Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: Hoy on June 01, 2013, 11:27:55 AM
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Maianthemum seems still to be an unsolved problem.
Here are two from my garden. The flowers are green but the berries get a nice red-orange colour in fall.
I like the stems and leaves though. They make decorative arching "wands". In the last picture you can see my foot as a scale.
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Aubrieta - everyone grows them, but rightly so.
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Edraianthus pumilio
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Nomocharis gongshanensis
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Nomocharis gongshanensis
Oh my word! That is a rare beauty, Karl.
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Nomocharis gongshanensis
Wow, Karl :o :o What's the inside like?
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Wim it is like that.
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Wim it is like that.
Nice, thanks, Karl!
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Dracunculus vulgaris is hardy in in a protected bed.
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Spring seems to be finally arriving in our part of the Northern Hemisphere... time for some pix :
1) Aethionema cordifolium
2) Aethionema kotschyi
3) Androsace bulleyana
4) Arenaria purpurascens
5) Asperula daphneola
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Some more :
1) Dianthus haematocalyx pindicola
2) Dianthus 'Pudsey Prize'
3) Dicentra 'King of Hearts'
4) Edraianthus serpyllifolius
5) Geranium cinereum 'Lawrence Flatman'
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Lovely show Luc.
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Thank you David - here's some more :
1) Helianthemum canum ssp balcanicum
2) Penstemon rupicola ruby
3) Ramonda myconii 'Jim's Shadow'
4) Saxifraga 'Southside Seedling'
5) Trio of Veronica, Arenaria montana and Erinus alpinus
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Lovely to see some more spring flowers from the north. It's still reasonably mild here, 14C today but dull and damp with quite a lot of rain recently. precious little colour except for autumn flowering crocuses and the first Cyclamen coum flowers. I bought a cornus tree on Saturday, A new one and I think a local production called 'Greenvale.' There's a pretty pic on the stem and it says the flowers (bracts) are very large, up to 10cms across, and palest jade green though I think the name if for the garden in which it was found. It is produced by my "local" nurseryman, Denis Hughes (he of Galanthus 'Emerald Hughes' fame. :) It was convenient to collect it on Saturday because after a first visit to the market since I left it, I could go to the garden centre in town while Roger is away on a "dirty" weekend with his mate and cousin. Dirty, in that they are looking at old cars. Roger won't be home until Wed night and I may have done all sorts of interesting things by then. ;D
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Franz, I really had hoped that you may have been at the Czech conference. It would have been a great privilege to meet you.
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Lesley,
Unfortunately allow my health and age no longer travel.
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Luc,
Beautiful plants and photographs, enjoyed them!
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Luc, beautiful plants, especially the Asperula daphneola. I think I tried that one once without success. How do you grow it? As I recall, it never came through the winter.
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Thanks for the kind words, Franz and Anne ! :)
The Asperula is grown in a crevice between tufa rocks Anne - gets a pane of glass above it's head in winter too....
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Rose 'Eddie's Jewel', a hybrid of Rosa moyesii: 12 feet tall on a 6 foot fence. This was started as a cutting in 2008. If allowed to climb a tree, it will reach 30 feet in height, an extremely impressive sight. Behind the rose is grand fir, and behind the fir is black locust in bloom, attracting thousands of bees.
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Here it is up in the trees at my place in Portland:
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Lilium martagon on left, Lilium mackliniae in front, Nomocharis pardanthina (?) behind:
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A dark form of Lilium mackliniae, blooming for the first time this year. Note the deeply colored buds:
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Nomocharis aperta (?):
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Linnaea borealis blooming under the firs, with Cornus canadensis in front and Disporum hookeri in back:
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Another group of Linnaea:
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The Cornus and Disporum were grown from seed. Linnaea is one of the few plants that I start from cuttings, since I can never find the ripe seed.
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Rose 'Eddie's Jewel', a hybrid of Rosa moyesii: 12 feet tall on a 6 foot fence. This was started as a cutting in 2008. If allowed to climb a tree, it will reach 30 feet in height, an extremely impressive sight. Behind the rose is grand fir, and behind the fir is black locust in bloom, attracting thousands of bees.
I love that rose - not one I have seen before- very impressive growth and a great colour .
Too big for my garden but I love it!
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Rose 'Eddie's Jewel', a hybrid of Rosa moyesii: 12 feet tall on a 6 foot fence. This was started as a cutting in 2008. If allowed to climb a tree, it will reach 30 feet in height, an extremely impressive sight. Behind the rose is grand fir, and behind the fir is black locust in bloom, attracting thousands of bees.
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Great pictures, Gene : I love the Lilium - it's gorgeous !
Some garden views from earlier this week :
1-2-3 showing my tufa mound
4 - 5 back garden from different angles
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Looking good at your place, Luc - and that Viola .... Wow!!! 8)
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Luc your tufa mound has settled and developed really quickly. It looks excellent.
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Magnificent, Luc.
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Lesley,
Unfortunately allow my health and age no longer travel.
I'm sorry about that Franz but I can still count it a privilege and pleasure to know you a little here, on the Forum. Thank goodness for such a wide-ranging and international place where we can all meet. :)
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Gene, your rose is FANTASTIC!! I've not met this one either but will enquire after it at every opportunity. Do you have any idea how tall the form moyesii 'Geranium' might grow? I have two ordered, expected next week and haven't really decided yet where they're to go. But if they could put on that kind of height, maybe into our large pear tree, currently host to a vigorous ivy whose days are numbered. There are a thousand ivy seedlings underneath it and climbing up both, Tropaeolum speciosum. There were a lot of smallish pears in the autumn but blackbirds got every one long before they showed any sign of ripening so to cover the lower part of the tree with 'Geranium' would be no loss, fruit-wise.
I don't know what idiocy struck me on Tuesday but I ordered half a dozen roses which I had NO intention of doing. Not only that, they are all in bluish, mauvey colours which I don't really like in roses. It all started I think with seeing a magnificent plant of 'Rhapsody in Blue' on an OAGG garden visit last November.
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I don't know anything about 'Geranium'. I have some of the R. moyesii species, and they get about 6 feet tall. But the flowers aren't that good, at least on my plants.
Another rose that grows into a monster is R. brunonii, which is a single white, shown growing here next to Eddie's Jewel.
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This is one plant, as is the Eddie's Jewel. This is just starting to bloom. In a week, it will be a solid mass of white. The black chain link fence is 6 feet tall, so the brunonii must be at least 14 feet tall. It was a rooted cutting in 2008. This rate of growth is difficult for me to comprehend. But you won't get it unless you take good care of them.
Eddie's Jewel is described as having a short period of bloom. But in my climate, it blooms for about three weeks, which is OK with me.
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Looking good at your place, Luc - and that Viola .... Wow!!! 8)
..... saves me any further comment! Just great!
Gerd
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Wonderful plants and gardens, Luc & Gene.
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Nice garden Luc!
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Clivia 'Vico Yellow' in flower today in the greenhouse. A rather nice present from a forumist.
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Wonderful plants are here to see! Luc, your tuffa mound is very impressive. Is it protected from rain? And what is the little yellow gem in the middle of the picture (Tufwand 01.06.2013)?
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Five times Campanulaceae
Campanula bellidifolia, Campanula rupicola, Campanula alpestris, Edraianthus pumilio, Edraianthus serbicus
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Gorgeous Campanulaceae, helping to make this morning's hard frost a bit more bearable. :-\
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Gene - I was walking down a logging road on Wednesday in the southern part of the province. The road bed was very compacted heavy soil, shale and gravel, seemingly without aeration. There the Linnnea happily.grew. All the Linnea here start off pink but yours are a lovely clean white.
johnw
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Thank you Jef, Yann and Ebbie !
Ebbie, the yellow gem is Linum elegans.
It looked quite a lot better last year but it struggled through winter. I feared I had lost it, but it reappeared and produced 2 flowers.
Fingers crossed !
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Tufa mound looking really good Luc, I'm extremely jealous ;D
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Luc - what marvellous plants, especially the Viola. After seeing all the amazing Czech gardens our Group is thinking of organising trips to other gardens on the continent, so maybe we could visit you and fellow Forumist's? We have thoughts of combining with other AGS Groups, even including members of the Ulster group that I met in Tabor, and at the moment Swedish and Czech gardens are high on the agenda.
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Gene - I was walking down a logging road on Wednesday in the southern part of the province. The road bed was very compacted heavy soil, shale and gravel, seemingly without aeration. There the Linnnea happily.grew. All the Linnea here start off pink but yours are a lovely clean white.
johnw
:o :o So jealous, john!! Can't seem to get them started from seed over here...probably need very fresh seeds but still :'( :'(
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Some plants in flower in my garden during the last week:
Allium komarovii
Allium nevskianum
Allium platycaule
Arisaema kiushianum
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And some more:
Dodecatheon dentatum (Primula latiloba)
Echinocereus viridiflorus
Epimedium 'Bieke'
Heuchera 'Snow Angel'
Iris innominata
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And the last four:
Lewisia rediviva
Ramonda myconi 'Alba'
Veronica oltensis
and Vancouveria chrysantha
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From the South East USA.
Sisyrinchium angustifolium "Lucerne"
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Wim - fascinating variety of plants. Allium nevskianum is very striking, and do you grow the Echinocereus outside? I begin to see the appeal of these small cacti more and more. I am not sure how easily gardeners will move from Dodecatheon to Primula - it seems a step too far for me.
A few plants on the sand bed now: Campanula aucheri, Aster natalensis, Potentilla porphyrantha (this is a Red List plant from Armenia which seems a lot more free-flowering than P. nitida with us, and a valuable plant to increase in cultivation), Leucogynes grandiceps, and an overall view.
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Lesley, I don't think 'Geranium' will ever be as big as Genes rose! And not as floriferous either - at least mine is not (but your climate is different).
What is the look of the inside of your linnea flowers? Here is a Norwegian one from a previous year and the Ranunculus parnassifolius still in flower on the roof.
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Hi,
Unfortunately, due to the many (continuous) rainfall slightly disheveled ... however
still very pretty.
Ranunculus alpestris
Orchis militaris
Greetings
Bernd
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Lesley 'Eddie's Jewel' is available in NZ as a friend near Arrowtown has a lovely big one. It would certainly grow up a tree. Gene great roses. The scent from Rosa brunnoni would be intoxicating.
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Wim - fascinating variety of plants. Allium nevskianum is very striking, and do you grow the Echinocereus outside? I begin to see the appeal of these small cacti more and more. I am not sure how easily gardeners will move from Dodecatheon to Primula - it seems a step too far for me.
Thanks Tim. The Echinocereus grows in a trough outside in pure riversand. The trough stands against a south-facing wall and get's no cover...so it get's all the rain and black frost our Belgian climate can throw at it. You can see a pic of the trough and cactusses covered with snow, here: http://www.vrvforum.be/forum/index.php?topic=85.msg5315#msg5315 (http://www.vrvforum.be/forum/index.php?topic=85.msg5315#msg5315)
And you can see some pics of the other hardy cactusses which are growing here:
http://www.vrvforum.be/forum/index.php?topic=85.60 (http://www.vrvforum.be/forum/index.php?topic=85.60)
http://www.vrvforum.be/forum/index.php?topic=85.msg27152#msg27152 (http://www.vrvforum.be/forum/index.php?topic=85.msg27152#msg27152)
http://www.vrvforum.be/forum/index.php?topic=85.msg27764#msg27764 (http://www.vrvforum.be/forum/index.php?topic=85.msg27764#msg27764)
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Thanks Pat for that excellent news. I'll have a look at rose websites and hopefully find it. If not, would you be prepared to let me know your friend's address? He/She may let me buy some cuttings in the spring. I'v fallen heavily for it since Gene's amazing picture. ;D
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How about this for a 3 pan class. Vernon Hancock brought these truly wonderful plants of Physoplexis comosa to Pottertons NGS Open weekend. STUNNING!!!!!!!!!
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Best in Show, the Farrer Medal and a Forrest Medal in one go ... is Vernon exhibiting at Pontefract on Saturday? You have just dissuaded at least thirty exhibitors from travelling to the event, Mike!!! LOL. Absolutely superb trio (and I thought mine was quite impressive last year).
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Really incredible! I would think it was some sort of computer trick except people actually saw this. It doesn't look like this in the wild, even when you see it at its best. Maybe this exhibitor should be turned loose on Eritrichium nanum
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wow...the Physoplexis :o :o. i should print the foto + show it to my poor plants. ;D
here an interesting variety of Arum italicum with spots on the spatha and dark blotches on the leaves. i bought it as seed grown plant from a hobby gardener of our local garden society a few years ago:
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Two recent views of the most colourful bit of my garden just now.
Veronica gentianoides and an orange geum
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Campanula thessala
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North East Scotland seems to be awash with colour, Roma!!!! Your garden looks beautiful.
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I only show the good bits, Cliff ;D. Most of it is a mess and a plague of baby rabbits is not helping.
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Aquilegia moorcroftiana CC7152 delicately scented, a subtle beauty
The white washed with violet and green reminds me of icebergs or fragments of old glacial ice 8)
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Two recent views of the most colourful bit of my garden just now.
Veronica gentianoides and an orange geum
You seem to have forgotten to mention that small patch of Meconopsis, Roma... ::) :o ;)
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Aquilegia moorcroftiana CC7152 delicately scented, a subtle beauty
The white washed with violet and green reminds me of icebergs or fragments of old glacial ice 8)
Gorgeous Ashley, is it a dwarf one please?
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No, about 40-50 cm David, albeit among raspberries for reasons I won't bore you with ;D
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An area next to the driveway and within reach of the snowplower - thus everything is allowed to self sow there with abandon - the snowplower is sure to thin things out! Some of the plants: Arenarias, anthyllis, iris, Penstemons, Phlox douglasii, dianthus, coronillas, ononis sp., symphyandras, Chrysanthemum weyrichii, etc.
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You can bring your snowplower here any day - not too sure what I'll plough with it though, but maybe your beautiful flowers will still come up next to my driveway if I do? ;) :D
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No, about 40-50 cm David, albeit among raspberries for reasons I won't bore you with ;D
Thanks Ashley.
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You can bring your snowplower here any day - not too sure what I'll plough with it though, but maybe your beautiful flowers will still come up next to my driveway if I do? ;) :D
This area had once been planted with some really wonderful plants but the snowplower destroyed that planting during a very heavy snowstorm. What's there now is what has seeded in. The only thing I have to do is remove the occasional plant with dingy color. The Anthyllis vulneraria and Anthyllis vul. v. coccinea have made some really interesting color combinations between them.
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A couple of contrasting plants on the sand bed at the moment - Dianthus squarrosus and Teucrium aroanum.
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M. x cookei
C. sp. nov.
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Nomocharis gongshanensis
Did this one originate with me? Never got a chance to see the seedlings in flower before I moved.
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Maianthemum seems still to be an unsolved problem.
Here are two from my garden. The flowers are green but the berries get a nice red-orange colour in fall.
That's Smilacina tatsienensis, a very variable and wide-spread species.
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Arisaema; Yes the seeds coming from you, I got the bulb of a good Norwegian friend early spring
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Stellera chamaejasme doing well this year.
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As is this Saxifraga callosa. The Aciphylla monroi next to it has just finished flowering.
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Lovely Stellera, Darren.
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Meconopsis flowering has started in the north:
M. Kingsbarn's hybrid
M x Marit
M x cookei Old Rose
M. lancifoloia, which I believed to be monocarp, but behold, after flowering for the first time last summer, it came back stronger this year.
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The sun has come out again. Hypoxis parvula var. albiflora, recently acquired in the Plant Heritage plant swap; Rosa 'Dunwichensis'; and a Dutch Iris, 'Eye of the Tiger'
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A standard wisteria 'LIPSTICK' growing on a raised bed
Rhodohypoxis in the same bed
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Two rather nice irises in flower at the moment.
1 & 2. Iris 'Princesse Caroline de Monaco'
3. Iris 'Dutch Chocolate' (we think!)
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Meconopsis flowering has started in the north:
M. Kingsbarn's hybrid
M x Marit
M x cookei Old Rose
M. lancifoloia, which I believed to be monocarp, but behold, after flowering for the first time last summer, it came back stronger this year.
Great show Magnar , as ever ....
I wan't to show some Saponaria's .
To start : Saponaria caespitosa , Saponaria 'Bressingham '
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And ofcourse good old Saponaria x olivana
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Aquilegia discolor
Arenaria montana
Gaultheria adenotrix
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And a some orange to ..........Digitalis obscura ..
Calceolaria 'Walter Schrimpton '
Cypripedium parviflorum
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fantastic plants all!
not sure this is in the right place as it's in the greenhouse, here's Ramonda myconi
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Super plants Kris - I have Digitalis obscura and have always liked it, but never kept it long in the garden. I must try it with grittier soil. This is a simple but beautiful combination in a friend's garden; Tulipa sprengeri and the British native Potentilla rupestris.
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Super plants Kris - I have Digitalis obscura and have always liked it, but never kept it long in the garden. I must try it with grittier soil. This is a simple but beautiful combination in a friend's garden; Tulipa sprengeri and the British native Potentilla rupestris.
Thanks Tim ,can send you some seeds in the autumn if you like ....
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... nothing special, but very pretty for me anyway :-)
Iris pseudoacorus
Bernd
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Gaultheria adenotrix
Perfect photo! .... says the woman who LOVES ericaceae 8)
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It is lovely isn't it Maggi - this from someone who finds the Ericaceae fascinating, probably because I live somewhere where you can't grow them well! Oh, for a new book on these plants like that written by Alfred Evans... he says of this species: 'It is the flowers, however, that catch most attention. As in many of the Ericaceae, the flowers are globular and in this instance they are pure white, but this pallidity is offset by the calyx, which is deep red in colour. This combination alone would guarantee a place for the species, but in addition bright red fruits develop later in some gardens'.
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I was thinking maybe the Gaultheria would make a good replacement for an Arcterica nana I put in a trough and has not grown at all for about 4 years- oddly when I googled it I only got hits in Polish and other non English languages. Very odd!
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Loved the pictures of Meconopsis, what beautiful blues. Can't be grown here due to hot and humid summers. However, my failure made me discover my favorite horticultural poem, which maybe everyone already knows?
From the lady who grew meconopsis,
When asked to supply a synopsis,
"How can I", she cried,
"When all of them died,
do more than supply their autopsies?!"
Don't know the author.
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.... and her sister Iris sibirica ;D
( ....sorry, but due to the strong wind and the location in my swampy meadow, the images become not so good)
Bernd
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Rosa Pom Pom de Paris flowering well for me this yea,r blooms are only 5 cm across
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Some plants which have flowered over here during the last week!
Dactylorhiza majalis subsp. praetermissa
Epilobium obcordatum
Iris 'Exotic Isle'
Iris 'Patina'
Anemone 'Wild Swan'
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Some more:
Gaillardia aristata
Gladiolus communis subsp. byzantinus
Iris cv. (Tall Bearded) Don't know the name though...if anyone has suggestions??
Linum monogynum (Dwarf form)
Primula bulleyana
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And more ;D :
Sarracenia flava ‘Heavily veined form’ x oreophila
Sauromatum venosum
Saxifraga x geum
Iris 'Dazzling Gold'
Polygonatum hookeri
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More:
Disporum nantouense
Iris 'Frison Roche'
Iris sibirica 'Über den Wolken'
Iris 'Titan's Glory'
and Oxalis enneaphylla 'Alba'
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And the last for this week:
Polygonatum huanum
Iris 'Mary Frances'
Iris 'Princesse Caroline de Monaco'
Iris tectorum
and Ranunculus alpestris
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Nice to see Linum monogynum again, we used to have it!
Your Princesse Caroline de Monaco looks to have a different colour to ours, it should be a lovely light blue.
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I love that rose - not one I have seen before- very impressive growth and a great colour .
Too big for my garden but I love it!
Given its name, this rose almost certainly originated at the long defunct Eddie Nursery in Vancouver, BC. One other truly great introduction from the Eddie Nursery is Cornus 'Eddie's White Wonder', a hybrid of the Atlantic coast Cornus florida and the Pacific coast Cornus nuttalli.
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Your Princesse Caroline de Monaco looks to have a different colour to ours, it should be a lovely light blue.
Had suspected as much, Brian. I was given this one a couple of years ago under that name by a friend but I never was sure it was 'PCdM', will keep it as a nameless cv then!!
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I am thrilled to learn (thanks so much Pat T) that Rosa moyesii 'Eddie's Jewel' is in New Zealand. Now I have to put all my begging skills into practice in hope of obtaining a few cuttings a little later in the year.
Wim, a great thrill to see the TB Iris 'Patina.' I lost mine in a previous garden move but it was always my favourite. The brownish colouring is not just brown but has in it a sort of antiqued greyish tinge, as if there's a pewter underlayer. It is so very aptly named. I have an as yet unflowered seedling from it.
But what I really want to know now please, is the species name of the vigorous Corydalis of which 'Pere David' is a form. It isn't elata is it? Or is it? My brain has turned to mush recently. There's a 2 metre wide patch come up here and I want to name it accurately if possible.
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That Iris 'Exotic Isle' is a beauty too. Is it a TB?
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But what I really want to know now please, is the species name of the vigorous Corydalis of which 'Pere David' is a form. It isn't elata is it? Or is it? My brain has turned to mush recently. There's a 2 metre wide patch come up here and I want to name it accurately if possible.
flexuosa!
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And so pleased to see the Saponaria pictures. They are badly under-rated I believe and many people don't seem to know or appreciate them at all. Yet they are beautiful plants and should be grown by everyone. It's worth growing several flat or cushiony species in close proximity and a batch of seedlings from any one will give some lovely hybrids. This one is lutea x pumila, soft, peachy pink on a small neat plant.
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Oh David, what a wonder you are - faster than a speeding.....rain cloud, and I know about those. We're having floods here at present. Thanks so much. Knew it as soon as I saw it, so the label is written out already. In a previous garden it grew so well I had to put heaps in the compost bins, then found it growing in every place the compost had been used. Then all of a sudden with a couple of dry seasons, it had vanished altogether.
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And so pleased to see the Saponaria pictures. They are badly under-rated I believe and many people don't seem to know or appreciate them at all. Yet they are beautiful plants and should be grown by everyone. It's worth growing several flat or cushiony species in close proximity and a batch of seedlings from any one will give some lovely hybrids. This one is lutea x pumila, soft, peachy pink on a small neat plant.
I just knew you would champion the Saponarias, Lesley! I felt guilty when seeing the fine pictures of Kris' plants that I am not growing more of these here.
I promise I will seek out some seed this year!
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A nice shrub, Acradenia frankliniae.
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Very nice, Ralph.
I've only seen this from Paul T's Australian reports http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=3339.msg85322#msg85322 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=3339.msg85322#msg85322) good to know it will grow in the UK.
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Very nice, Ralph.
I've only seen this from Paul T's Australian reports http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=3339.msg85322#msg85322 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=3339.msg85322#msg85322) good to know it will grow in the UK.
Yes, has been through recent hard winters with no problem. I think I bought it at The Tree Shop at Cairndow in Argyll.
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Yes, has been through recent hard winters with no problem. I think I bought it at The Tree Shop at Cairndow in Argyll.
Curiouser and curiouser!
Now I feel ashamed that I know so little of the treasures available on the western side of our wee country :o
I'd not heard of the Tree Shop :-X http://www.thetreeshop.net/ (http://www.thetreeshop.net/)
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I am very happy over my Ipomopsis aggregata plants which are in flower now. I tried it once before but it died due to winter wetness. This year three plants survived out of five or so, and the flowers are really fantastic, but unlike the USA where I saw them in the wild being pollinated by hummingbirds, I don't think they will be pollinated at all here unless some moth ventures near them.
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very nice Paul. I'd use a paintbrush - I'm not sure moths see red too well.
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John - really fascinating to see the Acradenia. I used to grow it not too far from you in north Kent and it was a good memory of time spent in Tasmania. Unfortunately one of the drought years we had was too much for it. It's yet another excuse to travel up to the West coast of Scotland!
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Wim, a great thrill to see the TB Iris 'Patina.' I lost mine in a previous garden move but it was always my favourite. The brownish colouring is not just brown but has in it a sort of antiqued greyish tinge, as if there's a pewter underlayer. It is so very aptly named. I have an as yet unflowered seedling from it.
I love it a lot too, Lesley...like you say, it has a colour which is very hard to describe. Looking forward to seeing the flower on your seedling!
That Iris 'Exotic Isle' is a beauty too. Is it a TB?
Yes, it is a Tall Bearded!
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Embothrium coccineum from a friend's garden. He collected seed in Patagonia himself some years ago. I got the seed and germinated them and he got some of the seedlings. This is the best one and completely hardy. It has survived 3 very bad winters in a row. Last winter a lot of conifers and evergreens died here but not this one!
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I know of a couple of superb Embothrium in Aberdeen - we are hoping our babies will do as well :D
It is good to see how it thrives in Norway!
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I am very happy over my Ipomopsis aggregata plants which are in flower now... but unlike the USA where I saw them in the wild being pollinated by hummingbirds, I don't think they will be pollinated at all here unless some moth ventures near them.
Hi Paul
we don't have hummingbirds here either but the Ipomopsis managed to set seed anyway for the last few years. Mark's suggestion of the paintbrush might be worth it though in case your insects aren't as interested in them as ours obviously are! ;D
cheers
fermi
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Tim
Is Acradenia particulary sensitive to drought or is the hoseban to blame?
I can water the plant but air humidity can be very low here in summer.
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John - I think the Acradenia was really sensitive to my neglect in a particularly dry year. We could have watered because as a nursery were not prevented by the hosepipe bans. Our garden is quite large and on the whole we don't water areas unless plants are important for propagation. We also grow the wonderful Telopea truncata from Tasmania mountains, but more out of hope than expectation because we are really too dry for it to succeed well.
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Seen at Pottertons last weekend,
Dactylorhiza Eskimo Nell
Ostrowskia magnifica
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I love the Ipomopsis!
My first pic is the diminutive Mimulus rupicola (Death Valley Monkey Flower). Only 8 weeks old from Alplains seed. The flower is only the size of my thumbnail but there look to be lots of buds so it could look quite spectacular later this month. Apparently an annual which might make the alpine purists sniff but this just makes me like it even more ;) ;D
Then Delphinium laxiflorum, a plant bought as a seedling from the members stall at the Blackpool show a year or so ago. The donor was forumist Diane Clement I recall and Diane also had a few other Delphinium species for sale - these I also snapped up and are about to flower.
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A couple of Primulas.
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Campanula's in bloom
1. Campanula dasyantha 'Superba'
2. Campanula alpestris
3. Campanula zangezura
4. Campanula bellidifolia
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Hi Gerrit, you do grow more than Epimediums!
My garden is dominated by shrubs, especially rhododendrons. Here is another faithful bloomer, Enkianthus campanulatus var palibinii. It makes a rather large shrub and is laden with flowers every June. I have 4 shrubs, this is in a untidy shrubbery - needs a little renovation!
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Bachelors Buttons with Geranium nimbus
Lonicera Michael Rosse
Campanula patula
Thalictrum Tuberosa
Ajuga bikun - has never flowered for me but I still like it
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Lonicera Michael Rosse is handsome, Margaret - in your pic it looks to be more of a shrub than a climber - it is versatile that way? How big is it?
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Fox and Cubs, Pilosella aurantiaca, a wild flower which some may consider a weed. I like it.
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For some years now I have had a couple of Rosa persica cultivars in the garden. Bred by Harkness some decades ago, they are R. 'Tigris' and R. 'Nigel Hawthorn'. So I was very interested to read Charles Quest-Ritson's article in the March 2013 edition of the RHS journal "The Plantsman" about advances in rose breeding, and in particular the new work on breeding using Rosa persica carried out in the last decade. And of course I had to have some. They established very well and two are now flowering, clearly showing the characteristic red blotch. My wife thinks they look more like peonies than roses.
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My first pic is the diminutive Mimulus rupicola (Death Valley Monkey Flower). Only 8 weeks old from Alplains seed. The flower is only the size of my thumbnail but there look to be lots of buds so it could look quite spectacular later this month. Apparently an annual which might make the alpine purists sniff but this just makes me like it even more ;) ;D
A neat little thing, Darren ! Please show us again when more buds have opened ! :)
Flowering here at the moment :
1) Campanula betulifolia
2) Campanula nitida
3) Dianthus neglectus
4) Edraianthus tenuifolius
5) Penstemon tenuifolius 'Wisley Flame'
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Maggi, Lonicera Michael Rosse is growing over the roof of the shed. It must be at least twenty years old and was quite slow to get going. It's a lovely thing but has no scent, it's only drawback.
Luc, nice plants and fantastic photos. Any tips for good plant pics?
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Lovely garden shot, Margaret - I love a garden where you can't see any soil!
The lack of scent in the Lonicera is a blow - it is so very showy I should have known there would be a hitch!
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Fox and Cubs, Pilosella aurantiaca, a wild flower which some may consider a weed. I like it.
So do I, a great colour. I made the mistake of planting some in a border one year, it ran everywhere and took me a couple of years to remove. It does do very well in the lawn however; I just mow it as normal (that is no more than once every two weeks) but stop as soon as I see the flower buds developing. Two weeks later it is in full flower along with plantains, buttercups and other "weeds". When the flowers are over I just start mowing again.
The lazy gardener?
Chris
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Great plants, Luc! The Penstemon pinifolius 'Wisley Flame' is a new one to me. Looks like a great color. I just have the usual suspects, yellows and oranges.
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An even more vivid colour - Erysimum wheeleri(from Southwest Native Seed). This is quite a surprising plant because it makes a relatively small and neat rosette and then produces this metre tall flowering stem. It would look stunning en masse, self-seeding in a large gravel garden.
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This is a select clone of the seeds from Fragaria ananassa 'Tristan F1'. The flowers are about 1 inch wide and continuously flowering.
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Very pretty. Do the berries have a good flavour?
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Ralph thanks for showing the newer Rosa persica breeding. A group that we only have one or two in Oz and then I find them hard to grow - have lost them on both attempts.
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Ralph thanks for showing the newer Rosa persica breeding. A group that we only have one or two in Oz and then I find them hard to grow - have lost them on both attempts.
The older cultivars ('Tigris', 'Nigel Hawthorn') are spindly weak looking things, but the new ones are much more robust.
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An even more vivid colour - Erysimum wheeleri(from Southwest Native Seed). This is quite a surprising plant because it makes a relatively small and neat rosette and then produces this metre tall flowering stem. It would look stunning en masse, self-seeding in a large gravel garden.
Tim, do you have this for sale in your nursery? If so, I'll be over!
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Some plants which have flowered here during the last week:
Iris sibirica 'Snow Prince'
Iris 'Vague à l'âme'
Escobaria missouriensis var. asperispina
Iris 'Burnt Toffee'
and Penstemon hallii
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And some more:
Allium cernuum 'White Dwarf'
Echinocereus triglochidiatus
Geranium cinereum 'Signal'
Iris 'Wild Yasmine'
and Linum suffruticosum
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And the last batch for this week:
Dictamnus albus
Iris 'Ciel Gris sur Poilly'
Linum austriacum
and Tragopogon porrifolius
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It has been a very flower filled week in your garden Wim !
I think I am in love with the 'Snow Prince'
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Some of those irises are extraordinary Wim - the range of colour in one flower!
John - the Erysimum looks certain to be monocarpic to me, and all our plants have come up to flower. We will collect seed and aim to have plants for next year.
Compared with the irises the flowers of Mentha requienii are minute, around 1½mm in diameter! But it is a great little plant that I wouldn't be without (Farrer called it 'a microscopic jewel from Corsica').
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Is this the best Summer flowering common common shrub?Two plants cover the end of my garage facing N.W. and never fail to perform after an annual trim.
Kolkwitzia amabilis 'Pink Cloud'
Cornus alternifolia
Flowers & foliage
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Flowers & foliage
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Is this the best Summer flowering common common shrub?Two plants cover the end of my garage facing N.W. and never fail to perform after an annual trim.
Kolkwitzia amabilis 'Pink Cloud'
Cornus alternifolia
Flowers & foliage
All beautiful, John - hard to imagine more flowers.
Your blue meconopsis are looking well, too.
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Is there a thread for wildflowers? Anyway, here is an Echium sp. flowering in a wildflower meadow full of yellow rattle, Rhinanthus minor, on the North Downs near Faversham, Kent.
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It has been a very flower filled week in your garden Wim !
I think I am in love with the 'Snow Prince'
Yes, it was :)
For me, 'Snow Prince' is one of the most beautiful Irisses ever! Do you have a space in your garden where he might grow? ;)
Some of those irises are extraordinary Wim - the range of colour in one flower!
Yes 'Burnt Toffee' and 'Ciel Gris sur Poilly' for example have a few different colours in their flower...
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Yes, it was :)
For me, 'Snow Prince' is one of the most beautiful Irisses ever! Do you have a space in your garden where he might grow? ;)
Oh yes! (but don't tell Ian! )
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Very pretty. Do the berries have a good flavour?
Yes the flavour is good a little better than the commercial ones.
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This dicentra is so weird that it is now called Ehrendorferia ochroleuca. This, and a second species, chrysantha, are adapted to dry Californian hillsides and germinate freely after fires. We tried soaking seed in Hickory smoke essence (used for BBQ's!) and just a few seed germinated. This plant was left in the greenhouse sand plunge and has rooted through and flowered in situ. In the wild they can grow to 3m tall and I wish I had planted it out to see if it would have reached that here! Both species would be very striking in a sand or gravel garden, perhaps like heathland set fire to every now and again.
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Oh yes! (but don't tell Ian! )
Okay, a part of the prince will move country shortly ;) (Don't worry, I won't tell Ian ;D )
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Tim, I like your Ehrendorferia ochroleuca although it is a little weird ;D
Here are three of the plants in flower now (I have omitted all the rhododendrons!)
Arisaema elephas(?) -two different specimens. Although the spathes are similar the stems and leaves are not.
Meconopsis sp
Clintonia andrewsiana
Next post:
Neillia thibetica, nice in flower but spreading vigorously by runners
Rosa roxburghii
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--the rest.
Rosa roxburghii is very late this year.
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something really tiny, Campanula myrtifolia in the greenhouse
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Perfect photo! .... says the woman who LOVES ericaceae 8)
Thanks Maggi , just back from a very rewarding holiday .
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I was thinking maybe the Gaultheria would make a good replacement for an Arcterica nana I put in a trough and has not grown at all for about 4 years- oddly when I googled it I only got hits in Polish and other non English languages. Very odd!
I think it is not a bad idea Mark .My plant comes from Ger Vanden Beuken , I don't know if it's on his list for the moment ...
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It is lovely isn't it Maggi - this from someone who finds the Ericaceae fascinating, probably because I live somewhere where you can't grow them well! Oh, for a new book on these plants like that written by Alfred Evans... he says of this species: 'It is the flowers, however, that catch most attention. As in many of the Ericaceae, the flowers are globular and in this instance they are pure white, but this pallidity is offset by the calyx, which is deep red in colour. This combination alone would guarantee a place for the species, but in addition bright red fruits develop later in some gardens'.
Thanks Tim . I planted it out in a big peatblock . My garden is also dry and hot (in some years , not this year so far ;D)but in this way it is possible to grow this beauty.
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I think I will be tempted to try some small ericaceous plants in troughs - especially after reading Barry Starling's article in the AGS Journal. I don't know how easy it is to get hold of peat blocks around here but I will look out for some.
Meanwhile we do do quite well with real sun-lovers like Catananche caespitosa, Centaurea drabifolia and Penstemon ovatus - this latter seeds around gently and is a delightful species.
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Nice plants, Tim. The centaureas seem to be very underused in gardens and they're really wonderful plants.
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Geranium x magnificum, Geranium sanguineum and foliage of Paeonia anomala (with a seed pod) :)
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Geranium x magnificum, Geranium sanguineum and foliage of Paeonia anomala (with a seed pod) :)
A planting of subtle colouring with great interest in the way of texture/ foliage. I think such combinations can give the greatest pleasure in a garden.
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A planting of subtle colouring with great interest in the way of texture/ foliage. I think such combinations can give the greatest pleasure in a garden.
Yes they do, even when the flowering is over. And there is no room for weeds. ;D
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Celmisia sessiliflora
Rhododendron lowndesii
Petunia patagonica
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All great beauties Kris.
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Kris - Did you hear my scream from there? :o :o :o R. lowndesii, one of the supremely difficult rhodo species to cultivate. Can you tell us how to grow it? I had three in a trough with plenty of crushed tufa in the upper reaches. They got too dry one winter in the cold greenhouse and think they'd have preferred wintering inn an outdoor frame.
Any chance we could get a little pollen?
johnw
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Hi Kris. may I ask what P. patagonica needs to bloom?
I have recently acquired a couple starts of it.
John B
Celmisia sessiliflora
Rhododendron lowndesii
Petunia patagonica
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Trond,
I have seeds in the refrigerator at the moment of Rosa roxburghii from Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens as I love it as a plant, flower and especially the seed pods with their tropical scent. I have never come across a rose hip with such scent. If you ever have seed I would like to try them as I believe the seed pods can vary in colour from their source.
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Hi Pat,
I get loads of hips with viable seeds every fall. No problem sending you some, but they ripen late. Maybe I can still find some from last year. The hips are tough and take some time to disintegrate. Send me a PM with your address.
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All great beauties Kris.
Thanks Ashley !
Kris - Did you hear my scream from there? :o :o :o R. lowndesii, one of the supremely difficult rhodo species to cultivate. Can you tell us how to grow it? I had three in a trough with plenty of crushed tufa in the upper reaches. They got too dry one winter in the cold greenhouse and think they'd have preferred wintering inn an outdoor frame.
Any chance we could get a little pollen?
johnw
I heared something , didn't know it was you John. ;)
I must admit that I only grow it for two years now .So maybe a bit early for big celebrations ....I grow it in my peatbed . The space between the peatblocks is filled with a mix of leafmould (most of the content) ,peat ,smal part loam, finest bark we can get and also composted bark.
This tiny Rhodo get sun from the morning until midnoon . I think that he even get's to much sun on Sunny days .
We had a cool season so far (extremely cool for our situation) and maybe that's my luck for the moment ?
After the winter it looks terrible and I was afraid that I loose this beauty. But he survived and now I have two or three flowers .
Sent me a PM about the pollen John , so I can read what you exactly mean .So far it is not clear , but ofcourse I wil try to help ...
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Hi Kris. may I ask what P. patagonica needs to bloom?
I have recently acquired a couple starts of it.
John B
Hi John , I wish I could tell you .....but I suppose it is "coincidence".
First I have to remark that it is only flowering with 3 flowers ....so a modest flowering.We did see them flowering in Patagonie in 2008 and there the whole plant was covered with flowers .
I think that the plants need a certain age/maturity . I have this plant about 3 or 4 years and I get it as smal cutting from a friend .I grow it in a clay pot that is plunged in a sandbed outside .From march until november (depending on weather conditions ) I grow it outside witouth cover .In this conditions they stay compact (and get more ultraviolet /light ).In the glasshouse they grow to untidy for me .From november until the end of february this sandbed is covered against to much winter wet....Cold is no problem, the whole sandbed was frozen (frost minus 14 degrees )in previous winter. But to much rain is not good .I feed them in spring when I think of it .Maybe the key is a cool atumn/summer. Until now we had a very cool summer (and spring was very cool to)We had only two days with temperatures above 25 degrees . This is not a normal spring/summer for our situation...
But the Patagonian plants like such situations . They need plenty of fresh air , wind , breeze , as much light as possible but no heat ......I think that temperatures above 25 degrees brings them in a stress situation.
Some people also telling that several clones are involved and that you need the wright clone.
Hopefully future wil tel us .
Hope this is useful for you , wish you succes.
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Back from the Royal Norfolk show where we had to arrive by 6.30 this morning so happy to pootle around in the garden this afternoon. One or two things I was pleased with in the garden. The Allium schubertii has put in an appearance after an absence of three or four years, I presume it was building the bulb up again to flowering size so a nice surprise to see it this year. One of my favourites in the garden is this Bupleurum and I'm pleased to say that the Dactylorhiza have started, this is D. 'Edinburgh' form.
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Last year we picked this up from Long Acre Plants, Roscoea 'Harvington Evening Star' a real delight. In complete contrast, this Digitalis was the plant of the year at Chelsea last year, Digitalis 'Illumination Pink' a cross between our native foxglove and Isoplexis canariensis it is sterile and supposed to flower for six months and be perennial. I wasn't brave enough to try it out of doors last winter! A nice combination, this peony with Allium christopherii and lastly Alstoremeria 'Yellow Friendship'.
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Flowering well is Iris siberica 'Double Standards', this Iris germanica is from East Lambrook Manor, I'm not sure of the name so if anyone recognizes it I would be pleased to know and the last flower on I. 'Tabac Blond' as it is repeat flowering my fingers are crossed.
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Stretching the term flowering here !
On 25 DEC.2011 I posted a picture of a Christmas tree in the wilds of Ayrshire. Today we came along the same remote road and to my surprise, the tree was still there with even more decorations. It looks as if it has been "adopted" and is in great condition. I hope it will last to maturity with increasing decorations added.
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Remarkable Tom .
Here flowering in my tufagarden : Silene elisabethae .
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Aster coloradensis .
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Beautiful photo, Kris.
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Primula alpicola, white form
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On our way north to help our youngest daughter move (she has been studying at the University of Trondheim but has changed to Svalbard for a year) we first stopped at our cabin at the coast for one night. Not much to admire (the neighbour's sheep have taken their toll) but the little Potentilla ambigua was in flower. It is a nice plant and the picture doesn't do it right. Also Veronica austriaca was untouched by the sheep. They self sow in the dry shallow soil. Several plants of an Allium (name forgotten) were in flower too but many had been damaged by the sheep.
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The next day we continued to our mountain cabin where it is still spring and a heavy rain. Veronica fruticans is in flower. It has spread a lot after I introduced it some years ago. An Anemone narcissiflora (from seed several years ago) is very nice this year.
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I love to see that anemone, Trond ... lovely images.
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It is very lovely - such a simple and beautiful flower. There are pink and yellow (I think?) forms of this too, but looking at that photo. the white must be hard to beat.
Our garden is too dry for such a plant but we do well with umbellifers like Ferula communis subsp. glauca; this self seeds and in mischievous moments I wonder whether to sprinkle seed down onto the motorway verges next to us!
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Agreed Tim. Even the straight species is a magnificent plant, and insects love it too.
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I really like the Ferula Tim. I have tried it here in Sweden, and I had one plant for many years, but then one winter it died-probably got too wet. I received seeds of it from Mervyn Southam, who was an umbellifer-expert. I have collected seeds of Ferula communis on my trips to Turkey, but I haven't given it a try here yet. It probably takes about a decade to reach flowering size with us.
Here are some Penstemon plants which have flowered recently:
Penstemon lemhiensis[attach=3]
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Here are some more of the Penstemons:
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Penstemon mensarum, which I think looks a lot like P. strictus, but maybe they are closely related.
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Penstemon wilcoxii to finish off this year's Penstemon-species in bloom here
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Thanks Cliff and Tim!
Tim, your ferula is a magnificent plant! I have not tried it but have planned to do for a while. If PaulM managed to grow one in Sweden it gives me hope I will manage!
Nice Penstemons, Paul, I have a lot of seedlings I will plant out next spring.
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Here are some Penstemon plants which have flowered recently:
I like your Penstemons Paul , very beautiful !
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Just received these delightful images from dear Anne Spiegel who is currently being snowed upon in Corvara, Italy on her (and Joe's) annual pilgrimage to the beautiful Dolomites. A very late season and the current snowfalls mean that the high passes and usual haunts are out of reach, so Anne was especially pleased to discover these magnificent stands of Gentiana acaulis in a high meadow where she noted that every plant was growing in large clusters like this ... in old cow pats, perhaps?
Gentiana acaulis images captured by Anne Spiegel.
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wow, thanks for passing these on Cliff.
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Now I know what to do to get my gentians to flower - if only I can find the local cow... would sheep droppings work? They are more on the scale of the alpine garden!
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Now I know what to do to get my gentians to flower - if only I can find the local cow... would sheep droppings work? They are more on the scale of the alpine garden!
I'm only surmising about the cow pats, Tim ... but I have seen crocus thrusting up through large 'deposits' in the Dolomites and in Switzerland.
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The photos were taken in an alpine meadow that was tremendously floriferous with anemones, Primula farinosa, and the gentians in huge clumps. It may well have been manured in the not too distant past because it's not far from a new ski lift. Usually they reconstitute disturbed meadows here with a mixture of straw and manure. The plants that come after this can be superb, including the best Ranunculus seguieri I've ever seen. (Posted in 2012 or 2011). I don't know what the effect of so much manure at low altitudes would be but the plants above treeline seem to like it. The ranunculus will be driven out in a few years by other plants taking advantage of the rich soil, too bad. Many thanks to Cliff for posting the pictures. We're here with a tiny computer and no way to resize anything so Cliff went to the trouble of resizing giant photos and posting them for me. The laptop with all the bells and whistles is home, too inconveniently large to carry.
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Usually they reconstitute disturbed meadows here with a mixture of straw and manure. The plants that come after this can be superb, including the best Ranunculus seguieri I've ever seen. (Posted in 2012 or 2011). I don't know what the effect of so much manure at low altitudes would be but the plants above treeline seem to like it. The ranunculus will be driven out in a few years by other plants taking advantage of the rich soil, too bad.
Hmm, interesting. Other than as a possible emergency response to acute erosion this seems like a bad idea.
Depending on the source of animal feed, imported manure will probably bring lots of weed seeds from lower altitude or elsewhere. The flush of nutrients will also disturb the vegetation balance, as you say Anne, to the detriment of alpines unable to compete with taller-growing grasses etc.. Grazing is improved in the short term but ecological restoration is slowed down.
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I don't know how many tall plants would survive this far above treeline. The plants that come up seem to be plants that are in the area. In that area, Ranunculus seguieri is there in certain bald spots with no companions other than Oxytropis jaquinii. The ranunculus seems to prefer its own company, at least any time that I've seen it. But the spot I'm talking about also had more boisterous plants like erysimums, arabis and saussaureas. They'll grow much faster and crowd out the ranunculus, I think. The cows graze the meadows up there in the summer, not down below, so I'd assume the manure would have the seeds of the area.
I know a spot in Colorado which had many, many Penstemon teucrioides. The only other plant was Oenothera caespitosa. It was a disturbed area and eventually other plants crept in and the last time I went there were no penstemons left. Another plant that prefers to have no company.
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P.S. Yes, it was in response to erosion due to machines and also people making new trails to avoid the construction area.
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A few bits and pieces still flowering in the garden at the moment :
1 and 2 = Campanula garganica - ideal for covering a wall !
3) Campanula scheuchzeri var. Covadonga is even darker than on the picture
4) Delphinium sp. - a bitt taller than I would have liked but a delightful colour
5) Edraianthus horvatii in full flower
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and a few more...
1) Fuchsia magellanica pumila just started flowering and will go on until the first frosts come !
2) Moltkia petrea
3) Verbascum laetitia attracts the attention from afar
4) Three shades of blue... :o 8) From left to right : Delphinium sp. - Campanula garganica and Moltkia petrea
5) Rhododendron nakaharae 'Mariko' - definitely the latest flowering Rhodo in my garden
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4) Delphinium sp. - a bitt taller than I would have liked but a delightful colour
A really good colour, Luc - does it set seed? ;) :-*
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A really good colour, Luc - does it set seed? ;) :-*
Thanks Maggi ... and yes, it does (lots).
An envelope carrying your name is kept ready ! ;)
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Thanks Luc! :-*
Have you any idea what it might be? That bright colour is very striking and Ian is scratching his head.......
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Thanks Luc! :-*
Have you any idea what it might be? That bright colour is very striking and Ian is scratching his head.......
I once grew Delphinium tatsianense (only 30 cm high) and a Delphinium sp from which I only had the information "Pamir" that was slightly higher.
Since then, seedlings pop up left and right of the garden and are all sizes inbetween... So I think they have hybridized, although this particular specimen is very close to the original "Pamir" sp...
Hope this helps :-\
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Thanks Luc! :-*
Have you any idea what it might be? That bright colour is very striking and Ian is scratching his head.......
It is certainly no bulb Maggi ;D
But the blue is very striking indeed .
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Could it be Delphinium grandiflorum (or a hybrid thereof)? I get lots of colour variation from my self-seeded multitudes.
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It has a look of Delphinium grandiflorum about it - which would fit with the Pamir connection I suppose - gorgeous colour, anyway.
{Note to self : Must get some D. tricorne seed to have some shorter American plants, too. }
Ah, Lori has the same idea!
Kris: It is certainly no bulb Maggi
yes, I already explained that to him.... ;D
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Sorry , more blue ..........
Aquilegia einseliana .
Oh and the neighbour ...that's Silene elisabethae ...
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Sorry , more blue ..........
Aquilegia einseliana .
Oh and the neighbour ...that's Silene elisabethae ...
Quite a lot of blue here at the moment as well- wonderful, isn't it??
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It has a look of Delphinium grandiflorum about it - which would fit with the Pamir connection I suppose - gorgeous colour, anyway.
Looks like this un-named species pictured in the PBS wiki by Mary Sue Ittner :
http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/FavoriteBlueFloweredBulbs# (http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/FavoriteBlueFloweredBulbs#) third pic after this text :
Delphinium -- Delphinium decorum and Delphinium paryii are almost blue or part blue. There is an unknown species I grew from seed that is really a gorgeous color of blue. Mary Sue Ittner, California's North Coast. This latter also nominated as true blue by Lee Poulsen, Southern California, USDA Zone 9-10.
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No problem with lots of blue plants! I love them all ;D
Here is another blue one, and some others. Pics taken at a brief stop at the road verge on our way to Trondheim.
Oxytropis lapponica is a rich blue while Astragalus alpina is almost white. Astragalus frigidus is a stately plant with yellow flowers but hit is a bit early in the season. Pedicularis oederi is a nice yellow - always an exiting species to find.
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Pedicularis oederi[/i] is a nice yellow - always an exiting species to find.
Love that Pedicularis Trond , outstanding ...
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Three more images from Anne Spiegel in the snowy Dolomites - this time of the gorgeous buttercup, Ranunculus seguieri.
Ranunculus seguieri - Images by Anne Spiegel
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Three more images from Anne Spiegel in the snowy Dolomites - this time of the gorgeous buttercup, Ranunculus seguieri.
Ranunculus seguieri - Images by Anne Spiegel
Euh ,euh , can't find the right words : :o :o :o :o
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Luc, I really like your Edraianthus horvatii. How long have you grown it and what can you tell me about it? It's a new one to me and looks really excellent.
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Luc, I really like your Edraianthus horvatii. How long have you grown it and what can you tell me about it? It's a new one to me and looks really excellent.
You echoed my words completely, Anne ... this is one that dear Luc has been hiding from the world ... magnificent!!
Kris, it's not like you to be stuck for words ... I thought you would grow this one to perfection?
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It's new to me too, Anne and Cliff - it was planted last autumn and has already developed into quite a good plant.
I will gladly try and save you some seed if interested ??
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It's new to me too, Anne and Cliff - it was planted last autumn and has already developed into quite a good plant.
I will gladly try and save you some seed if interested ??
Oh Luc ... you know the way to a man's heart ... yes please.
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Kris, it's not like you to be stuck for words ... I thought you would grow this one to perfection?
:) :) :)
I grow this beauty for three years outside now Cliff and with this modest result ....
First picture showed the last two flowers.
Second picture showed the first flower .
In between slugs eaten some flowers ....
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Luc, I really like your Edraianthus horvatii. How long have you grown it and what can you tell me about it? It's a new one to me and looks really excellent.
Look no further than the latest IRG for mention of this plant - and a photo - from Tim Ingram :
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2013Jun281372419197IRG42June.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2013Jun281372419197IRG42June.pdf)
Tim said :
"Edraianthus are especially good in our garden and the Czechs grow very many species; E. horvatii (shown right) from the Galičica Mts.; E. vesovicii from Mt. Prokletije in the south of Montenegro; E. pilosulus, a tiny and recently named species from the Komovi Mtns.; and E. pulovii and E. sutjeskae (these last three species are discussed in Systematic Botany 34(3): 602-608. 2009). In the West there may be some dispute about nomenclature (E. horvatii and vesovicii are both described as synonyms for forms of E. graminifolius in the 'Plant List' for example - but the former looks very distinct in our garden- see below). From a purely gardening perspective though this variety is greatly appealing, and many of these plants are very local in their distribution. The picture (below left) shows E. horvatii, with quite broad greyish leaves unlike the more grassy-leaved E. graminifolius that I grow, and the lovely silver-leaved form of E. pumilio. This latter species does vary markedly so it must be difficult to delineate species at times."
E. horvatii and E. pumilio
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E.horvatii
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It's new to me too, Anne and Cliff - it was planted last autumn and has already developed into quite a good plant.
I will gladly try and save you some seed if interested ??
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Luc, I would love some seed if you can spare it, thank you. Just back from a hike early due to rain (better than snow!).
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My plant of Edraianthus horvatii came from Little Heath Farm nursery (and I have several other species from Czech collectors - they seem very reliable in the garden).
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Luc, I would love some seed if you can spare it, thank you. Just back from a hike early due to rain (better than snow!).
ok Anne, will take care of that !
In the mean time, have a glühwein, it will warm you up ! :D
Oh Luc ... you know the way to a man's heart ... yes please.
Seed.... the way to a man's heart ?? :-\ Must reflect on that one ! ;D ;) .... but will get you some seed, Cliff !
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The Cistus border is looking good right now: in the foreground, Salvia lavandulifolia and Phlomis anatolica 'Lloyd's Variety'.
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This South African Geranium, probably Geranium robustum, a lax, leggy sub-shrub, seeds itself everywhere in my garden.
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I would have to grow this, of course! Carpenteria californica.
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I would have to grow this, of course! Carpenteria californica.
;D ;) :D :D Well, yes, it would be mandatory! But thank goodness it's doing well for you - think of the embarrassment if it didn't thrive :-X
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Buddleja loricata and Rosa x beanii.
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;D ;) :D :D Well, yes, it would be mandatory! But thank goodness it's doing well for you - think of the embarrassment if it didn't thrive :-X
I grew it from seed, and it seems to be happy here.
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Here are some Salvias which have been flowering during the start of the summer:
Salvia-pachystachys
Salvia-cadmica
Salvia-quezelii
Salvia-quezelii-stem
Salvia-quezelii-close
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A few more:
Salvia-rosifolia
Salvia-recognita
Salvia-recognita-leaf
Salvia-austriaca
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Some lovely ones there Paul, especially Salvia quezelii, do you have to take them inside in the winter?
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No, they are all outdoors. I cover them with plastic sheets to protect them from getting too wet.
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What a good idea Paul, I shall have to try that.
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Allium 'Purple Sensation' seedliings with Aquilegia vulgaris
Hosta 'Gold Standard'
Celmisia
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Not absolutely sure of the id but it came as Papaver triniifolium and I can't find anything else closer
This is a self sown seedling about a metre tall
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Some of those irises are extraordinary Wim - the range of colour in one flower!
Ah Tim, but that's the wonderful thing about the iris. There is NO colour she doesn't embrace in one or another form, from pure white to solid black, greys, browns, greens of every tone, turquoises, pinks, oranges, reds, yellows, blue and purples of course. Only primary red and primary blue are absent and some irises are extremely close to both those as well. Then there are the lovely or sometimes startling combinations of colours, something for every possible taste and situation. No wonder Iris is my favourite genus! ;D
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Okay, a part of the prince will move country shortly ;) (Don't worry, I won't tell Ian ;D )
He will love a certain garden in Aberdeen but don't go cutting off a hand or decapitating him Wim, ;D
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What a great thrill to see Rhodo lowndesii! I was hoping my 'Pipit' seedling might flower this coming spring but there's no sign of a bud. The little plant is about 10cms across now and only 4 cms high so it will make a good trough plant if it lasts the course. :-\
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Ah Tim, but that's the wonderful thing about the iris. There is NO colour she doesn't embrace in one or another form, from pure white to solid black, greys, browns, greens of every tone, turquoises, pinks, oranges, reds, yellows, blue and purples of course. Only primary red and primary blue are absent and some irises are extremely close to both those as well. Then there are the lovely or sometimes startling combinations of colours, something for every possible taste and situation. No wonder Iris is my favourite genus! ;D
Hear, hear, Lesley
He will love a certain garden in Aberdeen but don't go cutting off a hand or decapitating him Wim, ;D
No limbs or heads were lost during the transfer, Lesley....just bruised him a bit to get him into the package ;)
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This was my song
Disney's Snow White - Someday My Prince Will Come (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0niwn2pOEno#)
but now the Snow Prince has arrived - strong and tall, just as Snow White sang..... ;)
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If you're happy with the Snow Prince Maggi, now that he's arrived, can I have the one you already have please? ;D
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If you're happy with the Snow Prince Maggi, now that he's arrived, can I have the one you already have please? ;D
That's Snow Prince ... that's Ian!!!!!
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If you're happy with the Snow Prince Maggi, now that he's arrived, can I have the one you already have please? ;D
They say a change is as good as a rest, but I think I'll keep the G.O.P. or a while yet (.... that's Grumpy Old Prince!)..... in case I may not be able to keep up with the fine young Snow Prince :-X :-\
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I quite understand Maggi, besides, a Snow Prince, however attractive, may melt if hugged with too much enthusiasm. :)
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Not sure where this should go, but this is what it was like hiking and plant hunting in the Dolomites this year.
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Pictures taken vertically still seem to be a problem when putting on the Forum. A good part of the picture has been lost during the resizing to Forum standards process, but maybe you can still get an idea.
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Not sure where this should go, but this is what it was like hiking and plant hunting in the Dolomites this year.
Looks very promising anyway Anne .
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Acantholimon saxifragiforme .
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Wonderful, Kris.
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Wonderful, Kris.
Thanks Cliff !
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Don't find the label anymore but I suppose that I bougt it as Convolvulus cantabricus .