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« Last post by annew on June 28, 2025, 01:49:57 PM »
Alighting next, a flighty pair of triandrus hybrids:
BEE FLY 5 Y-Y
A distinctive reverse bicolour triandrus x scaberulus hybrid, Bee Fly is named after one of my favourite insects (although with a rather unsavoury habit), like a fluffy little hummingbird hovering in front of flowers before darting in to sip the nectar. The neat little flowers, 2-3 per stem, seem to hover above the upright stems, the effect amplified by the semi-prostrate leaves. The cup is pale, creamy yellow, while the swept back perianth is bright lemon. It is sweetly scented, presenting the flowers to your nose on 19cm stems!
DAMSELFLY 5 Y-Y
Bred from N. triandrus subsp. triandrus × N. cordubensis pale form.
Although in my favourite pastel lemon shade, Damselfly is named after the little creatures flitting about my pond in brilliant colours in the warm weather. Like Bee Fly, the long reflexed perianth, and shorter cup on 20cm stems, give the impression that the flowers are taking flight. The leaves are erect but well below the flowers, so don’t spoil the effect. With up to four flowers per stem, just a few bulbs can give an impressive display. This lovely cultivar was a favourite in the nursery this year.
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« Last post by annew on June 28, 2025, 01:49:15 PM »
Next in line this summer, a varied group for the lower divisions 1 and 2:
BLUSH BABY 1 W-Y/O
Blush Baby will never win a daffodil show, with her wildly frilled trumpet and wayward perianth, but I have named this little treasure because her delightful peachy pink corona and tiny stature may hopefully lead to some interesting new miniature seedlings. Bred from award-winning Keira hybrid KB-M-1-2007 x asturiensis, she tips a nod of gratitude to Graham Fleming’s generosity in sharing his breeding work with beginners on this side of the planet. Hopefully Blush Baby can do the same.
PALEHEART 2 W-Y/W
Sister to Little Goldheart, Paleheart is similar in shape and stature, but more ethereal in colour. The perianth and outer corona are palest lemon, repeated at the cup’s inside rim which then deepens and becomes brighter towards the deep green eye.
TABILLA 2 Y-Y
The latest of our crosses using N. albimarginatus as pollen parent, this time with N. atlanticus as mother. As I’ve come to expect, it has the beautifully overlapping perianth and wonderful scent of N. albimarginatus, but, as yet, only a single flower per stem. The distinctive bulbs are almost oblong and multiply quickly. Excellent show form in an underrepresented division.
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« Last post by annew on June 28, 2025, 01:48:19 PM »
While I carry on counting the bulb harvest prior to my summer list being released (hopefully in a couple of weeks), it seems like a good time to introduce the new seedlings making an entrance in 2025. These will be offered only on EBAY in this, their debut year.
Starting with the hoops:
ALBIORIX 10 W-W
This stunning hoop petticoat won me my AGS Farrer Medal at Wisley this year - finally after 40 years of showing! Bred from N. romieuxii × N. cantabricus var. petunioides, it has fragrant, icy-white, upward facing flowers on short stems. The corona is widely conical, with the rim finely toothed, and the style and stamens well exserted. The narrow, erect leaves rise above, but never detract from the flowers.
HALIMEDE 10 Y-Y
Our second hoop this year is from Columba x Tethys, and like Albiorix, flowers on short stems, but the wide-open flowers are pale lemon, more gently crenate at the rim, with the longer perianth peeking out from behind the corona.
These two new hoop petticoats both flower very early in February - they need growing under glass so they can have a dry rest in summer, and will be stunning in your glasshouse during the dullest season in the garden.
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« Last post by Knud on June 28, 2025, 09:53:03 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.
Thank you, Mariette, for your kind comments. As to your question about the fruit I do not remember them as white. To jog my memory, I checked some pictures I took in September 2020. The colour of fruit of the Sorbus filipes we have is more a pink-blushed cream colour, but they do show off well against the leaves. Just now, soon after flowering, their colour is the same crimson red as the flowers were, and they take quite some time to turn to the colour shown in the pictures. And thank you for sharing your wonderful pictures from your trip to Sweden. Knud
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« Last post by Maggi Young on June 27, 2025, 10:02:38 PM »
Well, Mike, I was admiring the Clematis fremontii - then I saw the Sarmienta repans - crikey and double crikey! What fantasic flowering!!
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Flowering & setting seed in the garden this June.
Clematis fremontii white seedling
Sarmienta repens
& Clematis hirsutissima showing wonderful golden seed heads.
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« Last post by Mariette on June 27, 2025, 02:49:16 PM »
Thank You, Jeff! My son was interested to try an eco-friendly way to achieve acidic soil for his bluberries instead of the usual peat. Obviously it works well, also to turn hydrangeas blue. The surprise was that not all flowers of the hydrangea turned blue, but only those closest to the blueberry. Hereabouts, chemicals are sold to achieve blue hydrangeas. Sawdust of spruce and oak might be a good alternative where available. 
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« Last post by Jeffnz on June 26, 2025, 10:27:36 PM »
Blue berries like an acidic soil, this soil pH also will give blue hydrangeas.
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« Last post by Anders on June 26, 2025, 07:43:24 PM »
Winter are also warmer and shorter now here north of Copenhagen, but the largest difference is that spring is much drier than it used to be.
Below two photos of Dactylorhiza praetermissa x iberica. Looks similar to many other Dactylorhiza hybrids, but I hope at least some of the seedlings will spread by stolons like iberica.
Anders
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« 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.pdfMarloes 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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