Flowering Now - September 2009

[Regelian]

Septembre is here.  Woa, this went quickly.  Here are a few items greeting the rain today.

Colchicum agrippinum bivonae
Agapanthus 'Blue Moon'
Bougainvilla unknown hybrid

I am particularly proud of the Bougainvilla, as it is raised from a cutting from my brother-in-laws Winter house in Florida.  He has never managed to get a blossom!

[PaulM]

While we are on the subject of handsome thistles and their like.... can anyone tell me what the species of Onopordum (?) in this post (from Cliff in Turkey ) might be? 
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3653.msg107617#msg107617

(...particularly seen in pix 7 and 8 of Reply #38  of page 3 of the thread)

It is Onopordum boissieri. I posted some pics of it previously ( in July I think ), but it doesn't get quite the same nice purple color to its bracts  here, as it does in Turkey. I will be sending in seeds of it.

Onopordum bracteatum grows to around 2 meters.

I don't know where I got the Cirsium eriophorum seeds from Stephen, but I remember growing some from wild collected seeds which I got through the AGS some years ago, and they looked more like yours. I guess mine are garden collected originally. I'd be glad to send you some seeds if you'd like.

Overwintering Asclepias can be sometimes be difficult depending on where they come from, but A. tuberosa, speciosa, syriaca ( very aggressive ), purpurascens, exaltata, viridis are all hardy and don't need any special protection during the winter. A. tuberosa and A. viridis are better kept on the dry side.

[Maggi Young]

Thanks for the name of the spikey purple fellow, Paul!

[Oron Peri]

Jamie
I think your Colchicum is C. bivonae, it is quite different from C. agrippinum.

[Maggi Young]

Jamie
I think your Colchicum is C. bivonae, it is quite different from C. agrippinum.

I agree 

[Regelian]

Jamie
I think your Colchicum is C. bivonae, it is quite different from C. agrippinum.

Oron, Maggie,

is C. bivonae so strongly tesselated?  I had my doubts when it bloomed, as it was from the garden centre and the throat seemed a bit pale, but all the descriptions lead me to believe it must be C. agrippinum.  Well, I guess I'll have to look for the real thing.  I wanted this hybrid, as the city of Cologne is named after the wife of Agrippina.  Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium.

Thanks,

[Maggi Young]

C. bivonae (syn. bowlesianum) is another of these confusingly variable plants.... do they do it deliberately, I ask myself  ??!!
Yes, the tessellations are correct.  I'll pm you about agrippinum, Jamie.

[WimB]

It's been a while since I posted something here but I've been very busy with work.

So here are some plants that are flowering in my garden now.

1) Amaryllis belladonna
2) Colchicum x byzantinum
3) Crocus nudiflorus pulchellus (corrected thanks to Martin)
4) Echinacea purpurea 'Virgin'
5) Habenaria radiata (Thanks to Maggi  )

[Maggi Young]

Good to see you are having more success with the Habenaria than I, Wim! 
 

[WimB]

Maggi,

they are really small plants and of the three ordered, one died, one has grown but isn't flowering and one is flowering (I wonder if he will survive this). Actually I didn't expect any flowers this year.

Haven't they grown for you?

[Maggi Young]

Wim, 3 grew, one started to make a bud, then two died ! Third is hanging on.... just.... but the patient is expected to pass soon! 

[Martin Baxendale]

Wim, your Crocus nudiflorus isn't. Nudiflorus has yellow anthers. Your flower has white anthers. It looks like it may be pulchellus.

[Giles]

Roadside weeds (Northants)  
They grow all along this road.

[Maggi Young]

Roadside weeds (Northants)  
They grow all along this road.

 WOW!! 

[Luc Gilgemyn]

It would be proof of good citizenship if you helped to get rid of these weeds Giles !