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The International Rock Gardener - Feedback Forum / Re: E-magazine feature on SRGC Website

« Last post by Maggi Young on June 26, 2025, 06:35:52 PM »

IRG 185 for  June is online now.
IRG Link -download it here  -   https://www.srgc.net/documents/irg/250626183157IRG%20185.pdf

Marloes Adamse works in the Rock Garden at Utrecht University Botanical Gardens and has been fortunate to make several trips to areas of interest to such horticulturalists around the

world.  Recently she joined a small group, led by Geir Moen,  to Kyrgyzstan. She shares a photo essay with us of some of the plants she saw there.

The group included folk from Norway,  Czechia, the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK.  Next  for June 2025,  Alan Ayton gives an introduction to some Australasian plants we might not

know well.  Alan also posts interesting videos on You Tube of his favourite " Adventures in the wild and in the garden"  which are recommended.


Cover image: Trollius lilacinus, photo Marloes Adamse.

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Flowers and Foliage Now / Re: June 2025 in the Northern Hemisphere

« Last post by Mariette on June 26, 2025, 12:35:12 PM »

Finally two pics from back home. One of my sons made an interesting observation. He prepared the loam in his garden with sawdust of oak and spruce to plant blueberries. The flowers of the neighbouring hydrangea turned from pink to blue, but only those closest to the blueberry.



A campanula trachelium in my garden.

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Flowers and Foliage Now / Re: June 2025 in the Northern Hemisphere

« Last post by Mariette on June 26, 2025, 12:28:18 PM »

A double Rosa majalis growing by the roadside, knee high due to mowing.



An attractive Geum x intermedium

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Flowers and Foliage Now / Re: June 2025 in the Northern Hemisphere

« Last post by Mariette on June 26, 2025, 12:21:03 PM »

In Västergötland, Geranium sylvaticum was flowering in a variation of colours not found in commerce.







Another hemiparasite: Melampyrum nemorosum, aptly named Natt och Dag, Night and Day, in Sweden.

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Flowers and Foliage Now / Re: June 2025 in the Northern Hemisphere

« Last post by Mariette on June 26, 2025, 12:14:39 PM »

Some orchids on Öland:

Neottia nidus-avis



Orchis militaris



I´m not sure about this one:



An attractive hemiparasite: Melampyrum cristatum

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Blogs and Diaries / Re: my local patch and wildlife - Ian McDonald

« Last post by ian mcdonald on June 26, 2025, 11:53:02 AM »

I went to a site I know which has a small population of Small Blue butterflies. They are the UKs smallest species of butterfly. Although it was a dull day I saw several on mown gorse by a track.



At another site the Sheeps Bit scabious were just coming into flower.



This is the first time I,ve seen Oyster Catchers swimming.



The Kingfishers are still at the nest site.



This image shows one of the birds entering the nest hole in the river bank.

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Flowers and Foliage Now / Re: June 2025 in the Northern Hemisphere

« Last post by Mariette on June 26, 2025, 11:45:18 AM »

Thank You for the many pics shown in May and June, Knud! Last month, I marvelled especially at the rare Sorbus filipes! Do the leaves set off the white fruits as well as Sorbus fruticosus? I´m very pleased with mine grown from seed.

We spent a few weeks in Sweden, where I found a clone of Lily of the valley with 13 flowers to the stalk - something hybridizers aimed at in the past.



A special feature of Sweden are the remnants of abondoned gardens, this is a double form of Narcissus poeticus growing wild.



On Öland, there are lots of irises growing by the roadside, this is Iris x Flavescens.



Another spot showing an iris called Iris x sambucina in Sweden, together with naturalised oriental poppies.

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Grow From Seed / Re: Codonopsis

« Last post by Véronique Macrelle on June 26, 2025, 09:55:40 AM »

first time I've been able to admire a flower from Codonopsis cardiophylla

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Grow From Seed / Re: Codonopsis

« Last post by Véronique Macrelle on June 26, 2025, 09:36:34 AM »

Here's my raised-bed filled with humus-rich soil; I still had to find 1 m³ of it!

I transplanted a few sprouted Codonopsis species from last year and this spring, such as my Codonopsis rotundifolia var grandiflora. And I've got my first flowers, including a very beautiful milky specimen with blue veins inside and out.

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Pleione and Orchidaceae / Re: Terrestrial orchids 2025

« Last post by Jeffnz on June 25, 2025, 10:24:04 PM »

As gardeners we can adapt, the same does not apply to native flora.