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June 2025 in the Northern Hemisphere

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Knud:
This last week I visited our local botanical haven, the Stavanger Botancal Garden, a couple of times. Right at the entrance the Chilean Firebush, Embothrium coccineum, was ablaze. Meconopsis punicea was at the tail end of what had been a good flowering for most of May. Lilium pyrenaicum was at the start of its show.
In the rock garden there were two in bloom I had not seen before, Aethionema kotschyi and Erigeron leiomerus

Knud

Knud:
A last one from Stavanger Botanical Garden, a beautiful Edelweiss, Leontopodium nivale ssp alpinum.
In our garden Edraianthus horvatii has just started flowering, as has Daphne alpina.
Knud

Knud:
Another few species started flowering in the rock garden the last weeks. Campanula Molly Pinsent only the last few days, I keep it in a trough to protect it from slugs. The Caucasian crosswort, Phuopsis stylosa, grows in the rock garden, and started a few weeks ago. One can see why it is called ‘stylosa’. The instensly blue flowers of Moltkia petrea are always a surprise once they open from their purple buds. This plant is 10-15 years old. The last saxifraga to flower here is one I have as Saxifraga cochlearis ‘Minor’. Rhodohypoxis have of course been blooming for weeks already, but after a light drizzle last week many of them donned quite large water drops in their flowers.

Mariette:
Thank You for the many pics shown in May and June, Knud! Last month, I marvelled especially at the rare Sorbus filipes! Do the leaves set off the white fruits as well as Sorbus fruticosus? I´m very pleased with mine grown from seed.

We spent a few weeks in Sweden, where I found a clone of Lily of the valley with 13 flowers to the stalk - something hybridizers aimed at in the past.



A special feature of Sweden are the remnants of abondoned gardens, this is a double form of Narcissus poeticus growing wild.



On Öland, there are lots of irises growing by the roadside, this is Iris x Flavescens.



Another spot showing an iris called Iris x sambucina in Sweden, together with naturalised oriental poppies.

Mariette:
Some orchids on Öland:

Neottia nidus-avis



Orchis militaris



I´m not sure about this one:



An attractive hemiparasite: Melampyrum cristatum

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