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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: David King on June 01, 2012, 10:05:50 AM
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Here are a few more from the garden.
1. Allium christophii
2. Gladiolus byzantinus
3 & 4. Camassia leichtlini 'Semiplena
5. Clematis montana 'Primrose Star'
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I hope you will excuse me that I send today my photos from the second half of the last month. We (my wife and me) have our garden more than 50 km far from the town where we live and where we also have our computer. I was not present at my computer for a fortnight now. That is why I have choosen today twenty most interesting pictures from the second half of May. To be more exact I added an exact date of shooting to each picture.
Here is the first ten:
Pleione limprichtii growing outdoors about 20 years
Penstemon tusharensis
Penstemon caespitosus
Erigeron aureus
Campanula biebersteiniana
Cypripedium calceolus growing on this place since 1987
Asperula arcadiensis
Campanula ciliata
Oxalis 'Ute'
Androsace x marpensis, a wild cross between A. globifera and A. robusta purperea
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Here is the second ten:
Dianthus brevicaulis
Campanula sp.
Penstemon rupicola
Dianthus raddeanus
Talinum okanoganense
Ranunculus parnassifolius
Erigeron vagus (the real thing)
Erigeron uncialis
Saponaria pumila
Dianthus alpinus 'Albus'
As regards Campanula sp., it is an only seedling which germinated from something quite else and I don't know what species it could be. According its foliage it seems that it could be a bienial. If somebody could help me with its identification I would be very grateful.
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Paeonia 'Bowl of Beauty'
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Some pics from today!
Allium fistulosum
2 different forms of Allium schoenoprasum
Ramonda myconi
Bletilla striata
Dodecatheon dentatum
Vancouveria chrysantha
Weldenia candida
Sauromatum venosum
Taraxacum pseudoroseum
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Some lovely stuff here today. Zdenek you are a master grower.
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Iris innominata and a Castilleja that seeded itself beside it.
The compost that I bought to fill some raised beds for my seedlings
has started sprouting strange mushrooms. Here are a couple.
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Roscoea takes so long to appear it's a wonder I don't plant something
else in its place. This is a cream humeana from seed from the RHS
Lily Group 2007 exchange, flowering for the first time, I think.
Rhodohypoxis baurii is another one that spends most of its life
underground.
I'm always sure that anything orchidaceous is never going to live
but here's this one, blooming for the second year. Is it super-easy,
or perhaps one that is weedy for everyone else?
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As always, some lovely stuff here! I'm seriously "loved up" with Wims Sauromatum!
My measly offering (of interest anyway) are;
1] Aconitum anthora. Not sure about this id now though as it looks more like A.vulparia (been re-classified I think ???). Suggestions appreciated.
(http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg69/scaled.php?server=69&filename=dsc2281h.jpg&res=landing)
2] Diplarrena moraea.
(http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg713/scaled.php?server=713&filename=dsc2121g.jpg&res=landing)
3] Oxalis triangularis.
(http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg854/scaled.php?server=854&filename=dsc2161l.jpg&res=landing)
4] Unknown Irises.
(http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg651/scaled.php?server=651&filename=dsc2197x.jpg&res=landing)
(http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg854/scaled.php?server=854&filename=dsc2225v.jpg&res=landing)
5] Iris japonica on the rare occasion that the slugs 'n snails don't get the blooms first!
(http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg607/scaled.php?server=607&filename=dsc2240.jpg&res=landing)
6] Arisaema ringens.
(http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg259/scaled.php?server=259&filename=dsc2214.jpg&res=landing)
7] Arisaema speciosum (slightly deformed).
(http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg607/scaled.php?server=607&filename=dsc2236t.jpg&res=landing)
8] Sutherlandia frutescens.
(http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg37/scaled.php?server=37&filename=dsc2245v.jpg&res=landing)
9] Finally, a Hymenocallis festallis in the front room. Seven weeks from setting the bulb to bloom.
(http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg4/scaled.php?server=4&filename=dsc2206lv.jpg&res=landing)
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Must admit I got a bit of a shock when I saw this topic or rather who posted it. I thought our old friend had obviously gone to Alpine Heaven and was able to post pictures and grow plants. :o
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Ah, yes, this the "other" David King, alive and well and taking super photos in Norfolk. 8)
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Ah, yes, this the "other" David King, alive and well and taking super photos in Norfolk. 8)
I can confirm I am alive and well and in Norfolk.
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Must admit I got a bit of a shock when I saw this topic or rather who posted it. I thought our old friend had obviously gone to Alpine Heaven and was able to post pictures and grow plants. :o
I certainly hope we'll have access to the forum there.
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I certainly hope we'll have access to the forum there.
Better take my camera then.
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Very lovely to see the Diplarrhena - a plant I saw in Tasmania some 30 years ago. (Now there is a heavenly place!). There used to be a dwarf form in cultivation that Elizabeth Strangman at Washfield Nursery sold. I wonder if anyone still grows it?
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I certainly hope we'll have access to the forum there.
As I'm no doubt destined for somewhere warmer will the camera cope with the heat?
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As I'm no doubt destined for somewhere warmer will the camera cope with the heat?
Oh crikey, it seems the afterlife may be every bit as confusing and complicated as our present existence. ::) :-\
I'm quite looking forward to the hothouse plants, myself...
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I'll help you water them Maggi ;D
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As I'm no doubt destined for somewhere warmer will the camera cope with the heat?
Perhaps a camera case as for underwater water protection would have a heat equivalent and be available at the turnstile.
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Turnstile? And there was me thinking I'd have to jump down!
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Typical David... you're wondering about turnstiles when there are Kniphofias to worry about. :o :-X
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Don't know about Kniphofias but our poppy seemed to be going up in flames today.
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Rather a good combination with that rather spikey, dark-flowered Aquilegia.
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Viola corsica, and Penstemon pinifolius 'Compactum' blooming with Alyssum markgrafii.
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Very lovely to see the Diplarrhena - a plant I saw in Tasmania some 30 years ago. (Now there is a heavenly place!). There used to be a dwarf form in cultivation that Elizabeth Strangman at Washfield Nursery sold. I wonder if anyone still grows it?
What would constitute dwarf? This starts blooming on 20cm stems and the last flower seems to be when the stem hits about 30cm. The foliage never tops 20cm. Could be as a result of being pot grown though..............
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No photo as I neglected to take my camera.
A glumicalyx almost a metre across in full bloom in my friend Bryce's
townhouse garden. Somehow she managed to convince the seven
other tenants that she should do all the gardening, and is she ever
having fun.
I did not get down on hands and knees to see if it smells like chocolate.
Next visit - the one with camera.
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The dwarf form of Diplarrhena that I remember was only some 5-10cm, maybe a little taller in flower. There are a couple of other beautiful Tasmanian endemics that I saw on the flanks of the Western Arthurs in SW Tassie - Blandfordia punicea and Isophysis tasmanica. I would imagine all these could do well in a similar situation in the west of Scotland which must have comparable climate and geology, but I've never heard of the last being successful in cultivation.
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Lousy weather out here today - ideal to catch up with some posting :
1) Achillea brachyphylla
2) Alyssum oxycarpum and Oxalis "Ridgeway sapphire"
3) Aquilegia bertolonii
4) Aquilegia buergeriana
5) Dianthus "Eileen Lever"
6) Dianthus haematocalyx v. pindicola
7) Dianthus "La Bourboule" with Allium karataviense "Ivory Queen"
8. Dicentra "King of hearts" flowering it's heart out !
9) Edraianthus pumilio
10) Geranium cinereum "Lawrence Flatman"
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Gladiolus communis ?
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Three frits from today
F. sewersowii
F. eduardii
F. crassifolia curdica Talish
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A very 'buttery' part of our wild garden area, 'Red Filbert' , Corylus avellana zellernus ( top left ), and Black Mulberry, Morus nigra ( top right ).
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That gladdens my heart to see a wild area Ron,very nice.
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Its about 1 acre in total Davey ( and getting bigger each year as I get lazier! ;D ::), come to think of it so am I ! :o ). We try to 'manage' it as a small haven for any wildlife that cares to grace us with their presence.
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A trio more of flowers and foliage from the wild part of our garden today. The pea family plant is Tufted Vetch, Vicia cracca , which is attractive to all manor of insects. The Yellow Flag Iris, Iris pseudacorus, usually has its feet in 50 cm of water in June, but not this year!, :(.
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Lousy weather out here today - ideal to catch up with some posting :
1) Achillea brachyphylla
2) Alyssum oxycarpum and Oxalis "Ridgeway sapphire"
3) Aquilegia bertolonii
4) Aquilegia buergeriana
5) Dianthus "Eileen Lever"
6) Dianthus haematocalyx v. pindicola
7) Dianthus "La Bourboule" with Allium karataviense "Ivory Queen"
8. Dicentra "King of hearts" flowering it's heart out !
9) Edraianthus pumilio
10) Geranium cinereum "Lawrence Flatman"
Smashing display Luc. I've made a note of them all for when (if ever!!) I finish making my toughs.
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That is incredible Ron,i am going to take pics of my local marbled white colony soon if we get a spell of clear sunshine.
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Carpenteria californica
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Here is the second ten:
Dianthus brevicaulis
Campanula sp.
Penstemon rupicola
Dianthus raddeanus
Talinum okanoganense
Ranunculus parnassifolius
Erigeron vagus (the real thing)
Erigeron uncialis
Saponaria pumila
Dianthus alpinus 'Albus'
To go back a few days to Zdenek's super pictures, is Penstemon rupicola always this colour? (bright red)
I got one fairly recently described as "bright cherry red" but the flowers are violet-purple, a bit darker than the P. davidsonii I also have. I suppose they will vary, but what's the norm?
Any help appreciated.
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I have always thought Penstemon rupicola is a strong red and quite different to davidsonii in colour but I do have a form from Aberconwy with Rose flowers, so presumably there is wide variation. The lovely glaucous foliage linked to red flowers is a great combination.
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That is incredible Ron,i am going to take pics of my local marbled white colony soon if we get a spell of clear sunshine.
. They should be emerging at the end of this month?
Melanargia galathea. One of my absolute 8) est butterflies. A 'white' that is in fact a 'brown'. Majestic when seen in flight, and that underside! :o :o
Needs some good areas of Festuca sp.. [ Grass cutting specialists please take note, :) ].
We have it here but incredibly rarely, and I have to say I have never recorded it in this area.
Various protectors of the Countryside ( use of euphemism in its extreme ! >:( ), cut verges and waste grassland at this time ( therefore killing all of the grass feeding Brown butterfly larvae). When I ask them why they are wasting Diesel and their 'valuable money grabbing grants' time, they tell me'" we need to keep the countryside tidy"'. Please let there be such a thing as Karma, :o
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Ron if you fancy you could alaways come with me to see them,they are on a piece of land my friend donated to the wildlife trust because its orchid rich and the marbled white was a bonus.
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Love too. I'll be in touch. :)
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Smashing display Luc. I've made a note of them all for when (if ever!!) I finish making my toughs.
Don't let me stop you David... ;D ;)
Here are some more flowers caught yesterday :
1-2 : Helianthemum canum ssp balcanicum a splended dwarf rock rose !
3) Helianthemum lunatum another little gem !
4) Iris timofejewii flowering for the first time
5) Linum elegans between tufa rocks
6) Minuartia caucasica or stellata in flower
7) close up
8 ) Oriogonum umbellatum
9) Penstemon "Six Hills"
10) Phlox hoodii
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Luc,
Beautiful plants, it is Minuartia stellata .
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Luc your Iris timofejewii is just lovely,what a nice thing.
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Luc,
Beautiful plants, it is Minuartia stellata .
Thank you Franz !! :-*
Luc your Iris timofejewii is just lovely,what a nice thing.
It's hardly 10 cm high - flower included - I'm very happy with it myself Davey !
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Don't let me stop you David... ;D ;)
..... and yet more in my notebook Luc. ;D
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Some pictures from the last weeks in our meadow garden:
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More pictures:
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A lovely variety of views from your garden Rudi. 8) 8)
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Wonderful garden Rudi !!! :o
Another batch :
1-2) Albuca humilis - couldn't this tempt the galantophiles ??? ;D
3) Ptilotrichum spinosum
4) a cloud of Saxifraga "Southside seedling"
5) Edraianthus pumilio and Dianthus strictus
6) Verbascum atroviolaceum
7) all self sown : Ptilotrichum spinosum/Saponaria olivana a globularia and a campanula hybrid crowding together
8-9-10 some garden views
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Superb, Luc.
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Some pictures from the last weeks in our meadow garden:
Rudi your meadow picture looks fantastic,I love the fact you have snakes in your garden.
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No wonder so many of the Forumists are such happy people - most of them live in their own little paradise!
Then they are kind enough to share with us - perfect!
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I have always thought Penstemon rupicola is a strong red and quite different to davidsonii in colour but I do have a form from Aberconwy with Rose flowers, so presumably there is wide variation. The lovely glaucous foliage linked to red flowers is a great combination.
Thanks Tim,
I have 'Conwy Rose' too - a stunning combination of rose-pink flowers and quite blue foliage. If Conwy Rose will behave itself better than P. laetus roezlii which keeps dying back; I'll be happy.
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Still practising with the new SLR camera so bear with me while I learn how to take a decent pic with it!
It's still a bit early for the Aspleniums to show their differing characteristics - but they are such a lovely fresh green I found myself taking a few photos of them.
1 - Asplenium scolopendrium Crispum Cristatum
2 - Dactylorhiza 'Harold Esselmont'
3 - Eucomis 'Sparkling Burgundy'
4 - Eucomis 'Zeal Bronze'
5 - Roscoea cautleyoides 'Jeffrey Thomas'
6 - Asplenium scolopendrium 'Kayes Superb'
7 - Asplenium scolopendrium 'Golden Queen'
8 - Podophyllum 'Spotty Dotty'
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Super scollies, John.
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Thanks Anne. They do seem very happy this year. Should look great once they reach their full expansion. I'll try and take some more pics of other forms if you would like?
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Stunning John,do you grow Eucomis Joy's purple,if not i do some leaf cuttings for you.
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No I don't Davey - and yes please fella. 8)
A few more Asplenium looking OK in the garden today - it will be another month before the majority of the collection really gets going - I shall try and remember to do some pics showing some of the others in July.
9 - Asplenium scolopendrium 'Zeal Dwarf'
10 - Asplenium scolopendrium Fimbriatum 'Marginatum'
11 - Asplenium scolopendrium Sagitatum cristatum
12 - Asplenium scolopendrium Ramo-marginatum (keratoides?...)
13 - Asplenium scolopendrium Crispum group
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Very nice aspleniums John; now I know what to collect once the snowdrops have done their thing!
Luc - is it me or is that Ptilotrichum spinosum a particularly strong pink? The combination of all the alpines flowering with rhodos in the background is most striking. How is your tufa garden going?
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You're right, it is the darker form of Ptilitrichum spinosum Tim - unfortunately it doesn't come true from seed.
Glad you like the rhodo background ! :)
I hope to give an update on the tufa garden in the forthcoming days/weeks.
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Very nice aspleniums John; now I know what to collect once the snowdrops have done their thing!
Thanks Tim. 8)
There are soooooo many more things I would like to 'collect'; but with my 'postage stamp' garden hidden behind a small terrace house I have to be choosy to find things that occupy a small footprint of space but put a big smile on my face. :)
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There are soooooo many more things I would like to 'collect'; but with my 'postage stamp' garden hidden behind a small terrace house I have to be choosy to find things that occupy a small footprint of space but put a big smile on my face. :)
Tickling sticks? ;D
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John, there cannot be too many 'postage stamp' gardens with no fewer than seven Eucomis 'Sparkling Burgundy' plants! ::)
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A few Sarracenia flowers from the greenhouse.
Sarracenia X courtii, I couldn't decide which to post so have two ;D
Sarracenia X "Ladies-in-waiting"
Sarracenia purpurea
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I love these, Fred ... thanks for posting.
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A few Sarracenia flowers from the greenhouse.
Sarracenia X courtii, I couldn't decide which to post so have two ;D
Wow, Fred. Those are stunningly dark!
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Beautiful Fred 8) - Sarracenia were one of my favourite plants when I had a greenhouse at my old house.
John, there cannot be too many 'postage stamp' gardens with no fewer than seven Eucomis 'Sparkling Burgundy' plants! ::)
It only started life as a single leaf cutting. :D
Such lovely dark leaves - A real shame the flowers never manage to stay upright and flop everywhere! ::)
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Some plants in flower here this week:
Iris 'Ciel Gris sur Poilly'
Iris 'Sierra Grande'
Ornithogalum magnum
Allium pskemense
Arisaema ciliatum var. liubaense
Allium cernuum 'White Dwarf' (received as a gift a couple of years ago from a very friendly forumnist, Thanks R!!)
and a new trough with mostly Sempervivum!
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Iris 'Ciel Gris sur Poilly' is stunning Wim, what a beauty.
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Iris 'Ciel Gris sur Poilly' is stunning Wim, what a beauty.
Yes, I thought so too, last year Cayeux was selling it for the first time and I had to have it!!
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Rhodohypoxis season is upon us... and some are at their peak at the moment 8)
Rhodohypoxis baurii "Douglas"
Rhodohypoxis baurii "Fred Broome"
R. b. "Margaret Rose"
R. b. "Red King"
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It only started life as a single leaf cutting. :D
Such lovely dark leaves - A real shame the flowers never manage to stay upright and flop everywhere! ::)
Then I must congratulate you on your success! They look tip-top.
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One for those who never get close enought to see this.
The British native Drosera rotundifolia with prey almost completely digested.
Some of the central tentacles are still bent into the prey.
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Superb, Luc and Fred.
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I'm hoping to get up to the North Yorkshire Moors very soon, to see D. rotundifolia where they exist in their thousands, :o
Hoping you're having a wonderful Birthday Cliff, ;D ;D
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Many thanks, Ron ... we tend to forget additional birthdays once we get past 80!!! ;D :(
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These are by no means huge ::)
Utricularia bisquamata, the 'weedy' type. This seeds everywhere.
Utricularia bisquamata "Betty's Bay". This cultivar has huge flowers in comparison ( 10mm top to bottom) and doesn't cast its seed around :D
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I bought this little Pernettya mucronata in a 10cm pot last autumn and was hardly expecting this kind of show from it.
johnw
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A small selection taken today.
Anthemis marschalliana ssp. pectinata
Centaurea oddysey
Codonopsis clematidea
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Dracocephallum forrestii
Edraianthus graminifolius
Genista depressa moesiaca
Genista saggitalis
Heuchera x abramsii "Canyon Duet"
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Hieracium rubrum
Hypericum imbricatum in bud
Rhodiola macrocarpa
Scutellaria alpina alba
Ramonda myconi alba
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Hypericum kazdaghensis
Scutellaria laeteviolacea
Genista saggitalis
Veronica spicata
Iris spuria ssp. musulmanica
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What a great variety of plants Luc! I particularly like the hypericums and that extraordinary centaurea. I have a similar one, though not so well grown, and find these smaller alpine species fascinating.
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The hypericums and centaureas are raised from Pavelka seed
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I remembered to look under the leaves of Podophyllum Kaleidoscope yesterday. :)
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A few from the garden at the moment.
1. Ophrys apifera - The Bee Orchid
2 & 3 Other orchids - the second of which was rescued from a building plot.
4. Knautia macedonica
5. Perennial Sweet Pea
6. Lonicera tellmanniana
7. Lonicera and Sweet Pea together
8. Clematis 'Josephine'
9. Double Iris
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Some stunning plants and photographs folks ... many thanks for taking the time and trouble to post.
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Zephyranthes macrosiphon grown from seed and in flower today in the greenhouse.
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A little group of flowers making me smile this weekend. :)
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John and grinning like a cheshire cat i hope,they seem to be loving your plot.
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A beautiful stand, John ... enjoy them while they last.
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Cornus Venus, Cornus Laura and Kalmia
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Beautiful Cornus Wolfgang .
Some flowers of our garden and rockgarden ...
The Weldenia (1&2) stays in the garden only in the summer ...
Leontopodium alpinum (3&4)
Good old Saponnaria x olivana (5)
Anemone obtusiloba
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Edraianthus pumilio in the sunset in my garden this evening, life is not so bad up here in Viking land this time of year 8)
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Gorgeous images everyone.
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A bit different - we have just had 'The Secret Gardens of Faversham' opening over the weekend. Lovely weather, not alpine gardens (except for ours) but very enjoyable. Most are close together in the old centre of the town, which is blessed with some wonderful old buildings; a few like ours are rather out of town and therefore attracted fewer people. And while you wander around you see all those gardens that would have been very interesting to visit but which weren't open...
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No I don't Davey - and yes please fella. 8)
Here is Joys purple John and also a lovely dark Zantedeschia
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Bellium bellidioides, Viola Molly Sanderson and Dianthus alpinus Red Drake
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A couple of plants which were flowering here during the last week:
Iris x robusta 'Gerald Darby'
Anemone polyanthes
Iris spuria....
Primula florindae
Allium cernuum 'White Dwarf' at it's best!
Echinocereus baileyi (also at it's best ;))
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some alstroemerias blooming here in Spain
Alstroemeria-garaventae-f.-white.jpg
Alstroemeria-diluta.jpg
Alstroemeria-hookeri-subsp.-recumbens.jpg
Alstroemeria-ligthu-subsp,-incarnata.jpg
Alstroemeria-magnifica-var.-tofoensis.jpg
Alstroemeria-pelegrina.jpg
Alstroemeria-pygmaea.jpg
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Great selection, Rafa.
I moved your post from the paeony page, at the same time as you reposted- all fine now! :D
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Oh! sorry Maggy and thank you :-*
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Happy to help, Rafa!
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Rafa - what a mouthwatering collection of alstroemerias. I've grown two or three of them, but must try more - garaventae grows well outside on a raised bed, and I once had a beautiful dwarf form of hookeri which it would be lovely to grow again. Your pictures remind me of the collection I once saw in one of Jim Archibald's greenhouses, and trying to stop myself listing every species down on my seed order!
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I undestand you Tim, Archibald's catalogue was a dream and a nightmare at the same time ;D. This is another form of A. garaventae of the last seeds I received
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What a lovely Iris spuria cv Wim, and oh those alstroemeria - some real gems.
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also blooming today Erodium and Silene
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For some reason I never seem to be able to keep Erodiums for longer than a year, it's either conditions or a bad gardener :-[
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Brian, I think many Erodium species are not evident plants to grow. They germinate very well but is not easy to maintain certain species for a long time. Most of them grows in limestone fissures, but I live in a silicium place and they grow in granit, so this is why I lost most of the collection. I am only growing E. glandulosum, E. paularense, E. manescavii, E. carvifolium and E. rodiei.
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Colleagues, what magnificent pictures! I thank for pleasure!
A couple of my photos ...
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Glorious pictures, Natalia.
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As I thought Rafa, bad conditions and a bad gardener! Must try harder ;)
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Alstromeria pallida cw 2200 m, Archibald 94-14355 5/95 flowering today. Two seedlings.
johnw - +15c and cloudy
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John that is really a nice colour, very delicate looking 8)
Angie :)
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Angie - One does have a better flower but the plants themselves are hideous. And at their worst just at flowering time as they are just about to go dormant. Then I will chop the plants into thirds and send them over yonder. I wonder if anyone grows this species outdoors.
johnw - +13c & foggy & in desperate need of rain.
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Rafa what fabulous photos of the different alstroemerias - not a genus that I have tried much apart from a couple of commonly found ones. Seems strange to me that a species can grow naturally at 2200m - see how much I know about these plants!!! ???
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Alstromeria pallida cw 2200 m, Archibald 94-14355 5/95 flowering today. Two seedlings.
johnw - +15c and cloudy
John, your posting of this JJA coll. gives me the chance to flag up something that I hope you and others will note and remember: we would like to gather as many photos of JJA collection plants as possible, complete with any comments etc. Yes, another project is in hand!
Cheers,
Maggi
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I undestand you Tim, Archibald's catalogue was a dream and a nightmare at the same time ;D. This is another form of A. garaventae of the last seeds I received
Rafa, do I understand you correctly? All these Alstromeria were from Archibald's seed list? Have you the number?
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John - I grew Alstromeria pallida outside for quite a few years and it was quite striking, short stemmed, rather stronger coloured than yours. I must hunt around to see if I have any old seed of it stored.
Maggi - I really like the idea of amassing information and photos of JJA collections. I have a lot that have come and gone in the garden (after all many were not the easiest of plants! I recall a whole lot of different bomareas). It would make a great tribute to one of finest plantsman, nurseryman, seed collector and speaker that any of us have been privileged to meet - and relatively unrecognised by the wider horticultural world. The main difficulty that I see would be in accurately assigning Jim's collection numbers to specific plants but this shouldn't be too hard to overcome with contributions from many gardeners who had seed and have kept those wonderful seedlists.
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Yes, Tim, attribution of the proper collection numbers would be the best option but I think that even plants more loosely labelled as from JJA seed are of interest.
Of course, not all seed offered by Jim and Jenny was wild collected, and not all of it by themselves, but again, everything goes towards an overall picture of the contribution made to our gardens.
I am, naturally, collating all the photos in this Forum that are shown as being from the Archibalds to the picture listings.
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A log garden in Meyers Chuck, Alaska (between Ketchikan and Wrangell).
The Lewisia was noticeable from a distance because of its bright colour.
The gardens are well cared for here, though there were no people around.
I think they are vacation homes, now that the fishing in the area has
deteriorated. There was one little greenhouse with cherry tomatoes ripe
already.
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Maggy, only A. garaventae and also A. pallida which has bloomed today. I have to check the numbers. Probably Watson & Flores collections...
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Thanks, Rafa. I thought they might be F&W collections from JJA.
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Alstroemeria garaventae 2.027.000
Alstroemeria pallida 2.028.500
Alstroemeria diluta 2.026.700
Dam! I lost last year both A. werdermannii :-\
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Tomorow I will take pictures of A. pallida, this is a good project and a good tribute to Jim's work. He sent me an emotional letter few months before die that It touched me a lot. I didn't meet him in person, but I will remeber him forever as the generous Gentelman he was, and the important work he did for plant conservation.
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Brian I collected this morning somes seeds of E. glandulosum for you. With my seeds you will have success ;)
John, can we exchange seeds/roots of A. pallida? I would like to increase variability.
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Fascinating pictures!
Rafa, your Alstroemerias are mouthwatering!
Actually I am only growing a distinct form of the species A. diluta (a Hans A. collection ;)) which flowered last month.
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Hansi, it seems that this year I will have to take the big knife to make some division ;) ;) ;) ;) A. lightu incarnata is from your seeds!
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I have not posted here often of late, but I look in frequently and have really been enjoying the wonderful plants!
A few things in bloom here now...
Gentiana siphonantha... if only the sun would shine so I could see the flowers open!
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Sedum pilosum... something I was first introduced to on this site; so glad they are hardy here!
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Telesonix jamesii v. heucheriforma:
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Silene pusilla:
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Silene falcata:
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Aethionema glaucescens... two plants with somewhat different forms:
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Penstemon secundiflorus:
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Geranium phaeum 'Springtime':
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Primula cortusoides(?):
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The many self-seeded Penstemon x barbatus(?) are starting to bloom:
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Castilleja miniata:
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Zigadenus elegans:
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Front yard.... I will soon be having to weed out Saponaria ocymoides, but it's pretty, for now:
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Salvia pratensis:
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Verbascum phoeniceum:
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Pulsatilla vulgaris:
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Penstemon confertus:
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Playing around with a new camera... Digitalis grandiflora:
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An old iris cultivar:
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Little-leaf lilac, Syringa microphylla:
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Primula capitata... I have only just planted these this year - they will probably not be near so happy once the spring rains stop:
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Silene bolanthoides:
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A very vividly-coloured Castilleja miniata, which, I'm happy to see, has seeded itself:
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Geranium cinereum 'Memories':
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Clematis alpina 'Willy':
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Lori
Your garden looks wonderful - bright and sunny with so may interesting plants - so pleased you popped back to post.
Our garden along with may others in this part of Europe is looking somewhat battered by heavy rain and wind.
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Wow Lori, bags of colour there and some nice rock work too.
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Can someone explain what JJA collection is?
Lina.
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Can someone explain what JJA collection is?
Lina.
Lina, it means the seeds were collected by Jim & Jenny Archibald!
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Thank you, Wim.
Lina.
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Rafa - I will trying crossing the two pallidas here. if they set seeds quickly all will be fine but I need to divide these in the next few weeks while they are briefly dormant.
john
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thank you John I will also try to get seeds or divisions.
Lori really nice garden, It seems very big.... Ian, here in Spain, in my region there is no rains since a month, but my problem is ia have a very little gardening space!!
Today blooming Campanula rotundifolia subsp. hispanica, and Alstroemeria pallida
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Lori
Your garden looks wonderful - bright and sunny with so may interesting plants - so pleased you popped back to post.
Our garden along with may others in this part of Europe is looking somewhat battered by heavy rain and wind.
I agree with Ian , beautiful and interesting plants Lori ! And have the same experience with this summer ...
Altough some plants like it ...
Here some flowers of our garden .
Again Silene bolanthoides growing in a crevice here .
Also in a very narrow crevice between two big tufarocks (the crevice was filled with pure sand) : Convolvulus compactus .
The blue Aquilegia einseleana is an endemic of the Alps and stays very compact here .
Campanula trogerae also in crevice-conditions .
Dactylorhiza x grandis feels happy in my peatbed .
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wow :o really beautiful and interesting alpines Kris.
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Super plants Kris, we have just come back from a weeks holiday to find the last flower on Gentiana georgei from Rob Potterton, I knew we'd miss them flowering so was pleased that one of the five is still out. Just to prove we have been away, the plants on the bench and in front left had to be transported back...good job no one was sitting in the back of the car ;D
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Super plants Kris, we have just come back from a weeks holiday to find the last flower on Gentiana georgei from Rob Potterton, I knew we'd miss them flowering so was pleased that one of the five is still out. Just to prove we have been away, the plants on the bench and in front left had to be transported back...good job no one was sitting in the back of the car ;D
Thanks Brian , I was never very succesfull with that Gentiana ....
It is a real gem anyway , I like it !
wow :o really beautiful and interesting alpines Kris.
Thanks Rafa , I must admitted that I enjoyed your Alstroemeria's to ! Never paid any attention to this genus before until the day we find Alstroemeria patagonica in the wild in Patagonia . From that moment on I start to like them !
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Some plants in flower here today:
Arisaema fargesii
Arisaema flavum var. flavum
Dianthus ?? (Edit: D. haematocalyx subsp. pindicola, thanks to Franz for the correct name)
Epipactis gigantea
Lonicera crassifolia 'Little Honey'
and Pulsatilla turczaninovii
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Brian, good place to take a cup of Tea!
Wim, I love this Arisaema fargesii :o
Here som plants blooming in the garden, I lost the label of the last blue delphinium. It is a little one, from last SRGC seed list, maybe it is any species from China?
Alyssum minus
Molucella spinosa
Delphinium requienii
Delphinium sp SRGC
Dianthus hyssopifolius
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Wim - what a great little plant that Lonicera is! New to me - do you know anything more about it?
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Some plants in flower here today:
Arisaema fargesii
Arisaema flavum var. flavum
Dianthus ??
Epipactis gigantea
Lonicera crassifolia 'Little Honey'
and Pulsatilla turczaninovii
Wim,
suberp plants und pictures. I think the Dianthus is D. haematocalyx ssp. pindicola
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Carpenteria californica
Something for me to look forward to Michael. ;D They are exquisite and I couldn't believe how quickly and freely they germinated from what appeared to be just dust. 8)
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Wim - what a great little plant that Lonicera is! New to me - do you know anything more about it?
Tim,
you can find some more info here: http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=1315.msg249732#msg249732. (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=1315.msg249732#msg249732.)
It's a very small, slowly creeping honeysuckle, without scent (which is a shame). Survived our last winter of -18°C perfectly growing in a shady part of the rock garden.
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Wim,
suberp plants und pictures. I think the Dianthus is D. haematocalyx ssp. pindicola
Thanks, Franz. I got the seeds from which I germinated this plant as such, but someone told me it was probably a hybrid...whatever it is, it's quite nice!
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Thanks Wim. I've looked it up in The Plantfinder and just a few nurseries list it. It's always nice to find small and different shrublets for the alpine garden.
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Alstroemeria umbellata
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Alstroemeria umbellata
Very impressive Michael , I think I have a seedling somewhere . It looks that I have to threat it very well ...
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;D
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Geum coccineum. Scarlet Avens.
Geranium dalmaticum.
Campanula cochlearifolia var. pallida ' silver chimes'
Hypericum buckleyi.
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Very nice plants, Michael. That Geranium looks so very fragile...wonderful!
Some plants in flower here now:
Arthropodium albidum 'Rubrum' (the flower reminds me of Kiwa hirsuta...I wonder why ::))
Alstroemeria aurea and Zantedeschia aethiopica
Epipactis palustris
Erigeron sp. (from wild collected seeds in Canada, thanks to a very friendly forum-member)...anyone recognize the species?
Lilium candidum
Lilium davidii
and Roscoea alpina
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Some from today.
Scutellaria laeteviolacea
Allium narcissiflorum
Anemone narcissiflora
Alstromeria
Bulbinella hookeri
Geranium
Paeonia 'Soshi'
Roscoe 'Penine Purple'
Rhododendron
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A few snaps today from maison Kentgardener.
1 - Bletilla hybrid (Penway)
2 - The white orchid I found in my brother's field in Co Tipperary - possibly Dactylorhiza fuchsii var. okellyi (?)
3 - Epipactis gigantea
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Here som plants blooming in the garden, I lost the label of the last blue delphinium. It is a little one, from last SRGC seed list, maybe it is any species from China?
Alyssum minus
Molucella spinosa
Delphinium requienii
Delphinium sp SRGC
Dianthus hyssopifolius
I really like that Dianthus, Rafa!
very special,
cheers
fermi
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and those Alstroemerias are pretty great as well!
cheers
fermi