the lucky flower in China.
New to me is this Convolvulus lanuginosus. The umbel is on a very hairy flower stem of 20 - 30 cm high.
A V. Holubecs collection from Yunnan. Iris dolichosiphon
A member of the Gesneriaceae: Corallodiscus bullatus
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My Dicksonia antarctica was bubble wrapped over the winter and has now 10 fronds. OK, so this winter wasn't really a test, but I'm quite pleased with the result.
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Well done, the Dicksonia! When it reaches 3 metres, you can grow pleiones in among the fibre, up the stem. NZ's silver fern emblem is another tree fern, the closely related Cyathea dealbata. The British Lions will get to see more of this than is good for them, starting in a few days' time!
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That's a great photo John. I'll have to take better note of what my own blackbirds are shouting. Probably "All Black! All Black!"
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Although it's not in flower here now (in fact, I've lost the jolly thing), I'm posting a saxifrage picture in the hope someone will tell me what it is.
I was sent seed in 1973 by a Czech gentleman called Antonin Cernovicky. At the time I could find no refernce for the name he gave me and never have since, (actually forgotten what that was now) but when I went to the UK in '93, someone in the Saxifraga Society said S. cotyledon v. platyphylla. I can't find a reference for that variety, either. I occasionally had a very little seed from it which mostly came true except for the occasional sdlg which was more silver in the leaf and with longer flower stems. This suggests some cross pollination but at the time, I had no other silver saxes in flower so maybe the plant itself is of hybrid origin. These little short stubby pyramids of bloom were quite lovely and it's a plant I'd love to replace if I could find a seed source. Thanks. Now I look at the pic, I need to apologise for the dreadful blurriness of it. The rosettes roundabout the flowers are of the same plant.
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
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Josef,
I do not think that Gentiana frigida is ungrowable in the garden, it is ungrowable near to Brussels or in any low (and warm) country for that matter. I have seen it flowering in profusion in a garden high up in the mountains of in Czech country. Chee4rs.
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Can't match the Dicksonia, it wouldn't stand my conditions, Asplenium ceterach huddling next to a rock is more Yorkshire's style.
A bit further north in Co Durham is the endemic Helianthemum canum subsp laevigatum, a free flowering and longlived plant (flowers about 1cm across), this one 27 years in this trough.
Meanwhile Arisaema flavum has suddenly appeared like a troup of meerkats on the lookout.
Finally, at risk of teaching grandmothers across the globe how to suck eggs... now is the time to candle your pines to keep them compact. Here is Pinus sylvestris 'Beuvronensis' before pruning
and after snapping off the top half to two thirds off each shoot ('candle')
Some don't need it, such as this Pinus, which I think is called schmidtii, but can't find in Plantfinder so you will have to help me out with the name???
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Here is Arum discorides cyprium which is flowering as its foliage dies back. Not sure if it is hardy, but I have several so I will give it a go.
Here in Dunblane we are 600' above sea level, so we are wet, windy and always cold. We used to have a Highland Games in September, but, out of the last 10 years it ran there was only dry day, so it was abandoned. The tree fern needs to be well wrapped in the winter and can grow in full sun, and yes, we even get ducks flying into the garden, but they can't access the pond because of the 'toast rack' to keep the weans out.
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Wonderful pix everyone! And, yes, Lesley, Moderator Ian is lying down in a darkened room at the notion of Josef' bulb "mistake"!!
Anne, you are right, it is pine-candling time in Aberdeen, too. It is good advice... too often people worry about a tree that has got a bit big for its situation... better to candle them regularly and avoid the problem. It also keeps them neat, even if space is not a major factor, I think. The little chap at the end is usually called Pinus leucodermis 'Schmidtii' though I think it is now, more correctly, called P. heldreichii 'Schmidtii'. Sweet thing and a delight in any garden, a truly dwarf conifer. |
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Aha! It's all coming back to me now! Thank you Margaret.
Anne, North Yorkshire, England |
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Lesley
Do you mean All Black & Blue!!
Anne The Arisaema lutea looks like baby owls on sticks but rather nice.
Jozef
Your Stellara looks ok to me. I had one of mine out on the rock garden and it didn't like it and grew very slowly compared with the one in the alpine house. I have not managed to get seed form mine despite cross pollinating with various probes down tne long tube. I am trying again this year but for some reason my largest plant has all but died. I will show pics of them later.
Does anybody still grow this Corydalis smithiana ACE 154 collected in 1994? It turned out to be an annual. I didnt keep it going after the first couple of years, then suddenly one germinated in the sand plunge last year which means it was dormant for about 8 or 9 years. Last year I let it seed into the plunge and pulled out all but one which is now growing over the dead foliage of the bulbs. I pull off the spent flowers to reduce the amount of seed set.
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Re southside seedling
All Euaizoonia Saxifraga rosettes die after flowering but all except longifolia and mutata develop side rosettes.
What happens to me is that also the small side rosettes of Southside seedling flower in year one.
I wonder what I do wrong
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Corydalis smithiana,
Dear John,
Your picture shows a beauty. If you get too many seeds I could find use for them. I would consider it a most welcome weed.
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Flowering now:
In my place which is on the slow side, I have now Trillium grandiflorum and Hylomecon japonicum in full flower. but I also have Iris flavissima. Itis supposed to be a steppe plant. Fortunately it does not know that because I grow it in woodland conditions. The only problem is that each flower only lasts a day or so.
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John, is my arisaema wrongly named? That's the name I received the owlet's seed as, and it looks like the pictures of A. flavum on Google. I germinated the ACE Corydalis but didn't get it to flowering so never got to see how pretty it is.
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Anne, we would call your ariseama FLAVUM, too.
John F, we have and enjoy, the Corydalis smithiana seeding itself quietly around the place. Nice when a plant shows itself willing to stay with you and enjoys your garden. Easy to pull out of the "wrong" spot, too!
Gote, what a charming iris, with the foliage so bright green to match the flowers. |
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A few more pics
Convallaria majalis rosea makes a pretty pan but I dont think I will allow it into the woodland bed for fear of its invasive nature.
Dodecatheon dentatum is happy in the woodland bed where this potful is destined
Lastly 2 latecomers
Epimedium grandiflorum Mt Kitadake
Pleione yunanensis
John Forrest, Blackpool, North West England, UK |
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A couple of pictures from the garden to day.
This Iris reichenbachii is grown from seeds, and because I was to lazy to split the seedlings, I have got both the yellow and the purple form in the same spot.
And finally the Ranunculus parnassifolius 'Nuria Form'.
Geir Moen - 70 km north-east of Oslo, Norway |
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What a lovely thing Lily of the Valley is in close-up. Can we have scratch-and-sniff please? Also, can anyone recommend a good book/article on how to distinguish different species of dodecatheon? I seem to have lost a lot of labels from mine and I'd like to try and puzzle them out.
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With heavy rain and temeratures more like March than May I have spent most of the day inside the house. I finally ventured out when the rain stopped to take a few pix
Weldenia candida which, even in the alpine house has got rained on!
Rhododendron yakusuminum - the 'dark markings' are actual mud spots from all the rain!
Finally
Meconopsis forestii (or is it horridula?)
Carol Shaw, Forres, Scotland |
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Hi, re the Saxifraga 'Spotted Dog' well Saxifraga Canis Dalmatica is like the picture which means Spotted Dog anyway here are my two pence worth for this week despite force 7 gales with monsoon rain, A super Lilium nanum flavidum with large flower from EMAK and Mec punicea from our China collection again Large flowere plus a Paeonia which has lost it's lable any idea's?
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So no-one knows my little Saxifrage?
Anne, I think your Arisaema should correctly be A. flavum ssp. abbreviatum. It grows to around 15 cms while straight flavum can be up to 60cms. I love this little form and it sets seed so reliably.
John, I would suggest that the Lions will be the black and blue ones, but of course the game of rugby has changed nowadays and those sorts of shenanigans on the field (or off) are not permitted. Rightly so, I guess.
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And Anne again, feel free to teach this granny anything you like. I had never heard of the "candling" process as a means to keep small conifers compact. Seems like a logical idea. At present I don't have any dwarf pines (more than enough of the tall kinds) so I can't put it into practice but will keep it in mind. I learn something new every day from the Forum.
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Gote, I'm pleased to see your Iris flavissima because a plant has been available in NZ over the last few years as that species, but I was doubtful and thought the plants (3) that I bought were I. bloudowii. They are certainly not like yours. An iris friend who went to the Russian Iris convention a couple of years ago took my photos to Georgi Rodionenko and he thought they were probably hybrids of bloudowii (he didn't say what with, and not good ones in his opinion, though I think they are charming). The original seed source was Josef Halda. I gave one away before it flowered and the other two are below. Although they are bearded irises, both are totally deciduous, completely disappearing underground for winter and flowering again quite early in spring. They are in a raised bed and grow only to about 10cms in height.
I suppose we should have put our irises into the Iris/Iridaceae thread.
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I forgot to ask Gote, would you post a picture of Hylomecon japonicum please? I have it but it struggles in our hot/dry east coast summers so I don't see it at its best. Thanks.
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Lesley - black and blue Lions - I'm still thinking of all those Pinus's Anne's snapped off! I'm sure there must be a word for it?
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Candling my pines will never be the same again - imagine the mental image at each snap! Thank you for the Arisaema ID update Lesley, it certainly is a dinky one and does seem to berry readily so if anyone would like some seeds if it sets this year please let me know.
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Lesley, I'm with Ian C, your mystery sax does look like San 'Canis-Dalmatica'. Not a Latin name, just a cultivar name. A probable hybrid between S. paniculata and S. cotyledon, it is sometimes referred to as Spotted Dog on account of ....it's spots! Apart from the initial observation of the plant which I also grow, all the info comes from Beryl Blands book on Silver Saxifrages.
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Anne, I would like some seeds of your Arisaema flavum as I have A. f. tibeticum which will be out next week sometime and has never produced berries. I notice Paul Christian was selling abbreviatum this spring. He says "...blade is bright yellow with an imperial purple zone decorating the throat. This is a new form, raised from Chinese material. It makes larger, more richly coloured spathes than the 'old' form". Well, not sure if the 'old' form is mine above (which I bought from him but is not listed this year) or an old form of abbreviatum or indeed the standard flavum?
Everything seems to have suffered with the wind and rain over the last few days. 32'C in London (hottest May day for 60 years) on Friday and we get 10'C. Just as well the bank holiday doesn't happen here this weekend!
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Another dreaded double for the pro & agin to fight over.
Ranubnculus aconitifolius fl pl.
When it opens it has a greenish centre and then pales to white as the flower matures.
Jozef
This is my Stellera chamaejasme forma chrysantha which I grew from seed from the ACE collection.
As the flower ages the tube becomes a vivid red. which I hoped were signs of fertilisation but despite painstaking cross pollination with another of the same type and the normal coloured one I have never got seed. Has anybody succeeded and if so how?
John Forrest, Blackpool, North West England, UK |
Margaret Young (Myoung)
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Here is a photo of Hylomecon japonicum, Lesley, but not looking its best. It's been out for a while and is too far open but still pretty, though!
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Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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Hi Tony, I think we're slightly at cross purposes here in that the "spotted dog" above belongs to Henk Westerhof while mine is the (possibly) S. cotyledon form, (possibly) var. platyphylla. I have a better pic of it as a transparency unfortunately, where the individual flowering rosettes are better seen. I'll try to get a dig. image made of that.
So far as Henk's sax is concerned, since he called it "Spotted Dog" I asked was it from Dalmatia, referring of course, to Dalmation dogs; white with black spotting. Then when I remarked that I should get my tongue out of my cheek Henk didn't know this expression so I had to explain it to him. I hadn't realized that the `Canis dalmatica' meant spotted dog anyway. My Latin IS up to it but I simply hadn't made the connection. My problem is that I'm prone to making (or attempting to make) silly jokes. Must stop. Get over it Lesley, get a life! After all, a joke that needs to be explained is no joke at all.
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Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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Thanks for the Hylomecon japonicum picture Maggi. Lovely to see it. Just after reading these last few posts, I've had an email from a most charming Swedish gentleman who obviously reads them too, though I don't think he has posted here. I hope this will change because he sent some lovely pics of the hylomecon and some stunning Corydalis solida forms. Come on G-B, the Forum would love to see your images, as I did.
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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Meant to say that my lovely Swede has offered me seed of both the hylomecon and the corydalis and of course I shall accept gratefully. Both species are on our permitted list so no problems there. I've several times tried the hylomecon from seed exchanges but invariably it has turned out to be one of the Stylophorum species; nice but relatively weedy.
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
Anne Wright (Annsie)
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Anthony,I will be pleased to send you seeds, subject to it producing some! I will contact you later on. We too had terrible winds yesterday, but no rain so everything was suffering from dessication. I had great fun trying to mix compost with perlite in it though!
Anne, North Yorkshire, England |
Herman van Beusekom (Hermanne)
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Here some recent pics.
Since the decline in pig- and cow-farming here lots of farmers have ended farming and some pieces of land has been given back to nature. After removing the top-soil (sometimes one meter thick) we see the return of old-fashioned plants like Drosera, Orchis majalis, Gentiana pneumonanthe and Parnassia palustris. Nice but sad at the same time.
Paeonia High Noon is a shrub. Wish you could smell it.
Iris variegata is said to come from Slovenia: nice and easy.
Triosteum pinnatifidum's flopwers are not worth a penny. The white berries are better but the leaves -from this shade loving plant- are worth every penny.
Iris Pacific Mist is blue ........what can I say more than this picture.
The flowers of this Polygonatum kingianum are strangely arranged. Is it true to name ?
Veronica bona-rota is known from the cliffs in the Dolomites. Do not try it without an extra gift of chalk.
Iris clausii is said to come from the Jerevan area. I believe it needs more sun than I can give it here and so slowly declines.
Cheers.
Herman van Beusekom
Groenlo. Netherlands
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Göte K. A. Svanholm (Gote)
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Re Iris flavissima,
I am pretty suer about the name since I bougt it at a Gothenburg Botanical Garden surplus sale. It also fits the description in the Waddic-Zhao Cinese Iris book.
Hylomecon japonicum is quite dependable in woodland conditions in middle Sweden.
The first picture shows a rather small plant it is possible to see the habitus. Unfortunately the flower is overexposed.
The next pic shows what they are when growing in the same place for many years. By the way they are not invasive here at all.
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Anthony Darby (Adarby)
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Not the most spectacular of plants, but since I acquired this one I have seen it in garden centres as dry bulbs. Muscari comosum, the Tassle Hyacinth.
Anthony Darby, Dunblane, Perthshire. |
John Forrest (Jof)
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I have grown all my Meconopsis from seed exchanges, some bearing the names Lingholm, Branklyn etc. most are quite good and perennial but one frequently (but not always) produces multipetal flowers. Is this unusual in M.grandis?
Normal type
Multipetal type
John Forrest, Blackpool, North West England, UK |
Anne Wright (Annsie)
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From the sublime to the ridiculous - an example of my subtle planting, but good for waking me up in the morning.
Sisyrinchium macrocarpum, Incarvillea zhongdianensis and Aquilegia bertolonii seedlings ( probably mongrels) in front. I apologise for the fuzzy photo, husband has gone off with the good camera, but you get the idea.
Anne, North Yorkshire, England |
Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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Herman and Anne, seed of the Lathyrus is finally on its way this morning. At last.
Herman, your Veronica bonarota looks like a quite substantial perennial in your picture. I assume it's VERY close-up because the plant I have (as Paedorota bonarota) is a little, mat-forming plant, just 3 or 4 cms in height. They are the same thing? I had mine for years then lost it during a house move but recently (2.5 years ago) managed to get a little seed from one of the exchanges. It has taken until just last month to be large enough to plant out in a raised bed and of course is now dying off but I see some tiny leaf buds under the dead foliage so I hope for a few flowers in the spring. But winter first. The forecasters say snow to 300m this afternoon. That's me. It's already very, very cold.
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
Herman van Beusekom (Hermanne)
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Lesley, Although it is June and a new thread should be started I answer this one still in May.
Yes the picture of Vernonica bona-rota is very close. I just went outside and measured the plant: not even 10 cm. tall and 15 cm. across. At the most 5 years old.
Take care of yourself in the cold. A little alcohol in your blood seems to do wonders.
Cheers.
Herman van Beusekom
Groenlo. Netherlands
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Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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Thanks Herman. I usually stick with wine but the weather is such that the Scots' amber liquid could get a bashing tonight. Snow on the ground this morning and more forecast for tonight. Oh well, it is June after all.
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
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