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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: fermi de Sousa on September 01, 2015, 03:55:33 AM
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It's officially the first day of spring in Australia!
And it's "Wattle Day"!
Here are a couple of Acacia in our garden:
Acacia podalyriifolia
Acacia acinacea (self sown in our rock garden so not absolutely sure about the ID)
cheers
fermi
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Hi Fermi,
I have never heard of wattle day before.
Your prostrate acacia is pretty - a little golden waterfall over the rocks..
Jamus, thank you kindly for the rundown. I didn't even know one could source all of those components! How on earth you mixed them together, I have no idea. I imagine you must have thought deeply and tested quite a few mixes to obtain pH stability (and just a little moisture retention). It was very helpful and will be squirreled away in the memory banks for an apt occasion.
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Jacqui.
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It was hard work Jacqui. Shoveled it all back and forth in the trailer several times, turning it over and mixing as I went until it was all homogenised. I was just chuckling at Bob Nold's facebook page the other day when he was complaining that his doctor told him to do more exercise and remarked that "gardening is not exercise". I beg to differ!
ps. welcome to spring everyone.
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Acacias have been flowering for a while here. The pollen gets everywhere, as seen on the surface of our storm water ponds. No idea where the plants that produced this pollen are, as there are none around us.
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Anthony, that looks like pine pollen to me. Acacias get a bad rap for causing hay fever, but they have sticky pollen and hold on to it. Pines and grasses and wind pollinated and let it fly willy-nilly.
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I have never heard of wattle day before.
Your prostrate acacia is pretty - a little golden waterfall over the rocks..
Hi Jacqui,
Wattle day is a revival of an idea that got scuppered by WW1! http://www.wattleday.asn.au/ (http://www.wattleday.asn.au/)
The golden waterfall is only like that because we cut down the rest of the shrub as it was getting too big for where it had put itself! I'm being pushed to get rid of it altogether!
cheers
fermi
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Hi All,
No wattles (although the Silver Wattles are bursting gold seams up the mountain slopes) but I can continue the yellow theme.
Fritillaria aurea
Fritillaria pudica
Fritllaria sibthorpiana ssp enginiana
Cheers, M
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Hi Fermi, thank you for the wattle day link. Clearly my education is lacking… Are you trying to tell me you do not have a prostrate acacia, but a bonsai?
Jamus - i could do with your muscle here!
…and your frits are little short of amazing Marcus. The sibthorpiana is especially appealing.
I have some yellow to show too - again, not wattle but a lone bough of kerria japonica pleniflora.
Followed by the delicate lemon blooms of Hawera, an epimedium (i think the cultivar is 'mardi gras' from clover hill), pulmonary 'sissinghurst white, with its delicately marked foliage, and an indigo Hepatica nobilis - which surely came from Marcus.
Jacqui.
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Time to 'biff' the yellow theme I think ..... ;D ;D
Various Cyclamen coum are enjoying the continued cool wet weather here ..........
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In the sand crevice bed Androsace rigida is just coming out of winter rest with new growth starting to expand.
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I counted over 20 buds on this clump of Olsynium douglasii 'Album'. Unfortunately it doesn't look like they are going to open all at once ........ :(
Clump and 'arty' shot.
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Yes I agree the Fritillaria are gorgeous Marcus.
T00lie, your Cyclamen coum look so happy in your garden. I just love them.
A few from my jaunt around the garden this morning.
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I'm enjoying Globularia cordifolia in the crevice bed. Thanks Otto!
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Anthony, that looks like pine pollen to me. Acacias get a bad rap for causing hay fever, but they have sticky pollen and hold on to it. Pines and grasses and wind pollinated and let it fly willy-nilly.
I suppose it just depends on which source you believe?
http://www.stuff.co.nz/marlborough-express/opinion/blogs/editors-blog/5523666/Pollen-coating-on-everything (http://www.stuff.co.nz/marlborough-express/opinion/blogs/editors-blog/5523666/Pollen-coating-on-everything)
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They are wrong Anthony. Walk up to a wattle and try to shake pollen off it. You won't see any clouds. Pines on the other hand... hold your breath!
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Don't see many pines around here, but I'll try the "shake a wattle" trick tomorrow at school. There are plenty self seeded ones around the boundary.
Here is Babiana ringens from seed. Just love the stalk the flower produces to allow birds to perch and sup nectar. Will take this and an insect pollinated Babiana into school for tomorrow's lesson on natural selection (see http://academic.sun.ac.za/botzoo/bruce/pollinator_adap.htm (http://academic.sun.ac.za/botzoo/bruce/pollinator_adap.htm)).
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Anthony,
The Howick Horticultural Society are holding the Spring Show on Saturday. There will be lots of daffodils from some of New Zealand's top growers on display. Hope that you can come and visit.
Robin
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Anthony,
The Howick Horticultural Society are holding the Spring Show on Saturday. There will be lots of daffodils from some of New Zealand's top growers on display. Hope that you can come and visit.
Robin
Lots of details of the many New Zealand Shows from daffodil.org here: http://daffodil.org.nz/showinfo/calendar.php (http://daffodil.org.nz/showinfo/calendar.php)
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I agree Anthony on the stem on Babiana ringers it is so strong it holds the Wattle Birds in our garden, mine are not flowering yet you must be ahead of us. Nature is extraordinary.
Two pictures of Daphne blagayana Daphne genkwa one in bud the other just coming out, pity it does not have much of a scent, but its colour makes up for any short comings in the scent department.
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Hi Viv,
Do you mean Daphne genkwa?
Cheers, M :)
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Anthony,
The Howick Horticultural Society are holding the Spring Show on Saturday. There will be lots of daffodils from some of New Zealand's top growers on display. Hope that you can come and visit.
Robin
Thanks Robin. Only 10 minutes up the road from us, so will pop in.
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Of course I do Marcus I don't know where my brain is lately it certainly isn't where it is supposed to be Thank you Marcus.
Maggii would you be able to change Daphne blagyana to Daphne genkwa please I am so sorry
Viv
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Of course I do Marcus I don't know where my brain is lately it certainly isn't where it is supposed to be Thank you Marcus.
Maggii would you be able to change Daphne blagyana to Daphne genkwa please I am so sorry
Viv
Fixed, Viv. Good to know I'm not the only one who gets muddled!
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Thanks Maggi its kind of you, its because I am trying to obtain a plant of Daphne blagayana (wishful thinking and a one track mind), I used to have a lovely big patch of it and lost it in the drought we had about 4 years ago. It did not like all that hot weather we had, but Daphne genkwa did not turn a hair just loved it. The best thing about bulbs is they just pull them selves down further into the soil and survive the heat that way, especially Erythroniums they are divine here at the moment.
Viv
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Lovely Daphne Vivienne
Hellebores have 'done' particularly well this season with the continued cool conditions and are up there near the top of my list of desirable Genera ,just a place below Trilliums ....... ;D
A number are starting to go over while others are still in full bloom.
If seed isn't collected,( which is given way), then seedlings appear all over the place.
A couple of montages showing a small sample growing here.
Cheers Dave.
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Fantaaaaastic Dave!
Cheers, Marcus
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Hi Guys,
Few more fritillaria:
Fritillaria thessala
Fritillaria montana
Fritillaria nobilis - never gets to it's peak here.
Cheers,Marcus
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Fantaaaaastic Dave!
Cheers, Marcus
Thanks Marcus
Actually some of the original doubles I raised from seed ,came many moons ago, from Otto's neighbour ,Tim Orphin.
Cheers Dave.
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Marcus, I'm really pleased to see your new seed catalogue is up online!
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Jacqui.
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Marcus, I'm really pleased to see your new seed catalogue is up online!
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Jacqui.
Marcus' list here : http://hillviewrareplants.com.au/nursery-catalogues/2015-seed-list (http://hillviewrareplants.com.au/nursery-catalogues/2015-seed-list)
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Order placed already. Rebecca's response, "do you really need more seeds?". My retort, "no I dont neeeed more seeds, any more than you neeeed a cup of coffee in the morning, or a glass of wine with a nice meal, but nice meals are better with a nice glass of wine".
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I've been admiring the photos. The olsynium is a revelation. Very pretty.
Here is mine for the day.
The first spring flower on anemonella thalictroides this season, kindly gifted by Otto.
Jacqui.
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Thanks Robin. Only 10 minutes up the road from us, so will pop in.
Went along at 4, as the ad said 10.30 - 5, only to find the place empty as it had finished at 3, as indicated on a poster nearby! :(
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Anthony,
I can top that. This summer I went to our local lily show because Judith Freeman was giving a talk. At one they announced the talk would be at five. Went home & (of course) when I came back they'd moved it forward. I was not pleased.
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The first of my tulips, Tulipa hageri x aucheriana "Little Princess" opened with the sunny weather today. I'm thrilled with it.
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And just for fun some macro shots of Cerinthe major in the sunshine.
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Beautiful photos Jamus.
The Cerinthe looks iridescent.
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Went along at 4, as the ad said 10.30 - 5, only to find the place empty as it had finished at 3, as indicated on a poster nearby! :(
A lesson to show arrangers to be learned here. We (OAGG) and having a big new show on Oct 3 and 4 and have printed posters and flyers for around the city in various places, to be put up this coming week. One of our (Christchurch) stallholders objected to the short selling time on Sunday, shown as 2-4pm. It was supposed to be 10am-4pm. Hasty adjustments made!
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Thank you Jacqui, yes they do look iridescent. They sparkle in the sun which always catches my eye. I love Cerinthe in the garden even though they can be a bit of a weed here.
I love your Anemonella thalictroides. A plant I really love but I fear will not grow well in our climate.
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Jamus - makes me want to get a macro lens, opens up a whole new world of detail. Alpines would make perfect subjects - I can see an exhibition at an Art gallery in my mind's eye...
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Jamus,
Tulipa 'Little Princess' doesn't look to even be in bud here!Here are a few now in the garden:
Appearing like a small yellow tulip is Babiana pygmaea;
Second generation Anemone pavonina seedling flowering for the first time in the rock garden;
Taking over much of the rock garden is a swarm of seedlings which are the result of Euphorbia rigida crossing with E. myrsinites;
Reticulata iris 'Natascha' from Lambley nursery this year;
A tulip which came as T.kolpakowskiana but is even less likely to be the true one than the one we already grow!!!
cheers
fermi
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Fermi,
Thank you for sharing all the fine photographs of bulbs and other plants from your garden. For me it is inspirational and food for a creative mind.
Both Euphorbia rigida and myrsinites have been seedy but not weedy in our garden here in California. I have never noticed any hybrids, but then maybe I need to pay closer attention. There are other Euphorbia species that are much more weedy in our garden. E. x martinii, E. amygalloides 'Purpurea' cross and recross with each other and can become a mess around here without attention. A few other Euphorbia seed around too, but not like the E. x martinii clan.
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Wow Fermi, Anemone pavonina is beautiful. I love the veins on the petals. I'll add it to my seed wish list. That Euphorbia certainly seems to have hybrid vigour! I have Euphorbia myrsinites self seedling around. Are seedlings likely to be hybrids? E. characias is close by as is E. silver swan or something like that?
Spent a couple of hours careful poking little seedlings into crevices in the rock garden. Absolute bliss... I hope they like their new home.
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Jamus,
Euphorbia characias is weedy in our garden. I have never seen it hybridize with any of the other types in our garden, but then things can be different elsewhere.
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Hi Robert,
Happy to supply inspiration any time!
Jamus,
I've not seen hybrids between E. myrsinites and any other species, but who's to say what they can get up to!
Considering the two we have hybridising, I was once told that one was being considered to be a subspecies of the other but have not seen confirmation of this (and I can't remember which was being subsumed into which!)
cheers
fermi
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a few more Helleborus :the 3 saucers were some of many exhibited at the spring show at Ferny Creek Hort Soc over the weekend .
Wonderful photos as always from Jamus and Marcus , particular of the difficult Frit . nobilis . Would love to grow this species .
Jacqui ,your photo is of Anemone blanda (white form ) and not of Anemonella .
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Otto, oh my goodness! I beg you to post larger versions of those photos, or email them to me driect! Those are wonderful and I want to see them in more detail. Those saucers are ... I was going to say orgasmic, too adult? I can't think of a better adjective right now. Censor me if you must Maggi!
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Oh dear, Otto, I can be quite a twirp sometimes. You must despair of me.
A. blanda might explain a the largish tuberous roots.
It might also explain why I have a label in your handwriting elsewhere in the garden that says anemonella thalictroides - the first leaf of which popped up a couple of days ago.
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On another front, I am completely besotted with your gorgeous thibetanus cross. Spectacular.
H. thibetanus is a beautiful thing. Maybe the H. niger component will make it a little more robust than the species?
Jacqui.
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A few from today.
1. Somewhat surprisingly, given the tiny 2 y o plant, Illicium anisatum flowers profusely.
2. Tiny blooms of Camellia lutchuensis
3 & 4. A tulip of unknown (forgotten) provenance with small lilium-like flowers, greenish white with claret tips. Would be grateful for a name.
Jacqui.
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Hi Jacqui,
It could be Flaming Purissima ... maybe ...? M
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Thanks Marcus,
It does look like T. purissima, albeit neo-gothic.
Its absolutely beautiful close up. Pale primrose petals...
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The first of my tulips, Tulipa hageri x aucheriana "Little Princess" opened with the sunny weather today. I'm thrilled with it.
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Oh my god that photo and tulip fantastic
Mel
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Jamus,
Tulipa 'Little Princess' doesn't look to even be in bud here!Here are a few now in the garden:
Appearing like a small yellow tulip is Babiana pygmaea;
Second generation Anemone pavonina seedling flowering for the first time in the rock garden;
Taking over much of the rock garden is a swarm of seedlings which are the result of Euphorbia rigida crossing with E. myrsinites;
Reticulata iris 'Natascha' from Lambley nursery this year;
A tulip which came as T.kolpakowskiana but is even less likely to be the true one than the one we already grow!!!
cheers
fermi
Fermi
Your photos and flowers are fantastic
Mel
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here is some photo's I have just taken, I am new at this so please forgive me
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here is a few more
Carmichaelia enysii hybrid
Tropaeolum tricolorum
Narcissus 'Snipe'
Fritillaria kotschyana
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I've rotated the pix that turned sideways, Mel . It's got something to do with how they've been saved- happens from time to time! Don't worry about it. :)
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thanks Maggie
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Lovely plants Mel, thanks for sharing.
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Ok that worked .... :)
Here's a few more Hepaticas .
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Raised from Danish seed ,various Hepatica nobilis var japonica .....I wasn't all that fussed on them when they first started flowering because of their tiny blooms however they have since grown on me ..... :-*
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Some really beautiful plants Mel, magnificent fritillaria and saxifrages.
Dave, I really love hepaticas. What a fantastic show you have.
Do you have a big collection?
Jacqui.
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Those Hepaticas are beautiful!
This Babiana came from the 2012 SRGC seed exchange as b. villosa. Obviously it isn't but it's still pretty. It looks like one listed online as Babiana stricta 'Deep Dreams'. Can anyone i.d it? My Sth African Cape Bulbs book is at a friend's place at the moment. :(
The 1st of my Pacific coast irises has opened for spring.
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WOW that's early for a PCI. Mine are a long way off flowering. Beautiful pics everyone.
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Yes, Jon, that is early for a PCI!
Your Babiana is possibly a form of Babiana nana,
cheers
fermi
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One little offering for the day.
A cyclamen rhodium f. vividum kindly gifted by Marcus a couple of months ago.
Talk about hot pink!
Quite different to the C. repandum I posted earlier (with identity confusion) :-\
Jacqui
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Dave, I really love hepaticas. What a fantastic show you have.
Do you have a big collection?
Jacqui.
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Thanks Jacqui
Not a big collection at the moment but is increasing ....where I can find small gaps in the garden for planting that is. ;D
Trilliums are my main interest -I'll show a few pics tomorrow of the early ones currently in flower .
Cheers Dave.
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Fritillaria aurea not yet fully open.
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Now that's cool! M
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Fritillaria aurea not yet fully open.
Very nice indeed, Dave!
Was at the Leongatha Spring Flower Show today which great!
Hope to get a chance to post some pics later,
cheers
fermi
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Thanks Marcus and Fermi .
I have a number of other Fritillaria species pics however I'm still having trouble getting them to load even though the file sizes are only 427 x 640 pixels and 293 KB.
Not sure why the image resizing tool isn't working for me and I keep on getting an error message of "Your file is too large. The maximum attachment size allowed is 200 KB ".
Will try again tomorrow .....
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I have a number of other Fritillaria species pics however I'm still having trouble getting them to load even though the file sizes are only 427 x 640 pixels and 293 KB.
Not sure why the image resizing tool isn't working for me and I keep on getting an error message of "Your file is too large. The maximum attachment size allowed is 200 KB ".
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I think I may have twigged why you are having this trouble, t00lie.
If you are trying to load photos that are so much smaller in pixel size than the size system is set up to reduce things to, but they are still above 200kbs, the system WILL reject them.
The system's main purpose is to reduce the photos to conform to the the maximum allowed pixel size so that they are at an optimum viewing size for the forum.
It might be easier for you to resize the pictures to around 800 max dimension - chances are they would then be less than 200kb anyway and load right away. The system seems to be fine for others so long as the original file is not too big (xx MBs in size) in which case it is likely to be your connection which causes any problems, I am informed.
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If it were not for the labels, you might really imagine these little ones were in a small mountain ravine or something. But they're in two troughs.
Saxifraga grisebachii 'Wisley' then Soldanella pusilla which after 20 odd years, has decided to flower quite well. So far there have been 12 and there are maybe 20 more coming, just threads at present. I should have wiped away the dead leaves first.
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Hi Dave, don't forget the trillium pics, please.
Your Fritillary aurea is quite beautiful enough before opening.
Two from today:
1. My favourite of the larger triandrus narcissus - the aptly named "Tuesday's child". From Shirley and Jane Tonkin.
2. The greenish-primrose racemes of Corylopsis sinensis.
Jacqui.
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I think I may have twigged why you are having this trouble, t00lie.
If you are trying to load photos that are so much smaller in pixel size than the size system is set up to reduce things to, but they are still above 200kbs, the system WILL reject them.
The system's main purpose is to reduce the photos to conform to the the maximum allowed pixel size so that they are at an optimum viewing size for the forum.
It might be easier for you to resize the pictures to around 800 max dimension - chances are they would then be less than 200kb anyway and load right away. The system seems to be fine for others so long as the original file is not too big (xx MBs in size) in which case it is likely to be your connection which causes any problems, I am informed.
Thank you Maggi :-* :o
The Erythronium pic above was attached at 534x 800 pixels and 289KB.
Cheers Dave.
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Hi Dave, don't forget the trillium pics, please.
Your Fritillary aurea is quite beautiful enough before opening.
Jacqui.
Thanks Jacqui --A few days ago I posted a small number of Trillium pics under 'Bulbs General '--'Trilliums 2015'.
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Soldanella pusilla which after 20 odd years, has decided to flower quite well. So far there have been 12 and there are maybe 20 more coming, just threads at present.
Quite fantastic Lesley, I've never seen this in flower live. Had S. minima for a bit until it was overgrown by moss.
john
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Yes well done with the Soldanella Lesley .I have patches however very few flowers.
PS Anemonopsis macrophylla White Swan is up and away.
Erythronium umbilicatum in bloom today .
Cheers Dave.
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Erythronium 'White Beauty'.
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Beautiful photos Jamus.
The Cerinthe looks iridescent.
I'll second that!
Cerinthe is a much underrated plant in the UK be it in the cottage garden or in the exotic styled garden. I've suggested its use on a couple of UK exotic forums and so far it has been received well.
A few years ago I grew C.palestina which was a lovely plant as well but unfortunately I've managed to lose the seeds ???
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Yes well done with the Soldanella Lesley .I have patches however very few flowers.
PS Anemonopsis macrophylla White Swan is up and away.
Erythronium umbilicatum in bloom today .
Cheers Dave.
Beautiful, Dave. A gorgeous plant wonderfully captured.
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t00lie, your little Erythronium is beautiful. Nice to see some of the lesser known species.
I'm really infatuated with Cerinthe and let it seed around perhaps a little more than I should, but I've always liked the wild, overgrown and slightly out of control look to my garden. C. palestina looks very interesting meanie. thanks for the tip off. I might just have to look for seed of that myself.
Here's a little corner which captures my vision for the garden nicely.
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Some general views of the rock gardens yesterday,
cheers
fermi
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Beautiful, Dave. A gorgeous plant wonderfully captured.
Thanks Matt and Jamus .
Lovely views of your garden Fermi --I'm afraid you'll suffer from claustrophobia when you visit here next month Bud ...... ;D ;D
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Fermi,
Very nice views of your garden. :)
It is very nice to see how you put it all together. I like the rocks. We have no shortage of rocks here on the farm. It is also nice to have a loader bucket on the tractor. I just moved some large rocks into place for the next phase of the garden. Never could have moved them by hand.
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Last Saturday the Victorian branch of the Alpine Garden Society hosted a lecture by Chris and Basak Gardner authors and photographers of “Flora of the Silk Road”, which traced their personal odyssey for flowers along the old silk trade route. A genuine delight, I would recommend them to any SRGC members who have an opportunity to see them. Thank you to the organisers for their trouble in organising it.
Two small offerings from the garden:
1. The first bloom of Paeonia kesrouanensis – Thank you Marcus.
2. Trillium cuneatum (at least I think so).
Jacqui.
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All seems very quiet on this posting…
I thought I would show a couple of photos taken on Monday at the Cloudehill gardens in Olinda, on the outskirts of Melbourne. It was a treat to see the enthusiastic conversation of three very respected plantsmen: Otto Fauser, Marcus Harvey and Jeremy Francis (the owner of the gardens) who kindly showed us through. I hope they forgive me for sharing the photo, but it was such a pleasure to see this meeting of minds.
The second photo is of the setting they were speaking in - rather an interesting art installation.
The third is a slightly out-of-focus shot of one of Jeremy’s picturesque wildflower meadows – here mostly muscari and narcissus.
I hope you enjoy them, Jacqui.
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Cloudehill looks an interesting garden Jacqui.
Any chance of a photograph showing your Trillium cuneatum in full thanks.
Corydalis solida forms are out .......
Cheers Dave.
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Hi Dave,
Here is a photo with more leaf showing and taken from a slightly different angle.
If it is still intact by Friday I can shoot a side view if you would like.
How does one distinguish between T. cuneatum and chloropetalum - if its okay to ask?
You showed a beautiful collection of trilliums on the bulb thread.
I have very few. Still learning…
Jacqui.
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Jacqui, thank you for posting the pictures from your visit to Cloudehill. Nice to see Marcus and Otto together in such a beautiful setting.
You're lucky to live in a climate where you can grow Trilliums. I really struggle here; but on the other hand I can grow oncocyclus iris which are difficult in cooler wetter climes. We can't have it all can we?
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Jamus, technically we can grow oncocyclus iris down here (iris iberica elegantissima from Otto, below) as well as trilliums (T. rivale dark leaf form from Viv). However in the 2 years I've had this iris I haven't had any flowers. We had a comparatively cool summer, this winter has been the coldest for 20 years and spring has so far been cool, so I don't know if it will flower this year. But it's still alive, out in the elements. I wouldn't call it difficult, just stubborn! ;D
Jacqui, the conversation between the 3 plants-men would have been interesting!
Dave, love the Corydalis. That's one thing I don't have much luck with.
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Quite fantastic Lesley, I've never seen this in flower live. Had S. minima for a bit until it was overgrown by moss.
john
But wait! There's more! ;D
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LOvely to see those darling men at Cloudhill. Just wonderful and a really nice day by the looks of things.
Yesterday and today are truly spring at last (though the forecast is for more snow down this way at the weekend!)
I went on Tuesday to visit a friend, a cousin of Roger's but I'd known her quite independently of that and long before I met him 25 years ago, when she bought plants at my little nursery in Timaru. She lives in Balclutha now, about 40 kms south of me. She has a great collection of little daffs many from way back that we never see nowadays, such as those from Alec Gray. Masses of other lovely things too and I came home with bags of "bits and pieces" as she calls them, a very generous lady especially since when she came here a couple of week ago, she paid a small fortune for what she took away. But she paints exquisite native bird portraits for sale, often as wedding gifts.
I took my camera and the following 7 are from her garden and the last, a frit is from mine, this morning.
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I'd like name please for the Ipheion? Nothoscordum? and the Scilla, and oh yes, the Tulipa as well.
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But wait! There's more! ;D
I've been whining on for weeks if not months about how cold the winter has been this year and now I can produce the proof! Or I will be able to in a few days or a week or so. For the first time ever, Diapensia lapponica is going to flower!!! I counted 3 buds yesterday and today there are 10. I don't know how long they'll take to come out but I'll be waiting with baited breath - as the cat said to the mouse - camera in hand.;D The whole plant, so wonderfully dark red through winter, changed to bright green in just a couple of days a couple of weeks ago.
John, your seedlings of Rhodo mucronulatum, the dwarf form, are also in bud, showing deep purple on plants just 5cms high. Could you remind me of the varietal name please. The taller form flowers every year, pink, in July.
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How wonderful to see the pictures of Cloudhill and those darling men, all of them, but specially Marcus and Otto. Looks like a great day too. I love Cloudhill, the only garden apart from Sissinghurst, where I'd happily lie down and die, with no regrets whatever. :)
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Hi Dave,
Here is a photo with more leaf showing and taken from a slightly different angle.
If it is still intact by Friday I can shoot a side view if you would like.
How does one distinguish between T. cuneatum and chloropetalum - if its okay to ask?
You showed a beautiful collection of trilliums on the bulb thread.
I have very few. Still learning…
Jacqui.
Thank you Jacqui
I'm no expert ..still learning every single day .
Here's of a pic I took today of a yummy coloured form of Trillium chloropetalum and a close up of a flower which I think is a good example of some T. chloropetalum petal shapes.
However T. chloropetalum varies quite a lot and I still have difficulty figuring out at a glance,(without having to inspect/measure the length of stamens/and whether connectives extend beyond the anther sacs ......and so on :o), whether plants I've raised from seed are in fact T. chloropetalum var giganteum or T. kurabayashii or whatever.
Sorry none of my T . cuneatums are in bloom that I could use as a comparison . Most of mine come up as very dark foliage then fade....I was going to say all of mine come up dark however I can''t remember what my T. cuneatum 'silver leaf' comes up like....and I've forgotten for the moment where it is planted....... ::)
Cheers Dave.
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Lovely pics Lesley .
I would suggest your friends Scilla is S.rosenii . Although mine are in bloom they are not at that reflexed stage yet.
Having some 'down' time this 'arvo' I finally decided I'd had enough of Monty our dog deliberately skidding on the moss that is supposedly our lawn ...... >:( so I decided to create some more garden beds .
Being a lowly paid landscaper ;D I couldn't afford any timber for the edging between the planned gravel paths and beds so I used some of the native branches from our wood pile instead..
I'll turn the moss/soil over by hand over in the next week taking care to weed a couple small patches of buttercup and it shouldn't take too long to plant out .It will a relief to liberate numerous pots mainly of of Trilliums and Hellebores ......
In the only part of the lawn that's left now I filled in the depressions created by the removal of some pavers with used potting mix.
Cheers Dave.
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Bit of a problem nailing 'em down Dave? :P
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Dave,
you didn't have to go to all that trouble just because you are having 2 lots of overseas visitors ;D
I'm looking forward to seeing it in person!
Sad to say, we might miss out on the flowering of this Puya in our garden - after a dozen years, it is finally producing a spike, I just hope the "pups" around it continue on,
cheers
fermi
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I'd like name please for the Ipheion? Nothoscordum? and the Scilla, and oh yes, the Tulipa as well.
I think the tulip is probably tulipa humilis Persian Pearl.
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I've been whining on for weeks if not months about how cold the winter has been this year and now I can produce the proof! Or I will be able to in a few days or a week or so. For the first time ever, Diapensia lapponica is going to flower!!! I counted 3 buds yesterday and today there are 10. I don't know how long they'll take to come out but I'll be waiting with baited breath - as the cat said to the mouse - camera in hand.;D The whole plant, so wonderfully dark red through winter, changed to bright green in just a couple of days a couple of weeks ago.
John, your seedlings of Rhodo mucronulatum, the dwarf form, are also in bud, showing deep purple on plants just 5cms high. Could you remind me of the varietal name please. The taller form flowers every year, pink, in July.
To flower that Diapensia in your climate is quite a feat. See what a good Canadian winter can do for you.....
The R. mucronulatum I got in the 80's as R. mucronulatum 'Cheju', it had been collected on Cheju not very many years before that and was quite the rage amongst rhodophiles. It should never have been called 'Cheju' as it was a seed strain not a selection, it also was sold as var. chejuensis; there was a selected form - or was it really just another seed strain? Think so.- called 'Crater's Edge' which to me looked no better than my "Cheju" itself or selfed seedlings. Meanwhile the taxonomists got at it and it's now R. mucronulatum var. taquetii which I invariably spell incorrectly. Place it where eventually you will be able to see its immense fat trunk.
A Hokkaido friend says to cut out any long shoots that appear, if cut out the plant will not send out another for a few years, if allowed to grow it could overtake the slower growth. He says it happens in the wild and if that long shoot gets killed by cold the plant stays dwarf - almost like a clever feeler to test the weather.
john - predicted for today +27c feeling like +32c, Diapensia will be cringing.
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Thanks Carolyn,that's quite likely as my friend has bought such bulbs for maybe 50 years and I'm sure the 'Persian Pearl' :) selection was offered maybe in the 80s by the late Jim Lecomte. Wish I had bought it myself. One to look for.
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Thanks Carolyn,that's quite likely as my friend has bought such bulbs for maybe 50 years and I'm sure the 'Persian Pearl' :) selection was offered maybe in the 80s by the late Jim Lecomte. Wish I had bought it myself. One to look for.
It's still available in the UK, not that that's much help to you. The flowers don't last long, but are a joy on a sunny spring day.
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Jamus, technically we can grow oncocyclus iris down here (iris iberica elegantissima from Otto, below) as well as trilliums (T. rivale dark leaf form from Viv). However in the 2 years I've had this iris I haven't had any flowers.
Show me flowers Jon. I haven't flowered any yet either so I'm hesitant to make any claims about my abilities to grow them, but it is heartening that you've kept Iris iberica elegantissima alive for two years at least, despite your soggy environment.
I got home from work a bit early today and spent an hour moving more oncos into the new raised bed. They are all looking very good at this stage.
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Hi Jamus, Jon,
Speaking of oncocyclus, there is hope for us as they flower in even soggier places. in Hobart!
If you look back at this Southern Hemisphere thread on October 31st 2013, Marcus showed the iris Iberia elegantissima flowering, plus a couple of others.
Jacqui.
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Good work Jacqui! Although Hobart isn't as soggy as you would think. It's Australia's 2nd driest capital city, after Adelaide (according to the University of Tasmania's website). Maybe Marcus could shed some light on how he was able to achieve flowering?
Jamus - maybe this year will be the year they flower. Fingers crossed! They have multiplied though which I suppose is a good sign.
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Today David Glenn led garden tours in his garden to show people many of the bulbs which he grows at "Burnside", his home and Lambley Nursery at Ascot, near Ballarat in Central Victoria.
Here are some pics:
firstly, the man himself amidst Anemone pavonina in the Dry Garden;
Yucca and bulbs;
Euphorbia and ipheion;
Helleborus lividus
cheers
fermi
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Diapensia lapponica is going to flower!!! I counted 3 buds yesterday and today there are 10.
My word that t00lie is a piece of work! I had literally not shut down my PC when he was on the phone about the Diapensia. From now on he'll be known as Doubting Thomas t00lie ;D So sceptical was he about my Diapensia going to flower that he hot-footed it up the road yesterday (about 2 hours' trip), in order to prove me wrong. When he said on the phone he was coming up, I panicked and wondered had I had an optical illusion about the buds so tore out to look but no, all is as I said and yesterday there were 16 buds! Dave duly arrived, confirmed I hadn't been deluded and prostrated himself in apology (whether to the Diapensia or to me I'm not sure), and on the gravel driveway which must have been cold and uncomfortable following rain (more snow this morning. I don't believe it!). That will teach him not to believe his Granny. ;D ;D ;D
Actually Dave was on his way north to Christchurch yesterday for the NZAGS Show which starts today, then tomorrow. Wish I were able to go up too. :(
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Jamus, PM coming but later today. Rushed.
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Some really beautiful plants Mel, magnificent fritillaria and saxifrages.
Dave, I really love hepaticas. What a fantastic show you have.
Do you have a big collection?
Jacqui.
Thanks Jacqui
have been loving your photos as well, need to start getting into the habit of going on line each week and adding photos
Mel
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One little offering for the day.
A cyclamen rhodium f. vividum kindly gifted by Marcus a couple of months ago.
Talk about hot pink!
Quite different to the C. repandum I posted earlier (with identity confusion) :-\
Jacqui
the cyclamen rhodium f. vividum is fantastic Jacqui and Marcus
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Last Saturday the Victorian branch of the Alpine Garden Society hosted a lecture by Chris and Basak Gardner authors and photographers of “Flora of the Silk Road”, which traced their personal odyssey for flowers along the old silk trade route. A genuine delight, I would recommend them to any SRGC members who have an opportunity to see them. Thank you to the organisers for their trouble in organising it.
Two small offerings from the garden:
1. The first bloom of Paeonia kesrouanensis – Thank you Marcus.
2. Trillium cuneatum (at least I think so).
Jacqui.
Oh my gosh Jacqui the Paeoia kesrouanensis is breathtaking, must try and source seed of it
Mel
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I had the pleasure yesterday of meeting Richard and Bronwyn Illman and having an extensive personal tour, ahead of the rush today when their garden is open as part of the SA open garden scheme.
Lovely people and so knowledgeable. I even came away with a couple of treats, a Clematis and a Dianthus. :)
Below are a few pictures of things of interest in their garden.
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following on from above, Richwyn garden;
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Here's the taller of my two dwarf Watsonias. I have been told it may be a hybrid of W. laccata.
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a glorious sunny warm spring day here ,so I took photos of just a few of many plants in flower . I am fond of the yellow Fritillarias .
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a few more
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the last ones
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Really beautiful Otto, thank you for taking the time to do that for us. Doesn't sunny weather make you want to run and grab your camera? You have incredible Fritillaria species there, and Erythroniums! You weren't joking the other day when you said you have thousands.
I visited a wonderful garden today; Sheringa, the garden of Dianne (Danni) and Andy Kaines at Carey Gully. It was absolutely beautiful Otto, you would have loved it. Here's a link to the photos I took today, for anyone who's interested. Danni is a real plant collector and a lovely lady. - https://goo.gl/photos/V1WqtbFTYey6G1HZ7 (https://goo.gl/photos/V1WqtbFTYey6G1HZ7)
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Oh goodness – such a lot of beautiful flower photos since last I looked.
Otto’s garden is a picture with its sea of Erythroniums and Scilla. The tinge of green on all the yellow fritillaries pictured is very attractive - some fine examples holding their own in Otto’s rock garden.
Hi Mel, if the P. kesrouanensis sets seed I will send you some – but not sure it will this year, as this is its very first flowering.. Then again, Marcus or Otto may know where to access some.
A few sunny days and the garden is finally popping into Spring.
1. Little pom-pom blooms of fothergilla
2. The weeping branches of Exochorda macrantha are smothered in white
3. The weird and wonderful spikes of Bellevalia dubia (kindly gifted by Marcus)
4. Racemes of the early spiketail Stachyurus praecox draped like so many pearl necklaces
5. Tiny crinkled buttery blooms of Saruma henry opening (from the treasure chest of Lynn McGough)
Jacqui
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A few from the weekend. We had lovely weather; I feel almost like I've had too much sun!
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This little Moraea aristata came originally from Danni Kaines. This is the most flowers I've ever had at one time.
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I'm embarrassed to say I don't remember planting this tulip, but it was a lovely surprise when it opened the other day! No idea where it came from.
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Erythronium revolutum x californicum, looking magnificent. I can't stop admiring it!
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Tropaeolum tricolor in full swing.
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Fragaria 'Pink Panda', very sweet thank you Otto. :)
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Tropaeolum tricolor does well in hanging pots.
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The path leading up to the rock garden.
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So many photographs after a sunny day or two! Spring fever? ;)
James, your landscaping is superb. Absolutely beautiful.
And nice way of concatenating your photos - how DID you retain resolution?
Jacqui.
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Thank you Jacqui, like you I'm a "new" gardener and my garden is still young, but I'm proud of what I have achieved and looking forward to me and the garden settling in. When I visit people like Danni, as I did yesterday I am reminded just how much I have to learn. She bought that property and started gardening in that spot three years before I was born! I don't feel that young and she doesn't seem old enough, but that's the reality of it.
Regarding photos and their presentation on the forum; I'll send you an email rather than clutter up this thread with technical talk.
A couple more
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Hi Guys,
What a wonderful time for us Southerners!
Delicious photos and lovely stories, anecdotes.
For those interested I will be posting a series of articles on fritillaries of the Eastern Aegean and the Turkish coast over the next couple of weeks and these will include references to most of the species Otto posted here a couple of days ago. http://hillviewrareplants.com.au/marcus-harveys-notes-and-ramblings (http://hillviewrareplants.com.au/marcus-harveys-notes-and-ramblings)
Mel and Jacqui, I have seed of that paeony listed in my latest catalogue.
Cheers, Marcus
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Most likely my only chance to see your beautifully landscaped garden here on the Forum Jamus . The Adelaide Hills are too far away now for me . I like the play between light and shade and also like large tasteful pots as garden ornaments - planted or not . Also enjoyed the photos of the plants in Danni and Andy Kaines's garden , I constructed this garden 'DOSHONG LA' 40 years ago , almost as long ago as Danni's . Please ask her where she bought her bulbs of Fritillaria persica . The photo of my Erythroniums was only a portion of the entire mass . Noticed a few self sown seedlings in flower of crosses between Eryth.
oregonum and hendersonii - lovely .
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Having some 'down' time this 'arvo' I finally decided I'd had enough of Monty our dog deliberately skidding on the moss that is supposedly our lawn ...... >:( so I decided to create some more garden beds .
I'll turn the moss/soil over by hand over in the next week taking care to weed a couple small patches of buttercup and it shouldn't take too long to plant out .It will a relief to liberate numerous pots mainly of of Trilliums and Hellebores ......
In the only part of the lawn that's left now I filled in the depressions created by the removal of some pavers with used potting mix.
Cheers Dave.
New woodland area update --gravel paths in , new beds mulched --about 40 Trilliums ready to be planted out this weekend as well as a number of Dactylorhiza and Hellebore .
Still heaps of room left so I might divide some of the small miniature Japanese named Hostas growing in beds elsewhere as well as plant out a number of Erythronium seed pots at the sunnier end nearer the house......
Of course it all looks a bit new so once the plants are in and the surface has settled the beds will receive a light coating of leaf mould from the bush.
Unfortunately the area will be too shady for these pots of flowering weeds..... :)
Cheers Dave.
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Lovely pics from your garden Jamus. I particularly liked the one of your path up to your rock garden, you obviously have an eye for design.
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Today David Glenn led garden tours in his garden to show people many of the bulbs which he grows at "Burnside", his home and Lambley Nursery at Ascot, near Ballarat in Central Victoria.
Sorry, I got distracted ;D Here are more pics from "Burnside"
Tulipa clusiana ssp chrysantha
Tulipa clusiana 'Lady Jane'
A cypress lined avenue into the Potager
In the Potager the paths are lined with tulips, wallflowers, Forsythia 'Golden Clusters'; the teepees will be covered by clematis later in the spring and into summer
More rowed out plants in the open paddock
cheers
fermi
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More from "Burnside": we were allowed into the "private" areas where David grows some of his rarer bulbs:
The Frit bed
Fritillaria conica
Fritillaria affinis x 2
Possibly Fritillaria graeca olivieri
cheers
fermi
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Some more from David Glenn's garden:
Dwarf species bearded iris
White DBI -possibly Iris pumila?
Another Fritillaria affinis
Anemone blanda
Another anemone - ? A.hortensis
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Some more from David Glenn's garden:
A bright red (?species?) tulip
Fritillaria tuntasia x2
A daphne
A different looking Fritillaria (conica) probably carica (Thanks, Marcus)
cheers
fermi
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Hi Fermi,
Great to see all those bulbs at David's. Thanks for posting the pictures. David is usually thought of as a perennial man but, as the pics confirm, he has a soft spot for dwarf bulbs.
Just a couple of observations: in the first batch you identify one as being possibly Fritillaria graeca. I think this is F. olivierii, possibly from Otto.
The "other fritillaria" is F. affinis, possibly previously known as F. mutica.
The other different looking F. conica looks like F. carica.
Cheers, Marcus
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Otto, I would guess that Danni would have grown the Frit. persica from seed, but she also used to import bulbs herself, like many of you here did as well. I will ask her but I'm letting her recover from the trauma of the open garden before I hassle her. She is more of a plant person than a people person, which I can fully relate to myself!
When I visit lambley I shall drop plenty of hints about Fritillaries and hopefully he'll offer to give me the behind the scenes tour too...
Here's the view from our kitchen window this morning... I'm loving the spring bounty.
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Marcus ,yes it is Frit. olivierii which came to me in the 1960s from Paul Furse . I wish it would flower more freely in my garden -hundreds ( thousands ) of rice grain bulblets and hardly a flowering stem . David does better in his garden : hot dry summers and cold winters with frosts . He ought to try the Turkish Oncos .
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Gee 'Burnside' sure do the Frits well.....
Here's my contribution --label says F. purdyi which obviously it isn't. :'( :'(
I suspect F. crassifolia ssp kurdica .
Cheers Dave.
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Hi Dave,
It does look like that taxon though most of mine are a bit more squat. How did you get a changeling so far removed from what the label says?? ;D
Cheers, Marcus
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I've heard it mentioned on many occasions Marcus that one Frit. is just like another .... ;)
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I think you're getting mixed up with snowdrops Dave ;)
However I do recall Reggie Farrer referring to frits as a bunch of green and brown stinking bells!
Cheers, Marcus
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Hi Mel, Marcus's Paeonia kesrou-thingy is available from him as he says but isn't on the permitted list. However, its name has been changed from P. mascula var russii and that IS on the list so can be imported under that name legally. Same plant, just a name change. Wish they wouldn't do that! Ask Marcus to put that it is a synonym. :D
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Hi Guys,
Just a few snaps from the garden today:
Erythronium "Hascombe" a revolutum hybrid given to me by Otto.
Jeffersonia diphylla a lovely little thing and tough!
Paeonia mascula ssp hellenica bought from Dr Pilous many moons ago.
Cheers, Marcus
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Beautiful flowers Marcus. Don't know how you do it!
Jacqui.
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Jeffersonia diphylla a lovely little thing and tough!
That really is lovely - those leaves have a really striking structure. Love it.
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Hello all.
We have had a magical combination of sunshine and rain this last couple of weeks in Melbourne. Spring blossom of all descriptions, tiny leaves unfurling and little perennials poking their noses up through the soil.
1. The beautiful white flowered form of Cercis canadensis
2. Its much more vivid relative, Cercis chinensis “Avondale” coming into leaf
3. The spring vetchling, Lathyrus vernus
4. New quince leaves of furry silver
5. Narcissus gracilis – very poetic.
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Beautiful Jacqui, very springish indeed! I will take some of the spring bounty here this afternoon and offer up some more treats to make our Northern hemisphere cousins squirm in anticipation of the spring.
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Spring is a wonderful time of renewal: here's a bunch of Babiana patula blazing forth from a rocky outcrop near here 8)
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Hi Guys,
Intriguing flowers, the babiana is exotic. Nothing like that poking over a rock here :(
Great to see your pictures Jacqui. I would love that Cercis with the white flowers.
Used to grow a lot of peas. Gave them all to my Mum.
Here are a couple of snaps from the garden today. Forgive my ignorance on matters trillium.
Trillium kurabashyi Yellowish flowers
Trillium cuneatum White flowers
Trillium cuneatum Red flowers
Cheers, Marcus
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Too busy to take many pictures today, but I HAD to capture this PCI with water droplets on it.
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The white trillium has very fine leaves Marcus.
Cuneatum is a lovely species.
Hi jamus. Pretty iris. I await more delights tomorrow. :)
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Marcus I've never seen a Trillium as white as that cuneatum. I love it! I'm not really a fan of the yellows and have always preferred flowering Trilliums, but white is very special. At Danni Kaines' open garden she was selling T. cuneatum in flower, but at $35 a pop I passed up the offer.
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Hi Jupiter,
Those pots of Danni's look scrumptious! I'll post a couple of pictures of Trillium albidum later on today. I prefer the dark ones but I love the crisp whiteness of T. grandiflorum and T. ovatum.
Cheers, M
PS Lovely picture of the iris.
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A few whites
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I can't find the name of this daffodil. Not like me to lose names!
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Spiraea cantoniensis
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Artemisia ludoviciana Valerie Finnis
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Agrostemma githago ocean pearls
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I can't find the name of this daffodil. Not like me to lose names!
Hi Jamus,
Probably 'Xit'
cheers
fermi
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Jamus, you could make a cesspit look alluring. The corn cockle looks a princess, as does the narcissus.
I hope for a photography lesson from you one day.
Another glorious day and more leaves unfurling. Roses in bud and, predictably, the first sign of aphids
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Today’s Spring offerings.
1. Geranium x lindavicum “Apple Blossom” – a treasure received from Marcus. The left hand photo shows its delicate silver foliage, whilst the right shows an inscribed and ever-so-slightly crumpled flower.
2. Fragaria “pink panda?” is a beautiful thing, kindly gifted by Otto.
3. Thymus longicaulis (Marcus – wasn’t there a story attached to it?)
4. This primrose epimedium is a favourite. Not absolutely sure which it is though. Possibly frohnleiten.
5. My new best friend (and garden sentry) inspecting the persimmon. Hopefully laying eggs.
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Thanks Fermi, that does sound right.
Here are a couple more.
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N. poeticus (hybrid?)
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Just a tulip about to drop its petals
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Jacqui, snap! Mine is going well in the rock garden.
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Your Geranium Apple Blossom is beautiful... I love that. I'll look out for that one, or maybe in a few years you'll have enough to spare me a little division? :)
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Hi jamus,
It is a lovely thymus isn't it. Perfect in your rock garden.
I'm sure I'll be able to spare some of the geranium cross next season. It didn't like the pot but once in the ground it mounded beautifully.
Jacqui.
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I'll trade you for something when the time comes Jacqui. :) Be sure to let me know if you ever find yourself in Adelaide.
Edit: Otto, if you're reading this (I know you will) I caught up with Dannie and she said the seed came from Jellito probably ten years ago. She said it was so long to flower it was a surprise when it did bloom, and it died back so quickly she thought she'd lost the plant! However it has flowered every year since and is multiplying well. She has plants of ivory bells also raised from seed which she wants to plant in the same bed. I'll be sure to take photographs of the two together if and when they flower in synchrony.
Here it is again for your viewing pleasure:
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Hi Guys,
Great photos!
Jacqui I think I might have told you that David Glenn obtained the thyme from Beth Chatto's nursery. Suzie and I saw it growing in Epirus in northern Greece. Also, regards the little geranium Apple Blossom, it remains a bun so you have to strike cuttings but do this in the late summer.
Just a few more out of focus snaps from the garden:
Primula vulgaris ssp sibthorpii - this form is a beauty and a gift from Otto.
Corydalis integra - pretty species with beautiful grey-green leaves
Daphne blagyana - not difficult if things don't dry out to arid. Just hard to get.
Cheers, Marcus
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Hi
Jupiter, your flower is not N. poeticus but a hybrid. I have attached a photo of a what is close to the species and a modern hybrid (Bright Angel).
Marcus, what are the names of the Erythronium and Fritillaria in the photos?
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The other photos.
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Stunning selection of frits Graham and Marcus.
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Hi Graham,
The yellow erythronium looks to be "Pagoda"
The pink one looks to be E. revolutum
The greenish-yellow fritillaria is F. bithynica
The other two fritillaria, I'm sure you know, are F. acmopetala and F. pontica
Cheers, Marcus
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Marcus , Jacqui and Jamus : lovely spring blossoms from your gardens . Beautiful as Thymus longicaulis is , it soon covers square meters ,so watch it . Jacqui next time you visit I show you which growth is suitable for cuttings to take of Geranium 'Apple Blossom ' .
Thanks Jamus for the details of Dannie's Frit . persica . Like F. imperialis a long time to reach the flowering stage : 7-8 years here . Would she consider selling a bulb or two to me ?
3 pots of my darkest coloured Trillium rivale , also of the normal coloured one of which hundreds of self sown seedlings appear in the most unexpected spots in the garden .
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Thanks for the warning regarding T. longicaulis Otto. I will steel myself for a fight. I'll be going to see Dannie later in the week to pick up a Dodecatheon. I'll mention that you're in the market for a Fritillaria persica.
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Thank you Otto – I would really appreciate the instruction. And such beautiful trilliums in the photos –the dark one is very special. I shall heed your warnings re the thymus!
Your generous box of treasures is all planted out and the newcomers seem to be settling into the garden beds. Very exciting! Also the fresh seeds gathered from one of your martagons in April are sprouting! Fingers crossed they keep going long enough to form bulblets.
Marcus, what a glorious show: daphne, primula and corydalis. Not at all out of focus.
1. Contrasting foliage of Anthriscus sylvestris “ravenswing”, the monkshood Aconitum delphinifolium and the dainty Geranium macrorrhizum “snow sprite”.
2. The rose bed is only now bursting into life. Only foliage as yet, except for the allium neapolitanum that has been flowering happily for a month.
3. An exceptionally graceful Japanese epimedium cultivar that I recently divided, anticipating the worst. All three ‘babies’ are flourishing!
4. This helleborus sternii donated by Marcus has the prettiest foliage I have seen. It is only a young plant as yet.
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Hi Jacqui,
Wow! What a beautiful slew of plants. I love the first picture with the contrasting foliage. Where did you get that aconitum? I gave one to Suzie last year and now it's thriving. It was a gift from Essie Huxley many moons ago. I didn't know it was around.
Cheers, Marcus
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Thanks Jamus for the details of Dannie's Frit . persica . Like F. imperialis a long time to reach the flowering stage : 7-8 years here . Would she consider selling a bulb or two to me ?
Otto, is it the particular form you're after? If not, I could give you a bulb or two.
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Hi Marcus, thanks.
I love the foliage too.
In that photo, the geranium was from Dan Magnus at Woodbridge nursery, the anthriscus I believe from you and he aconitum from Shirley and Jane Tonkin.
The foliage on your helleborus sternii is a goodly step up on that of H. argutifolius, which I have always thought beautiful.
Jacqui.
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Sorry for not talking about plants this time but, every time I see Jamus' signature I smile, because it reminds me of my favourite short poem by Emily Dickinson:
“I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there’s a pair of us—don’t tell!
They’d banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems ;D
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Hi Guys,
Just a few more random snaps I had in my September file.
Tulipa Purissima - Common fosteriana selection but I have come to like more and more.
Trillium albidum - an outstanding species
Fritillaria kotschyana - a weirdly variable species from Azerbaijan. This an Archibald collection. It looks vigorous but it has very poor pollen production and so hard to obtain viable seed.
Cheers, Marcus
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Love the poem Rogan.
It brings fond memories of when my mother read us poems and stories at bedtime.
Purissima is a really nice tulip Marcus. Lovely classical form but with a hint of the untamed.
And that trillium would be gorgeous in any setting.
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Thank you for that little poem Rogan, I hadn't heard that before. I love it! I keep bumping into enormous egos and it endlessly grates on me, hence my self depreciating signature. You'd think a pass-time like gardening would be fairly relaxed and amicable and cordial, but I keep meeting folks who garden like it's an Olympic sport.
Here are a few weeds from my garden which pleased me today.
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Ferarria crispa is a strange and beautiful thing...
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Trachystemon orientalis is a new favourite of mine in the woodland garden.
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Papaver atlanticum ages gracefully...
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Not flowering yet but I couldn't resist posting early - Aquilegia saximontana is going to bloom in the rock garden!
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The latest pacific coast hybrid to bloom. Some here will call it showy, but I like it.
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These are sown now... it'll be nice if I get seedlings from my own plants.
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Rebecca grows a patch of Nuncs every year. They are very bright and springish; I particularly enjoy the reds.
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Hi Jacqui, I have a few seedlings of Trillium albidum in a pot. You can have them when you come down. I can't give you any of my pink grandiflorum but if any of their seeds germinate you're welcome to them. Just gotta remember where I put them :-\
Jamus your photographs are stunning and have made me look differently at a number of plants I wouldn't have have given a second glance. Love your soil-printed hand and the galanthus seeds and pod. Hard won treasure ... prodigious instruction distilled within ... a love letter that will give you twice the pleasure because it takes a little longer to arrive.
Cheers, Marcus
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My hands are frequently wrecked from rock gardening without gloves, but they heal within a week; just in time for the next weekend's abrasive, erosive punishment. Rebecca doesn't mind my "brick layer's hands". Lucky for me she doesn't wear nylon stockings!
I apologise for posting ordinary garden plants but I'd rather post a nice photograph of a common plant than a bad one of a rare plant... that's just me.
I had a visit today from Richard Illman. Some of you may have met him or crossed paths with him? Always nice to talk with a fellow plantsman. Someone who appreciates my garden for more than just a pretty space.
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Hi jamus,
Which ordinary plants? You have a most unusual bunch of critters. If you mean the ranunculus - they are gorgeous. Such a deep red. I might try some next season.
I've always thought the ferraria quite bizarre - yet in your hands there is a sheen to it. The aquilegia looks like a tiny blue squid!
Marcus, you are generous. Would really love to try some trillium albidus.
Jacqui.
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I apologise for posting ordinary garden plants....
There's no such thing, Jamus, they're all special!
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Hi Jamus,
My previous (clumsy) comment was not intended as a slight but apologies anyway. We all have our predelictions. My comment was purely based on that not and on whether it was common or otherwise.
Your skills as gardener and photographer are sublime.
Cheers, Marcus
PS I can't take anything but bad photos ;D
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I didn't take offense Marcus... I just wish I had trillium and fritillaria to compare to those you're sharing with us. Thanks for your kind words!
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And I wish I could take photos like you! It all takes time and you have plenty of it. Cheers, M