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April in the Northern Hemisphere
Robert:
Iris tenuissima is well established in our garden.
Gilia tricolor ssp. tricolor
Research and development of new plant varieties is progressing well. This is an F2 Ranunculus hybrid. These new hybrids are the starting point toward predetermined goals. There are generally happy accidents along the way too.
Ranunculus occidentalis var. occidentlais is being tested in a garden setting. The seeds of this perennial species were planted in the autumn of 2021 and are blooming ~ 6 months later.
Akke,
This is Tulipa humilis as purchased at a local garden center about 10 years ago. It does not look like any photograph of Tulipa humilis that I have ever seen. Do you have any comments or ideas? Sadly we are at the end of the commercial bulb distribution chain. Unfortunately in our area, mislabeled and low quality bulbs are frequently encountered. We do have many fine native bulbous species, so this more than makes up for the deficiencies in commercial locally available bulbs. I guess I could purchase via mail order, but I admit that I like to see what I am purchasing and ask questions about the plants when necessary. I am not unhappy with the situation, but things are the way they are.
Akke,
I also have an update on the status of wild populations of Limnanthes in our area. Currently, small populations of Limnanthes alba are blooming in seasonally moist areas near our Placerville, California property. Most of these populations are on private property, so I cannot photograph the plants or even stop and look at them. Later in the season, other populations of Limnanthes alba will come into bloom at higher elevations. The last stand of frequently seen and easily accessible Limnanthes douglasii in our area is now taped with orange development tape and will be lost forever. There are other populations of this species in our area, however they are less accessible and require additional driving to see.
Robert:
I will finish this posting with one last garden scene. Prunus mume is in a training container planted with Pansies, Nemophila menziesii, and Collinsia heterophylla.
ruweiss:
Marc,
thank you for the report of your climatic and growing
conditions. It is always interesting to read, how gardeners
do their best with the culture of 'difficult' plants.
Robert,
thank you again for presenting us again these beautiful pictures.
MarcR:
--- Quote from: Diane Whitehead on April 04, 2022, 04:55:41 PM ---And your garden is automatically selecting for hardiness.
--- End quote ---
Dianne,
The seedlings I lost suffered crush damage not cold damage. In most cases the snow fell evenly around and over the; thus keeping them from being flattened.
Akke:
Rudi
Thanks for showing the lovely plants. Hopefully they’re allright and didn’t suffer from the late snow.
Weather over here has turned ‘normal’ again, short autumn arrived for a change of season, spring is expected though.
Robert
The way you combine plants is really inspiring, it will take time to get to know the drawing materials before being able to make a good picture.
Azalea Ida’s laugh looks great between the green leaves topped with a blue sky, -oops, something went wrong- but you might prefer our grey clouds. Growing season has slowed down because of the weather conditions here, lots of buds appearing, only Narcissus rupicola ssp watieri opened up in the last few days.
More lovely plants to look forward to, including some Tulipa humilis (cultivars/selections) between white and purplish/reddish, nothing like this. I cannot say that I’m hundred percent sure, but I love T humilis and have done some more digging in the past as well, your Tulipa isn’t like it, it looks lovely however. Maybe someone, with more experience, on the Tulipa subject can take away the last one percent of doubt.
Understandable that you prefer to see what you buy, in my experience so far the problem wasn’t the quality of the bulbs, but of our postal service.
Thanks for the update on Limnanthes alba and douglasii, seedlings of L. douglasii that have shown up here, didn’t even care about the snow. I was also very pleased to see more of your Calochortus of course :).
Shelagh
Don’t worry to much about pictures, your plants and ‘weeds’ look lovely.
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