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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: krisderaeymaeker on April 02, 2013, 08:54:28 PM
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Some white feaver to start this month ......
1- Daphne blagayana 'Bertram Anderson '
2- Saxifraga 'Cumulus '
3- Androsace pyrenaica
4- Tulipa cretica
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Just love white flowers 8)
Angie :)
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Just love white flowers 8)
Angie :)
Like the weather here Angie ....cool colours for cool weather ...
And some white with a little pink , Colchicum bifolium
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Kris, your Colchicum bifolium is marvellous!
The Daphne is certainly 'Brenda Anderson', or isn't it?
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Nice plants, Kris.
Two Callianthemums in my raised bed.
Callianthemum anemonoides
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And Callianthemum farreri. Strange, this plants is earlier in flower than those in my greenhouse.
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What a wonderful plant of C. anemonoides; with us this is only just appearing on the sand bed but is always a joy to see. I have never heard of C. farreri, a blue flowered species...! (I have just looked this up in the AGS Encyclopaedia, where a much less striking picture is shown and it mentions Farrer describing it as 'a most melting China-blue'; a perfect description. A very special plant).
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I agree, Tim, C. farreri is a super plant. One can see from photos that there is a variation in colour from almost white through to quite a strong blue.
Here are a few examples, both from the SRGC Forum amd other websites :
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=3210.msg80840#msg80840 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=3210.msg80840#msg80840)
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=5263.msg149767#msg149767 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=5263.msg149767#msg149767)
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=7056.msg196820#msg196820 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=7056.msg196820#msg196820)
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=8881.msg242081#msg242081 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=8881.msg242081#msg242081)
http://skalnicky-rostliny.blog.cz/galerie/zahrada-2010/obrazek/72361960 (http://skalnicky-rostliny.blog.cz/galerie/zahrada-2010/obrazek/72361960)
http://alpines.dk/plantsgallery/gallery/plants/c/ (http://alpines.dk/plantsgallery/gallery/plants/c/)
http://www.plantarium.ru/page/image/id/174643.html (http://www.plantarium.ru/page/image/id/174643.html)
http://skalnicky-rostliny.blog.cz/galerie/zahrada-2010/obrazek/72361960 (http://skalnicky-rostliny.blog.cz/galerie/zahrada-2010/obrazek/72361960)
http://forum.garten-pur.de/index.php?action=showpic&pid=76669&anchor=1550957 (http://forum.garten-pur.de/index.php?action=showpic&pid=76669&anchor=1550957)
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What a marvel the internet is! Thanks Maggi - a space will be reserved for it in the garden if it ever comes my way. All those pictures show quite small plants so perhaps it is quite temperamental like its namesake.
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I am eagerly awaiting the day we are shown a fat plant, covered in flower, gracing someone's garden, Tim. Sadly, I don't think it'll be in my garden..... :'(
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I bought my first plant about 6 years ago (at the first Czech conference) and I have never seen more than a couple of flowers each year.
This species will probably never appear on the show benches in the UK. ;)
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I bought my first plant about 6 years ago (at the first Czech conference) and I have never seen more than a couple of flowers each year.
This species will probably never appear on the show benches in the UK. ;)
Follow this link from the various Forum threads above, Jef
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=3210.msg80840#msg80840 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=3210.msg80840#msg80840) -
it already has appeared on UK Show benches. :)
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Some white feaver to start this month ......
1- Daphne blagayana 'Bertram Anderson '
Kris are you sure that it is not Brenda Anderson? This is the name that I have always used as the compact form of blagayana
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I bought my first plant about 6 years ago (at the first Czech conference) and I have never seen more than a couple of flowers each year.
This species will probably never appear on the show benches in the UK. ;)
Jef lovely in the flesh - I saw it a Loughborough a couple of years ago- but very difficult to get hold of :'(
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Kris, your Colchicum bifolium is marvellous!
The Daphne is certainly 'Brenda Anderson', or isn't it?
Kris are you sure that it is not Brenda Anderson? This is the name that I have always used as the compact form of blagayana
Hi Ebbie and Ian . Ofcourse it is Brenda Anderson and not Bertram Anderson ! Thanks for the rectification , must have a senior moment ;D
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I bought my first plant about 6 years ago (at the first Czech conference) and I have never seen more than a couple of flowers each year.
This species will probably never appear on the show benches in the UK. ;)
I tried it two times (once in pot and once in the crevice ) but not succeed .... Jef can you tells us how you manage to grow such good plants of this farreri ?
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Kris, my oldest plant is now about 6 years old and has always been in a plastic pot. The one of the picture is in a raised bed. The soil is “Vulcaplus Intensiv”. I suppose you know what I mean. There is another plant in the same bed and I have still another one in a raised bed with “normal” garden soil.
I checked them just a couple of minutes ago and they are all still alive.
I don’t use any special tricks or magic. All my plants get more or less the same treatments.
Watering is dependent of the weather. Feeding is between May and August with a liquid Geranium mix.
My raised beds are covered in winter with plastic (plexi) sheets. I keep the plant in pot in my alpine house during winter and goes outside at a shady place when it gets warmer.
Is there anything I forgot to tell?
BTW: I also, have many “dead labels” every year again. >:(
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Kris, my oldest plant is now about 6 years old and has always been in a plastic pot. The one of the picture is in a raised bed. The soil is “Vulcaplus Intensiv”. I suppose you know what I mean. There is another plant in the same bed and I have still another one in a raised bed with “normal” garden soil.
I checked them just a couple of minutes ago and they are all still alive.
I don’t use any special tricks or magic. All my plants get more or less the same treatments.
Watering is dependent of the weather. Feeding is between May and August with a liquid Geranium mix.
My raised beds are covered in winter with plastic (plexi) sheets. I keep the plant in pot in my alpine house during winter and goes outside at a shady place when it gets warmer.
Is there anything I forgot to tell?
BTW: I also, have many “dead labels” every year again. >:(
Thank you very much Jef ! This would help ! Maybe only one important thing ...., are they getting ful sun the whole day ?
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Dionysia iranica and Draba ossetica + D. densifolia are
flowering in the Alpine House.
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...., are they getting ful sun the whole day ?
Kris, 1 plant gets sun from about 2 o’clock till sunset. Two others from sunrise till 3 o’clock.
And I use shading nets during the hottest days of the year (+ 25°C)
Rudi, nice Drabas. Is the Dionysia growing in pure sand?
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Kris, 1 plant gets sun from about 2 o’clock till sunset. Two others from sunrise till 3 o’clock.
And I use shading nets during the hottest days of the year (+ 25°C)
Thanks again Jef !
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Jef, you are right, Dionysia iranica grows directly in the river sand,
which I use for plunging my clay pots.in my Alpine House.
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In spite of bad weather (still) Petasites albus (today) resists and cheers up!
Best Regards! zvone
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Spring has finally begun to discover us - we have not had severely low temperatures in north Kent, or even much snow, but it has been consistantly cold pretty much continuously and either plants have stood still or they have flowered for far longer (viz: snowdrops) than normal. The days are lengthening, there is no option but for temperatures to rise, and the garden is waking up.
I have been waiting for the flower spikes of Synthyris stellata to open since buying it in bud in February. Hepatica x media is that soft powder-blue that is quite uncommon in plants. And several anemones are looking good; A. blanda 'Radar' (but sadly this never increases in the way the wild-type does from seed); and two of the hybrid Mediterranean anemones which seed around in the sandy soil - the final one as beautiful as any plant you could imagine with those soft blue anthers.
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Seeing those Anemones, Tim, I can believe that Spring has come to Kent.
Super photos of them, too.
Simple flower forms but utterly charming, are they not?
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Some pictures taken during the spring weather we could enjoy this weekend!
Adonis amurensis
Anemone blanda 'Ingramii'
Corydalis solida 'Beth Evans'
Crocus heuffelianus 'Dark Eyes'
Hepatica nobilis
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And some more:
Hepatica transsilvanica 'Eisvögel'
Ranunculus ficaria 'Double Bronce'
Anemone blanda 'Radar'
Chionodoxa luciliae
Crocus chrysanthus 'Prins Claus'
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And the last few for today:
Crocus minimus 'Little Girl'
and Iris 'White Caucasus'
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I'll probably get castigated for this as I say it every time I see White Caucasus. It's not white it's a very, very pale blue.
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I'll probably get castigated for this as I say it every time I see White Caucasus. It's not white it's a very, very pale blue.
Over here it looks very light blue indeed, but I saw it in flower in nursery Epimedium (we bought it together from the same supplier) where it was pure white. I wonder if the colour might differ depending on the soil, the temperature...??? Mine grows outside in a crevice between tufa rocks, while the one in Epimedium nursery was grown in a pot in the greenhouse!
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Crocus chrysanthus 'Prins Claus' is a cracking flower 8)
I say it every time I see White Caucasus. It's not white it's a very, very pale blue.
David - it can get very cold in the Caucasus- have you never heard the expression, "blue with the cold"? ::) ;D
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Ypsilandria cavaleriei today. Tiny!
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Finally the blues are coming
- Viola odorata near a path in my neighborhood
and wonderful coloured Viola adriatica in my garden
Gerd
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What a wonderful plant of Viola odorata - with me this grows vigorously but produces very few flowers hidden amongst the leaves. Do you find that it flowers like this every year Gerd?
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Blue heaven Gerd !
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Calanthe tricarinata is flowering in the greenhouse as well as Anemonella.
The sunshine of this week end was beneficial for both plants and people.
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What a wonderful plant of Viola odorata - with me this grows vigorously but produces very few flowers hidden amongst the leaves. Do you find that it flowers like this every year Gerd?
Thank you, Maggi + Tim!
Tim: Although I visited the odorata place (in front of a hedge - southern exposure) for the last years it
was the first time that I noticed these plants. It seems it is an exceptionally event.
Just funny that I have never been able to create a similar display when I planted the species in a garden bed.
Gerd
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1) Pulsatilla vernalis pushed through last year's dead leaves yesterday !
2) Pulsatilla slavica alba still pushing.. 8)
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Very nice Calanthe tricarinata Yann
I received a calanthe sieboldii and calanthe discolor this year..cross the finger for a nice flowering:)
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This is a spare of a frozen mother plant which survived this winter.
The main plant was 10 years old :-[
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I visited Culzean Castle yesterday in the hope of some Spring flowers. The Magnolias and Rhododendrons were still in bud. This is about 3 weeks later than average, We then went for a walk by the shore in the small village of the Maidens looking for some bird migrants and again nothing. However a bright patch of yellow caught our eyes. It was a patch of Coltsfoot - tussilago farfara. I have always considered it as a troublesome weed, but looking at this patch and the individual flowers, I realised that is a rather pretty plant. Anyway it certainly brightened up a rather unproductive day
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Viola labradorica - once you've got it you will never be without it.
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Someone on the lecture circuit in the U.S. has been heard to declare that deer do not eat daphnes. Very wrong. The following are pictures taken today of various daphnes in the crevice beds and screes following a winter when I failed to cover the garden with chicken wire. I was too busy, too lazy, whatever, and this is the payback from the antlered rats.
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More deer damage
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This was doing so well.
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Breaks my heart
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On the plus side, stepped on numerous times, but determined to survive, my mystery astragalus.
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And just really nice to see.
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Breaks my heart
Anne, have at look at this, there are similarities!
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10201.0 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10201.0)
By the way, last night Cliff Booker gave a presentation on his 2010 NARGS tour to my local AGS Group. Your garden is beautiful, breathtakingly so.
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Thank you so much, David. Your "Cheriton" was a real beauty. I've always wanted to try that one. The D. Susannae hybrids are very difficult to find here, but anything that has D. arbuscula in the parentage is worth a try. D. arbuscula is a good doer here and very hardy, having come through an almost snowless winter once with a low of -17F. We just can't count any more on having a reliable snow cover. I am trying D. x Susannae 'Anton Fahndrich'. It was a wee thing when I got it - not impressive looking now but it's alive, probably being so small it was beneath the notice of the antlered rats. Does it make a difference if D. arbuscula is the first or second named parent?
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David, your link was excellent. I think I lost Daphne x hendersonii 'Ernst Hauser' to botryitis. It went from a gorgeous plant to nothing very dramatically in a very short period. I've heard people refer to "daphne sudden death syndrome" and maybe that's what it really is.
The attached is Daphne x hendersonii 'Ernst Hauser' in happier days.
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Sorry, having some difficulty in downsizing photos
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Two North Africans:
Asphodelus acaulis in my alpine house
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Ranunculus calandrinoides in my rock garden.
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A couple from me . Firstly Trillium
rivale nivale from a generous forumist a couple of years ago doing well. It started flowering before the snow and was covered in full flower for 9 days and came out unscathed
Second a selected form of Callianthemum anemonoides whose seed parent apparently had won prizes. Quite large flowers and plenty of them
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A couple from me . Firstly Trillium rivale .......
I think you meant Trillium nivale, Ian ....... ( you lucky dog!! :-[ )
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I think you meant Trillium nivale, Ian ....... ( you lucky dog!! :-[ )
Yes Maggi old age I'm afraid :-\
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I claim no cultural credit for this one apart from potting it up it was from a Christmas surprise parcel from Gerd Stopp containing all kinds of beautiful plants. It's part of my quest to grow more alpines (and by necessity fewer bulbs) before age starts to catch up with me.
Draba lasiocarpa
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Looks very good David 8)
Philotheca myoporoides very slow-growing with me but almost always in flower and a favourite of mine
Pelargonium acetosum
Podophyllum mairei looking distinctly sinister
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Podophyllum mairei looking distinctly sinister
Yes indeed Ashley:
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Indescribable :o ;D
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Some plants in flower during this week:
Corydalis solida 'Falls of Nimrodel'
Ranunculus crenatus
Scilla armena
Erythronium dens-canis 'Old Aberdeen'
Hepatica nobilis (pale pink)
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And some more:
Hepatica nobilis var. insularis
Primula marginata 'Drake's Blue'
Ranunculus alpestris
Some Saxifraga's
and the young leaves of Oxalis adenophylla 'Purple Heart'
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And lastly some A. blanda's in flower!
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I thought I had a deer-proof enclosure, but there's a pair of does this year that are having a
feast inside it.
Here is what remains of a double Polygonatum (obviously the leaves taste better than the
flowers) and Tricyrtis macranthopsis.
They are in pots, so easily moved, and are now up on a balcony. Let's hope the eagles are
not looking for a salad.
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Draba dedeana
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New growth on Podocarpus nivalis 'Bronze'
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some signs of spring...
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Just the one from me for the time being. Some things finally flowering but the cold has been replaced by blustery showers. I managed to get this one this evening
Part of a woodland trough.
Rhododendron cephalanthum v. crebriflorum in the foreground. Its a young plant flowering for the first time.
Behind that is an Hepatica but I can't find the label.
The main feature is Synthyris stellata. This has taken weeks to develop.
In the background is Hepatica nobilis which should be much deeper almost purple but the camera has turned it blue
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2 Callianthemums in flower:
Call. kernerianum
Call. farreri, small plant with a big flower
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Graham, how really lovely woodland scene, the moss and ferns and blue! Too bad Synthyris may be too tender to try to grow here.
Emma, do you know what Corydalis that is in the first picture?
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Colleagues, you have a lovely spring in full swing.
And to us it is only now come ...
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Graham, how really lovely woodland scene, the moss and ferns and blue! Too bad Synthyris may be too tender to try to grow here.
Thank you Leena.
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Graham, how really lovely woodland scene, the moss and ferns and blue! Too bad Synthyris may be too tender to try to grow here.
Emma, do you know what Corydalis that is in the first picture?
Yes, Leena. I totaly agree. Graham, this scene looks phantastic!
The Corydalis in my last post is just an ordinary C. cava.
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Some white fever to start this month ......
White fever part 2 ....
Pleione formosana 'Cairngorm'
Hepatica nobilis x pyrenaica
Townsendia hookeri
Draba dedeana
Townsendia sp.
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......a "cool" selection, Kris ;) :D
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......a "cool" selection, Kris ;) :D
With such warm spring we need to cool down Maggi ::) ::) ;D ;)
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With such warm spring we need to cool down Maggi ::) ::) ;D ;)
Oh! I wish......
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The Corydalis in my last post is just an ordinary C. cava.
Thanks, I should have recognized it because I have it, too (not come up yet for this year) :)
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Some plants in flower here today:
Anemone nemerosa 'Virescens'
Erythronium dens-canis 'White Splendour'
Hepatica nobilis (light pink form)
Hyacinthella dalmatica
Pulsatilla vulgaris 'Papageno'
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Some more:
Ranunculus ficaria 'Ken Aslett'
Ranunculus ficaria 'Salad Bowl'
Tulipa turkestanica
Erythronium dens-canis 'Charmer'
Primula 'Aire Waves'
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And another batch; the last one for today ;D
Ranunculus crenatus
Soldanella 'Spring Symphony'
Epimedium 'Marco'
Primula 'Cies Verkest'
Primula 'Lady Greer'
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Hepatica nobils var. pyrenaica today
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Today in flower: Sanguinaria canadensis ;)
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Wow! That is a fine form, Irm. 8)
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Flowering at last, a few weeks late!
Anemone ranunculoides fl.pl.
Daphne mezereum
Daphne mezereum album
Draba mollissima
Saxifraga Edgehill
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Wow! That is a fine form, Irm. 8)
Beautifully full-petalled, best I've seen.
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Nice Soldanella, Wim.
Irm, that is a fine Sanguinaria, indeed.
Here is Soldanella montana in flower.
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Many good plants coming into season in Germany -
I enjoy "visiting" to see them on http://forum.garten-pur.de/ (http://forum.garten-pur.de/) ;) We have many members in common, of course 8)
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So many beautiful plants - it's like having multiple springs to see what's blooming around the world.
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I don't think we have any Anemonellas up yet - though they may be covered with corydalis growth meantime.
I am VERY glad to see that deer have not eaten the Epigaea repens - it was bad enough seeing the loss of your daphnes. Perhaps the fact it is so low growing protects it?
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A tad late this year Epigaea repens didn't start flowering here until late March. A very special plant that graces our roadsides and woodlands. The fragrance is outstanding. It grows in the nastiest places - seemingly lifeless soil along with British Soldiers and Fairy Cups. Our provincial flower.
johnw
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Maggi, the deer really love to congragate at the top of the cliff and simply work their way down. I usually cover the entire area with chicken wire and simply didn't get to it last fall. My daphnes certainly paid the price. It looks so far like some of them are not going to make a comeback, really upsetting.
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Anemonella thalictroides today. (I'm told this should now be Thalictrum thalictroides - can't see it myself...)
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Adonis vernalis at ist best yesterday in full sun!
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This really dwarf form of Paris polyphylla came from Washfield Nursery over a decade ago. Great little plant but slow! It has never set seed unfortunately.
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Many good plants coming into season in Germany -
I enjoy "visiting" to see them on http://forum.garten-pur.de/ (http://forum.garten-pur.de/) ;) We have many members in common, of course 8)
:D
Thanks for visiting us in Pur ;)
Some of the plants in my Berlin garden are from GB ... but not this, Fritillaria raddeana
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Anemonella thalictroides today. (I'm told this should now be Thalictrum thalictroides - can't see it myself...)
That's because it is not Thalictrum thalictroides!
T. thalictroides is a common native wildflower here in Minnesota.
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That's a very special Paris Tim. Simply smashing.
johnw
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That's because it is not Thalictrum thalictroides!
T. thalictroides is a common native wildflower here in Minnesota.
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Well, the label says Anemonella thalictroides Semi Double White, from Edrom Nurseries, a highly reputable Scottish nursery, so I guess that will do.
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Well, the label says Anemonella thalictroides Semi Double White, from Edrom Nurseries, a highly reputable Scottish nursery, so I guess that will do.
I see there are some references that seem to suggest these names are synonymous but Ralph's plant is quite different to Rick's and in searching photos there are also lots of differing pix.
Foliage between the two types is quite other.......
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This really dwarf form of Paris polyphylla came from Washfield Nursery over a decade ago. Great little plant but slow! It has never set seed unfortunately.
Wow, wow,wow. There are so many great photos of lovely plants on this site that I am almost always lusting after something or other. This Paris goes straight to the top of my list. Lovely.
Chris
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Flowering now in the Alpine House:
Lewisia tweedyi big flowered seedling
Ipheion Rolf Fiedler
Clematis tenuiloba
Asarum maximum
Draba longisiliqua
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Flowering now in the Alpine House:
Lewisia tweedyi big flowered seedling
Ipheion Rolf Fiedler
Clematis tenuiloba
Asarum maximum
Draba longisiliqua
Very nice selection Rudi ! 8)
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I see there are some references that seem to suggest these names are synonymous but Ralph's plant is quite different to Rick's and in searching photos there are also lots of differing pix.
Foliage between the two types is quite other.......
Quite! My plant has Anemone-type foliage and Rick's has Thalictrum-type foliage. Incidentally, went for a walk through a Kentish wood yesterday, just a sea of white from the wood anemones. Should have taken the camera...
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Lathrus vernus today - always a sign of Spring.
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Here are
1. Viola jaubertiana x cretica - a seedling resulted by chance
2. Comparison of the flowers - left cretica/right hybrid
3. Viola jaubertiana - from Mallorca
5. Viola xanthopetala from Russian far east
Gerd
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These couple of plants are from John and Carolyn Millen's garden, near to Sutton Valance, Maidstone. Their garden is high on the escarpment of the North Downs looking down across the Weald of Kent - chalky soil, sloping, full sun. The result; the most magnificent plant of Lithodora zahnii I have ever seen! If Farrer medals were awarded to plants in the garden, surely this would be one. Behind it a nice small clump of Gentiana acaulis. (See also the Pulsatilla thread).
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Today's selection (part 1)
1. Part of the rock garden - Euphorbia myrsinites in the foreground and rigida in the back ground. Pulsatilla 'Blaue Glocke' adding the colour. The Iris is 'Black Swan' and Abies koreana is the back drop.
2. Pulsatilla 'Blaue Glocke' and Sedum spathulifolium atropurpureum
3. Sedum spathulifolium atropurpureum.
4. Sedum spathulifolium 'Cape Blanco' in its winter colour
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Part 2.
5. Trillium chloropetalum giganteum
6. Anemone blanda self seeding all over the place. Started from a single plant many years ago. A little disappointed that the pale and white ones are appearing.
7. Narcissus 'Thalia'
8. 'Thalia' and a Hellebore
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Last - Part 3.
9. Pulmonaria 'Blue Ensign' and a tulip.
10. Hepatica nobilis
11. Trough - with Narcissus moschatus, Hepatica nobilis 'Cremar', Synthyris stellata (past its best), and Rhododendron keleticum
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Fantastic pix everyone !! 8)
Out here, Tulips amongst others provide the colourful Spring feeling in the garden !
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Well, the label says Anemonella thalictroides Semi Double White, from Edrom Nurseries, a highly reputable Scottish nursery, so I guess that will do.
Hi John,
even highly reputable Scottish nurseries make mistakes, labels can be very easily swapped by mistake. What you have is an Anemone (Anemone raddeana or another) but certainly no Thalictrum thalictroides and most certainly no Semi Double!! Here attached a pic of a semi-plena white form of Thalictrum thalictroides.
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Some plants which are in flower here now:
Anemone nemerosa 'Dee Day'
Corydalis solida seedling
Hyacinthoides italica
Iris bucharica
Veronica thessalica
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And some more:
Thalictrum thalictroides 'Amelia'
Thalictrum thalictroides 'Jade Feather'
Thalictrum thalictroides 'Pink Flash'
and last but not least two Trilliums!
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Today's selection (part 1)
1. Part of the rock garden - Euphorbia myrsinites in the foreground and rigida in the back ground.
Hi Graham,
we have these 2 euphorbias together and they've crossed and most of our seedlings are now the hybrid: a very vigorous thing which has characteristics of each parent. I'm trying to keep them separated so we can have the "pure" E. myrsinites again without it being over-powered by the hybrid - hard to tell the seedlings apart as well!!!
Nevertheless yours look great setting off those darker flowers!
cheers
fermi
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I have been busy. Here are a few pictures taken about 1 week ago.
Dionysia 'Tango'
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Dionysia khuzistanica
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Pulsatilla vulgaris ssp. bogenhardiana
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I don't know Dionysia 'Tango' - fine flowers - can you tell us the parentage of the plant, Jef?
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Hi John,
even highly reputable Scottish nurseries make mistakes, labels can be very easily swapped by mistake. What you have is an Anemone (Anemone raddeana or another) but certainly no Thalictrum thalictroides and most certainly no Semi Double!! Here attached a pic of a semi-plena white form of Thalictrum thalictroides.
Thanks Wim!
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Really stunning dionysias, and the Pulsatilla looks a little like vulgaris subsp. gotlandica, compact and strong coloured. I wonder where it comes from?
Fermi - we grow Euphorbia myrsinites and rigida too, but have never had hybrids. The combination could make fine garden plants because generally myrsinites is good and reliable and rigida rather less so, but rigida is the most striking. Have you ever grown denticulata which has purplish flower heads? It would probably suit your hot dry climate much better than ours.
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Hi Graham,
we have these 2 euphorbias together and they've crossed and most of our seedlings are now the hybrid: a very vigorous thing which has characteristics of each parent. I'm trying to keep them separated so we can have the "pure" E. myrsinites again without it being over-powered by the hybrid - hard to tell the seedlings apart as well!!!
Nevertheless yours look great setting off those darker flowers!
cheers
fermi
Hi Fermi,
Thanks for the information. I have never seen any seedlings of either species or any hybrids either. I'll probably just weed out the seedlings if I ever see any - just in case.
Graham
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some Berlin plants from today :)
Anemone nemorosa "Bowles Purple"
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and A. apennina
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Last the Haquetia :D I love my garden this week :-X
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Bongardia chrysogonum - delicate and reliable.
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Perhaps the Viola experts can comment on this - Viola labradorica seeds itself everywhere in my garden, but this one has seeded into a pot and has plain green leaves, unlike all the others.
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I have been busy. Here are a few pictures taken about 1 week ago.
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Pulsatilla vulgaris ssp. bogenhardiana
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Love that Pulsatilla, Jef. Is it really that intense in colour?
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I don't know Dionysia 'Tango' - fine flowers - can you tell us the parentage of the plant, Jef?
Dionysia 'Tango' JM-MK 98/07/3 "bryoides 'Harold Esselmont' × tapetodes" – pin - F1
Maggi, are you really interested in Dionysias ::)
Love that Pulsatilla, Jef. Is it really that intense in colour?
Wim, the flowers are quite dark and strong. But the picture has been taken in shade and this creates a more intense color compared with a picture taken in full sunshine.
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A few more.
Daphne odora 'Mae Jima'
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Dionysia khuzistanica 'JLMS-02/69'
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Androsace laevigata 'Gothenburg Form'
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Dionysia 'Tango' JM-MK 98/07/3 "bryoides 'Harold Esselmont' × tapetodes" – pin - F1
Maggi, are you really interested in Dionysias ::)
Ah! Now that is interesting - because the late Harold Esslemont (note spelling - Esslemont) was our mentor- a wonderful kind man who is much missed.
Now, is it not strange that should be drawn to a plant with a such a connection as to be raised from a plant named for my old friend? "Often a clue" as I am fond of saying - perhaps there is a "spooky vibe" at work here.
Yes, I have quite an interest in dionysias, Jef - though there are too many hybrids with muddy pinky purple flowers (like there are too many pleiones with messy pinkish flowers!)
We don't grow them any more since we gave our glasshouses over to bulbs, but I am interested to see good cultivars.
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Fantastic plants and pix everyone !!
Saxifraga sempervivum + grisebachii + P. frondosa
Draba lasiocarpa
Draba rosularis
Veronica caespitosa
Vitaliana primuliflora
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Sanguinaria canadensis fl. pl.
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That is stunning Mike - I've only got about half a dozen flowers on mine, how old is that planting?
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Berneuxia thibetica
Primula warshenewskiana
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Hi gail, the clump is about 20 years old but it has from time to time had large sections taken away for propagation. I find a winter top dressing with leafmould/home made compost keeps it in good health.
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I would dearly love to grow Veronica caespitosa like that plant of Franz's - I'm sure I remember a similar picture from last year. Maybe a sunny crevice trough is the answer - so far it has not grown anything like this on the sand bed, although some of the other veronicas look to be doing nicely.
A couple of plants that would actually look good together but are in different parts of the garden at the moment - Adonis vernalis, always amazing when the sun shines; and Scilla melaina.
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Arisaema sikokianum, grown from seed:
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How super Gene, would that we could emulate that in England!
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Arisaema sikokianum, grown from seed:
A healthy batch, eh? What I like about them is the marvelous variation in leaf markings you get from seed.
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A few more from my garden.
Androsace laevigata 'Saddle Mount'
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Saxifraga ludlowii
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Erythronium dens-canis 'Purple King'
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Gorgeous plants and pictures Jef ! :o :o :o
Franz, that Veronica caespitosa is... :o :o :o
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Very good pictures, Jef!
Some plants from our garden and greenhouse
Kelseya uniflora grown in tufa. 13 years old from seed, 10cm in diameter, it has never been covered against the weather.
Benthamiella patagonica F&W 9345
Dionysia microphylla
Callianthemum kernerianum in a trough
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A healthy batch, eh? What I like about them is the marvelous variation in leaf markings you get from seed.
This group came from several lots of seed. Also, I find that some seed lots produce varied seedlings.
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Great pics everyone!
Still lots of snow in my garden. But some places are already free.
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Crocus tauricus
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Galanthus angustifolius
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Scilla siberica dark form
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And other bulbs
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Some plants from our garden and greenhouse
Kelseya uniflora grown in tufa. 13 years old from seed, 10cm in diameter, it has never been covered against the weather.
Wow! 8)
Kirsten, will we see you at the Czech conference?
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Yes, Maggi
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Yes, Maggi
Excellent news!
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Very good pictures, Jef!
Some plants from our garden and greenhouse
Kelseya uniflora grown in tufa. 13 years old from seed, 10cm in diameter, it has never been covered against the weather.
Quite an achievement !!
Congratulations, Kirsten ! :o :o :o
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I would dearly love to grow Veronica caespitosa like that plant of Franz's - I'm sure I remember a similar picture from last year. Maybe a sunny crevice trough is the answer - so far it has not grown anything like this on the sand bed, although some of the other veronicas look to be doing nicely.
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Tim, you're right a sunny crevice trough is the answer.
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Thanks for your kind comments. Beautiful plants everyone.
Kirsten & Lars, wonderful plants as usual. I didn’t find you last Saturday.
Olga, great to hear your gardening season starts.
A few more from my garden.
Saxifraga sp. 'Betscho Pass'
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Saxifraga 'Leonardo Da Vinci'
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Androsace ciliata x pubescens
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Daphne cneorum 'Lila Haines' :
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Daphne cneorum 'Lila Haines' :
Super plant Gene - who was Lila Haines?
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Saxifraga ludlowii
Jef, thank you for showing. The flowers of Sax. ludlowii are sensational, I have never seen
them before in any publication.
Looking forward to meet you in Tabor.
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Jef, thank you for showing. The flowers of Sax. ludlowii are sensational, I have never seen
them before in any publication.
Looking forward to meet you in Tabor.
Ger showed us this plant in 2009 : http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=3195.0 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=3195.0)
Jef's photos are quite stunning- and show very well the dark hairy calyx
(I've added this to the 2009 thread)
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Hi!
My Japan Chery:
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Best regards! zvone
http://zvonem.blogspot.si/news/ (http://zvonem.blogspot.si/news/)
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Maggi, as long as we're saying "who is Leila Haines", who is Gina, as in Penstemon barrettiae 'Gina'? She must have been a knockout. Has this plant for years and then lost it, sigh. It no longer seems to be listed at nurseries but it's worth having. Unfortunately, my photos are slides.
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Super plant Gene - who was Lila Haines?
She was Miss Piggy's stunt double. It's true! Actually, I don't know who Lila Haines is/was. And you shouldn't believe anything I say.
Tulipa hageri 'Little Beauty' :
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Tulipa saxatilis:
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Jef, thank you for showing. The flowers of Sax. ludlowii are sensational, I have never seen
them before in any publication.
Looking forward to meet you in Tabor.
Rudi, can you remember the origin of your plant.
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Here is Panax trifolius - ex seeds from Kristl
Gerd
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Gerd - what a great little plant that is (it appeals to someone like me who grows many umbellifers, and some botanists even join the two families). It reminds me that I didn't order seed from Kristl this year and must remember to do so next.
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Veronica bombycina ssp. bolkardahesis and Primula auricula var. balbisii with Saxifraga longifolia.
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Rudi, can you remember the origin of your plant.
Jef, I will send you a P. M.
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Beautiful veronica. Do you cover it in the winter?
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I have struggled with this plant for a number of years but this year it is growing well - Sax quadrifaria from Nepal
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Ebbie, a very beautiful but difficult Veronica.
Ian, I have the same problem.
The most ugly Callianthemum.
Callianthemum pimpinelloides
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A monocarpic Androsace.
Androsace albana
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And a Mertensia from Arizona.
Mertensia macdougalii
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That Daphne 'Leila Haines' is quite a stunner. 8)
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Jozef, I would never have believed a callianthemum could be ugly but I'm inclined to agree with you on this one.
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Ian - Simply stunning. Do you suppose last summer's rains helped it along?
johnw
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Haberlea rhodopensis, started from seed in 2008:
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Lewisia leana, in the greenhouse:
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Gerd - what a great little plant that is (it appeals to someone like me who grows many umbellifers, and some botanists even join the two families). It reminds me that I didn't order seed from Kristl this year and must remember to do so next.
Thank you, Tim. I'll try to pollinate these plants in order to get some seeds (which failed in 2012).
Please let me know if you can't have seeds from Kristl.
Gerd
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Ian - Simply stunning. Do you suppose last summer's rains helped it along?
johnw
Can't say John but it could have helped. It just looks much healthier this spring. I will watch to see what happens this year :-\
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Beautiful veronica. Do you cover it in the winter?
Yes, here it is raining too much. Veronica bombycina ssp. bolkardahesis is all year round in my greenhouse. Just as Tetraneuris (Hymenoxis) acaulis var. caespitosa and Chrysanthemum maresii
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Not in a greenhouse ;) but in my garden
Ranzania japonica
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Some plants which were flowering here during the last week!
Bellevalia pycnantha
Draba ossetica var. racemosa
Epimedium grandiflorum 'Dark Beauty'
Epimedium grandiflorum 'Mukawa Genpei'
Iberis saxatilis 'Pygmaea
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Some more:
Iris attica
Iris bucharica
Iris vicaria 'Hodji-obi-garm'
Iris x graeberiana 'Yellow Fall'
Sanguinaria canadensis 'Multiplex'
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And some more ;D:
Trillium albidum
Androsace mathildae
Epimedium 'Pink Elf'
Iris orchioides 'Aktash'
and Sanguinaria canadensis 'Star'
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Still more ;D ;D
Thalictrum thalictroides 'Amelia'
Thalictrum thalictroides 'Pink flash'
Uvularia grandiflora 'Gold Leaf form'
Epimedium 'Diabolo'
Epimedium epsteinii
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And the last one's for today:
Fritillaria pallidiflora
Lewisia nevadensis
Morisia monanthos
Primula auricula 'Broadwell Gold' and Primula auricula 'Argus'
and Taraxacum albidum
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Extra photos! WimB..is a wonderful flowering !!
Arisaema pictures
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Arisaema sikokianum
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Ulvularia grandiflora (First flowering)
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Paris quadriflolia
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Cypripedium formosanum
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Pulsatilla vulgaris
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So many great plants flowering now spring has eventually got going. These are extra special - an exhibit of erythroniums put on by Ray Drew at the local Essex Group Show on Saturday. It's very nice to see a group of plants like these compared, and erythroniums are looking perfect just now. (My apologies to Ray that the photographs don't really do the plants justice).
General view of exhibit
E. ex 'Rosalind
E. 'Jeanette Brickell'
E. 'Craigton Cover Girl'
E. revolutum 'God's Valley'
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E. howellii
E. 'Appleblossom'
E. 'Beechpark'
E. 'Joan Wiley'
E. 'Janice'
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E. californicum
E. citrinum hybrid
E. 'Pagoda'
General view of display
General view of display
A super show in addition to Ray's piece de resistance with a lovely range of plants (and I will put some examples on the AGS website - but I know erythroniums are close to the heart of certain SRGC members!).
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Enormous amount of work from Ray to mount such a super display- but I'll bet the audience were quite delighted by the range of those beautiful Erythroniums - never mind the other fine plants! Thanks for sharing, Tim, some lovely cultivars there that are new to me.
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Several pictures from this month:
Erythronium americanum - it flowers at me only when fertilised. We have about a square meter of it and total 7 flowers
Primula amoena
Primula bracteata subsp. dubernardiana
Primula clusiana - reputedly ceases to flower, it however is a young plant, so that is why?
Primula rosea - grows almost in water on a bank of our pond
Pulsatilla halleri
Veronica thessalica - it flowers exactly in the time of kabschias
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... and two remaining pictures are here:
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A few more pictures:
Daphne modesta
Townsendia spathulata (cottonball)
Saxifraga dinnikii alba in tufa
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What a wonderfully appealing saxifrage with those almost fluted flowers. The Townsendia is great too. Zdenek's Pulsatilla halleri must be how the species grows in its natural environment with the foliage hardly beginning to expand - here the leaves are much more evident at flowering and the whole plant rather taller; beautiful, but not as beautiful! I wonder if pulsatillas might be a talking point at Tabor?
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Corydalis nobilis:
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Podophyllum pleianthum:
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Trillium ovatum: the flowers change color as they age:
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Starting to bloom now on the back of the cliff, Eriogonum thymoides. The buds are a deep pink, usually open yellow and then revert to pink as the flowers go over.
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Everyone is showing wonderful plants here, with a lot of variation in interests. ;D
Today only Androsaces.
An unnamed species from China collected by J. Jurasek.
Androsace sp. 'JJ-20/06'
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Androsace 'Pink Gin'
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Androsace villosa v. barbulata
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Androsace wulfeniana
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And Androsace x advena. This is a hybrid between mathildae and hirtella made by Fritz Kummert many years ago. The name “advena” has never been officially published. But Fritz Kummert promised to write something about this plant, ….. maybe for IRG. Probably someone need to convince him a little bit ;).
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A few more pictures:
Daphne modesta
Townsendia spathulata (cottonball)
Saxifraga dinnikii alba in tufa
Stunning plants Kirsten !
Any chance that Daphne modesta is growable in the garden ? Some experiences by anyone ?
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Everyone is showing wonderful plants here, with a lot of variation in interests. ;D
Today only Androsaces.
An unnamed species from China collected by J. Jurasek.
Androsace sp. 'JJ-20/06'
Androsace 'Pink Gin'
Androsace villosa v. barbulata
Androsace wulfeniana
And Androsace x advena. This is a hybrid between mathildae and hirtella made by Fritz Kummert many years ago. The name “advena” has never been officially published. But Fritz Kummert promised to write something about this plant, ….. maybe for IRG. Probably someone need to convince him a little bit ;).
Great Androsaces Jef !
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Stunning plants Kirsten !
Any chance that Daphne modesta is growable in the garden ? Some experiences by anyone ?
Kris, I had one in the open garden last winter.
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Kris
We have only grown Daphne modesta in an unheated greenhouse.
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A few Daphnes.
Daphne x rollsdorfii 'Arnold Cihlarz'
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Daphne x susannae 'Tichborne'
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Daphne gemmata
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Kris, I had one in the open garden last winter.
Jef , do I understand correctly that you lost it due the severe frost from last winter ?
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And now a little Berlin-plant :D
I got it from a friend, who has only white plants in his garden, he is very astonished now.
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Those daphnes are a sight to see - not many have quite started flowering with us yet and neither do we have such established plants, apart from much more commonly grown species like D. retusa. I have a form of D. calcicola on the sand bed, but this is much taller and more open than gemmata and modesta.
A few plants in the sand screes:-
Narcissus panizzinianus - grown from JJA seed. This is growing well and even producing seedlings and is perhaps my favourite species in the garden.
Dianthus 'Conwy Star', and in the foreground of the wider shot, D. 'Conwy Silver'. Both truly excellent plants from Aberconwy, the latter with particularly good silver-blue foliage which is probably accentuated even when grown in tufa.
Gentiana pumila (hybrid?) - this is a curious gentian which runs around quite widely and produces intermittant flowers (never very many) but of an intense penetrating blue. It is very perennial by comparison with G. verna angulosa, and even one flower draws you from the other side of the garden. It would be very nice to learn how to grow some of these small spring gentians rather better.
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Narcissus panizzinianus - grown from JJA seed. This is growing well and even producing seedlings and is perhaps my favourite species in the garden.
I'm quite surprised that this plant is doing so well outside with you, Tim, even in Kent - I would be tickled pink if I could get them to do that here- I must try!
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Jef , do I understand correctly that you lost it due the severe frost from last winter ?
Oeps sorry, I expressed myself wrongly. The plant is still fine and doing well.
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Oeps sorry, I expressed myself wrongly. The plant is still fine and doing well.
Thanks Jef , then I give it a chance here in my garden ....Any recommandation about a place in the garden ?
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Dobrý den.
See some of you next Thursday (after a long and boring trip).
Saxifraga x pragensis 'Golden Prague'
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I just discover the Erythronium display, stunning hybrids, thanks for sharing this lovely set.
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Seem to be quiet from the Scandinavian gardeners, yet. So here are some pictures of Iris danfordiae and Iris reticulata Harmony :)
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Dodecatheon pulchellum:
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Camassia quamash ssp azurea, with Dracunculus vulgaris in back:
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Trillium cernuum:
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Corydalis scouleri:
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Finaly it seems spring has arrived here up north. Here are some Hepaticas from the garden to day (I only grow forms and hybrids of H. nobilis nobilis and H. transilvanica)
1 A multi petaled form of Hep. nobils collected in the forrest behind my house
2 One of my pink form of Hep. nobilis grown from seed (Hepatica nobilis 'Best Pink')
3 One of my favorite Hepatica is a plant given to my by my friend Severin Schlyter the last time I visited him before he past away. He had no name for it but it is a cross between H. nobilis and H. transilvanica. For my self I have named it Hepatica 'Schlyter's Heritage'
4 Hepatica 'Schlyter's Heritage' closeup
Cheers
Geir