Flowering now June 2007

[gmoen]

Hi again folks

Here is a picture of Lilium souliei in my garden. A nice little species from Yunnan - China

[hadacekf]

The Edelweis is in this trough happy. I started with one plant four year ago.
Leondopotium nivale

[Martin]

......and for the non purist.
Campanula "Elizabeth" which is becoming a rather delightful weed here.
Sprekelia formosissima purchased half price from Wilko's !
Un named Pelargonium.

Martin.

[Guff]

This peony was grown from seed. I think it may be a cross between a Tree peony and a peony, if thats possible. The seed was collected from a Tree peony, but the leaves look like a peony.  No ants, were on the flower bud, like the normal peony usually have.

She's a beauty.

[Lesley Cox]

A couple of questions. Do you have more than a single bulb of that delightful lily Geir? A few people seem to have it now, which is great but I guess we'd all like to hope it will reach the seedlists soon, in which case cross-pollination would help.

And Franz, someone was wondering whether Leontopodium nivale was a synonym for L. alpinum v. crassense, which was grown (and considered choice) many ago but I've not seen mentioned recently. Do you have any thoughts about that? I have just one small plants of L. nivale but though very short and neat, it seems to me to have a taller stem (about 5cms) that I would have expected from the other. What do you think?

[gmoen]

Well, I used to have three bulbs of this lily. First winter one died, second year one was gone after the bus with visitors from a garden society left. Only a hole in the ground....

I do cross pollinate the one I have, and I got some seeds last year (not yet garminated). The problem is that I swap pollen with a friend in Sweden, and this year his plant was much earlier than mine. So this year it is self pollinated.

[Lesley Cox]

Geir, that is so sad, and no comfort at all that the thief had good taste. I wish you well with your pollinating. How do you and your Swedish friend get pollen to each other?

[Anthony Darby]

Long distance bees? Pollen can be frozen too.

[gmoen]

Lesley

Normally I get the pollen by post, I usually have it here the day after he sent it.

Some picures from my morning walk in the garden.

1 Iris paradoxa ssp. paradoxa
2 Iris taurica
3 Iris lacustris x gracilipes
4 Primula tangutica (that plant is easier to grow than to photograph)

[Rob]

Here is a picture of a nomocharis seedling taken in the garden this morning

Rob

[gmoen]

Rob

Nice flower....... At the moment the Nomocharis is about 5 cm high in my garden. But NOW the summer has arrived. Extremely hot yesterday, and it seems to be just as hot to day. Some of the plants just couldn't stand the sudden heat, so I had to chill them off during the day.

[Maggi Young]

Nomocharis are one of our favourite plants, so pretty. We have some Lilium mackliniae out now, but no nomocharis as yet.
No L. soulei flowers this year...we lost older plants, now only babies meantime.

Geir, your Iris seem to be doing very well... I love to see them. Primula tangutica is one I am very fond of, it is worth the effort to make its photo!

[Anthony Darby]

Geir. Primula tangutica is suddenly my favourite primula. Do you get seeds, and if so, could I "borrow" some from you?

[gmoen]

Anthony

I have two plants of this Primula, so it might be some seeds. And if so; Yes, you might borrow some.

Geir

[johanneshoeller]

Nigritella nigra in my garden (435m)- a difficult plant in our gardens. Smells well of chocolate.  It normally grows at 1900m in the Upper Austrian Alps.

Hans