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Flowers and Foliage Now / Re: May 2024 in Northern Hemisphere

« Last post by Diane Whitehead on May 24, 2024, 06:03:28 PM »

What fun to imagine what those Neotinia flowers look like.

Tiny people?  A dog's face with long ears?

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Flowers and Foliage Now / Re: May 2024 in Northern Hemisphere

« Last post by Mariette on May 24, 2024, 12:32:12 PM »

At first sight the alvar looks dull, but many orchids feel at home here. The first to flower is Orchis mascula.





Smaller, but very beautiful, Neotinea ustulata follows next.

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Flowers and Foliage Now / Re: May 2024 in Northern Hemisphere

« Last post by Mariette on May 24, 2024, 12:18:48 PM »

Thank You, ruweiss! Unfortunately, I own no rock garden, but if, I´d like it to look like this.



Parts of the alvars on Öland are tinted blue by Globularia vulgaris, but white specimen are to be found, too.



I´m not able to grow catsfoot in my garden, though I like the German name Katzenpfötchen. Here are they are growing wild, with male plants side by side.

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Flowers and Foliage Now / Re: May 2024 in the Southern Hemisphere

« Last post by fermi de Sousa on May 24, 2024, 11:56:19 AM »

Cyclamen rohlfsianum is now in full leaf and has put up a few last flowers
cheers
fermi

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Flowers and Foliage Now / Re: May 2024 in the Southern Hemisphere

« Last post by fermi de Sousa on May 24, 2024, 11:50:07 AM »

This clump of Nerine flexuosa 'Alba' is now a bit overgrown and not flowering well, but a single stem has made it up to flower
cheers
fermi

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Events / Re: RHS Chelsea 2024

« Last post by ruweiss on May 23, 2024, 09:05:54 PM »

Thank you for showing us these pictures.

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Ferns / Pyrrosia lingua

« Last post by ruweiss on May 23, 2024, 08:54:37 PM »

A pot with Pyrrosia lingua was plunged in the sandbed of our alpine house. The fern formed runners which
now grow quite happy in the sand,

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Flowers and Foliage Now / Re: May 2024 in Northern Hemisphere

« Last post by ruweiss on May 23, 2024, 08:43:15 PM »

Now flowering:
Dianthus Haematocalyx Nidze Form
Raoulia australis in the alpine house

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Flowers and Foliage Now / Re: May 2024 in Northern Hemisphere

« Last post by ruweiss on May 23, 2024, 08:36:02 PM »

Mike and Mariette, many thanks for your pictures. I have never seen such a floriferous plant of
Helichrysum sessilioides like yours. My plant also grows on tufa and I tried several times to grow
cuttings of it at other places, but was not suuccesful.

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Ian Young's Bulb Log - Feedback Forum / Re: Video Diary - Bulb Log supplement

« Last post by Ian Y on May 23, 2024, 09:32:06 AM »

Bulb log video Diary garden walk on May 21. Please join me as I look at the next flowering sequence in the garden, the trees and shrubs especially the larger Rhododendrons are in full bloom with Bluebells flowering below.