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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: Philip Walker on June 01, 2015, 01:44:53 PM
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Linum suffruticosum salsoides-1st flowering
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Pretty little plant Philip
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A few shots from around the garden
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John, your perfect patch of Leicestershire looks glorious- so full of form and colour. A pleasure to see it - thank you so much for sharing it with us.
The weather is ghastly here in Aberdeen and in many other parts of the country as far as I can tell - I can only hope that your fabulous display does not find itself blown to smithereens tomorrow morning.
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Thanks Maggie.I have to admit that the photos were taken last week but the weather here has not been that bad. Today has been dull and cool but dry apart from a few spots and quite pleasant for working.The forecast isn't great but they have been wrong before.Fingers crossed.
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Fingers crossed indeed.
How do you keep the slugs and snails off your Hostas, John?
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The most asked question Maggie.I don't really have much of a problem until the end of Summer but I do resort to pellets if and when any damage occurs.
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I'm astounded - not that the question is that most often asked, it is something which anyone would marvel at, for sure - but at the thought that you would only have problems much later in the year. Quite extraordinary!
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A few shots from around the garden
Breathtaking perfection John ! :o :o :o :o
Great to see some pictures of your piece of heaven in this season. I'd only seen pix of early spring so far.
And now I'll go on enjoying the pictures !
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Paris japonica, photographed before the storm battered them, grows in full sun in our garden.
However I will qualify that I always describe 'Scotland is in shade' meaning we do not get intense heat even in full summer sunshine and certainly not when these beauties are in growth. The soil is free draining sandy loam heavily enriched with humus by topdressing every year. The clump is slowly increasing. It is also surrounded to the point of being overgrown by other plants such as Corydalis capitatawhich form a mutually beneficial protective community.
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Exquisite thing Ian. It has that same symmetry as Trientalis that Trond and Robert have shown. To have such plants in the garden is something special.
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I'm astounded - not that the question is that most often asked, it is something which anyone would marvel at, for sure - but at the thought that you would only have problems much later in the year. Quite extraordinary!
In different places I have different levels of snail damage. On the courtyard, which is the 'cat'-highway to and from the house there are lots of snails because birds don't land there very often to feed on the snails. In the garden however birds & hedgehogs keep the snail population pretty well under control so that without any intervention of me there is only very limited damage to the plants. Or from observations ... Crinums are grazed leafless by the end of summer on the courtyard but show almost no damage at all in the garden.
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Paris japonica, photographed before the storm battered them, grows in full sun in our garden.
However I will qualify that I always describe 'Scotland is in shade' meaning we do not get intense heat even in full summer sunshine and certainly not when these beauties are in growth. The soil is free draining sandy loam heavily enriched with humus by topdressing every year. The clump is slowly increasing. It is also surrounded to the point of being overgrown by other plants such as Corydalis capitata which form a mutluly beneficial protective community.
Nice images of this superb plant Ian!
Mine is just a small leaf rosette having sulked for two years underground before showing face.
Continuing the Paris theme (the first species is in the ground, the other two are pot-grown):
Paris polyphylla yunnanensis alba
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Paris marmorata
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Paris luquanensis
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Stunning photographs as always Steve and the plants are pretty good as well :)
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Stunning photographs as always Steve and the plants are pretty good as well :)
My goodness, I couldn't agree more. I am blown away...only wish I could grow them!
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Beautiful plants Ian and Steve!
I also wish I could grow them! I have tried and it is not the climate but slugs. All that is left in two days is actually only a hole in the soil >:( :(
François, what kind of birds do you have down there that eat slugs? The trushes take snails but not slugs :( And no place is safe - the slugs even climb the tables.
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OK, I'm going to have to try Paris now!
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The garden has rocketed suddenly. Its been rainy but warm. Some of my favorites have stared to flower.
Gernanium himalayense
Silene uniflora ‘Druett’s Variegated’
Phlox divaricata ssp. laphamii
Bergeranthus glenensis (Or Delosperma??)
Pelargonium 'Lord Bute'
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Super pix, Lewis. I know what you mean about "rocketing" - while a lot of our weather has been too cold and windy for the time of year, we have had some sun up here and obviously it's been enough even with the cold rain ( and hail) to start a burst of growth -place is like a jungle!
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Super pix, Lewis. I know what you mean about "rocketing" - while a lot of our weather has been too cold and windy for the time of year, we have had some sun up here and obviously it's been enough even with the cold rain ( and hail) to start a burst of growth -place is like a jungle!
You mention a jungle, Thats what the far side of our garden looks like. Green. Lush and Flowerless. You people up north have had a terrible winter from what the weather says, So every bit of sunshine counts I guess. :)
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Winter might have been a lot worse really, in the way of frost and snow, Lewis - but it was wet and miserable, that's for sure - and it' doesn't seem to have finished yet! :P
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Wonderful pictures of Paris in the previous page! I never knew those kinds even exist, having only the native Paris in the garden (which increases little too much), but now I must keep my eyes open for the seeds of other members of the Paris family.
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Wonderful pictures of Paris in the previous page! I never knew those kinds even exist, having only the native Paris in the garden (which increases little too much), but now I must keep my eyes open for the seeds of other members of the Paris family.
Steve, WHERE did you manage to get those wonderful Paris? Did you grow them from seed? Super photos!
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Steve, WHERE did you manage to get those wonderful Paris? Did you grow them from seed? Super photos!
Jan Moors of Albiflora/Crustacare sells small numbers of Paris luquanensis as companion plants for Cypripedium. He does not usually have many and I get the impression he prefers to sell them to those buying Cypripedium. See this link: http://www.albiflora.be/plantdetail.php?id=389 (http://www.albiflora.be/plantdetail.php?id=389)
I had a few seeds of luquanensis which were sown last year. As with Trillium there is often no above ground growth in the first season after sowing (or they may simply not have germinated). I have cross-pollinated so hopefully will get some seed.
Paris marmorata was a lucky find -I believe I bought the last two; one of which has not surfaced (it is in the same pot as the other, so I dare not poke). Paris often sulk for a year after transplanting so hopefully there will be two next year with the prospect of seed (I have tried "selfing" the plant -too soon to tell if it has worked).
I'm on the lookout for the purple-leaved Paris delavayi now.
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In my rock garden bloom today
Sedum pilosum (and others)
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Edraianthus dinaricus
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The first time flower with me
Lilium carniolicum ssp. jankae (I think so)
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Ostrowskia magnifica
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We used to have lots of the beautiful small Meconopsis delavayi growing in our troughs and raised beds but the slight increase in our average summer temperatures have pushed it to the edge of its tolerance and now we struggle to keep it going.
Now we have to pin our hopes of building our stocks back up on this pot of seedlings now flowering live in the cool seed area.
Edit by maggi : I have resized Ian's pix to forum size. :-X
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Just to add that the Meconopsis delavayi flower pictured in Ian's post above is a darker purple in real life - and it is just a little one - about 5cms tip to tip across the flower - what a diminutive charmer!
Edit - I aplogise for Ian's pix being oversized!
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Ian found this old shot of how the Mec. delavayi used to grow
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A picture of my oldest woodland bed.
Paeonia obovata
Ranunculus constantinopolitanus 'Plenus'
Tulipa batalinii, this little tulip has survived many years in my garden coming up each year while taller tulips flower mostly just one time after planting.
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A beautiful woodland bed , Leena - very much to my taste!
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Linum suffruticosum salsoides-1st flowering
So nice to see this plant again. I grew it years ago and liked it. Don't really remember when or why it left the garden.
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Flowering in the greenhouse
Five flowers open on Roscoea humeana 'Alba' from Hartside nursery
Second flower on Roscoea humeana 'Alba' grown from seed
The flower shape is different and the leaves on the seed grown one are more advanced
Weldenia candida
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These white Roscoea are bonny!
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Roma - Weldenia candida is a jewel!
Also in the greenhouse here is Mackaya bella which has just started blooming...............
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/310/18466799751_9d09e1a0c8_z.jpg)
I was just pleased that this one survived the greenhouse freeze but now I'm stunned that it is in bloom so early. The larger plant which was also in the greenhouse really looked a goner but started to come back from the roots a few weeks ago. Even more surprising is Sues which was treated appallingly and left out all winter - new shoots started to emerge from the roots last weekend!
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A few plants that I am enjoying in the garden right now.
>1 Chaenactis artemisiifoila. A tall growing California native annual. There are a number of Chaenactis species native to California some of which I appreciate in the garden. Concerning C. artemisiifolia, I enjoy the form and purity of the flowers and the deeply cut gray foliage. 100% xeric!
>2 Madia elegans. Another California native annual. Late in the season come the beautiful flowers and wonderfully scented foliage (at least to me). During the summer the plants will die off. I leave them in place as the first autumn rains bring out the wonder fragrance of the foliage for another season. The scent can be enjoyed from 100 feet distance or much more if one has many plants. 50 years ago there were thousands of acres of this species growing wild and in the autumn their scent was everywhere, saying this is California.
>3 Monardella odoratissima var pallida. Perennial. Another one of those scented foliage plants that I enjoy so much. The flowers are nice too. Variety pallida is generally found at the higher elevations in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. At the lower elevations this species will generally have lavender-pink flowers. Selection is worth while as some are exceptional.
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That's three I've never heard of before. Thanks Robert.
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That's three I've never heard of before. Thanks Robert.
Ralph,
Thanks! I wish that I had more time to photograph the plants in the garden. There are some (more like lots) interesting xeric California native plants that I have brought into the garden. Most are generally over looked, even by the local gardeners and thus are rarely seen in gardens. Many are indeed good garden plants for our climatic conditions and are looking good drought or no drought. They seem to fit into a garden setting just fine.
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I let Iris foetidissima self seed about as it throws up some interesting colours. The latest is this one that is blooming for the first time which is rather good in my eyes...............
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Some big leaved Magnolias:
Magnolia macrophylla ashei
Magnolia officinalis biloba
Magnolia tripetala
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Magnolia sieboldii 'Genesis'
Magnolia wilsonii (from Cluny House seed list, now 18' tall)
Magnolia x wieseneri
Magnolia x wieseneri 'Swede Made' (not a spelling mistake; it was made in Sweden)
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Giles - Is 'Swede Made' commonly available there now? Stefan Mattson from Enkoping who named it has spoken here several times and was frustrated with its propagation difficulties. I have its sibling which I easily chip-budded.
Sadly the great magnolia hybridizer Dennis Ledvina died last week. He probably had done more for magnolias than anyone on the planet. His new insignis crosses have produced some sensational pink hybrids that look like sieboldii and tripetala.
johnw
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I let Iris foetidissima self seed about as it throws up some interesting colours. The latest is this one that is blooming for the first time which is rather good in my eyes...............
Meanie,
It looks good to my eyes too. Sometimes the self-seeders can be a great bonus to the garden. This year the reseeders have saved the day in parts of our garden that went more or less completely neglected since last fall.
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John,
I don't think 'Swede Made' is available in the UK.
I got it via Michael Gottschalk in Germany... ..and I've no idea where he got it from...
Giles
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Weather still cold here always glad to see my special plants in flower I post Paris polyphylla yunanensis Alba cheers Ian the Christie kind
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Weather still cold here always glad to see my special plants in flower I post Paris polyphylla yunanensis Alba cheers Ian the Christie kind
Lovely plant, well photographed.
Is the number of leaves in a rosette usually variable in this species?
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Several pictures from the last (excuse me it) month:
Phyllodoce coerulea
Ranunculus crenatus
Papaver rhaeticum
Calyptridium umbellatum
Aethionema subulatum
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Hello yes we are all very busy gardening a really fierce wind today plants are getting smashed, cheers Ian the Christie kind
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Hello Chris the Paris flowers and amount of leaves will vary the best most established rosettes will have a full set of leaves while the younger ones will vary I am very happy that I have a few plants at different ages, cheers Ian the Christie kind
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Some lovely plants being posted!!!
It is an indoors day here due to wild wind and perpetual rain.
Despite posting the odd reasonable plant I have a really crappy garden which is in dire need of a universal overhaul. A fairly recent catastrophe involving a collapsed retaining wall did however create a new opportunity in that the building of a new wall allowed me to construct a modest sized raised "peat" bed in which I have planted an assortment of lilies, meconopsis, rhododendron, etc. The new plantings have done well over the last 2 years -perhaps I should knock down some more walls!
Here are some images from that raised bed:
Meconopsis "Crarae" -from the Argyll garden of the same name and said to have originated from L&S600 seed. It is an early flowering form with an attractive colour & large rounded petals. I always think of the Saltire when I see these flowers.
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/440/18515378102_e8f6e1a50b_o.jpg)
Ourisia coccinea -a Chilean plant which likes cool moist conditions -in Scotland it's sorted! ;)
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/259/18493383096_e66177e9fc_o.jpg)
Lilium mackliniae -an early flowering species which has done spectacularly well in this raised bed. Here's tae bonny Jean!
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/481/17897095894_0feecb3f5b_o.jpg)
Corydalis flexuosa "Balang Mist" -it glows in the Fife Haar!
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Roscoea cautleyoides -just the plain species.
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Incarvillea grandiflora (A Polygonatum hookeri flower in the background) This produces a massive flower for such a compact plant. It has extra grit around the rootstock to prevent winter rot.
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/379/17896482904_755fbaef80_o.jpg)
Primula cockburniana An easy small candelabra species which has started self-seeding in this bed.
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Really fine pictures Steve - the plants obviously take no notice of the garden and thrive anyway ;). I had wondered if 'Balang Mist' was still being grown, it is such a delicately coloured form of flexuosa which we had and lost years ago. Down in the Kent Riviera most of those plants have rather dream-like quality: instead here is Grevillea rosmarinifolia - a really good form of the species called 'Wiliamsi' which apparantly arose in Nea Zealand - this flowers for six or seven months of the year
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Giles - We'll you've got a treasure there in "Swede Made'. As long as it's not a Volvo! :-X
john
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Hello Chris the Paris flowers and amount of leaves will vary the best most established rosettes will have a full set of leaves while the younger ones will vary I am very happy that I have a few plants at different ages, cheers Ian the Christie kind
Thanks, Ian.
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Beautiful plants shown by everyone, and such a variety. Loved the Papaver rhaeticum.
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Beautiful plants shown by everyone, and such a variety
I have to agree with that statement!
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Sadly the great magnolia hybridizer Dennis Ledvina died last week. He probably had done more for magnolias than anyone on the planet. His new insignis crosses have produced some sensational pink hybrids that look like sieboldii and tripetala.
johnw
Obituary notice for Dennis Ledvina : http://proko-wall.i-lived.com/obituary/2015-05-26/Dennis-Ledvina/ (http://proko-wall.i-lived.com/obituary/2015-05-26/Dennis-Ledvina/)
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I had wondered if 'Balang Mist' was still being grown, it is such a delicately coloured form of flexuosa which we had and lost years ago.
Corydalis 'Balang Mist ' was one of the plants used in the SRGC display at Gardening Scotland - perhaps someone may know who may be offering it?
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A couple of shrubs in flower now: Acradenia frankliniae, and the Wire Netting Bush, Corokia cotonaeaster.
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Two interesting shrubs, Ralph!
Acradenia is unknown to me. I planted my Corokia outside and it has survived but no flowers.
An onion in the woodland amongst the rhododendrons: Allium triquetrum.
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That Allium is a really troublesome invasive weed in some parts oh the UK, especially Cornwall.
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That Allium is a really troublesome invasive weed in some parts oh the UK, especially Cornwall.
I am not afraid of that here! But thinking of it - seems it is left untouched by the slugs so maybe it has a potential to spread ;)
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Lilac blossom time.
Aquilegia bertolonii, Campanula alpestris, Campanula fenestrellata, Edraianthus dalmaticus and Edraianthus montenegrinus (dwarf form).
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Really nice to see the Acradenia Ralph. Would like to grow this as a memory of the Tasmanian flora... it would suit a Southern Hemisphere part of the garden we are beginning to replant after the cold winter a few years back saw off a lot of things.
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A few more plants from the garden.
>Festuca californica - Bunch grasses were a part of the natural grassland ecosystem here in California. I use and experiment with native bunch grasses both in the garden as well as in restoring the native ecosystem here on the farm. Festuca californica is 100% xeric.
>Potentilla gracilis - One of our California native Potentilla species. It has worked out well in the garden, blooming for many weeks each spring. It is 100% xeric, however it will dry-up into nothing until the fall rains if not given some irrigation during the summer months. I tend to give them some irrigation to keep them green during the summer. The foliage is quite attractive.
>The last 2 photographs are of plain ol' Larkspur a great re-seeder that has saved the day in a more neglected part of the garden.
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Meanie,
It looks good to my eyes too. Sometimes the self-seeders can be a great bonus to the garden. This year the reseeders have saved the day in parts of our garden that went more or less completely neglected since last fall.
I completely agree about self seeders. It seems silly posting the following amongst all the other gems on this thread but I allow a couple of Foxgloves to grow through to flowering. This years self seeders have produced the "holy grail" for us - a pure white one..............
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/447/18345305159_d862837d6f_z.jpg)
And this Gladiolus byzantinus is a mystery. It is growing all alone far away from the others that I planted three years ago..............
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8834/18555935565_114852debd_z.jpg)
A few others at the moment;
Echinopsis subdenudata has been out during the day and in the greenhouse overnight...........
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/257/18364984250_730e8220c7_z.jpg)
Echeveria taking centre stage in one of my display areas............
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/532/17933235004_6378afa7fb_z.jpg)
Having such an attractive flower stem makes them all the better............
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Canna brasiliensis from seed sown in January...............
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/293/18414906119_d3e34f5f8f_z.jpg)
Iris hookeri..............
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/424/17978517114_16a0c0f15e_z.jpg)
And finally, an unknown Lantana species................
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meanie,
I agree there are certainly many gems being posted. I do not mind seeing some commonly grown plants too. There is plenty to learn and inspiration to gain if we have an open mind.
Lantana is commonly planted here in our part of California (Central Valley - not the Sierra Foothills), and is a weed/pest in Hawaii. I am surprised that they bloom and do well with your relatively cool summers. They certainly have flower power.
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Salix vestita in a trough here on the weekend past. Some forms get monstrously big in western Newfoundland. This and S. reticulata are favourites.
johnw
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meanie,
I agree there are certainly many gems being posted. I do not mind seeing some commonly grown plants too. There is plenty to learn and inspiration to gain if we have an open mind.
So true. My interests are outside of the focus of most members here and vise versa but that doesn't mean that I can't;
a] learn something
b] appreciate other peoples efforts and skills
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c] see something that wows me!
My biggest problem is that I find tender "exotics" easier than alpines ???
Lantana is commonly planted here in our part of California (Central Valley - not the Sierra Foothills), and is a weed/pest in Hawaii. I am surprised that they bloom and do well with your relatively cool summers. They certainly have flower power.
Certainly not hardy so a pot grower.
Do well is a relative term I think. It does enough to be pleasing and worth the effort. Easy though if you follow the basics - encourage it to start growing in spring in the g/house, put outdoors in a sheltered spot to avoid bud drop and remember to put it back under cover if a late frost threatens.
I have just been sent a plant that you may be familiar with - Deppea splendens. Another wee challenge for me :)
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What a marvellous little willow John - perfect with the celmisia next to it. These are not so easy in our dry climate but we do have S. reticulata and the famous S. x boydii. A series of nice cool troughs must be in the offing - there is a good spot for these.
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I agree there are certainly many gems being posted. I do not mind seeing some commonly grown plants too. There is plenty to learn and inspiration to gain if we have an open mind.
Wearing my Moderators hat :
It is so nice to have a wide range of plants show in the forum other than "just" alpine and rock garden plants - which is why "meanie's" tender plants are such fun - but I hope no-one ever doubts the posting of commonly grown plants - after all there are readers of these pages who are complete newcomers to rock garden, alpine and woodland plants and it can only be a great advantage to them to see the whole range of plants available which can be used to beautify our gardens without undue difficulty or great expense!
Besides, even the most common plant can be a delight to see in a portrait or habitat photo!
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Couldn't agree more. 8)
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So very true, and we should keep in mind that our (rare) garden plants are often a native 'weed' somewhere else on the planet.
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Like this, even?
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Like this, even?
of course. I have thousands of these in my lawn.
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Like this, even?
Ah but that could well be 'Ian's Select'?
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Like this, even?
Ralph,
One never knows. Someone could be inspired by the Dandelions in their lawn. Next thing they are growing Agoseris species, then other Asteraceae, then the most difficult of aplines. ;D :)
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but I hope no-one ever doubts the posting of commonly grown plants - after all there are readers of these pages who are complete newcomers to rock garden, alpine and woodland plants and it can only be a great advantage to them to see the whole range of plants available which can be used to beautify our gardens without undue difficulty or great expense!
Besides, even the most common plant can be a delight to see in a portrait or habitat photo!
I totally agree.
I once got told off on another forum for posting a photo of Arum maculatum because "it's a weed". Whilst I couldn't argue with that technically it's a weed that I grow from seed for the interesting (if slight) variety in shades and picotee edge. Sadly I lacked the courage to point out that she had posted a photo of Teasel under the title "one of my favourite plants"!!! The strength of this forum is that it is "inhabited" by knowledgeable people who are not looking to score points.
The downside of the forum is my rapidly expanding bulb collection from seed. Probably the main reason that I'm avoiding the Southern Hemisphere post for a while ;D
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Dandelions? Try to grow this one!
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Prof. John Richards cut his scientific teeth on dandelions which shows great fortitude! How about Lactuca intricata, one of those irresistable plants that crops up in the Czech seedlists - how can you resist a spiny lettuce ;). I gave one of these to Peter Erskine when we visited his garden once and he thanked me for giving him some rabbit food! And then there is Cichorium spinosum and the beautiful pink dandelion Crepis incana. In a way the plant world plays with us and gives such huge opportunities to learn. One man's weed is another man's delight, which is easy for someone who is fascinated by umbellifers to say!
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Dandelions? Try to grow this one!
Taraxicum arcticum - as featured on the cover of this issue of IRG (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2013Aug291377798656IRG44August.pdf). eh? !! 8)
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Dandelions? Try to grow this one!
I would happily try but Dandelions (and several other weeds) are a sore point. When I moved here the garden was full of Japanese Anenomes, Teasel, Aquilega, Primrose, Forget me Nots, Perriwinkle, Hemorcallis etc. Basically anything that was invasive or a prolific self seeder. The reason for this was that the previous gardeners are notoriously tight. So I set about getting shot of this lot and as huge clumps were dug out and put in bags for the dump I infilled from the compost heap. What a fool - they were that tight that even weeds and any seeds on them went on the compost heap. I get Ivy springing up everywhere now not to mention all the other previously listed nasties.
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Arisaema franchetianum-possibly
Digitalis thapsi
Lewisia 'Little Plum'
Parahebe cataractae
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Unkown Penstemon
Physoplexis comosa
A tiny Veronica
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meanie,
To get back to you about Deppea splendens......
Unfortunately it is not a plant I am familiar with. At one time the University of California, Berkeley had quite the collection of Meso-American plants in their arboretum. Maybe they still do. It has been 10 years since I last visited their arboretum. 30-40 years ago there was much horticultural activity in the San Francisco Bay area. The climate for many plants is fantastic - no frost or very little frost during the winter, foggy cool days all summer. My understanding is that things have changed considerably in their horticultural world - but I do not know for sure.
Anyway, Deppea splendens seems a beauty. I look forward to your photographs when you get the seedlings to blooming age.
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A few photographs from the garden.
1&2> Delphinium hanseni - One of our California native species. I enjoy growing Delphiniums. Many of our native species are 100% xeric as well as very heat tolerant - much easier to grow with our climatic conditions. Summer dormant.
3> Allium flavum - of some sort. Kind a like miniature fireworks.
4> Artemisia arbuscula getting ready to go out into the scree garden. Very dwarf and very silvery foliage. From seed - 9,000 feet (2,743 meters), Alpine county, California.
5> Eriogonum nudum var. dedectum - a great plant! Still in bloom after many months. Dwarf and xeric.
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1> Lilium pardalinum - A simple and easy-to-grow California species.
2> Lilium 'Whirling Dervish' - A strong L. pardalinum hybrid with flower power. A well established plant can have hundreds of flowers each season.
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Difficult to appreciate the spread of this saxifrage 'Tumbling Waters' but it measures 5ft.(150cms.) across.Quite different to the weldenia candida
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Glorious and pristine whites, both of them, John. I think your Weldenia is W. candida?
You'd have a hard task to transport that Saxifraga to a show - but Bakewell is coming up - are you trying it?
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Thanks Maggie.where did ternata come from ??? I don't know.
No!I won't be bothering to show it.
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Shame really - it is so fabulous - goodness knows how big a vehicle you'd need to transport it though.
PS - I can make a good guess as to where the "ternata" popped up from - bet as you were typing your brain switched over to Waldsteinia ternata!
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Right on the nail Maggie.
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Right on the nail Maggie.
:D ;D
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The size of that Sax is truly incredible. The total effect is beautiful.
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Difficult to appreciate the spread of this saxifrage 'Tumbling Waters' but it measures 5ft.(150cms.) across.
Crikey - that is outstanding!
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This is in the category of "plants insisting on growing where they want"; in this case in full sun and scree. These three dappled shade lovers put themselves here and persist. The Rhododendron has been growing in that crevice at least 10 years, never flowering, never really expanding much, but never expiring. They all are in very dry conditions with water provided only by fickle nature.
1. Rhododendron sp
2. Sanguinaria canadensis
3. Jeffersonia dubia
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Dodecatheon meadia.
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Nice plant and images!
I'm struggling to keep mine hydrated in the current mini heat-wave here.
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Thanks Steve.
The south and east of Scotland have certainly had the best of the weather recently. The north and west have lost the rain and wind but have a persistent covering of cloud keeping the temperature hovering around 10 degrees.
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Kevin, I really like that carpet of puprlish flowers between the agaves and with the Chlorophytum growing in it :)
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a few 'older' garden plants enchanting the senses
an old rose from my wife's parents garden and an almost double philadelphus. Not only lovely to see, but both sweetly perfumed.
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Wow- that's what I call well-flowered!
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a few 'older' garden plants enchanting the senses
an old rose from my wife's parents garden and an almost double philadelphus. Not only lovely to see, but both sweetly perfumed.
I can imagine the lovely fragrance. 8) The Philadelphus is a pretty form - lovely shape to the flowers.
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Some of the flowering shrubs in the garden at the moment.I CR the names of the plants in photos 2 and 3 but they were bought at Suntrap which was a NTS garden on the west side of Edinburgh. Names would be appreciated.
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Some of the flowering shrubs in the garden at the moment.I CR the names of the plants in photos 2 and 3 but they were bought at Suntrap which was a NTS garden on the west side of Edinburgh. Names would be appreciated.
Three looks like Crinodendron hookerianum to me.
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Diplarrena morea is about a month late this year. It really is one of my favourites.................
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Thank you Meanie it is Crinodendron hookerianum. I do like that Diplarrena morea. I am discovering so many new plants since I joined this forum.
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I am discovering so many new plants since I joined this forum.
Me too.
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Some of the flowering shrubs in the garden at the moment.I CR the names of the plants in photos 2 and 3 but they were bought at Suntrap which was a NTS garden on the west side of Edinburgh. Names would be appreciated.
I think the second photo is ozothamnus rosmarinifolius - should have russet coloured buds, opening white.
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Thank you Carolyn. I googled the name and I think that is correct. I like both of these shrubs very much as they are a wee bit different. I do remember that the pink buds do open to white flowers. There was also a pink 'opening to pink' version at Suntrap but I never saw it for sale.
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Dicentra peregrina "Hien"
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Nomocharis aperta ex CLD229
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In our garden - The first flower on Rudbeckia californica this season (many more to come). In the wild, this species is generally found near springs and seeps at the higher elevations of the Sierra Nevada, California. I do not consider it xeric, however I have been surprised how well it has done in our garden with minimal irrigation and the 38 c + or - heat. Last year it received frequent irrigation - this season it receives irrigation when I can get to it , which is not too often.
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Two terrific images Steve!
What I would give for 38°c Robert - I had the woodburner going all day yesterday.
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You think you'd like 38°C but I know what that's like, and I know what 40 - 41 - 42 and even 43°C are like. There's nothing nice about it at all. You watch your garden crisp and singe and burn and shrivel and all you can do watch and hope for the best. Humans burn too, especially English tourists who think it's fun to sit on the beach in the sun, and get carted away in ambulances with heatstroke. ;D
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You think you'd like 38°C but I know what that's like, and I know what 40 - 41 - 42 and even 43°C are like. There's nothing nice about it at all. You watch your garden crisp and singe and burn and shrivel and all you can do watch and hope for the best. Humans burn too, especially English tourists who think it's fun to sit on the beach in the sun, and get carted away in ambulances with heatstroke. ;D
I know too - it is the main thing that I miss about Oz. I cannot deny though that the Coober Pedy heat was preferable to three months of Cairns summer humidity ;D
As far as the garden goes I was only there for fifteen months so never really set any roots down. The closest I came was the six months I spent in Sydney but that was an apartment.
We could do a house swap - you come here for our winter and I can take your summer ;D ;D
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You think you'd like 38°C but I know what that's like, and I know what 40 - 41 - 42 and even 43°C are like. There's nothing nice about it at all. You watch your garden crisp and singe and burn and shrivel and all you can do watch and hope for the best. Humans burn too, especially English tourists who think it's fun to sit on the beach in the sun, and get carted away in ambulances with heatstroke. ;D
Jamus,
I have to agree with you. 38 c is tame around here. I think I remember, maybe it was July 1988, when it was 38 c or more everyday for most of the month. Just about all the plants fried in the sun. With conifers and some other evergreens it took years for them to grow and repair the damage. Other plants just gave up.
These days I have an appreciation for plants that are resilient to heat, drought, and unfortunately some degree of my neglect.
I wish that I could say that it was only the tourist that were foolish enough to sit around on the beach and get fried by the sun. Around here the saying about mad dogs and Englishmen would have to include some of the "mad" locals. I see plenty of people with messed up skin from sitting on the beach all day during the summer year after year.
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Main flowering period is over now, but still some goodies to be found !
Aquilegia bertolonii seeds around freely (I don't mind ;D)
Alyssum oxycarpum one the best in the species.
Calylophus lavandulifolius is new in my garden.
Campanula betulifolia with the glorious contrast of white and dark pink of the unopened buds
Campanula nitida alba
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Some more :
Delosperma 'Kelaidis'
Dianthus grat. 'Badenia' a nice dark red.
Edraianthus pumilio performing well in it's trough
Helianthemum lunelatum - love it !
Floriferous Lewisia columbiana
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Last batch for today :
Lilium maklineae flowers every year but refuses to multiply... :'(
Rhododendron kiusianum, a nice dwarf
Rhodohypoxis 'Candy stripes'
Saxifraga x 'Tumbling Waters'
Saxifraga x 'Kath Dryden'
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Beschorneria septentrionalis.....................
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Luc, wonderful plants all. Especially like the helianthemum and the campanulas. Nice to see that someone is still growing Rhododendron kiusianum. It's not seen much here anymore and you don't usually see it listed in catalogs, too bad. It's still in my garden after many years - quite rare, since most rhododendrons really don't like it here and I've stopped killing them by planting them, just too windy and dry.
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Beschorneria septentrionalis.....................
Meanie - Any chance of a close-up of the flower?
johnw
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Meconopsis, but I don't know which one. It is grown from seed.
An old Narcissus poeticus flore pleno, this narcissus was growing here in this garden all wild among grasses when we moved here, this place had been neglected for a long time when we bought it. This narcissus is the latest to flower and it is very fragrant.
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Utricularia reniformis, the big one of the Utricularia world.
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Yes I edited the background, the flower stem is over 2 ft so I didn't want to risk damage it by moving it to the photo spot.
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A very bonny flower Fred!!!
I think I read that this is a Brazilian species -does it need warmth to thrive?
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I left them out in the cold greenhouse all winter Steve. It cut everything back to the medium but growth has been exceptional this year. I don't think I've had so many leaves on the pots. I also grow it very wet.
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Meanie - Any chance of a close-up of the flower?
johnw
Here you are..............
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Being as how I'm posting a couple more.
Schizanthus pinnatus is not posh, not difficult, not even hardy - it's just nice and also really easy from seed...............
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The first of my hardy Salvia this year is this white form of S.microphylla..............
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It's about a month or so later than normal.
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I left them out in the cold greenhouse all winter Steve. It cut everything back to the medium but growth has been exceptional this year. I don't think I've had so many leaves on the pots. I also grow it very wet.
Thanks Fred.
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Thanks so much meanie. It looks very much like the one here that no one can identify. The only difference our plant is very fine-leafed and dwarf whilst the flower stalks appear to be the same size & height as yours. One camp says septentrionalis and the other rigida.
johnw
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Seems the flowers on this Celmesia sp. open unevenly or rather lopsided some years, this year they are perfect. Any idea which species it might be? Splendens, semicordata or........
On the local society's garden tours Sunday past we saw some very interesting plants and design work.
Enkianthus campanulatus 'Showy Lanterns', a very descriptive name.
From a distance I thought a friend had stolen a font but no it's his take on a trough and he had three of them. He used our usual mix of 1:1:1 peat, Portland, & sand but how he manage the reverse mold boggles my mind. They're likely 7-9 years old and lichens are barely starting to colonize them.
johnw - +11c & 20mm on the way this afternoon.
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These Iris siberica cultivars are all from the Plant Heritage plant exchange, and they are looking splendid at the moment.
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Lots of roses out now; here are a couple:
Rosa 'Guinée'
Rosa 'Easlea's Golden Rambler'.
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Some species from South America in my garden
1,2. Calceolaria pallida
3,4. Caiophora coronata
5. Perezia linearis
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Meconopsis, one of my favorites is difficult to grow in The Netherlands.
Our climate is not suitable for this genus. Nevertheless every year I try again this mission impossible.
This year we had a wonderful spring, sunny, cool and windy.
1,2. Meconopsis x sheldonii
3. Meconopsis grandis
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Thanks so much meanie. It looks very much like the one here that no one can identify. The only difference our plant is very fine-leafed and dwarf whilst the flower stalks appear to be the same size & height as yours. One camp says septentrionalis and the other rigida.
johnw
I wish that I could help you.
Enkianthus campanulatus 'Showy Lanterns', a very descriptive name.
That really has got a big wow factor!
Some species from South America in my garden
3,4. Caiophora coronata
I like that - may I assume that you find it hardy?
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I like that - may I assume that you find it hardy?
It was outside in the garden during winter. It was not so cold, but often temps of -5 to -8. The plant is native to northern Argentina (Mendoza province)
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Some species from South America in my garden
1,2. Calceolaria pallida
3,4. Caiophora coronata
5. Perezia linearis
Wonderful plants! How tall is the Caiophora coronata and how old is the plant? I grew it from seed this spring and ended up with one that's planted out. (In my ignorance, I also weeded one out, doh! Actually, had I known that I'd get stung every time I went near it, I'm not sure I would have ordered it. :o)
I don't know if it will be hardy but worth a try. Mine's about 4" tall and has not yet "tightened up" after being planted outside, so is it likely to stay about that height?
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It was outside in the garden during winter. It was not so cold, but often temps of -5 to -8. The plant is native to northern Argentina (Mendoza province)
Thanks - one to look out for.
I grow C.hibiscifolia which is a climber. Not hardy sadly but a bit of a gem................
https://www.flickr.com/search/?w=35724365@N05&q=caiophora (https://www.flickr.com/search/?w=35724365@N05&q=caiophora)
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Kolkwitzia amabilis'Pink Cloud' obscuring a double garage.It performs every year without fail.
Zantadeschia at the foot of a rockery adjacent to a pond
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Thanks - one to look out for.
I grow C.hibiscifolia which is a climber. Not hardy sadly but a bit of a gem................
https://www.flickr.com/search/?w=35724365@N05&q=caiophora (https://www.flickr.com/search/?w=35724365@N05&q=caiophora)
Great to see this wonderful climber. The similarity of the flower is special. Thanks for posting the link.
Wonderful plants! How tall is the Caiophora coronata and how old is the plant? I grew it from seed this spring and ended up with one that's planted out. (In my ignorance, I also weeded one out, doh! Actually, had I known that I'd got stung every time I went near it, I'm not sure I would have ordered it. :o)
I don't know if it will be hardy but worth a try. Mine's about 4" tall and has not yet "tightened up" after being planted outside, so is it likely to stay about that height?
The plant is about 15 cm tall. With very very spiny flowers. After being stabbed a few times, I approach it with respect. Last year I have sawn it. The seeds germinated easily and the plants grew fast. I do not know whether it wil survive wet winters or not. My plants are sheltered near the wall of the house, were rain can not come on them. I planted them in a sandy soil. They are drought resist. I think, the flowers are a kind of miracle. So, Lori, be good to your baby, but don't touch her.
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Some more species and a cultivar from South America.
1,2. Calceolaria arachnoides
3. Calceolaria x 'John Innes'.
4. Oxalis laciniata coll. Lago Sorrento
5. Oxalis laciniata '7 Bells'.
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Dactylorhiza in pink and in magenta. Both from my friend Mike Quest.
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Magnolia sieboldii today, such a civilized magnolia.
johnw
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The bud set on shrubs this year, despite the ghastly winter, is quite phenomenol. Here is Enkianthus campanulatus and it flowers just as heavily on the interior of the shrub.
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I buzzed up to Truro, NS - an hour north of the Halifax & one of the coldest spots in this province - this morning to have a look at the rock garden. I was absolutely gob-smacked by this Salix vestita growing in a crevice. I cannot recall ever seeing one in cultivation looking so smart.
johnw
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Worthy of a prize John!
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Great to see this wonderful climber. The similarity of the flower is special. Thanks for posting the link.
If you would like to see more of it I have a few seeds left. Probably best sown next spring. Yours if you want them.
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An Aristolochia but does anyone know which one? It suckers strongly and dies down in winter. Thoroughly fascinating plant which I wouldn't mind as a weed in our garden!
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An Aristolochia but does anyone know which one?
Aristolochia clematitis maybe?
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This Jasminum beesianum has colonised a large Cotoneaster tree.
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Yes, thank you meanie, that's it. I have so many books I don't know where to start! Jelitto and Schacht say this was described by Theophrastus and once used as an antidote to snake bite - but since it is poisonous it probably had much the same effect!
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Yes, thank you meanie, that's it. I have so many books I don't know where to start!
I keep all my old seed packets so I looked there ;D
I grew some in 2012 and kept four plants. Three were planted out but after the winter of 2012/13 they were toast. The one in the greenhouse I suspect I kept it too dry - either way it never came back.
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Penstemon strictus (?).................
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Salvia x jamensis "Raspberry Royale" is late this year. The magnificent colour makes it my favourite x jamensis cultivar.............
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Digitalis lutea is one of my favourite Digitalis.............
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The downside of it is that it can be a bit of a thug as this one plant shows.............
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Arisaema tortuosum looks fantastic as it emerges...............
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A marvelous picture of a stunning plant, the tortuosum
2 arisaema's with me
1. Arisaema taiwanense
2. Arisaema murrayi
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Gerrit - Arisaema are a really attractive genus which make great subjects for the camera. They can also become addictive.
Here is another self seeded Iris foetidissima with particularly good colours..............
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It is growing in deep shade and very much in dry conditions. One of the smaller ones in size of bloom and plant but certainly a keeper.
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This year Weldenia candida has produced more flowers than ever before, perhaps because I forgot to repot last year.
Physoplexis comosa
and an unknown Calochortus grown from a mixed bag of bulbs from a local garden centre,
any ideas to the name would be appreciated.
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Corydalis 'Craigton Blue' is now in its full glory adding colour and scent to our garden.
The first picture shows the 'ancestral homeland' where I first noticed the hybrid, the other two pictures are by our front path.
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This year Weldenia candida has produced more flowers than ever before, perhaps because I forgot to repot last year.
Physoplexis comosa
and an unknown Calochortus grown from a mixed bag of bulbs from a local garden centre,
any ideas to the name would be appreciated.
Your Weldenia is a triumph, Mike - I think that's as good as Lesley Cox' one - and that's saying something!
The Calochortus is a great colour that we have certainly never grown. Very nice to get such a treat from a garden centre buy.
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I was in the Annapolis Valley yesterday, 27c there, and saw some interesting plants. All of these are about the Kentvile / Wolfville area and a plantsman friend has had a hand in them.
Macleania pentaptera
Magnolia Aaschild Kalleberg'
Magnolia macrophylla ssp. ashei
Arrived home to 19c.
johnw
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A regular stop in the Valley is the Kentville Research Station which is still developiung small fruit (you may know the 'Bounty' strawberry), fruit tree and field crops. In its heyday - the 1950-1980's - it also bred rhododendrons.
johnw
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Wow, Macleania pentaptera is one of the epiphytic ericaceae that you really do not see very often. :o Fantastically different flowers. Is that being grown under glass ? Can't believe an epiphyte from Ecuador can survive up there in the Anapolis valley, even with protection! Today's lesson!! 8)
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and an unknown Calochortus grown from a mixed bag of bulbs from a local garden centre,
any ideas to the name would be appreciated.
Mike,
My guess is that the Calochortus is a hybrid of sorts, most likely with C. venustus. Without a better look at the calyx (on an open flower) it is difficult for me to make a better guess, however the unopened bud suggests a hybrid of sorts as well as other features. I am no expert, so hopefully someone will have an answer for you.
Nice looking plants. Thanks for sharing.
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...............and an unknown Calochortus grown from a mixed bag of bulbs from a local garden centre,
any ideas to the name would be appreciated.
As Robert suggests it looks to have venustus blood -looks very similar to some of the Cuddy Creek strains of C. venustus that I used to grow.
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Steve, Robert & Maggie,
thanks for the comments/info. Coming from a mixed bag which turned out to be mainly C. uniflorus the red flower was quite a surprise.
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Maggi
Well down there to you in the Annapolis Valley they do grow it under glass for the winter but outdoors for the summer along with their Nepenthes. No Ecuadorians around here other than landed immigrants of the two-legged sort. I think this came from the Irving Botanic Gdn where they had a large tender Vaccinium collection - pix and that's Barry Starling's hand.
We're good with up and down here in NS, it's all our other directions that make no sense.
john
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As I said in an earlier posting in St John's we are 200 miles to the west, rather farther south and about 2 months earlier (or later depending upon how you interpret it) than you in Scotland.
No real rock garden around our little condo but where else can you have narcissus in June? Two clumps of these came up in the bed in front this year, I don't remember planting them so I suppose it was Leila in 2013. (They may have come from one of those bags of mixed left over bulbs[attach=1] that they sell cheaply in supermarkets.) I have no record, but unusually they seem to be doing very well and escaping the fly - almost every one had three flowers per stem. Anyway, I don't know what variety these might be, can anyone help?
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How lovely, Howard - I think those are Narcissus 'Thalia' - which happens to be one of the best multi-headed whites , in my opinion.
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Some old, common friends in our garden.
1> Allium senescens - Common and easy. I would not be without it. I have been trialing some other Alliums in the garden. I try to avoid the Allium thugs too. The Allium thugs are long time pests in the city of Sacramento, California.
2> Aquilegia formosa - Our local species. The columbines hybridize in our garden, so I often plant more A. formosa from local seed as this is my favorite species. Yes, there are some great dwarf species, but I would not be without A. formosa.
3> Originum 'Kent Beauty' - Thrives in one of our sand beds.
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Another of my Iris foetidissima. This one has been blooming for a couple of years now...............
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I now consider Acnistus australis to be hardy. The small blue one has started to bloom.............
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Mimulus cardinalis - They will bloom all summer into the Autumn. I also grow a yellow flowering form that will start blooming soon. This species grows near streams in its native habitat, so they need some irrigation to do well in the garden.
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Mimulus cardinalis - They will bloom all summer into the Autumn. I also grow a yellow flowering form that will start blooming soon. This species grows near streams in its native habitat, so they need some irrigation to do well in the garden.
I used to grow this at my last house. Not hardy here but a reliable self seeder. Time to grow it again I think.
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A lovely plant. I used to grow it as a pond marginal - not submerged, but with it's feet wet. Not here though, over in 'balmy' Essex.
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I used to grow this at my last house. Not hardy here but a reliable self seeder. Time to grow it again I think.
meanie,
Thank you for the information. Given the elevation range of this species I thought that it would be more cold hardy. The plant world is certainly full of constant surprises. In the garden here it can sprout back from the crown or from the roots up to .3 meters away from the crown. It certainly provides much flower color in the garden when there is not much else in bloom.
If you decide you want to try them again let me know. Most likely I can provide some seed.
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Hello, it is great to see so many different plants from all the forumists we are now very dry here desperate for rain plants flowering still 2 weeks or so late a good show of Primula candelabras and Lilium mackliniae
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A few more, Ian
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We have had our rain yesterday and with this came some large hailstones knocked a few tall flowers over still dry underneath but looks like more rain tonight, a few more pictures, cheers Ian the Christie kind
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Ian thanks for posting photos of your beautiful Nomocharis. Absolutely amazing plants. Your primulas are sensational too.
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It's taken about five months for this seed grown Solanum lancifolium to open its first flower..............
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Cornus canadensis in nearby Point Pleasant Park. Today was the first time I have been in the park since 2003's Hurricane Juan flattened 3/4's of the majestic old trees in the 190 acre park. It still is a heart-wrenching sight, gone are the stately old hemlocks, white pines and spruce; all the purple European beeches still stand though their narrowness tell they once grew in a forest setting. Many old European beeches around the city and not in a forest setting fell in that storm. A comparison shot looking toward The Prince of Wales Martello Tower, one of many fortresses within the park.
johnw
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An Allium,an Erigeron and two small pinks
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Am Arisaema,Celmisia 1st flower,Campanula and Onosma
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Hello again, a few more pictures taken this morning, cheers Ian the Christie kind
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Glad to see there is sunshine somewhere in the country, Philip - so grey here in NE Scotland that I need the lights on in the house. Rain will begin any minute, I think. Yeuch!
Your flowers look lovely - especially that nice Onosma.
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I like the Onosma,Maggi.Simple but full of flower.There's not been much sun,here in the past week,either.Although today is much better.Still a lot of cloud,though.
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This time I send pictures really from June:
Dicentra nevadensis x peregrina
Jankaemonda 'Jaromir Stibic'
Campanula ledebouriana
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Looking good in the garden, Cypella coelestis, and not at all bothered by the 36 C heat.
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Another five plants:
Aquilegia scopulorum
Androsace limprichtii
Calyptridium umbellatum
Linum suffruticosum, a compact form
Phyteuma sieberi
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And the last five:
Minuartia stellata, 29 years old
A close-up to it
Primula flaccida
Campanula, my own hybrid
Asperula daphneola
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What an odd lot these Adeniums are. You grow them like cacti in the winter and as a tropical in the summer. Last autumn I watered four of them sparingly one evening and that night the temp dropped to around 6-8c and two of thebest ones died from rot a few months later, lesson learned. Four years old from seed. They really respond to potting on in late spring, this one - the baby - had slowed to a snail's pace until I potted it up a month ago. It exploded as will its very big brother.
johnw - +12c & partially cloudy
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When I saw this photo from Beryl McNaughton of these flowers on a sales bench at Macplants (http://www.macplants.co.uk/) Nursery, I couldn't resist sharing it here:
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What temptation there is there for a a happy shopper!
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When I saw this photo from Beryl McNaughton of these flowers on a sales bench at Macplants (http://www.macplants.co.uk/) Nursery, I couldn't resist sharing it here:
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Ha ha, delightful!
Some pics from the garden:
Lilium philadelphicum; Hieracium villosum; various columbines, from a long ago planting of 'McKana Giants' and others; Lindelofia longiflora:
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Melica altissima 'Atropurpurea'; Penstemon lyallii and compatriots; part of the front yard and side path; Veronicastrum virginicum, looking pristine despite the hail:
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Amazing your plants look so good in spite of hail storms, Lori. Everything is bursting with health, it seems. Love that pink paeonia that is featured.
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What an odd lot these Adeniums are. You grow them like cacti in the winter and as a tropical in the summer. Last autumn I watered four of them sparingly one evening and that night the temp dropped to around 6-8c and two of thebest ones died from rot a few months later, lesson learned. Four years old from seed. They really respond to potting on in late spring, this one - the baby - had slowed to a snail's pace until I potted it up a month ago. It exploded as will its very big brother.
johnw - +12c & partially cloudy
Such are the joys of tender plants ;D
I had two Mackaya bella in the greenhouse over the winter when I had the electrics trip. Temps went down to -5°c - the smaller one has bloomed its heart out this spring whilst the older and larger one is just coming back from the roots ???
Here today;
Arisaema tortuosum...............
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Penstemon smallii............
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Salvia forsskoalii.............
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And an unknown Rose which has taken over the washing line whilst it's in bloom..............
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After much effort I have finally succeeded with Lupinus lepidus. It is growing in a sand bed, coarse sand mixed with pumice. No organic matter. It is 104 F (40 C) today and appears to be thriving. 4 years from seed to first blossoms today.
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In another part of the same bed is Lupinus lepidus var. lobbii. No flowers yet, however it appears to be very happy. This bed does have some organic matter, maybe 10% by volume.
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Anagallis tenella 'Studland' today.
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The shallow pan is 15" across. Guesses about the 2 "weeds" please. Look like orchid leaves to me but wont know until I get them out later this summer. I probably reused old potting soil when moving the Anagallis on a year or 2 back. (Kept in the greenhouse over winter)
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Pictures taken the morning we left for the Dolomites, of Japanes Iris opening in the stream garden. By the time we get back they'll be finishing but they seem to be settling in and doing well.
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Sorry, the iris pictures don't belong in this (crevice) thread. Meant to post them in June in the Northern Hemisphere and don't know how to redirect them.
Edit by maggi - no worries, Anne- I have moved them for you. :) -after I'd moved them in error to the southern hemisphere thread - oops! ;)
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Taken yesterday in the Dolomites, Ranunculus seguieri. Growing in bare spots with no competition.
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Many thanks, Maggi. You're magical.
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A few highlights from this June at Gardens of Rice Creek in Minnesota.
1. Cypripedium reginae, showy lady's slipper orchid, the Minnesota state flower (in a pot, but there are many more in the ground)
2. Shiny petals of blue-eyed grass (Sisyrinchium montanum)
3. Opuntia polyacantha, plains prickly-pear cactus
4. Phemeranthus parviflorus, fameflower, with a very, very tiny bee on it (blooms for a few hours in the early evening throughout the summer)
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In the Dolomites, where every rock becomes a garden
1. Potentilla nitida barely starting to bud with a budding Sax
2. Sax. oppositifolia peeking our from a boulder
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After a difficult season with a very late Spring, some success at last. Our Cardiocrinum giganteum has decided to flower, happily at a height of 2 metres instead of the 3 metres which I was expecting. We got the plant from Logan gardens about two years ago.
Even more exciting...for us...is the flowering of our Tropaeolum speciosum. We have tried umpteen times in the last 35 years to get this plant to take but it has always disappeared without trace. We got a good pot-full again at Logan gardens, planted them in 3 different locations and they have all taken. The one climbing up one of our Cinnabarinums looks the strongest and should produce a good show of flowers in the next weeks.
This is making up for many of this years failures -vegetative growth but no flowers.
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June temperatures have been well above average. Today it is 38 C , however we have had some 40 C and 42 C temperatures this month. The forecast for Wednesday is 42-43 C.
1> Corydalis sempervirens - looking good despite the heat. They self-seeded into a pot with Allium beesianum. The Allium does not seem to appreciate the heat at all. This Corydalis species is turning out to be a good "annual" species for us, reseeding itself around and having attractive gray foliage. The flowers are good too.
2> Mimulus cardinalis Yellow Form - The first flowers of the season for this variety. The flowers are more orange than yellow, however it is still quite attractive. This species is an absolute water hog if one wants to keep them blooming during the heat. The orange form in the garden has stopped blooming - not enough water. Last year they bloomed all summer, but then it was not so hot either. None of this is surprising as this species is always is found near streams.
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The summer night air this evening is shattered by the smell of 400 rotting dead rats.
johnw
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Amazing! What a fantastic flower. Not a great photo though John, was the stench making you spasm? :-X
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Jamus - My Blackberry does not take focused pix at night even with the flash on. I've replaced that pic with one from this morning. It really is quite a sight with exotic textures and markings. The stench is rather subdued in the cool morning air - +14c.
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The summer night air this evening is shattered by the smell of 400 rotting dead rats.
Congratulations John.
Presumably you had to host an 'arum evening' for neighbours, to head off a local insurrection or worse ;) ;D
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No one responded to my invitations. ???
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Perhaps olfactory poetry isn't yet 'an actual thing' (as the young might say) ???
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Perhaps olfactory poetry isn't yet 'an actual thing' (as the young might say) ???
Putrid poetry?
-Such doggerel must surely exist, complete with smelly stanzas and malodorous metre.
Was that niffy classic "Ode to an Arum" not penned by William McGonagall? ;)
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John, I laughed really hard when I saw your first post. :D I'll show it to Betty Ann.
I finally got a good picture of the fameflower (Phemeranthus parviflorus). I've grown to love this plant. It has an amazing number of bright magenta flowers with yellow stamens on long graceful branching stems. They just bloom for a short time each day, but they have a long bloom period and it's worth going out every evening to see them. The petal backs are white, and you can see them when the flowers are opening. I wonder what triggers the flowers: light levels or sun angle.
The leaves are long succulent sausages on fat stems. The plant is native to the Great Plains, and was described by Claude Barr in Jewels of the Plains. Claude Barr's work should be more widely known, with the big native plant movement beginning here in the Midwest.
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Claude Barr's book is a real treasure! I've just looked up Phemeranthus and realised why it seemed an unfamiliar name - Barr has it as Talinum parviflorum (I know language evolves but botanical language seems to evolve at a faster rate than ever, and not necessarily helpfully ;)). Barr says: 'A few miles from my home: in gritty badlands clay, T. parviflorum brings a ruddy glow to an acre or more of sparsely grassed pasture'. That must be a sight to see!
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Roses and blue
Violets are red
If I have to go to another poetry recital
I wish I was dead.
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Jamus - how about this one:
TULIP
Clean as a lady,
cool as glass,
fresh without fragrance
the tulip was.
The craftsman who carved her of metal, prayed:
"Live, oh thou lovely!"
Half metal she stayed.
(Humbert Wolfe)
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Roses and blue
Violets are red
If I have to go to another poetry recital
I wish I was dead.
Made me laugh!
I'd like to respond to you all individually but I'm too lazy ;) Rest assured it is nice to see so many plants that are new to me being grown so well.
So I'll lower the tone now and bore you with several photos of my favourite hardy perennial - Lobelia tupa..................
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I've done a rough count of 25 or so flowering stems on this one plant this year..............
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And here is Solanum lancifolium..............
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It's dead easy from seed and very quick to bloom. One of the main attractions is the exotic foliage............
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And here is Solanum lancifolium..............
It's dead easy from seed and very quick to bloom. One of the main attractions is the exotic foliage............
Hi Meanie,
it looks like "our" Kangaroo Apple, Solanum laciniatum,
cheers
fermi
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Hi Meanie,
it looks like "our" Kangaroo Apple, Solanum laciniatum,
cheers
fermi
I believe that it is but as I can't work out which is the currently correct name perhaps someone could help me. So I just went with the name as the seeds were supplied to me.
In the ground the leaves can be 25 to 30cm in length.
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According to the Kew Plantlist, these are the names of Solanum which might be confused in this case- via typos etc!
Solanum laciniatum Aiton is an accepted name
This name is the accepted name of a species in the genus Solanum (family Solanaceae).
The record derives from Tropicos (data supplied on 2012-04-18) which reports it as an accepted name (record 29600115) with original publication details: Hort. Kew. 1: 247 1789.
Solanum lanceifolium Jacq. is an accepted name
This name is the accepted name of a species in the genus Solanum (family Solanaceae).
The record derives from Tropicos (data supplied on 2012-04-18) which reports it as an accepted name (record 29601572) with original publication details: Collectanea 2: 286 1788.
Solanum lanceolatum Cav. is an accepted name
This name is the accepted name of a species in the genus Solanum (family Solanaceae).
The record derives from Tropicos (data supplied on 2012-04-18) which reports it as an accepted name (record 29604233) with original publication details: Icon. 3: 23–24, t. 245 1794.
None of these three are synonyms for each other - so research would be needed to key out the various species.
Then there are these two "unresolved" names.....
Solanum lancifolium Sessé & Moc.
Solanum lanciforme Rydb.
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Thank you Maggie!
So here's an idea for a thread - Taxonomy For Muppets. When I try I end up tying myself up in knots ???
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the pics were taken in in June ;D
my Oxalis Deppei - which I have in numbers - is just at it's peak now. Although not visible on the picture, they are growing in pots.
in a remote corner I have a small pot of Oxalis Triangularis. Purchased decades ago, thrives best when being neglected a bit. Attemps to have them multiply faster had just the opposite effect.
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a few others, not all of them really doing well, the Cautleya is really a bit too minimalistic
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in a remote corner I have a small pot of Oxalis Triangularis. Purchased decades ago, thrives best when being neglected a bit. Attemps to have them multiply faster had just the opposite effect.
I divided mine last spring and they all romped away. The clump that I planted out survived and are almost in bloom, the two in pots that received all the winter care haven't put in a show at all ???
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Here are some of the stars of the boggy (or more precisely fenny) area at Gardens of Rice Creek in Fridley, Minnesota: the candelabra primroses Primula bulleyana 'Glowing Embers' and 'Fuchsia', and three huge clumps of the Minnesota state flower, Cypripedium reginae, the showy lady's slipper orchid. They were blooming on schedule, in the second week of June, and many people stopped by to see them.
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And a view of part of the garden from up on the hill. You can see the white of the lady's slipper petals, and the bright coral-pink of the candelabra primroses.
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Highlights from my garden in Minneapolis, Minnesota this June:
Large-flowered beardtongue (Penstemon grandiflorus). It blooms for a short time, but the flowers are large and lovely, pastel purple, and the leaves are rounded and gray-green. I'm going to create a few large clumps for a brief early-summer show.
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Tiny American lingonberries (Vaccinium vitis-idaea subsp. minus) with cute little mouse-ear leaves and new shoots.
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A native harebell (Campanula rotundifolia) clump. I always wanted to grow huge clumps like the huge harebell bouquets I saw blooming in the Rockies.
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Fumarioideae mugshots: Pseudofumaria ochroleuca, Pseudofumaria lutea, Adlumia fungosa, Dicentra 'King of Hearts', Dicentra eximia. This is a group of plants I'm obsessed with, and I have ten species and varieties, many of which are blooming now. The flowers are so interestingly shaped, and four of the ones shown here bloom for a long time in the summer and autumn.
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My several-year-old Cyclamen purpurascens patch, lit by the morning sun. This is the only cyclamen reliably hardy in Minnesota. I'm enchanted by the brightly colored and long-lasting flowers against the green and silver leaves, and the heavenly fragrance. The plants are more beautiful each year. I'll grow many more from last year's heavy crop of seed, which will soon be ripe, and create cyclamen beds under the oak trees at Gardens of Rice Creek.
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Penstemon grandiflorus is a wonderful plant and new to me. I've put it straight on my 'wants' list. Thanks for sharing those Gabriel
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Penstemon grandiflorus is a wonderful plant and new to me. I've put it straight on my 'wants' list. Does it flower in the first year from seed?
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Penstemon grandiflorus is a wonderful plant and new to me. I've put it straight on my 'wants' list. Does it flower in the first year from seed?
My "personal experience" of it comes from Oxfords Botanic Gardens. There they turned a bed over to a no watering, self seeding regime. The seed was scattered early spring and P.grandiflorus was in bloom in July (as I recall, I would have to find the photos to confirm). It's a very impressive plant in the flesh.
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What a wonderful planting of cypripedium Gabriel! Would love to have the moisture in the garden to allow us to grow this. Penstemon grandiflorus is closer to what suits our dry summer garden (really dry this summer). This is a fascinating and frustrating genus to grow but that picture shows why it is worth the effort. I will look out for seed.
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Jamus, I have a relatively short experience with Penstemon grandiflorus, since I bought one plant three years ago, then bought a few more this spring from another gardener and had many come up from my own seed. The plant doesn't bloom in the first year (it sprouts in April and only has a few leaves by June), but it may bloom in the second year. I'll find out next year.
You might have a tough time growing them, however, because they are native to a cold-winter and moist-summer (or at least not completely dry-summer) climate. They might adapt to a Mediterranean climate by growing in the winter, or they might try to grow in the summer and fail from the dryness and heat. Perhaps they would survive in an irrigated part of the garden.
Tim, the credit for the planting goes to Betty Ann Addison. She has been growing and dividing these orchids for many years, and has a lovely spring-watered area above Rice Creek. Like yours, my garden is far too dry for orchids.
P. grandiflorus would certainly be good to try. Unlike many penstemons, this one will not fail if it stays somewhat moist. It grows in drier areas of Minnesota, but many more westerly penstemons will not grow here at all. I've also got P. strictus (deep blue-purple), which comes from the Rocky Mountains, and my theory is that some of the mountain species are more moisture-tolerant than the Plains ones.
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I might try P. cyananthus next, a species native to the Wasatch Range east of Salt Lake City, Utah. Its flowers are pure blue.
There are also all the small white or pink eastern species, not quite as showy as P. grandiflorus, but even more moisture-tolerant. I've got Penstemon digitalis, which is taller and has candelabras of white flowers. I grow it at the top of a hill with the other penstemons. The white is quite striking. All penstemons have beautifully structured flower clusters.
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Thank you Gabriel for your advice and you're right, our climate is not a good one for P.grandiflorus, but I MUST try! I grow a lot of things which shouldn't be here (I'm sure gardeners everywhere can relate) and some of them manage with supplementary water. I'm going to give it a shot from seed. I planted Penstemon digitalis, a cultivar called Husker's red this year. It looks to be a beautiful plant from the pictures I've seen. It'll make a nice addition to my purple and silver themed garden.
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Double Silene - covers itself in flowers every year
Yellow lupin is doing well this year
Very surprised Lavandula stoechas 'Silver Anouk' survived outside
Celmisia
Corydalis elata (or is it omeiana)
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Thank you Gabriel for your advice and you're right, our climate is not a good one for P.grandiflorus, but I MUST try! I grow a lot of things which shouldn't be here (I'm sure gardeners everywhere can relate) and some of them manage with supplementary water.
It's gardeners in wet and humid places that usually have problems keeping penstemons for any length of time, and tend to have more success with the few eastern species, that are adapted to such conditions. Dry conditions are more favourable to many species of penstemon (again, similar to their native haunts) and promote longevity, so it may be that they'd flourish for you... ?
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Roma, some great plants there! The celmisia with all those frames in the background is especially appealing :).
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Jamus, I have a relatively short experience with Penstemon grandiflorus, since I bought one plant three years ago, then bought a few more this spring from another gardener and had many come up from my own seed. The plant doesn't bloom in the first year (it sprouts in April and only has a few leaves by June), but it may bloom in the second year. I'll find out next year.
Interesting to hear the experience of someone who actually has grown them - thanks. I have a pods worth of seed somewhere which I must sow soon.
A cracking little Penstemon in dry conditions is P.smallii...............
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Short lived in my experience (it goes into decline from about year three) but fully hardy. It self seeds freely.
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I grew P. smallii from seed two years ago. It flowered for me the first year and was a great specimen in the second, then it died... I germinated more seed this year and noticed a few self seeded near the original plants, so I'll have it again and hopefully it'll last longer this time. Not sure what killed it... drought probably.
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Jamus, I got a book on penstemons, and it says Penstemon smallii is from the southeast United States. So it probably wants more moisture than most.
I like your spirit, and I hope you have success with P. grandiflorus! Do send updates once you get seed and plant it. I'd be so pleased if our local penstemon were grown on the other side of the world.
Lori, I think most penstemons prefer dryness, but P. grandiflorus is more moisture tolerant than most, at least, according to my book on penstemons. Not sure how much moisture it requires, though. I guess we'll find out. It is certainly waxy-leaved, which is promising.
Here's rosebay rhododendron (Rhododendron maximum, which started to bloom at the end of June (oh dear, a rhyme) at Gardens of Rice Creek. It's a big plant, but the flowers are small. It looks best when the first white flowers are opening against the pink buds.
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Penstemon smallii is one that never wintered over for me, or did well otherwise, while several other species seem to do well.
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The last photo taken in June of Fragaria vesca, the wild strawberry. The plants colonise every spare in the garden space to exclude weeds and give us lots of tasty fruit in time for Wimbledon.
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The last photo taken in June of Fragaria vesca, the wild strawberry. The plants colonise every spare in the garden space to exclude weeds and give us lots of tasty fruit in time for Wimbledon.
Not half! I've got it everywhere.
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I've got a carpet of woodland strawberries, as well as Virginia strawberry and alpine strawberry. I don't think you can ever have too many strawberries. However, I'm learning how (very sad to have to use this word) invasive they can be. At least alpine strawberries behave and produce fruit all summer.
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I've got a carpet of woodland strawberries, as well as Virginia strawberry and alpine strawberry. I don't think you can ever have too many strawberries. However, I'm learning how (very sad to have to use this word) invasive they can be. At least alpine strawberries behave and produce fruit all summer.
I find them easy to pull out and use in the compost bin. My berries have a decided strawberry flavour. A friend said she had alpine strawberries and she would never give them house room because they are tasteless. Another friend said there are two mini strawberry plants. The difference in flavour is very different. I have not found any info on that. I must look up your Virginia strawberry I have not heard of that one.
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I'm surprised that your friend finds alpine strawberries tasteless. Mine are delicious, with a lovely strawberry aroma. It could be there are different varieties, some with better taste than others.
The Virginia strawberry (Fragaria virginiana) are an interesting one. They're one of the parents of the garden strawberry (F. × ananassa), along with the beach strawberry (F. chiloensis). The visual difference is that their seeds are in little pits in the fruit, instead of sticking out like alpine strawberry seeds (if that makes sense). The flavor is kind of peachy, very different from F. vesca. They also often grow in dry and alkaline soil, although they will produce smaller berries with less moisture. You might have a hard time finding a selection that produces good fruit. I once got a plant that didn't produce a fleshy fruit at all, but rather a dry fruit like cinquefoil. However, I haven't looked into it, and you might get good results by growing plants from seed.
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I would never need to grow from seed and regularly give away spare plants. I did read somewhere that mashing those dryer berries and adding sugar releases the flavour very well.
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These were from June-a bit delayed
Arisaema candidissimum
Erigeron 'Four Winds'