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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: Andrew on April 02, 2010, 04:02:45 PM
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My little patch of Sanguinaria canadensis.
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Beautiful Andrew - no sign of mine yet.
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A lovely patch of Spring Andrew :)
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Some plants in flower here today:
Dicentra cucullaria
Primula x allionii 'Aire waves'
Pulsatilla vulgaris 'Papageno'
Viola (unknown species)
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N.H. ??? or am I being thick?
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Northern Hemisphere?
David
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Thank you Mick. I was right, I was being thick ::)
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Thank you Mick. I was right, I was being thick ::)
Ah yes, as my Mum used to say, David, self knowledge is a grand thing!
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Tristagma leichtlinii,thanks Maggi.
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Leucojum vernum v. carpaticum was thoroughly unfazed by the -7c a few nights ago.
The double Galanthus nivalis area, again untouched but the tommies were pretty much cleaned out though new flowers are coming.
Viburnum x bodnantense Dawn, a great early flowerer for the coast. Strange it is late this year, also puzzling as it was showing colour in December and we were certain the winter's cold would spoil the bloom this year.
Crocus Cream Beauty in a bed but how does it get into the lawn as well?
johnw
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Herewith some exceptional beautiful asarums:
Asarum asaroides
Asarum asaroides album 'Ryokofu'
Enjoy!
Hendrik
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Prachtig Hendrik,
I'm jealous of your beautiful asarums...
Here are some plants which are flowering in my garden today:
Soldanella carpatica 'Alba'
Trillium albidum
Trillium x chloropetalum
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just seen in my bulbframe that Iris attica is flowering :)
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Trillium rivale
Corydalis solida GP Baker & a patch of seedlings
Trillium kurabayashii in the garden
Trillium kurabayashii in a pot
The plants are doing really well now though they must be confused by the changes in the weather, 3C and hail yesterday, 12C today.
Mike
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At the risk of being more than usually anal, could the thread be re-named as Northern Hemisphere in the interests of consistency and to make future searching easier? If so, thanks.
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At the risk of being more than usually anal, could the thread be re-named as Northern Hemisphere in the interests of consistency and to make future searching easier? If so, thanks.
I second the motion. Everytime I see the topic name, I expand the acronym into New Hampshire, the State just north of me.
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Okay, Folks, the name is changed ...... not sure if any innocents are being protected, though....... ;)
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Here are some Sanguinaria canadensis selections or collections from various places.
The first is from far southern Georgia from a population of Trillium decipiens (more than 10,000 plants!) and is always my last one flower. It is a small dwarf with typical sized flowers. The internodes are also short. The leaves only get to about 4-7 cm.
The next is my most vigorous form and flowers first... usually.
Next is on from southern Georgia also where it grows with three Trillium species, a possibly new Asarum, two palms, and Hymenocallis occidentalis. The leaves are finely cut, but it is very, very slow to divide. These three plants are the original three that were collected 5 years ago.
And the "Tennessee" forms. These usually have more petals than some forms. Note that the pinkish ones also have purple-grey leaf underneath while the white are a grey-green.
Aaron
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Good series Aaron, it is fascinating to learn of such variation in our native flora. The cut-leaf one is most interesting, the shape of the leaf as if emulating the dry oak leaves on the forest floor. I've had poor results with Sanguinaria canadensis, the rhizomes falling victim to rodent predation... bought the pink form a few years back (very expensive) and it only lasted one year... lots of vole/mole tunnels in the area.
I used to do yard work for a wealthy customer, who planted S. canadensis out in full sun, in a "boulderized" embankment use as a retaining berm for a driveway, the berm filled with rich soil as a garden opportunity. To my amazement the bloodroot spread to a couple meters wide, with the largest most lush foliage I've ever seen!
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Just starting to flower is Jeffersonia dubia, fun to watch as they emerge, the foliage is beet red and rubbery looking (Photo 1). My plants are from a good dark color form, just opening their first couple blooms today... flower color is deeper than what the photo captured. However, I wanted to showcase a form that Darrell Probst collected, CPC 3.10.97 (Cobblewood Plant Collection), selected on account of it's dark flowers (although my normal form are darker) and the red seed pods. It is in full flower today, and I note other differences too, the ovary is red (green in other dubia forms) and the stamens dark tipped (light color in other dubia forms).
Sun is very strong today, and my daughter's cheap entry-level Nikon Coolpix does a terrible job with white or light-colored flowers, and after several tries, settled on these washed out looking photos, but it is the best I can do. In the last photo, I used a sun baffle to tone down the bright light.
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Very nice plants Mark :D
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A bulbous plant from our garden (Muscari macrocarpum)
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I used to do yard work for a wealthy customer, who planted S. canadensis out in full sun, in a "boulderized" embankment use as a retaining berm for a driveway, the berm filled with rich soil as a garden opportunity. To my amazement the bloodroot spread to a couple meters wide, with the largest most lush foliage I've ever seen!
My late mother also grew Sanguinaria canadensis on a hot, dry and very exposed bank, where it thrived and flowered gloriously. Mine, in the "right" place has never been so good. ???
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The Jeffersonias look delicious. Another that tolerates, rather than loves me.
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The Easter Bunny left eggs everywhere so my garden was thoroughly
searched by grandchildren and neighbours this morning.
In bloom: what is called Viola labradorica, but isn't - now identified
as riviniana, a very vigourous Anemone nemorosa, and Erythronium
revolutum, a few of my many rhododendron seedlings.
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Aaron,
Your cut-leaf bloodroot hasn't multiplied vegetatively. Have you
tried growing its seeds?
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The Easter Bunny left eggs everywhere so my garden was thoroughly
searched by grandchildren and neighbours this morning.
In bloom: what is called Viola labradorica, but isn't - now identified
as riviniana, a very vigourous Anemone nemorosa, and Erythronium
revolutum, a few of my many rhododendron seedlings.
Diane, your first picture, what a sweet photo... the lavender egg perfectly placed :)
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A bulbous plant from our garden (Muscari macrocarpum)
It seems that this Muscari is most variable, some better than others. Yours is definitely one of the better color forms.
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A bulbous plant from our garden (Muscari macrocarpum)
wow--a most beautiful muscari!!
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The snow here has nearly melted and the flowers are trying to catch up with the rest of Europe.
Here is Pulsatilla slavica ready to flower
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Does Sanguinaria drops its petals very quickly in the wild? Mine are just about to open which I will miss.
Not really flowering now but who lives in a house like this?
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=parkhall+road+antrim&sll=54.523508,-6.06157&sspn=0.000786,0.001714&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Parkhall+Rd,+Antrim,+United+Kingdom&layer=c&cbll=54.721066,-6.199224&panoid=glcJjxhshmf6UGAValyC_w&cbp=12,47.97,,1,2.03&ll=54.7241,-6.199079&spn=0,359.986289&z=16 (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=parkhall+road+antrim&sll=54.523508,-6.06157&sspn=0.000786,0.001714&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Parkhall+Rd,+Antrim,+United+Kingdom&layer=c&cbll=54.721066,-6.199224&panoid=glcJjxhshmf6UGAValyC_w&cbp=12,47.97,,1,2.03&ll=54.7241,-6.199079&spn=0,359.986289&z=16)
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Mark.the Nastboxes makes it dead easy. ;D
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A bulbous plant from our garden (Muscari macrocarpum)
wow--a most beautiful muscari!!
i agree thats lovely Kovacs
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AAron
The flowers on the Sanguinaria Hurstboro & Tenessee forms are fantasic. First time I have seen photos of differing types of the single form. Have just germinated the single form from Gardens North seed. Look forward to the flowering time. Does anyone know how long from germinatime to flowering?
Mike
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Typing off key today, should read germinating
Mike
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Diane, I let the seed fall naturally and I get better germination that way. I'll check today if this one has germinated anywhere.
Mark S., Yes, in the wild they drop as quickly as in the garden. The Hurtsburo form has been in flower for a week now! Even surviving the wind.
Mark Mc., I need the J. dubia from Darrell! That would be a fine addition to the garden.
Sanguinaria does not like to be planted deeply and in the many places I have seen it in the wild it is always in well drained areas higher on the slopes. In Kansas where I found a population that was very happy and healthy it was growing in leaf mold between large limestone rocks.
Aaron
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I am pleased that Easter is over we went with our Grandchildren to roll eggs and the hailstones were bouncing from car roofs it was coooold. A few flowers that escaped the storm with more to come, cheers Ian the Christie kind.
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The snow here has nearly melted and the flowers are trying to catch up with the rest of Europe.
Here is Pulsatilla slavica ready to flower
love those buds :) at least your garden is trying to catch up, mine knows there is no point whatsoever...lol
snow still receding (fast) from many parts of the yard..
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The snow here has nearly melted and the flowers are trying to catch up with the rest of Europe.
Here is Pulsatilla slavica ready to flower
Oleg,
nice fat looking buds. Would be glad to see them later with flowers and foiliage ;)
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A few flowers that escaped the storm with more to come, cheers Ian the Christie kind.
Lovely corydalis Ian, that red one is gorgeous.
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Gentiana verna
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A few flowers that escaped the storm with more to come, cheers Ian the Christie kind.
Lovely corydalis Ian, that red one is gorgeous.
I agree with Gail, a wonderful colour and superb plant, Ian.
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Gentiana verna
Lucky you Diane - a true blue!
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Blue Chionodoxa flowering for the first time and attracting a visitor with complementary yellow pollen sacs
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I read about Kristl Walek's excursions in Nova Scotia earlier today, and it was a great pleasure to see her beautiful pictures of interesting plants and natural formations. I was especially thrilled over the nice stands of Symplocarpus foetidus ( skunk cabbage ), as I grow this species myself here in Sweden ( not as well as in wild populations though, which is often the case ). Here in Sweden winter has been very long and cold ( -32 C where I garden in Värmland ) and spring has yet to start for a big part of the country. This past Good Friday I visited the garden in Värmland, and removed the winter protection. I had to use a shovel to get the snow off the plastic sheets before I could lift them. It was still too early to make an evaluation of losses and gains, but one plant which had its mind set on flowering was Symplocarpus foetidus. It is fascinating how the spathe produces heat which actually melts away the snow around it, which is obvious in this picture. I even spotted a small fly, which probably seeked shelter in the warmer spathe but maybe also was attracted by the foetid smell. Even the seedlings I have in pots are coming up with their leaves at this time when the snow is still remaining at most sites. It's a pleasure to see all the pictures of beautiful plants flowering in other parts of the world at this forum.
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I know you have seen them before, but they are so fleeting and yet welcome, Sanguinaria canadensis, S.canadensis multiplex and S.canadensis 'Armstrong's Pink' - thanks John and Ken ;D
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Brian, I like the pink one:
here there's another form in flower:
Sanguinaria canadensis 'Star'
and some other plants which are flowering here now:
Adonis amurensis 'Sandanzaki'
Androsace pyrenaica rosea
Polygala calcarea 'Lillet'
Ranunculus alpestris
and Tulipa humilis 'Albocaerulea Oculata'
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Cheers Wim, some lovely photos, I like your S.canadensis 'Star' too.
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Wim I want everyone of those plants. I love the Sanguinaria canadensis star 8) Thanks for posting them its raining here and at least I can sit here and enjoy your wonderful plants.
Thanks Angie :)
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Thanks Brian and Angie,
Brian, maybe we can swap when my 'star' gets a bit bigger (now it's only one year old and has only two flowers).
Angie, I would like some rain, please ;) A lot of plants will start suffering if it stays as dry as the last month.
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Wim, lovely flowers altogether and I love Sanguinaria canadensis too - seems it has a fan club :D
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Wim, lovely flowers altogether and I love Sanguinaria canadensis too - seems it has a fan club :D
I'll gladly join that fan club :D With such narrow white petals this bloodroot almost looks like Silene hookeri ssp. bolanderi:
http://www.srgc.org.uk/discus/messages/283/12094.jpg
http://www.srgc.org.uk/discus/messages/283/12095.jpg
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I would comment but I'm too busy hyperventilating over Sanguinaria 'Armstrong's Pink' :o 8)
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Things growing or in bloom here today. Note: I used 2006 photos of Magnolia salicifolia as my current digital camera just doesn't capture white flowers well, but it is in full bloom now, 2-3 weeks earlier than normal. This unique magnolia has small narrow leaves.
1. Jeffersonia dubia - on cloudy day (today)
2. Jeffersonia dubia - on sunny day (yesterday), sun brings out the beet red leaf color.
3. Jeffersonia diphylla - plant on cloudy day
4. Jeffersonia diphylla - plant in late afternoon sun
5. Jeffersonia diphylla & Dicentra Cucullaria
6. Pulmonaria rubra - on cloudy day
7. Pulmonaria rubra - sunny break in late afternoon
8. Magnolia salicifolia 'Kochanakee' - flowers have a sweet lemony perfume
9. Magnolia stellata - unnamed pink grown from seed, sweet scented
10. Under Magnolia trees I grow stuff, like Trillium species.
Two forms of Trillium decumbens just popped up the last couple of days.
The one on the left is not a 4-leaf one, the rhizome split and it is now two
shoots now and the leaves are slammed up against each other
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Hi super pictures, I add some information about Sanguinaria Star, this was a plant given to me many years ago and was then called Sanguinaria Paint creek double, I exhibited this to a Joint Rock meeting and was told it could not be called a Double hence the name now Paint Creek Star or Star I add my pictures cheers Ian the Christie kind.
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Yesterday we visiteted the Town of Maulbronn, famous for its monastery.
On the way we visited again the vineyard at a suburb of Stuttgart with the
big Aubrieta plants.
In the monastery was a big art market and a fountain, decorated with
Easter symbols.
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I would comment but I'm too busy hyperventilating over Sanguinaria 'Armstrong's Pink' :o 8)
An ACTUAL pink! For other pink forms I've seen, I needed to get out my rose-coloured spectacles. 8)
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S.canadensis 'Armstrong's Pink' - thanks John and Ken ;D
Calm down now Brian. It's just a pink. ;)
You may have to borrow Lesley's rose-coloured spectacles in a day or two. Keep us posted.
Wim - Star is quite a stunner!
johnw
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Lovely flowers everyone! Not so much to offer here, just
Mukdenia rossii
Callianthemum anemonoides
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I would comment but I'm too busy hyperventilating over Sanguinaria 'Armstrong's Pink' :o 8)
An ACTUAL pink! For other pink forms I've seen, I needed to get out my rose-coloured spectacles. 8)
As John says it will fade :'( however it was it's first flowering so I was pleased you enjoyed it as much as I :D
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I would comment but I'm too busy hyperventilating over Sanguinaria 'Armstrong's Pink' :o 8)
An ACTUAL pink! For other pink forms I've seen, I needed to get out my rose-coloured spectacles. 8)
As John says it will fade :'( however it was it's first flowering so I was pleased you enjoyed it as much as I :D
It's a real Fragonard pink in the early stages, eh?
johnw
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Flowering now or almost so:
Shortia galacifolia
Shortia uniflora
Shortia x Leona
johnw
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So, has anyone tried crossing the two Jeffersonia species, the North American J. diphylla and the Asian J. dubia? Both are easy growers, but long appreciated that the Japanese (and from other Asian countries) is the better of the two species, being more showy with longer lasting blue flowers. Has anyone attempted crosses between the two species?
This year, being the earliest spring on record here in Northeastern USA, with a current heat wave accelerating the season, both species are in bloom at the same time, a rare occurrence. So what to do... try hybridizing, what else? Does anyone know of any success in hybridizing these two species? I certainly dabbed pollen both ways today, given the rare occurrence of both blooming at the same time. We'll see what transpires in a few years.
Also today, I spied some seedling plants of J. diphylla in a woodland area of my property well beyond the reaches of water hoses, and I was struck by the dark blackish coloration of the leaves on some J. diphylla seedlings; photos show this coloration. They are yet to bloom, so I still have about 2 days of Jeffersonia hybridization opportunity available. Hey Aaron, what sort of variation have you spotted on this plant?
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Here are some things that have opened the last 2 weeks.
John B
I. scariosa
I.mandschurica
I. svetlanae
Frit. eduardii
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I am not quite sure whether this belongs here or in the "happy" thread. Anyway I am happy that:
When the snow receeded there were Helleborus thibetanus that have not only survied an unusually cold winter but happily grown on under the snow and appeared through the snow in semi-opened buds!
:) :) :)
The Scilla among the Eranthis is also quite nice. It never comes out as blue in the pictures as it appears to the eye.
Cheers
Göte
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In flower here today:
Dicentra cucullaria 'Pink Punk'
Primula auricula 'Golden Splendour'
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Mark,
Not much variation in Jeffersonia diphylla. I've seen several large populations and the only thing that is nice is the variation in the leaf margins. The flowers are all pretty much the same.
Here are some things in flower now.
For Gerd! -
Viola rotundifolia
Viola hastata
And a genus I have some familiarity with and find to be very attractive, if subtle, garden plants.
Dirca palustris
Dirca decipiens
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And a few more things;
Cardamine laciniata
Cardamine multifida
Cymophyllus fraseri
Mertensia virginica Alba
Mukdenia acanthifolia - flowers and a leaf
Mukdenia rossii in flower and leaf
Aaron
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The Dircas look interesting, I've not seen those before. What family are they and any fragrance?
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We only just have Jeffersonia leaves appearing here- but these Anemone pavonina raised from seed collected in the southeast have been flowering on and off since just before our last snowfall. In the area we collected seed the pink forms flowered before the red, but in the garden they are flowering together.
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Gail,
Dirca is in the Thymelaeaceae, but according to molecular data it seems closer to the Gondwanan taxa than it does to Daphne. And yes, the two species above do have a fragrance. On warm still spring days they have a sweet fragrance, but nothing like some Daphne species. There is also D. occidentalis from California and D. mexicana from a single site in Tamaulipas.
Aaron
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Interesting, thanks. How big do they get?
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Of all the Dirca I have seen in the wild I would say none were much over 2m. Most stop at about 1-1.5 m. In the garden my D. decipiens have stayed near 1.1-1.2 m for about 5 years and flower heavily each year. I cannot yet say the same for D. palustris as I have not grown it as long. Still waiting on D. occidentalis and D. mexicana.
For those interested the paper can be read here: http://www.brit.org/brit-press/jbrit/current/ (http://www.brit.org/brit-press/jbrit/current/). It is the 3rd paper down.
Aaron
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In flower here today:
Dicentra cucullaria 'Pink Punk'
Primula auricula 'Golden Splendour'
Wim, what can you tell me about the source of Dicentra cucullaria 'Pink Punk', too bad it has such a dastardly cultivar name.
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And a few more things;
Cardamine laciniata
Cardamine multifida
Cymophyllus fraseri
Mertensia virginica Alba
Mukdenia acanthifolia - flowers and a leaf
Mukdenia rossii in flower and leaf
Aaron
The two Viola are charming, they should be grown more often. And the two Cardamine are nice too, but C. multifida is certainly very different looking with those finely dissected leaves. Please tell us more about Mukdenia acanthifolia... is it an American native species, in one of the familiar parallels with Asian flora and M. rossii? I still like the older genus name for Mukdenia... Aceriphyllum.
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In flower here today:
Dicentra cucullaria 'Pink Punk'
Primula auricula 'Golden Splendour'
Wim, what can you tell me about the source of Dicentra cucullaria 'Pink Punk', too bad it has such a dastardly cultivar name.
Mark,
I bought it from Pitcairn nursery (http://www.pitcairnalpines.co.uk/index.asp) which is a very nice nursery from one of the forum members: Susan Band.
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In flower here today:
Dicentra cucullaria 'Pink Punk'
Wim, what can you tell me about the source of Dicentra cucullaria 'Pink Punk', too bad it has such a dastardly cultivar name.
McMark, Dicentra cucullaria 'Pink Punk' was named by Henrik Zetterlund og Gothenburg Botanic Gardens: Henrik is a "Dead Head" so his choice of names tends to the amusing! He collected the original plant on Saddle Mountain, Oregon. It opens pink and stays pink.
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In flower here today:
Dicentra cucullaria 'Pink Punk'
Wim, what can you tell me about the source of Dicentra cucullaria 'Pink Punk', too bad it has such a dastardly cultivar name.
McMark, Dicentra cucullaria 'Pink Punk' was named by Henrik Zetterlund og Gothenburg Botanic Gardens: Henrik is a "Dead Head" so his choice of names tends to the amusing! He collected the original plant on Saddle Mountain, Oregon. It opens pink and stays pink.
Thanks for the source info, seems it has a lofty history. I find this species so dainty and elegant, that the cultivar name seems incongruous... go figure that Henrik is a Dead Head, but I'm wondering if he's a fan of the American band The Grateful Dead, or of the band called Dead Head, a Dutch thrash metal band? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadhead_(disambiguation)
And wondering too, what does being a Dead Head have to do with plant cultivar names ??? ::)
John Lonsdale has photos of exqusite pink forms that he has found in his plant hunting travels, as of yet... unnamed.
http://www.edgewoodgardens.net/Plants_album/The%20Plants%20-%20%20Complete%20Collection/Fumariaceae/Dicentra/index.html
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Henrik is a Dead Head as in the Grateful Dead.... though, knowing him, he may well be a fan of a Dutch Thrash Metal band too! ;D
I suppose it's just that if you are a fan of a "popular music", you will pick names to reflect the era of your youth........viz. Mike Stone, who used to write the "Stone Column" in the SRGC Journal, tended to give names that were redolent of the Eagles or Pink Floyd ! :D
(mind you the Grateful Dead were hardly in their first flush when punk came along to the music scene!)
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I am verry happy with this first flowering :)
This Paraquilegia anemonoides growing outside in tufarocks.
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Well done Kris!
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A close up of a Serapias sp. from Kythera in flower now,(under glass).
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Many beautiful plants there to wish for, especially the first Mukdenia (another unfortunate name) and your lovely irises John (B). I have plenty shortias to look forward to John (W), about 30 little seedlings now and because they were sown over grit instead of spaghnum, they have no moss around them and are growing quite quickly. Almost big enough to be visible in a photo. :)
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An English favorite along, an Asian Quince and a French pear.--Here in NJ!
Arnold
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A close up of a Serapias sp. from Kythera in flower now,(under glass).
Hello Melvyn ,it was pleasant to meet you in Rainham!
Very nice to see this Serapia.
It is also flowering here.Mine has darker flowers ,try to post it this weekend.
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Well done Kris!
Thanks Carlo :D
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An English favorite along with an Asian Quince and a French pear.--Here in NJ!
Arnold
Now, Arnold.... fruit blossom...then it MUST be Spring! 8)
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Gorgeous Paraquilegia Kris and I love the way you have it growing from the rock like that.
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And a few more things;
Mukdenia acanthifolia - flowers and a leaf
Aaron
Aaron, M. acanthifolia looks very pretty! Never heard of.
Is it as easy as M. rossii?
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Kris, your portrait of the Paraquilegia buds : -1004_Paraquilegia_010.jpg is just beautiful 8)
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An English favorite along with an Asian Quince and a French pear.--Here in NJ!
Arnold
Where's the partridge?
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I prefer Aceriphyllum far more than Mukdenia. The former is descriptive and not so harsh sounding. Mukdenia acanthifolia is from North Korea from what little I know of it. So far, it seems as easy as M. rossii.
Flora of China says "A second species, Mukdenia acanthifolia Nakai (J. Jap. Bot. 17: 684. 1941), has been described from Korea, but it is doubtfully distinct from M. rossii." I disagree, it is very distinct in flower and leaf.
Mark, we found those pink Dicentra in western Illinois several years back. The plants are much better in person and in the limey soil in which we found them they were even more pink.
Aaron
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Where's the partridge?
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Holiday dinner!
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I prefer Aceriphyllum far more than Mukdenia.
Aaron
Same with me Aaron!
Mukdenia acanthifolia is definitely one to look out for!
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Hello Melvyn ,it was pleasant to meet you in Rainham!
Very nice to see this Serapia.
It is also flowering here.Mine has darker flowers ,try to post it this weekend.
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Thanks Kris, always a pleasure to meet fellow forumists especially when they are visitors to the UK.
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Managed some time out in the garden today so here are a couple of pics,
Prunus Accolade
Haquetia Epipactis
Magnolia Leonard Messel
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Magnolia stellata
Cheap & cheerful.
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Magnolia stellata
Cheap & cheerful.
Cheap, cheerful, and can be powerfully perfumed. I grew my pink flowered Magnolia stellata from seed, actually this tree is actually two trees of slightly different shades of pink, the seedlings planted close together. Unfortunately, mine only has a light scent. Around the corner from my house, when I go on my every-other-day 5-mile runs, there is a property with one white and two pink stellata trees, and I can enjoy the heady sweet perfume 500' (167 meters) away each time I loop around the neighborhood.
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our 'first' trough with flowers ;D
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Nice trough arrangement Hans, and beautiful Magnolia stellata forms, Gerry & Mark!
My first pulsatilla of this year:
P. vulgaris 'Rote Glocke'...growing bigger and bigger :D
P. vulgaris 'white'...nice too.
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Nice trough arrangement Hans, and beautiful Magnolia stellata forms, Gerry & Mark!
My first pulsatilla of this year:
P. vulgaris 'Rote Glocke'...growing bigger and bigger :D
Armin, you've got to stop doing that... just about giving me a heart attack seeing plants like your 'Rite Glocke'. :o :o :o I used Google Translate and the cultivar name translates to 'Red Bell', is that accurate? I want to save that photo as my computer's wallpaper background so I can keep looking at it!!! Quick, someone slap me!
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Mark,
I'm glad you like 'Red Bell'. It is a very good bloomer and I believe to know the red flowering form originates from the Swiss. But I don't know if it comes true from seed.
If you like a picture with 'higher resolution' for your PC or seed - please drop me a line. ;)
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The pink Pulsatilla is a real stunner, all that delicious colour amidst soft fur. A gem and a half! A proportion at least should come pretty much true. :D
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Mark,
I'm glad you like 'Red Bell'. It is a very good bloomer and I believe to know the red flowering form originates from the Swiss. But I don't know if it comes true from seed.
It really is a superb specimen Armin - with Swiss origins too ;D
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our 'first' trough with flowers ;D
Hans it's wonderful to see you first trough coming into flower with my favourites!
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Visiting the Helleiner's garden here in the city today I was shocked to see Cyclamen coum just at the end of its flowering. Shocked as I have never been able to get it to winter yet here it was seeding about just 6 blocks from us.
For Maggi Pieris japonica Valley Rose at its peak, not quite Valley Valentine but a good pink.
Also several Corydalis a bit lop-sided from the heavy rain and wind last night. Is this George Baker as it is not very red?
A Podophyllum shooting up, it was bought as P. versipelle but looks like my P. pleianthum. Thoughts?
johnw
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Thank you Armin + Robin :D
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A nice series John. I think you're right to be sceptical about the corydalis though. 'Beth Evans' is a soft mid-pink rather than purple, and 'George Baker' is more orange-red rather than the pure pink here. As was discussed elsewhere, colour intensity may be affected by weather but I don't think the shade varies much.
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A nice series John. I think you're right to be sceptical about the corydalis though. 'Beth Evans' is a soft mid-pink rather than purple, and 'George Baker' is more orange-red rather than the pure pink here. As was discussed elsewhere, colour intensity may be affected by weather but I don't think the shade varies much.
Thanks Ashley. The Corydalis must be seed grown and exs. Maddening that they attach these names to them, they came from Thimble Farms.
johnw.
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A nice series John. I think you're right to be sceptical about the corydalis though. 'Beth Evans' is a soft mid-pink rather than purple, and 'George Baker' is more orange-red rather than the pure pink here. As was discussed elsewhere, colour intensity may be affected by weather but I don't think the shade varies much.
I agree, Beth Evans it is definitely not. As to "George Baker" The one I grow (from two different sources) is much darker and has a tone that I would not call orange red but it certainly has more orange in it than the one in the picture. It also has moe finely dissected leaves than most solidas and the greenery is darker. It is also later than most. I am afraid that I have no good picture of Beth Evans.
In my place Corydalis are still in bud
Cheers
Göte
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CALLIANTHEMUM KERNERIANUM MONTE BALDO FORM
In flower this week.
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Thank you Lesley & Robin :D
'Rote Glocke' is a wunderful pulsatilla.
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Red Bells and now Blue Bells - Pulsatilla vulgaris 'Blaue Glocke' looking good in todays sunshine.
I redesigned this part of the rock garden last spring so its not yet mature.
The Blaue Glocke start with this very deep colour but it fades a little over a couple of days. There are numerous seedlings coming through the gravel.
There are also hundreds if Allium karataviense seedlings coming through. You may just be able to see the mature leaves coming through between the Pulsatilla.
The seed heads of the Pulsatilla and the flower heads of the Allium look good together.
Pulsatilla vulgaris Blaue Glocke in-situ
Close up 1
Close up 2
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A garden I visited a couple of years ago (Trillium weekend in NZ) had several pulsatilla plants growing well in the garden, but in the little shallow "ditch" where the soil met the lawn, there were hundreds of young plants where the seed had dropped off the plamts and washed or blown down the slight incline and found the moister conditions to their liking and perfect for germination. As Graham says, they like the gravel too. What an easy and accomodating plant is Pulsatilla vulgaris in all its forms. :)
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Visiting the Helleiner's garden here in the city today I was shocked to see Cyclamen coum just at the end of its flowering. Shocked as I have never been able to get it to winter yet here it was seeding about just 6 blocks from us.
For Maggi Pieris japonica Valley Rose at its peak, not quite Valley Valentine but a good pink.
Also several Corydalis a bit lop-sided from the heavy rain and wind last night. Is this George Baker as it is not very red?
A Podophyllum shooting up, it was bought as P. versipelle but looks like my P. pleianthum. Thoughts?
johnw
nice garden to visit!
interesting about the coum--do you think maybe they got a hardier form, or some difference in their site?
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A few of the hellebores in flower today.
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We are enjoying a wonderful sunny spell here. Plants are in a hurry to open their flowers
1. Pulsatilla slavica always starts the pulsatilla season
2. Bulbocodium vernum
3. Leucoum vernum
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We are enjoying a wonderful sunny spell here. Plants are in a hurry to open their flowers
And the gardeners will be in a hurry to enjoy them in the sunshine, Oleg!
Good that Spring is really getting started.
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Happy Spring, Oleg, with your lovely first flowers :)
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Thank you, Maggi and Robin. It is really a pleasure after 6 months of seeing only snow to have early flowers rapidly progressing
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Wonderful plants everyone !!
I spent (too) little time on the Forum the last few days, but as so many other people before me, I have to come back to Armin's Pulsatilla "Rote Glocke" : What a beauty !!! :o :o
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Luc,
thanks - if you like seed I'd be pleased to share some with you ;) :D
Oleg,
like your P. slavica, very attractive!
Graham,
nice arrangement of the pulastillas in your gravel bed. They will grow bigger and will make a great show every spring. :D
My 'blue bell' is still in bud stage.
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Some plants which were flowering here today:
Anemonella thalictroďdes 'Betty blake'
Anemonella thalictroďdes 'Jade Feather'
Anemonella thalictroďdes 'Amelia
Pinguicula grandiflora
Soldanella montana
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A few Skimmia japonicas that I got from the Mitsch Nursery way back in the late 1970's. These are propagations from the originals. The white berried form is from a friend in BC.
Usually they try to flower in January during the thaw, the balance flower in late March. Curiously year there was no thaw and despite the very early spring they are flowering later than ever.
Common stuff for Europeans & west coasters but here they are considered to be too tender.
1 - sold as dwarf red-budded male in those days, I wonder if it is v. repens from Hokkaido though the ones under that name at UBC were wonderfully tight and compact in the 80's, they seem to have lost their tight habit when last seen.
2 - dwarf female - again I wonder if it is v. repens from Hokkaido.
3 - type or v. reevesiana (forgot to check the label)
4 - 6 the white-berried form
Cuttings in late winter root in water quite well.
johnw
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Nice plants everyone!
Flowering in my garden today:
1. Anemone blanda
2. Erythronium dens-canis
3. Narcissus cyclamineus and Ranunculus kochii
4. R. kochii close
5. My prettiest 'bulb weed' Muscari azureum Alba
6. Muscari latifolium and M. azureum Alba
7. Narcissus fly? After seeing the close up picture and consulting the Narcissus fly thread here I don't think so. But when I first saw it flying over my Sternbergias and Galanthus RGO I feared it was a Narcissus fly. Does anyone know what it is?
Poul
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7. Narcissus fly? After seeing the close up picture and consulting the Narcissus fly thread here I don't think so. But when I first saw it flying over my Sternbergias and Galanthus RGO I feared it was a Narcissus fly. Does anyone know what it is?
Poul
Hi Poul,
It is a bee fly, Bombylius major (actually a fly that mimics a bee). Adults feed on nectar but the larvae are parasitic on solitary bees.
See http://www.amentsoc.org/about/news/0101/
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One or two ordinary things looking good in the garden today, Chionodoxa - beginning to do rather too well, but lovely all the same! At the other extreme of the size range a Fritillaria imperialis - the red ones are not going to flower again this year - any clues as to why? They are treated as well as the yellow ones :-\
A Hyacinth, thrown out one year after it had flowered is also spreading around the garden.
My favourite Iris unguicularis - much darker than it's bigger sister.
Sanguinaria multiplex (by the way the S. 'Armstrong's Pink' has now lost most of it's colour).
Pulsatilla
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Two Shortia uniflora, one the darkest pink we have.
One Shortia x Leona
One Hacquetia epipactis Thor.
Mercifully we are not too advanced as there is a predicted widespread frost for tonight. I was in the Annapolis Valley yesterday and fear the Magnolias are going to get clobbered as they are fully out. Cloud cover on the coast saved us last night.
Lovely Pulsatillas there Brian! :D
johnw
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Flowers and Foliage Fruits and Buds now. :D
Scopolia sp. and last year Viburnum fruit.
(http://cs9741.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_cdd20a1a.jpg)
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Newborn Scilla sibirica
(http://cs9741.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_37a5e0d6.jpg)
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John
Oh, Shortia! Exciting images!
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Eranthis stellata
(http://cs9741.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_13a87aff.jpg)
(http://cs9741.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_64c0b8be.jpg)
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7. Narcissus fly? After seeing the close up picture and consulting the Narcissus fly thread here I don't think so. But when I first saw it flying over my Sternbergias and Galanthus RGO I feared it was a Narcissus fly. Does anyone know what it is?
Poul
Hi Poul,
It is a bee fly, Bombylius major (actually a fly that mimics a bee). Adults feed on nectar but the larvae are parasitic on solitary bees.
See http://www.amentsoc.org/about/news/0101/
Hi Gail,
Thank you. It is good to know that it is harmless to my bulbs. Last year I lost several Sternbergias due to the Narcissus fly.
Poul
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One or two ordinary things looking good in the garden today, Chionodoxa - beginning to do rather too well, but lovely all the same! At the other extreme of the size range a Fritillaria imperialis - the red ones are not going to flower again this year - any clues as to why? They are treated as well as the yellow ones :-\
Brian, I have the same experience with Chionodoxa, they set lots of seeds and spread fast.
My F. imperialis is opposite to yours. The orange form increases and flowers well, but the yellow one refuses to flower. They are placed 50 cm from each others.
Poul
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Olga,
Stunning pics! I particular like the Eranthis stellata.
Are you a professional photographer?
Poul
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Newborn Scilla sibirica
Olga, your photos are exquisite and artistic as usual. You may have discussed this before, but what camera do you use? I'm ready to pull my hair out (and I don't have much left these days ;D) trying to use my daughter's entry-level Nikon Coolpix, which is miserable with light color flowers, light colors in general, and difficult with closeups. I go out in the garden, and observe the incredible scenes and vignettes of Epimedium flower stalks and leaves emerging; most are densely covered with silvery hair, and coiled like fern fronds, and oh so interesting and picturesque... but my camera sees too much light reflected off the hairs and invariably overexposes the shot.
Your photo of Eranthus overlooking a morsel of lichen is enchanting too. :)
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Some plants which were flowering here today:
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Anemonella thalictroďdes 'Jade Feather'
Wim, glad to see you're back home ;) ;D Just for comparison to your photo of Anemonella thalictroides 'Jade Feather', here's a photo of mine... it is just starting to wind up, In the central flower, you can see an overabundance of staminodes.
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Anemonella thalictroides Shoaf's form.
Anemonella thalictroides 'Cameo'.
Sanguinaria canadensis multiplex plena
Anemone nemorosa robinsoniana
Sabaea thomasii
Calceolaria walter shrimpton
Romulea bulbocodium
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Stunning pics! I particular like the Eranthis stellata.
Are you a professional photographer?
I do not know what to answer. :) I do not have photographer diploma. But there no any high schools here that could give it. I use mirror camera but professionals use more expensive and more complicated. I sell images and many magazines and publishers use them. But it is not my main earning. So… am I a professional photographer? ???
Mark,
Thank you very much! :-*
Today I spent a couple of hours on my knees making photos. If I could use compact camera I would spend 20 minutes. But two years ago I bought Canon 40D… Now I am always with a backpack of 6-7 kg – camera, 2-3 lenses, tripod, etc… I make thousands of images with different settings and then most of the pictures go to the bin. I can not advise that to everyone. :-\
I share you impression on Epimediums! They are extremely hard to shut. When shoots are small hairs are too light. When they are blooming flowers always are trembling by every air moving. I could give only advice: to be patient, to make as many images as you can and to make pictures with different angle to sun.
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Crocus... vulgaris. :D
(http://cs9741.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_e2e86a67.jpg)
(http://cs9741.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_efeedde6.jpg)
Hepatica nobilis
(http://cs9741.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_25bbf0c3.jpg)
Adonis amurensis
(http://cs9741.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_4561c606.jpg)
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A final contribution before we fly off to the Gargano ...
A miniscule flowering Pulsatilla vernalis captured this week ...
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After some discussion and advices to me on this Forum about two years ago, I tried to plant one tuber of Trillium nivale outdoors in summer 2008. I enclose here the result of it taken in this month. In both winters it was however covered with dry leaves and a glass plate. On the other picture is my original plant which has 11 years now.
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So you are having some success with it outside..... although with a lot of help to the plant! The potful is lovely... I think it is one of my favourites, so purely white and beautiful shape.
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A final contribution before we fly off to the Gargano ...
Happy holidays, Cliff!
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Wim, glad to see you're back home ;) ;D Just for comparison to your photo of Anemonella thalictroides 'Jade Feather', here's a photo of mine... it is just starting to wind up, In the central flower, you can see an overabundance of staminodes.
Thanks, Maggi brought me back home ;) ;D
So, it seems I have 'Jade Feather' indeed; although not with the same amount of staminoids...
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John,
I love your Shortia's. I'm still TRYING to grow them (not with a lot of success, I might add). How do you grow them?
Olga,
wonderful pics.
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We are very glad, that our Magnolia x soulangeana flowered this year unharmed by late frosts.
Draba longisiliqua is always a safe flowerer in the Alpine house.
The Lewisia tweedyi seedling always enjoys me with its unusual large flowers.
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John,
I love your Shortia's. I'm still TRYING to grow them (not with a lot of success, I might add). How do you grow them?
Wim - An open peaty soil, if you can find a thoroughly rotted pine tree stump I'd mix that debris into the soil too. They seem to love it.
I mulch them with well-rotted manure and some ground oak leaves in the early spring.
Part sun or full sun if you can be certain they won't dry out in a drought.
johnw
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I wonder wether I should start a new thread "another untidy garden" ;D At last nearly all snow is gone and things start to pop up. Most of you are much before me in all respects but the long Swedish winters make us here really look for the very first flowers.
Ypsilandra thibetica ame up thruogh the snow already flowering and the beautiful blue anthers were already gone.
Anemone altaica (or ist it something else) is much earlier than the nemorosas. (Not a good picture I apologize)
I received 'Hippolyta' as a gift in 2004. She seems to like the situation.
Three of my Helleborus thibetanis are in flower. They are all a little different.
The twin flowering yellow tipped Leucojum vernum is no more difficult than the usual one.
Hepatica transsylvanica is not reliably hardy here and is often cut back but the hevy snow cover seems to have been beneficial.
My Colchicum (Bulbocodium) vernum were ovecrowded and I separated them last year thus the meagre flowering.
I got my Crocus 'Vanguard' in the sixties and hope they are virus free. Anyway they grow well when not devored by voles.
Cheers
Göte
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Göte
A wonderful collection there.
Any recommendations on sowing Ypsilandra seed? There's remarkably little information on the subject in the books here.
johnw
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Stunning pics! I particular like the Eranthis stellata.
Are you a professional photographer?
I do not know what to answer. :) I do not have photographer diploma. But there no any high schools here that could give it. I use mirror camera but professionals use more expensive and more complicated. I sell images and many magazines and publishers use them. But it is not my main earning. So… am I a professional photographer? ???
Professional or not - that doesn't matter. It is obvious that you love photographing and the quality of your photographs is very high.
And the fact that you love plants too and will share your wonderfull photos with us at the forum is only our luck. Thank you very much for that!
By the way is Eranthis stellata difficult to grow?
Poul
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I agree very strongly with Poul. Olga's photographs are always exceptional - and there is a high standard of photography on the forum. I certainly always enjoy them.
Re anemones: does anybody grow A. bulbiferum and A. aconitifolium? I spent an hour today spraying them with weedkiller. Blasted weeds!
Paddy
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It's Spring :)
Prunus nipponica var. kurilensis 'Brilliant'
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One or two ordinary things looking good in the garden today, Chionodoxa - beginning to do rather too well, but lovely all the same! At the other extreme of the size range a Fritillaria imperialis - the red ones are not going to flower again this year - any clues as to why? They are treated as well as the yellow ones :-\
Brian,
My Chionodoxa are doing well too among Narcissus, Ornitogalum and Eranthis. This bed started with 10 Chionodoxa bulbs.
How do you feed your F. imperialis?
Poul
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The Lewisia tweedyi seedling always enjoys me with its unusual large flowers.
They're beautiful Rudi ! I can never get enough of them either !
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How do you feed your F. imperialis?
Poul
Poul They get blood, fish and bone fertilizer in the Autumn, growmore in the spring and almost a mulch of pelletted chicken manure at that time too. I know they are gross feeders, when I was a boy my father grew them on the compost heap!
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Any recommendations on sowing Ypsilandra seed? There's remarkably little information on the subject in the books here.
johnw
I am afraid I have no info. The seed I have tried did not germinate. I can only assume that it is the usual woodlander problem.
A: the seed must be sown immediately B: It will wait unitil next spring until it germinates. I have not tried any seed of my own.
Sorry
Göte
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After some discussion and advices to me on this Forum about two years ago, I tried to plant one tuber of Trillium nivale outdoors in summer 2008. I enclose here the result of it taken in this month. In both winters it was however covered with dry leaves and a glass plate. On the other picture is my original plant which has 11 years now.
Looks good. I have tried a couple of times. They died the first winter both times. What would your minimum temperature in the winter be?
Göte
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I took a quick walk through part of our woods yesterday. The Hepatica have hardly started but Galanthus woronowii and Leucojum vernum seed themselves quite happily and are at their best just now.
Cheers
Göte
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After some discussion and advices to me on this Forum about two years ago, I tried to plant one tuber of Trillium nivale outdoors in summer 2008. I enclose here the result of it taken in this month. In both winters it was however covered with dry leaves and a glass plate. On the other picture is my original plant which has 11 years now.
Looks good. I have tried a couple of times. They died the first winter both times. What would your minimum temperature in the winter be?
Göte
According my notes minimal temperature was minus 18 degrees in the time around Christmas and at that time we had no snow. From January on we had plenty of snow and minimal temp. was minus 16 degrees. My plant was however covered, as I remarked.
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Another woodlander, Glaucidium palmatum
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After some discussion and advices to me on this Forum about two years ago, I tried to plant one tuber of Trillium nivale outdoors in summer 2008. I enclose here the result of it taken in this month. In both winters it was however covered with dry leaves and a glass plate. On the other picture is my original plant which has 11 years now.
Looks good. I have tried a couple of times. They died the first winter both times. What would your minimum temperature in the winter be?
Göte
According my notes minimal temperature was minus 18 degrees in the time around Christmas and at that time we had no snow. From January on we had plenty of snow and minimal temp. was minus 16 degrees. My plant was however covered, as I remarked.
Thank you!
that is no worse than here. i might try a third time
Göte
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Hepatica transsylvanica is not reliably hardy here and is often cut back but the hevy snow cover seems to have been beneficial.
Really? I had the impression that you didn't have colder winters than we do. We had a minimum of -24C this winter with very little snowcover and my transylvanica has come through without any problem (just coming into flower now). I thought it was perfectly hardy.
On the other hand, it seems that I have lost all of my Eranthis this winter, so I'll have to rely on the plants reseeding.
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Hepatica transsylvanica is not reliably hardy here and is often cut back but the hevy snow cover seems to have been beneficial.
Really? I had the impression that you didn't have colder winters than we do. We had a minimum of -24C this winter with very little snowcover and my transylvanica has come through without any problem (just coming into flower now). I thought it was perfectly hardy.
Hepatica transylvanica is completely hardy here too.
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Ashley,
The Glaucidium looks fabulous, very early.
Paddy
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In a pot Paddy; due for release very soon.
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Crocus... vulgaris. :D
Hepatica nobilis
Adonis amurensis
i especially like the soft colour of this hepatica!
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Three from today :)
Helleborus thibetanus
Merendera sobolifera
Hepatica nobilis 'Rubra Plena'
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Three from today :)
That hepatica is gorgeous - fantastic picture! :)
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Very windy here and rather cold in the morning, but this shrub beats everything at he moment.
Alas a bit blurred through the wind:
Prunus Pandora
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Three from today :)
Amazingly diverse genus, Ximage is ;D
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Very windy here and rather cold in the morning, but this shrub beats everything at he moment.
Alas a bit blurred through the wind:
Prunus Pandora
FYI regarding parentage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/university/nathist/trees/cherries/prunus%20pandora.htm
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the first is a pink leafed geranium seedling that i have grown on,the second is a fantastic plant i saw on a walk toothwort i'll find the latin name later supposed to be at work,and thirdly a superb cyp that was flowering for a very good friend(FredG)
By the way Fred if your reading thanks for the photo advice it turned out a lovely shot.
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Great cyp shot, can't believe they are flowering in UK, mine are just showing their noses above ground!
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I really like that pink Geranium! Is the Cyp potted? Mine hasn't even poked their noses up yet...
Point taken, Mark ;D I had forgotten what species of Merendera it was, and figured the other two were self-explanatory.
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By the way is Eranthis stellata difficult to grow?
It is easy to grow it from tubers. But it is difficult to reproduce it from seed. This plant is extremely rare even here.
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Paddy and Poul, thank you! :D
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Looking from ant's way.
(http://cs824.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_3b8c0590.jpg)
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Chris and Arisaema my cyps are just noses sticking up FredG's are growing fantastic the man has the touch,he grows everything in pots in an unheated greenhouse.
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Chris and Arisaema my cyps are just noses sticking up FredG's are growing fantastic the man has the touch ,he grows everything in pots in an unheated greenhouse.
I've been told many many times that I'm touched Dave ;D
BTW I have Cypripedium that are just showing their noses and others ready to burst bud.
All are in identical conditions
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The first flower opened today :)
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How lovely Paul, so worth waiting for!
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Looking from ant's way.
A great Snowdrop study Olga - gigantic from an ant's view!
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Looking from ant's way.
A great Snowdrop study Olga - gigantic from an ant's view!
Agree - Olga the ant's eye view is wonderful!
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"Wonderful" doesn't hit it - this photo is really amazing, Olga!!! :o :o :o
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Think of how long it took Olga to dig a hole in which to stand so that she could look up at that snowdrop.
We appreciate all your digging (and photography), Olga.
Paddy
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Trillium hibbersonii.
I acquired this in 1998 from Jack Drake; and I grow it in a shady trough in Melcourt composted pine bark, with about 20% added sharp builders sand. I’ve often found it a difficult plant to photograph, as its flowers usually face downwards, but this year it obliged me by holding its blooms more upwards facing.
With me it grows to a height of about 4cm. with the flowers being about 2˝cm. across.
Perhaps someone more knowledgeable than I am could tell me what this little charmer should rightly be called!
Should it rightly be called Trillium ovatum var. hibbersonii, or can I keep it labelled as I bought it; and let it retain its specific status? ???
8)
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I believe T. hibbersonii is correct, but of course I'm always open to being corrected. :D
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Prunus Pandora
FYI regarding parentage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/university/nathist/trees/cherries/prunus%20pandora.htm
Thanks Mark, I needed half an hour to understand what you meant with FYI though ??? ::)
There are already too many shortcuts in Dutch, so cannot keep up with those in a strange language ;)
Before I acquired this Prunus I first read some reviews to find out if it would be suitable
for the place I wanted to plant it.
Found out that it was rated as excellent in Boskoop in 1990 and should like our sandy soil.
At the same time I bought Prunus x Hally Jolivette, but am still not convinced if I like it.
It probably does not like my place :-\
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Thanks Mark, I needed half an hour to understand what you meant with FYI though ??? ::)
There are already too many shortcuts in Dutch, so cannot keep up with those in a strange language ;)
Luit, sorry about that, I broke one of my own rules, that is to avoid using acronyms as much as possible.
Your Prunus shows tremendous "flower-power", so it looks to be truly enjoying your garden, a lovely shrub.
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Mark, last year I acquired P. kurilense (or nipponicum?) which flowers as powerful as Pandora, but it's still rather small and as difficult
to make pictures when windy.
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Robin, Gail, Thomas, Paddy thank you!
Think of how long it took Olga to dig a hole in which to stand so that she could look up at that snowdrop.
;D This clump of nivalis grows in a big digged pot. I just put the pot up on the pedestal.
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Crocuses in volcanic dust. ;D
(http://cs824.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_dca6d1ab.jpg)
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Sanguinaria canadensis 'Multiplex'
With Erythronium leaves.
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Olga - I must join the others in saying what amazing photos you produce, please continue to post them.
A few from my garden this week:
A spring border - Fritillaria imperialis 'lutea', Narcissus 'Thalia' underplanted with Pulmonaria 'Blue Ensign'
Allium karataviense with a bubble of mercury (todays rain really). This is my favourite Allium, its leaves look great at this time, its flower is impressive and then its seed heads continue the effect. Three for the price of one.
Euphorbia myrsinites
Anemone blanda spreading as the years pass and self seeding throughout the garden.
Graham
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Graham, did you have a pot of Pulmonaria 'Blue Ensign' in the Perth show?
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Hi Maggi,
No that wasn't mine. I must say I thought of digging up a group but couldn't bring myself to do it.
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Euphorbia myrsinites is one of my favourites. Does anyone grow E. capitulata?
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A few lewisias starting to flower here.
Lewisia brachycalyx
Lewisia brachycalyx plnk form.
Lewisia nevadensis Bernadeno form.
Lewisia rediviva hyb. x 4
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Euphorbia myrsinites is one of my favourites. Does anyone grow E. capitulata?
I've had E. capitulata in the crevice garden for the last small number of years. It hasn't been outstanding (nor has it even bloomed yet) but it's interesting that it's that hardy. E. myrsinites grows well here, and the last year's overwintered stems are in bloom here too in the more sheltered spots.
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A few lewisias starting to flower here.
Lewisia brachycalyx
Lewisia brachycalyx plnk form.
Lewisia nevadensis Bernadeno form.
Lewisia rediviva hyb. x 4
And they're looking good, Michael... only a couple of Lewisia tweedyi at Perth Show yesterday.
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Euphorbia myrsinites is one of my favourites. Does anyone grow E. capitulata?
I've had E. capitulata in the crevice garden for the last small number of years. It hasn't been outstanding (nor has it even bloomed yet) but it's interesting that it's that hardy. E. myrsinites grows well here, and the last year's overwintered stems are in bloom here too in the more sheltered spots.
I don't grow capitulata but isn't it "famed" for not flowering freely?
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Erigeron chrysopsidis 'Grand Ridge'
Erigeron Canary Bird
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There was, back in 1981, a magnificent plant of E. capitulata in the St Andrews Botanic Gardens. I'm sure I remember it as being in flower. There must have been something very good about it, certainly a super mat, as I've been hankering after it ever since. A Canadian gentleman (Patrick Seymour?) offered to filch a bit for me at the time, but we got cold feet and thought we might get caught. ;D
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Euphorbia myrsinites is one of my favourites. Does anyone grow E. capitulata?
I've had E. capitulata in the crevice garden for the last small number of years. It hasn't been outstanding (nor has it even bloomed yet) but it's interesting that it's that hardy. E. myrsinites grows well here, and the last year's overwintered stems are in bloom here too in the more sheltered spots.
I don't grow capitulata but isn't it "famed" for not flowering freely?
Ahhh, that sounds like a much better "explanation", should anyone ask, than admitting my lack of gardening skills. ;D Must remember it!
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I don't grow capitulata but isn't it "famed" for not flowering freely?
Ahhh, that sounds like a much better "explanation", should anyone ask, than admitting my lack of gardening skills. ;D Must remember it!
Yes, it is a good one ;D ;)
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Ah ha, I just used Olga's fabulous photo (http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=5263.msg147887#msg147887) to confirm that I do indeed have Scopolia carniolica coming up out there... (See my incredibly lousy photo for comparison!) Something new - how exciting!
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Well I think your photo is pretty true to life Lori, as I remember it from the spring. I love Olga's but haven't seen it as that fabulous blue shade. :D
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Davey is your Geranium oxonianum Katherine Edel?
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Photographed in the garden yesterday.
Sanguinaria canadensis multiplex
Trillium albidum & a stray seedling of T. kurabayashii
Trillium ovatum Roy Elliott
Beautiful sunshine all yesterday, and welcome steady light rain today.
Mike
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A few more from yesterday.
Daphne x susannae Tichborne
Primula scotica
Mike
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Mike, that's a stunningly beautiful display of Sanguinaria canadensis multiplex growing in your garden. The Trillium seedling is very fine too :)
More beauties - ooooooOOOOOO
Primula scotia is something to dream about and I bet the Daphne smells gorgeous - how big will your Daphne x susannae Tichborne grow it seems to hug the tufa :)
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Hepatica transsylvanica is not reliably hardy here and is often cut back but the hevy snow cover seems to have been beneficial.
Really? I had the impression that you didn't have colder winters than we do. We had a minimum of -24C this winter with very little snowcover and my transylvanica has come through without any problem (just coming into flower now). I thought it was perfectly hardy.
Hepatica transylvanica is completely hardy here too.
Well it has been cut back by something every other winter - not dead but weakened. This winter was the best ever with its -24°C but with very thick snow cover. It could also be a clonal problem.
Göte
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Looking from ant's way.
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That is a super picture Olga. i have tried to do it but your is really much better - perhaps I should try a mirror but where get one big enough silvered on the wrong side?
Göte
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Mike,
that carpet of S. canadensis 'Multiplex' is stunning.
Here are some pictures of plants which are flowering here now:
Glaucidium palmatum
Morisia monanthos
Polygala chamaebuxus 'Grandiflora'
Primula auricula 'Dusky Yellow'
Primula auricula 'Rajah'
Pulsatilla georgica
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Euphorbia myrsinites is one of my favourites. Does anyone grow E. capitulata?
I did I believe I still do - or it is theother way round? ;D
Göte
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Why?
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Because it is a species I once admired in the St Andrews Botanic Garden in Scotland, and I don't think I've seen it ever mentioned here on the Forum or in any book or journal. Makes a lovely mat. I like (most) euphorbias. :)
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So beautiful flowers you show! I am jealous of your late spring and lots of blooming plants.
Mike your Tichborne is outstanding! And large clump of double Sanguinaria to.
Göte thanks! I didn't use mirror. It is natural light only. You could use not only mirror big white surface to.
Pulsatilla georgica
Small lovely plant!
Lori you've got a good result. :)
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Only a few new flowers opened yesterday.
Pulsatilla vernalis
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Pulsatilla halleri ssp. taurica
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Primula minima
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Olga i love the picture of the P.minma and the snail :o
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Lovely things flowering for you Wim :D
Primula auricula 'Rajah' is fascinating and I love your Pulsatilla georgica - Polygala chamaebuxus 'Grandiflora' is very cute with such bold colouring :D
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Olga i love the picture of the P.minma and the snail :o
Me too! It brings the proportions into focus and makes one look at the detail - thanks, as always, for such superb photos Olga 8)
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Viola reichenbachiana. Note "blue" spur
Viola palustris. Beautiful flower, but so small that sharpness of picture is a problem >:(
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Tiny, but absolutely charming Hans - Does Viola palustris always have to be in the wet? It really is a gorgeous colour.
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We think we've seen it all, with some plants then Olga shows it to us from a new angle or in such a different way that it's like having our eyes opened for the first time. Thanks so much Olga for your delicious photos. They give such pleasure. :-*
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Tiny, but absolutely charming Hans - Does Viola palustris always have to be in the wet? It really is a gorgeous colour.
It likes to be in the wet, but is surprisingly resistant to periods of drought. It has a rather fleshy (creeping) root.
Despite the small size of the flowers (only 9mm wide), it is one of my favourites and it is found nearbymy home :)
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On the 2nd April we had no snow already. During the following night however 24 cm of new snow felt. When it thawed two days later, I took this picture of Helleborus niger in the thawing snow.
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Chionodoxa albescens, tiny but nice
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Here are four photos taken recently in my garden. The first two plants are 25 years old, the third 23 years.
Saxifraga burseriana 'Falstaff'
Saxifraga invingii 'His Majesty'
Saxifraga oppositifolia
Aethionema rotundifolia
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And another three plants kept in pots:
Ray Fairbairn's Primula 'Allen Queen'
The same author's Primula marginata 'Allen Imperial'
And the relatively new species Primula albenensis
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The crocus are "Dutch vernus" in front of the south railway station here in Örebro. The yellow band in the back is Gagea lutea.
They are of course not in "my" garden but still very nice.
The chionodoxas are, however our own. The Eranthises are already over so we cannot claim to have the swedish colours ;D
These are also commercial Dutch stock from perhaps thirtyfive years ago. Obviously they are a hybrid swarm but the usually conform to two different types. Wide petals few flowers slightly lilac. Smaller flowers but several on reddish stalks with more true blue.
"lucilie" and "forbesii" perhaps??
Göte
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Here are four photos taken recently in my garden. The first two plants are 25 years old, the third 23 years.
Saxifraga burseriana 'Falstaff'
Saxifraga invingii 'His Majesty'
Saxifraga oppositifolia
Aethionema rotundifolia
Fantastic Saxes Zdenek - still looking young and fresh in spite of their years - love 'Falstaff'
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The chionodoxas are, however our own. The Eranthises are already over so we cannot claim to have the swedish colours
These are also commercial Dutch stock from perhaps thirtyfive years ago. Obviously they are a hybrid swarm but the usually conform to two different types. Wide petals few flowers slightly lilac. Smaller flowers but several on reddish stalks with more true blue.
"lucilie" and "forbesii" perhaps?
What an superlative carpet of Chionodoxa in your garden Gote - what a magical scene to take a seat in 8)
I have two types of Chionodoxa that look just like your two both bought as C. "lucilie"
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some leaves
Astilboides tabularis
Salix moupinensis
and some flowers
Lathyrus vernus Roseus
Iberis pruitii
Anemone pavonina
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Wonderful crocuses and chionodoxas Gote. I think I'd be claiming the lot as my own. ;D
The Saxifragas look good enough to eat. Why is it that even the very best restaurants don't offer saxifragas for dessert? :D
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Thank you Robin and Lesley. I wish i could claim to have done some hard work do get all those Chionodoxas ;D
The only thing I do is that I postpone the first moving of the grass and the postponing is not very strenous ;D
(I dare not use the word 'lawn' My English friends would not forgive me')
Göte
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Robin, Wim Olga thanks for your comments.
Robin the scent from the Daphne is truly wonderful, and I would expect it to grow to 60cm, perhaps a little more.
Olga your photos are absolutely stunning, such unusual angles and lighting.
Gote the crocus & chionodoxas look wonderful.
Mike
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In flower now after a miserable week of cold weather. Luckily we managed to avoid the frost despite a skid of snow.
Soldanella alpina
Helleborus argutifolius
Shortia Leona
Rhododendron hodgsonii
Shortia uniflora
johnw
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I just love those Shortias John. They don't love me and my garden :-\
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I just love those Shortias John.
+1
Hope they will love my garden!
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We think we've seen it all, with some plants then Olga shows it to us from a new angle or in such a different way that it's like having our eyes opened for the first time. Thanks so much Olga for your delicious photos. They give such pleasure. :-*
Yes indeed! Olga should get some sort of prize.
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What lovely pictures Zdenek, I especially like the Aethionema rotundifolia the last I saw this was by the road side in Crete.
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Nearly snow today just like the picture from Zdenek a few plants have managed to flower. cheers for all the recent super pictures Ian the Christie kind.
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Glad to see some plants making it through this weather, Ian! I haven't seen a forecast but my mother-in-law tells me that there is snow forecast for inland Aberdeenshire over the weekend..... which means, I hope , that we will miss it here, but who knows?! It's cold enough.
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I thought I'd add a few pictures of what I've found in flower this week in the garden.
- Firstly, 3 Hellebore hybrids from Ashwood nurseries. Always worth making a diversion to the nursery if you happen to be in the area to select these in flower. I bought these three about two years ago after going to a work conference in Stratford. Just made it to the nursery, under the speed limit, about 20 minutes before they closed. ;D#
- Bergenia ciliata 'Patricia Furness', a selection of B. ciliata that Alan Furness named after his wife. The plant does not have the coarse leaves of many Bergenias, and the flower colour is excellent, with the generally white petals being set off by the red filaments and petal bases.
- Daffodil 'Changing Colours'. Not an alpine, but looks good in the border and has a most unusual flower
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Lovely plants and photos, all!
- Daffodil 'Changing Colours'. Not an alpine, but looks good in the border and has a most unusual flower
Peter, it's a beaut - how does it change colours? I'm not familiar with this one.
Here are some photos of our earliest-blooming native plants from along the Bow River uplands the other day.
1 - 6) Pulsatilla patens (or is it Anemone patens now? ???)
7 - 10) Phlox hoodii, clinging to eroded clay banks along the bike path.
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Lesley, Gerry, Mike
Thank you for compliments! (http://forum.cofe.ru/images/smilies/kiss.gif) (http://forum.cofe.ru/images/smilies/coquet.gif)
Lori
Is it your native Pulsatilla (it is pulsatilla) patens? It looks the same to ours.
Ian
I’ve never seen such Sanguinaria. Adonis, Shortia and Trillium are garden brilliants! Do you grow Paraquilegia at alpinehouse?
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Erica carnea Isabel
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Cheilanthes argentea seedlings
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Ian, it's lovely to see your plants having survived a snowy winter in to a tentative Spring in Scotland but I'm sure warmer weather is on its way.
Pulsatilla halleri x budapest is the most glorious colour amongst the soft foliage
I find Scoliopus bigelowii fascinating, almost like a pen and ink sepia drawing.
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Hi to all, thanks for your kind words. Yes the paraquilegia is in a glasshouse but we also have it outside. I psot another weird and wonderfull Trillidium govanianum, A few other taken last week cheers Ian the Christie kind.
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Two shots Shortia uniflora, I can't help posting them again.
Hacquetia epipactis Thor
Salix x boydii - 3 flowers this year
The varigated dayliliy, the one with the atrocious flowers which have to be removed before they open. Looks like some green shoots need to be removed.
Can't id the snake in the second last photo. ;)
Saruma henryi - a civilized plant.
johnw
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Very nice plants everyone.
John, I love your Shortia's.
Ian, that group of Trillium rivale is wonderful, as is the Trillidium govanianum.
Flowering here now is:
Erythronium 'Kinfauns Pink'
Primula cortusioides
Taraxacum pseudorosum
and Allium akaka
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Flowering here now is:
Erythronium 'Kinfauns Pink'
Primula cortusioides
Taraxacum pseudorosum
and Allium akaka
Oohhh, I have seedlings coming up of that Taraxacum, cool looking flower! I find off-color dandelions fascinating. And Allium akaka - I've always wanted a-ka-ka, finally have some of those seedlings coming along too. Wim, how long did your Allium akaka to flower (assuming you grew it from seed)?
John, love the Shortia plants.
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First shot the double Sanguinaria canadensis.
Second shot the single form.
Last shots the pink form after fading to white - it's significantly larger than the single. Did you find that Brian?
Lastly a Syneilesis masquerading as an old man cactus.
johnw
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Lesley - That "caged" Paeonia has advanced but still has some charm.
johnw
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Lovely things, all and yes, the Paeonia is still very good. Re the snake - not Hosus plasticus?
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I'm watching to see my Syneilesis emerge like little hairy trolls! (Assuming they have made it through another winter...)
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Lori
Is it your native Pulsatilla (it is pulsatilla) patens? It looks the same to ours.
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Yes, Olga, it is our native Pulsatilla patens.
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I'm watching to see my Syneilesis emerge like little hairy trolls! (Assuming they have made it through another winter...)
Lori - Aren't they fantastic things. Hope your plant fares well.
johnw
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A few things in bloom here... although now covered in snow this evening. (Oh well, we are so inured to the wretched climate that, believe it or not, we tell ourselves that we're "grateful for the moisture". ::))
1) Anemone x lipsiensis
2) Anemone ranunculoides
3) Shivereckia podolica
4) Townsendia leptotes, starting to bloom
5) If Jim Henson was into plants, rather than puppetry, would more of them look like this? Paeonia tenuiflora 'Plena'
6) Androsace carnea 'Alba'
7) Primula marginata 'Sheila Denby'
8 ) Saxifraga sancta var. macedonica
9) Narcissus 'Ice Follies'
10) A bit of bloom on Petrocallis pyrenaica, planted last year.
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nice things, all!
wim-- i also like that taraxacum--i fantasise having this breed with the local swarms and turning the countryside pink instead of yellow in late spring!
john--i have saruma sown(fall), time will tell if i get anything....
lori-- i still haven't managed to find any pulsatilla in the wild--i got a couple of suggestions: somewhere near penhold, but that was a guided walk probably on private property, not my thing, and anyway, i was working, and the other a nature area near morningside, haven't had time to get up there, but sounds interesting-grown over dunes etc ... oh well, hopefully in a few years i will have some flowering here...lol
we had some rain earlier in the day, and it started snowing not too long ago (almost 11pm here now); forecast for rocky mtn house is 5 cm; and it has been such a dry spring that we really are grateful for the moisture! now the grass can green, its been too dry..
this is still very early in the year to be snow free here--i expect it well into may...
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Mark,
I love that kind of dandelions too. I also have T. albidum. Not yet flowering but it won't take long. I didn't grow the A. akaka from seed so i wouldn't know how long it takes from seeding to flowering.
Cohan,
turning the countryside pink instead of yellow would be nice indeed, I might be tempted to try it ;) (although my neighbours might not agree with another "weed" sowing freely about ;D)
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Cohan,
turning the countryside pink instead of yellow would be nice indeed, I might be tempted to try it ;) (although my neighbours might not agree with another "weed" sowing freely about ;D)
i agree, another weed might not be welcome, but i was thinking more of replacing the existing one ;D--and really we have whole fields and roadsides turn yellow in season from regular dandelions! i dont even want any yellow flowers in my garden at that time (late may./early june, i think)
i don't think farmers care that much--they arent tall enough to interfere with grain crops, and no problem if they are in hay--more nutritious than grass anyway!
i think i need to start eating them too, easier to grow than a lot of vegetables! and very nutritious..
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So many wondeful flowers just great to share them with you all thanks. A few more pictures taken yesterday trillium corner is inside what is left of my tunnel a corner, cheers Ian the Christie kind.
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Ian,
wonderful Trilliums. I see raindrops hanging from your plants...I wish it would rain here too... it's been dry since Easter.
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The chionodoxas are, however our own. The Eranthises are already over so we cannot claim to have the swedish colours ;D
These are also commercial Dutch stock from perhaps thirtyfive years ago. Obviously they are a hybrid swarm but the usually conform to two different types. Wide petals few flowers slightly lilac. Smaller flowers but several on reddish stalks with more true blue.
"lucilie" and "forbesii" perhaps??
Göte
I would love to know the answer to this also. We have a lot of variation in chionodoxa too - large-flowered, solid-coloured blue and mauve, and also those with red or tan stems, white centers, blue tips (sometimes quite dark blue which is attractive). Rather different habits too - the solid-coloured ones are often single-flowered or few-flowered, while the red-stemmed ones have flower spikes. Off to google...
1-3) Various chionodoxa
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- Daffodil 'Changing Colours'. Not an alpine, but looks good in the border and has a most unusual flower
Peter, it's a beaut - how does it change colours? I'm not familiar with this one.
Lori,
As far as I know it's just a name for the flower. The colour is a creamy-yellow, and perhaps after a few days it is more creamy then yellow, but that's it. The central corolla tube is, however very unusual.
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Yes, that makes sense. Thanks, Peter.
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Mark,
I love that kind of dandelions too. I also have T. albidum. Not yet flowering but it won't take long. I didn't grow the A. akaka from seed so i wouldn't know how long it takes from seeding to flowering.
My single plant of Taraxacum albidum died out last year... for 7-8 years it reliably produced just 1 or 2 pure white flowers, but it did not have any inclination to spread or increase. I too fantasized about the white one invading the lawn, so at least I'd have two colors of dendelion, but it was not to be. I do have a pot full of T. pamiricum coming along, described as 10-15 cm white. The other one I used to grow, keep an eye out for this one, is T. carneocoloratum from Alaska, a tiny high alpine species with semi-nodding flowers of an odd pinkish-orange color; an adorable little item.
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A few things in bloom here... although now covered in snow this evening. (Oh well, we are so inured to the wretched climate that, believe it or not, we tell ourselves that we're "grateful for the moisture". ::))
5) If Jim Henson was into plants, rather than puppetry, would more of them look like this? Paeonia tenuiflora 'Plena'
Lori, fantastic whimsical look to that Paeonia in bud; I think more like Dr. Seuss star belly sneetch characters :D
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Here now in flower:
Androsace hirtella
Anemone nemerosa 'Blue Eyes'
Primula auricula 'Lintz'
Primula chionantha ssp. sinopurpurea
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Wim, you grow such really 8) plants - Primula chionantha ssp. sinopurpurea is just :P
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Good show Wim !
Lori, nice to see you finally have Spring around !! ;)
Here's some from my garden flowering now :
1) Allium karataviense 'Ivory Queen' - pushing through
2) and 3) Arnebia pulchra with the distinctive brown spots that disappear after the flowers have been open for a few days
4) and 5) Anemone nemorosa robinsoniana
6) Corydalis flexuosa - seedling from red leaved form
7) Degenia velibitica - has quietly seeded itself into a small colony
8. Dianthus 'Eleonor Parker' - newly acquired hybrid from D. freynii x D. strictus - looking very promising !! :D
9) Phylliopsis 'Sugar Plum
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So many wondeful flowers just great to share them with you all thanks. A few more pictures taken yesterday trillium corner is inside what is left of my tunnel a corner, cheers Ian the Christie kind.
Your leaves are as wonderful as your flowers Ian and they look so lush with all that rain - and a little protection :)
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A very interesting very tiny plant from South Africa (?) flowering since April 1st.
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Great show from your garden too Luc :) Aren't the leaves Allium karataviense 'Ivory Queen' gorgeous, so beautifully curved and furrowed. The sugar-almond pink of the Dianthus 'Eleonor Parker' is so sweet - I'm amazed it's out so early ::)
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Wim, you grow such really 8) plants - Primula chionantha ssp. sinopurpurea is just :P
Thanks Robin,
it's flowering for the first time here. It was sown last year.
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A very interesting very tiny plant from South Africa (?) flowering since April 1st.
It's a very nice plant indeed, I had it outside in the garden since three years and it got a bit bigger every year until this spring when it was attacked during flowering by a blackbird. Now it's completely gone. I hope it will resprout next spring.
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Ian - I 've just been comparing the foliage on the single pink Sanguinaria (photo 751 posted in reply #253) here and yours. They look different; the one here has quite blue foliage. I wonder how many "pink" selections there are.
By the way, a lovely Trillidium there.
johnw
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Great show from your garden too Luc :) Aren't the leaves Allium karataviense 'Ivory Queen' gorgeous, so beautifully curved and furrowed. The sugar-almond pink of the Dianthus 'Eleonor Parker' is so sweet - I'm amazed it's out so early ::)
Thanks Robin, I'm also very fond of the Allium leaves - and they're barely starting... ;D
The Dianthus is very early, but is still in it's pot and spent a lot of time inside - I'll have to wait next season before I know what it's normal flowering time is :D
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Callianthemum farreri
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Saxifraga unnamed cultivar
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Callianthemum alatavicum
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Pulsatilla vernalis
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Snow :(
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Snow. :( :(
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Snow and cold. :( :( :(
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Mark,
I love that kind of dandelions too. I also have T. albidum. Not yet flowering but it won't take long. I didn't grow the A. akaka from seed so i wouldn't know how long it takes from seeding to flowering.
My single plant of Taraxacum albidum died out last year... for 7-8 years it reliably produced just 1 or 2 pure white flowers, but it did not have any inclination to spread or increase. I too fantasized about the white one invading the lawn, so at least I'd have two colors of dendelion, but it was not to be. I do have a pot full of T. pamiricum coming along, described as 10-15 cm white. The other one I used to grow, keep an eye out for this one, is T. carneocoloratum from Alaska, a tiny high alpine species with semi-nodding flowers of an odd pinkish-orange color; an adorable little item.
i will be watching for seed of various sp; are the leaves very different on any of them?
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Wow what a fantastic picture of the Calianthemum flower buds. Theping sanguinaria here has beetroot coloured leaves when it first comes up will try and get another picture tomorrow, I guess several forms are around. Well done everyone again for all the super pictures, a few more taken today, cheers Ian the Christie kind.
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Oh Olga ... are you trying to make a grown man cry? :D That Callianthemum alatavicum is just out of this world! May we enquire where you got it? C. farreri is glorious enough, but C. alatavicum is a DREAM. Beautiful photos as always.
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Mark,
I love that kind of dandelions too. I also have T. albidum. Not yet flowering but it won't take long. I didn't grow the A. akaka from seed so i wouldn't know how long it takes from seeding to flowering.
My single plant of Taraxacum albidum died out last year... for 7-8 years it reliably produced just 1 or 2 pure white flowers, but it did not have any inclination to spread or increase. I too fantasized about the white one invading the lawn, so at least I'd have two colors of dendelion, but it was not to be. I do have a pot full of T. pamiricum coming along, described as 10-15 cm white. The other one I used to grow, keep an eye out for this one, is T. carneocoloratum from Alaska, a tiny high alpine species with semi-nodding flowers of an odd pinkish-orange color; an adorable little item.
i will be watching for seed of various sp; are the leaves very different on any of them?
Cohan,
the leaves of T. pseudoroseum and T. albidum are exactly the same as T. officinalis. I don't know about the other species.
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Hi all,
some pictures from my woodland garden:
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Robin,
What a wonderful group of C. formosanum.
Graham
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My single plant of Taraxacum albidum died out last year... for 7-8 years it reliably produced just 1 or 2 pure white flowers, but it did not have any inclination to spread or increase. I too fantasized about the white one invading the lawn, so at least I'd have two colors of dendelion, but it was not to be. I do have a pot full of T. pamiricum coming along, described as 10-15 cm white. The other one I used to grow, keep an eye out for this one, is T. carneocoloratum from Alaska, a tiny high alpine species with semi-nodding flowers of an odd pinkish-orange color; an adorable little item.
i will be watching for seed of various sp; are the leaves very different on any of them?
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Cohan,the leaves of T. pseudoroseum and T. albidum are exactly the same as T. officinalis. I don't know about the other species.
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thanks, wim..
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Some highlights from my garden yesterday. Specially the tulips likes the sun - and so do the small red 'devils' on Fritillaria michailovskyi.
There are lots of them this spring. I have hoped they didn't stand the long cold winter.
Poul
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Some pics made recently
1.+2. Fritillaria messanensis var. atlantica - originally from the High Atlas mts.
3. Primula incana
4. Panax trifolius - first flower in second year - seeds from a nice forumist
5. Viola epipsila - slightly tinged pink
6.+7. Viola spathulata
8.-10. Viola rubella - a shrubby species from Chile
Gerd
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8.-10. Viola rubella - a shrubby species from Chile
What a beautiful plant!
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I agree, it's really dainty and such a vibrant little flower :) And, pale as anything, your Viola epipsilais so cute :)
Great things flowering in your garden Gerd 8)
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Some flowers in bloom now
1. Pulsatilla rubra
2. Pulsatilla flavescens is ready to flower
3. Caltha palustris alba
4. Helleborus Red Lady
5. Chionodoxa (which one?)
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Hi all we sure are getting some fantastic pictures the Cyp formosanum is WOW. We have more rain today but it is good for our meconopsis which I am splitting up just now. A few pictures from today I am delighted that so many plants have survived the winter, cheers Ian the Christie kind.
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Oh Olga ... are you trying to make a grown man cry? :D That Callianthemum alatavicum is just out of this world! May we enquire where you got it? C. farreri is glorious enough, but C. alatavicum is a DREAM. Beautiful photos as always.
Cliff be strong. :D It will be more beautiful in blooming. ;) It is a plant from Tian-Shan I brought in 2004. Easy floriferous plant usually giving many fertile seeds. But I like blue C. farrery more...
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Today...
Galanthus valentinae
(http://cs9282.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_6eed96e1.jpg)
Scilla armena
(http://cs9282.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_20a934ad.jpg)
Pulsatilla flavescens
(http://cs9282.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_78685b05.jpg)
(http://cs9282.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_82ec2862.jpg)
(http://cs9282.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_738a2e25.jpg)
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so many beauties! but i especially love those creamy pulsatillas!
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Hey folks, I've wanted to post some plants here, but have been busy with Epimediums :D, so have fallen behind in this thread, so many great plants here.
Gerd - I like the small violas. I was just on nmy annual Houstonia caerulea outing, and came across a mixed colony of Houstonia with Panax trifolius and Anemone quinquefolia, the Panax is so tiny and cute.
Oleg - beautful red Pulsatilla... I like the red ones!
Poul - good crop of lily beetles there, we've got em too ;D Your Tulipa is outstanding, mine died a couple years ago :'(
Ian - Tell us about Daphne rosmarinifloius, is it hardy, where is it from? It is SoooOOO beautiful. And that Paris is pretty darned nice too.
Olga - just keep thos photos coming, love the micro individualized vignettes.
I'll jump in with more photos later, but I'll leave here with just one item, Magnolia 'Golden Gift'. Most yellow Magnolia cultivars are large fast-growing trees, with the gigantic M. acuminata (Cucumber Tree) as one of the parents. This cultivar is a "dwarf-ish" Magnolia as Magnolia go, with one of the parents being the more southern M. acuminata var. subcordata (and specifically, a smaller deeper yellow selection known as 'Miss Honeybee'). It grows approximately 6"-8" (15-20 cm) a year. My tree was planted in from of our kitchen window about 10 years ago, and it has remained small and tightly/intricately branched, never failing to produce a bright show of small lemony yellow cups that waft a light sweet melon-like scent. The buds have never been blasted by frosts or winter cold. This cultivar appears sterile, as it has never produced seed in 10 years, whereas all my other Magnolias do.
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Magnificent magnolias, Mark.
Paddy
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Dianthus rivendell
Campanula tridentata
Linum Gemmells hybrid
Myosotis spec.Eyre Mt. 1
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Super images from everybody.
Poul,
I would be happy to call such wunderful clump for T. humilis var. pulchella 'Albocaerulea' my own :o :D
Mine flowered one season and seem not like the loamy soil and I lost them :'(
It seems I'm not the only forum person who suffers from pretty lily beetle infestation on my frits :'(
'The Terminator' patrols daily to limit the damages. >:( :'(
Gerd,
impressive 'wee plants' collection! Always a surprise ;D The violas and P. incana are in particular pretty.
Oleg,
your Pulsatillas are great. P. rubra is a stunner.
I don't know a Chionodoxa with a dark center - could it be a form of Scilla bifolia with short anthers forming the dark spot?
Do have a close shot from a single flower?
Ian,
I comply with Mark - Daphne rosmarinifolius is pretty wee thing. Would like to know more about it, too. Is it scented?
Olga,
you must have "the photograph gene" in your blood. Impressive images, always. :P :-*
Mark,
the yellow magnolia is a showmaker. I wonder why it is not offered here widely. Not winterhard enough?
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Michael,
Dianthus rivendell is pretty nice. Is it winterhard and suits for garden environment?
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Armin,It should be ok in a scree bed or trough although I have never tried planting it out.I like to keep it in a pot so I can view it closeup.
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Mark - Golden Gift is certainly a good one. Several people in our group got it a few years back but I haven't followed their progress. It looks much better than Butterfly (or is it flies?) and some of the others. On seeing Golden Gift I would advise Butterfly owners to replace it with Golden Gift. Yellow Bird is a good one throughout much of the Maritimes.
johnw
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Mark,
the yellow magnolia is a showmaker. I wonder why it is not offered here widely. Not winterhard enough?
Not sure why this one (Magnolia 'Golden Gift') is not so widely grown, given it's smaller size it is a much better selection for smaller yards than most Magnolias, many of which easily grow 3' (1 meter) a year. I consider this one "ironclad" hardy, it has never shown the slightest degree of bud blast. One reason why it is might not be as well known, since it does not grow fast, it is probably not as favored by nursery people who want fast-growing saleable plants. Also, so far as yellow mags go, this one is quite reliably yellow; some of the so-called yellows are very pale yellow to cream, depending on weather. Unlike some yellow mags whose flowers fade in color, this one starts out charteuse-yellow and turns a warm mid yellow in a couple days time. I'll have to try taking cuttings of it, as mentioned before it makes no seed.
This cultivar also has decent fall color (most Magnolias are fairly bland in autumn, maybe a bit of yellow), with russet-orange foliage.
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Mark - Golden Gift is certainly a good one. Several people in our group got it a few years back but I haven't followed their progress. It looks much better than Butterfly (or is it flies?) and some of the others. On seeing Golden Gift I would advise Butterfly owners to replace it with Golden Gift. Yellow Bird is a good one throughout much of the Maritimes.
johnw
John, if you find out about how Golden Gift is doing for others, post back sometime. I used to participate in a Magnolia forum, and one expert on that forum swore up and down that there was no such thing as a "dwarf" Magnolia and that 'Golden Gift' will be as large as any Magnolia. Well, I don't think so, in the photos of the tree in flower now, it isn't much taller than the autumn photo taken in 2005... and this tree has never been pruned.
Lots of people here plant M. 'Butterflies'; which depending on the weather, will have flowers that are pale yellow, to palest cream yellow or just cream. There are many dozens of yellow flowered hybrids on the market these days, some are not very good.
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Michael,
thanks for the details. I'll check availabilty and try it.
Mark,
thanks for the feedback. Slow growth = high price might be a good reason. Also the fact the 'yellow' is not a reliable yellow for many cvs. might be a main reason.
I keep an eye open if I can find a supplier here.
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Michael your Myosotis from the Eyre mountains looks pretty much like M. pulvinaris. There may be some very closely related plants that have been put into new species, but to all intents and purposes......
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RR, 'Arisaema', Mark & Armin: Thank you for your kind remarks!
Gerd
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Lesley,I have no idea, I just copied what was on the label ::)
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In the sun my Alpine rockery is beginning to show its true colours with Euphorbia Cyparissias 'Clarice Howard', Saxifraga and Fritillaria Meleagris rubbing shoulders :D
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Looks like a good start of the season Robin !! :D ;)
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Thanks Luc, it is and I'm really happy seeing everything starting to flower :D
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Another sunny day...
Pulsatilla slavica
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Corydalis solida blue selection
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Scilla sibirica
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Galanthus Ophelia
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Crocuses
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Some pics from my garden in Upper Austria.
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Your shade bed is lovely, Katrin... here in Aberdeen we can grow all of these in a sunny spot, shows the weather difference! :D
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A very pretty light blue corydalis Olga. Does it have a name?
Cheers
Göte
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Earliness seems to be different from year to year. This year Chrysosplenium macrophyllum, was not as early as last year.
A corner of my woodland. The Anemone is probably altaica - nemorosa have not yet started.
I need to separate my pink Scilla bifolia they are more vigouros than the blue strain I have.
The pink Chionodoxa is probably a form of lucilie.
Cheers
Göte
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some Anemone ranunculoides today
Regards, Wolfgang
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Anemone ranunculoides, this form was created in the garden
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A few shots in the greenhouse and garden today:
Gentiana acaulis 'Coelestina'
Pulsatilla albana
Erythronium revolutum
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Katrin, in your first picture, what is the blue-flowered plant with the white-variegated foliage please?
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Earliness seems to be different from year to year. This year Chrysosplenium macrophyllum, was not as early as last year.
A corner of my woodland.
Cheers
Göte
nice to see this corner of your garden!
i thought i had not heard of chrysosplenium, until i looked at this site,
http://www.saxifraga.org/plants/saxbase/listimages.asp
and then actually paid attention to the name-- we have some here, but the very different alternifolium or similar (i will need to look at them closely this year to try to key) macrophyllum is an interesting plant, for sure.. is it a native for you, göte?
here we
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Maggi, sometimes its really dry here, because of the soil conditions (gravel from river and glacier) and this plants would never survive in the sun.
Lesley, it is Brunnera macrophylla 'Dawson's White' (I think in English it's called false or perennial forget-me-not).
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Earliness seems to be different from year to year. This year Chrysosplenium macrophyllum, was not as early as last year.
A corner of my woodland.
Cheers
Göte
nice to see this corner of your garden!
i thought i had not heard of chrysosplenium, until i looked at this site,
http://www.saxifraga.org/plants/saxbase/listimages.asp
and then actually paid attention to the name-- we have some here, but the very different alternifolium or similar (i will need to look at them closely this year to try to key) macrophyllum is an interesting plant, for sure.. is it a native for you, göte?
I like this plant, though I can never remember its name... it is establishing nicely and spreading gently here now. I pictured it last year.
www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3141.msg81323topicseen#msg81323
It is from China, cohan. www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200010085
Katrin... is is hardly ever too dry here! :-X
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Chrysosplenium macrophyllum
I like this plant, though I can never remember its name... it is establishing nicely and spreading gently here now. I pictured it last year.
www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3141.msg81323topicseen#msg81323
It is from China, cohan. www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200010085
thanks, maggi--i did see that last year, too, i guess it just didn't stick in my mind amongst all the other spring glories you were showing us then..
another among the million to watch for ;D meanwhile i will focus on establishing a nice patch of the local species, which looks nothing like this, but is still a very cool little plant; i remember large patches when i was young, but couldnt find similar on the farm the last couple of years, but did find some modest colonies, and have/had a piece or two, will see if they have survived the winter in sunken pots...
speaking of spring, our much needed first serious rain of the year has now turned to snow aearlier in the day than expected.. we may be all white by tomorrow.....5-10cm today, and 10-15cm tonight, then rain changing to snow again tomorrow! at least our dry spell is over ;D
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i thought i had not heard of chrysosplenium, until i looked at this site,
http://www.saxifraga.org/plants/saxbase/listimages.asp
That's a nice - and useful - website Cohan.
Thanks Katrin. I probably should have known that but mine is little and hasn't flowered yet. It looks a lovely colour.
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On our former nursery grounds, where we grew mostly visual attractive
rock garden plants this little neglected moss Phlox surprises us since
several years.
After winter totally grayish-brown with no sign of life, but in April
full in flower.
It was just a root which found a little hole in the Mypex Ground Cover,
and measures now almost a square meter!
Phlox Janous
Phlox Janous cl
Also flowering on the raised bed a little Salix
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Thay are bath fine plants Luit. Looks as if the Phlox just grows and flowers with not much attention from anyone? The Salix is a beauty.
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Lovely pics everyone. Here is my Gentiana acaulis doing well this year
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Lovely pics everyone. Here is my Gentiana acaulis doing well this year
That is gorgeous!
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Earliness seems to be different from year to year. This year Chrysosplenium macrophyllum, was not as early as last year.
A corner of my woodland.
Cheers
Göte
nice to see this corner of your garden!
i thought i had not heard of chrysosplenium, until i looked at this site,
http://www.saxifraga.org/plants/saxbase/listimages.asp
and then actually paid attention to the name-- we have some here, but the very different alternifolium or similar (i will need to look at them closely this year to try to key) macrophyllum is an interesting plant, for sure.. is it a native for you, göte?
I like this plant, though I can never remember its name... it is establishing nicely and spreading gently here now. I pictured it last year.
www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3141.msg81323topicseen#msg81323
It is from China, cohan. www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200010085
Katrin... is is hardly ever too dry here! :-X
My plant is supposed to come originally from Korea so they grow also outside China as well - but not in Sweden ;D
There are Japanese ones more similar to alternifolium but not quite hardy here.
Alternifolium is a Swedish native and is supposed to signify that there is a spring underneath. However they grow well in ordinary woodland. Too well actually. Be careful!! ;D
Göte
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A glorious gentiana Ian. No wonder it is considered to be (that overused word) "iconic."
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Some pictures of plants which are flowering here now:
Androsace sarmentosa
Aquilegia scopulorum
Haberlea ferdinandi-coburgi
And some small Irisses which are starting to flower (the one in the front is 'Open Sky', I don't remember the name of the white one)
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Chaenomeles japonica.
Dianthus 'Conway Star.'
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Hi so many more super pictures all the plants are fantastic. First the Daphne rosmarinifolius is now Wikstoemia rosmarinifolius as it has 5 petals the plant is from China and I grow it under very basic cover. I post some more pictures from the garden, cheers Ian the Christie kind.
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A Dactylorhiza that i got today some people might not like the yellow splashing on the leaves but i like it.
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My plant is supposed to come originally from Korea so they grow also outside China as well - but not in Sweden ;D
There are Japanese ones more similar to alternifolium but not quite hardy here.
Alternifolium is a Swedish native and is supposed to signify that there is a spring underneath. However they grow well in ordinary woodland. Too well actually. Be careful!! ;D
Göte
there are no springs here, but there are low areas-wet in wet years, moist in dry, the chrysosplenium i have seen only in those low wettish places in shade, but maybe your ordinary woodlands are moister than ours?; this plant doesn't seem like it could take over anything here, but i have only seen it in areas where there is some presence of grazing cattle, so it may be subject to grazing or trampling limiting its success; i will keep an eye on it, but plan to grow it with other natives anyway, so no danger of it overwhelming any delicate exotics :) i'd be happy to have a nice big patch of it!
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A really good pink bud on your sanguinaria Ian. I guess it fades does it? The shortia is superb. :P
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some photos from 11 days ago-- native willow species growing in a half-wild farm area which is grazed by cattle, and the woodies are browsed--at times heavily-by deer and moose..
at the time these were taken, there was virtually nothing else in flower--maybe a few scattered petasites, and probably poplars--but those catkins are high up and you only see them close when they fall.. so the bees were very busy in the willows..
Salix species
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cohan, terrific photos! 8)
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thanks, maggi :)
you can see by my obsession with tiny catkins just how desperate we are in spring...lol
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But cohan, how many people never get to see the wonder in that little catkin? Your photos, while cheering you as you wait for winter to be a true season of the past, is bringing these artistic little packages of perfection to a wider audience.... no hint of desperation there!
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thanks again, maggi :)
i'm encouraged by your words, since i am now working on processing Petasites photos ;D and fear sometimes i overdo it....
i do think this is a great boon of easy macro photography via digital cameras---allowing a much closer view into the tiny miracles that surround us ; for example--i had never noticed the difference between male and female flowers in Salix before i started photographing them over the last few years1
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Exactly, cohan.... the close-up shots possible with digital and so easy to share on the web are one of the greatest excitments for me of plant photography.It is often astonishing how much one can better understand the working of the whole life of the plant by these insights into the finer workings of it. It's all very well to be told that this and that exist... but it is SO much better when we can really see and appreciate these details.
And, of course, in the case of your catkin shots.... it certainly doesn't hurt that pussy willows are so darn cute! :D
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Hi, firstly, I agree with Maggie we are so fortunate that we can appreciate the beauty of plants and flowers and it is great that we share this passion on the forum. The sanguinaria will go green once it opens the flowers are pink for a day or two, cheers Ian the Christie kind.
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My plant is supposed to come originally from Korea so they grow also outside China as well - but not in Sweden ;D
There are Japanese ones more similar to alternifolium but not quite hardy here.
Alternifolium is a Swedish native and is supposed to signify that there is a spring underneath. However they grow well in ordinary woodland. Too well actually. Be careful!! ;D
Göte
there are no springs here, but there are low areas-wet in wet years, moist in dry, the chrysosplenium i have seen only in those low wettish places in shade, but maybe your ordinary woodlands are moister than ours?; this plant doesn't seem like it could take over anything here, but i have only seen it in areas where there is some presence of grazing cattle, so it may be subject to grazing or trampling limiting its success; i will keep an eye on it, but plan to grow it with other natives anyway, so no danger of it overwhelming any delicate exotics :) i'd be happy to have a nice big patch of it!
We do not have many springs either but I assume that the presence of C.a. suggests that this is a place where you can dig a well and find water. (but the notion of a spring is more romantic ;) ) I irrigate overhead in dry weather and that seems to be enough to keep them going. The weediness will not be appearant in a "natural" environment. Those I planted in the forest fifty years ago have hardly spread at all.
I agree - the invasiveness is no problem if there is space available. Once they are established they will form an attractive yellowish mat in the spring. However, i made the mistake of putting some too close to an area where I try to make Corydlis turtschanini self-seed. I must move the chrysospleniums to another place.
Cheers
Göte
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A Dactylorhiza that i got today some people might not like the yellow splashing on the leaves but i like it.
Are you sure it is not virus??
Göte
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Oddly enough my Chinese clone of Chrysoplenium alternifolium seems to have died this winter, after suffering from bad frost damage for years... Asarum splendens growing just a couple of feet away did survive, go figure!
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Hi, firstly, I agree with Maggie we are so fortunate that we can appreciate the beauty of plants and flowers and it is great that we share this passion on the forum.
Yes! (http://forum.tvoysad.ru/images/smilies/az.gif)
Pulsatilla aff. turczaninovii
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Pulsatilla multifida
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Hepatica nobilis double form
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Hepatica japonica Shirajuki
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Hepatica transilvanica Elison Spence
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View to Plescheevo lake near Pereslavl Zalessky
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Olga,
as always, some stunning pictures from you. I love your Pulsatilla's and Hepatica's.
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Olga,
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the photographs.
Paddy
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A Dactylorhiza that i got today some people might not like the yellow splashing on the leaves but i like it.
Are you sure it is not virus??
Göte
100% not virus Gote the chap who i got this of grows hundreds of dactylorhiza and this is his selection i knew somebody would inquire that i did hes told me its fine and by the looks of all his stock hes right.
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Lovely pics everyone. Here is my Gentiana acaulis doing well this year
Quite an understatement Ian... ::) :o :o :o
Do you feed it to get such a good flowering ??
Olga, your stunning pictures never cease to amaze me.. :o :o :o
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some photos from 11 days ago-- native willow species growing in a half-wild farm area which is grazed by cattle, and the woodies are browsed--at times heavily-by deer and moose..
at the time these were taken, there was virtually nothing else in flower--maybe a few scattered petasites, and probably poplars--but those catkins are high up and you only see them close when they fall.. so the bees were very busy in the willows..
Salix species
Cohan, really enjoyed the "photo essay" on willow catkins, thanks for sharing such an intimate look. :D
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Cohan, your close up view of catkins gave me goosebumps ;D They are so cool with the spotty effect and intense furriness 8)
Just goes to show that miniatures in the wild can steal the show with a Spring message and the bees certainly know how to appreciate them too - great shots :)
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Olga, thanks again for your glorious studies of Spring flowers. The
View to Plescheevo lake near Pereslavl Zalessky
is intriguing - is it a Nature reserve?
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Olga, as usual, love all your photos, but the third one of "Hepatica nobilis double form", the composition clearly speaks to the viewer, the pink Hepatica leaning in and saying "me too, me too"! :D
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Olga, as usual, love all your photos, but the third one of "Hepatica nobilis double form", the composition clearly speaks to the viewer, the pink Hepatica leaning in and saying "me too, me too"! :D
Yes, it's too, it's too! :)
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These two double forms of hepatica grow in russian gardens for more than 100 years. Nobody knows theirs origin.
The best time of the year starts! Many new flowers everyday and many new hopes.
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Wim, Paddy, Luc, Robin, Mark
Thank you! :-*
Robin
Yes it is a Nature reserve. Beautiful nature and interesting history makes that place an interesting touristic object.
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White hepatica
(http://cs9282.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_6b70bdb0.jpg)
Jeffersonia dubia
(http://cs9282.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_6770d37a.jpg)
Narcissus pseudonarcissus talking with aquilegia seedling
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Corydalis sp. from Far East
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I was intrigued by the lovely lake, too.... here's what I found about the area: www.un.int/russia/new/MainRoot/newrussiaen/goldringen.htm
Pereyaslavl' Zalessky (behind the woods) looks as if there were more old ancient churches than hotels, cafes and shops altogether. Quiet Plescheevo Lake is considered the cradle of the Russian Navy: just here it was those 300 years ago, the young Russian Tsar who became Peter the Great mastered the art of sailing. The small boat of the Russian Emperor miraculously survived and now is an exhibit in one of museums.
Plescheevo Lake is famous for it’s most uncommon «Pereyaslavl' herring» or «riapushka» of the salmon family. The fish is a relict sea fish and probably got into the fresh water of the lake before the ice age. Russian Tsars used to like it very much, so it was called "Tsar herring". The fish is in the city emblem of Pereyaslavl' Zalessky.
http://www.pereslavl-zalessky.com/botik_en.htm
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Maggi
Yes it is. :) Pereslavl is one of the oldest russian towns with great history and many interesting places. There are a lot of prehistoric sights to. Nature is poor but full of beauty.
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... but sorry it is not about flowers now. :-X
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olga--nice to see a new place! and all the flowers are a joy--love the hepaticas, esp the white in reply #359 good that i can see them with the new browsers!
robin and mark, glad you enjoyed the pussywillows; robin--also enjoyed your article in the new IRG, loved the hepaticas there too! have to go check your new postings in Alpine Walks...
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Olga, your photos are to die for, please keep sending them! Love those pulsatillas!
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as always our earliest flowers, Petasites sp, probably sagittatus--we also have presumably P frigidus v palmatus, and or the hybrid between the two, P x vitifolius; as far as i can tell, the distinguishing features are the leaves, which are not visible while the plant is in flower, certainly not at the early stages; the palmate leaf species here grows mainly in wooded areas, and flowers rarely; further, plants can have male and female flowers, or only female (so i read, i have not figured this out, visually!) and the inflorescences grow a huge amount and change greatly in appearance over time after opening..here you see plants found from closed buds to fully extended flowers, but all still quite small--from maybe 8-15cm roughly in height; they will reach 20-50cm later..
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some views of the area where the Salix and Petasites photos were taken; this is on the farm belonging to my relatives, just behind our acreage;
this area is a low area, called slough (slew) locally; it would tend to be fully overgrown by willows,alders (alnus) tamarack (larix) and black spruce (abies mariana) and birch in wet to moist areas,blending into birch, poplars and spruce on higher groun,d only staying open in the wettest spots which would go to grasses and reeds etc; this being part of a farm, it functions as pasture, for grazing cattle, and so is cleared occasionally (decades apart) and so grass is maintained in areas favoured by cattle.....
this year has/had been very dry--till we got a half day of rain followed by probably nearly 30cm of snow the other day! should be wetter now!
EDIT: more photos, and larger, are in my Picasa albums, including another set from later in the same day, near sunset, at another wet area just along the road ...
http://picasaweb.google.ca/cactuscactus
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Wow, Cohan, your photos really show Petasites sp, probably sagittatus developing so beautifully from the wine red bud to a fluffy cream ball - I find them fascinating the way they just appear overnight, almost like a fungi does. Your final image is a great view - I think it should be in Images of an arty kind thread 8)
Really like your Picasa web albums, great for images and the info you provide - I shall be learning a lot, I can see ;D
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Wow, Cohan, your photos really show Petasites sp, probably sagittatus developing so beautifully from the wine red bud to a fluffy cream ball - I find them fascinating the way they just appear overnight, almost like a fungi does. Your final image is a great view - I think it should be in Images of an arty kind thread 8)
thanks, robin, i do have a couple i may post over there, perhaps tomorrow :)
glad you enjoyed the picasa albums too :)
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Cohan,
A lovely range of photographs. I like the smell of petasites.
Paddy
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Last day of April
Chrysosplenium alternifolium - the one that has to move to place where it does not disturb its neighbours.
Erythronium sibiricum, Scilla rosenii and an unnamed Corydalis solida.
A corner with corydalis and others
A Caltha that came under another name. Anybody recognize sp or var??
Welcome May!
Göte
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EDIT: more photos, and larger, are in my Picasa albums, including another set from later in the same day, near sunset, at another wet area just along the road ...
http://picasaweb.google.ca/cactuscactus
Goodness me, is there any wonder I never get any housework done with all these albums to enjoy?! :)
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Everything just beautiful, the hepaticas, pulsatilla and that gorgeous re berry. Is it a Vaccinium?
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Last day of April
Chrysosplenium alternifolium - the one that has to move to place where it does not disturb its neighbours.
Erythronium sibiricum, Scilla rosenii and an unnamed Corydalis solida.
A corner with corydalis and others
A Caltha that came under another name. Anybody recognize sp or var??
Welcome May!
Göte
göte-nice plants, i esp like the group in the second pic..
paddy--thanks--i was just talking to someone about the petasites, and mentioned the fragrance--i don't think i have ever smelled it in the field, but i used to pick them with caltha for mother's day (probably will again!) and they can fill a room with fragrance!
maggi--who needs to do housework ;D its almost mother's day--you should have a week off ;)
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Russian Medlar.
Arnold
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maggi--who needs to do housework Grin its almost mother's day--you should have a week off
But cohan, you don't know how many off from the housework I've already HAD!! ;D ;D :-X
Arnold, lovely photo of the Russian Medlar flowers.... is there any wonder that folks find plant names confusing when the plant comes from Iran, is called Mespilus germanica and has the cultivar name 'Russian'?? :-\
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Reminds me of Rocky Racoon.
Her name was Magil and she called herself Lil
But everyone knew her as Nancy.
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maggi--who needs to do housework Grin its almost mother's day--you should have a week off
But cohan, you don't know how many off from the housework I've already HAD!! ;D ;D :-X
all the better ;) i am heading out now to look for caltha, and see if violas are appearing--unless it rains again in the next few...
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Reminds me of Rocky Racoon.
Her name was Magil and she called herself Lil
But everyone knew her as Nancy.
Ha Ha! Yes, it is likethat ;D
I'd forgotten all about that song...... must quote it to Ian tomorrow to see if he remembers... his Beatles recall is pretty good ;)
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Sorry for resurrecting this thread, but I was late to the party, and so pleased to find these only a few miles away - one large stretch of hedgerow that hasn't been razed to the ground like so many. Anemone nemorosa, corydalis solida and scilla bifolia, including a white form, and not far away, some large oxlips, obviously liking it next to a small river.
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Gill, I love your wild scene photos, so pretty and fresh - hedgerows and streams are the best for Spring mixes :D
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Thanks :) I do love it here, there seem to be so many wild flowers, but the tourist board do call this department "a garden"
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the tourist board do call this department "a garden"
Well, that's as good a reason for living somewhere as I can think of! :) ;D
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Thanks :) I do love it here, there seem to be so many wild flowers, but the tourist board do call this department "a garden"
garden indeed! a great spring show-all the favourites!
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Goodness me, is there any wonder I never get any housework done with all these albums to enjoy?! :)
Maggi :
this song is special for you !!!
" If I were a boy "
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/sy-1861298200/beyonce_if_i_were_a_boy_official_music_video/
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Not sure why this one (Magnolia 'Golden Gift') is not so widely grown, given it's smaller size it is a much better selection for smaller yards than most Magnolias, many of which easily grow 3' (1 meter) a year. I consider this one "ironclad" hardy, it has never shown the slightest degree of bud blast. One reason why it is might not be as well known, since it does not grow fast, it is probably not as favored by nursery people who want fast-growing saleable plants. Also, so far as yellow mags go, this one is quite reliably yellow; some of the so-called yellows are very pale yellow to cream, depending on weather. Unlike some yellow mags whose flowers fade in color, this one starts out charteuse-yellow and turns a warm mid yellow in a couple days time. I'll have to try taking cuttings of it, as mentioned before it makes no seed.
This cultivar also has decent fall color (most Magnolias are fairly bland in autumn, maybe a bit of yellow), with russet-orange foliage.
Sharing some pix from Mark on how 'Golden Gift' is doing ten years on ....
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Magnolia 'Golden Gift' blooms, mid-May 2020. The flowers and growth internodes are closely spaced, only grows about 6" per year, many magnolias can grow 3' per year.
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'Golden Gift' in 2010
The parentage is reported as: M. acuminata var. subcordata 'Miss Honeybee' x M. (acuminata x denudata).
Mark has discovered a single seed this year, which he intends to grow on to see what transpires! It's only the second time he's been aware of a seed set.
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Mroe from Mark on the naming of this plant :
"Use this link to reach Magnolia Society International, then click on the PDF link, an excellent resource to look up most any Magnolia cultivar. The checklist is up to date as of April 2020. The PDF loads in a web page, but can be downloaded if wanted.
https://www.magnoliasociety.org/CultivarChecklist
For 'Golden Gift' it lists:
'Golden Gift' Magnolia 33(1) [Issue 63]: 29, 1998 (publish date)
Parantage = ('Miss Honeybee' × [acuminata × denudata]). Introduced by David G. Leach Research Station of The Holden Arboretum. Semi dwarf, to 2 m in nine years. There are other yellow-flowered magnolia cultivars of the same or similar parentage. Note: 'Miss Honeybee' itself is a selected form of M. acuminata var. subcordata.
There is no mention of M. stellata being involved, but did find a yellow-flowered cultivar involving stellata, M. 'Gold Star' is ('Miss Honeybee' x stellata 'Rubra'), creamy yellow star-like flowers with 14 strap-shaped tepals comparable to stellata.
Back to The 'Golden Gift', the paragraph description finishes with =M.'Sonnenkind' (indicating it's known under two names)... to be continued."
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More from Mark on the naming of this plant :
"Use this link to reach Magnolia Society International, then click on the PDF link, an excellent resource to look up most any Magnolia cultivar. The checklist is up to date as of April 2020. The PDF loads in a web page, but can be downloaded if wanted.
https://www.magnoliasociety.org/CultivarChecklist
For 'Golden Gift' it lists:
'Golden Gift' Magnolia 33(1) [Issue 63]: 29, 1998 (publish date)
Parantage = ('Miss Honeybee' × [acuminata × denudata]). Introduced by David G. Leach Research Station of The Holden Arboretum. Semi dwarf, to 2 m in nine years. There are other yellow-flowered magnolia cultivars of the same or similar parentage. Note: 'Miss Honeybee' itself is a selected form of M. acuminata var. subcordata.
There is no mention of M. stellata being involved, but did find a yellow-flowered cultivar involving stellata, M. 'Gold Star' is ('Miss Honeybee' x stellata 'Rubra'), creamy yellow star-like flowers with 14 strap-shaped tepals comparable to stellata.
Back to The 'Golden Gift', the paragraph description finishes with =M.'Sonnenkind' (indicating it's known under two names)... to be continued."
"The 'Golden Gift' paragraph description finishes with =M.'Sonnenkind' (indicating it's known under two names), so using the cultivar checklist PDF, I look up Magnolia 'Sonnenkind', it references the lunaplant.de website, and a link to the German website, and a back-reference "See 'Golden Gift').
http://www.lunaplant.de/
I added to the discussion including a German Magnolia grower web site, whereby we learn of a dual-naming situation. On that site they list the cultivar as growing up to 2.5m after 20 years, that's only a little over 8', so I measured my tree (16 or 17 yrs since I planted a small whip) and it's 11 feet tall by 11' wide, still a dwarf considering that M. acuminata can reach 100'. "