Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: johnralphcarpenter on August 04, 2013, 12:35:14 PM
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Allium ameloprasum var. ameloprasum with Crocosmia paniculata.
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Dipsacus fullonum (Fuller's Teasle), another Christopher Lloyd favourite.
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British wildflowers: Common Frogbit (Hydrocharis morus-ranae) in the Blackman's Arm Sewer on Walland Marsh, near Appledore in Kent.
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Canna patens. The specie Cannas are quite delicate.
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Ralph nice teasle and Ive noticed your referance to Christopher Lloyd. If I lived in the UK I would be a regular visitor. One of my favourite gardens. I did meet the man many years ago and he was a very humourous chap. I didnt know he has a web page. www.greatdixter.co.uk (http://www.greatdixter.co.uk)
cheers
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Ralph nice teasle and Ive noticed your referance to Christopher Lloyd. If I lived in the UK I would be a regular visitor. One of my favourite gardens. I did meet the man many years ago and he was a very humourous chap. I didnt know he has a web page. www.greatdixter.co.uk (http://www.greatdixter.co.uk)
cheers
Yes, alas Christo is no longer with us but Great Dixter lives on.
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Some plants which are flowering here now:
Lilium lankongense
Lilium nepalense (2x)
Echinacea 'Raspberry Truffle'
and Lilium papilliferum
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Yum edible flowers! nice truffles Wim
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No lilies or other magnificent flowering plants up here. Most are rather modest!
Here are a few mosses and lichens.
Ptilidium ciliare and Cladonia arbuscula on a tree stump.
Cladonia bellidiflora on a rock.
Cladonia sp. (it is about 40 such species here)
Old pine root.
Dead pine with woodpecker holes. Could be from Dryocopus martius which is common here.
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Ant hills are common, and some are rather big (this is a medium sized one).
Moss clad rocks in a little creek.
The umbrella moss (Splachnum luteum) grows only on dung. It is common around here on elk/moose droppings. The hat smells of dung and the spores are spread with flies to another dung heap.
Linnea boreale is one of the showier plants and grows everywhere in this subalpine forest.
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Although most of the flowers on the meadow are spent due to the very warm summer, some are still nice and others start now.
Campanula rotundifolia is at its peak.
Gentianella campestris is very common and a little ahead of schedule.
Hieracium is a big genus with more than 1000 species. Some have showy although dandelion-like flowers.
Leucanthemum vulgare is a variable species. Some plants here are small and behave themselves.
Phyllodoce caerulea is closing down now.
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Fascinating! The mosses and lichens are every bit as interesting as lilies, probably more so!
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NOT a Buddleja! Buddleja Mint, Mentha longifolia.
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Desfontainia spinosa. Always a surprise when it flowers, most people assume it is an Ilex.
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A couple of Hydrangeas to brighten up a shady corner.
Hydrangea aspera 'Microphylla' and Hydrangea quercifolia
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I know that Morning Glory (Ipomoea purpurea) is not supposed to be hardy, but this performs like a hardy annual for me, seeding itself into the gravel and coming up every year in the same spot between the pots.
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Dahlia coccinea Great Dixter Strain (and bee!).
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Crepis incana
Gentiana loderi
Hosta 'Gold Standard'
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Crepis incana
Gentiana loderi
Hosta 'Gold Standard'
Stil much colour with flowers Roma ......
Here some colour without flowers .......
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Some interesting grey's ........
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What about this smoking birch tree? It is not in my garden but farther east. A thunderstorm went by and some hours later people observed this:
(http://gfx.nrk.no//GRUHeRlhrAkfoELuhMJ7FAX-TG0yWu28tiHw_wAkMmUw)
From this site: http://www.nrk.no/ostfold/innvendig-brann-i-bjorketre-1.11180975 (http://www.nrk.no/ostfold/innvendig-brann-i-bjorketre-1.11180975)
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I reckon there's someone at the bottom of that tree having a crafty smoke!
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After that smokin tree some flowers which were bringing colour to the garden this week:
Anemone 'Wild Swan'
Anemonopsis macrophylla 'White Swan' (notice the high level of inspiration when naming white-flowered plants ;) ;D)
Crinum x powellii 'Roseum'
Fuchsia 'Eleanor Leytam'
and Origanum amanum
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And some more from this week:
Cyclamen intaminatum f. roseum
Roscoea 'Peacock Eye'
Roscoea 'Red Gurkha'
Adenophora aurita
and Pulsatilla pratensis subsp. nigricans
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Wim,
to see Pulsatilla pratensis subsp. nigricans in flower now is a surprise. :o
Did you raise it from seed?
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Wim,
to see Pulsatilla pratensis subsp. nigricans in flower now is a surprise. :o
Did you raise it from seed?
Yeah, it was a surprise to me too. (a nice surprise though ;) )
Came from wild collected seed, sown last year, planted out this spring.
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Crinodendron patagua, not as showy as Crinodendron hookerianum.
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A commonly grown shrub, Buddleja x weyeriana.
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Crinodendron patagua, not as showy as Crinodendron hookerianum.
Well, I don't agree! Although the flowers of patagua don't have the conspicuous colour of hookerianum they are at least as beautiful as those!
I have tried both but they have always succumbed in a bad winter in a couple of years :'(
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British wild flowers:
(1) Field bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis) is certainly not welcome in the garden,but it can have attractive flowers.
(2) Agrimony (Agrimonia eupatoria). This perennial plant has alternate pinnate leaves with toothed leaflets and produces yellow flowers on a tall erect stem from June to August with rust coloured hooked fruits. It is found in meadows, pastures and on banks. It is often found alongside paths and roads. Agrimony is an important nectar source for butterflies, bees, and hoverflies, while its leaves provide protection for many insects. It is a food plant of the Grizzled Skipper butterfly.
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Lupins at Lassen NP, California.
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Thermal pool at Lassen NP.
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Eschscholzia californica on the Pacific coast above Point Reyes, California.
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I have tried both but they have always succumbed in a bad winter in a couple of years :'(
Although I can't speak for Crinodendron patagua, our C. hookerianum looked as though it was dead after last winter, however I left it be and a new set of leaves finally appeared so I am hopeful for flowers next year ;D
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Although I can't speak for Crinodendron patagua, our C. hookerianum looked as though it was dead after last winter, however I left it be and a new set of leaves finally appeared so I am hopeful for flowers next year ;D
I saw the most magnificent specimen of C. hookerianum a couple of months ago during a garden safari in Wadhurst, on the High Weald in East Sussex. A good ten feet high and across a smothered in flowers. Didn't have the camera! C. patagua only has a few flowers at a time on my plant.
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After a decimation from a rabbit early in the season my Weldenia candida put on a good show for several weeks. It has a second flush now from one of three new offsets. Another of the offsets is in bud also.
Looking forward to a great show next year.
Perhaps the secret was to de-pot it and take it in a bag into the house (I thought it needed to dry out a little and I had no where to dry it outside) in the dining room and hide it where my wife couldn't see it and then forgot where I put it ???. I looked for it several times and knew I had put it somewhere but couldn't remember even taking it into the house. Then by chance one day I found it as dry as a bone and starting into growth. It had been there for several months. I potted it up and gently started to water it and here it is now. Not sure I will try that again though ::).
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Ipomopsis aggregata (Scarlet Gilia) on Paradise Meadows trek, Lassen NP, California.
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Ipomopsis aggregata (Scarlet Gilia) on Paradise Meadows trek, Lassen NP, California.
Nice little thing Cliff ! Great colour .
I gues you had a great time in California ?
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Acis autumnalis has seeded itself into the cracks between the paving outside our back door (1,2)
Watsonia foucadei (3,4)
Lily (5)
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Lily is a great imitation of a Scottish wildcat, Ralph - but I can't read her notice - suspect it might say 'come any closer and I'll have your hand off'!
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The story goes as follows: I was out in the garden (no surprise there), and when I came back into the house my wife was on the 'phone. She wrote something on a Post-It note and handed it to me, then pointed to the cat who was snoozing on the back of an armchair. It read, "She ate mouse under end table by sofa!". Thank goodness for carpet shampoo.
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What a great story!
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First time flowering with only one flower ....A rather difficult thing to grow . In the past I lost this plant very often...
But now I hope it gonna work for a longer period ....In the spring of 2012 I put it in a tufahole , so far so good.
Hope it wil survive for longer time and get more flowers in the future.
Silene nivalis (syn . Polyschemone nivalis)
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Very well done Kris.
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Very well done Kris.
Thanks David ! :)
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First time flowering with only one flower ....A rather difficult thing to grow . In the past I lost this plant very often...
But now I hope it gonna work for a longer period ....In the spring of 2012 I put it in a tufahole , so far so good.
Hope it wil survive for longer time and get more flowers in the future.
Silene nivalis (syn . Polyschemone nivalis)
Most people seeing that plant out of flower would guess it to be a primula, wouldn't they? You have really caught the crystalline nature of the flowers in photos two and four, Kris - lovely!
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Most people seeing that plant out of flower would guess it to be a primula, wouldn't they? You have really caught the crystalline nature of the flowers in photos two and four, Kris - lovely!
Yes you're right Maggi , it has the appearance of a Primula . Thanks for your compliment. Sometimes the light is perfect and then with a bit of luck ....
For me Silene is a bit of an underrating genus , altough some are very difficult to flower wel ...
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Congratulations Kris. Polyschemone nivalis is a plant that I could never keep a longer time. It occurs to me that your plant blooms only now and that it is growing so compact. My always flourished in May and exhibited longer flower stems. Here is a photo from last year.
Perhaps is the plant more promising in a tufahole.
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Shrubby potentillas have a very long season in flower
Potentilla 'Limelight'
Potentilla 'Silver Schilling'
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Some blue flowers in the garden and greenhouse
Campanula incurva which is usually biennial or monocarpic. It is a long time since I planted it but there are usually one or two seedlings around. It is a pity the older blooms are damaged by rain before it gets covered in flowers. this one was rabbit pruned earlier.
Succisa pratensis dwarf form
Cyananthus integer x sherriffii
Tweedia caerulea - a gorgeous colour
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Cosmos atrosanguineus
This plant has been in the ground for at least 15 years. It is about to be overgrown by a rather invasive though very attractive white japanese anemone so i will have to do some digging soon.
It's a happy chance when a self sown seedling complements a planted neighbour, Osteospermum jucundum compactum. It must be 10 years or more since I had antirrhinums in this spot. I removed some Fragaria 'Red Ruby earlier this year which must have disturbed the soil. I didn't know antirrinhum seed would survive that long. There is a white one there too.
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Congratulations Kris. Polyschemone nivalis is a plant that I could never keep a longer time.
Thanks Eberhard .As I told , in the past I lost it several times in the rockgarden or even one in pot. Until I did take the decission to put it in a tufarock . At least it survived for one winter but that is not a guarantee .....Never come that far before ...
I hope that the tufarocks are a solution for a longer period ....But that is something future wil tel.
I don't know why the plant flowers so late ........There is indeed much difference with the plant you shown us and I see on the label that our plants have the same source as mine ;)
So the diffrence must come from growing it in the tufarocks .
Greetings ...
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I see on the label that our plants have the same source as mine ;)
;D
So the diffrence must come from growing it in the tufarocks .
...or perhaps on the location? I planted my always pretty shady.
Good luck!
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Canna patens seed pods.
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British wildflowers: growing on the chalk of very wet North Downs yesterday, just north of Dover. (1) Soapwort (Saponaria officinalis), (2) Old Man's Beard/Traveller's Joy (Clematis vitalba).
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The Cyclamen hederifolium season has arrived!