Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: Gerard Oud on April 20, 2008, 05:59:37 PM
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Just found these in my garden, and i am sure they were not there last year.
I cant find it in my wildflowerbook, that is very small also by the way.
Anyone can help?
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Hello, Gerard, these are Cardamine pratensiswhich are known in England as Lady's Smock.... as far as I know , in Scotland we call them Cardamine pratensis !! ;)
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They're a lovely wildflower, Gerard. I've sown some seed this year to try to get them elstablished in my garden (although they prefer moist soil and my garden's rather hot and dry - but I do have some damper patches). You're lucky to have had them self-sow into the garden. One of my favourite wildflowers.
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Thanks Martin and Maggi,
I can't find them in the whole area and i don't know how they got here, maybe with the birds.
I will try to get seed from it and who'se interested just let me know!
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Gerard,
Since these are happy in you garden look out for the double form also lovely but rarely seen in nurseries, don't know why not. I will try and get a photo when they flower. I just noticed yesterday that the Lady's smock were starting to flower on the road verges around here.
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greeting from germany, our meadows lost this treasures. Be proud to have it (cause all your galanthus are gone). But what do your quatros?
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Just found these in my garden, and i am sure they were not there last year.
I cant find it in my wildflowerbook, that is very small also by the way.
Anyone can help?
PINKSTERBLOEMEN, Gerard. ;D :D
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Thanks all,
I found it in my book but it was a drawing and not easy to recognise.
Luit the translation for Pinksterbloem could be Withsunflower, bit early this year don't you think!
Susan i will try to find a double one, i found several snowdropdouble's so why not a Withsunflower.
Hagen all my snowdrops are out of flow also, but what do you mean with quattro, not the fourwheeldrive Audi i suppose?
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Thanks all,
I found it in my book but it was a drawing and not easy to recognise.
Luit the translation for Pinksterbloem could be Withsunflower, bit early this year don't you think!
Gerard, we cannot translate every Dutch word, sometimes you can only try to describe some words.
I've seen Lady's Smock already, it's quite normal this time of year when they flower.
But I have the time looking around, being retired ofcourse..... :D :D
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Cuckoo Flower is another name. It is a very important foodplant for the Orange Tip butterfly (Anthocaris cardamines) in Scotland.
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Cuckoo Flower is another name.
Cuckoo Flower in Dutch = koekkoeksbloem, which is here the name for Lychnis flos-cuculi.
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It's called Wiesenschaumkraut in my part of Germany and as you can see
we havn't lost this treasure, Hagen!
Never saw a double, but to be exact, I have never searched for it. Will do that in two weeks
or so, when they are in flower again, Susan!
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I had (have?) a double form but it is sterile. The normal form is very common, even in lawns, in Dunblane. Alas, it soon gets cut down. Each plant can only support one Orange Tip caterpillar, but they are cannibalistic, so problem solved. :P It is not flowering yet.
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The double form is a nursery cultivated form, I think you would have to be very lucky to find it in the wild. I don't know where or when it was found. I imagine it is a very old cultivar.
Susan
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Flowering here, now, also but will soon be destroyed along roads by the Roads Service when they cut the grass
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Here is a male orange-tipped feeding on the plant
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Flowering here, now, also but will soon be destroyed along roads by the Roads Service when they cut the grass
Miriam Rothschild will be turning in her grave. She campaigned for years to get the halfwits in the councils to stop cutting roadside verges until August (or, better, once every two years in the Autumn) to allow flowers, butterflies, moths and other insects to flourish.
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Last weekend on my way the perth, and also Saturday 5th April when I drove to The Wirral, I noticed the lovely carpet of pink, and occasionally white, Danish Scurvy-grass (Cochlearia danica) along the central reservation of the motorways/dual carriageways.
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Last weekend on my way the perth, and also Saturday 5th April when I drove to The Wirral, I noticed the lovely carpet of pink, and occasionally white, Danish Scurvy-grass (Cochlearia danica) along the central reservation of the motorways/dual carriageways.
Yes, Anthony, we have been marvelling at the depth of colour in these carpets of tiny flowers, making the road edges glow.... really lovley.... wonder how many people know what the flowers ARE??
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It is rapidly becoming 'The Motorway Plant'! :)
www.ukwildflowers.com/Web_pages/cochlearia_danica_danish_scurvy_grass.htm
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Does anyone know how Cochlearia danica became so widespread on motorways and dual carriageways? The wildflower books say it is a seaside plant. I first noticed it a number of years ago on the A 96 north of Aberdeen out past the airport roundabout but the road people dug out the soil and replaced it with a greater depth of gravel. I don't know if the plant has returned yet as I rarely drive in to Aberden since I retired.
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It's an annual and spreads rapidly. The salt used in the winter when gritting the roads probably makes motorways the ideal habitat.