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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: ian mcenery on February 01, 2014, 12:59:50 PM
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I posted a picture of scoliopus biglovii a couple of weeks ago but it now has many more flowers so I thought it worth another photo
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Super close-up which shows the fine decoration and intricate shaping of these tiny flowers. This plant is very much a favourite of mine. I also love the way the foliage is so very spotted when it is young and fades to plain green as the leaves get older and larger. The flowers are numerous and appear over quite a long period. Just a great wee plant.
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Yes indeed. A great plant and yours is certainly doing well Ian.
I hope the UK and European/American weather of recent times is settling down and getting better. Such terrible storm damage we have seen on TV and I wondered how David N was getting along. I hope he can swim well. ::)
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On the rare occasions when the sun comes out, Daphne bholua 'Jacqueline Postill' pumps out the scent.
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I posted a picture of scoliopus biglovii a couple of weeks ago but it now has many more flowers so I thought it worth another photo
Already! That is very early
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Spring is just around the corner.Taken on Feb.1st
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First bloom of the year on Fuchsia perscandens. As you can see it was hidden away a wee bit, but it is loaded with buds so I'm very happy!
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-nrpMixX0QzQ/UvHlPMZYI5I/AAAAAAAADJY/AzIrjj7djlg/w545-h553-no/DSC_1896.jpg)
Iris "Katherine Hodgkins"..........................
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-KBwVizi5kR8/UvHlPKN9V-I/AAAAAAAADJc/EWoDeANCKV0/w783-h553-no/DSC_1897.jpg)
You'll notice that the photos were taken in the dark - this is because I've had to continue my night time and early morning slug patrols throughout the winter. So mild has it been that in the north facing courtyard by the kitchen I have the following that have remained in the green and are actively growing; a Salvia patens seedling in an 8cm pot, Trachlelospermum jasminoides and Hedychium gardnerianum.
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Spring is on the horizon - lovely pics!
In between showers I managed to prune most of my vines today. After a number of bad choices we planted two excellent Canadian grapevines: 'Ontario' and 'Vineland'. They are very healthy, good looking and the grapes are delicious.
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In between showers I managed to prune most of my vines today..............................
I would just have been satisfied if I hadn't had to dress up like the sailor chap who's picture used to be on Sardine tins for a trip to the dustbin :'(
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As long as you don't have to put on your wetsuit, fins and snorkel... ;D
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It could well come to that as well as a deep sympathy for Noah ;D
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Just watched the news it looks so terrible in some places. It heavy rain her now, I am getting fed up of this now.
David you should have taken a picture and cheered us up.
Angie :)
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What, a selfie in me wetsuit, fins and snorkel. That wouldn't half frighten the horses ;D
Pretty grim day all round here today and especially so for folks closer to the coast. The rail link to Devon and Cornwall via Plymouth after Exeter is broken at Dawlish and Teignmouth and passengers needing to travel further than Exeter will need to be bussed to Newton Abbot before continuing their journey by train, for some months I would have thought. A lot of people who lived quite close to the railway look likely to loose their homes. Worse to come by the weekend it seems too.
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David I saw the pictures of the railway line on the news, unbelievable. Like you say it will take a lot of time to sort out. My heart goes out to the folks that are affected with all this flooding.
David with your smiley face you wouldn't frighten anyone.
Angie :)
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David with your smiley face you wouldn't frighten anyone.
That's not how Maureen puts it Angie ::) ;D
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We've been seeing it here too David, on our TV news. The Levels area of Somerset looks deeply shocking and I was hoping, tongue in cheek, that you could swim well, but I don't mean to take it lightly. It is terribly distressing for people whose homes are flooded. I can't imagine anything more depressing and heartbreaking than having to face that kind of clean-up, or even losing their homes altogether. I truly feel for you and all your fellows in the area.
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Yes, it is distressing! So many people loose much that they have worked hard to build up. My heart goes out to all that are in weather distress.
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It starts now in my alpine house to bloom:
-Crocus nubigena
-Crocus korolkowii
-Colchicum hungaricum
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I like the way you chose differently coloured and shaped shales and pebbles to bring out the characteristic colour of your crocuses!
Took a trip to Bonn for a family gathering. The photo was taken today in the park of Schloss Deichmannsaue, formerly part of the American embassy.
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Fantastic sight :o
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Dionysias are flowering all too early this year.
Dionysia bazoftica in a 6" pot
D. 'Ewesley Theta' (afghanica GW/H 1308 × tapetodes) in a 4" pot
D. 'Zdenek Zvolanek' (afghanica GW/H 1308 × ? tapetodes) in a 3" pot
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Cyril if I had those Dionysias in my greenhouse I wouldn't care about all the miserable weather that we have been having, I wouldn't leave my greenhouse.
Angie :)
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whaou Cyril what deep color your Dionysias have.
I guess you should ventilate a lot during these wet winter months.
Using a dehumidifier i still have too much hygrometry in the greenhouse and have lost a small plant of ZZ's one and Corona.
What's the hygrometry in your greenhouses?
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Camellia fraterna today, splattered with mud. We have had a lot of rain!
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Cyril if I had those Dionysias in my greenhouse I wouldn't care about all the miserable weather that we have been having, I wouldn't leave my greenhouse.
Angie :)
Yes Angie, the dionysias do lift the spirits in this dull weather we are having.
whaou Cyril what deep color your Dionysias have.
I guess you should ventilate a lot during these wet winter months.
Using a dehumidifier i still have too much hygrometry in the greenhouse and have lost a small plant of ZZ's one and Corona.
What's the hygrometry in your greenhouses?
Yann, I have overhead fans running 15 minutes on/15 minutes off, all year round. I am convinced they help keep plants more compact and keep botrytis away especially in this damp weather we have been having lately.
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Not quite warm enough but the Tommys are on their way.About ten days early.
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Dionysias are flowering all too early this year.
Dionysia bazoftica in a 6" pot
D. 'Ewesley Theta' (afghanica GW/H 1308 × tapetodes) in a 4" pot
D. 'Zdenek Zvolanek' (afghanica GW/H 1308 × ? tapetodes) in a 3" pot
Extremely beautiful Cyril en perfectly grown !
Here they start to flower to ....
Dionysia ' Mike Bramley '
Dionysisa ' Judith Bramley '
Dionysia ' Corona '
Dionysia zschummelii
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Not quite warm enough but the Tommys are on their way.About ten days early.
Wow, John, that looks terrific! How long did it take you to establish so many 'Tommys'?
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Eranthis and Crocus carpets seem so alien to me here at present, with our record heat waves we've been getting. They seem SO far from summer. ;)
Thanks so much for showing us. And that glorious Scoliopus at the beginning of this topic as well. Brilliant pics everyone.
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A few afghanica f1 and f2 hybrids currently in flower, others have already gone over.
MK01458/3
MK06458/2
MK01221/2 Perlmutt
PMR-MK06459/2
MK9801/14 Zdenek Zvolanek
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And a couple of other hybrids.
MK9914/4 Corona, f1 ex curviflora
PMR-MK1155c/17, f1 ex esfandiarii
Cyril, your archibaldii/bazoftica is superb. I don't recognise the clone, do you know which it is as it's better than most around.
Paul
PS Maggie, this is the first time I've added photo's and although I shrunk the originals down to the max 200 I see they won't expand. Can you explain in terms a luddite who doesn't even use a mobile 'phone would understand?
Thanks
Paul
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Belay that Maggie, they do expand, albeit not as much as other peoples.
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Belay that Maggie, they do expand, albeit not as much as other peoples.
They look pretty darn good regardless of photo size, Paul !
Seems extraordinary that you have had some go over already when we are not half way through February yet. What a year this will be at this rate - Show secretarys tearing their hair out even more than usual as they worry what will be entered.......
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Lovely Dionysias! I have never grown them but am tempted.
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Thanks Maggie/Ralph. Ralph, only a few weeks until Kent show. Those currently in flower will be over by then (even with judicious use of fridges!) but there are more to follow even though the weather is as bad as it could be for Dionysias this year with incessant rain and low light levels.
Paul
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Paul your plants are stunning.
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I love those Dionysia afghanica hybrids with dark centres. I do not have a suitable greenhouse and would not have the patience to look after them properly so will just enjoy looking at other people's successes on the Forum.
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And a couple of other hybrids.
MK9914/4 Corona, f1 ex curviflora
PMR-MK1155c/17, f1 ex esfandiarii
Cyril, your archibaldii/bazoftica is superb. I don't recognise the clone, do you know which it is as it's better than most around.
Paul
Paul, the bazoftica (I believe this should now be archibaldii) clone is MK JLMS 02-87/2. I thought I got it from Ian Kidman but according to my records it came from Nigel Fuller in 2011. Not many dionysias do well in Scotland but this one seems to be well behaved so far.
Your dionysias are stunning, up to your usual standard. I am particularly taken by the white with soft yellow centre, D. MK 06458-2. Look a little similar to D. 'Geist' which I will (attempt to) grow for the first time when I get it from Aberconwy in April.
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Thanks Cyril. Yes, you're right, bazoftica is an invalid name. When Liden determined that it was indistinct from archibaldii, most of we southerners were unconvinced at first but when it became apparent how variable 'bazoftica' was and how little 1970s archibaldii we were comparing it with, it became obvious he was correct. I raised two seedlings from the JLMS02-87 collection and whilst one was similar to the JCA3010 clone the other was far better. So my own two seedlings seemed to confirm his findings.
I've got two white afghanica hybrids and the colour of both is similar to Geist but they are naturally far smaller. My biggest Geist is over 30cm and as vigorous as aretioides but unfortunately has opened up in the centre and is likely to be going to Aberconwy as I have very limited space and can't carry passengers.
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Amazing that afghanica hybrids can be white! That's reassuring to hear 'Geist' is a vigorous grower, maybe it will be happy in Scotland. 'Tess' (I think a sister seedling of 'Geist') is doing well so far and has persisted for 3 years, flowering well every year.
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Wow, those Dionysa are breathtaking. So perfect. I would so very much like to get over there and see one of your alpine shows, people. Such amazing stuff and so beautifully presented. Totally alien to our gardening shows here in Canberra, that is for sure. ;)
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Cyril, yes Tess and Geist are both f1 seedlings of Emmely, possibly the only redeeming feature of Emmely is it's fertility as evidenced by the fact that they are 1997 seedlings numbers 15 & 30 respectively. Unknowingly Ju Bramley and I submitted both plants to the Joint Rock Committee in 2008 as unnamed plants and they awarded PCs subject to naming. Fortunately Michael Kammerlander was at the Kent show a week later and he asked us to name the white plant so we chose Geist (German for ghost) which we both felt appropriate. There are many other Emmely seedlings, photo's of MK99310/27 in and out of flower attached plus a seedling I raised in 2003 now named Lysithea which opens very pale yellow and quickly fades to near white and is smaller in all it's parts which is a bonus when space is at a premium.
If we can work out the logistics I can let you have one of the white afghanica hybrids if you would like one. Are you going to Kendal; if so I could give one to somebody at Loughborough to pass on to you.
Got to rush off now for the day for the first of two funerals this week. Tonight I'll try and post some more afghanica hybrids from past years. You're right the colour range is remarkable, olive green, dark gold, rust, pearl amongst the more unusual.
Paul
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Fantastic Dionysias everyone. Just a never-to-be-realized pipe dream for us I'm afraid, so thanks so much for showing us these glimpses of HEAVEN! ::)
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Sorry you have to rely on pictures Lesley, but better than nothing I guess. Rather earlier than I suggested further afghanica hybrids attached. We didn't make it to the funeral as the car developed an electrical problem causing various things to malfunction so we had to return home. Puts our attendance at Caerleon in jeopardy unless the garage can get it fixed tomorrow or persuade our warranty company to supply a suitable replacement for Saturday.
Dionysia Gnom (MK94102/2) - Eric Watson x afghanica. Michael Kammerlander's hybrids are open pollenated and the pollen parent is usually unknown unless specific characteristics implicate the pollen parent. This is the case with Gnom which is a seedling of Eric Watson (bryoides x tapetodes) but which clearly has afghanica in it's make up.
Dionysia Ludek Zvolanek (MK9801/3) - f1 hybrid
MK01458/3 - f2 hybrid ex MK9701/4
MK01458/9 - f2 hybrid ex MK9701/4
Perlmutt - (MK01221/2) - f2 hybrid ex MK9301/3
Paul
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and finally PMR-MK06459/1, f2 sibling of a previously posted plant.
Paul
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To Bolinopsis.The answer to your question is 45 years.Sorry about the picture size but I am struggling with a new computer.I am hoping that I have sorted it now and I managed to grab some more shots during a brief period of sunshine although they are not fully open.
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I think you have cracked the photo thing now, John - and what a pretty picture those crocus make.
Good to hear you are getting enough brightness to get them opening. So sad when they get stuck in wet dull weather - though they have such a slim elegant shape that they are still lovely.
Paul: bad news about the car problems - it's certainly not weather up here to be stranded in with a broken vehicle. Fingers crossed for a quick fix.
Your Dionysias are superb - I have a soft spot for both the Zvolanek brothers - the men and the plants!! ;)
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Cyril, yes Tess and Geist are both f1 seedlings of Emmely, possibly the only redeeming feature of Emmely is it's fertility as evidenced by the fact that they are 1997 seedlings numbers 15 & 30 respectively. Unknowingly Ju Bramley and I submitted both plants to the Joint Rock Committee in 2008 as unnamed plants and they awarded PCs subject to naming. Fortunately Michael Kammerlander was at the Kent show a week later and he asked us to name the white plant so we chose Geist (German for ghost) which we both felt appropriate. There are many other Emmely seedlings, photo's of MK99310/27 in and out of flower attached plus a seedling I raised in 2003 now named Lysithea which opens very pale yellow and quickly fades to near white and is smaller in all it's parts which is a bonus when space is at a premium.
If we can work out the logistics I can let you have one of the white afghanica hybrids if you would like one. Are you going to Kendal; if so I could give one to somebody at Loughborough to pass on to you.
Got to rush off now for the day for the first of two funerals this week. Tonight I'll try and post some more afghanica hybrids from past years. You're right the colour range is remarkable, olive green, dark gold, rust, pearl amongst the more unusual.
Paul
Paul, I hope to go to Kendal, so would be very happy with one of the white afghanica hybrids. Thank you.
Some more superb dionysias. Must be very addictive especially when you raise your own very special plants such as 'Lysithea'.
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I'll let you know who has the plant after Loughborough Cyril, it won't be huge though! First flowering is always exciting, the hope it might be gentian blue or pillar box red. So far nothing that dramatic but some have been well worth propagating, others not so. The first batch I raised from seed MK sent me in 2003 numbered over 500 and I had to knock the garden shed down to squeeze a new 6x6 into a tiny space by the house. Although I only retained around 10%, these of course grew so the space didn't last long and there have been further raisings since. Don't deliberately pollenate my own plants as I have more than enough to do but whenever a plant dies I always look for capsules and occasionally find a few seeds. It is one of the most satisfying aspects of our addiction. My mother calls it an obsession. A few of my seedlings attached.
Paul
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and finally.
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Great range and variety of seedlings Paul, and superbly well grown. Many thanks for showing. I must try harder to grow them well but the problem is I like too many other plants also.
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Don't we know it! At least give the rest of us a chance by having one genus you don't excel in. I never cease to be amazed at how you produce unmatchable plants across such a vast spectrum. I do grow other things but space (or lack thereof) is always a major problem.
Paul
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Hepatica transsylvatica 'Winterfreude' - it has flowered for 6 weeks now!
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The crocuses are coming along fine. All they need now is bit more sunshine.
Crocus etruscus 'Zwanenburg'
Crocus tommasianus 'Roseus'
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Lovely flowers everyone!! So these are the dionysias I've come across in threads here, never realised how diverse and pretty they can be.... Nice job, Paul!
Loved the meadows too, and the crocuses..
This is my news:
our "frost",
my first ever hepatica blooms, after one failed attempt with the plant last year
...and lastly my heavenly scented daphne odora !!
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Well done Fenius, just keep on trying any genus you can get your hands on and you will get to know what will get by on your conditions.
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Do you grow Fuchsia perscandens outdoors, and if so, which part of the country are you in?
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Do you grow Fuchsia perscandens outdoors, and if so, which part of the country are you in?
Welcome, Rosa!
This thread may be of interest to you :
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=6966.0 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=6966.0)
and this :
http://nfsnz.orconhosting.net.nz/nzspecies.htm (http://nfsnz.orconhosting.net.nz/nzspecies.htm)
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Do you grow Fuchsia perscandens outdoors, and if so, which part of the country are you in?
Thanks to the encouragement on the other thread I've kept it outdoors the last couple of winters in a very sheltered spot.
I'm in Oxfordshire where it can be surprisingly cold.
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Dionysia, those flowering Dionysia's really look beautiful and cheer us up during this darker period of the year. Not so much flowering in nature right here right now. The snowdrops are slowly developing from bud stage to flowers and the hazelnut & alder trees have their catkins waving gracefully in the wind.
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Thank you Francosi. First show of the year tomorrow and we've just had a nightmare trying to load the car in 60mph winds and occasional torrential rain. Only one pane broken in the greenhouse (so far) and I've been able to replace it. Must have happened within the last few minutes as the plants didn't get wet.
Paul
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I am not good at gardening and computing but eager to learn more. Early in the morning I have gone to garden which is 25 km away from city centre and almost in the middle of woodland, explored a new muscari in it. Now I am trying to identify it..
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Izzet, if you email your picture to me at info@srgc.org.uk I will post it for you.
Best wishes,
Maggi
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I am not good at gardening and computing but eager to learn more. Early in the morning I have gone to garden which is 25 km away from city centre and almost in the middle of woodland, explored a new muscari in it. Now I am trying to identify it..
The mystery plant :
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Thank you Francosi. First show of the year tomorrow and we've just had a nightmare trying to load the car in 60mph winds and occasional torrential rain. Only one pane broken in the greenhouse (so far) and I've been able to replace it. Must have happened within the last few minutes as the plants didn't get wet.
Paul
Hope all going to the AGS Caerleon Show got there and back safely. I hear that Bob and Rannveig Wallis won the Farrer with a big pot of Iris hyrcana. 8)
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"Sunday walk" Today, when my dogs.
Föhn (=warm wind from south over the Alpes) .... has caused a miracle last days.
Now spring has begun here between the snow remains.
Leucojum vernum, Hepatica nobilis in the woods...
Sturnus vulgaris in my garden is back from south since today :-)
Bernd
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Maggi, you are right, Bob and Rannveig did indeed deservedly win the Farrer medal with Iris hyrcana. It was in fact only in a 19cm pot, part of their 6 pan, put was absolutely packed and evenly flowered. We did get our car back on Friday afternoon with a new £250 boot switch but the problem recurred on Friday evening on the way to our local group meeting! We eventually sorted it ourselves by spraying the mechanism with a water repellent. The car behaved impeccably on show day. The garage will be receiving a visit on Monday morning!!!!!
Paul
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Three very different plants flowering in the garden now: Iris 'Clairette' - one of the loveliest of all reticulata types that has settled down nicely in gritty soil (we've never done too well with many others, must try harder); Hacquetia epipactis 'Thor' - always very early and delightful to see appearing in February with the snowdrops (annoyingly difficult to propagate and of course everyone wants it!); and one of the legion of winter heathers (like dwarf conifers these seem to have languished in obscurity for a long time, but they really are lovely plants grown amongst others, and give a sense of the open moors).
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Draba sphaeroïdes seeded around nicely over the years !
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Maggi,
The mystery plant reminds of me Brimeura in that bud form. Do Muscari have that crimped "cap" look to them? For some reason that shape for Brimeura has lodged itself in my mind, but not for Muscari? What do others think?
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Hi,
In what province did Izzet photograph the plant? Cheers, Marcus
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He just says 25km from city centre of Antalya........ he will tell us more when he sees this, I hope.
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I am not good at gardening and computing but eager to learn more. Early in the morning I have gone to garden which is 25 km away from city centre and almost in the middle of woodland, explored a new muscari in it. Now I am trying to identify it..
Izzet, I think it looks like Hyacinthella heldreichii but it's hard to be sure from the photo. A lovely plant though 8)
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Thanks David! I have a few more this week, too!
My first ever galanthus - I think it is woronowii so no scent :-(
edgeworthia with a lovely scent
a cyclamen with an equally lovely scent - haven't id it yet
and finally, andromeda polifolia!
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Hi, I agree with Ashley, its in the right place and, even though it's part its prime, it matches the description. I grow this species and H. lazulina both from Archibald seed. Cheers, Marcus
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Asphodelus acaulis , in pot (picture 1 & 2 ) and in the garden ( 3 & 4) .
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Beautiful, Kris. I hope to track some of these down one of these years. They look great.
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Beautiful, Kris. I hope to track some of these down one of these years. They look great.
Thanks Paul . You can have a piece of mine when they go dormant (rootstock) but I think is not possible to sent it to your country ?
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Thank you for the offer, Kris, but as you say it isn't possible with our quarantine. I appreciate the thought though. :D
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Asphodelus acaulis , in pot (picture 1 & 2 ) and in the garden ( 3 & 4) .
Kris,
Very interesting to see this species outside. I once cultivated it with the shelter of a greenhouse
and received very etioleted plants.
Did your plant survive more than the recent winter and are flowers expected outside?
Gerd
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Kris,
Very interesting to see this species outside. I once cultivated it with the shelter of a greenhouse
and received very etioleted plants.
Did your plant survive more than the recent winter and are flowers expected outside?
Gerd
It is the second year (winter )outside Gerd and previous winter was much colder. Yes it flowers outside but not with so much flowers as in my greenhouse .
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Bulbs in my meadow.
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Spring , perfect spring! I do feel sorry for those who do not know how beautiful a garden can be so early in the year using bulbs and corms.
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I do agree, Maggi!
Franz, that is perfect!
Seems you have a lot of sun, or did you take the pictures the day the sun was shining?
I have also a lot of bulbs in my lawn but much gray weather and rain make it difficult to enjoy the display.
These are from the other day when we had a few hours with sun between the showers.
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A plant growing on the beach in the Cape Verde islands photographed by my daughter yesterday.
A type of orobanche, Cistanche phelypaea
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A plant growing on the beach in the Cape Verde islands photographed by my daughter yesterday.
A type of orobanche, Cistanche phelypaea
Wow, not seen anything like that before. Quite spectacular.
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Hoy,
Luckily, we had some days with sunshine.
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Maggi, you are right. Bulbs and corms are simply great and excellent for eyes
and soul after wintertime. I am not quite sure, but think, that springtime is
extremely early this year.
Had a closer look at the Galanthus today and found these unusual forms among
the normal ones.
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More pictures:
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Spring is sprung.A few pics. from my garden in the last few days.
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and more.
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Finally.
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and in the wood.
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Wow! :o :o
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How happy must the bees be to have all those flowers? 8)
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Really stunning displays.
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Crocuses interrupted by an occasional Galanthus, Hmmmm...
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Really stunning displays.
I couldn't have said it better. Thank you for showing the pictures, they are very inspiring.
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Spring is sprung.A few pics. from my garden in the last few days.
Absolutely incredible John! What a great place your garden must be to spend time at this time of year. Simply stunning displays. Thanks for sharing.
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Spring is really getting under way here. 1. Camellia transnokensis; 2. Camellia 'Cornish Spring'; 3. Camellia japonica 'Margaret Davis; 4. newly emerging growth of Jeffersonia dubia.
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John G.
Those mass displays are breathtaking. I wouldn't know where to stand if I came across that in a wood somewhere. Just amazing.
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this is not a late heap of snow waiting to be melted by the spring sun ... these are the snowdrops in my garden. And they spread all over the lawn, even if as long as they do not flower they get mowed from april on since it's almost impossible to distinguish them from the gras. This spring I have spotted new lonely flowers 20 tot 30 meter away from the main clumps area. It's going to be athletic mowing this spring navigating between all the snowdrops ;D
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Sigh! If only they'd do that here. Absolutely lovely pics, everyone.
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Spring comes very very slowly here in Berlin, but a first Hepatica is in flower now.
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A few more pics.this time in the glade.
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and cyclamen coum growing beneath deciduous azaleas and a single self-sown plant at the foot of my rockery with its seedlings helped by myself .
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and cyclamen coum growing beneath deciduous azaleas and a single self-sown plant at the foot of my rockery with its seedlings helped by myself .
:o :o :o Stunning John , what a great show !
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Ranunculus calandrinioides outside in the rockgarden .
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My first ever Lachenalia. Not one of my seed grown ones, it was a bargain bin purchase last year......................
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g430/longk48/DSC_1913.jpg)
Sold to me as L.aloides, but here is a photo of the foliage for those wiser than myself.................
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g430/longk48/DSC_1917.jpg)
First Salvia to start blooming this year is this small cutting of S.microphylla that was over wintered under unheated glass.............
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g430/longk48/DSC_1920.jpg)
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Wonderful Ranunculus, Kris. I grow this one in an open cold frame with no protection, where it blooms. Haven't found a good garden spot for it yet - so much of my garden is sunny and dry.
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Caltha palustris alba flowering as it is poking through the ground.
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Caltha palustris alba flowering as it is poking through the ground.
Hummm , Ranunculaceae again ..... yes I like them Cyril ! Wonderful group of plants ....
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Wonderful Ranunculus, Kris. I grow this one in an open cold frame with no protection, where it blooms. Haven't found a good garden spot for it yet - so much of my garden is sunny and dry.
Thanks Anne . Maybe he is strong enough to resist the dry conditions. He goes dormant very quick after flowering and then they could have more I suppose. Here he stays very warm and very sunny to but offcourse we have no summers like you. Altough my garden is very hot,sunny and dry .If you have more then one I would try it ....
My potbounded one is more compact because I kept it under glas and it is not repotted since several years . This winter I kept it very close to the roof of the greenhouse , so with maximum light. This result in a very compact plant. He stays in the greenhouse al summer when dormant and temperatures rises to 50 degrees celcius overthere ... Maybe my plant outside have a to rich soil. I hope to grow this one a bit more compact in the future. Maybe I try to change soil conditions .But they do'nt like it to replant very often ....
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What a spectacular show the white caltha palustris makes. Is it available at nurseries in England? Don't think I've ever seen it here.
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Kris, it goes dormant here after flowering. I only have the one plant and I'm not usually here when it makes seed (if it does). So you can see why I'm reluctant to put it in the garden and maybe lose it. Thanks so much for all the information.
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Just from yesterday
1. + 2. Iris unguicularis ssp. cretensis - outside! first time flowering
3. a selection of Primula sibthorpii from Artvin/Turkey
4. Primula megaseifolia
5. Narcissus jacetanus
Gerd
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Some violets are flowering inside
1. Viola jaubertiana -from Mallorca
2. - 4. Viola mucronulifera -not very floriferous but with unusually blue tinted leaves and a spiny looking leaf margin
- very special
both species with special thanks to the seed donors!
Gerd
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What a spectacular show the white caltha palustris makes. Is it available at nurseries in England? Don't think I've ever seen it here.
34 suppliers listed in the RHS plant finder (http://apps.rhs.org.uk/rhsplantfinder/pfregions.asp?ID=73678)- 4 in Scotland and you will see quite a few in England.....
"Abroad
1 nursery listed
Eastern
4 nurseries listed
London Area
1 nursery listed
Midlands
4 nurseries listed
Northern
6 nurseries listed
Scotland
4 nurseries listed
South West
6 nurseries listed
Southern
3 nurseries listed
Wales and the West
5 nurseries listed
28 are mail order suppliers"
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Some violets are flowering inside
1. Viola jaubertiana -from Mallorca
2. - 4. Viola mucronulifera -not very floriferous but with unusually blue tinted leaves and a spiny looking leaf margin
- very special
both species with special thanks to the seed donors!
Gerd
V. mucronifolia looks very special, I think. Fine flower and delicate foliage.
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and cyclamen coum growing beneath deciduous azaleas and a single self-sown plant at the foot of my rockery with its seedlings helped by myself .
Truly astonishing views you've been showing us over the last couple of days John !! Breathtaking !!!
Out here (on a more moderate scale), Callianthemum calandrinoides is at its best in the tufa garden !
Whereas Primula "Tantallon" does well in the peatbed
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Lovely 'Tantallon' Luc, I've never dared try it
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Thanks David !
I have it in my peatbed where it survived its first (mild) Winter... I gave it a pane of glass as rain protection. So far, so good !
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Mmmmmmmmm ;D
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What a spectacular show the white caltha palustris makes. Is it available at nurseries in England? Don't think I've ever seen it here.
I got the plant from Ian Christie in 2012 but it seems widely available in the RHS Plant Finder from Maggi's research.
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Dionysia curviflora x, a hybrid from Jiri Papousek in 2003.
Dionysia curviflora Clone ENF 93/3 (Nigel Fuller)
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Dionysia curviflora x, a hybrid from Jiri Papousek in 2003.
Is yellow a usual colour for a curviflora hybrid?
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Nice to see your spring flowers down there while I am spending a week here at the treeline. It is still a couple of months till the first harbingers of warmer weather will appear here. (That will be Pulsatilla vernalis among others by the way.)
The weather hasn't been anything to boast of - and no aurora seen as the clouds are down to our ankles. But it is "warm" for the season. Usually this is the coldest month of the year with temperatures at -15 to -20C but now we -1. The mean temp is almost 10 degrees warmer than usual for the whole winter! We have normal snow cover but the areas south and east of us have more snow than anybody can remember. They had to dig down to find their cabins.
We have been out skiing every day despite the grey weather. here are a few pics - the trees are common birches (Betula pubescens), Norway spruce (Picea abies) and Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) and juniper shrubs (Juniperus communis) under the snow. The spruces often make dense scrubs when the lower branches roots.
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Not the easiest landscape to navigate, Trond
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Maggi, it is not that bad when you are in the open even when you just have 30m sight (the pictures were taken today in reasonably good weather!) I have a feeling of the way and we know the terrain pretty well. It is worse in the dense birchwoods where you loose your sense of direction when you turn left and right to avoid the densest stands of trees.
In such weather like these days we often get white-outs, that is you don't know the distance and whether it is up or down in front of your skis.
Edit: Forgot to include the picture of me in the birchwood.
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Is yellow a usual colour for a curviflora hybrid?
D. curviflora is purple to varying degrees in all the clones I have seen, so it is interesting that hybrids can be a totally different colour. It is akin to D. afghanica hybrids being white - see reply 29 from Paul who posted some pictures.
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Leontice ewersmanii, from Jan Jilek seeds sown 1996. It comes from Afghanistan.
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Great to see pictures of Trond in his native habitat!
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Hi Maggi
The obvious examples of yellow curviflora hybrids are Monika and Annielle, siblings raised by Michael Kammerlander in 1988, the first of his extensive range of hybrids and still amongst the most easily available. Although open pollenated like all his hybrids he believes the pollen parent to be tapetodes. Having said that, Cyril's plant does not look like any curviflora hybrid I've ever seen and clearly has aretioides somewhere in it's make up.
Paul
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Hi Maggi
The obvious examples of yellow curviflora hybrids are Monika and Annielle, siblings raised by Michael Kammerlander in 1988, the first of his extensive range of hybrids and still amongst the most easily available. Although open pollenated like all his hybrids he believes the pollen parent to be tapetodes. Having said that, Cyril's plant does not look like any curviflora hybrid I've ever seen and clearly has aretioides somewhere in it's make up.
Paul
Thank you , Paul. I am familiar with D. ' Monika' and 'Annielle' (Mrs Lafong, of course) but I had
quite forgotten that curviflora was involved in their makeup.
I did think that Cyril's plant from Jiri ( hhttp://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=11357.msg296643#msg296643 ) did have a strong look of aretioides about it.
Are there others of a similar parentage you can suggest?
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Sorry about the delay in responding Maggi. The foliage is barely visible in the photo' so it's difficult to make a reasoned suggestion. It's entirely possible it could be curviflora x aretiodes although I'm not aware of any known examples of such a cross.
Paul
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I know you've been busy at Harlow winning prizes, Paul, so not expecting you to be here until later.
Did you enjoy the day ?
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My very small Dionysia and an Ypsilandra.
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Try again