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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: Mike Ireland on June 01, 2014, 07:30:08 PM
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This lovely dark blue iris ? in flower today.
Label is possibly in the middle of the clump. Help with a name would be appreciated.
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Two pleasant surprises this weekend
Iris setosa alba - first flowering from seed
Roscoea 'Harvington Evening Star' flowering outside and in the greenhouse
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Mike - no idea s to the Iris id, but it is a gem!
Bit's and pieces getting going here.
Brimeura amethystina.......................
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5319/14334903663_9dc55c2d13_c.jpg)
These "tender" plants were outdoors all winter, the first two permanently planted out;
Iochroma australis (white form)..............
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5237/14134129740_a09a4ea8ac_c.jpg)
Solanum rantonnetii................
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5512/14322260284_75e47e90bd_c.jpg)
The white form of Sollya heterophylla................
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2917/14299788336_545ec4ebc6_c.jpg)
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Centaurea montana 'Alba'. Also the blue ones are flowering, I like these, but I must remember to cut the flower stems down early so that they don't seed around so much.
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Onosma simplicissimum flowering for the first time. Wild collected seeds from Chelyabinsk, Russia that I got through the NARGS- seed exchange. According to E-floras it should have light yellow flowers, so I wonder if it's perhaps Onosma volgensis/Onosma simplicissimum ssp. volgensis? Any thoughts?
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The Geum x intermedium is a natural occurring hybrid between G. rivale and G. urbanum that thrive in the border bed or the woodland garden.
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Rose 'Eddie's Jewel' and Rosa brunonii taking over my six-foot-tall fence:
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Lilium maritimum:
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Lilium dauricum:
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Physoplexis comosa in the garden; the white stuff is spent blossoms from a huge locust tree:
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The Geum x intermedium is a natural occurring hybrid between G. rivale and G. urbanum that thrive in the border bed or the woodland garden.
This is interesting! I Have Geum coccineum 'Borisii' and many years ago I took seeds from it and the plants which grew from those seeds are mostly just like the ones in your picture (I got some reds too, but they have died and the yellow ones are left).
Perhaps 'Borisii' was pollinated by G.rivale or G.urbanum? I have both of those growing also in the wild here. I don't know what the parentage of 'Borisii' is.
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Some tremendous plants Gene - the lilies especially. And what a plantation of Physoplexis! Your conditions must be just right for this plant because its normally only seen growing so well in tufa or crevices, or in an alpine house.
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Some tremendous plants Gene - the lilies especially. And what a plantation of Physoplexis! Your conditions must be just right for this plant because its normally only seen growing so well in tufa or crevices, or in an alpine house.
They keep getting a little bigger each year. They live through hard freezes and dark, wet Washington winters. They might be tougher than we think. But you do need to kill your slugs and snails.
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This is interesting! I Have Geum coccineum 'Borisii' and many years ago I took seeds from it and the plants which grew from those seeds are mostly just like the ones in your picture (I got some reds too, but they have died and the yellow ones are left).
Perhaps 'Borisii' was pollinated by G.rivale or G.urbanum? I have both of those growing also in the wild here. I don't know what the parentage of 'Borisii' is.
I don't think the "Borisii" is hybrid, but rather a strain of G. coccineum. Since you got different offspring, I think there have been some hybridization with a wild species. Did it have nodding flowers or did the flowers face upwards? What's great is that the intermedium hybrid come true from seed. Perhaps I should try the intermedium x borisii this year, hopefully with orange nodding flowers :)
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Daphne oleoides
Pimelia prostrata
Prostanthera cuneata
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From the garden today Tulbahgia 'Purple Eye'. This a T. cominsii x violacea cross I bought last Spring at the Cornwall Spring Flower Show from Julian Sutton of Desireable Plants. It flowered from putting it in the garden until late November and has been in full flower for the nearly a month. I can thoroughly recommend it.
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From the garden today Tulbahgia 'Purple Eye'. This a T. cominsii x violacea cross I bought last Spring at the Cornwall Spring Flower Show from Julian Sutton of Desireable Plants. It flowered from putting it in the garden until late November and has been in full flower for the nearly a month. I can thoroughly recommend it.
Wow, that is a great record of flowering - and when outside being drowned on a regular basis too!I am impressed
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Growing in the rock garden, a nice asperula in bloom for weeks and now starting to go over. Label lost long ago, but it was not grown from seed.
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Wow, that is a great record of flowering - and when outside being drowned on a regular basis too!I am impressed
;D
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yes pouring rain here as well today great for the plants a few flowers taken this morning, cheers Ian the Christie kind
Nomocharis aperta pale 2
Lilium macklinae Naga pink 1
Lilium oxypetalum insigne 1
Nomocharis aperta red form
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Forgot to say the Nomocharis aperta pale is most likely a hybrid nice big flowers, a few more, cheers Ian
Spotted dactylorhiza - own
Nomo saluenensis Cox heads
Nomocharis pale edit
Nomocharis pardanthina pale
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I don't think the "Borisii" is hybrid, but rather a strain of G. coccineum. Since you got different offspring, I think there have been some hybridization with a wild species. Did it have nodding flowers or did the flowers face upwards? What's great is that the intermedium hybrid come true from seed. Perhaps I should try the intermedium x borisii this year, hopefully with orange nodding flowers :)
The flowers of the yellow ones are nodding, but the flowers of the red /oranges (which died because I didn't take better care of them) were like the flowers of 'Borisii'.
Here is a picture of the yellow nodding one. This is very hardy, it has survived in weeds and growing in clay soil with even winter wet.
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Loved the Nomocharis Ian one of these days I'm going to succeed with one.
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Roscoea humeana alba
First two pics from SRGC seed sown in January 2010 - a big surprise as I believe it does not often come true from seed :)
The other two are from a tuber I bought at the Early Bulb Display in February this year
Showing the difference in the colour of the leaf sheath
Why do I not see the aphid till the pic is on the computer screen ::)
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That is such a beautiful roscoea Roma - I remember Ron McBeath showing a picture (of the same species?) at the Edinburgh Joint SRGC/AGS Conference when hardly anyone was growing it; really stood out.
One of my favourite plants flowering at the moment - Teucrium aroanium. This has made a wide carpet over the last four of five years growing in very gritty sandy soil with no winter protection, and has probably the showiest flowers of any teucrium.
The second plant - Eryngium maritimum - is growing on the Saxon Shore Way just to the east of Faversham. Perfect in a mix of crushed sea shells, gravel and sand (never managed to grow it as well as this in the garden so far!).
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This is a cracking little plant - Polemonium pauciflorum..................
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3887/14167164358_0a108829af_c.jpg)
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3877/14352235112_3f76963046_c.jpg)
One of my favourite Penstemons is P.smallii................
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3851/14167213730_f64b9ee20b_c.jpg)
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Campanula betulifolia
Digitalis thapsi
Erigeron 'Four Winds'
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Tim, I remember growing the teucrium some years ago. Thought the flower beautiful and very subtle, but it didn't show up well in the sand bed where it was planted. It flourished for some years and then it was gone.
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Flying the blue:
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3889/14167715248_9a7512f0ba_z_d.jpg)
Meconopsis Crarae -I think it claims descent from L&S600.
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Your portrait captures everything that is so appealing about the big blue poppies, Steve. They are immensely photogenic are they not?
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I just back from a cycling trip through Argyll to Islay where en route I spotted Erinus alpinus beautifying this already appealing bridge.
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A second flush of flowers on Ranunuculus alpestris.
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Arisaema franchetianum
Arisaema sp.
Arisaema flavum
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Arisaema franchetianum
Arisaema sp.
Arisaema flavum
Philip, your sp is probably Arisamea ciliatum
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A second flush of flowers on Ranunuculus alpestris.
How wonderful to be able to grow this so well.
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Thanks Diane.I could have taken a guess from internet photos,but don't like to put a wrong name up.I bought 4 A.flavum and 2 turned out to be these,so I was quite pleased.
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Hello Steve great picture of the Meconopsis all the recently named forms have either come from what we once knew as G.S 600 or garden hybrids probably are all garden hybrids, cheers Ian the Christie kind
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Flowering yesterday before the deluge we had today.
Daphne oleoides, a self sown seedling in chimney pot
Dicentra pergrina x eximia alba grown fron SRGC Seed
Delphinium alpestre
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Mike, that Daphne is a real beauty - and a volunteer, eh? Even better! 8)
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Gorgeous daphne!
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Everything in the garden seems to be coming out at the same time this year. Three that we rather like at the moment:
1. Meconopsis 'Lingholm'
2. Cardiocrinum cordatum var Glehnii
3. Eremurus - label lostii - first time they have flowered for five years so threats of compost heap do work!
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I wish everyone would stop teasing me with your Mecanopsis photos! Another year, another failure here :(
Anyway.................
I got up this morning to find Echinopsis subdenudata in bloom in the greenhouse.................
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2936/14349545736_a0a9f105fa_c.jpg)
I had a lone unopened bud hanging in there on a spent raceme on Clianthus puniceus - today it opened Looks a little lonely though)..................
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2914/14369310551_3c33c6219d_c.jpg)
One of the small Clerodendrum ugandense is in bloom.................
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5570/14186027768_a7b778e743_c.jpg)
Digitalis carillion.....................
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2896/14175050560_146fa7beb9_b.jpg)
Finally a self seeded Impatiens glandulifera....................
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3846/14338523796_e81054cd13_c.jpg)
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great stuff from everybody 8)
A current view on my garden and in comparison the image from March :)
Amazing change - isn't it?
Amazing is also Lilium bulbiferum ssp. bulbiferum. Raised more then a dozent from bulbils I got from generous forum member, lost the flowering sized bulbs when I re-worked my raised beds :-X :'(.
Obvious one bulbil fell down between the stones and was overseen for several years and survived also the 2012 black frost desaster...
Surprised me with a single flower this year :D
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I wish everyone would stop teasing me with your Mecanopsis photos! Another year, another failure here :(
Anyway.................
I got up this morning to find Echinopsis subdenudata in bloom in the greenhouse.................
I had a lone unopened bud hanging in there on a spent raceme on Clianthus puniceus - today it opened Looks a little lonely though)..................
One of the small Clerodendrum ugandense is in bloom.................
Digitalis carillion.....................
Finally a self seeded Impatiens glandulifera....................
You take a cracking image meanie. Would you like to tell us more about your camera etc. please?
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Sorry folks I know I said they were cracking images but I didn't mean to repeat them all. Don't know how it happened this way.
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Worth repeating!
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You take a cracking image meanie. Would you like to tell us more about your camera etc. please?
Thanks!
It's just an old Nikon D40 (could use a service I reckon as I find it's struggling more nowadays in low light). I use manual settings (as low an ASA as possible, generally low f stop, fast a shutter speed as realistic etc). On subjects such as the Impatiens and Digitalis I'm not afraid to use the flash to fill in the shadows.
I very rarely edit apart from cutting to size where appropriate. I must admit however that I tweaked the contrast on the Echinopsis photo using Irfanview as the white in full sun (even at 1/1000th shutter) was a bit too much for nice petal definition.
The real trick though is to simply delete the crappy photos ;D
Three more;
Penstemon proceros...............
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3903/14375983494_a6aab9670f_c.jpg)
First bloom on Salvia buchanii since planting out................
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5527/14373593951_d7522a32a3_c.jpg)
And an unknown Iris.....................
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2905/14190287559_fd8407565d_c.jpg)
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3. Remurus - label lostii - first time they have flowered for five years so threats of compost heap do work!
probably Eremurus robustus David :)
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Amazing is also Lilium bulbiferum ssp. bulbiferum. Raised more then a dozent from bulbils I got from generous forum member, lost the flowering sized bulbs when I re-worked my raised beds :-X :'(.
Obvious one bulbil fell down between the stones and was overseen for several years and survived also the 2012 black frost desaster...
Surprised me with a single flower this year :D
Armin, not so amazing when you see them growing in their habitat. I'm still struggling with them here on my sandy soil, but happily had this year 2 flowering stems :D
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Beautiful clear photos. I must learn how to use my camera some day. ::)
P.S. Hate to say it, but it's not Penstemon procerus with those toothed leaves...)
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Beautiful clear photos. I must learn how to use my camera some day. ::)
P.S. Hate to say it, but it's not Penstemon procerus with those toothed leaves...)
Don't apologise for being right!
Penstemon serrulatus maybe?
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Penstemon serrulatus maybe?
Looks like it very well might be.
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probably Eremurus robustus David :)
Yes you're right Luit, seem to remember that was one I bought and the shorter one is probably 'Cleopatra' now I come to think of it.
I wish everyone would stop teasing me with your Mecanopsis photos!
It it makes you any happier although Lingholm has survived, for some reason 'Old Rose' has disappeared this year - well we are in the dry East of England :(
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Sorry folks I know I said they were cracking images but I didn't mean to repeat them all. Don't know how it happened this way.
Sorry folks I know I said they were cracking images but I didn't mean to repeat them all. Don't know how it happened this way.
It was because of the way they were uploaded initially, David. I've edited your post to take them out. ( miserable ratbag that I am!)
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great stuff from everybody 8)
A current view on my garden and in comparison the image from March :)
Amazing change - isn't it?
Amazing is also Lilium bulbiferum ssp. bulbiferum. Raised more then a dozent from bulbils I got from generous forum member, lost the flowering sized bulbs when I re-worked my raised beds :-X :'(.
Obvious one bulbil fell down between the stones and was overseen for several years and survived also the 2012 black frost desaster...
Surprised me with a single flower this year :D
A great idea to show the two photos of now and March, Armin - really highlights the changes through the season.
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It was because of the way they were uploaded initially, David. I've edited your post to take them out. ( miserable ratbag that I am!)
Okay..............
Are you saying that if I embed a photo the site automatically uploads it on to its server? I embed images as I assumed that it saves you guys storage space on your server by just calling the image up from Flickr when the page is loaded.
Don't have a problem either way, but as a IT numpty I'm just trying to get my head around it.
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It it makes you any happier although Lingholm has survived, for some reason 'Old Rose' has disappeared this year - well we are in the dry East of England :(
I never delight in the failures or losses of others Brian!
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Okay..............
Are you saying that if I embed a photo the site automatically uploads it on to its server? I embed images as I assumed that it saves you guys storage space on your server by just calling the image up from Flickr when the page is loaded.
Don't have a problem either way, but as a IT numpty I'm just trying to get my head around it.
No worries at all about you loading your photos how you like, 'meanie' - it simply affects the way a "quote" of a post works.
Embedded photos will always "show" in a quote because the embedded link is repeated. Simple as that.
For as long as your pictures are available at the outside site, they will be seen here.
The only issue that has arisen in the past has been when photos were loaded from the likes of 'photobucket' and then those accounts were changed (or closed or something!) and those photos disappeared from the forum posts.
You carry on - you're doing a grand job :)
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Armin, not so amazing when you see them growing in their habitat. I'm still struggling with them here on my sandy soil, but happily had this year 2 flowering stems :D
I'm happy you still keep them - the bulbils on my stem make me hope to get a small clump one day of this fine lily.
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A great idea to show the two photos of now and March, Armin - really highlights the changes through the season.
Maggi,
I'm pleased you like it. The quality of the panorama images suffer from resizing but with original high resolution details are beautiful to view.
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From my Garden now.
Billede 1: Dianthus alpinus
Billede 2: Cypripedium Ivory
Billede 3: Paeonia pontaninii
Billede 4: Dactylorhiza elata
Billede 5: Meconopsis Hensol
Thorkild - DK
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Antirrhinum valentinum
Antirrhinum sempervirens
Magnolia 'Porcelain Dove'
Dianthus barbatus 'Heart Attack'
Asplenium septentrionale (does this appear at shows?/ isn't it meant to be difficult to grow?)
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Dianthus barbatus 'Heart Attack'
I read this and thought "Seriously, is that name for real?" But a Google search confirms this and that it's a perennial. I love sweet williams as a cut flower, but a perennial cultivar with a colours as good as this is hard to beat :)
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Matt,
There's an even darker one: 'Monksilver Black'
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Those are very smart - are they well-scented? Seems a lot of the cut flower Sweet Williams nowadays have lost that lovely old time scent. :'(
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I do miss my birch trees but there is more light in this corner now and there should be more moisture in the soil too.
Aquilegia vulgaris, Tulipa sprengeri, Allium 'Purple Sensation' and seedlings with Lilium martagon in bud.
Hot sunny weather, rain and wind meant the tulips did not last long
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Roma love your Tulipa sprengeri, its like a weed for you, some people have all the luck.
Angie :)
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Roma love your Tulipa sprengeri, its like a weed for you
I was just thinking the same thing, I hope my seedlings (from the seed exchange) grow fast and become just like your T.sprengeri. :)
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Digitalis lutea......................
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3865/14210102740_296e08c822_c.jpg)
The common Foxglove is not usually my kind of thing, but as this one is filling a gap that is not needed at the moment it got a reprieve. Pretty impressive for one plant...................
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2907/14395332512_16214f01a6_c.jpg)
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Roscoea humeana in 3 colour forms, white, yellow and pink.
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How gorgeous. They look to be growing in open ground. Are these planted out in the garden and if so, do they spend the winter there?
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Even Cyril's plants that grow in his garden look exquisitely perfect
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Gloomy and misting this morning, but good for photographing. I just walked down the driveway and took shots as I walked. This is what the lower garden looks like in early June, when the brilliance of phlox and gentians and daphnes has gone. Subtler overall but not necessarily when close up.
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An uinknown arenaria has been blooming and spreading beautifully for years now. No visitor has ever identified it. The flowers are a sharp white and large for the size of the plants. The second picture is of the lowest of the raised beds in typical June color. In a few weeks there will be lots of purple and blue from Dalea purpurea and Penstemon mensarum etc.
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How gorgeous. They look to be growing in open ground. Are these planted out in the garden and if so, do they spend the winter there?
The white and pink roscoea have been in the garden for many years. The pink clumps up well unlike the white which is rather slow. These set seeds but resulting plants are not always true. I have a clump with a mixture of white and pink, grown from seeds from the white plant. I only got the yellow last year.
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What a magnificent rock garden Anne - really beautiful. Thanks for sharing it with us 8)
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Photos taken today at Phil & Gwen Phillips garden of their asiatic primulas.
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Marvelous color - what kind are they and how hardy are they?
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Marvelous color - what kind are they and how hardy are they?
Mixed candelabra primula, is as near a guess as I would make.
Very hardy, they are growing in an old pond which was filled with compost & is watered directly from rainwater off the roof.
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For the first time ever I decided to overwinter Lotus berthelotii and it was actually worth the effort..................
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2912/14221134638_3d8322f454_c.jpg)
Nigella orientalis is a fun plant that now self seeds readily here..................
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5474/14407756345_3906f39b0c_c.jpg)
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3863/14427924913_88cc9493b0_c.jpg)
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As I am not able to be on internet often, I send some more pictures from last weeks:
Asperula boissieri
This Campanula is wandering in our garden but I do not know its name
Edraianthus horvatii
Edraianthus vezovicii
Erigeron nematophyllus ?
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Gentiana depressa in my peat bed
Haplopappus glutinosus
Heterotheca pumila
Hypericum kazdaghense (syn. H. aucheri)
A lizzard in our rock garden
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... and the last two:
Polygala calcarea is a real weed in our garden
Pulsatilla alpina subsp. apiifolia flowering for the first time in our garden
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Asteranthera ovata flowering for the first time in its vertical position.
I can only dream it will flower like this one day -
http://www.chileflora.com/Florachilena/FloraEnglish/HighResPages/EH0177A.htm (http://www.chileflora.com/Florachilena/FloraEnglish/HighResPages/EH0177A.htm)
scroll down the page.
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That Asteranthera ovata is stunning! According to Chileflora it's hardy down to -15°c?
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Here Geranium sylvaticum is in flower now. I have two white flowering plants, the other is bought plant G.sylvaticum 'Album', and it is all white, but the other I got from a friend who has a meadow where wild cranesbills flower, and there were also white ones. The anthers in stamens are not white. I think this plant would be called G.sylvaticum f albiflora. It is very vigorous and nice, but hasn't produced seedlings (neither has 'Album', and next to these G.phaeum produces lots of seedlings so I can't bee weeding them all out).
Then I have one cranesbill which I had grown from seeds called 'Snowflake', it was said to be G.sylvaticum, and it flowers the same time but the leaves are very different, so it must be a hybrid with something else (but what?). It is tall and always flowers very well.
Last the picture is Finnish white rose, Rosa pimpinellifolia 'Plena'.
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... and the last two:
Polygala calcarea is a real weed in our garden
Pulsatilla alpina subsp. apiifolia flowering for the first time in our garden
What I wouldn't give to have Polygala calcarea be a weed in my garden!
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Blue form of Iochroma australis......................
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3903/14440424713_e150cedeca_c.jpg)
If you look closely you'll see that it's loaded...................
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g430/longk48/DSC_2397.jpg)
First blooms on my seed grown Salvia forsskaolii..................
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2902/14440423653_9d8d7539f3_c.jpg)
Branching like this it has great potential...................
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g430/longk48/DSC_2390.jpg)
Despite the recent warm weather Brugmansia sanguinea continues to bloom well....................
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3910/14233798037_6d7c3c38f2_c.jpg)
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From my garden now.
Billede: 1 Lilium navn?
Billede: 2 Dactylorhiza maculata
Billede: 3 Lilium martagon
Billede: 4 Clematis Princess Diana
Billede: 5 Podophyllum delavayi
Thorkild – DK.
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Aloe (rauhii?) has started blooming...................
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g430/longk48/DSC_2408.jpg)
It survived the winter unheated in a blowaway but has suffered some serious discolouration....................
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g430/longk48/DSC_2406.jpg)
This rose responded well to a real hatchet job last summer!
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g430/longk48/DSC_2409.jpg)
Fuchsia procumbens.................
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5495/14433816884_142c77040b_c.jpg)
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That looks a lot like my Rosa sinowilsonii which I have growing on the back wall of the garage.
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A few good June plants! Lilium candidum (self-seeds with us - originally grown from JJA seed); Phlox carolina 'Bill Baker'; Corydalis flexuosa x elata (one of several hybrids that arose in the garden quite a few years ago and which have proved better garden plants than either parents in our rather dry summer garden); and the relatively tender Geranium incanum (a great success this year due to the virtual absence of frost over winter).
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Lovely plants Tim . The Lilium candidum, which I am told is often a martyr to virus, looks super.
Is you good blue Corydalis actually a flexuosa x elata cross or is it a cross of what we "used to know as elata" ? That is, the plant now known to be C. omeiana?
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Yes, you're quite right Maggi - C. omeiana. From this species it gets its later flowering and more robust habit, and stays in growth very much longer than flexuosa.
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That looks a lot like my Rosa sinowilsonii which I have growing on the back wall of the garage.
It produces thorns on all young growth - does that sound right for Rosa sinowilsonii?
Albuca nelsonii.......................
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3922/14439737531_e083473989_c.jpg)
It's not as good as last year, but then it is dividing...........................
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g430/longk48/DSC_2415.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g430/longk48/DSC_2417.jpg)
Salvia stolonifera...................
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3882/14463262743_13db86b42f_c.jpg)
Salvia patens (always reliable)....................
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5583/14463262513_1088ee0a5d_c.jpg)
Salvia discolor (which wins my prize for Longest Blooming Plant)...................
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2927/14256446569_19c6ff9181_c.jpg)
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It produces thorns on all young growth - does that sound right for Rosa sinowilsonii?
You mean like this?
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Watsonia angusta.
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You mean like this?
They're more like this really.......................
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g430/longk48/DSC_2422.jpg)
Like that Watsonia by the way!
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Nomocharis aperta
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Flowering in a fairly densely shaded bed. A plant in the open garden frazzled here today as temperatures peaked at 28C.
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Albuca humilis grown from seed sent to me by Palustris....................
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Thanks! I love it!
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Campanula sarmatica. Not at all exotic, but sweetly-scented, which is not mentioned
in any description of it that I have found. I have a mixed bouquet on the kitchen table,
and couldn't figure out which flowers were providing the scent throughout the room,
so I isolated the contenders separately in a small space, and it was this one.
Another bonus: deer object to either the hairs or the scent, so haven't been eating
it.
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Campanula sarmatica. Not at all exotic....................................
Do all our plants need to be exotic or rare though? Some plants are just plain good, simple as that!
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Do all our plants need to be exotic or rare though? Some plants are just plain good, simple as that!
That's so true - and it is something that Dr John Good has written about recently in his North Wales Garden Diary (http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/diaries/NorthWales/May+/571/) on the AGS Site when introducing a few of his favourites that bloom in May:
"There is a tendency when writing a garden diary to mention only the rarer or more unusual plants, but many of those that give the greatest pleasure, like the common birds that regularly visit our bird tables, tend not to be mentioned. These are the plants that anyone can grow with a modicum of skill and that are available from most alpine plant nurseries, and sometimes from garden centres."
In the next issue of the International Rock Gardener ( online on Friday 26th June ) John will be sharing some favourite plants from his crevice garden in North Wales. 8)
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That's so true - and it is something that Dr John Good has written about recently in his North Wales Garden Diary (http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/diaries/NorthWales/May+/571/) on the AGS Site when introducing a few of his favourites that bloom in May:
"There is a tendency when writing a garden diary to mention only the rarer or more unusual plants, but many of those that give the greatest pleasure, like the common birds that regularly visit our bird tables, tend not to be mentioned. These are the plants that anyone can grow with a modicum of skill and that are available from most alpine plant nurseries, and sometimes from garden centres."
In the next issue of the International Rock Gardener ( online on Friday 26th June ) John will be sharing some favourite plants from his crevice garden in North Wales. 8)
A trap that I have certainly fallen into at times! The thing is that flowering something tricky can be addictive. I like to think that I have a reasonable balance now - a handful of things that are probably unique even to a site like this, plenty of more unusual forms of common species that for some reason just get overlooked, and then some just plain common (but choice) plants such as Lobelia "Queen Victoria" or L.tupa.
It's nice to have a challenge though. My aim this year is to keep my Brugmansia sanguinea in bloom all summer - as a cool bloomer probably unrealistic, but so far it's looking good.
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Yes, I think all of us here do enjoy a challenge - it spices up life well - but isn't it great to have staple plants in the garden that do well and even seed themselves around voluntarily to fill empty spaces ? We keep telling ourselves here that those plants mean that we'll be able to enjoy a lovely display even when we are too decrepit to tend and referee the place properly! ::)
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...........................staple plants in the garden that do well and even seed themselves around voluntarily to fill empty spaces .....................
And equally frustrating when the ones that you really want to seed around stubbornly refuse to >:(
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It's not quite so bad when that happens- so long as you best friend hasn't got them coming out of his ears! Sometimes it is tough to be calm and philosophical about these things!
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Here are a three of plants in flower in my garden at the moment, the first is a clematis growing over a pheasant pen, it is in a exposed sunny spot and is doing really well, too well to be honest. The second is a hydrangea, I bought this as a small plant from a guy selling plants from a layby near hull about five years ago for a couple of pounds. This year for some reason it has two flower colours pink and blue, I wonder if it has picked something up from the soil? I've heard it said the soil can affect they colour of hydrangeas. Lastly is a globe artichoke, this is the first time I am growing them, I noticed yesterday a flower head on one of them, I also noticed a lot of blackfly so I had to get my sprayer out. I useally leave it to natural predetors like ladybirds but I haven't seen any this year yet.
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Albuca humilis grown from seed sent to me by Palustris....................
Thanks! I love it!
I have some Albuca humilis seedlings coming on. Are they as fragrant as it is said?
Nicotiana sylvestris is not rare and might be considered a weed. In our hot climate, fragrance, especially in the evening or at night, is divine! I do keep them thinned. Sort of. :)
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I have some Albuca humilis seedlings coming on. Are they as fragrant as it is said?
I can't say that I've noticed it. A.shawii is certainly more noticable.
Nicotiana sylvestris is not rare and might be considered a weed. In our hot climate, fragrance, especially in the evening or at night, is divine! I do keep them thinned. Sort of. :)
They're just popping up now here. Reliably 2 to 2.5 metres by the end of August and uber fragrant.
My N.glauca is in bud already, but lacks fragrance as I'm sure that you're aware - considered a weed in parts of California I believe?
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A few more general shots.
Salvia froskoalii (spelling?) is proving to be a star. Four feet tall and multi-branched.......................
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Digitalis lutea is another that is romping away this year...................
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Digitalis parviflora in bloom. I lost three stems to slugs or snails (chomped through), but a few remain..................
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Lobelia tupa is going to be another superstar this year. Despite being described as a bit borderline it is thriving here..................
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I can't say that I've noticed it. A.shawii is certainly more noticable.
They're just popping up now here. Reliably 2 to 2.5 metres by the end of August and uber fragrant.
My N.glauca is in bud already, but lacks fragrance as I'm sure that you're aware - considered a weed in parts of California I believe?
Thanks for the reply! I'll keep a look out for Albuca shawii.
Writing of weeds..... Despite the heat we still have a few Digitalis in bloom. Maybe I should get a few photos as they are looking good. Mostly hybrids as many of the species have crossed with each other and I let them all seed about. I think that maybe I complain too much that the garden is devoid of flowers when the weather turns hot and dry. It is not so bad considering that it is 35 - 40+c almost everyday now until late September.
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A few more general shots.
Lobelia tupa is going to be another superstar this year. Despite being described as a bit borderline it is thriving here..................
Lobelia tupa that I grew from seed survived the -18C mini Ice Age of a few years ago. It behaves like a deciduous perennial here though it's apparently evergreen in Chile. In a good year can be up to 5feet. I just wish we had some Hummingbirds to pollinate it!
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Lobelia tupa that I grew from seed survived the -18C mini Ice Age of a few years ago. It behaves like a deciduous perennial here though it's apparently evergreen in Chile. In a good year can be up to 5feet. I just wish we had some Hummingbirds to pollinate it!
That's what I don't get. Minus five is the best that I've seen quoted for it (and they were trying to sell it), yet mine has taken -15°c. I do cover it with the fallen Taxodium leaves, but that's it. I never cut the stems off until the spring when it's back in growth. The other mistake that I think some people make is to assume that it likes it damp like the other perennial Lobelia - mine is in a dry spot and is thriving. I expect it to hit 2/2.5 metres easily this year.
I do get a fair amount of viable seed from mine.
Thanks for the reply! I'll keep a look out for Albuca shawii.
Writing of weeds..... Despite the heat we still have a few Digitalis in bloom. Maybe I should get a few photos as they are looking good. Mostly hybrids as many of the species have crossed with each other and I let them all seed about. I think that maybe I complain too much that the garden is devoid of flowers when the weather turns hot and dry. It is not so bad considering that it is 35 - 40+c almost everyday now until late September.
If you draw a blank on the Albuca seeds let me know as mine reliably produces seed.
I like the sound of the hybrid self seeding Digitalis!
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Hi
Lilium nepalensis in the garden today. One flower plus a another that should open very soon. Sorry for the poor quality of the photographs especially with my hand holding up the flower.
Bob
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If you draw a blank on the Albuca seeds let me know as mine reliably produces seed.
I like the sound of the hybrid self seeding Digitalis!
That sounds wonderful! I'll do some looking around first and see what turns up here in the states.
It was a busy day today but I did manage to photograph a few of the open pollinated digitalis hybrids. These two photos turned out okay. I've had many species in the garden over the years. I'm sure that these are 10 generations out or more out.
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That sounds wonderful! I'll do some looking around first and see what turns up here in the states.
It was a busy day today but I did manage to photograph a few of the open pollinated digitalis hybrids. These two photos turned out okay. I've had many species in the garden over the years. I'm sure that these are 10 generations out or more out.
No probs! I still have some left from last year which I could post straight away if you have no luck.
My interest in the east European Digitalis grows. As they're fairly unusual in the UK and rather different in the form of their flowers I find they are very adaptable, looking equally at home next to spikeys (such as Aloe striatula) as they do in with herbaceous cottage garden plants.
I also have seed for D.parviflora. It grows next to D.lutea so there is a chance of cross pollination, but in the past it has always come true. Come to think of it there should be seed for D.lutea too.
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June is wonderful here!! Let's see if I can summarize it in photos...
Pyrethrum leontopodium; Penstemon humilis v. brevifolius; Gentiana verna; Androsace sempervivoides; Erigeron compositus v. discoideus (not rayless, obviously, so I guess I should quit calling it "var. discoideus", which is supposed to be rayless):
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Oops, only 5 photos per post - that seems new? Ok, this might take a while then. ;D
[Phacelia sericea; Potentilla uniflora; Arenaria kansuensis; Dianthus scardicus; Eritrichium howardii:
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Phlox hendersonii; Coronilla vaginalis; Erigeron pinnatisectus; Penstemon nitidus; Globularia cordifolia:
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Ranunculus parnassifolius; Aethionema schistosum and Androsace; Aethionema glaucescens; Silene bolanthoides - 2 plants, slightly different flower colour:
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Androsace fedtschenkoi; Carduncellus pinnatus in bud; Fritillaria kamschatcensis; Townsendia parryi; Aquilegia laramiensis:
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Rhodiola rosea; Dianthus and Penstemon x 'Pink Holly'; Dracocephalum nutans; Lithospermum ruderale; Verbascum atroviolaceum:
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Myosotis decumbens; Eritrichium pauciflorum ssp. sajanense; Aubrieta 'Royal Red'; Calceolaria biflora; Plantago nivalis:
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Thymus neiceffii; Patrinia siberica; Edraianthus vesovicii; Saxifraga 'Sieberi', just bought this spring; Erigeron linearis:
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Oxytropis viscida; Genista cf. depressa; Eremostachys speciosa; Campanula stevenii ssp. turczaninovii; Marrubium lutescens, bursting into bloom this year, though the flowers don't seem to be its best feature!
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Aubrieta canescens; Achillea ageratifolia; one flower on Clematis scottii after countless years ::); Campanula saxifraga; Anthemis cretica ssp. leucanthemoides:
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Campanula alpestris; Edraianthus niveus; Penstemon pumilus seedling; Asperula daphneola, bought this year; and your own Primula scotica, far from home and doing surprisingly well in these dry conditions:
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Lovely rockery
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Dracunculus vulgaris.......................
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Echeveria (elegans?)......................
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Great plants, Lori! I'm distressed to hear how long you've been waiting for Clematis scottii. It's the same story here, but I didn't realize it was going to be an even longer wait. Nice to see my favorite Genista depressa - and the wonderful Edraianthus was new to me (the blue one). What do you know about it?
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Edraianthus vesovicii Lakušic is a synonym of Edraianthus graminifolius subsp. graminifolius.
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=4612.msg124152#msg124152 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=4612.msg124152#msg124152)
(E. vesovicii from Mt. Prokletije in the south of Montenegro)
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... one flower on Clematis scottii after countless years ::)
Well worth the wait though. That's a stunner!
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Lilium washingtonianum v. purpurascens:
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Lilium martagon album:
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Lilium grayi:
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Lilium pomponium:
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Lilium bulbiferum:
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Lewisia cotyledon pure white:
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Arisaema ciliatum (?) growing through Eomecon chionantha:
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Arisaema candidissimum:
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Dichelostemma volubile (pink) twining through stems of Fremontodendron californicum (yellow):
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Hedysarum coronarium
Roscoea 'Harvington Evening Star' still flowering. This has been amazing with 5 or 6 flowers so far on each of 4 stems in the greenhouse and the one outside is nearly as good. I got one flower each on two white plants and 'Monique' and 'Red Gurkha' have still to flower.
Campanula thessala - the best one I have grown- the true colour is not as blue
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Lilium kelloggii white form:
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Lilium occidentale:
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Lilium pitkinense:
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Lilium canadense, with pitkinense in background:
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Lilium pardalinum or something close:
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Arisaema consanguineum giant form:
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Lilium kelloggi:
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A group of Dracunculus vulgaris:
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Lilium canadense:
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Lilium bakerianum delavayi:
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Arisaema fargesi:
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Everyone is showing a quite dazzling range of plants - seems like a great year.
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Blooming now, Penstemon cobaea, about 15" tall and a great background plant. Hard not to love these huge tubby flowers. Need to remove seedlings early because they immediately send down a deep tap root.
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Some tremendous plants! I'm bowled over by those species lilies from Gene - so nice to see some of the real wildlings compared to the huge number of hybrids there are around.
These are two contrasting plants: Linum narbonense which I have grown for probably 40 years, originally from Joe Elliott's alpine nursery - an exquisite plant but we find it a pig to propagate. It is a good and very long lived perennial, compared to the deceivingly named L. perenne. And the hybrid Ourisia 'Cliftonville Roset' bred by Martin and Anna-Lisa Sheader (who grow so many S. American alpines). This is a cross between O. microphylla and O. polyantha and is growing well in a trough in our relatively dry garden even though both parent species grow naturally in quite cool and moist cliff faces in part shade. Kabschia saxifrage conditions are probably more ideal for it.
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Blooming now, Penstemon cobaea, about 15" tall and a great background plant. Hard not to love these huge tubby flowers. Need to remove seedlings early because they immediately send down a deep tap root.
Thanks for posting that. I was wondering what this Penstemon that I saw at Oxfords Botanic Gardens is.......................
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5194/14423998706_966467d501_c.jpg)
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Some tremendous plants! I'm bowled over by those species lilies from Gene - so nice to see some of the real wildlings compared to the huge number of hybrids there are around.
These are two contrasting plants: Linum narbonense which I have grown for probably 40 years, originally from Joe Elliott's alpine nursery - an exquisite plant but we find it a pig to propagate. It is a good and very long lived perennial, compared to the deceivingly named L. perenne.
L.narbonense is also growing at OBG. They have a couple of zero maintenance beds running (not sure how long this project is intended to last) where the plants either survive, self seed or croak it. No watering, dead-heading etc. L.narbonense seems to go from strength to strength.
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Thanks for posting that. I was wondering what this Penstemon that I saw at Oxfords Botanic Gardens is.......................
I think it might be Penstemon 'Sour Grapes'
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I think it might be Penstemon 'Sour Grapes'
The flowers are much too large for that. The foliage (although not shown well in my photo) is wrong too.
Anyway, my "Sour Grapes" never flowers!!! ;D
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The tall Arisaema consanguineum in the precious page looks great.
Here I have Arisaema ciliatum var liubanense flowering now, it has increased quite nicely, but it is not very tall. The taller Arisaema on the left is A.angustatum.
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Wonderful little colony of Arisaemas Leena. I have a plant of Arisaema ciliatum var liubanense too but it has only produced one side shoot so far. Both stems are flowering this year though. Here are some pictures of plants which have flowered for me this spring-summer. The Salvia xanthocheila is from seeds donated through the Seed Exchange ex F&JK1086, so maybe someone else has had it in flower too.
The plants featured are:
Salvia xanthocheila
Salvia cadmica
Salvia cadmica
Erodium cedrorum
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Here are three pictures of Verbascum wiedemannianum which has flowered for me. Unfortunately it died before it set any seeds ( too much water or an ant problem ). I have some seedlings from this year so I hope to have more plants in 2015.[attach=1][attach=2][attachimg=3]
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Silene davidii is a mat forming species from China which has done quite well here, but not flowering profusely, but one flower here and there in the mat.
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Wonderful little colony of Arisaemas Leena. I have a plant of Arisaema ciliatum var liubanense too but it has only produced one side shoot so far. Both stems are flowering this year though.
I had sown the seeds of that A.ciliatum var liubanense in winter 2008, I don't remember when they flowered for the first time, but perhaps 2011. Last winter we had very little snow and I was worried how Arisaemas survive but all were fine in the spring. :)
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Here is a picture of my plant. It has survived outdoors without any protection for several winters and I would consider it very hardy.
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Campanula argaea is flowering for me this year after a two year wait. I had it in the garden before and this is a seedling which came up in 2013. It should set plenty of seeds as wild bees are visiting the flowers frenzidly. It sort of forms a pyramid and is very nice and compact, about 50cm tall, maybe a little big for the rock garden but good in the back maybe. Seeds collected in Turkey in 2004. Will be donating seeds to the SRGC seed ex this year for sure.
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There is also a picture of Campanula rigidipila, which I read is the southernmost occuring Campanula ( Abyssinia; Ethiopia ). It's a nice plant of about 30cm height.
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First time flowering for me
Sinocalycanthus sinensis
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First time flowering for me
Sinocalycanthus sinensis
Very nice it is too, Tony.
For some notes on this plant see here (http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=m380) and for news of some hybrids - here (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=85.msg20838#msg20838) and UK sources : here (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=886.msg20670#msg20670)
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This is a wonderful erodium hybrid that came from Jean-Pierre Jolivot (Le Jardin d'En Face, near Pleurtuit and not far from St. Malo). Unfortunately I have lost its name but this is a superb and long flowering genus for hot and dry gardens like ours. We have it on a new raised bed planted with Mediterranean-climate species which I will feature in my blog in the future. A lot of these are flowering now after the more traditional range of rock plants.
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What incredible marking inside the flower Tim, isn't Nature amazing.
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What incredible marking inside the flower Tim, isn't Nature amazing.
Those markings are like bird feathers - lovely!
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Those markings are like bird feathers ...
Really? Must be flightless ... ;D
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Really? Must be flightless ... ;D
Got it in one :
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kiwi feathers ::) ;)
( pic from http://kiwi2011.wikispaces.com/ (http://kiwi2011.wikispaces.com/) )
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Got it in one :
kiwi feathers ::) ;)
Priceless. 8)
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This is a wonderful erodium hybrid that came from Jean-Pierre Jolivot (Le Jardin d'En Face, near Pleurtuit and not far from St. Malo). Unfortunately I have lost its name ...
Beautiful markings.
Looks similar to E. 'Stephanie': http://www.pottertons.co.uk/pott/view_product.php?pid=1845 (http://www.pottertons.co.uk/pott/view_product.php?pid=1845)
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Beautiful markings.
Looks similar to E. 'Stephanie': http://www.pottertons.co.uk/pott/view_product.php?pid=1845 (http://www.pottertons.co.uk/pott/view_product.php?pid=1845)
It's a very attractive plant but they could have described it better than with a 'dark purple blotch'.
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Ah but Chris it is hard to be a nurseryman and a poet too! It's curious but erodiums are not particularly popular nursery plants, perhaps in a similar way to species pelargoniums - gardeners often don't look closely at the detail and beauty of individual plants. hence the way breeding often leads to drama and colour at the expense of form.
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Arisaema candidissimum
Tifolium ochroleuca
Trifolium rubens
Onosma nana
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Ah but Chris it is hard to be a nurseryman and a poet too! It's curious but erodiums are not particularly popular nursery plants, perhaps in a similar way to species pelargoniums - gardeners often don't look closely at the detail and beauty of individual plants. hence the way breeding often leads to drama and colour at the expense of form.
I take your point, Tim. Running your own business is demanding and it's not easy to be good at all aspects of it. I've seen many small, practical businesses struggle because of a lack of knowledge, and even less aptitude, for the paperwork.
The point I was making was, having taken the trouble to mention the 'dark purple blotch' it would have been easy to make it sound attractive and turn it into a selling point. 'Attractive purple marking' or something similar would have sounded better. Not sure I'd let a poet loose on it though. ::)
Chris
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Mutisia decurrens flowering today. Orange is my favourite colour, so this to me is fabulous flower! I grew the seed from Chileflora - just two germinated. Hopefully, if both plants flower together I might get some seed of my own.
The plant is outside, scrambling up a conifer. This species definitely prefers some shade and dislikes hot sun (in the wild it is often found as a woodland plant, particularly in Nothofagus forests). It has yet to experience a cold winter, so I can't comment on hardiness, though they are supposed to be able to take at least a few degrees of frost. I over-winter the second plant under glass as a safeguard.
Paul
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That flower is summer-coloured, Paul ;) We haven't managed to keep M. decurrens alive here - but our attempts were at a time before the winters took a milder turn.
A Mutisia oligodon hybrid ( soft pink) is much hardier and does well- we've even had a few self-sown seedlings though we have just the one plant. Perhaps there may be hope for you to get seed sometime from your orange cheerfulness.
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A cracking flower Paul. I had always assumed that it needed hot dry conditions -with a flower like that it surely couldn't be otherwise. I once had it from Flores and Watson seed many years ago but managed to cook it. Very tempting to try it again, I can do cool and shady (though my daughter would dispute the former).
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A very nice plant Paul. I've had some experiences with seeds from Chilean Native Seeds myself, and my experience is that they germinate very badly.
Here is a picture of Calylophus berlandieri ssp pinifolius, which is a really neat plant. I got this piece of information from Texas A&M University: "These flowers are insect-pollinated and show a number of interesting adaptations that help pollinators zero in. Some species have markings visible under ultraviolet light, which many insects can see. The type we saw, C. berlandieri subsp. pinifolius, often has some pigment visible to humans as well. Some of the flowers are solid yellow, but many have a black stigma to mark the center of the flower. Still others have a striking black throat in addition to the black stigma."
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Another species from SW United States is Gaillardia suavis, which isn't very conspicuous, but has a marvelous scent which spreads quite a distance, especially if there is a bunch of flowers at the same time. I can just imagine what it would feel like to stand in a field of these in Texas.
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There are distinct similarities to it's more northern occuring cousin Gaillardia aristata.
I finish this post with two pictures of Sphaeralcea fendleri, which is not quite as orange as Mutisia. It thrives in dry conditions with as much sun as possible. Hardy as long as it is kept dry.
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Ribes lobbii is a gooseberry with very nice flowers...almost like little fuchsias.
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There are some gems on this thread!
The two standouts for me are both from Paul M - Salvia cadmica and Verbascum wiedemannianum. Lovely!
I'm almost embarrassed by my offerings;
I plant a couple of Impatiens niamniamensis out in fairly shady spots every year and they do really well..................
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Salvia transsylvanica..................
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Salvia discolor has loved the recent warm spell...................
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Salvia microphylla..................
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Salvia "Raspberry Royalle"...................
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Sollya heterophylla in full bloom.................
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And Arisaema tortuosum....................
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You seem to have a treasure chest full of gems yourself meanie. I'm totally blown away by your pictures of fantastic plants. You don't think you could spare me some seeds of Impatiens niamniamensis ?
I have been trying to raise plants of Impatiens namchambarwensis for two years now, which I have bought from Plant World Seeds, but they never germinate once they have been dry stored and it's a waste of time not to say money.
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Wonderful photographs.
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Very struck by Mutisia decurrens - this is one of those many plants we grew from seed from JJA but sold and never got going in the garden. I too imagined it would prefer warm and dry conditions. I've only ever seen this in the old alpine house at Kew, but I remember a marvellous plant of M. oligodon on the corner of a raised bed at Wisley a few years back. Verbascum wiedemannianum is yet another treasure that came from JJA, flowered once and we didn't manage to keep - seed seems very shy to germinate compared with other verbascums which come up like cress!
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The only 'down' side to the Mutisia decurrens is that the bottoms of the stems seem to quickly go woody and have dead leaves, making the plant as a whole look rather "untidy". But I can forgive it that for the sake of the flowers!
Paul
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Yesterday Tim Ingram wrote that Erodiums are not specially popular.
I agree...unfortunately.
One reason may be that they are affected by "sudden summer wilting".
I had a very large collection and several nice home made hybrids and i lost nearly everything due to a fungal disease and yet they were grown in a rock garden with excellent drainage.I tried Trianum on some and chemical fungicide on others,but nothing could eradicate it.
Several nurserymen told me they also had the problem and that they lost their parentplants and that they were not to grow them again.
So be warned!Always keep some replacements in pots of every sp or cv.
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I wish that we could get our Salvia discolor to bloom as long as yours meanie. The silvery foliage is nice and we do end up with flowers in the late fall, then we hope that it does not get too frosted in the wintertime.
Beautiful plants and photographs. I especially liked the Impatiens niamniamensis.
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Here is Jovellana sinclairii - flowering the first time for me
Gerd
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Verbascum chionophyllum is wooliness extravaganza, and the plant always reminds me of the time when I encountered this species in central Turkey in 2004. As I was driving along I passed some plants on the side of the road and and stepped on the break. Fortunately traffic isn't very intense on Turkish country roads so I didn't get hit. I managed to find some ripe seeds and it has set seed in cultivation too, so I hope to keep it going for a long time, because it's definitely one of my favorite plants. Needs very good drainage and little water, which keeps it compact. Even without flowers it's an appealing plant because of its grey tomentum.
Stachys citrina is finally flowering for me now, after about three years. It also has tomentose leaves but no way near the mullein.
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Very nice Jovellana Gerdk ! Is it Australian ?
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You seem to have a treasure chest full of gems yourself meanie. I'm totally blown away by your pictures of fantastic plants.
Thanks! Could the treasure chest effect be that they are plants that are not normally on your radar? That's how I feel here. You guys grow plants that I've never heard of and I think WOW!
You don't think you could spare me some seeds of Impatiens niamniamensis ?
If it produces seed they're yours. If you were in the UK I could send you a cutting.
I have been trying to raise plants of Impatiens namchambarwensis for two years now, which I have bought from Plant World Seeds, but they never germinate once they have been dry stored and it's a waste of time not to say money.
Frustrating, but no pain no gain. I tried several times to grow Lapageria before I got lucky.
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I wish that we could get our Salvia discolor to bloom as long as yours meanie. The silvery foliage is nice and we do end up with flowers in the late fall, then we hope that it does not get too frosted in the wintertime.
Beautiful plants and photographs. I especially liked the Impatiens niamniamensis.
Of all my plants S.discolor is the best doer imaginable. I keep it frost free over the winter, but apart from that it will bloom virtually frost to frost (buds from late season seem happy to mark time whilst it's in my shed with poor light and then carry on as soon as it goes back out).
I personally cannot resist rubbing the foliage for that blackcurrant smell. A little hard now that it's on the kitchen roof..................
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g430/longk48/DSC_2472.jpg)
...........but it does provide a lovely view of it as I walk out the back door and look up (the perfect way to display this almost straggly plant with the long arching stems).
The joy of Salvia is they fulfil so many requirements. Here's my best "look at me, I'm a show off" plant at the moment - S.forsskaolii (it really does get better by the day.................
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2922/14517228341_e651a77b89_c.jpg)
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I think that you have inspired me to start growing Salvias again. In general they do well in our climate and locally Ginny Hunt (Seedhunt) has a good list to get started with. The farmers market is this weekend and I will try to get a photo of S. chiapensis. It is hardy for us in the Sacramento Valley without protection and blooms all year.
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I think that you have inspired me to start growing Salvias again. In general they do well in our climate and locally Ginny Hunt (Seedhunt) has a good list to get started with. The farmers market is this weekend and I will try to get a photo of S. chiapensis. It is hardy for us in the Sacramento Valley without protection and blooms all year.
I'm constantly tempted by Seedhunt, but I have too much on the go already if I'm honest.
I'm growing S.mellifera this year from seed - looks like a nice Californian species.
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I'm constantly tempted by Seedhunt, but I have too much on the go already if I'm honest.
I'm growing S.mellifera this year from seed - looks like a nice Californian species.
Yes, I have too much "on my plate" too. The continuing drought has brought the opportunity to redesign the garden - remove some things and replant with others. In the past Salvia blepharophylla and cacaliifolia have done well for us and do not grow too large.
The photos are of S. clevelandii - earlier in the season. I love the scent of the foliage and it does not need much water to look good.
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Very nice Jovellana Gerdk ! Is it Australian ?
Thank you Paul!
Originally from NZ - North Island, but seeds came from AGS (sown in 2013).
Gerd
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Hemerocallis Day lily in flower, really nice salmon pink flower, plenty of buds waiting there turn should get a good display this year. Also just starting to flower is Scabiosa caucasica (Caucasian scabious), this is the white version, lovely scent. Finally Lysimachia punctate Yellow Loosestrife looking really good, apart from the grass which has started growing among it. :)
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Lilium regale album:
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Lilium leichtlinii v. maximowiczii:
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Gentiana calycosa:
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Cardiocrinum giganteum:
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Here are some Penstemons which have flowered for me in June. Penstemon albertinus and Penstemon lemhiensis.
Delosperma congestum also put on a nice display with its glowing yellow flowers.
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A few others which I grow:
Penstemon cyananthus and Salvia recognita
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Sedum spathulifolium started from seed in 2013 has survived the first winter, and hopefully it will be big enough to flower in 2015.
I was very happy when one plant of the South African Senecio macrocephalus survived the winter and started flowering. The plant shriveled up and died shortly after though. I think it has been attacked by ants, as the other plants I have around it look fine. They were planted this year though so I hope more than one will survive and bloom in 2015.
The last three pictures are of Knautia midzorensis, which I am not sure is a valid name. It's a meter tall field scabious from Eastern Europe.
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Oxalis laciniata '7 Bells'. Primula x florindae. A hybrid from the cultivar 'Red Shades'.
Sorry, England is out, but Holland plays today.
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One of my seed grown Salvia dolicantha has opened its first blooms - well worth the wait in my opinion.......................
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3836/14345994779_e062379766_c.jpg)
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Sorry, England is out, but Holland plays today.
It's going well for your team so far, Gerrit - good luck!
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Lots of super plants in the garden this month.
Campnula covadonga and this picture doesn't do justice to the colour.
Correopsis Red Eye.
Epipactis palustris which like C. covadonga was a possiblility for the Tewkesbury Show. Alas too early.
Hypericum daghestanica and Incarvillea delavayi which has been flowering for weeks.
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A beautiful blue Jasione laevigata.
We saw Leucoryne show by John Lee at a Glasgow Show some years ago and bought this on L. Spotlight.
The Lilium martagon dark form we bought at last years Dublane Summer Spectacular from the members stand.
Lysionotus pauciflorus is I think South African and very pretty.
The Pelargonium endlicherianum if from seed from Gothenburg Botanic.
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Last few for this month.
I have just dead headed the Rhodohypoxis E. A. Bowles and taken 617 flowers off.
Rosa Holcombe Honey was bred by our friend Tony Bracegirdle who is a champion rose grower and smells of honey.
The Stylidium is the last seedling from our Farrer medal winner and has taken 5 years to get to this stage.
Tritelia laxa Queen Fabiola looks great waving in the breeze.
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Some lovely plants there, Shelagh
Tritelea ixioides splendens
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That's a nice yellow Roma. I think there is a paler straw coloured one we had some years ago.
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Marrubium lutescens; Arenaria hookeri ssp. desertorum; Ajuga lupulina; Silene falcata:
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Aethionema glaucescens; Saxifraga x longifolia; Hypericum aviculariifolium ssp. uniflorum; Asyneuma limonifolium; Salvia tchihatcheffii:
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Lychnis alpina 'Kugelblitz'; Potentilla divina; Telesonix jamesii v. heucheriformis (with more Hypericum aviculariifolium ssp. uniflorum); Androsace limprichtii:
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Lots going on there, Lori - how's your weather ?
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With the 40c heat the garden is not devoid of flowers.
Cardoon and Vitex do not mind the heat.
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Nice little Silene Lori.
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Some nice plants Lori .....And some are unknown to me too .....
Here what I have as Viola bubanii. I don't think this is an accepted name ?
Maybe Gerd knows more about it ?
Lovely anyway .....
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With the 40c heat the garden is not devoid of flowers.
Cardoon and Vitex do not mind the heat.
Never mind the plants, this gardener would have wilted in 40 C heat! Hard for us here in NE Scotland to imagine that temperature - we're getting around 15 c at the moment.
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Probably about the best of the smaller sedums in the garden, S. obtusifolium (my thanks to Lori for the ident. of this last year).
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Nice colours Tim.
Pelargonium endlicherianum growing in sand .........
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Dear friends, thanks for showing us your treasures, it is always
amazing to see photos of rare and unknown plants.
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Lots going on there, Lori - how's your weather ?
A bit of a late spring but finally turning to summer! The river is high with the snowmelt but we did not get a repeat of the extraordinary weather events of last year that led to disastrous flooding in this area (the 8" of rain in the mountains on top of snowpack and frozen soil of last June). There has been some heavy rain and flooding in southeast Alberta - I imagine with all the streamside vegetation and soil torn out by last year's floods, there will continue to be some flooding whenever there's a heavy rain, until it's re-established. Flooding in Manitoba, and SE Saskatchewan, due to heavy rains. Pretty normal here though.
We will be out hiking this week to catch the early bloom.
Lovely to visit this site and see such wonderful plants grown so well!
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Some nice plants Lori .....And some are unknown to me too .....
Here what I have as Viola bubanii. I don't think this is an accepted name ?
Maybe Gerd knows more about it ?
Lovely anyway .....
Hi Chris,
Viola bubanii Timbal-Lagrave is an accepted species. It came from Northern Spain and is related
to Viola lutea.
According photos in the net you cultivate the real species although I once had a plant which was more
hairy than yours. It seems there is some variation within its populations.
Nice plant though.
Gerd
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More weeds in the garden! :o
Oenothera, we called them "night blooms", can be a major weed. When I was very young my best friend and I grew them in our gardens. He passed to the other side many years ago. I keep them in the garden (under control!). When the flowers open in the evening giving their wonderful fragrance I am reminded of a wonderful fishing companion!
Verbena bonariensis, also a weed, attracts beneficial insects to the farm and are very drought and heat tolerant. They bloom all summer so they stay around.
Origanum microphyllum, not a weed, but good cover for dormant bulbs in our garden.
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Hi Chris,
Viola bubanii Timbal-Lagrave is an accepted species. It came from Northern Spain and is related
to Viola lutea.
According photos in the net you cultivate the real species although I once had a plant which was more
hairy than yours. It seems there is some variation within its populations.
Nice plant though.
Gerd
Hi Gerd , many thanks for your reply ! I find it also very attractive and is even more good news that it seems the true species i
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Found this double flowered Geum rivale in the wild. The reason i spotted it, was its more intense salmon red color. I'm afraid it don't come true from seed, but perhaps I can divide it in the future if someone are interested [attachimg=1].