Flowering now September 2007

[Lesley Cox]

Having read the notes on the crug Farm website (thank you Brian, for the link) I can see why Dicentra macrocapnos could create a bit of a stir, 7 - 10 metres in a season Fortunately, it dies right down at the end of the summer/autumn and regrows in the next spring.

[Lesley Cox]

I have Lewisia flowering also

So do I 

[Lesley Cox]

Franz, your Sternbergia sicula is gorgeous! Maybe one day my tiny, single seedling (up a week ago from a 2003 sowing) will look just like yours. I hope so.

[David Nicholson]

I have Lewisia flowering also

So do I 

Me too, and last year my L. cotyledon hybrids were still flowering in December.

[Brian Ellis]

Paul,
Clematis rehderiana is vigorous, late flowering here and masses of  cowslip-scented flowers - and they really are!   It likes Sun and I think as it is in partial shade it is not too vigorous for me.  I also prune it back hard in spring otherwise I could not cope with it as it can get to 6 metres.  You can just about see that it has shot over the top of the fence and is flowering in the remains of next doors Wisteria (it never gets cut back  and I have to cut the foliage from our side to prevent it shading everything as it snakes over)  It easily grows from seed

In full sun on the other side of the kitchen area is a combination that I am quite pleased with (though hardly alpine!).  Vernonia is surrounded by Bidens heterophylla and looking good now.  My apologies for so many non-alpine postings

[Maggi Young]

Brian, seeing your neighbour's house is thatched, is your house thatched, also?

We have a Clematis, similar to Brian's but not quite the same, from seed collected by Alastair McKelvie in the Himalya.... must post  a pic. It is flowering now, too.

Re the climbing Dicentra... yes, it dies back again each year, having strangled everything around it, and when you decide you've had enough, it has got roots like fat arms to try to dig out!! But, yes, it is very pretty!

[Paul T]

Brian,

Please keep me in mind if you harvest seed from the Clematis.  Cowslip scent as well sounds lovely.  Didn't realise it was that large, but I'll find a place for it if I'm successful.  I do rather like Clematis, currently have more than 65 different clematis growing in my garden (that doesn't include duplicates and seedlings either!  )  I'm addicted to them (along with far too many other things).

I don't know how others feel but I've never found that this forum has been limited to alpines, or at least there are a lot of things posted here that are definitely not in that category.  In my climate we don't grow that many true alpines as our summers are too hot, so I just post what I have in flower at the time (when I get the time to sort the pictures).  I just love seeing all the unusual things that people grow elsewhere that aren't here!!  Even if I am at times a tad jealous!! 

[Brian Ellis]

No we are not thatched Maggi - thank goodness as  the insurance is phenomenal.  The house next door won a prize for the thatcher as being the best thatch in East Anglia when it was first done (about 11 years ago), as is the case in East Anglia it was thatched with Norfolk Reed.  Must go out and look for my sternbergias and colchicums!

[Brian Ellis]

Yes Paul! 

[Hans J]

Here some pics more ....

[Gerdk]

Maggi,
The flowers of Narcissus x perezlarae are of the size of those of Narcissus serotinus - 15 to 18 mm in diameter ( in cm would be a sensation).

Hans,
Nice pics, it seems your plants enjoy the favorable climatic conditions in your part ob Germany.

Gerd

[Brian Ellis]

Whilst in the garden this evening I heard a noise, turned round and found a hedgehog.  Sadly by the time I had gone in and got my camera he had disappeared... so as I had it to hand a few more in flower now. 
The amazing colour of Tithonia rotundiflora,
the second flush on Geum rivale,
late flowering Cleredendron bungeii,
the first flowers on my Daphne tangutica,
Autumn has arrived if Liriope muscari is in flower I always think,
another Eucomis very similar to biflora - possibly a seedling,
and last, but not least, the beautiful berries on Phytolaca americana.

[hadacekf]

Thank you all together for the kind comments. By the way
It grows only these plants in the meadow which like a meadow.

[David Nicholson]

Nice flowers Hans. I liked your Rhodophilia bifida-are they difficult?

[Hans J]

Nice flowers Hans. I liked your Rhodophilia bifida-are they difficult?

Hi David ,

they are not difficould -the only problem is to get they 
I have the pots with this bulbs in summer in my greenhouse under the tables -totaly dry !
On first of September I watering -after one week they start with flowering - they are a wintergrowing species of Rhodophiala -I hold it in my greenhouse in full sun ,every two weeks watering and some Tomato fertilizer - in spring stop with watering and rest -thats all !

Greetings
Hans