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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: kot on June 02, 2021, 09:10:42 AM
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my love plant
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June already!
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Pulsatilla are in full flower. Paraquillegia is in the garden glasshouse. (refers to reply 1) Regards
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Beautiful and interesting plants. Thank you for showing
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Clematis fremontii
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1. Corydalis barbisepala. Most rare plants that are also attractive are difficult to grow, otherwise they would not be rare. I was therefore pleasantly surprised when this pretty but rarely seen Chinese Corydalis proved to be easy to grow in woodland conditions. It makes underground stolons and quickly forms a loose, wide-spreading mat. The leaves are much smaller than those of, e.g., C. flexuosa, so that in spite of its spreading tendency this species is safe with other plants. It does not die down in summer and even in winter there are still a few leaves here and there. But the winters here are mild and I guess that the plant will go fully dormant in places with a more severe climate.
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2. Trollius altaicus subsp. pulcher. From Rishiri Island in North Japan (seeds ex Yusawa Engei), sown 12/8/2019, germinated 8/2/2020. First flowering. Before planting this in the garden I had buried a plastic tray at a depth of c. 35 cm, so that there is always abundant moisture underground, which every Trollius that I know of loves.
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3. Gypsophila repens, I presume, but much more compact than the regular G. repens. Grown from AGS seed, where it was listed as Gypsophila nana. This is not G. nana, which has hairy leaves, unlike my plant. Sown 28/1/2018, germinated 25/3/2018.
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Pulsatilla are in full flower. Paraquillegia is in the garden glasshouse. Regards
The white-flowered plant looks like Adonis brevistyla.
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very hot weather in Saskatoon. Today is +36C. Two penstemons pictured 2 days earlier
1.penstemon procerus-native to our region
2.Penstemon paysoniorum
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portet aquillegia fl.pl
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plant my garden
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Anagallis alternifolia var. repens, Seeds collected in 1989, sown in 2019, flowered with one bloom last year and this year with many. Living in a small styrofoam trough on my back deck.
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Collomia debilis, seeds collected in the early 1990's, sown in 2018. It first flowered in 2020.
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Clematis texensis 'Pagoda'
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Collomia debilis and are lovely ! : I also like small simple plants and unknown (for me) like that; even annuals ...
I thought C. texensis was red ...
I put you the photos of some plants, made by my husband: more in art than to recognize them, it must be said.
Clematis fremontii
Linaria triornithophora
Paeonia delawayii
Dianthus webbianus
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The pure species is reddish pink. there are number of named hybrids.
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A few plants flowering now. They were about the same size when planted but the Choisya is much bigger now. Maybe it is too dry for the Fothergilla.
Choisya 'Aztec Pearl'
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Fothergilla x intermedia 'Blue Shadow'
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Veronica gentianoides variegata
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A few plants flowering now. They were about the same size when planted but the Choisya is much bigger now. Maybe it is too dry for the Fothergilla.
Choisya is a very nice shrub Roma, and I suppose fragrant? We can grow Fothergilla here but Choisya is too tender.
Our beginning of June resembles more the month of July! Because of the extreme heat many plants are flowering fast and fading even faster. Few pictures recently taken.
Papaver bracteatum
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Scutellaria pontica and Silene jailensis
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Aquilegia olympica
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and Dianthus spiculifolius
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rockery
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Aquilegia olympica
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These lilies look very exciting, kot!
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Geranium palmatum is just starting to flower
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Leaves of Gentiana cf. tibetica (not sure of the identity of this yet, but it seems to like it here)
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Hawthorn flowers - the May is late this year and still flowering well into June! This one is easy to miss, I have lifted its canopy to grow woodlanders underneath and so I have to look up to see the flowers.
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The early bulb area, a riot of Corydalis, Galanthus and Cyclamen coum in the spring, is now an untidy tangle.
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Phyteuma spicatum.
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Cirsium rivulare is valuable for its strong colour and is a great hit with the bees. Despite its name it doesn't seem to need moist soil.
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The planting scheme in the herbaceous border has rather degenerated in favour of self-sown sweet rocket and Phyteuma. Still, it looks very pretty (in fact has anybody on these boards ever managed to execute and sustain a planned planting scheme that actually works for any time? I certainly never have!).
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Phyteuma nigrum. This hybridises with P. spicatum producing plants in a range of colours, from blackish-purple to electric blue.
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Paris quadrifolia growing under the hawthorn. I bought this from Susan Band a few years ago but then accidentally planted a Corydalis 'Craigton Blue' on top of it. Undaunted the Paris seems to have settled in and is now starting to bulk up and spread.
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Erinus alpinus.
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Edraianthus graminifolius.
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June has been rather showery so far!
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Wonderful pictures from everyone. The heat certainly seems to be bringing everything into flower at once. On my trip round the garden yesterday I found these.
1. Allium sorry don't know it's name just about 4 inches tall.
2. Campanula betulifolia.
3. Campanula muralis.
4. A trough of Dianthus barbatus which has been in all over winter just coming into flower.
5. Our ferny corner.
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Also.
Geranium Westray.
Pelargoniums in the frame waiting to be planted out.
Regal pelargonium Elegance Rosanna.
Geranium Max Frei.
Wigelia Monet.
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Some photos made some days before. Now the weather starts to get very hot, the forecast
says more than 33°C! Poor alpines!
Garden view
Hostas
Troughs
Hydrangea petiolaris Small form
Amsonia hubrichtii
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More pictures:
Cypripediumn macranthos album & C. ventricosum
Cypripedium macranthos album
Dactylorhiza Foliorella
Dactylorhiza hybrid
Pelargonium quercetorum
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The rest:
Dianthus simulans
Linum x elegans
Linum x elegans
Genista sagittata
Plants growing together
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Lovely Hostas Rudi and your Orchids look great too.
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Shelagh, thank you for your friendly comment.
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1. Penstemon strictus. From SRGC seed (as P. angustifolius, wild collected), sown 24/2/2019, germinated 4/5/2019, first flowering. It is always a disappointment if seed turns out to be mislabelled, because it is rarely an improvement upon what it was supposed to be. Still, P. strictus is well worth having.
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2. Geum elatum. Unlike the more usually cultivated Geum hybrids, this Himalayan species will not tolerate dry conditions and starts to wilt instantly in hot sunshine. It must be treated like a Meconopsis. I have read that there is a red form, which should be nice. Does anyone have it?
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3. Sarracenia × excellens. Sarracenias are easily grown with the pots standing in a tray with rain water in full sun. They are reasonably hardy and don't mind a few degrees of frost. This one is a natural hybrid of S. leucophylla and S. minor. Sarracenias are of course grown for the carnivorous pitchers, which at this time of year are just beginning to form (last year's can be cut off in spring), but the large, lampion-like flowers are striking too.
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4. We had some hot weather, which is ideal for this part of the garden. Penstemon rostriflorus, P. heterophyllus and P. hirsutus, Moltkia petraea, Scutellaria pinnatifida, Salvia albimaculata, S. Hot Lips, Cistus ocymoides 'Susan' and others are at their best.
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Delphinium 'Just Peachy' from D'arcy & Everest
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Wonderful plants and views everyone! :)
Spring has turned to summer also here, and a very hot summer, today +30C. All plants go over quickly, and it has also been dry, 13mm rain all June so far, and no rain in sight for the next two weeks, unless a thunderstorm happens locally (in Midsummer maybe according to forecast). I'm beginning to think I have to start to grow more plants which cope better with drought than Primulas, for instance. Meconopsis are my favourites, and they don't droop as many Primulas do. I love Primulas so it is difficult to give up on them.
In the third picture Lilium kesselringianum, a really nice lily.
Peonies are flowering, they do quite well in a sunny spot, this is 'Coral Sunset'.
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Some plants from our hot garden:
It was interesting for us to see Ramonda myconii growing out of
a crack in a railway sleeper. You can see it at the left side above the
flowers of Arisaema candisissimum in the background. The plant must
have sown itself and flowered for the first time this year.
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Lovely "Dianthus Eileen Lever" Rudi. It was named by her husband Jim Lever who was one of the founding fathers of the East Lancs. AGS group. A lovely and generous man.
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Thank you Shelagh, you are right, these plants are also my favourite Dianthus hybrids: Attractive, floriferous, good
to cultivate and propagate. I got this beauty from the late Joyce Carruthers who was a frequent visitor of this
legendary Aberconwy Nursey.
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It's that time of year, when the garden goes into "Jungle Mode".
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Silene laciniata subsp. californica. From SRGC seed (wild collected), sown 1/2/2020, germinated 6/4/20, first flowered 14/6/21. This is a scruffy-looking plant with procumbent stems that lie in crooked angles. The inch-wide, brilliant scarlet flowers are well worth tolerating it. It likes a well-drained, dryish spot in half shade, doing well among tree roots.
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Cerinthe major purpurescens from my own seed.
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Claire, your Primulas look wonderful, and how they grow so well when you have so high day temperatures!
Here my P.sikkimensis doesn't like even +25C.
Peonies and irises do better, but flowering time is so short in these temperatures.
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Our dry California landscape as seen through the auto window.
Drought and high temperatures can be challenging. I hope your gardens fair well. Considering the circumstances your gardens look lush and green. It looks great! 8)
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Robert, your landscape looks much drier, and you are right that my garden does look lush:). The first part of June was quite dry here with very little rain, but last Saturday there was a big thunderstorm and in one hour we got 50mm rain in our garden. My soil is mostly clay so one good rain helps keep it moist for a long time now.
It seems that lately there are more periods of drought (but not as severe as in your part of the world) and then one or two days of rain, so I try first to improve the soil and second to grow plants which do better in my climate (though sometimes it is hard to resist temptation to grow something special which may not survive here).
I water only plants in pots and vegetable beds, and polytunnel where my tomatoes as such are, so perennial beds mostly have to manage on their own.
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Incredible that the month of June is nearing the end.
Robert: this may be a common sight for you?, for us it seems really dry. It reminds me of the dry season landscape look in parts of Mexico.
Large areas in Canada are also affected by drought this year, high temperatures as well and various species are under stress.
In the garden it is the time for various late emerging species like Arisaema, Roscoea species, plus roses, Liliums and others...
A. flavum hiding between H. purpurascens foliage.
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Roscoea cautleyoides; I've planted all in the ground, no pots anymore and they all are doing well. You just have to be careful not to plant something on top of them during spring rush.
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Mutisia spinosa grows rather invasive over the fence, we are glad to have a tolerant
neighbour. The plant looks rather dead in winter, but spring brings new growth and
profuse flowering. I never thought, that this plant performs so well in our climate.
Self sown seedlings occur at many places.
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Mutisia spinosa grows rather invasive over the fence, we are glad to have a tolerant
neighbour. The plant looks rather dead in winter, but spring brings new growth and
profuse flowering. I never thought, that this plant performs so well in our climate.
Self sown seedlings occur at many places.
Thanks to your kind donation seedlings are present here in my garden also in large numbers. I am looking forward to the first blossoms!
Gerd
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Silene laciniata subsp. californica. From SRGC seed (wild collected),
It is important to get wild-collected seed because garden seed from the exchanges has never been right for me. Perhaps misnamed or perhaps inadvertedly crossed.
I must try again.
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Incredible that the month of June is nearing the end.
Robert: this may be a common sight for you?, for us it seems really dry. It reminds me of the dry season landscape look in parts of Mexico.
Large areas in Canada are also affected by drought this year, high temperatures as well and various species are under stress.
Gabriela,
Thank you for the weather/climatic report from your region.
Yes, the photograph accurately depicts our dry California landscape during the summer and autumn months. My wife Jasmin and I are working on a photo-essay of the on going ecological disaster taking placing in California. The posted photograph makes conditions look good. Wait until you see photographs of the stressed and dying native trees, the hillsides being leveled and carved up for massive developments, the rivers and reservoirs with little or no water, the destructive logging practices, the destructive forestry practices, and the frequent scorched-earth management of public and private lands! It is very distressing and disturbing.
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Robert, your landscape looks much drier, and you are right that my garden does look lush:). The first part of June was quite dry here with very little rain, but last Saturday there was a big thunderstorm and in one hour we got 50mm rain in our garden. My soil is mostly clay so one good rain helps keep it moist for a long time now.
It seems that lately there are more periods of drought (but not as severe as in your part of the world) and then one or two days of rain, so I try first to improve the soil and second to grow plants which do better in my climate (though sometimes it is hard to resist temptation to grow something special which may not survive here).
I water only plants in pots and vegetable beds, and polytunnel where my tomatoes as such are, so perennial beds mostly have to manage on their own.
Leena,
50 mm of rain sounds wonderful! A few days ago thunderstorms dropped 0.8 mm in the Crystal Range of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The lower elevations in our region did not get any precipitation.
I appreciate that you frequently have additional short comments about what goes on in your garden. For me, it adds much meaning to your postings – a lot more than just a pretty photograph. I can learn a lot and ask pertinent questions or do additional research. Other Forumists do this too, and it is something I greatly appreciate.
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Gabriela,
Thank you for the weather/climatic report from your region.
Yes, the photograph accurately depicts our dry California landscape during the summer and autumn months. My wife Jasmin and I are working on a photo-essay of the on going ecological disaster taking placing in California. The posted photograph makes conditions look good. Wait until you see photographs of the stressed and dying native trees, the hillsides being leveled and carved up for massive developments, the rivers and reservoirs with little or no water, the destructive logging practices, the destructive forestry practices, and the frequent scorched-earth management of public and private lands! It is very distressing and disturbing.
I am not keeping such accurate weather data like yourself Robert but it is impossible not to notice what's happening. For your interest, in case you haven't heard, one locality from BC broke the heat record ever registered in Canada yesterday with 49.5 C !!!! Hard to believe.
Unfortunately what you describe is also happening in Ontario, and probably many other places. Just nearby where I live, 10 min. outside the city there used to be farmlands - almost all are leveled now for residential developments; and I could keep going...
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Thankfully temperatures are nothing like as scorching as that in Wales - sounds positively dangerous!
Some shots from the garden, I have been a bit slack lately.
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Honeysuckle, Lonicera periclymenum. Such a brilliant wildlife plant. This one is a cutting from a local hedgerow, and unlike many of the cultivars you can buy in garden centres, it seems more or less impervious to aphid attack. It scents most of the back garden in the evenings at this time of year and gets better and better with age.
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Astrantia major, a pinkish-white seedling....
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and a whitish-pink seedling. I remember first coming across this plant on holiday in France in the 1980s when I was a teenager. A few years later it became very fashionable all of a sudden. It self-seeds a bit here but is never really a nuisance, and makes good ground cover after the bulbs have finished.
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Buphthalmum salicifolium. This is from seed collected on holiday in Slovenia, where is is very common. It's a super garden plant well worth seeking out, with a compact habit and long flowering season.
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Campanula thyrsoides subsp. carniolica. I won't lie, this is a bit bigger than I was expecting! I now see why Bernd was after subsp. thyrsoides last year... still a fine plant though. The spikes are downy and very tactile.
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Some shots of the meadow areas (though these are difficult to photograph really well, hope they come out ok).
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Hay-rattle, Rhinanthus minor, is taking hold in the main meadow area, which is great news as it helps suppress grass growth.
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Here, Pilosella aurantiaca and Lotus corniculatus are thriving in the short turf. Earlier various bulbs were growing here.
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This photo shows the suppressing effect of hayrattle quite well I think. On the left of the photo there is none and the grass grows tall; on the right there is a lot and the grass is kept low.
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Oxeye daisy doesn't mind whether the grass grows tall or not! This and its siblings has memories for me: a friend and colleague of ours passed away a couple of years ago, and at her funeral they gave packets of oxeye daisy seeds to the mourners. These plants are the result.
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Geranium sylvaticum, which came with a northern meadow seed mix.
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Cirsium heterophyllum is a very attractive thistle for a meadow. But be warned, do not put it in your border, as it is very invasive!
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I have been trying to sow other parasitic plants into the meadow. Most have not come up, but this is a larger species of Rhinanthus - I think maybe R. angustifolius?
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Oxeye daisy doesn't mind whether the grass grows tall or not! This and its siblings has memories for me: a friend and colleague of ours passed away a couple of years ago, and at her funeral they gave packets of oxeye daisy seeds to the mourners. These plants are the result.
What a charming remembrance of your friend. Such a lovely idea to do that.
Do you know if other species of Rattle/Rhinanthus have a suppressant effect on grass growth, like R. minor does?
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What a charming remembrance of your friend. Such a lovely idea to do that.
Do you know if other species of Rattle/Rhinanthus have a suppressant effect on grass growth, like R. minor does?
It was Maggi - her own idea too. She was a keen conservationist at work and at home and loved her meadows.
I think all Rhinanthus have a similar effect. The tricky bit is getting hold of viable seed; the seed has to be sown the same year it is produced and needs a cold period to germinate. It can take several goes to establish - breaking up the turf a bit when sowing seems to work well to give seedlings a better chance.
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I am not keeping such accurate weather data like yourself Robert but it is impossible not to notice what's happening. For your interest, in case you haven't heard, one locality from BC broke the heat record ever registered in Canada yesterday with 49.5 C !!!! Hard to believe.
Unfortunately what you describe is also happening in Ontario, and probably many other places. Just nearby where I live, 10 min. outside the city there used to be farmlands - almost all are leveled now for residential developments; and I could keep going...
Gabriela,
I appreciate generalized weather/climatic reports. If I want details I can investigate further myself. I certainly do not expect others to be weather nerds like me. I have been recording weather data since 1967. Before we got married my wife knew something was unusual – I had thermometers in the auto (long before they were common in autos), in the farmhouse and many locations around the farm. Yes, I was aware of the 49.5 C high temperature in B.C.
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Scenes like this are quickly changing…
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…to this.
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I am doing what I can to save species like this from local extinction. Layia fremontii is not rare in California, however the few remaining local populations are at high risk from the encroaching development. Many other species are at high risk. I am developing domestic seed lines of these wildflowers, which I hope other devoted gardeners will take an interest in.