Flowers and Foliage July 2008

[Maggi Young]

Franz, your photographs are as wonderful as ever  

Rudi, good to see your garden is full of flowers in the sunshine  

Oleg, I like Campanula Elizabeth..... reminds me that it got "drowned" here by other plants overgrowing it.
 Is the second plant Zigadenus? It looks tall and healthy....taller than any I have.

[olegKon]

Sorry, Maggy and Luit. I forgot to write the name. Its Zigadenus elegans (very robust) and the smaller stems on the left of the picture belong to Z.nuttallii which haven't opened flowers yet. I adore the genus and as only the first buds have opened I hope to see it in full glory in a few days. As for the campanula, I have such a feeling that it tends to suppress everything around. In fact the clump is much bigger
Oleg

[Magnar]

Great pics all of you. I especially like the Scutellaria and Arisaema pics .

[Lvandelft]

Thank you Oleg.
Until now I had only Z. nuttallii, but it seems I have lost it after 10 years or so.

[Paul T]

Oleg, I like Campanula Elizabeth..... reminds me that it got "drowned" here by other plants overgrowing it.
 Is the second plant Zigadenus? It looks tall and healthy....taller than any I have.

Ah Maggi,  How climates differ.  Here, it took me a couple of years to eradicate that Campanula because IT was drowning everything else around it.  Those Campanula types are far too happy here, taking many square kilometres instead of just the proverbial mile when they're given an inch.  They had me somewhat nervous about all Campanulas at one point, but I've managed to get that under control.    There are some beautiful blue and deeper pink types available in nurseries around here these days, that look to be the same sort of grower as 'Elizabeth'.  Much as I would like to grow them I am not game to.    Isn't it wonderful that we all have such different conditions and that one man's weed is another's gem.

[arisaema]

I can only agree with Paul, 'Elizabeth' and C. punctata can be real thugs, nearly as bad as Vancouveria and Bishop's weed.

[olegKon]

Agree. All C.punctata are weeds when happy. But what a display at flowering time.
Luit, if you need some seeds of these 2 species or Z.leimonthoides, write me an e-mail. I hope to harvest a lot this year.

[Kristl Walek]

Zigadenus elegans is native (but uncommon) in Ontario--and it ranges west in Canada, right up to Alaska. Hardiness is probably at least -45C, considering where it grows.

I last saw it in the wild in northern Ontario's Manitoulin Island, growing on an alvar along the great lakes. Although it is often found in wet areas in the wild, it will grow anywhere in the garden!!!!  A tough, beautiful plant.

 

[arisaema]

A few from today;

Aconitum ferox
Campanula rigidipila
Gentiana lutea
2 Clematis fusca
Meconopsis aculeata
One of Dowdeswell's Delphiniums
...and the last of the peonies
+ Geranium 'Summer Skies'

[Maggi Young]

Oleg, we have both Zygadenus elegans and Z. nuttalli, but they never got verty tall... how tall is your plant? It looks quite tall....75cms + ?

[Lvandelft]

Some more plants flourishing here.
I love such plants like Helianthus salicifolius.
During summer when looking mature nothing happens and then
suddenly in October the small sunflowers will appear.

Helianthus salicifolius     
Leucanthemum Fiona Coghill       
Geranium Russell Prichard       
Coreopsis verticillata Grandiflora   
Asclepias tuberosa

[derekb]

I thought I would show you that I grow other things than alpines and orchids.

Derek

[Mick McLoughlin]

JUst one from the pots on the patio just now.
Lilium formosanum pricei, the label says very fragrant but I can't detect any scent yet.

[Lvandelft]

Here is a plant from the Eastern USA, which is already growing 25 years on the same place.
I made the mistake to remove the runners every spring, because I was afraid
it would get to big. With the result that it was never showing its beauty, because the
flowers are rather small. I kept it because the time it's flowering starts just after the
spring flush. But now since some years I leave it within about 50 x 50 cm. and it is
a lovely plant of app. 30 cm.

Aster radula

[David Nicholson]

Nice pictures all, some lovely plants.

Mick, did you grow your Lilium formosanum pricei from seed, and if so how long before flowering please? I have some in the greenhouse from seed sown last year, received from Lesley, they wont flower this year but maybe next!