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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: Knud on July 02, 2013, 10:53:35 PM
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A new month and new blooms.
This white Edraianthus was in bud for quite a while, before opening properly only this week. Buds were a very rich cream colour, and they opened to large snow white flowers. There are three stems, about 10 cm (4'') long, with four flowers on each stem.
I got the seed for this plant from the AGS in 2011 as E. niveus, but after having read the article on white Edraianthuses in IRG no 20, August 2011, I suspect it might be E. graminifolius subsp. graminifolius “Albus“.
The Edraianthus pumilio bloomed some weeks ago, with beautiful, large flowers. Also from AGS seed in 2011.
Knud
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Your paeony in http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10274.msg280232#msg280232 (http://[url=http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10274.msg280232#msg280232)]this thread [/url]is stunning, Knud.
Isn't it great how such creamy buds on the Edraianthus can open so white?
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A couple of new images from dear Anne Spiegel in the Dolomites ... two of her favourites, Polygala chamaebuxus and Ranunculus alpestris.
Polygala chamaebuxus Images by Anne Spiegel
Ranunculus alpestris
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Weldenia candida &
Delphinium alpestre both seem to be enjoying the cooler weather this year.
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How high/tall is Delphinium alpestre, Mike?
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Delphinium alpestre is 8 - 10 inches tall in the garden.
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Delphinium alpestre is 8 - 10 inches tall in the garden.
Perfect for a raised bed!
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There is a little too much going on in this first picture but many of the plants are one's we aim to propagate from. In the background Ferula communis subsp. glauca and in the foreground a medley of 'silvers'. These include such plants as Artemisia alba 'Canescens', Convolvulus cneorum and various pinks.
Eryngium planum 'Jade Frost' is very attractive form of the species, but a difficult one to propagate because neither seed nor root cuttings will perpetuate the variegation.
My favorite plant here though at the moment is Gypsophila 'Rosy Veil'; difficult to photograph well but a myriad of tiny pink flowers. The final picture shows it with Oenothera stricta 'Pallida', the artemisia, and Dorycnium hirsutum.
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Some flowers from my garden ...
Collomia debilis
Dactylorhiza fucsii
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Lovely plants and photographs Natalia 8)
Also very fine Tim.
How tall is your ferrula? Here plain old F. communis at 3.5 m or so falls just outside the alpine plant range ;D
Wonderful plants though.
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Your paeony in http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10274.msg280232#msg280232 (http://[url=http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10274.msg280232#msg280232)]this thread [/url]is stunning, Knud.
Thanks Maggi, it is a nice one. As is the pink one. They were sowed 13-14 years ago. The pink one is a more vigorous plant, and always has more flowers. Both are fragrant, and on still, warm evenings (rare occurrances here) you can smell them from quite a distance.
An alpine classic is blooming now, Leontopodium alpinum, a noble white for sure. And it's iris time, here represented by Iris sibirica, the buds as nice as the flowers.
Knud
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There are so many delightful small-growing Delphinium species, especially from the USA> I lost D. orfordii recently so hopefully it will appear on the seedlists again. And once I had D. balansae from Les Kreeger in Kent or Surrey I think. It was a pure charmer but I've seen no mention of it anywhere for probably 20 years. :'( Mr Kreeger had lovely things - seed - and one I still have is Hypericum kelleri, another precious plant. I have tried in vain to collect seed from it but will keep on trying because I've seen it nowhere else. It grows in a tight matlet just 1 cm high and the starry flowers from red buds are pressed tight onto the mat.
I seem to have lost some pictures as I certainly had a nice one of H. kelleri but it's not there now!
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today in flower in Berlin
Romneya coulteri ;) I saw it in Scottland some years ago, and I love it, and I want it. It's a little bit difficult in Berlin, because the winters are cold, -20° and colder ...
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Mr Kreeger had lovely things - seed - and one I still have is Hypericum kelleri, another precious plant. I have tried in vain to collect seed from it but will keep on trying because I've seen it nowhere else. It grows in a tight matlet just 1 cm high and the starry flowers from red buds are pressed tight onto the mat.
I seem to have lost some pictures as I certainly had a nice one of H. kelleri but it's not there now!
What a nice and interesting story about the Hypericum Lesley ! For me it was unknown .....So I "googled" this species and I agree ....very nice thing indeed . And more , it is a native of Crete ! I was there 7 times en we never seen it in the wild ???
So you are right to take care of this kind of plants .I never see it on any plantlist ....
Sometimes plants are available (sometimes even in larger quantitys) and they become very general at a certain time ...And then suddenly they disappear ....Only few left are even the become unknown ...
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Some flowers from my garden ...
Collomia debilis
Dactylorhiza fucsii
Your Dactylorhiza fuchsii are very beautiful and special, Natalia! Especially the dark form.
Here are two I pictured on a trip sunday: Dactylorhiza incarnata and D maculata.
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Other plants pictured yesterday along the road.
Astragalus frigidus, Pyrola norvegica, Saxifraga cotyledon
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This probably should be in the ericaceae thread... Kalmia latifolia 'Olympic Fire'
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And some Phlomis now in flower in the garden.
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And a few more...
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Three Helichrysums from last two weeks.
Helichrysum frigidum
Helichrysum marginatum
Helichrysum milfordiae
I never had a flower at Helichrysum milfordiae. :D It seems to me it is a weak bloomer?
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Kris, if I ever manage to collect seed from the little Hypericum I'll keep you in mind as it's really a delight. I have it in a trough where it gently laps over the edge but doesn't sit up at all. It's not hard from cuttings or from little rooted layers.
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I have not really had the time to resize and edit the pictures I took in June, and I do't know if I should post these in the June thread, but if so please transfer them there Maggi. There is a mix of plants which have been flowering for me:
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Here are some more:
The Aquilegia jonesii was planted in 2012 and I was a bit surprised that it flowered in its second year already. It's the first time I have succeeded in bringing this diminutive Aquilegia into flower. It is planted next to a flat tilted limestone slabwhich gives it some rain shelter.
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...and a few more
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Kris, if I ever manage to collect seed from the little Hypericum I'll keep you in mind as it's really a delight. I have it in a trough where it gently laps over the edge but doesn't sit up at all. It's not hard from cuttings or from little rooted layers.
Thanks Lesley , that would be great ! 8)
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Looking at pictures of Aquilegia jonesii at the web it seems like the leaves are more compact on A. jonesii than the plant I showed above. Maybe it's a garden hybrid, as the seeds were not wild collected.
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Some treasures in a trogue
1. Physoplexis comosa, a fat plant
2. Silene hookeri. I don't know, whether the name 'Ingrammii' is correct.
3. Campanula zoysii.
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Super plants and pictures, Gerrit.
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That's a beautiful picture of Campanula zoysii, Gerrit.
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These always surprise me when I come upon them in bloom. They are growing by the side of a rough track which passes one end of my ponies' field and is some distance from houses in either direction.
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What a nice stand of naturalized(?) Kniphofias !
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I was going to reply to Ashley about my Ferula and then saw how many more interesting plants have been mentioned since! The Ferula communis 'Glauca' is about the tallest form, easily reaching 12ft (4m) or more. It is quite distinct for its ochre-yellow (if you were a nurseryman you would say, orange) flowers, and wonderful amethyst flower stems. No, hardly an alpine (!) but when you collect umbellifers you have to have fennels and Bolax gummifera in your garden. I might trade them in for that beautiful white Dactylorhiza!
I am also really interested in Lesley's Hypericum kelleri and memories of Les Kreeger's list. I also had a few plants from him and he grew some amazing plants like Catananche caespitosa. I've always liked hypericums and am slowly building a collection of more and more.
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In a trogue some other fine plants.
1.Campanula raineri 'Alba'.
2.Campanula alsinoides
And in the rock garden
3 and 4. Campanula dolomitica.
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Buddleja albiflora and Sideritis syriaca,
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;D
Calopogon tuberosus and
Lilium marthagon
Bernd
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And in the rock garden
3 and 4. Campanula dolomitica.
Beautiful plants, Gerrit and everyone else!
Gerrit, do you find Campanula dolomitica to be quite rapidly spreading?
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Beautiful plants, Gerrit and everyone else!
Gerrit, do you find Campanula dolomitica to be quite rapidly spreading?
I agree, Lori, some great plants!
I remember this thread about the possible invasiveness of this campanula : http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=5613.0 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=5613.0) - I think I'd take the risk! ;)
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I was just wondering what behavior other people were seeing... I moved mine out of the rock garden and into regular soil where it is spreading quite rapidly (or continues to do this, I should say). Sounds like Helen's plant behaves like mine.
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Beautiful plants, Gerrit and everyone else!
Gerrit, do you find Campanula dolomitica to be quite rapidly spreading?
Definitely, but I like it so very much, I have to live with its bad behaviour. I learned how. Put him on the top of a steep hill with many rocks and stones and he will intertwine with the rocks in a lovely way.
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Definitely, but I like it so very much, I have to live with its bad behaviour. I learned how. Put him on the top of a steep hill with many rocks and stones and he will intertwine with the rocks in a lovely way.
That sounds like a good idea - I could do something like that. Thanks Gerrit.
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Lilium debile from Kamtschatka, it never sets seed. Maybe I need a plant
from another clone to be succesful.
Campanula fragilis, the hairy form from the Abruzzi Mts. It definitely dislikes
water from above, so I keep it in the Alpine house.
Campanula seraglio, in the same section like C. troegerae, choruhenis etc.
Campanula latifoia, it seems, that they enjoyed the cool and wet spring
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Rudi, that Campanula fragilis is absolutely stunning !! :o :o
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Campanula cochlearifolia alba in the garden.
CAMPANULA COCHLEARIFOLIA ALBA
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Cliff - it does make your heart sing a little to see such a good garden plant as that. It is the alpine gardener's 'cottage garden plant' so to speak - and there are so many lovely campanulas.
These are a bit more exotic. Convolvulus sabatius from the Atlas Mtns. which looks as though it could be quite hardy but generally isn't, and Aloe aristata which looks as though it can't be, but is (down to at least -14°C in our experience). And finally the wonderful silver 'wire-netting' of Artemisia alba 'Canescens' - this dies completely back in winter and always surprises me when it re-emerges to look like this the next summer.
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Luc, thank you for your friendly reply.
Tim, I am astonished about your experience with the hardiness of
Aloe aristata, think to look for one and try it myself.
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Lovely campanulas Rudi and Cliff. Campanula 'Molly Pinsent' is completely covered with flowers here now, and C. sarmatica will bloom later this week.
Four plants blooming in the garden now:
Hypericum olympicum flowers for the first time this year, from SRGC seeds 2011.
Primula florindae, plant bought a year ago at Tromsų Botanical Gardens.
Dianthus 'Pummelchen', surrounded by Iris lacustris.
The last one a little mystery, it looks like Aquelegia buergeriana but it is so small, only about 10 cm (4 in) tall. Any guesses? It is short lived, but seeds reliably, and they are all this size. We got a plant from a friend many years ago, and since then we have always had one or two plants going. This year I have found only one.
Knud
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What a gorgeous Primula florindae, Knud ! :o :o
Campanula cochlearifolia alba in the garden.
CAMPANULA COCHLEARIFOLIA ALBA
They don't come any more attractive than that, Cliff !
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Tim,
I love that Aloe aristata; I got it from a friend a couple of years ago and was convinced it was a haworthia till I saw it in flower!
The campanulas all look fabulous!
cheers
fermi
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Colleagues, thank you for the great photos of beautiful flowers! :)
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Here are two pictures of a Nicotiana 'Chocolate Smoke', which I am growing this season. The top of the flowers are a milk chocolate color while the face is like a 70% cocoa chocolate. Very sleek and does not grow much in width.
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Here are some other plants which have been/are blooming.
The Stachys was collected in Turkey in 2002, and it needs to be kept very dry and sunny not to get long and straggly( which mine has become )
Senecio bigelovii is a bit odd with its rayless flowers, but albeit very charming.
Prometheum sempervivoides survives the winter when grown in a container which is easily protected from winter rains, or too much thawing and freezing.
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All very fascinating plants Paul - the Prometheum is really striking; the flowers remind me of Tacitus bellus? Have you ever grown another succulent, Sedum caeruleum? I've never managed to get this going but think it would be good in a trough. These are a group of plants I really don't know but would be interesting to learn more about.
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No, Tim, I haven't tried S. caeruleum, but it would probably look stunning with Prometheum sempervivoides in a trough.
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Arisaema ciliatum var liubaense emerges really late for me ( early to mid June ) and them grows several cm per day, and flowers at the end of the month. This year it became taller than before ( about 1m)
Sphaeralcea fendleri is a very nice mallow from SW USA, which has proved hardy and flowers for a long period.
Silene elisabethae has flowers of a size that just seem too big for its diminutive stature.
The flowers of Geranium psilostemon just have an amazing color !, and put on such a nice display.
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What a gorgeous Primula florindae, Knud ! :o :o
Thank you Luc. It is a very nice plant. It has five flower stalks, two about 60 cm (two feet) tall, and the colour inside the flower is a rich yellow, or ochre, as shown in picture below.
The Calceolaria lanceolata in the bottom three pictures I also bought at the Tromsų Botanical Garden last year. Single flowers on 20 cm (8 in) stalks. For a small plant it certainly shows up in its dark corner.
Knud
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Tim and Kris, do you think it would be worth my sending a scrap of the Hypericum? It roots along as it goes so it should be possible to get a little bit with a root. It would be in the spring (not long now I hope) as it's a bit scruffy at present what with weeks of rain and now heavy frost every night. If you'd like to try it rather than wait for possible seed, send me your postal addresses.
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Thanks to all for the fine pictures and the comments.
Sempervivum and Jovibarba flower profusely and the warm and
dry weather may result in a good amount of seeds.
The dwarf Hostas also seem to like the sun.
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Lesley - that would be really kind of you if any material is available; I'll send a note of my address.
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I like the way Campanula sartorii follows the contours of the rocks
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Great Campanula sartori Roma. Ours will only grow where it wants to - usually in most inhospitable spots in troughs with old conifers, where it stays VERY dwarf in all parts.When we try to establish it in "better" spots it flatly refuses to grow. Frustrating as it is such a very lovely wee thing. I might know it would grow that well out with you!
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It's many years since I planted it and get a few seedlings every year. The other one flowering this year is right underneath an oversized Juniperus communis compressa. It always amazes me that a few seedlings survive every year.
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Very nice C. sartorii Roma. In our garden it behaves as described by Maggi. I have tried to sow it in other places, transplant seedling, and even transplant plants in flower, in hope they would self-sow, but no, it keeps to its spot. It seems to thrive there in fact, in spite of it being somewhat shady. This year it blooms like never before. Interestingly it just appeared there, I suspect it followed as seed in a pot from our previous garden, but I never knew what it was. Lesley helped id it on the forum a couple of years ago.
A nice and long lived campanula is blooming in the garden now, C. sarmatica. This plant was sown mid-late 90's, seeds from Gardens North, and has been transplanted at least five times - very accommodating. In the first picture the entire plants is shown (with Centaurea nervosa), and in bud in the second picture.
Knud
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Oooops, I see I included a picture from last year in my previous post, picture from this year included, now with the C. nervosa. Well, it illustrates how well the Campanula sarmatica has taken to its new spot. Transplanted 2011, two flower stalks in 2012, and four in 2013. In my experience this is a 'well behaved' Campanula, so I'm pretty certain it will not don eight stalk next year. We shall see.
Knud
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Here are some wild water lilies growing in the Reading Sewer, Rother Levels, Kent, near the Sussex border. Yes, I know, but drainage ditches hereabouts are called sewers!
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1. Oxalis laciniata ex Finn Haugli
2. Campanula choruhensis
3. Campanula myrtifolia
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Super images, Gerrit.
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Not rock garden plants:
Buddleja nivea and Verbascum olympicum (the latter a favourite of Christopher Lloyd)
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Buddleja nivea
Ooh, nice - though for a moment I thought your washing machine had overdone the bubbles and exploded :o 8) ;)
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Wonderful pictures, Trond, thank you for sharing. Reassuring to hear that you have lookouts, I can imagine it is very easy to loose track of ones surroundings when the ground is full of exciting and beautiful plants like those you have posted pictures of.
John, I like your Verbascum. We are lucky and have it self-sow in the garden, and it is one of few plants which will make passersby stop and point.
Parochetus communis is blooming here now, small but beautiful. Our plant is from SRGC seed 2011.
The last picture is of another self-sower that is out now. It is probably also a 'communis'; Gladiolus.
Knud
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Here are two umbellifers which are flowering for me now. One is giant and the other one more suited for the rockery with its 20 or so cm. It has taken me a long time to get the Angelica in flower. It reigns from Kamchatka peninsula where bears eat the roots. It has taken a good five or six years to reach flowering size, and then it will die, but I will collect seeds for the seed exchange.
Seseli petraeum is from Turkey, and is a nice plant which didn't take quite so long to flower.
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Campanula rotundifolia looked really good growing upon a dry stone wall.
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Desert bluebell also prefers dry environments, but comes from the American west, and is not even related to the true bluebells. It has seeded itself in a large pot and looks charming ( and very blue )[attach=3]
Campanula versicolor from the SRGC seed exchange has grown bigger and bigger for each year, and this year it really outshines itself with multiple flowering stems.
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A few other bits and odds:
A question: Can the root tubers of Cosmos atrosanguineus be stored dry during the winter months ? I am pretty sure it won't survive our winters here. I can't say that I smell very much chocolate when sticking my nose in it, but perhaps it's only a very faint scent.
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Delphinium speciosum is really a stalwart perennial, which looks great with the black bees.
Maurandya barclaiana 'Exotic Pride' is an annual which sets loads of flowers if grown against a sunny wall.
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A question: Can the root tubers of Cosmos atrosanguineus be stored dry during the winter months ? I am pretty sure it won't survive our winters here. I can't say that I smell very much chocolate when sticking my nose in it, but perhaps it's only a very faint scent.
Paul we keep ours in a cold greenhouse over the winter with no watering until the spring and it does very well.
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Thank you Brian ! I will have to try that. Hopefully it will get an earlier start next year if they are stored over the winter.
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love the blues, here are a couple of mine
Brodiaea purdyi, a new favourite and Trachelium asperuloides, one of the first "proper alpines" I got from Percy Picton's nursery. This one is from a plant I got in the early 90s - I had to split it up because ants built a nest up the original ten inch pan.
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Paul - thanks for those images of the Angelica and Seseli. All the species of the latter that I have grown have proved monocarpic, but nice none-the-less - this is one I don't know. They could be very good plants for large gravel gardens where they might self-sow.
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Thank you Tim. Yes, I hope the Seseli will provide some seedlings. The Angelica sets cupfulls of seed so if anyone wants some please drop me a line. They lose their viability after a year or so-depending on how the seeds are stored of course.
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Very nice pictures Mark ! Is the Broidaea purdyi hardy outdoors for you in England ? Does it require a resting period with no watering ?
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Paul: Nice pictures of a wide range of plants! I liked the bluebells on the stone walls. The California Bluebell used self sow in our garden, but I haven't seen it this year. What has sowed around willingly the last few years, especially in pots left outside over winter, is another Phacelia, P. viscida (first picture), which started off (a few generations ago) as P. viscida 'Tropical Surf' from Thompson & Morgan. It is also beautiful, but I prefer the P. campanularia.
Mark: Nice pictures, and I particulary like the Brodiea. Like Paul, I was wondering about its hardiness? I have had what I guess is its more common cousin B. Elegans (second picture) in the garden for 4-5 years. It has had some quite cold winters, and some extremely wet ones, and seems to do well. Its last flower faded early July, and nice seed pods are developing.
Knud
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Paul & Knud, I grow it in a pot, I think it will be cold hardy but not sure about summer wet. The problem here though is more likely to be slugs - I even have issues with them going for it in the greenhouse. The flowers have an odd texture, almost like glass!
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Here some pics of plants that I am growing in my little garden
Sideritis-ovata
Iberis-spathulata
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also several digitalis
Digitalis-stewartii
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very nice this one
Digitalis lanata
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confusing yellow group..
Digitalis lutea
Digitalis ciliata jp
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and the last two
Campanula dolomitica
Erodium manescavii
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a couple of favourite silvers, Helichrysum frigidum and Stachys chrysantha.
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My last flowering Campanula.
Campanula caespitosa
Edit by maggi to add comment from im from a post moved to a new thread :)
And Campanula caespitosa, Franz - really very lovely. I don't remember seeing this offered for sale but will watch out for it or seed.
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Lovely to see the Stachys Mark. I had it once, along with the similar but pink S. candida and the woolly, white-flowered S. saxicola. I loved all three but have none of them now.
My own Cosmos atrosanguineus have always stayed in the garden for winter but I'm thinking maybe this year I should have lifted them, not that it has been so very cold, down to about -6C but because we have had so much rain and the whole place is a bog. Fortunately I still have some seed from this year so if I have to, can start again with it. John W's little red dahlia species is quite happy (less hardy than the Cosmos) in the pot in which it has been since germination, but for now, bone dry. I had a look just yesterday and the tubers are very hard and clean-looking. I haven't seen the flower yet, hopefully this coming summer.
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Very nice pictures of some unusual foxgloves Rafa. I like the Campanula dolomitica very much too. How tall does it grow ?
Mark, I am also growing Stachys chrysantha, but it has not flowered yet. The leaves are very nice by themselves though. Very nice pictures.
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Paul & Knud, I grow it in a pot, I think it will be cold hardy but not sure about summer wet. The problem here though is more likely to be slugs - I even have issues with them going for it in the greenhouse. The flowers have an odd texture, almost like glass!
Thank you, Mark, for this information. Slugs would certainly be a challenge here.
Knud
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Lesley and Paul, I got the Stachys from Mike Smith, Hythe Alpines..it's supposed to be a particularly good form.
I have a couple - I find that even if there are shoots on the flowering stems they always die and I've started to cut them back hard after flowering. That usually means I have one nice compact plant and one straggly or bare stump of a plant.
I also grew S. candidida but that went the way of all flesh at some point.
Edit by maggi to add comment from Tim, from post of his moved to new thread:
Mark - really interesting to see Stachys chrysantha as I have tended to confuse the name with S. citrina. I like all of these small species very much and the latter does well on the sand bed with us.
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Definitely not glacial: Dahlia australis.
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What a nice Dahlia ! Is that a true species, or a cultivar ?
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Stachys citrina is a beauty Tim. I really like these smaller Lamiaceae. The 3 stachys mentioned above are all easy enough from seed but when I had them, I found cuttings were difficult, I think because of the extreme hairiness/woolliness of the stems. And within Lamiaceae, the stems seems to narrow down to the nodes and don't act like a regular stem from a sturdier plant. They are very brittle.
Do Hythe Alpines do any seed please? We can't get plants from overseas.
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Thank you for the polar bear link Trond. I'll have to learn some Norwegian. :) The image of the cub suckling was especially nice. While the mothers can go without eating for very long periods, it seems they will even starve and use up their own muscle mass in order to keep producing milk for their young. Of course they one of the most dangerous animals on the planet yet they are totally endearing.
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Lesley - unfortunately Mike and Dot Smith (Hythe Alpines) closed their nursery some years ago and I don't know how much they have continued growing such choice plants (I wish I had bought this one from them). There are not too many growers around who propagated such a choice range of plants.
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What a nice Dahlia ! Is that a true species, or a cultivar ?
It's a species. Got it from Great Dixter Nursery. Flowers at about 2m. tall.
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Thanks for the information Lori , interesting.
Something from warmer places .... Pelargonium endlicherianum ....
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Cyananthus lobatus x microphyllus 'Sherriffs '
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Beautiful.
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This weeks starts of the garden
Allium cernuum
Geranium 'victor reiter'
Watsonia - unknown variety, grown from seed about 4 years ago, label lost. Planted out in the garden for the first time this year, hope its hardy
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These pictures were taken on a wonderful day in the Dolomites when we had to cross a lot of snow to get to an interesting steep scree that looked almost empty. Up close we found wonderful plants from top to bottom a distance. On the way we passed huge rocks, each one of them a garden.
Heading for the scree
Geum reptans
DSC08151 Saxifraga
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More plants along the way.
DSC08163 - Eritrichium
DSC08185 - Silene acaulis
DSC08201 - Eritrichium nanum
DSC08207 - Eritrichium nanum
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At the bottom of the scree. I was stuck on the Sax. I,d, and Cliff came to my rescue after consultation with David Charlton. I've never seen it before and there was quite a bit of it on the lower quarter of the scree, very pretty.
DSC08213 - Soldanella pusilla habitat
DSC08226 - Soldanella pusilla
DSC08216 - Saxifraga adscendans
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Still heading up, more great plants.
DSC08231 - Primula minima
DSC08233. Saxifraga?
DSC08237 - Vitaliana
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We're heading there middle of August. Hopefully no snow. Will be located in Bressanone.
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I've decided that even though we lost several days hiking due to snow, this is my new favorite time in the mountains.
From mid-scree almost to the top, as abundant as dandelions. Enjoy, Cliff!
DSC08241 - Ranunculus glacialis
DSC08244 - Ranunculus glacialis
DSC08248 - Ranunculus glacialis
DSC08253 - Saxifraga oppositifolia
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Wow, wonderful, Anne!!
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Some of the flowers in my garden at the moment :)
Oops, see now that this was posted in the wrong thread..
Edit by Maggi - no problem, I've moved it. :)
Delphinium
Campanula trachelium Bernice
Meconopsis punicea
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Excellent, excellent, excellent.
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Maggi, I wonder would it be worth separating out Trond and Anne's wonderful posts of wild plants into dedicated threads in the Travel section?
With their agreement of course.
Good idea Ashley. I wondered if they might make a new 'flowering in the wild' thread..... let's hear from Anne and Trond ........
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Platycodon grandiflorus pink form:
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Gentiana cachemirica:
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Michauxia tchihatcheffii:
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Codonopsis grey-wilsoni (edited 7/25/13):
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Closeup:
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For lilies, see http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10022.120 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10022.120) .
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I like the combo of garden and in the wild myself, Maggi, but will certainly go along with whatever you think is best. What would you search for? I don't want to miss one of Trond's posts!
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What about the IRG for Anne and Trond's wonderful travels? Especially if there are other Forumist's who know the same places well - there is a superb website detailing the Svalbard flora: http://svalbardflora.net (http://svalbardflora.net), and I know of a fine little book on the Dolomites!
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Some plants in flower here during the last weeks!
Echinocereus baileyi
Iris chrysographes
Lonicera crassifolia 'Little Honey'
Rosa 'Puerta del Sol'
Dysosma 'Spotty Dotty'
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Some more:
Epipactis 'Catalina'
Epipactis palustris
Epipactis royleana
Campanula tommasiniana
Roscoea alpina
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And the last ones for today:
Allium 'Valerie Finnis'
Deinanthe bifida
Albuca shawii
the first flower on Anemonopsis macrophylla 'White Swan'
and Lysimachia paridiformis var. stenophylla
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So many great plants 8)
Your Lysimachia paridiformis var. stenophylla is flowering better than ours, Wim.
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Wonderful images of some beautiful plants, Wim. Hope all our Belgian friends are well?
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I like the combo of garden and in the wild myself, Maggi, but will certainly go along with whatever you think is best. What would you search for? I don't want to miss one of Trond's posts!
Right- I will leave Anne's posts here :)
I have made a Svalbard thread in 'Flowers and Foliage now' : http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10761.0 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10761.0)
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Tim, great idea about the IRG connection ;D
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there is a superb website detailing the Svalbard flora: http://svalbardflora.net (http://svalbardflora.net)
Indeed an excellent resource.
I have made a Svalbard thread in 'Flowers and Foliage now' : http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10761.0 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10761.0) ;)
Thanks Maggi.
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So many great plants 8)
Your Lysimachia paridiformis var. stenophylla is flowering better than ours, Wim.
Thank you Maggi, we cleaned our rainwater tank and gave the Lysimachia some of the mud which was on the bottom....it seems to have liked that ;)
Wonderful images of some beautiful plants, Wim. Hope all our Belgian friends are well?
We're all well, thanks Cliff....we're "enjoying" ::) temps up to 35°C since last week, the following night some much needed rain will come (finally) and the temps will drop to 25°C tomorrow
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Thank you Maggi, we cleaned our rainwater tank and gave the Lysimachia some of the mud which was on the bottom....it seems to have liked that ;)
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Really? Yikes!!!!
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Yup, Really
Hmmmm, I've discussed this method with Ian -
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Hmmmm, I've discussed this method with Ian -
he says..... (Attachment Link)
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It's like the floods of the Nile, bringing in fertile mud :P
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1,2, Gladiolus flanagannii
3. Veronica bellidioides. Growing as weed in the Dolomites. I took a part and now it's an invasive weed in a trogue. It's a cute little thing and I let it go.
Edit This is not Gladiolus flanagannii
Edit the correct name is Hesperantha baurii
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Two Primulas in a damp section of my peat garden in a duet.
Primula florindae
Primula florindae 'Red Shades'.
Two Deinanthes in a partial shaded section of the peat bed.
Deinanthe caerulea
Deinanthe bifida x caerulea 'Blue Wonder'.
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1,2, Gladiolus flanagannii
Are you sure, Gerrit? I think of Gladilous flanganii as being the typical bright red "suicide lily" like this :
http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/SouthernAfricanGladiolusFour# (http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/SouthernAfricanGladiolusFour#) :-\
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I'll ask Wim to confirm. I've got the seeds from him.
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1,2, Gladiolus flanagannii
Gerrit,
that's not Gladiolus flanaganii...I don't think it's a Gladiolus at all, it's most certainly not something I have growing in my garden. Here in attachment a pic of my Gladiolus flanaganii.
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Well, that's clear. Thanks Maggi for being alert and Wim for your quick reaction.
Not a Gladiolus, but what else? Perhaps an Olsynium? I ordered seed from a seedex last year. Olsynium junceum. But i am not sure at all.
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Yes, that's probably it.
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I don't think it's an Olsynium..... we're thinking about it!
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Perhaps a Geissorhiza or Hesperantha or even... Geissorhiza hesperanthoides ::) ???
Where are the Irid experts when we need them?
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Yes perhaps :-\
I was going to suggest an ixia, e.g. Ixia stricta, but it might help if you could show more of the foliage and scape please Gerrit.
On second thoughts, probably not an ixia.
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I think the style is in three distinct sections, not a branched style with a central stem..... so that was why I doubted Ixia, and most Geissorhiza have trifid ended styles too, don't they.... :-\
I'm leaning towards Hesperantha baurii now :)
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You beat me to it, Maggi, while I was searching for a picture from last year.
Hesperantha baurii
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After searching on the www, I agree. I will add the new name in my first contribution.
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That was fun :D
The seperate style branches are quite clear in your photo, Roma.
Nice plant, isn't it? I like the rounded petals.
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Thank for your efforts Maggi and Roma. Probably I've got the seeds from you Roma.
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A wee note about the next IRG :
Gerrit has contributed a super photo report on the Orchids of Crete........ new issue will be online on Friday.
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A couple of plants flowering now: Watsonia angusta and Crinim moorei f. album.
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I don't know about pink snowdrops but there are brown foxgloves and they are rather good plants in the garden. Digitalis obscura is a favourite and looks closer to being a penstemon than a foxglove - I don't find it too easy but keep searching for a place that suits it; this hot dry summer has been ideal. The second species is as brown as you can get, D. parviflora, and this is a great garden plant, perennial, easy going, seeds around but not too much, and with very good foliage as well as flowers. Here it is growing with Potentilla recta, a perfect combination, and actually nothing to do with me because both plants originally arrived by self-seeding.
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I too like these smaller / brown Digitalis , Tim.
Your "voluntary" pairing of the potentilla and foxglove is one that would be worth repeating deliberately....... note taken!
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Both quiet beauties Tim. I have D. parviflora flowering for the first time and am delighted with it, and D. ferruginea seedlings coming along for next year.
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A couple of Hemerocallis species: Hemerocallis hakuunenesis and Hemerocallis fulva var. rosea.
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A couple of Buddlejas: Buddleja 'Morning Mist' (syn. 'Silver Anniversary') and Buddleja fallowiana BSWJ7803.
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Another rose bred using Rosa persica: Rosa 'Allisar, Princess of Phoenicia'
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Another rose bred using Rosa persica: Rosa 'Allisar, Princess of Phoenicia'
The flowers darken as they age.
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Dahlia 'New Baby'. Seems appropriate at the moment.
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Quote from: johnralphcarpenter on July 25, 2013, 02:03:32 PM
Another rose bred using Rosa persica: Rosa 'Allisar, Princess of Phoenicia'
The flowers darken as they age.
A attractive transformation, Ralph.
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Dahlia 'New Baby'. Seems appropriate at the moment.
First mention of the recent British royal arrival, Ralph - do you think young Prince George might grow up to be a gardener?
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..................... do you think young Prince George might grow up to be a gardener?
I think his eyes will be set on other occupations :P
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I think his eyes will be set on other occupations :P
His eyes can be set wherever he likes - but given the long wait his grandfather is having for the "top job" and with his father already waiting in the wings ( dontcha love that flying/air force allusion there? ;D ;) )- wee George will surely have a lot of years to fill before his turn comes - plenty time to develop as a gardener!
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His eyes can be set wherever he likes - but given the long wait his grandfather is having for the "top job" and with his father already waiting in the wings ( dontcha love that flying/air force allusion there? ;D ;) )- wee George will surely have a lot of years to fill before his turn comes - plenty time to develop as a gardener!
Doubt if I shall see it, mind you I might be struggling to see William on the throne. (Should I have re-phrased that?) :o
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I'm sure his Grandfather will encourage him to garden. Went to Highgrove in June - fantastic, thoroughly recommended. Apparently, according to our guide, HRH drives the Head Gardener mad because wherever he goes he sees things he wants to incorporate in the garden. Its a very eclectic mix. And of course he has Birkhall on Deeside as well.
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Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother was very fond of her gardens too - and she was the Patron of the SRGC.
Colin Crosbie ( Wisley Curator, Scot and SRGC member ) was the youngest head gardener at a royal garden when worked for the Queen Mother at Royal Lodge in the 1980s and she had a pretty garden at the Castle of Mey, too as well as at Birkhall.
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The moment this Heterotheca jonesii flowers it means that it is really summer !
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Beautiful. :D ;D ;D
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.Colin Crosbie ( Wisley Curator, Scot and SRGC member ) was the youngest head gardener at a royal garden when worked for the Queen Mother at Royal Lodge in the 1980s .....
HRH's Head Gardener at Highgrove is Canadian, which is almost Scottish, Canada being the Scotland of North America!
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I don't know whether it is true or not, but we were told that the gardens of the Queen Mother's properties were timed to be at their best in the season that she used them (seems sensible to me). This meant primarily pink flowers would be in bloom whenever she arrived at whichever garden, pink being her favourite colour.
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Standard practice with estates where owners are only resident at certain times of year to have pretty much the whole garden biased towards maximum impact when the boss is expected to be around. Lots of evidence of this in Scotland where so many places are only used in certain seasons so concentration on favourite colours etc aimed at peak residence time.
Got to have the place reasonably ship shape outside the expected times, of course, but main focus is for the major visiting period in a great many houses.
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pink being her favourite colour.
Or was that clear with a twist of lemon?
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Dubonnet and
lemonade gin is definitely pink ;D ;D
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Just beginning to flower on last thursday, a spontaneous garden-cross, with a gorgeous orange-red coloured tall gentian!
The plant originates from seed collected 5/6 years ago on a garden cross, probably between Gentiana lutea and G.purpurea. But the mother plant didn't have this incredible colour!
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Phillippe it is only because the date is July that I did not believe this to a poisson d'avril !
Who would have expected such a colour on a gentian? Very surprising indeed. 8)
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Lol, do you know that, "poisson d'avril" in the UK?
Some of the andean little gentiana/gentianella have this colour, but there is none of them here, and anyway, an inter-section cross is impossible I think.
Hm... ::) I am already thinking of this gentian planted en masse somewhere in the garden...
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Yes, I am reminded of the red/orange/yellow gentians from South America that I have seen - they were mostly grown by Margaret and Henry Taylor and our late friend near Aberdeen, Ian Brooker. Lovely little things but nothing so orange or statuesque as this one you have grown.
I wonder if it will be fertile? I can see that a mass planting would be a real surprise to anyone seeing it! 8)
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What a great cross Philippe, a whole drift of them would look fabulous.
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That's a good one. Lots of collectors may want that. It might be worth doing tissue culture. I doubt that it will be uniform from seed.
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Just beginning to flower on last thursday, a spontaneous garden-cross, with a gorgeous orange-red coloured tall gentian!
The plant originates from seed collected 5/6 years ago on a garden cross, probably between Gentiana lutea and G.purpurea. But the mother plant didn't have this incredible colour!
Very nice! The red colour could be from G purpurea but in a lesser dose!
The shape of the flower is more like lutea.
Here is one of my G purpurea. They are all in flower now but this picture is from last year.
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I'm sorry I can't match Philippe's Gentian but these are in flower in Bury right now.
Campanula fragilis looking beautiful but no show to take it to.
Clematis viticella
Crepis incana
Gaultheria repens looking good with flowers and fruit.
Inula ensifolia not looking as good as usual probably needs dividing.
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A new Clematis put in this year called Arabella
Sedum spurium Fulda Glut
Sedum urvilliae
Teucrium ackermannii
and finally Ursinia this took years to get established and now it's making a bid to take over. I fear it will have to be hacked back.
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Crinim moorei f. album.
....is putting on a very good show.
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One of a few Androsaces which thrive in our climate is A. mathildae. It normally flowers twice in a season. The second, somewhat sporadic flowering is just starting now. The first round is always fuller, and this year it was quite good. The pictures I have included are from May this year.
It seeds quite freely, and particularly so in cracks in a crumbly rock in one of the troughs.
Knud
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A "perfect" round plant in a show pot may be attractive but for me to see plants seeding themselves so nicely outside to beautify a trough is the real perfection.
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Gentiana cachemirica.
Gentiana paradoxa - a better flower and colour than cachemirica, but taller.
Roscoea, grown from a seed exchange, supposedly a white R. purpurea. Probably from Wisley Amethyst, but nice.
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Time for gentians.
Gentiana atuntsiensis
Gentiana gelida
Gentiana septemfida Bicolor
Gentiana species
Gentiana straminea
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I found this Lychnis flos-cuculi se veral years ago in the Woods near my summer house. I have never seen one with such flowers before.
Lychnis flos cuculi
Corydalis calcicola
Delphinium cashmerianum
Nothilirion bulbiferum
Primula florindae
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That's a really nice color form of the Primula florindae. I have the yellow one here and had an orange one that didn't last, but it was not a favorite anyway. How tall does it grow for you?
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Primula florindae seeds around in my garden. There are reds, yellows and shades between. In moist places it may be 70 cm high. Where it's dry, the plants are smaller.
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Oenothera caespitosa and O. taraxifolia are flowering in the night.
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But surely not only in the night, Franz?
In my garden Oenothera caespitosa opens up white in afternoon. At noon next day it has changed colour (see image) and in the evening it has withered.
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Hannelote,
Really in the night!
It opens its petals when it is dark. In the morning, the flower has withered.
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But surely not only in the night, Franz?
In my garden Oenothera caespitosa opens up white in afternoon. At noon next day it has changed colour (see image) and in the evening it has withered.
Hi Hannelote,
yours looks like O. acaulis rather than O. caespitosa; we have this and it opens in the evening pure white and fades in the morning but if the day is not too hot/dry it re-opens in the evening pink!cheers
fermi
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Thank you, Fermi!
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Campanula morettiana in front of a big Draba.