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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: Roma on May 02, 2014, 10:43:43 PM
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Glaucidium palmatum
Chamaecytisus hirsutum
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After my Clianthus this is my next favourite thing at the moment - Asarum proboscideum...................
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Tulip Flaming Spring Green struggling amid Smyrnium perfoliata
Gladiola triste
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Androsace laevigata
Androsace x marpensis
Lewisia-possibly 'Little Peach'
Uvullaria grandiflora
Lewisia tweedyi
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Very nice folks. Very different to what is flowering here at present.
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Morning sun, afternoon shade: Uvularia sessilifolia, Polygonatum humile, Podophyllum emodi:
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Cypripedium calceolus (?):
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Clematis montana rubens on fence:
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Unknown rhodie:
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Smilacina racemosa (false Solomon's Seal):
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Camassia quamash v. azurea (Dracunculus vulgaris in back):
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Fragrant Jonquils:
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Arisaema amurense:
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Melopospermum peloponnesiacum, young Spring growth:
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Salvia cyanescens
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Very nice salvia! This Zaluzianskya ovata, a great plant early and late in the day when the flowers fully open. During the day all the flowers close up like the few more immature flowers shown here - but why do they have such a strong red reverse? Do they attract different pollinators during the day too?
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Should have shown this last month but it's still looking good.
Gentiana acaulis
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Cornus canadensis, with a sprig of Haberlea fernandi-coburgii (?) poking through:
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Dracunculus vulgaris foliage, with Thalictrum minus and Camassia quamash azurea in foreground:
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Western wild ginger (Asarum caudatum):
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Haberlea rhodopensis, with Erythronium elegans and Sanguinaria canadensis in background:
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Podophyllum peltatum, an eastern US native:
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Allium karataviense, grown from seed:
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Roses are doing really well this year: Roca ecae has rich buttercup yellow flowers; Rosa banksiae 'Lutea' cascades delightfully; Rosa rugosa 'Agnes', as far as I know the only yellow Rugosa; Rosa 'Mary Queen of Scots' is a large shrub covered in flowers.
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I planted this Elaeagnus 'Quicksilver' a few years ago and I'm beginning to regret it; it suckers like mad and has grown very large. I understand that it can be coppiced, but when is the right time to do this?
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Aubrieta 'Pritchard's A1' is looking splendid now.
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Thalictrum ichangense is back in flower.
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I planted a selection of Dryopteris in some dry shade under a Magnolia grandiflora; they are making some nice new growth.
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A few more...
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I planted this Elaeagnus 'Quicksilver' a few years ago and I'm beginning to regret it; it suckers like mad and has grown very large. I understand that it can be coppiced, but when is the right time to do this?
I think sooner rather than later .Ralph - this is a late spring job.
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A few flowers from today some Oxalis laciniata and some Paris one very interesting with a super red leaf opens then goes green, cheers Ian the Christie kind
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Very nice Ian!
That red leaf Paris certainly floats my boat!
Do you still have a sales list?
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Corydalis cashmeriana
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Antirrhinum nuttallianum
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Antirrhinum nuttallianum
Now that's a small snap-dragon. Where does it come from ? (native to?)
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Antirrhinum nuttallianum is native to Coastal Southern California and Baja California. Indeed a tiny wonder!
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Antirrhinum nuttallianum is native to Coastal Southern California and Baja California. Indeed a tiny wonder!
Thanks - that will be why I've never seen it :) Pretty little thing.
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Another Paris flowering this week Paris polyphylla yunanensis Alba, cheers Ian the Christie kind
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I love the contrasting colour of the flowers and foliage of Pinguicula grandiflora.
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Ian thats a very nice Paris.
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A few interesting plants this week Arisaema sikokianum and Paris polyphylla, cheers Ian the Christie kind.
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Everything still quite delayed here. The hellebores are opening now. One of them ("pink teacup") was on time, the others have just been sitting there not doing much.
Helleborus 'Ivory Prince'
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Also in bloom now and looking really good,
Iris ruthenica
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Whilst we were at the Glasgow Show we saw this lovely dwarf shrub Cytisus Ardoini dwarf. It is difficult to find any pictures of it on the web let alone nurseries that sell it, can anyone help please?
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The RHS says the spelling is Cytisus ardoinoi
I've repeated your photo in the Glasgow show thread to see if anyone remembers whose plant it is.
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Maggi it belonged to Frazer Henderson's (think that's correct) daughter and he talked to Brian but we've had no success in finding a supplier.
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Right oh, Shelagh - I've amended my other post to ask for help in finding the plant instead. :)
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I too was attracted to the little Cytisus and spoke to Frazer.
He 'thinks' he got it from Aberconwy so you may want to try there Shelagh.
Let us know if you are successful.
Graham
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the accepted name is Cytisus ardoinii :)
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the accepted name is Cytisus ardoinii :)
Thank you Luit -
What a shame that the left hand of the RHS does not know what the right hand is doing. :(
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A day without humor is not a good day, Maggi ;D
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Growing in a tufarock and flowering wel this year : Viola cazorlensis .
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It's not on their latest list Graham but I'll give them a ring and see.
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Wonderful viola, Kris. Did you start with planting a seedling in the tufa or did you press seed into the tufa?
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Salvia time;
Salvia elegans did really well this winter. Here's a last shot of it before it went to its new home via Freegle today....................
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The first of the outdoor planted Salvia to bloom is the ever reliable S.microphylla (which remained in the green all winter).............
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In the greenhouse this small cutting of S.buchanii started blooming...............
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Not a Salvia, but Kalanchoe x houghtonii has gone from strength to strength since I planted it out a few weeks ago...................
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The colour has got really good too...................
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A rather nice bearded Iris (it was here when I moved in) bloomed just in time to be shredded by the winds.................
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Also in the greenhouse is this lovely little Echeveria, E.setosa minor..................
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Stunning pictures of the Salvias here is a very u usual plant flowering just now tine flowers but I think it is super, Heteropolygonatum ogisui (Heteropolygonatum ogisui M. N. Tamura & J. M. Xu, Curtis' Bot. Mag. 18: 92. 2001)
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Leontopodium alpinum subsp. nivale (Edelweiss) in a through. I cultivate these plants for 50 years, where it will spread by self-sown seedlings, but only in a single trough.
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Superb, Franz. Very impressive.
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We have never found these plants to live very long here. Wo thinkit may be the rain in summer that kills them. Would you think that is likely, Franz?
Is the mix in that trough acid, neutral or alkaline?
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The garden is finally starting to break out with color. These were photographed early morning after a good rain. Now we have sun and the weather has warmed up a bit. The Genista depressa is finally starting in the crevice garden.
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Sorry, I think the last post really belongs in crevice gardening but don't know how to move it. -I've moved it for you, Anne (maggi)
Forgot to post the most exciting bloom in the garden. Glaucidium palmatum album has come through three winters now including a bad one this past year. I know it's still small but I'm thrilled by a flower!
Glaucidium palmatum album
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Forgot to post the most exciting bloom in the garden. Glaucidium palmatum album has come through three winters now including a bad one this past year. I know it's still small but I'm thrilled by a flower!
Glaucidium palmatum album
It is very nice and in a few years it will be bigger with many flowers. :) It is very hardy plant, here it grows even if we have a long winter with lots of snow or a short winter without much snow cover and ground frozen deep, it always comes up in the spring. The only time I have lost it is when the voles ate it. :( It doesn't flower here yet, but it is just coming up.
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Stunning pictures of the Salvias
Thanks! Hopefully there will be many more this year.
Here's Salvia forskaehlei - the leaves are huge!
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here is a very u usual plant flowering just now tine flowers but I think it is super, Heteropolygonatum ogisui (Heteropolygonatum ogisui M. N. Tamura & J. M. Xu, Curtis' Bot. Mag. 18: 92. 2001)
I agree - it's super!
I personally like small flowers as you have to look at them properly. I can't make up my nmind about my Isoplexis issabelliana though..........
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I was expecting smaller flowers than I.canariensis, but not that small. Could be because it's young or still in a smallish pot? I have a few others in bud and some look a bit more promising colour wise.
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Paeonia mlokosewitschii
Dodecatheon sorry lost label that gives me sp name
Androsace sarmentosa Chumbyi
Olearia phlogopappa Combers Blue
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We have never found these plants to live very long here. Wo think it may be the rain in summer that kills them. Would you think that is likely, Franz?
Is the mix in that trough acid, neutral or alkaline?
Maggi,
I do not know why the Edelweiss in this one trough is growing so well. In no other place in my garden it grows. I'm losing it forever after one years. Probably it is the right place. The trough is 15 cm high and the mix is neutral.
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Wonderful viola, Kris. Did you start with planting a seedling in the tufa or did you press seed into the tufa?
Hello Anne , thanks for your comment. I did put a young plant in the tufahole .It is growing in this tufarock for 5 years now.
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Leontopodium alpinum subsp. nivale (Edelweiss) in a through. I cultivate these plants for 50 years, where it will spread by self-sown seedlings, but only in a single trough.
Most impressive Franz ! :o Even better as the way they grow in the mountains .
I agree with the others , here it is also short lived .
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Oxytropis campestris
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Arisaema amurense
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Easily the most floriferous thing at home is a hybrid alpine Poa.
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Very nice Oxytropis campestris, looks very happy.
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Very nice Oxytropis campestris, looks very happy.
Inevitably means its about to "snuff it" when it flowers that hard but I should get seed to start again.
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Maggi,
I do not know why the Edelweiss in this one trough is growing so well. In no other place in my garden it grows. I'm losing it forever after one years. Probably it is the right place. The trough is 15 cm high and the mix is neutral.
Thank you, Franz. So much about these plants that are beyond our understanding - but as usual you have some wonderful success for us to enjoy.
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Inevitably means its about to "snuff it" when it flowers that hard but I should get seed to start again.
Alan, I hope you're wrong and it will stay. I find the most difficult thing with the Astragalus and Oxytropis is to get them to form seed or pods in captivity. Some years they do it but I can never count on it.
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A few contrasting plants flowering now - Phyteuma nigrum, Polygonatum x hybridum 'Betberg' and Corydalis mucronipetala. The last came from Keith Wiley (Wildside), and originally from Gothenberg Botanic Garden, and was earlier described as a form of C. flexuosa but it certainly looks rather different and has been given specific status by Magnus Lidén and Su Zhi-Yun (see www.researchgate.net (http://www.researchgate.net)). We have it in a trough in one of the coolest spots in the garden along with autumn gentians and Saxifraga fortunei and it will be good to see how it does.
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Just a couple from the garden today Armeria euscadiensis syn. Armeria cantabrica var. Maritima just opening and also just beginning is Scilla peruviana.
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Thanks for all the pictures plants in the garden get better by the day. We have had a monsoon storm so much rain then red hot well hot for Scotland a few pictures, cheers Ian the Christie kind
Clematis in rhodo
Daphne rollsdorfii gdn
Dysosma Spotty Dotty or podophyllum_
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A few more. Ian
Hepatica leaves
Sanguinaria pink Don Armstrong
Trillium luteum group
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I planted Dicentra cuccularia 'Pink Punk' two years ago and it has flowered now very nicely almost for three weeks, but the white form of D.cuccularia doesn't flower well. What do you think, would dividing help or what is the problem with the white one (the second picture)?
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I've got a similar problem with it Leena, have bought it a number of times but no matter where I place it it doesn't thrive or flower for me. Have lots of other dicentras and they all romp away but this one struggles to survive.
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... and I've tried 'Pink Punk' twice and lost it both times!
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Growing in a tufarock and flowering wel this year : Viola cazorlensis .
Hi Kris,
Found this marvellous growing plant just today - indeed very well cultivated. My new bed with tufa was
built in April - the violets for it (V. kosaninii) were propagated.
Gerd
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A better day here with at least some sunshine a few plants flowering, cheers Ian the Christie kind
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Hi Kris,
Found this marvellous growing plant just today - indeed very well cultivated. My new bed with tufa was
built in April - the violets for it (V. kosaninii) were propagated.
Gerd
Hi Gerd , good to hear about your tufa project ! I am sure the new tufa bed create a lot of solutions .....
Wish you good luck with the further development . Please let us know how things going in the future.
Humm , V. kosaninii , also a real treasure. Never try that one in a the tufa rock or other part of the garden.
Cheers ,
Kris
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My Acer palmatum is flowering, or at least the first time I've noticed... Was it the warm winter or last years warm summer?
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My Acer palmatum cultivars flower every year.
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Must be the warm weather then, I can't recall it flowering up here before, mind, it is a youngish specimen.
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I'm sure you're right Chris. Here too various shrubs and trees are doing noticeably better this year.
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Here are three photos from the last month. I am late as usually, I know.
Primula gracilipes
Iris taurica
Tulipa linifolia
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And five photos from this month:
Primula gemmifera
Myosotis alpestris, the dwarf form
Androsace villosa barbulata
Eritrichium nanum
Penstemon uintahensis
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Superb plants, beautifully grown!!!
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Lovely to see your plants Zdenek!
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Hello Zdenek your plants look superb as always so many wonderful plants, cheers Ian the Christie kind
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A few images from the garden this evening.
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Lovely pics Graham, this is the most beautiful time of the gardening year...
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Lovely pics Graham, this is the most beautiful time of the gardening year...
Thanks Chris, I agree - there isn't a better month of the year.
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A few images from the garden this evening.
Superb!!!
A garden to aspire to!
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Superb!!!
A garden to aspire to!
Thanks Steve.
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hello Graham can you just dig the whole lot up and bring to Gardening Scotland then we can be sure to get a Gold, a few pictures from my garden, cheers Ian the Christie kind
Cypripedium 'Hank'
Frit. affinis 'Sunray'
Gdn rhodos1 1
Oxalis 'Julia Johnston'
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A few more, Ian
Oxalis 'Seven Bells'
Oxalis stripe
Oxalis 'Seven Bells' mk 2
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Great pics Mr C.....
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"The Last Outcrop" is slowly beginning to look like something. Still in the trial and error stage of learning what will do well there.
Penstemon davidsonii menziesii v microphyllus
Penstemon spatulatus
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hello Graham can you just dig the whole lot up and bring to Gardening Scotland then we can be sure to get a Gold, a few pictures from my garden, cheers Ian the Christie kind
What a good idea - anyone got a low-loader and some sturdy jacks? ;) ;D 8)
"The Last Outcrop" is slowly beginning to look like something. Still in the trial and error stage of learning what will do well there
It looks very good, Anne - what a pity you're so far away or we could be including this is the Gardening Scotland display as well, eh?
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Oh, Maggi, so what's an ocean?
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Well, yours is an admirable attitude, Anne 8) - but it's a heck of a lot of cold, deep water :P - and I'm not sure your rocks would float........... :-\ ;)
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What a good idea - anyone got a low-loader and some sturdy jacks? ;) ;D 8)
It looks very good, Anne - what a pity you're so far away or we could be including this is the Gardening Scotland display as well, eh?
Ian, Maggi
You're too kind. I never thought it would get these responses. :)
Anne, your garden never ceases to amaze me. I love the way you work with the natural landscape.
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Thanks, Graham. It's work but also a joy because it is so rewarding.
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Yes please just bring that wonderful rock over to Gardening Scotland might need to get more space for the display have spent some time every day looking out possible plants to fill up our stand always very difficult will post some pics later meantime here are a few more flowering the Paeonia rockii were grown from SRGC seed. cheers Ian the Christie kind
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How do you use those wonderful peonies in the garden? I mean, are they massed together? Or placed here and there? They are such stunning flowers.
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Hello, I have 4 similar seedlings in one garden area all are 1.5 mtrs tall one is short not yet in flower my original Paeonia rockii over 20 years ago is 2 meters tall love the structure have primulas, liliums gentian all around a real mix, cheers Ian the Christie kind
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Shady garden: Dodecatheon meadia, Ipheion uniflora, Sanguinaria canadensis, Smilacina racemosa:
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Lilium mackliniae:
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Camassia leichtlinii, pink form:
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Camassia quamash:
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Limnanthes douglasii, a California annual, sowing itself on a rock wall:
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Hello stunning picture of Lilium mackliniae ours are only in bud yet, cheers Ian the Christie kind
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Fritillaria camchatcensis.................
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Nectaroscordum siculum are outstanding this year................
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Hi I hope I have this topic in the right place, I have checked online & Bergenia comes under Saxifragaceae, if it is in the wrong place could you move it to the right place Maggi. This is my plant in flower, I have had it a couple of years now & it is spreading nicely.
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Here is a lupin plant in flower in my front garden making a great display.
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hello Graham can you just dig the whole lot up and bring to Gardening Scotland then we can be sure to get a Gold,
Yes, I am sure you would easy get a gold with that display. I just love Grahams garden 8)
Angie :)
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Not sure if you remember I had to move my large Acer and I really didn't think it would survive. It has and I underplanted it with woodland plants and they are all doing well so I am pleased that the Acer survived.
Angie :)
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I'm at a Penstemon Society meeting in Zion National Park in Utah, U.S.A.
Most of the penstemons we are seeing on our field trips are teeny little ones,
but there are big plants of Penstemon palmeri that have a wonderful scent.
It is very familiar but I can't figure out what it smells of.
Does anyone have an idea?
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Angie, your garden looks wonderful, and I'm so pleased the Acer has survived its transplant...
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Lucky you to be there, Diane. I remember the plants well, just a beautiful spot.
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I'm at a Penstemon Society meeting in Zion National Park in Utah, U.S.A.
Most of the penstemons we are seeing on our field trips are teeny little ones,
but there are big plants of Penstemon palmeri that have a wonderful scent.
It is very familiar but I can't figure out what it smells of.
Does anyone have an idea?
Sounds like a fun event, Diane.
Comments on the internet on the fragrance of P. palmeri seem to range from "grape-juice" to "rose-floral" -that's enough to make me interested, next time I see seed offered.
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Grape juice sounds possible. I'll think of it when I sniff the next one. Fortunately
there are lots as some highway departments sow them along the highways. This
doesn't please some of the people who want their subspecies growing in the right
places.
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Angie, your garden looks wonderful, and I'm so pleased the Acer has survived its transplant...
Thanks Chris, Its the second tine its been transplanted, I dug it out from my mums garden. I have been busy collection my Hepatica seeds like you said to do. I hope I have some success with them, Chris do you keep them in the greenhouse or outdoors.
Angie :)
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Clematis koreana v. lutea
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Brugmansia sanguinea had to go outdoors a couple of months ago as I needed the greenhouse space. Anyway, it started to bloom today..................
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1.Gentiana "Arctic Fanfare" received from the breeder at Alpine plant centre. The companion is Androsacea albana
2. Coronilla vaginalis
3.Aquilegia flabellate pumila alba
4.Miosotis rehsteineri
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Hello Angie please bring your garden to the show in Edinburgh could win best in show, I have a few more pictures as well from the garden, cheers Ian the Christie kind.
Calceolaria uniflora hybrid
Cyp hyb gdn
Cyp parviflorum
Rhodo camchat. Alba
Oxalis Sheffield Swan
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Can you please give some information on that gorgeous oxalis?
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Campanula thyrsoides........................
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Hello the Oxalis is a form given to me by Peter Erskine and the name is from a ship he was Captain on The Sheffield I am sure the he would have collected this in South America yes it is a cracker, cheers Ian the Christie kind
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Ian, the white Rhododendron camtschaticum is beautiful and very special. Seeking such a plant as a counterpart to my dark red selection. Where do you get for such a fine thing?
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I also like the white Oxalis is lovely, well grown of course.
Angie :)
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Hello Ebbie, it is possible to grow this from seed not all seedlings would be whit but most are please remind me later and I will send you some seed, cheers Ian the Christie kind.
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Just catching up on posts. Angie, well done with your Acer and your garden is lovely. Have you thought of going into the semi mature tree business? ;)
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Angie, nice Trillium combination under your maple...just lovely
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Hello Ebbie, it is possible to grow this from seed not all seedlings would be whit but most are please remind me later and I will send you some seed, cheers Ian the Christie kind.
Thank you Ian. I will therefore in touch with you.
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Starting to bloom now, Primula sieboldii in the "last outcrop". I'm looking for some good color forms. It's also growing oin the stream garden, where it doesn't really seem to mind wet feet. Blooming in the tornado-damaged old rock garden is Rhododendron kiusianum. The late Harold Epstein, a former president of NARGS, insisted that I plant this and said it would be hardy. It seems to be but most years has not been happy with extended drought. Some of them came from Harold, names long ago lost. This is probably one of them. I've only lost them in the colder and more exposed parts of the garden.
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Here is a lupin plant in flower in my front garden making a great display.
And here is a great stand of lupins grown from seed from Prince Edward Island, Canada.
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Rosa 'Dunwichensis' is in full bloom.
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And here is a great stand of lupins grown from seed from Prince Edward Island, Canada.
And looking exceptionally happy.
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The stream garden is starting to come alive. It's where the snow lies longest and is the last to join the march of spring. Primulas have started, and the hellebores and Rodgersias have become lush. The Primula japonica must have made hundreds of seedlings, how nice
1. Primula japonica by the stream
2. Ranunculus aconitifolius fl pl
3. Camassia sp
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And here is a great stand of lupins grown from seed from Prince Edward Island, Canada.
John - Obviously good Scottish blood there.....
I spent every summer there as a child until age 13. It was a kid's paradise, warmest salt water north of North carolina, warm sunny days and miles of uninhabited pure white sandy beaches. And every car, no matter what the colour, left the island red.
johnw
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A good news story from the UK :
"The rare fen violet (Viola persicifolia) has been re-discovered at the National Trust’s Wicken Fen in Cambridgeshire following an absence of more than a decade – it had last been seen in 2003.
The fen violet is probably the most elusive of our native violet species – a tiny plant growing to maximum of 25-30mm, it has bluish-white flowers with a mother-of-pearl sheen.
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The endangered species is on the UK Biodiversity Action Plan and is known to exist in the wild at only 3 sites in the country (including Wicken Fen).
The plant likes a wetland habitat with alkaline water. Seeds can lie dormant in the ground for many years and will only begin to grow when the ground has been disturbed and the weather conditions are right.
Previously the violet was re-discovered at Wicken in the 1980s following an absence of more than sixty years, only to disappear again at the turn of the century.
Habitat loss along with the effects of drainage, ploughing, and lack of management on many of its former sites have all had a major part in the dramatic decline of the species.
The fen violet was re-discovered during a botanical survey undertaken on Monday 19 May.
Martin Lester, Countryside Manager at Wicken Fen said: “It’s fantastic to see the fen violet again at Wicken Fen.”
“It was a moment of satisfaction, surprise, tinged with relief that we had found it again. This delicate wetland plant is clinging on to survival not just in this country but across Europe.
“No-one can really explain why it can disappear for long periods only to reappear decades later – let’s hope it says around for a few years this time.”
Other rare plants that can found at Wicken Fen include Marsh Pea, Marsh Fern, Fibrous Tussock Sedge, Round-fruited Rush, Milk Parsley; and three rare aquatic plant species – Flat-stalked Pondweed, Long-Stalked Pondweed and Whorled Water-Milfoil.
More than 8,500 species have been recorded at Wicken Fen making it the top site for wildlife in the care of the Trust.
Story from National Trust website
Photo credit Carol Laidlaw
http://ntpressoffice.wordpress.com/2014/05/24/found-rare-fenland-violet-rediscovered-after-absence-of-ten-years/ (http://ntpressoffice.wordpress.com/2014/05/24/found-rare-fenland-violet-rediscovered-after-absence-of-ten-years/)
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Pimelea ferruginea
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That looks amazing.
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Yes, some really amazing plants growing in your gardens.
I have an Astragalus sp, which I collected in Uzbekistan in 2005 which is flowering and it's a nice but rather large plant with fuzzy stems and leaves, especially when they emerge early in the spring. The stem grows up to about 1m in length. Unfortunately the insects seem to shun it, and no seeds pods are forming. Maybe more than one plant is needed. Well, I am not planning to start a colony of them, and besides it took around six years to reach flowering size.
I think there are hundreds of species in this genus in Central Asia, so I don't have any high hopes that I will get a species name, but maybe someone out there is familiar with the flora...?
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Every day there seem to be more color. Some are planned combinations are others are just plants that moved themselves via seed. Those are the most fun and often the best.
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And a few more, including Clematis fremontii
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Gentiana out on the coast yesterday and Glaucidium in the city 3 days ago.
johnw - +7c
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Gorgeous plants, nothing can beat gentian blue. Hopefully, my glaucidium will look like that in a few years.
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Penstemon davidsonii var. menziesii:
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Rhododendron occidentale (very fragrant) with Davidia in background and Limnanthes douglasii in foreground:
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Lilium pyrenaiacum:
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Fremontodendron californicum:
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Physoplexis comosa growing in the garden, fourth year:
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Rose 'Eddie's Jewel', started from a cutting in 2007:
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Eremurus robustus, with Boston ivy in background:
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Arisaema heterophyllum:
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The physoplexis is amazing.
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Styrax japonicum 'Pink Chimes' in full flower
And Stewartia rostrata - both are firm favourites with the bumble bees. The flowers of Stewartia rostrata look pretty even when they have fallen because they look "intact" (the petals and anthers are attached at the bottom).
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Aquilegia buergeriana in a sink. From SRGC seed
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Rose 'Eddie's Jewel', started from a cutting in 2007
Pretty impressive, Gene 8) I do like a single rose.
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The stream garden is loving the rain we've had this spring. The side of the stream that has most of the Primula japonica can rarely be mowed before mid-August due to the general bogginess of that area. The solution is to slowly replace all the grass with wood chips which soak up the wet. It gradually sinks in and more chips are placed on top - no more need to mow there. At the edge of this area I've transplanted all the seedlings Ligularia 'Brit-Marie Crawford' is making. I planted 3 in the shaded part of the stream garden and they took over the world. In this area it's OK.
The Rodgersias are really happy and the Hellebores flowered like crazy here, no more competition from the Ligularias.
Gardening is certainly a slow learning process (at least on my part),
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You've done it all perfectly and it looks marvellous! Excellent solutions to some problems the natural habitat has posed for you.
Gardening, I feel, is mostly about observation and reaction. Which plant does well where? How can you enhance the characteristics of a particular site? Going against nature is rarely successful and certainly a lot of work for the gardener... ;)
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That is so true. An imposed landscape never works for me.
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Two weeks ago Tulipa sprengeri flowered in this unusual location. How could this
happen? I ordered seeds of Lilium nanum from some seed exchange, but the resulting
seedlings did not look like lilies at all. Nevertheless they were planted in a bed for
peat loving plants where they grow very well.
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They look good, Rudi - always nice to see how many places these lovely Tulips will grow.
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Iris chrysographes......................
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2902/14298213904_f06b2779c7_o.jpg)
It's actually a little darker in the flesh.
Diplarrena moraea......................
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g430/longk48/DSC_2271.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g430/longk48/DSC_2275.jpg)
Isoplexis isabelliana is a far better plant in the ground than a pot..................
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g430/longk48/DSC_2284.jpg)
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Echium wildpretii from SRGC seed sown in January 2005 - a long wait but worth it
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Wonderful! I've been trying (and failing) to grow that for years.
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Snaps (of snaps).. with thanks to Rafa
Antirrhinum barrelieri
Antirrhinum charidemi
Antirrhinum hispanicum hispanicum 'Roseum'
Antirrhinum molle
Antirrhinum siculum
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Dianthus cruentus
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The theme is yellow at the moment! Here are Calceolaria tenella, a tiny carpeting species that I am pleased to have found again from Aberconwy; Catananche caespitosa, rarely grown species from the Atlas Mtns of N.W. Africa; Centaurea drabifolia, a Turkish cornflower grown from seed from Mojmír Pavelka; and one of the most extraordinary and striking of umbels, Thapsia maxima, a plant from sandy coastal regions of the Iberian peninsula, but a good long lived perennial in the garden with the habit of a bulb, dying down rapidly after flowering and setting seed in the early summer.
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The following two plants are Ramonda nathaliae, a rather lovely pink form that arose from seed sown from Jim and Jenny Archibald and Globularia incanescens, which I was pleased to find in the Czech Republic last May. Finally two pictures, a plant and an alpine house, both of which I would like for our garden(!) but only the former is likely to transpire: the very beautiful flower of Michelia dianica growing in Tom Wood's garden near Ashford in Kent (Tom was Managing Director of Oakover Nursery, a highly respected plantsman - one of the few horticulturalists awarded the VMH by the RHS - and with a wonderful collection of magnolias amongst all sorts of other choice trees and shrubs); and the Alpine House at Godinton Place in Kent - it would fit nicely in a corner of our garden ;)
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Oops missed the ramonda (which is the best of all...)
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(And the globularia...)
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Very pretty Ramonda Tim and also the Globularia if it comes to that. I'd give my right arm for that alpine house (and the space to put it in!)
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I love the Ramonda too. I have tried to grow them several time with no success - only leaves,
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Love the ramonda, Tim. I've only grown R. myconi.
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I like such Umbelliferae like this Thapsia maxima, dying down soon after flowering and having the same habit as Molopospermum?
This one I never saw before and must try to find it here.
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Echium wildpretii from SRGC seed sown in January 2005 - a long wait but worth it
Roma, don't you think it looks more like E. russicum (or rubrum)?
Well whatever, I like it anyway!
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Love this long, slow spring - the garden just keeps going with new plants every day.
Edraianthus pumilio
Campanula portenschlagiana
Iris tectorum
Iris tectorum album
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I would love to hear some opinions on the identity of this cotoneaster?? It is absolutely flat and follows the contours of the rock - it's also spreading and I may have to prune it away from the Genista depressa. It layers itself and I've managed to cut a couple and plant them.
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Oops! Here's the picture.
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I planted several Anthyllis vulneraria and Anthyllis vulneraria coccinea (rubra) in an area that's subject to inroads by the mad snowplower. Then I just left them alone and they married and remarried and now it is just a jumble of every color combination from pale cream with orange points to deep red and every possible combination inbetween. To me it is highly satisfactory - takes drought and hot sun in stride and doesn't seem to mind the summer mugs. Also, it blooms a long time and needs no care at all, what could be easier?
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Your cotoneaster looks good. C. adpressus maybe
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From my garden now.
Picture 1: Paeonia rockii hybrid.
Picture 2: Tulipa sprengeri.
Picture 3: Cypripedium Ulla Silkens.
Picture 4: Cypripedium flavum.
Picture 5: Meconopsis grandis Marit.
Thorkild - DK
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I planted several Anthyllis vulneraria and Anthyllis vulneraria coccinea (rubra) in an area that's subject to inroads by the mad snowplower. Then I just left them alone and they married and remarried and now it is just a jumble of every color combination from pale cream with orange points to deep red and every possible combination inbetween. To me it is highly satisfactory - takes drought and hot sun in stride and doesn't seem to mind the summer mugs. Also, it blooms a long time and needs no care at all, what could be easier?
My word! How pretty is that?
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From my garden now.
Picture 1: Paeonia rockii hybrid.
Picture 2: Tulipa sprengeri.
Picture 3: Cypripedium Ulla Silkens.
Picture 4: Cypripedium flavum.
Picture 5: Meconopsis grandis Marit.
Thorkild - DK
So many forum members with the most beautiful gardens imaginable. It is a joy to be able to see them here and share.
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Thank you, Margaret. I'll try starting with that i.d. and doing some research.
Maggi, the fun part was that I really didn't do anything!
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Wonderful plants from Thorkild - congratulations.
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From my garden now.
Picture 1: Iris ”Loreley”
Picture 2: Paeonia Kinshi
Picture 3: Meconopsis grandis
Picture 4: Nomocharis finlayorum hybrid
Picture 5: Rhododendron campylogynum var myrtilloides
Thorkild - DK
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Thorkild nice cyp flavum, very big healthy clump..and very nice to see Ulla silkins
Cheers
Stephen
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I planted several Anthyllis vulneraria and Anthyllis vulneraria coccinea (rubra) in an area that's subject to inroads by the mad snowplower. Then I just left them alone and they married and remarried and now it is just a jumble of every color combination from pale cream with orange points to deep red and every possible combination inbetween. To me it is highly satisfactory - takes drought and hot sun in stride and doesn't seem to mind the summer mugs. Also, it blooms a long time and needs no care at all, what could be easier?
That is just stunning. We have A. vulneraria growing in profusion here, but just its a yellow form (subsp. lapponicum I'm told, which is very hairy). So it's nice to see such a wide range of colour forms.
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That is just stunning. We have A. vulneraria growing in profusion here, but just its a yellow form (subsp. lapponicum I'm told, which is very hairy). So it's nice to see such a wide range of colour forms.
Thank you. If you can get a couple of the orange-red Anthyllis v coccinea, just plant them with your yellow ones and wait a couple of years to see what they will produce.
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Taken in May
Aquilegia bertolonii
Aster likiangensis
Asperula gussonii
Parahebe cataractae
Oxalis
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Chiastophyllum oppositifolium
Scilla peruviana