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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: Pauli on March 01, 2021, 04:00:59 PM
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Pulsatilla grandis is starting to flower in the garden
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Those are beautiful Herbert! I love the incredibly hairy buds.
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And particularly lovely with that bumblebee diving head first in.
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The sun and warmer temperatures brought out the flowers.
Cyclamen coum.
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Crocus tommasinianus takes over the whole bed.
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A few snowdrops
'Cedric's Prolific'
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Crocus tommasinianus takes over the whole bed.
I just love this view! Crocuses look like they belong there.
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Claire, it is spring in your garden! Very lovely.
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Forsythia ovata - I guess the earliest of the genus
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I bought this some years ago as Saxifraga burseriana 'Seissera' but I believe it is rather 'Crenata'. It stays outside all year round, unprotected, the pot sunken in sand in a planter. In summer I keep it out of direct sunlight. I have another, unnamed, clone of S. burseriana that flowers a month later under the same conditions.
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A few plants from our Sacramento, California garden.
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Various forms of Erythronium multiscapideum are scattered throughout our garden.
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All the Erythronium multiscapideum have been grown from seed from various geographical locations throughout our area.
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Plants from specific locations bloom at differing intervals during the early spring.
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The first of the low elevation, early blooming forms of Primula hendersonii are now in bloom. This is an early season favorite. Many low elevation populations are almost completely sterile, however through selective breeding fertility has been restored in advanced generation plants.
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The flowers of Moraea elegans are vibrantly colored.
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Moraea elegans thrives in our summer hot and dry climate.
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The flowers of Narcissus jonquilla are sweetly scented.
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A small clump of Narcissus pseudonarcissus.
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Aristolochia californica attracts Pipevine Swallowtail Butterflies and their larva.
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The flowers of Aristolochia californica are very interesting.
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Adult Pipevine Swallowtail Butterflies feed on the nectar supplied by Arctostaphylos flowers and then lay eggs on the Aristolochia vines. This is Arctostaphylos densiflora ‘Howard McMinn’.
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Robert, I can feel the warmth in your Narcissus pictures!
E.multiscapideum is also very nice looking, that kind of pale yellow is one of my favourite colours. The flowers look quite big, are they?
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Robert, I can feel the warmth in your Narcissus pictures!
E.multiscapideum is also very nice looking, that kind of pale yellow is one of my favourite colours. The flowers look quite big, are they?
Hello Leena,
Yes, our garden has been sunny and full of blooming plants. Unfortunately, too sunny and dry. Unless conditions change quickly, here near the end of our rainy season, we may encounter extreme drought conditions this summer. I have to admit, as a gardener, I do not want to deal with drought conditions this summer.
In our garden, the flowers of Erythronium multiscapidium average 6 cm across. For this species, I consider this a large size. In the wild they are smaller, but then there are limiting factors to their growth in their natural habitat. In our garden, the flowers of Erythronium oregonum are larger, averaging 7 cm across. The plants in our garden bear creamy pale yellow flowers and have a different look to them. I hope that I can post some photographs of them. They just started blooming.
Is your garden still covered in snow? Or is spring still weeks away?
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Is your garden still covered in snow? Or is spring still weeks away?
Hi Robert, still snow here except in the most early spot where snwodrops are pushing through snow:).
This is what most of the garden looked like couple of days ago. But I'm sure that by the end of March there will be flowering snowdrops under trees where there wasn't so much snow to begin with:).
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Aristolochia californica attracts Pipevine Swallowtail Butterflies and their larva.
The flowers of Aristolochia californica are very interesting.
Adult Pipevine Swallowtail Butterflies feed on the nectar supplied by Arctostaphylos flowers and then lay eggs on the Aristolochia vines. This is Arctostaphylos densiflora ‘Howard McMinn’.
I find Aristolochia flowers very intriguing Robert, regardless of the species. In A. californica they are quite large as well.
We only have A. durior native here, I still have to locate it at a garden centre, and I grow 2 other Caucasian species (with smaller flowers).
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February was a super cold month in Ontario and the beginning of March the same. We have one more night dipping to -15C then up to more seasonal temp.
The only flowers in the garden right now are few snowdrops, few on the still snow covered side and one which I found yesterday on an exposed hill side which also gets very little snow.
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February was a super cold month in Ontario and the beginning of March the same. We have one more night dipping to -15C then up to more seasonal temp.
The only flowers in the garden right now are few snowdrops, few on the still snow covered side and one which I found yesterday on an exposed hill side which also gets very little snow.
Gabriela, it is the same situation here, and though the last week of February was warmer, now next week will be very cold again.
After that it should get close to average so the days should be above freezing. Not so long to wait any more:).
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Leena,
I liked your snowy garden photograph. :) 8)
It sounds like early spring will be arriving by the end of the month. I look forward to photographs and scenes of your garden as spring unfolds.
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Narcissus and Gagea this afternoon, spring has started :)
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Self sown Corydalis solida is now a wonderful weed in my garden, even appearing in the front garden where I have never planted any. I blame the birds.
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Daphne mezereum pink & white forms, Iris reticulata & Pulsatilla vulgaris. Wonderful what a few cold days but with bright sunshine brings out.
Raining & miserable today.
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Saxifraga x Jan Neruda. Is there a larger flowered white saxifraga?
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Crikey, Mike, things are well along in your lovely garden!
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Wow Mike I'm impressed by your Corydalis we've never had much success with them perhaps because we kept them in pots. However we do have 4 tiny Eranthis flowers coming out. I think this is about the 5th lot we've tried so I'm elated.
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Wow Mike I'm impressed by your Corydalis we've never had much success with them perhaps because we kept them in pots. However we do have 4 tiny Eranthis flowers coming out. I think this is about the 5th lot we've tried so I'm elated.
Crikey, Mike, things are well along in your lovely garden!
Maggie its been our coldest winter in some time but all the early bulbs & tubers seem to have thrived on it.
Shelagh, never had a lot of success growing Corydalis in pots. Planted out C. George Baker, Beth Evans, Integra & Malkensis some years ago & now all manner of mixed shades have appeared.
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Self sown Corydalis solida is now a wonderful weed in my garden, even appearing in the front garden where I have never planted any. I blame the birds.
Not bad for a weed!
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Stunning Corydalis Mike. I was feeling smug about mine self sowing today but I now realise I have some way to go!
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Stunning Corydalis Mike. I was feeling smug about mine self sowing today but I now realise I have some way to go!
I cannot take the credit for all the corydalis, the plants themselves (or the birds) are responsible.
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Seems the spring is far more advanced everywhere than here! (A few exceptions though!)
Here are the spring bloom in my lawn now.
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So many delightful spring images from all!
Snow is retracing a bit more every day now revealing signs of the spring to come :)
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So many delightful spring images from all!
Snow is retracing a bit more every day now revealing signs of the spring to come :)
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Gabriela, indeed a beautiful picture with the snow!
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Pot grown in the alpine house, Ipheion sellowianum, not sure if this is still the correct name.
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Pot grown in the alpine house, Ipheion sellowianum, not sure if this is still the correct name.
Mike, apparently it is Nothoscordum felipponei now. Course, it could just as easily be something else tomorrow!
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Gabriela, indeed a beautiful picture with the snow!
Thanks Herman, it's been a long, cold winter here and the first snowdrops are always very exciting. The snow melting goes incredible fast once it starts. Today, already a different scenery!
Pot grown in the alpine house, Ipheion sellowianum, not sure if this is still the correct name.
Under any name a very bright and cheerful spring plant!
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Mike, apparently it is Nothoscordum felipponei now. Course, it could just as easily be something else tomorrow!
Thanks David, I was really confused when I tried an online check as so many changes seem to have happened.
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Asteropyrum cavaleriei, a woodlander from southern China. It is evergreen, although the interesting peltate leaves may look a bit worn by the end of winter. New leaves will appear after flowering. I suspect it is not terribly hardy, as it doesn't occur at very high elevations in the wild, but it has survived -6 °C this winter unharmed. The flowers are only about 1.5 cm across.
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That’s an interesting looking plant, Andre. The flower reminds me of some of the white flowered eranthis, but the leaves are very different. It does not seem to be readily available to buy....
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That’s an interesting looking plant, Andre. The flower reminds me of some of the white flowered eranthis, but the leaves are very different. It does not seem to be readily available to buy....
It's from the same family, Ranunculaceae. Edrom Nurseries used to have it.
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Thanks, Andre, I will keep an eye on their website and see if they offer it again.
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A quick trip around the garden between showers shows what has come out recently.
These Crocus are beautifully marked but up by a wall where the sun doesn't seem to get very often.
Brian and I have tried Eranthis several times but they never come through again. These have defied the odds.
Haquetia epipactis is always an early plant but I must have missed on my previous photographic forays.
Our only Hellebore has just forced it's way through this week.
Hepatica japonica Gyousei is one of the last to flower.
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Hepatica japonica HoHo Beni is now fully out. This one always amazes me some flowers are double, some semi double and some almost single.
Hepatica japonica Toki looking well.
Hepatica nobilis Pink.
Finally Hepatica nobilis Pygmy strain from Ashwood's Nursery about 3 years ago.
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What a nice Hepatica show this spring Shelagh. It seems the weather has been very favorable for a long flowering.
Asteropyrum cavaleriei, a woodlander from southern China. It is evergreen, although the interesting peltate leaves may look a bit worn by the end of winter. New leaves will appear after flowering. I suspect it is not terribly hardy, as it doesn't occur at very high elevations in the wild, but it has survived -6 °C this winter unharmed. The flowers are only about 1.5 cm across.
Interesting little species; the leaves remind me of a small Podophyllum and the flowers of a Coptis, a weird combination.
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Brian kindly lifted all the Hepaticas still looking good out of the greenhouse this morning. Top row H.j. HpHo Beni, H.j. Ryougetsu, H.j. Gyousei. Bottom row H.j. Toki, H. nobilis pygmy strain, H. n. Blue, H.n. Pink.
Our first tulips.
An Arabis that Brian has grown from our own seed.
Scilla bifolia
Scilla Pink Giant (I think)
Since we redid the garden a few years ago bulbs keep cropping up in unusual places.
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Brian kindly lifted all the Hepaticas still looking good out of the greenhouse this morning. Top row H.j. HpHo Beni, H.j. Ryougetsu, H.j. Gyousei. Bottom row H.j. Toki, H. nobilis pygmy strain, H. n. Blue, H.n. Pink.
Our first tulips.
An Arabis that Brian has grown from our own seed.
Scilla bifolia
Scilla Pink Giant (I think)
Since we redid the garden a few years ago bulbs keep cropping up in unusual places.
Finally spring has arrived. Nice flowers to brighten up the surrounding
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Hepatica japonica HoHo Beni is now fully out. This one always amazes me some flowers are double, some semi double and some almost single.
Hepatica japonica Toki looking well.
Hepatica nobilis Pink.
Finally Hepatica nobilis Pygmy strain from Ashwood's Nursery about 3 years ago.
Nice set of colors for the spring
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Shelagh, nice to see all the colour from your garden!
Here it is still winter, temperatures at night are several degrees below zero and days barely above it, but next week the forecast promises a bit warmer nights so snow should start to melt faster.
In the earliest spot in the garden snow has melted but ground is still frozen. Some snowdrops are already up and ready to flower,
like 'Atkinsii' in the first picture and 'Viridapice' also up in the second picture.
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Nice to see them coming through the snow Leena.
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Shelagh, nice to see all the colour from your garden!
Here it is still winter, temperatures at night are several degrees below zero and days barely above it, but next week the forecast promises a bit warmer nights so snow should start to melt faster.
In the earliest spot in the garden snow has melted but ground is still frozen. Some snowdrops are already up and ready to flower,
like 'Atkinsii' in the first picture and 'Viridapice' also up in the second picture.
Leena, beautiful picture of the snowdrops in the snow!
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Thank you Shelagh and Herman:).
By the beginning of April things start to happen more when the snow melts in other beds and ground unfreezes, but the sight of earliest snowdrops helps to wait for more spring to arrive. That is why I love snowdrops.
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Shelagh, nice to see all the colour from your garden!
Here it is still winter, temperatures at night are several degrees below zero and days barely above it, but next week the forecast promises a bit warmer nights so snow should start to melt faster.
In the earliest spot in the garden snow has melted but ground is still frozen. Some snowdrops are already up and ready to flower,
like 'Atkinsii' in the first picture and 'Viridapice' also up in the second picture.
Nice pictures Leena. Spring has started at your place. In my garden snow drops are just poking out and if weather permits I may have some flowers soon.
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Saxifragas now in the alpine house of Sue Simpson.......
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Saxifragas now in the alpine house of Sue Simpson.......
They always look incredible!
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Here it is still winter, temperatures at night are several degrees below zero and days barely above it, but next week the forecast promises a bit warmer nights so snow should start to melt faster.
In the earliest spot in the garden snow has melted but ground is still frozen. Some snowdrops are already up and ready to flower,
like 'Atkinsii' in the first picture and 'Viridapice' also up in the second picture.
What a cheerful sight Leena!
All the snow is gone here now, the ground is slowly starting to defrost. Big warm up announced for the weeknd!
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Looking at Sue Simpson's wonderful display Brian says "Just too marvellous for words".
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It is a great joy to look at these well grown Saxifragas, a suitable climate, experience and much love for
nature can create such a display. Many thanks for showing.
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Callianthemum anemonoides in bud is nearly as beautiful as when it is in full flower.
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Saxifragas now in the alpine house of Sue Simpson.......
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I think I’m going to need to order a bigger bulb (alpine) house! Gorgeous pics of perfectly grown plants.
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Callianthemum anemonoides in bud is nearly as beautiful as when it is in full flower.
WOW
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Callianthemum anemonoides in bud is nearly as beautiful as when it is in full flower.
Tristan very nice flowers.I have Callianthemum anenmonoides but the colour is pale pink (almost white). Is it because of the soil? mine is alkaline soil .Or /are there different shades of flower colour?
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Indeed, Callianthemum anemonoides is a very special beauty!
In my garden, only less spectacular plants are in flower, here it´s Scilla greilhuberi with primulas and white larkspur.
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Due to rodents, it´s difficult to keep special clones of larkspur, but the seedlings offer a nice mix of colours.
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Red coloured seedlings of Corydalis solida appear quite frequently.
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A double form of Vinca minor from France started to flower, too.
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Also a fritillaria, which a friend of mine received as Fritillaria graeca, which seems not to be correct. Any suggestions?
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Lovely corydalis Mariette. Your fritillaria may be F. uva-vulpis.
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Callianthemum anemonoides in bud is nearly as beautiful as when it is in full flower.
Really beautiful!
Mariette, your garden is so full of flowers right now. Seedlings of Corydalis are nice, you never know what you will get from them.
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Callianthemum anemonoides in bud is nearly as beautiful as when it is in full flower.
That's a really beauty Tristan, even if it would remain like this!
Mariette: your lovely pictures are the embodiment of spring!
Corydalis are crossing between them anyway, the more the better is my idea :)
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A quick trip round the garden today as the cold weather is back.
1. and 2. In the raised bed some Dwarf Tulips and Narcissus Jetfire.
3. In the borders a Hepatica nobilis which thinks its an Aquilegia.
4. A pink Pulmanaria just coming through.
5. Primula Groeneken's Glorie, I have to be careful with my spelling of this or our Dutch friends are unhappy.
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Primula Julius Caesar is in a pot and Scilla greilhuberi is in the greenhouse.
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'Jetfire' is nice isn't it Shelagh? I used to have it in the rockery but it died / was eaten (I read somewhere that Narcissus fly is fond of it). But there is a big clump at the bottom of the garden where conditions are wetter.
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It's one of my favourites Tristan I like the contrast of the two colours.
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From Andrew Radley in Perthshire ....
"Well this made me happy! Grown from Club seed. First time flowered for me. Ranunculus criminthifolius"
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Super result for Andrew with this lovely New Zealand plant .
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Well it seems spring is now well established in our northern gardens.
Pulsatilla slavica making the show!
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Well that is lovely Yann! My Pulsatillas are not out yet but definitely one of the highlights of the spring.
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The rockery is very colourful at the moment, if a bit saxifrage-heavy.
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A good show Tristan.
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I'm envious of all of you who grow sax at perfection, more rain during winters and summers drier and drier caused decline of my collection and i'm not the only one. In the Alps, Saxifraga (and not only) are slowly disappearing between 1100 and 1700m.
Hepatica nobilis and Hepatica transsilvanica
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I don't think I grow anything to perfection Yann! In fact, in the case of Saxifraga there isn't really any work, I just plant them and let them get on with it. The carpets are too dense for weeds in general. But thankfully, many Saxifraga varieties grow outdoors here pretty well. At least for now.
At least here, winter wet (about 1500mm annually I think) is no problem. Drainage is good and they do not seem prone to rots and other problems that affect so many alpines. But I agree that none of them like hot dry weather.
Nice Hepaticas by the way!
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Well it seems spring is now well established in our northern gardens.
Pulsatilla slavica making the show!
That is so nice intense colour!
Tristan, your rockery is so nice, full of interest I'm sure.
Here also spring is coming, slowly but surely:).
My earliest Helleborus is H.multifidus, coming up even though the ground around it is still frozen.
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Frühling in Bayern!
Heute:
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Thank You, Ashley, Leena and Gabriela! You´re probably right about Fritillaria uva-vulpis, Ashley! The plant was a present, and I´m no collector of frits, really.
Today we visited a local cemetry where Scilla sardensis is naturalised.
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This one looked different from the other scillas growing there.
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Probably a hybrid?
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Scilla sardensis looks nice, I must remember it.
Here it has been a sunny day with +10C so snow is melting, and more snowdrops are coming through snow.
Colchicum szovitzii 'Tivi' also pushed through snow and ice. It's growing place is probably too dry in the summer and it hasn't increased hardly at all in five years time.
These Cyclamen coum were sown from 2015 seed ex, and the first one flowered last spring, and now there are many flowers coming. I'm so pleased that these have survived here.
Crocus tommasinianus 'Roseus' opened up today, it is one of my favourites.
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Frühling in Bayern!
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Hi Diane, yes is is, in fact some Pulsatilla are even furrier, esecially when they first emerge. P. halleri is particularly good for hairiness.
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Saxifraga seedling first appeared in 2014 on the tufa wall, now in 2021 it has formed into a fine cushion.
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Saxifraga seedling first appeared in 2014 on the tufa wall, now in 2021 it has formed into a fine cushion.
Mike -vibrant colour. I love it. Is this a hybrid or Saxifrage oppositifolia
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Mike -vibrant colour. I love it. Is this a hybrid or Saxifrage oppositifolia
Kris this is a seedling which just appeared. Not Sax. oppositifolia as it is a very tiny tight cushion & the flowers are much smaller.
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That's a beautiful little sax Mike - really choice. Do you have any idea of its parentage?
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My region is back in lockdown but i must admit i travel much more than then 10km authorized, nature's call is stronger....
This season many plants are delayed due to the cold weather we had 3 weeks ago.
Fritillaria are in buds, they're very rare and protected in the wild.
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It certainly looks like spring although you have had cold weather, Yann!
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No flowers here yet outdoors! Many beds are out of the snow (freshly covered yesterday, though new snow has melted anywhere that was already bare and gets sun- shady places and where there was still snow/ice still has fresh snow on top). I rarely get plant much growth (except Jovibarba! no bulbs) as soon as the snow is gone- the soil is usually frozen under the snow, and it takes time to warm up after melt-- usually weeks. We've had days from freezing up to mid-teens, nights from just above 0 to mid minus teens C. Today above 10C, but winds 30-80km this afternoon are ushering a cold front to -11 or so tonight and a 'snow squall warning'!
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Some woodies in yesterday's snow-- Acer, maybe amurense; Prunus tomentosa showing its heavy moose pruning; Salix acutifolia grown from a florist cutting many years ago, heavily pruned as mom planted it in front of her house (a few metres, but would be very shady). Tilia cordata recovering not too badly from a severe haircut a few years ago (not by me).
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3 views of edges of the Xeric Native Beds, showing some 'Marginal Gardening' in this case it means semi-cultivated areas with a mix of wild/pre-existing/self-sown native plants and deliberate plantings of both native and exotic species. Last is some native/wild trees with Amelanchier alnifolia /florida in front.
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astonishing how pretty snow is - especially when it's at someone else's place! ::)
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astonishing how pretty snow is - especially when it's at someone else's place! ::)
yes lovely ..lol... and should I ever move away from it, I have pictures to last a lifetime...
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Just got through everyone's flowers for the month-- so many beauties :)
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Rhodothamnus chamaecistus is well known to visitors to the Dolomites (at least to those who care about plants) but it is rare in cultivation and hardly ever offered in the trade. Still, wild-collected seed is often found in seedlists, and on 28 December 2015 I sowed some from the AGS seedlist of that year. The pot stood unprotected outside, half buried in a tray with sharp sand. The seed is fine as dust and the seedlings are correspondingly minuscule. The first germination occurred on 25 April 2016 and by 15 October that year they had produced 5 or 6 tiny leaves. The next two years saw a few losses and a continuous battle with encroaching moss and by August 2018 there were five seedlings left, which by then were all of 5 mm tall. I decided it was time to prick them out and planted each in a separate pot, in a gritty ericaceous mix. Two more died, but the three survivors finally developed into something less than microscopic and they are still alive today. In 2019 I transferred two of them to a planter which receives morning sun only. The most vigorous one produced what looked like a bud in the autumn of 2020, and so it was: the bud started growing in March this year, and yesterday the flower opened, five years and three months after sowing. So, it can be done, but I can't blame nurseries for not trying to mass-produce this enchanting little shrub.
Although in the wild this species only occurs on limestone, I convinced myself during a trip to Monte Baldo several years ago that they actually root in a dense, black peaty soil formed by decayed plant matter. They grow perfectly well when treated like a dwarf Rhododendron, without any lime.
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The same, four years and seven months old; the first bud is already visible.
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First flower, five years and three months after sowing.
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Rhodothamnus chamaecistus is well known to visitors to the Dolomites (at least to those who care about plants) but it is rare in cultivation and hardly ever offered in the trade. So, it can be done, but I can't blame nurseries for not trying to mass-produce this enchanting little shrub.
And yet the Scottish plantswoman Lyn Bezzant used to share it around by dint of digging it up and cutting it up with a bread knife every few years! 8)
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And yet the Scottish plantswoman Lyn Bezzant used to share it around by dint of digging it up and cutting it up with a bread knife every few years! 8)
Is that the lady who used Eritrichium nanum as a bedding plant? Joking aside, it will be a while before my Rhodothamnus will be big enough to survive such a treatment.
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Good work, Andre!
Maggi-- full steam ahead in the Ukraine, it seems-awesome :)