Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: shelagh on July 01, 2018, 10:41:48 AM
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As we move into a new month I thought I would step outside into the oven and see what was in flower. 3 rather more unusual plants today.
Androcymbium striatum with it's wonderfully sculptural flowers.
Pulsatilla turczaninowii in it's first flowering, the seed was from Gothenburg Botanic.
Rubus taiwanicola BSW5317 with pretty flowers and interesting developing fruits.
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Love that Rubus - and your Androcymbium goes from strength to strength.
'Scorchio' here, too, Shelagh! It's lovely in the shade though..... assorted shady ladies ....
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cardiocrinum in dappled light
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shady ladies
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I know just how they feel :P
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Bit parched here, but the heavy dews we get keep the grass (moss really) green for a while.
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Astonishing how good the garden looks after all the heat! The pollen beetles seem to be thriving in these temperatures.
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They are the reason why I had to stop gorwing Sweet peas. Never could get clean enough flowers from the plants.
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Campanula latifolia flowered in the open garden, Campanula fragilis from Mte. San Angelo and the same species
with glabrous leaves prefer a place in the Alpine house. The form from the Abruzzi Mts. is already out of flowers.
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There is something very appealing about the gentle blues of campanulas , as seen in Rudi's photos.
Only 6 days since my photo of the Cardiocrinum - but the flowers are nearly all past in this heat.
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Maggi, you are right. Some plants are simply irresistible. We have the same problem
with the heat, some plants keep their flowers only for a short time.
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There is something very appealing about the gentle blues of campanulas , as seen in Rudi's photos.
Only 6 days since my photo of the Cardiocrinum - but the flowers are nearly all past in this heat.
Yes, indeed, I need to do better regarding Campanulas. Rudi always has very beautiful ones to show.
Deinanthe caerulea looks very well this year because I watered quite a bit; worth doing it.
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Deinanthe caerulea looks very well this year because I watered quite a bit; worth doing it.
Such a fantastic flower!
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Gabriela, thank you for the kind comment and your beautiful contributions to the forum.
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It's very warm for several weeks however i still can find some interesting plants in the wild.
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A few years ago I sowed seed from the seedex of wild collected Campanula thyrsoides. They never got beyond 7 cm pots in the open frame but did manage to flower. I couldn't see any seed but seedlings came up the following in several pots. I planted out a few last year but only two produced flower spikes which the rabbits ate. Two are flowering in the raised bed now but the ones still in the open frame are really impressive. The roots must be through the ground cover membrane and well into the ground.
The label says Paeonia rockii but the Campanula thyrsoides is a metre tall
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These two are sharing a pot witha seedling of Berberis 'Rose Glow'
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The two on the raised bed
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It's very warm for several weeks however i still can find some interesting plants in the wild.
Nice pictures Yann
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thank you David.
Roma C. thyrsoides can reach 1.4-1.5m with a 60cm diameter in the wild
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It's very warm for several weeks however i still can find some interesting plants in the wild.
The first plant is a Epipactis helleborine form, Epipactis muelleri has no viscidium and a flatter epichile.
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Stefan do you mean those 2 points? It's funny because i didn't pay much attention as in the site visited muellerii is well known.
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No Yann, it is the one in the middle that sticks the pollinia at the bees head. Ep. muelleri is self pollinating and competely lacking the viscidium and the pollinia fall directly on the stigma.
It is not visible in my picture, sorry. But you can look here for example:
http://www.aho-bayern.de/epipactis/ep_muel.html (http://www.aho-bayern.de/epipactis/ep_muel.html)
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thanks Stefan
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Kalmia latifolia 'Galaxy' in Ken's garden.
johnw
23c & sunny
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Kalmia latifolia 'Galaxy' in Ken's garden.
johnw
23c & sunny
Summery looking flowers, aren't they? I'm put in mind of raspberry ripple ice cream!
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Summery looking flowers, aren't they? I'm put in mind of raspberry ripple ice cream!
I was thinking "Sweet William"!
cheersw
fermi
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I see what you mean, fermi - you're right.
Which brings me to the question - why don't Sweet William flowers smell as good nowadays as they used to? :-\
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Photos taken today.
Cyananthus lobatus ‘Dark Seedling’. . .?
There is only one bloom fully open so far, but there are some ominous dark clouds above and the distant rumble of thunder threatens the bloom being bashed. Hence the photo now!
I have had this plant for quite a few years, I believe from Jack Drake. It has been dug up and moved a number of times when other plants have encroached. It disappears completely in autumn and I have somewhat neglected it some years.
The “?” after the name is because I’m not certain it is as named. Could someone confirm or otherwise please? :)
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I think you have Platycodon grandiflorus.
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Super plant, John - I agree with Carolyn, not Cyananthus but Platycodon grandiflorus
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Gentiana georgei
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I think you have Platycodon grandiflorus.
Thank you for identifying my plant Carolyn and Maggi. At the moment there is a big downpour of much needed rain. I will do my best to post a better picture in a week or more, providing it isn’t bashed to much. 8)
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Gentiana georgei
Lovely Gentian :)
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I see what you mean, fermi - you're right.
Which brings me to the question - why don't Sweet William flowers smell as good nowadays as they used to? :-\
I though just like Fermi before opening the image :))
To answer your question Maggi, for various species that have been genetically 'improved' for garden cultivation the genes involved in fragrance were lost/suppressed; I once read an article about this.
I grew Dianthus barbatus from wild coll. seeds in the Carpathians few years ago and they smell delicious. Of course the plants don't look as 'good' as the ones you buy in garden centres or grow from seeds of cultivated ones.
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Campanula Maje Blyth.This NZ Campanula hybrid becomes a bit rare in our region. In my experience it is not easy to propagate, but I try my best to keep it in cultivation.
Origanum species and Hybrids are the ideal plants for our hot and dry summers, they start rather late to flower, so insects
simply love them.
Sphaeralcea coccinea now flowers for the second time, not so profusely like at the first time, but better than nothing.
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Not much in bloom here due to the drought.
Epilobium canum, California fuchsia flowers one month earlier than most years and grows without water!
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Kniphofia sp. do rather good without water.
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Telekia speciosa is a weed here but is surprisingly floriferous in the last moist site. The butterflies seem to enjoy it.
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Also Clematis 'Paul Farges' seems to like the weather
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Campanula thyrsoides ssp. carniolica
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Your Campanula thyrsoides is a real beauty, I love these plants,
but my garden is too small for them.
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C. thyrsoides is quite something!
Trond - I like Telekia very much, it forms beautiful patches along streams in the Carpathians.
Mid to late July here = butterflies and vivid colours.
Monarch on Asclepias syriaca
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Black swallowtail on Delphinium grandiflorum (thought to be tatsienense for a while)
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Young Clematis pitcheri flowering for the first time - from seeds offered by forumist Afloden.
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Callirhoe digitata
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Lovely Gentian :)
Gabriela... we have the same preference. 😁
Gentiana hexaphylla
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Beautiful butterflies, Gabriela. :)
Weather has also here been good for butterflies, hot and dry all July, very unusual year this is.
I haven't had time for the garden because of work so the garden is very untidy, but everything grows surprisingly well considering the drought (and a family of a mother and two baby deer which have been eating my Phloxes during the nights!).
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Yesterday's rain was particularly good for some plants...
Gentiana nubigena
Eriogonum ovalifolium var. nivale
Gentiana szechenyi
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Flowers become rarer in our garden, the heatwave is in full action (37°C today) and watering our
main job. Calylophus lavandulifolius seems to enjoy the situation, it is used to such temperatures
and rewards it with rich flowering.
Eucomis in pots are also reliable flowering bulbs.
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Eucomis bicolor
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Eucomis 'Twinkle Star'
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Calylophus lavandulifolius
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Eucomis autumnalis
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Sorry about the photo problems, Rudi - I'm not sure what was going wrong. :-\
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Thank you for your help Maggi. Don't know the reason for the mistake - maybe I am too old for the modern technics.
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Just one of those odd things that happen with electronics, Rudi - can happen to anyone! :-*
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I have had such errors before, when the memory card from the photo was no longer ok.
The preview image is often still fine as it has low resolution. In full screen then shows the error.
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Bernd, thank you for the good advice, I will see, what I can do.