Plants flowering in the open rock garden.June '09

[Lori S.]

New today...
Oxalis 'Ute', planted last year (as almost everything was in the then-new rock garden!)

[Zdenek]

Zdenek, thanks a lot for showing us your floral gems.
Attached are some pictures from Waiblingen, the Delosperma is a new introduction
from the Drakensberge of Lesotho, made by J.Holzbecher and the Botanic Garden
of Brno, Czech Republic.

 Aubrieta Elsa Lancaster.
 Centaurea pestalozzae
 Delosperma spec. Sani Pass
 Edraianthus graminifolius white
 Genista cf. carinalis
 Helichrysum sessiloides
 Ornithogalum spec.
 Phlox Olga
 Verbascum x Letitia
 Viola stojanovii

Thank you Rudi, Centaurea pestalozzae is my favourite.

[Zdenek]

Fabulous plants, all!  I especially love the ranunculus, Magnar... breath-taking!

Dianthus microlepsis
Astragalus purshii var. lectulus
Pulsatilla turczaninovii - I've already shown it, but showing it again because the colour is so gorgeous!
Pulsatilla aurea

Lori, the Pulsatilla cannot be aurea. It is robust, similar as P. alpina ssp.apiifolia and very difficult to grow. This Pulsatilla could be P. albana var. lutea but I am not quite sure.

[Magnar]

[Lori, the Pulsatilla cannot be aurea. It is robust, similar as P. alpina ssp.apiifolia and very difficult to grow. This Pulsatilla could be P. albana var. lutea but I am not quite sure.

So aurea is diffcult to grow.. didn't know that. I have one starting to flower in the garden right now and I'm pretty sure I have the right thing 

[Lesley Cox]

I've only seen P. aurea in photographs but it was always a good, golden yellow, not soft yellow and a much larger flower than albana, which I think is Lori's, perhaps the form sometimes called albana lutea.

[Lori S.]

While I haven't been able to find detailed descriptions of either P. aurea or P. albana v. lutea, it seems that my plant may very well be P. albana v. lutea... as the densely furry, white-haired stems, sparsely hairy leaves and flower colour seem to match the many pix turned up by googling. 
Lesley, I see what you mean by strongly yellow-coloured P. aurea... (though googling seems to bring up the odd presumably-misidentified "P. lutea" with pale yellow flowers too.)

So, on that topic, if no one minds me asking it here, would you say that this plant really is P. lutea?  (Unfortunately, it is not in bloom.)  It is labelled as "Anetilla Galushko (Pulsatilla aurea)"... which I take to mean Anetilla aurea (Galushko).  I got it from Beaver Creek at the local alpine club sale.  (I actually bought it because it looked so different - no noticeably hairiness - from my supposed P.aurea, LOL!)  Thanks in advance!

[Ragged Robin]

Super Ranunculus, Magnar. Robin, I think the plant you are asking about is Picea mariana 'Nana'.

Thanks for the ID, Anne, Picea mariana 'Nana' looks a lovely little spruce with interesting features that would be perfect for me here - I shall look our for it.  Your rock garden looks so full of unusual miniatures and alpines that I would dearly love to visit sometime, someday.....Robin

[Lesley Cox]

Those certainly look more like what I would expect from Pulsatilla aurea though I've not seen a mature plant. I did have a few years ago, 3 seedlings purporting to be P. aurea, from a Russian source but all died before I could do much with them. The foliage was quite fine, much like, I think, P. occidentalis.

[annew]

Anytime, Robin...!

[Sinchets]

Flowering last week- and still flowering now. Still catching up with pics as we were busy with my mum as a house guest 
Scutellaria tournefortii showing the other colour form with the yellow
F1 of the plant I bought as Scutellaria alpina 'Moonbeam'
Acinos alpinus
Ebenus lagurroides

[Sinchets]

Dianthus strictus bebius
Dianthus lusitanicus (AGS seed)
Calandrinia colchagensis (AGS seed)
Ipomopsis congesta montana

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Amnother wonderful selection Simon !

Love the Calandrinia and the Ipomopsis in particular !!

[Zdenek]

Several pictures which I took in the second half of May:
Aethionema subulata
Centaurea achtarovii
Dianthus alpinus
Edraianthus serpyllifolius
Eriogonum siskiyouense
Eriogonum umbellatum var. polyanthum
Eriogonum umbellatum var. porteri
Oxalis 'Ione Hecker'
Oxalis 'Ute'

[Ragged Robin]

Several pictures which I took in the second half of May:
Aethionema subulata
Centaurea achtarovii
Dianthus alpinus
Edraianthus serpyllifolius
Eriogonum siskiyouense
Eriogonum umbellatum var. polyanthum
Eriogonum umbellatum var. porteri
Oxalis 'Ione Hecker'
Oxalis 'Ute'

What a great selection of plants, Zdenek, I love the two oxalis for leaf and flower and the Centaurea achtarovii is a wonderful blue with silver leaves - all of your plants look so happy 

[Sinchets]

I agree with Robin, Zdenek, some great looking plants- if only we had some more rain just now- things are already starting to die back here.
Some more from the last few days
another Onosma species
Dianthus carthusianorum
Dianthus "subacaulis" AGS seed