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Re: June 2021 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #30 on: June 21, 2021, 06:40:18 PM »
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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Re: June 2021 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #31 on: June 21, 2021, 08:47:42 PM »
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.
Rudi Weiss,Waiblingen,southern Germany,
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Re: June 2021 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #32 on: June 21, 2021, 08:51:01 PM »
More pictures:
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Re: June 2021 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #33 on: June 22, 2021, 11:55:22 AM »
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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Re: June 2021 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #34 on: June 23, 2021, 09:12:17 PM »
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.
Rudi Weiss,Waiblingen,southern Germany,
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Re: June 2021 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #35 on: June 25, 2021, 07:56:44 PM »
It's that time of year, when the garden goes into "Jungle Mode".

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Re: June 2021 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #36 on: June 27, 2021, 03:41:56 PM »

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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Re: June 2021 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #37 on: June 27, 2021, 08:21:08 PM »
Cerinthe major purpurescens from my own seed.



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Re: June 2021 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #38 on: June 28, 2021, 02:19:28 PM »
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.
Leena from south of Finland

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Re: June 2021 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #39 on: June 28, 2021, 05:51:03 PM »


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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Re: June 2021 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #40 on: June 28, 2021, 06:58:01 PM »
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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Re: June 2021 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #41 on: June 28, 2021, 08:57:41 PM »
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.


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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Re: June 2021 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #42 on: June 28, 2021, 09:22:57 PM »
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.
Rudi Weiss,Waiblingen,southern Germany,
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Re: June 2021 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #43 on: June 29, 2021, 08:59:21 AM »
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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Re: June 2021 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #44 on: June 29, 2021, 08:22:45 PM »
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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.
Diane Whitehead        Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
cool mediterranean climate  warm dry summers, mild wet winters  70 cm rain,   sandy soil

 


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