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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: WimB on March 02, 2014, 03:44:48 PM
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4 years ago I sowed some Jeffersonia dubia, dark form...today I had the first flower and it's a real dark form :D :D
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It's a beauty Wim !!!
(where's the drooling smiley Maggi ??) ;)
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Super-looking dubia!!!
Now I need to track down a seed source! :)
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Super-looking dubia!!!
Now I need to track down a seed source! :)
There's a line, Steve...I'll put you in there ;)
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It's a beauty Wim !!!
(where's the drooling smiley Maggi ??) ;)
Beautiful colour - the drooling smiley was actually in my first reply to Wim - which has somehow disappeared. ???
[attachimg=1] ( it's from the VRV forum ;) )
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What a stunner, Wim. 8)
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Gorgeous! :o
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The Rhododendron Praecox in my small front garden has been flowering for the last week and the flowers have survived a frost a few nights ago and last night. It puts on a good show each year and always makes me think that spring is on its way. It is rather straggly due to 30 years of neglect and competition from a R. williamsianum (that does not produce many flowers) and a larger rhododendron on its left. Trying, with judicious pruning of its neighbours, to give it more space to develop.
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Beautiful colour - the drooling smiley was actually in my first reply to Wim - which has somehow disappeared. ???
(Attachment Link) ( it's from the VRV forum ;) )
;D ;D
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@wimb
wonderful dubia wim...please show a photo when the stamens + ovary is fully developed. i'm asking for, because i'm looking for a wonderful type of Jeffersonia dubia with purple ovary + stamens...look at this photo (http://www.nefkom.info/data/must%20have/Jeffersonia%20dubia_Korea%20Form.jpg) (triggering salivation ;D). i found out, that this type seems to be native only in south korea. your plant seems to show at least purple stamens.
Erythronium caucasicum starts the Erythronium season this year...but 4 weeks earlier than last year. 8) (many thanks to Sergey ;))
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an early bird also ...Ranunculus calandrinoides from atlas mountain range
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maybe this year i'll get good flowering of Asphodelus acaulis (atlas mountain range)..ignore the "blue grains" ;D ;)
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@wimb
wonderful dubia wim...please show a photo when the stamens + ovary is fully developed. i'm asking for, because i'm looking for a wonderful type of Jeffersonia dubia with purple ovary + stamens...look at this photo (http://www.nefkom.info/data/must%20have/Jeffersonia%20dubia_Korea%20Form.jpg) (triggering salivation ;D). i found out, that this type seems to be native only in south korea. your plant seems to show at least purple stamens.
Hi Greenspan, it has a normal green ovary...it isn't the Korean form...haven't got that one, been searching for that type for a while now too!
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do you know the origin of your dubia? the purple stamens look like i call the "korean type".
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do you know the origin of your dubia? the purple stamens look like i call the "korean type".
I received the seeds from a friend, but he doesn't know the origin of his plant. It's most certainly not the Korean form, the Korean form has a red ovary, dark tipped stamens and a paler lavender-blue colour than mine. I'll post a pic of the ovary and stamens of my plant tomorrow. You can see quite some pics of the Korean form next to the regular form here: https://www.nargs.org/forum/jeffersonia (https://www.nargs.org/forum/jeffersonia) (page 1, page 7, page 8, page 13, page 16 and page 18)
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4 years ago I sowed some Jeffersonia dubia, dark form...today I had the first flower and it's a real dark form :D :D
Wonderful dark form Wim. I have heard of this and read about it in a past AGS journal but I am glad to see it is in cultivation.
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It seems there is not a separate thread for Daphne 2014.
Here is my earliest flowering daphne, Daphne jezoensis.
Correction: my earliest flowering daphne this year was Daphne bholua.
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A few more plants from the greenhouse (or fridge in some cases)
Paul
Dionysia 'Adrastea'
Dionysia 'Lunaris'
Dionysia 'Lysithea'
Dionysia 'Manuela'
Dionysia 'Markus'
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and more.
Dionysia 'Monika'
Dionysia oreodoxa DZ I 01-06-4
Dionysia 'Orion'
Dionysia tapetodes 'Brimstone'
Dionysia tapetodes ENF92-1
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and more.
Dionysia termeana JLMS02-34-PMR2
Dionysia viscidula x freitagii RFB-MK1992-3
Dionysia zschummelii T4Z166-Go2
Dionysia PMR08R1980-1 f3 ex PMR-MK03127-6
Dionysia PMR-MK1160a-9 f1 ex khuzistanica
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Really lovely Paul. I would envy but I'd never have the dedication nor the patience.
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Thank you David. I can't pretend it isn't more or less a full time 'occupation'. My mother once said it was an obsession and it's difficult to argue with her as they certainly don't tolerate any inattention. At this time of year moving them from sun to shade, from greenhouse to patio to fridge takes a lot of time.
Paul
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Must be worth it for those results , though, Paul. I hope a good few of these make it to Loughborough at the weekend.
I love Lyisthea and Dionysia PMR08R1980-1 f3 ex PMR-MK03127-6 is a bosker! 8)
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Back home from breast cancer surgery, an inspection of the garden greatly lifted my spirits today. (as do those beautiful Dionysias, Paul!) So much has grown over the past few days and there are so many old friends to discover. A little selection:
Crocus chrysanthus 'Ard Schenk'
Allium 'Ambassador'
Pachyphragma macrophylla (a great favourite of mine)
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The ovary and the stamens of the dark flowering Jeffersonia dubia.
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Those gems were clearly waiting to welcome you home, Anne.
May I wish you ALL the VERY BEST with your recovery and future health? :-*
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and more.
Dionysia 'Monika'
Dionysia oreodoxa DZ I 01-06-4
Dionysia 'Orion'
Dionysia tapetodes 'Brimstone'
Dionysia tapetodes ENF92-1
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Gorgeous plants, Paul !
I believe I recognize 'Monika' from a meeting at the Harlow show last Saturday... ;D
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Fantastic dionysias again Paul and perfectly well grown. I had not appreciated you actually put them in the fridge. This is total dedication!
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Luc, you're right. The Monika was at Harlow as indeed were many of the others, hopefully many will still be OK for Loughborough. Judicious use of two fridges (not the food fridges!) can extend or delay flowering but you have to be careful. In general I don't leave them in for more than two days at a time. They may however go back inside after a night of fresh air. Glad you like Lysithea Maggi. The plant shown is a cutting from a seedling I originally raised in 2003 from seed received from Michael Kammerlander collected ex Emmely. I don't like Emmely, it's too vigorous and untidy and not the best colour. It has however given rise to many f2 and f3 hybrids including Tess and Geist. Lysithea is compact for an Emmely seedling and after opening pale yellow, fades to near white. One or two other people now have it including Aberconwy although it is not in their current list. PMR08R1980/1 is a better colour than the picture shows, being a deep pink with a red eye, and it's approx 12mm in diameter. Most of my seedlings are from seed received from friends on the continent as seed is more reliably set there. I don't have time to deliberately pollinate my plants but occasionally, when dissecting a dead plant I do find seed on some of my own plants. This is the case here. It's seed parent is an f2 hybrid which itself was a seedling I raised from seed from a sibling of Cinderella (freitagii x microphylla) Judging by it's colour PMR08R1980/1 may be backcrossed with freitagii.
Paul
PS Cyril I haven't forgotten the white afghanica hybrid.
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Great background info, Paul - thank you.
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Very best wishes Anne.
That allium is striking, almost like a bromeliad :o
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Welcome back Anne!
Always thought early spring bulbs are the best. When there's nothing else, these do make a difference day by day!
Love your little hills of color Dionysia... none of these would grow out there in the garden???
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Judicious use of two fridges (not the food fridges!) can extend or delay flowering but you have to be careful. In general I don't leave them in for more than two days at a time. They may however go back inside after a night of fresh air. Glad you like Lysithea Maggi. The plant shown is a cutting from a seedling I originally raised in 2003 from seed received from Michael Kammerlander collected ex Emmely. I don't like Emmely, it's too vigorous and untidy and not the best colour. It has however given rise to many f2 and f3 hybrids including Tess and Geist. Lysithea is compact for an Emmely seedling and after opening pale yellow, fades to near white. One or two other people now have it including Aberconwy although it is not in their current list. ....
Paul
Ah! I see, dedicated plant fridges. The food fridge would not be popular here. :)
Interesting that D. 'Emmely' (which I have grown and also don't like) has given rise to such fine seedlings as D. 'Tess', D. 'Geist' and G. 'Lysithea'. I will be watching Aberconwy's list in future.
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Those gems were clearly waiting to welcome you home, Anne.
May I wish you ALL the VERY BEST with your recovery and future health? :-*
.... and very strongly seconded.
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First Anemone to flower in the garden: Anemone apennina 'Albiflora'.
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Just before today's rains came, from the garden Ipheion (Tristagma) 'Alberto Costillo'
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Alberto is a Castillo, David.....
Ours are coming out too. Great plant.
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Cherry blossom and crystal blue sky...
P. x subhirtella 'Autumnalis Rosea'
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It's Camellia season. Camellia x williamsii 'Water Lily'.
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Eccromocarpus scaber is reliably the first of my non bulbous plants to bloom. Started yesterday (8/3/2014) which is earlier than usual by a couple of weeks (last years freakily long winter excepted when it was nearer the end of April)............................
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3396/13032575943_7a2fb71c32_o.jpg)
Salvia confertiflora blooming..........................
(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2173/12967757704_d799242a84_o.jpg)
It has been under this open fronted (and to the side) shade structure all winter and remained in the green. That back wall does protect it from the north though....................
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7357/12967483003_4dd830d079_o.jpg)
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It's Camellia season.
Camellia reticulata 'Innovation'.
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That Salvia confertiflora looks really well and promising! I must like its special place in front of the wooden fence.
And I do like the cherry blossoms against the wonderful blue sky.
Here is a little fella, enjoying the sunshine today: Hepatica nobilis var. japonica 'Purple Forest Hybrid'
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Some plants that caught my eye today in the garden:
Adonis 'Hanazono'
Hyacinthella dalmatica
the darkest form of Hepatica nobilis I'm growing
Iris aucheri 'Shooting Star'
Shortia 'Leona'
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Now flowering in the Alpine House:
Dielsiocharis kotschyi
Draba polytricha.
Oxalis Ann Christie
Oxalis Dark Eye
Oxalis Ione Hecker
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I love that Oxalis 'Ann Christie' - one I must try to get.
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A small Soldanella
S. carpatica x pusilla
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That Salvia confertiflora looks really well and promising! I must like its special place in front of the wooden fence.
I think that it appreciated it for the winter. I had to dig it up out of the main bed (I was expecting another nasty winter) and it sulked for a few days, but then just got on with it. These flowers started to bud late autumn and just marked time. The other flowers which were more advanced flowered deep into the winter, but those spikes blasted a few weeks ago (I suspect that the longer gaps between the still opening buds at the top offered them less protection).
Here is a little fella, enjoying the sunshine today: Hepatica nobilis var. japonica 'Purple Forest Hybrid'
I need to start some Hepatica. I hear they take shade well?
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Dappled shade is best, well draining loamy soil, fairly dry in summer and some frost in winter...
In some parts of my garden Hepaticas do well, in other parts they don't. Don't ask me why... :-\
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Last Saturday, between my weeding sessions, I had time to take a few pics. So much going on in the garden, but I will just show you bits.
Wild collected Helleborus
Helleborus - from seeds
Hepatica - a nice pink one
Erythronium (dens-canis?) - from the forests, not doing too well in its location
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Just finished my least favourite job of the year; giving the hedges their annual trim. Not neat suburban hedges, but proper farm hedges full of hawthorn, blackthorn, wild roses, brambles, holly etc., in fact anything with spines and prickles. Only fell off the ladder once and the puncture wounds will heal. That's it until the August tidy-up.
A couple of combination that work in the garden today: Muscari and Lathyrus vernus, and Helleborus, Galanthus and Viola.
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Taraxacum officinale.
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Ah, I've got a lot of that exceptional plant.... ;D
Good luck with your punctures and possibly stiff muscles, John.
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Our hedges need their annual trim but sometimes go without and become even more scruffy. Fortunately the wildlife doesn't mind.
This is a lovely early flowering 'cherry' - a supposed cross between Prunus cerasifera 'Pissardii' and P. mume: P. x blireana. The flowers are very good and the foliage deep bronzy-red and it makes a relatively small bushy, twiggy shrub rather than a tree. A real sign of spring against a sunny sky.
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The Booker front garden on this gloriously sunny day ... plants are coming into leaf and flower after a wet and windy winter.
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How lovely - but shouldn't there be Sue out there with a cuppa?
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How lovely - but shouldn't there be Sue out there with a cuppa?
Yes Maggi ... but she had already made me one. ;) ;D :-* :-* :-*
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Clematis armandii 'Apple Blossom', and another unknown early flowering clematis - any suggestions?
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In my Berlin Garden, Ypsilandra thibetica is in flower.
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A first Corydalis, C. malkensis.
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A Salvia microphylla cutting from last year in bloom on the display bench at the top of the garden. Been outdoors for a couple of weeks so the flowers are a bit of a surprise!
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g430/longk48/DSC_1936A.jpg)
One of my baby Desfontiania spinosa has buds too!
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g430/longk48/DSC_1938.jpg)
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A couple of splashes of colour in the garden now.
Camelia 'Carnation'
Euphorbia rigida - looking better than I can ever remember
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Wow - what a beautiful Camellia! And it is huge :o !
Here I am still enjoying my Hepaticas (photo 1 - H. nobilis var. japonica 'Purple Forest Hybrids')
Photo 2: a little corner under the styrax tree with Hepaticas and Helleborus torquatus 'Schneeeule'
Photo 3: Helleborus orientalis 'Pink Lady'
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Rather common, but I love 'em...
(1) Anemone blanda 'Blue Shades' (producing thousands of seedlings in a patch of Hakonechloa)
(2) Anemone blande 'White Splendour'
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A pot of Tecophilaea that cost only £6.00 last year :) ;D :)
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Bolinopsis, how lovely combination of Helleborus and Hepatica!
I have also Helleborus Pink Lady, grown from Jelitto seeds, it is very floriferous (but here only now snowing buds, which are now covered by snow last night)
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Magnolia campbellii 'Charles Raffill'
..after 8 yrs waiting..
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Magnolia campbellii 'Charles Raffill'
..after 8 yrs waiting..
...... and worth every second Giles.
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That Tecophilea ist beautiful, art600! A wonderful blue A shame it won't survive outside (at least not here).
@Leena: Thank you. - 'Pink Lady' is very vigorous, isn't it? I moved it around the garden 3 times because it quickly became to big for the spot I chose (my inexperience). I hope yours survives the snow undamaged.
@ Giles: What an amazing flower - and it looks very big! Yes, well worth waiting for.
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Spotted this whilst I was out doing the "slug run"......................
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3823/13176949533_2fccd98fbb_o.jpg)
About a month earlier than is usual for me.
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I'll put this in before I kill it off.
Dionysia aretioides
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Yellow is the dominant colour amongst the shrubs in my garden in early March.
Cornus mas
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3705/13198169644_256cda7979_o.jpg)
Rhododendron lutescens
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3753/13197874045_0fa4e3dbfc_o.jpg)
Corylopsis pauciflora
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7343/13197983083_0f13dbe7e3_o.jpg)
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Just planted Corylopsis pauciflora, a species I have always wanted to grow, but it will be a whole until it looks as good as that! We are growing it with a cobnut and Hamamellis in a shady area steadily being planted up with more choice woodlanders, aiming eventually to emulate Maggi and Ian's beautiful woodland plantings.
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Lovely picture of Corylopsis pauciflora - one of my favourites. We had one for years but eventually the roots must have found some alkaline builder's rubble below a good depth of topsoil and it died. :'(
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Rather common, but I love 'em...
(1) Anemone blanda 'Blue Shades' (producing thousands of seedlings in a patch of Hakonechloa)
(2) Anemone blande 'White Splendour'
I must confess to having something of an (intense) dislike of anything with "daisy-like" flowers. However, I am rather fond of my A.blanda too......................
(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2691/13202338724_8bc9ee35b8_o.jpg)
Hard to put my finger on why I make an exception for them. They just work for me visually- nicely proportioned maybe?
Scilla siberica is another nice wee spring bulb in the garden today...................
(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2864/13202339194_cb8bb054c8_o.jpg)
Very little seems to be escaping the slugs this year and the slimey critters have taken a lot of these out.
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Meanie, maybe it is just spring that makes you more lenient... I'm not too keen on yellows in my garden - but in spring it is wonderful (including Cornus mas and Corylopsis - but I draw a line at Forsythia)
I didn't know slugs liked Scilla!
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Meanie, maybe it is just spring that makes you more lenient... I'm not too keen on yellows in my garden - but in spring it is wonderful (including Cornus mas and Corylopsis - but I draw a line at Forsythia)
Maybe.
I didn't know slugs liked Scilla!
Scilla, Ornithogallum, Fritillary, Tricyrtis, Ipheon and just about anything else that is emerging here that I like! But none of the stuff that I'm trying to get rid of.
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After heaving read a report that certain snail pellets aren't a problem for hedgehogs I use them without a bad conscience. If I start early (warm days on in February/March) I don't need much to keep the snails at bay - 1 package does me for a whole year.
The only problem is that we have large populations of the protected vineyard snails (helix pomatia). Some of those are killed, too. But enough survive to keep the population doing well.
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Camellia japonica 'San Dimas' and Camellia x williamsii 'Jury's Yellow'
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I posted this little fellow before elsewhere on the forum. But it looked so pretty today that I had to take another photo: Olsynium douglasii
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Looking fine outside at the moment are,
Asphodelus acaulis
Corydalis malkensis
Hacquetia epipactis Thor
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Images in one of my troughs taken yesterday (before this morning's rain) and a narcissus taken on a walk locally ...
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One from the garden today- Omphalodes cappadocia 'Cherry Ingram'
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I posted this little fellow before elsewhere on the forum. But it looked so pretty today that I had to take another photo: Olsynium douglasii
I have been growing this since 2005 from wild collected seed but have only managed to flower it three times. The first was flattened by storms, the second was eaten by mouse or slug and the third is opening at the moment but as it is blowing 32mph I do not have much hope for a photo tomorrow. Do you have any tips to increase my bloom count? I have 5 plants in a 19cm pan.
Thanks
Erle
Anglesey
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Marvelous troughs, Cliff. What a color display! How about some plant names?
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Thanks Anne, plants in my troughs and in my tiny scree area usually lose their labels very quickly, so I have relied on Adrian Young this time to prompt me that the wonderfully coloured sax' is probably S. Peach Melba, primula wanda is obvious, the pulsatilla is a VERY inexpensive garden centre vulgaris (less than a pound) and the pink sax' was purchased from Gerd Stopp a number of years ago, but lost it's label to a visiting albatross or similar.
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........................so I have relied on Adrian Young this time to prompt me that the wonderfully coloured sax' is probably S. Peach Melba........
Cliff, I wonder if there is more than one Sax going under the title of 'Peach Melba'? Here is mine bought some years ago under that label that I posted yesterday in the Saxifraga thread. Photo not up to your inimitatable standard.
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Hi David, a search on Google images produces photographs of both our plants and a host of others. Adrian, assistance please?
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Daphne mezereum growong from seed :-)
and an unknows Pulsatilla .... the first who is flowering.
Bernd
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I have been growing this since 2005 from wild collected seed but have only managed to flower it three times. The first was flattened by storms, the second was eaten by mouse or slug and the third is opening at the moment but as it is blowing 32mph I do not have much hope for a photo tomorrow. Do you have any tips to increase my bloom count? I have 5 plants in a 19cm pan.
Thanks
Erle
Anglesey
Hi, Erle
actually I planted them out in the garden in a semishaded place which is very well drained. I expect from their natural habitat in mountain meadows they would enjoy a sunny spot, too. I found they are completely unimpressed by frost or dry conditions in the summer.
Olsynium douglasii actually received an AGM in 1993.
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I can't have to many of these...
Tulipa humilis 'Persian Pearl'
Tulipa humilis 'Alba (Coerulea Oculata)'
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Most tulips are too big, but these two are also my favourites
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Bolinopsis, lovely tulips. :)
I planted also 'Persian Pearl' last autumn, can't wait to see how they look in real life.
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You'll love them, Leena! There is such a charming difference between the outside of the petals and the inside.
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Very easy but puts on a good show
Armeria juniperifolia 'Bevans Variety'
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Corydalis solida, Hepatica and Anemone trifoliata
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Two North Africans:
-Ranunculus calandrinoides
-Asphodelus acaulis
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In flower now:
Fritillaria aurea, Draba aspera, Dionysia tapetotes, Dionysia „Charlson Thomas“ (Many thanks to the generous forumist!) and Townsendia hookeri.
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The Townsendia hookeri (one of my favorites) looks wonderful. It's equally nice when in seed.
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The Townsendia is indeed glorious. Life in Aberdeen, even under glass, does not seem to suit T. hookeri, or the enchanting T. 'Cotton Balls' :'(
I fell for Dionysia 'Charlson Thomas' when Luc showed it at the Harlow AGS show in 2012 :
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=8716.msg236025#msg236025 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=8716.msg236025#msg236025)
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A nice corydalis, comes from GB to Berlin in 2011, now the first flowers ;)
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A nice little and early tulipa, T. biflora.
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and last Anemone apennina
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The Townsendia is indeed glorious. Life in Aberdeen, even under glass, does not seem to suit T. hookeri, or the enchanting T. 'Cotton Balls' :'(
I fell for Dionysia 'Charlson Thomas' when Luc showed it at the Harlow AGS show in 2012 :
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=8716.msg236025#msg236025 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=8716.msg236025#msg236025)
Maggi, have you ever grown Townsendia condensata? It was difficult for me to keep it long but it seeded itself tremendously and that kept it going a number of years. It's like a little furball, not very townsendia-like. I loved it, then paid attention to other plants, and it left.
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No luck with it, Anne. Miserable failures recently with T. hookeri, condensata and T. spathulata 'Cotton Ball' - Now we haven't got an "alpine house" as such, where they can be kept on the dry side with good air movement over them they don't like it.
To be honest, I am much happier enjoying plants in the garden and keeping the glasshouses so we can revel in the early bulbs - but some of these wee gems are a temptation!
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Beautiful plants everyone.
Have you had a mild spring there in western Austria Herbert? Anemone trifoliata here is still at least a week away from flowering.
Ebbie, the setting of your ranunculus is superb.
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- astragalus, Maggi Young
Here Townsendia hookeri makes no problem in full sun and protection from wetness all year round.
Also in flower Townsendia rothrockii and Veronica caespitosa.
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Maggi, have you ever grown Townsendia condensata? It was difficult for me to keep it long but it seeded itself tremendously and that kept it going a number of years. It's like a little furball, not very townsendia-like. I loved it, then paid attention to other plants, and it left.
In my experience Townsendia condensata was always monocarpic for me and passed away
after flowering. It also hates overhead watering and after many negative attempts I keep these
beautiful plants under glass.
I like especially the form collected from Alberta, which was offered some years ago by the
AGS seed exchange
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Ebbie, the setting of your ranunculus is superb.
Thank you, Ashley.
In my experience Townsendia condensata was always monocarpic for me and passed away
after flowering. It also hates overhead watering and after many negative attempts I keep these
beautiful plants under glass.
I like especially the form collected from Alberta, which was offered some years ago by the
AGS seed exchange
Yes, my Townsendia condensata always died after flowering, too. They are monocarpic or at least short-lived.
Rudi, your plants are especially beautiful. Mine were pure white and not so nice.
The low Townsendia are fascinating. Unfortunately, here too likely hold only under permanent protection from moisture. Although Townsendia rothrockii kept it here even a few years outdoors without protection.
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Townsendia montana seems much easier to keep, and a little more accepting of moisture at the wrong time.
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Primula pedemontana in my tufa wall
Pulsatilla vulgaris pale lilac x 2
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Beautiful images and plants, Mike.
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Daphne mezereum in full bloom today.
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Here you are a table setting fit for a banquet. It's made up of the 6 vases of flowers entry from Saturdays East Lancs Show and a pot of Little Gem which were too uneven for the show bench.
From back to front Narcissus Little Gem
Hepatica x meadia Buiss form
Scilla melaina
Pieris Little Heath
Hepatica japonica
Corydalis Craigton Red
Cyclamen pseudoibericum
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Corydalis solida seedling
Primula darialica
Primula marginata - petals spotted with farina, have I been careless with the label or have the blackbirds nicked another one????
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Very nice P. marginata Mike. I'm pleased how well these are growing on our sand bed and love the variation in this plant - I don't think any I have are as strong coloured as that.
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Lovely little Primulas there Mike.
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Lovely little Primulas there Mike.
Very nice P. marginata Mike. I'm pleased how well these are growing on our sand bed and love the variation in this plant - I don't think any I have are as strong coloured as that.
David - Tim
Have always had a soft spot for P. marginata forms. Really like the dark blues.
They make wonderful patches in the garden, this one is about 30 years old.
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Beautiful, Mike! It is so satisfying, when plants age well.
Here is a pic of my Magnolia 'Galaxy' (Magnolia liliiflora x sprengeri Diva 'Galaxy') - yesterday. It's not worth looking at after last night's frost... :'(
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Here is a pic of my Magnolia 'Galaxy' (Magnolia liliiflora x sprengeri Diva 'Galaxy') - yesterday. It's not worth looking at after last night's frost... :'(
If it is not too painful a question, Anne - when such a magnolia has its flowers frosted, do they fall immediately or just hang there like old teabags?
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;D Old teabags... nice picture! The petals hang on for a few days and then fall down. Fortunately only the open flowers are affected, those in bud are not. So I am hoping for a nice if reduced display in a week or so.
Foto 1: Frost damaged magnolia petals and Omphalodes verna 'Alba'
Foto 2: Ranunculus ficaria 'Ken Aslet'
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This plant is irresisitable on the sand bed at the moment! Callianthemum anemonoides. Who wouldn't be an alpine gardener?!
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Beautiful, Tim ... I will try and get an image of my plant over the next few days.
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The Rhodothamnus chamaecistus grows already 30 years in this trough
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One of my all-time favourite plants, Franz - and not one that many people can grow so beautifully.
What a picture of health that is.
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Fabulous, Franz ... one of the gems of the Dolomites.
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A beautiful plant beautifully grown.
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It's really spring now
Gerd
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Some violets
1. Viola hispida - a pansy which you will never lost - seeds all around
2. + 3. Viola jaubertiana - a Mallorcan endemic - shiny green leaves, large flowers
Gerd
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Does Viola jaubertiana survive our normal winters, Gerd? Or does it stay warm in that special spot you have found for it?
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Cardamine pentaphyllos (I believe - though there are only 3 parts to the leaves... so, correct me if I'm wrong. It takes a few years to bulk up, so maybe the leaves will mature to their characteristic form when the plant matures?)
It is a lovely woodland plant. Cardamine bulbifera is pretty, too - but a little too invasive unless there is lots of space.
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I believe this is Cardamine (vel Dentaria) glandulosa (vel glanduligera). It is very common in Poland, but only in deciduous mountain forests. This is a low growing plant, taller but superficially similar to anemone nemorosa. You can compare your plant with the pictures posted in Tatra Mountains thread by Chris Ciesielski.
I wonder why this lovely plant is not common in the gardens. I do not have it either.
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Cardamine glanduligera is early in my garden. C. pentaphyllos is later and a bigger, taller plant.
Cardamine glanduligera
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Cardamine glanduligera is early in my garden. C. pentaphyllos is later and a bigger, taller plant.
Cardamine glanduligera
Fantastic colour
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Quote from: Gunilla on Today at 05:41:05 AM
Cardamine glanduligera is early in my garden. C. pentaphyllos is later and a bigger, taller plant.
Fantastic colour
What a great plant - and yes, a super colour.
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Thank you Jacek and Gunilla - you are absolutely right - it is Cardamine glanduligera (though it was given to me a few years ago as C. pentaphyllos). That explains its habit of popping up in unexpected places in this woodland patch - I thought it had seeded but now I have looked it up I realise these are underground offshoots.
Yes, Maggi, it has a lovely colour and the flowers last quite a long time.
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After another winter with lots of snow spring comes back :-)
greetings from Bavaria
Bernd
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Forest with a carpet of Cardamine glanduligera is a magnificent view. I have seen it several times, as I remember, only in Carpathians. Now I do not have time to go there often and when I was there two weeks ago nothing was in flower, yet (except Tussilago farfara). So I do not have any pictures. Does C. glanduligera grows wild only in Carpathians?? What about Alps and hills of Western Europe?
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Pretty Pulsatillas, Bernd!
My clever books say that Cardamine glanduligera grows wild in Poland (!), Hungary, the Carpathian mountains, the Balkan peninsula and rarely in the eastern parts of Austria.
Here is another Cardamine: C. trifolia (sorry - bad photo). Lovely unobtrusive flowers and the evergreen leaves form a nice carpet for Hostas.
Third photo: Pachyphragma macrophylla in full bloom now - a great favourite of mine.
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Does Viola jaubertiana survive our normal winters, Gerd? Or does it stay warm in that special spot you have found for it?
No, it does not. I once tried it and it was in a very bad condition after that - more dead than alive. I keep it in the greenhouse
with temperatures not deeper than - 2 to - 5° Celsius.
It has no special warm spot in a selfmade tufa container. It wasn't repotted since about ten years.
Gerd
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Hacquetia epipactis has one stand in Southern Poland. It feels at home in my garden in cool and not very shaded places. It grows both in mineral and organic soil and seeds in both. Does not suffer from frosts and seeds mildly. Does not like soil covered with leaf litter.
I like its incredible bright green "flowers".
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Cardamine glanduligera is early in my garden. C. pentaphyllos is later and a bigger, taller plant.
This is interesting discussion. I got Cardamine pentaphyllos (I got it as C.pentaphylla, but is that the old name) from a friend who I think had bought his from the UK (but I don't know where), and now I started to think if mine would also be C.glanduligera, because it is very early.
What do you think?
The first picture is from yesterday, it is just coming up and the second and third picture are from last spring. It flowers here usually at the same time as the last snowdrops and hepaticas, and it starts the same time as Corydalis.
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Here is another Cardamine: C. trifolia (sorry - bad photo). Lovely unobtrusive flowers and the evergreen leaves form a nice carpet for Hostas.
Third photo: Pachyphragma macrophylla in full bloom now - a great favourite of mine.
C.trifolia looks nice, I haven't heard of it before. P.macrophylla picture is fantastic, I got seeds for it this year from the seed exchange and I hope they germinate (they are still in cold stratifying) and one day I get as great plant as in your picture. :)
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A hardy selection of the Formosan Cherry: Prunus campanulata 'Felix Jury'
Yoshino Cherry: Prunus x yedoensis
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Synthyris missurica var. stellata Details of the inflorescence.
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7253/13489808294_b9f7ce6945_z_d.jpg)
Commonly called Mountain Kittentails.
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@ Leena: I think your Cardamine is - like mine - Cardamine glanduligera (particularly if it produces offshoots round about). Obviously these woodland Cardamines aren't so well known, so that mistakes occur.
@ Giles: Beautiful contrast of flowers!
@ Steve: What an absolutely stunning plant! I am ashamed to say I never heard of it before. I bet it doesn't survive continental winters... :-\
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Exceptional image of a beautiful species, Steve.
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We had a summers day today - with temperatures over 20 degrees C.
My magnolia has recovered from the night frost a few days ago.
And my ancient cherry tree reckons that there wont be another frost and it is safe to burst into bloom. It has been known to err...
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@ Leena: I think your Cardamine is - like mine - Cardamine glanduligera (particularly if it produces offshoots round about).
Thank you Bolinopsis. :) it does increase by roots around the original plant.
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I've always wanted to grow Synthyris missurica since seeing it years ago at Washfield nursery. We now have a little plant and I think it should be pretty hardy (Mountain Kittentails after all!), but it doesn't like hot dry summers. That is a stunning picture! The leaves are very attractive too and all in all it's a very neat plant.
Jacek - nice to see Hacquetia epipactis; we have grown this for a long time and it copes with dry shade and self-sows gently - probably my favourite umbellifer and so long flowering. It was really popular as a nursery plant ten or fifteen years ago but seems much less seen these days.
Also really like the cardamines. C. pentaphyllos has grown but never increased much for a long time (I like its synonym Dentaria digitata too - very descriptive), but C. glanduligera is even more striking for those deep purple flowers - will have to look out for it.
Rhodanthemum hosmariense and Narcissus panizzianus doing their thing. What a great time of year!
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Likewise, I don't believe that continental winters should pose a problem for the Synthyris clan.
I can grow Synthyris platycarpa and S. dissecta here (and it doesn't get much more continental than the Canadian prairies!)
I'm not absolutely certain if this is S. missurica, but it's an inspiring plant even if not. It does very well here in the garden of some local expert gardeners:
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Still camellia time here. Camellia japonica 'Midnight' and Camellia 'Leonard Messel'.
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Some Anemones from today
1. Anemone hortensis (with some older flowers of Anemone caucasica)
2. Anemone pavonina - an own collection from Macedonia which is surprisingly hardy
3. Anemone appeninna - a collection from Montenegro
4. Anemone nemorosa - a blue coloured one - (label lost unfortunately)
5. -Anemone nemorosa 'Hilda'
Gerd
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Flowering today:
Leucojum 'Gravetye Giant'
Soldanella Spring Surprise
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A couple cute blooms from around my garden
Lunaria annua
Dicentra spectabilis
Ipheon uniflora
Viburnum burkwoodii
Ajuga reptans
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Fixpix, my spring is less advanced than in Romania! My Dicentra spectabilis is just showing up from the soil.
Jeffersonia dubia showing its buds - I like it at any stage of development. While it perfectly suites to my garden conditions, I do not have any seedlings. Fortunately, the original clumps enlarge slowly.
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Another plant that is just perfect for my woodland garden is Omphalodes verna. Able to survive and flower in dark shade, does not die in case of severe summer drought. Dry shade is not a problem for it. Propagates very fast, but since seedlings are rare and the vegetative growth is by creeping shoots - control is not an issue.
Perfectly hardy, though the creeping shoots need to root before winter. Otherwise they die.
I tried Omphalodes cappadocica as well, but I lost it in the first winter after planting.
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Omphalodes verna does well here, too, and also 'Alba' is very nice.
I have tried O.cappadocica ('Starry Eyes') twice, the first on lived three years, and then I divided it and both parts died, so my mistake.
Now I have second try planted last spring, and I don't know yet if it has made it through winter.
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some beauties 8)
Asarum species (presumably china); any idea what species it could be?
Aristolochia steupii (pot growing, too dangerous to make experiments outside in garden; many thanks to sergey 8))
Aristolochia lutea (ex italy; without problems here in garden )
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Camellia japonica 'Nunncio's Carousel'
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some beauties 8)
Asarum species (presumably china); any idea what species it could be?
Aristolochia steupii (pot growing, too dangerous to make experiments outside in garden; many thanks to sergey 8))
Aristolochia lutea (ex italy; without problems here in garden )
Bizarre and wonderful!!!
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That Asarum - whatever it is - is quite impressing! Very unusual.
1: Lilium martagon
2: Soldanella carpatica
3: Aquilegia 'Woodside variegated'
4: Plagiorhegma dubium
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Greenspan, I love your weird-ies :)
The pics made me think the blooms are huge, but they are probably tiny...
Right?
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Wow, what a fine Soldanella, Bolinopsis. And the Aristolochias of Greenspan are exceptional and striking!
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some beauties 8)
Asarum species (presumably china); any idea what species it could be?
Many thanks to Pascal Bruggeman who sent this message :
".... the Asarum of member Greenspan in the March 2014 thread is nice form of Asarum heterotropoides. Very prone to slug damage, mine were damaged a lot this year IN THE GREENHOUSE…. "
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@pascal bruggeman
thx maggi for pascals information. 8) but i guess the identification might be wrong. i got this Asarum under the species-name "heterotropoides" + it seems that this plant was introduced under this name in our hobby. flora of china (FOC) describes heterotropides (http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200006652) with "reflexed lobes"! here 2 links to photos of Asarum heterotropoides which fits the flower description about the reflexed lobes... first photo taken in Hokkaido University Botanical Garden (http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~flower_world/Aristolochia/Asarum%20heterotropoides.htm) and second photo from plantarium.ru (http://www.plantarium.ru/page/image/id/124593.html), where russian botanists make a good work in identification of plants. the leaf shape is also different to my plant. the flowers of my plant never reflex the lobes but spreading these like a star. the flower diameter is about 3 cm. maybe it's the chinese species Asarum heterotropoides f. mandshuricum? but in FOC nothing is mentioned whether or not the chinese form shows reflexed lobes. so i have to assume, that the reflexed lobes also occur in Asarum heterotropoides f. mandshuricum.
to complete the confusion ;D... i got another one labelled as "heterotropoides", same leaves, same time emerging but with smaller flowers + different colour:
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both plants are full hardy + no need to overwinter in greenhouse. they tolerated temperatures about -19°C.
@fixpix
huge? no...tiny? no ;D ;) it's matter of opinion...as i wrote, the Asarum species flowers are ~3cm in diameter, Aristolochia steupii flowers are ~2cm hight to 1cm width (open tube), Aristolochia lutea flowers are small ~less than 1 cm width but ~5-6 cm long/hight (tube).
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Hi Greenspan - I had also asked Pascal to look at the plants you'd posted here: http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=2475.msg148228#msg148228 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=2475.msg148228#msg148228)
Pascal has sent another note :
He writes :"I have seen the response from Greenspan and I know some species are often confused.
The problem is that very few are familiar with variation in the wild, particularly of widespread species and therefore focus on a very specific plant according to some “authoritative publication”. Heterotropoides and many species of the same section are widespread and variable, the closest species to heterotropoides is sieboldii, named after Von Siebold who worked in Japan. The key characters in Asarum are often situated in the flower (shape of male flowers, length ratio of style to male flower, number and shape of male flowers). The recurved or non-recurved petals are variable.
The plant on the links he posts to me look more like Asarum sieboldii which is predominantly a Japanese and Korean species.
You can see how close they all are here:
http://www.asarum-jp.com/ssc02/R16.htm (http://www.asarum-jp.com/ssc02/R16.htm)
Regarding the Flora of China, there are very few genera that are treated well in there and those that do are usually written by Western taxonomist…. I use the FoC often as a start to narrow it down to a few species and then start to look up the original descriptions and additional info. I never take what is said in the FoC for granted.
I am not saying I am right but I have looked at a lot of publications for the very same reason and I came to the conclusion for myself the recurved petaled plants on an erect flower stalk are sieboldii and the ones with the non-recurved more open flowers are heterotropoides. Maculatum falls in that same group and the extremely recurved ones from that group with the hairy stems are caulescens. Which occurs in yellow through to dark purple. Sieboldii occurs from green to dark purple. They all throw up generally 2 lush leaves but the way the flowers develop is rather different, heterotropoides starts to flower before the leaves are completely unfurled, sieboldii when the leaves are almost completely unfurled. Tony Avent from Plant Delight Nursery asked Barry Yinger , one of the people studying Asarum and Barry came to the same conclusion as me: http://www.plantdelights.com/Asarum-heterotropoides-for-sale/ (http://www.plantdelights.com/Asarum-heterotropoides-for-sale/)
But is either heterotropoides or sieboldii and my bet is on heterotropoides.
Pascal "
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Hi Greenspan,
just seen your pic's of Aristolochia Steupii I have never seen one before, can it be grown from seed.
Cheers John.
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@pascal
thank you for your informations. 8) hm...it's hard to believe ;D ;). when i checked the photos you've linked i wonder how heavily the flowers distinguish. i can imagine, that plants with a wide distribution might show remarkable differences but comparing the heterotropoides photos with both of mine Asarum one has to assume different species. but as you said, this types with reflexed lobes belong to sieboldii + you'r right "heterotropoides starts to flower before the leaves are completely"...this is what mine do. but i'm just a hobby gardener and no botanist. so i'll talk to mine with the name heterotropoides till the riddle is solved. 8) (sorry my english isn't so good, hope you understand).
@john
i got the Aristolochia steupii as a globose tuber from a very kind russian gardener. unfortunately many Aristolochia are protogynous (female parts (stigma) becomes mature before the male ones (anthers)) + so sterile if you only have one plant. the steupii seems to be quite rare in cultivation. i only know about another specimen in a german botanical garden. once i got some seed, but i guess it was an old seed...nothing germinated.