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June 2022, Northern Hemisphere.
Maggi Young:
Another from Anton Edwards- "Transient beauty in the rock garden"
ian mcdonald:
Seeing everyones colourful rock gardens makes me envious. At the moment all I have is a space in the lawn where I would like a crevice garden.
Robert:
--- Quote from: Maggi Young on June 05, 2022, 09:24:09 AM ---From Anton Edwards:
"Help fill the June gap with some red. Tulipa sprengeri ...
--- End quote ---
I hope someone can enlighten me concerning “the June gap”. We have a blooming gap here at our Sacramento, California garden between the succession and mass of spring blooming species and the warm/hot weather loving species that bloom during the summer. It sounds like there is a similar situation elsewhere, however I am uncertain. I thought our spring-summer transition blooming pause was more of a function of our climate and plant selection. Maybe this is due to inexperience on my part? Any thoughts on this transitional blooming pause? Based on what I have read in the past, I have the idea that those that grow purely “alpine” species have a riot of color during the spring and a drought of flowers during the summer. Many gardeners seem to grow a much wider range of species than just purely alpine species.
shelagh:
First saw Tulip sprengeri on a visit to Copenhagen Botanic they were pulling them out by the fistfull and said they were their worst weed. I thought they were lovely.
Maggi Young:
From Anton Edwards:
One of the quatrains of Omar Khayam is:
“Look to the Rose that blows about us -- Lo,
Laughing," she says, "into the World I blow:
At once the silken Tassel of my Purse
Tear, and its Treasure on the Garden throw."
Here is our own 25 year old 'Constance' about to do her stuff in Perthshire.
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