April 2011 in the Northern Hemisphere

[alpinelover]

Some plants in flower, over the last days:

Erodium 'Spanish eyes' (photo 1)
Dodecatheon media (photo 2 and 3)
Campanula pilosa major (photo 4)
Delosperma congesta (photo 5)
Ramonda myconi on a tufarock (photo 6 and 7)
An aquilegia hybride (photo
Asyneuma filipes on a tufarock (photo 9)

[David Nicholson]

Davids Allium karataviense looks rather special - love the colour particularly.

meanie, mine's the form most commonly available but there are better forms with a richer colour.

[Hoy]

You all show so many wonderful plants! I realise I have a long way to go to complete my garden

I do collect woodland Anemone species. Among the many nemorosa-cultivars are some bluish. Some of them cross selfseed in the garden. This one is a result. It has a more violet colour than the picture shows. It is also one of the biggest. I suspect 'Robinsoniana' is one of the parents.




Further down in the woodland this Dicentra relative slowly spreads to new territory. It is no pest though! Ichtyoselmis (syn Dicentra) macrantha.



Also in the woodland is this very shade-tolerant Scilla, S lilio-hyacinthus. It is a modest plant but spread with seed to new areas. It is among the latest spring flowering bulbs.

[David Nicholson]

Very nice Trond.

[Gunilla]

Lovely scilla, Trond. 
Some pics from my garden on the last day of april.

Glaucidium palmatum
Hacquetia epipactis 'Thor'
Jeffersonia diphylla
Anemone nemorosa and Anemone ranunculoides

[meanie]

Davids Allium karataviense looks rather special - love the colour particularly.

meanie, mine's the form most commonly available but there are better forms with a richer colour.

The thing is that it's the understated colour that I like about it David.

This Tulip is in bloom in my partners garden. Unfortunately, the label has gone missing, so any help with an id would be appreciated.

[Regelian]

meanie,

that is a Calochortus, not a Tulipa.  It may be, or is at least related to, C. palmeri or C. uniflorus.  These are American natives, largely found in the Pacific North West running down through the mountains toward and into Mexico.  many are quite hardy, while others are so specifically adapted to their semi-desert environments, the are close to impossible to maintain in the garden.  Wonderful plants, to say the least.

[meanie]

meanie,

that is a Calochortus, not a Tulipa.  It may be, or is at least related to, C. palmeri or C. uniflorus.  These are American natives, largely found in the Pacific North West running down through the mountains toward and into Mexico.  many are quite hardy, while others are so specifically adapted to their semi-desert environments, the are close to impossible to maintain in the garden.  Wonderful plants, to say the least.

Thank you Regelian!
I'm going with "Cupido", as she's found a tag that she wrote C."Cupido" on.

[David Nicholson]

Calochortus 'Cupido' without a doubt. I don't grow any now but a pic below of mine in 2010 for comparative purposes. By the way Michael Campbell grows some wonderfully well in his garden.

[Lesley Cox]

I am growing 3 separate clones, all from seed, of C. palmeri. They vary a little but are all a sweet, sugar pink (candy floss) and in the flower are very beautiful but their stems are tall, thin and lanky so that they need to be grown with the support of other plants. I wouldn't be without them though.

[meanie]

Thanks for the comparative photo David.
That looks like a lovely variety Lesley.

[cohan]

Many beauties all! Gunilla--nice Anemone patch

[gote]

The Japanese appreciate that Cherry blossoms do not stay for a long time. They will LOVE Sanguinaria.
Only fourth day and already gone  
Speaking of Japanese, Itis Ranzania time.
My third Heloniopsis. It is supposed to be varegiated. Fortunately it is not but it is two weeks later than the normal orientalis breviscapa and of a lighter colour.
My only Jeffersonia dubia selfseeded itself this year (Not this plant of course - just a leaf)  
Göte