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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: johnralphcarpenter on May 01, 2016, 08:22:15 PM
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Camellia 'Nuncio's Carousel'.
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Nothing so bright over here, but there is also beauty in rain droplets ;)
Podophyllum peltatum, Trillium luteum and E. brachyrrhizum 'Elfin Magic'.
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A few flowering plants from our Sacramento garden from a few days ago.
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Castilleja foliolosa aff. I need to take the time to properly identify this species. I had it labeled (from seed) as C. applegatei, however it is clearly not this species. It lacks the short glandular-sticky hairs and long non-glandular hairs of C. applegatei, as well as the wavy leaf margin. A natural hybrid is possible, however I doubt this too. One of these days when I am not busy (when is that! :) ) I'll take the time to give it a closer look. Anyway it is very pretty and I will enjoy it in our garden.
This species has proven to be easily cultivated in our garden.
P.S. I keyed out the Castilleja this morning..... C. affinis ssp affinis. :)
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Dianthus alpinus, or something close to it.
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Layia gailardioides
Another one of our California native annuals. This species is generally found in the coastal mountains of California, however I found a small patch in northern El Dorado County, California. This species has been in bloom for 6 plus weeks now and will not quit blooming anytime soon, although hot weather will put an end to its bloom cycle.
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Primula japonica. This species is easy to grow despite our summer heat.
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A nice Sisyrinchium hybrid. The flowers are quite large, twice the size of S. bellum. They will also bloom for a month or so.
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Nothing so bright over here, but there is also beauty in rain droplets ;)
Lovely Gabriela. I love taking photos with rain droplets too.
Unfortunately we have rather too much beauty at the moment...! If it ever stops raining I'll try to get out.
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Look what I found flowering in the garden today ....... flourishing in the sun after a shower of rain
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Alan Gardner from Falkirk, his cousin Ken from Dyce, Ian Young from Aberdeen(!) and Clay Koplin from Cordova, Alaska
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Did you say flowers Maggi?
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Did you say flowers Maggi?
Errrr, ummmm, yes........ well, you know, they smelled nice.....
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With Clay braving the Aberdeen weather in just his shirtsleeves! :o
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With Clay braving the Aberdeen weather in just his shirtsleeves! :o
Well, y'know, Alaskan, Mayor of his town - general tough guy!
Actually, it was pretty nice - it's just that the Scots know enough about the changeable weather not to risk taking their jackets off!
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Look what I found flowering in the garden today ....... flourishing in the sun after a shower of rain
Alan Gardner from Falkirk, his cousin Ken from Dyce, Ian Young from Aberdeen(!) and Clay Koplin from Cordova, Alaska
What a gorgeous group of flowers :D
Lovely Gabriela. I love taking photos with rain droplets too.
Unfortunately we have rather too much beauty at the moment...! If it ever stops raining I'll try to get out.
I’m sure soon it will and the sun will shine! Have a look at this Erythronium I found in a nice population - decided it had enough with the cloudy weather and adopted a funny pose by himself. :)
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More blooming plants for our Sacramento garden.
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Lilium pumilum
Simple and beautiful.
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The first open flowers on our California native annual, Collinsia tinctoria. The molted foliage is distinctive and nice too.
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A confused Gentiana newberryi. A fairly common high elevation California native. As I can, I grow a batch of seedlings. This is the only seedling with flowers. The others are in growth but no flowers. :-\
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Robert - the Castilleja is nice. I tried a similar one a few years ago but it was best described as a resounding failure :( Which is much what I'm expecting of the 2016 growing season if I'm honest. So in the absence of any new blooms I'll post the following..................
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They're Eucomis "Sparkling Burgundy" bulbs which were started off from leaf cuttings in August 2014 and have just emerged from their first winter dormancy. As they were still in the original pot and compost it was time to pot them up and the largest was about 25mm in diameter.
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Some things in flower here now:
Adonis aestivalis
Androsace sempervivoides
Arisaema thunbergii subsp. urashima
Cypripedium formosanum
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Erythronium 'Kinfauns Pink'
Iberis saxatilis 'Pygmaea'
Oxalis laciniata 'Matthew Forest'
Paeonia tenuifolia
Primula auricula 'Dale's Red'
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Primula auricula 'Dusky Yellow'
Primula auricula 'Lintz'
Primula auricula 'Prince of Orange'
Primula 'Garnet Cowichan'
Primula marginata 'Nana'
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Primula sieboldii 'Snowflake'
Ranunculus parnassifolius
Scilla amoena
Tulipa 'Absalon'
Tulipa aximensis
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Tulipa 'Insulinde'
Tulipa platystigma
Uvularia grandiflora 'Gold Leaved Form'
Uvularia sessilifolia 'Cobblewood Gold'
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Took Clay Koplin out on a botanical expedition and we hit our targets of Primula vulgaris and Viola canina perfectly.
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From the garden today,
Lewisia tweedyi
Degenia velebitica growing on tufa wall
Primula marginata Linda Pope on tufa wall
Glaucidium palmatum, first time flowering from seed
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Lovely plants there Mike.
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Thanks David, a little warm weather & out they come.
Two more from today.
Lewisia tweedyi apricot/yellow a self sown seedling in the raised bed in the alpine house
Berneuxia thibetica x 2, leaves have been attacked by very tiny caterpillas
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My goodness - that Berneuxia is a bosker! Well done on that, chewed leaves or not!
Up here out Glaucidium is only just emerging through the soil.
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My goodness - that Berneuxia is a bosker! Well done on that, chewed leaves or not!
Up here out Glaucidium is only just emerging through the soil.
Bosker? That coldframe pot ;) looks like The Garden of Earthly Delights! :o
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Bosker? That coldframe looks like The Garden of Earthly Delights! :o
My goodness - that Berneuxia is a bosker! Well done on that, chewed leaves or not!
Up here out Glaucidium is only just emerging through the soil.
John the plants are in 90 ltr pots packed with peat blocks & left uncovered at all times
except for a large, upturned plastic coated wire hanging basket frame, to keep the blackbird out.
Bosker Maggi, that sounds like it must mean its OK
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Two decent days in the past 4 days and things are moving here. Primula vulgaris ssp. sibthorpii 'Dr. Borgeson' has been in flower since late February and no signs of slowing down. Is there a UK primula nursery I could contact to see if it is in production over there? Apparently the good doctor, a specialist in marine algae, was from New Zealand and brought it along with other plants to Denmark.
Paeonia tomentosa from Don Armstrong
Erythronium revolutum (?) - have a tough time getting these going
Primula marginata Dwarf f. from Jim Sutherland
Primula vulgaris ssp. sibthorpii 'Dr. Borgeson'
john - a chilly +6c and intermittent heavy rain.
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Bosker Maggi, that sounds like it must mean its OK
I've always thought it was a Scots word, but I think it is widely held to be Australian! Yes, is means "very good" "top-hole" "spiffing" ..... take your pick!
( The Aussies seem to use it as an adjective rather than a noun)
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..............Primula vulgaris ssp. sibthorpii 'Dr. Borgeson' has been in flower since late February and no signs of slowing down. Is there a UK primula nursery I could contact to see if it is in production over there? Apparently the good doctor, a specialist in marine algae, was from New Zealand and brought it along with other plants to Denmark............................
Never heard of this one John and can't find reference to it on Google or on any of the Web Sites of Nurseries I know of doing Primulas. I think, these days, anyone who tried to get the real plant of ssp sibthorpii would be disappointed.
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Lovely day today, as it was yesterday too. Some colour from the garden:-
Iberis, subspecies not known. I had thought it to be something like 'fischerii' but don't see this or similar on the The Plant List.
Phlox bifida in white
Phlox bifida blue. Would these stand a haircut after flowering please, just to keep them to a reasonable clump?
Aethionema 'Warley Rose' Cracking value plant, will be flowering it's socks off until Autumn then gets a haircut.
Bergenia 'Mrs Crawford'. A small, well-behaved Bergenia bought last year from Beth Chatto's Nursery.
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.... and a few more.
Cassiope (I think this is the cultivar 'Edinburgh') Bought quite a few years now from Potterton's and has sulked in my back garden, with nary a single flower, until last year when Barry Starling advised me to move it into full sun.
Penstemon 'Six Hills'
Ajuga, no idea what ssp it might be, I just love the colour
Corydalis a nice lost label blue Corydalis
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Corydalis a nice lost label blue Corydalis
David, this looks very like C. Blue Heron. Lovely plant, good foliage and flower.
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John, very nice Primula vulgaris ssp sibthorpii! :)
Here are some pictures from yesterday. This is the time of year when I would need more hours in a day than there is, to enjoy the garden and also to have time to do everything (besides real work).
Corydalis are flowering and I love them! Also Hellebores are soon at their best, there are still many buds.
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David, this looks very like C. Blue Heron. Lovely plant, good foliage and flower.
Thanks for that Carolyn you could well be right, I'm sure I bought one a couple of a years ago.
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David, very nice plants you have there, all looking wonderful.
Lewisia brachycalyx I think, from seed but no label anymore. Could anyone confirm the name?
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Very nice L. brachycalyx, Mike - looks pure enough to me. Mind you, it's a while since I grew many lewisias :-X
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I'm not sure Mike, it looks an awful lot like an old picture I have of Lewisia 'Phyllellia' raised by Joe Elliott in the 1950's (L. brachycalyx x L. cotyledon. Martin Rogerson or Michael Campbell might be better qualified than I to say.
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Very nice L. brachycalyx, Mike - looks pure enough to me. Mind you, it's a while since I grew many lewisias :-X
Thanks Maggi. I feed the local blackbirds & they nick my labels.
I'm not sure Mike, it looks an awful lot like an old picture I have of Lewisia 'Phyllellia' raised by Joe Elliott in the 1950's (L. brachycalyx x L. cotyledon. Martin Rogerson or Michael Campbell might be better qualified than I to say.
Thanks David, will wait to see what happens with other comments.
Lewisia Lttle Peach seed was dropped onto my raised bed last year & it has germinated like cress.
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That's a good crop of seedlings!
Yes, Martin R or Michael will know better ..... I'll only put ten bob on it, just in case!
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Better late than never, Iris japonica has opened its first blooms..........
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The Hippeastrum is looking very blousy now.............
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The season is progressing very fast here. The garden is different with every hour
1. Gentiana favratii gives strikingly blue colour
2. Tiny seed-grown Androsacea matildae
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A superbly coloured wee gentian Oleg!
Paeonia caucasica -The foliage was slightly damaged by a late frost though the flower buds were unscathed.
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Notholirion thomsonianum growing in a frame. I find this species flowers best when not re-potted each year.
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Viola pedata.
Viola pedata bicolour.
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Collinsia tinctoria well into bloom now.
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Collinsia tinctoria is an annual and native to California. I have these growing next to Collinsia heterophylla. Collinsia tinctoria begins blooming at least a month later than C. heterophylla. This is true even with wild populations.
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The garden is looking pretty now.
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Lamprocapnos / Dicentra spectabilis, surprisingly completely impervious to the wind here. These were from that well-known horticultural supplier, Morrisons*, and cost me £1 for a packet of 3 plants, all of which looked pretty sick when I bought them. I bought 3 packets on the basis that they didn't cost much, and they have never looked back.
* for non-UK readers this is a supermarket.
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Dicentra formosa 'Langtrees' (or Ivorine - are they the same thing?)
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The red form of Anthyllis vulneraria is starting to look very nice next to the pond (it has its roots below the liner, which is actually quite dry)
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Acer palmatum. I need to weed the forget-me-nots from the strawberry patch, but for the moment they look very pretty.
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Prunus 'Hally Jolivette' Small double incisa-like flowers.
Prunus 'Ukon' Flowers change from pure green to purple stained as they age.
Prunus incisa 'Oshidori'
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First rose opened yesterday, Celine Forrestier. Normally my first is Lady Hillingdon climbing, best know for her comment'when my husband lies upon me, I close my eyes and think of England', which then led to the typical BBC sitcom line 'stuuupid woman', but, never mind, this year I had pruned the girl severely and she needs to recover from having a man have a go at her.
The other shot is of an early Pacific Coast Iris sdl, which has a fascinating mix of tones. The turqouise in thefalls didn't foto well.
The last is an unknown pogon iris, which I seemed to have gathered over the years. Obviously a diploid. Anyone recognise it?
Jamie
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Prunus glandulosa.
Most un-prunus like. Small, about 2' tall. Very slender twigs. I don't think I've ever seen one in anyone else's garden.
Tends to lose branches over the winter.
Easily grown in a pot, but probably (unjustly) unwelcome on the show bench.
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Magnolia laevifolia, and the last M.campbellii of the season.
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Chaenomeles. The double green one is 'Kinshiden'.
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The end of Spring: the last daffodils, and Lathyrus vernus 'Cyaneus'
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Pictures taken at 19:00 this evening.
Asperula suberosa.
Haberlea ferdinandi-coburgii
Polygala calcarea 'Lillet'
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Hardly any buds visible on Haberlea up here, John - and as for that FAT Asperula - it's a monster! Fabulous!
They are all plants which have appeared to great effect at previous Aberdeen SRGC shows, mind you (which have varied from 14 -21st May in other years) so the timing isn't so far out.
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No showy garden plants but common wild spring flowers ;) Been at our summerhouse a few days.
A small dandelion - one of the several hundred species described.
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Armeria maritima
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Cochlearia officinalis. Once an important source for vitamin-C.
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Saxifraga granulata
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Wild gooseberry Ribes uva-crispa
The berries are very tasty when ripe.
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One of the more showy buttercups and one of the earliest in flower Ranunculus auricomus (one of the 500 apomictic species in the auricomus complex!)
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Cowslip Primula veris is very abundant here.
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Cowslip Primula veris is very abundant here.
So it seems!
Good to see lots of fine Spring blooms, Trond.
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So it seems!
Good to see lots of fine Spring blooms, Trond.
It is a lot of them - where the sheep can't reach them. On the other side of the fence is nothing - not even grass, just moss :'(
We can almost compete with Robert these days. Temperatures above 20C!
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Just a few meters behind the forest edge you'll find the wind-flowers Anemone nemorosa in millions. They are chanting the last verse now.
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A few Adoxa moschatellina grow among the windflower.
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Ranunculus ficaria - also common ;D
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20 degrees C - mercy- that's SUMMER! ;)
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20 degrees C - mercy- that's SUMMER! ;)
Couldn't agree more!
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20 degrees C - mercy- that's SUMMER! ;)
Back home they had 26C today - here we had only 21C :-\
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A few violets -
Viola riviniana - I think. Very variable, both the flower colour and shape of the leaves.
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Viola tricolor - the annual form ssp tricolor.
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Viola tricolor - the perennial form ssp curtisii ,I believe as it is perennial.
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Hardly any buds visible on Haberlea up here, John - and as for that FAT Asperula - it's a monster! Fabulous!
Thank you Maggi. :)
In 1990 my wife and I were guests at a wedding held in Comlongon Castle.
On our way home, just over the border, I stopped to fill up with petrol and propped up outside was this buff coloured glazed sink for sale. I cant remember now what I paid for it, but my wife was not well pleased carting “That thing” (as she called it) all the way home in the Ford Escort. (It is 32 inches long, 15 inches wide and 9 inches deep)
I remember driving home and planning what I would plant in it! It was less than a month and it was planted up as shown below! The only original plants are:- Asperula suberosa, Saxifraga edithae ‘Bridget’ and S. x burnatti.
Blimey! . . I didn't realise it was 26 years ago! :o
The Haberlea is about the same age. The Polygala is a cutting I took just over a year ago.
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Trond,
I very much enjoyed seeing all of the spring wildflowers.
We grow Primula veris in our garden here. I would like to have a large drift as pictured in your photograph, maybe wishful thinking with our climatic conditions.
Seeing the Anemone nemorosa on the stump was quite the sight. Great! :)
Viola tricolor ssp. curtisii perennial? It would be very interesting to see if it stayed perennial with our long summers of hot, dry, weather.
Thank you for sharing. I certainly enjoyed! :)
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Viola tricolor ssp. curtisii perennial? It would be very interesting to see if it stayed perennial with our long summers of hot, dry, weather.
Robert, I will look for seed later ;)
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A few more today.
Wood sorrel is one of the few flowering plants in the woods here - except or grasses and the like.
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It is mostly lichen and moss on the barren knolls but some plants seem to do well. These sites dry completely up in the summer.
Spergula morisonii
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You can find larger plants like this Polygonatum odoratum in larger crevices with more soil.
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Also this Polygala amarella(?) enjoy more soil.
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A few pictures of the wood:
Aspens are common in between the pines. This one is heavy attacked by the black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius)
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Ants hive
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Oak
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Evening
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Today....
Rhododendron 'Princess Anne'
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Iris confusa.............
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Thank you Maggi. :)
In 1990 my wife and I were guests at a wedding held in Comlongon Castle.
On our way home, just over the border, I stopped to fill up with petrol and propped up outside was this buff coloured glazed sink for sale. I cant remember now what I paid for it, but my wife was not well pleased carting “That thing” (as she called it) all the way home in the Ford Escort. (It is 32 inches long, 15 inches wide and 9 inches deep)
I remember driving home and planning what I would plant in it! It was less than a month and it was planted up as shown below! The only original plants are:- Asperula suberosa, Saxifraga edithae ‘Bridget’ and S. x burnatti.
Blimey! . . I didn't realise it was 26 years ago! :o
The Haberlea is about the same age. The Polygala is a cutting I took just over a year ago.
John! You rotter! I do not appreciate you reminding me just how long ago 1990 was. In my head it is but yesterday - now you've got me feeling old again :P
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Pulsatilla albana lutea
Phlox bifida 'Alba'
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John! You rotter! I do not appreciate you reminding me just how long ago 1990 was. In my head it is but yesterday - now you've got me feeling old again :P
I feel just the same Maggi ??? "I've got to the age when I need my false teeth and my hearing aid before I can ask where I've left my glasses." ~ Stuart Turner, from The Public Speaker's Bible. :'(
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Trond,
Your photographs are beautiful. Our comment (Jasmin and I) was that it looks "just like home". Actually more like the high Sierra Nevada near Lyon's Creek. I guess we can call this home as the first time I went to Lyon's Creek was way back in 1960. I have been a regular visitor frequently to this day.
Robert, I will look for seed later ;)
Some of the seeds from last season are doing very well. :) More on this later.
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Philip, your Phlox bifida 'Alba' is lovely - whiter than white, eh?
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Phlox bifida 'Alba'
I have one too Philip it's a lovely plant. Mine is beginning to out-grow the space I can give it so I was envisaging giving it a haircut after flowering is finished. Do you trim yours please?
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Wildflowers and garden grown species all very beautiful! I also have to concentrate on the wildflowers right now, since everything evolves with the speed of light here. Not quite summer like Trond experiences ;) but we are getting there.
Erythronium americanum in full flower or almost over, depending on the light exposure.
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Anemone quinquefolia, the NA equivalent of A. nemorosa but with a more demure appearance.
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Trillium grandiflorum fo. roseum the pinkish forms have to be looked for in early bud stage.
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More wildflowers: Coptis trifolia, an evergreen, small plant for cool, damp situations. The new foliage will emerge after flowering. On the mossy hump is growing together a good companion - Medeola virginiana (the hairy stems).
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The well known Uvularia grandiflora.
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Polygonatum pubescens just about to flower; delicate and forms smaller colonies than other solomon's seals.
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The tiniest Viola for wet places - Viola macloskeyi.
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David,this one is fairly new.I've had it before and lost it before any cutting back was needed.
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Gabriela,
It is not surprising to see a completely different mix of species than what we see here in California. I was very pleased to see Viola macloskeyi, one of our California native species too. I have cultivated Viola macloskeyi in the past, but do not have any right now. I must get started with it again as it is certainly a favorite for me.
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I have one too Philip it's a lovely plant. Mine is beginning to out-grow the space I can give it so I was envisaging giving it a haircut after flowering is finished. Do you trim yours please?
Hi David, :)
I also love the beautiful cleft flower of the white P. bifida and after seeing yours and others I must make an effort to acquire it! The only P. bifida’s I have are ‘Starbright’ and ‘Ralph Haywood’.
I cut back some of the old growth in early spring so that the flowers appear on new growth and not at the end of last years bare stems. I find this species is more “woody/twiggy” than other species. The common name in its native home is Sand Phlox, but some believe it should be more aptly called the Ten Point Phlox.
Your Aethionema 'Warley Rose' is a show stopper David. If that had been on the show bench you would have walked away with a prize! . . . Outstanding!! 8)
I have had A. 'Warley Rose' for many years and I recently bought A. 'Warley Ruber', it will be interesting to see the difference wont it?
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A few plants from my garden today.
Two Corydalis, one unknown and the other is C. buschii.
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The patch of Anemone trifolia is expanding. But the slugs are interested in it too so I have to watch closely. The slugs have put their marks on the A. ranunculoides.
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The blue (or what is the colour?) seedlings of A. nemorosa pop up everywhere. They are later than the white ones.
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Anemone x lipsiensis is also later than the white.
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Scilla lilio-hyacinthus spreads a lot in the woodland.
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Trond,
Your photographs are beautiful. Our comment (Jasmin and I) was that it looks "just like home". Actually more like the high Sierra Nevada near Lyon's Creek. I guess we can call this home as the first time I went to Lyon's Creek was way back in 1960. I have been a regular visitor frequently to this day.
Some of the seeds from last season are doing very well. :) More on this later.
Thanks Robert, but I am not always satisfied myself. Especially the autofocus is annoying. And the manual one isn't much better :-X
Glad to hear some of the seeds are doing well :) I have also a lot of pots now with sprouting seeds ;)
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More wildflowers: Coptis trifolia, an evergreen, small plant for cool, damp situations. The new foliage will emerge after flowering. On the mossy hump is growing together a good companion - Medeola virginiana (the hairy stems).
The well known Uvularia grandiflora.
Polygonatum pubescens just about to flower; delicate and forms smaller colonies than other solomon's seals.
The tiniest Viola for wet places - Viola macloskeyi.
some really nice ones there, Gabriela!
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Hi David, :)
I also love the beautiful cleft flower of the white P. bifida and after seeing yours and others I must make an effort to acquire it! The only P. bifida’s I have are ‘Starbright’ and ‘Ralph Haywood’.
I cut back some of the old growth in early spring so that the flowers appear on new growth and not at the end of last years bare stems. I find this species is more “woody/twiggy” than other species. The common name in its native home is Sand Phlox, but some believe it should be more aptly called the Ten Point Phlox.
Your Aethionema 'Warley Rose' is a show stopper David. If that had been on the show bench you would have walked away with a prize! . . . Outstanding!! 8)
I have had A. 'Warley Rose' for many years and I recently bought A. 'Warley Ruber', it will be interesting to see the difference wont it?
Cheers John and thanks for the Phlox bifida advice. In the garden the Aethionema 'Warley Rose' does it's thing with little intervention from me apart from an annual haircut and occasional feeds but in a pot.........................................
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Neglected and overlooked in our rock garden (more rock than garden) until late yesterday. On a north-facing slope.
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Neglected and overlooked in our rock garden (more rock than garden) until late yesterday. On a north-facing slope.
Wow! It seems to enjoy the neglect :)
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Gabriela,
It is not surprising to see a completely different mix of species than what we see here in California. I was very pleased to see Viola macloskeyi, one of our California native species too. I have cultivated Viola macloskeyi in the past, but do not have any right now. I must get started with it again as it is certainly a favorite for me.
Yes, and interesting to see species like V. macloskeyi which will grow well in such different locations. It's not often seen here (at least not in the areas I wander) but not difficult to grow in the garden in a moist situation. I plan to raise a small colony in a dedicated container that will stay moist year long.
As you well know, Viola seeds are so difficult to collect in the wild!
Very similar growing here is Viola renifolia, which can be easily mistaken for V. macloskeyi (on a superficial look).
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some really nice ones there, Gabriela!
Thanks Trond. They are nice but I can't abstain to notice, again, how poor is the flora here comparing with various regions of Europe or even other parts from N.America :-\
Your 'unknown' Corydalis is beautiful! I don't understand how C. buschii is flowering at your place; mine is only about 8 cm tall (maybe it won't flower this year since I transplanted it late in the fall? for sure that in the process I broke some of the fine rhizomes).
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Rob and Sharon,
Those primula are precious!
A few days ago, the first seedling arisaema re-emerged from your seed planted in 2015. :)
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Very beautiful Primula marginata!
Trond, here Anemones seem to flower at the same time as there. :) They are now at their best. Anemone nemorosa likes and thrives in my garden, but A.ranunculoides not so much. The ordinary kind lives but doesn't spread, and I have twice bought expensive Estonian double A.ranunculoides, and they are very slow to establish, the older one is now here three years old, and still no flower, and only one leaf. I think A.nemorosa is more my kind of anemone. :)
Your 'unknown' Corydalis is beautiful! I don't understand how C. buschii is flowering at your place; mine is only about 8 cm tall (maybe it won't flower this year since I transplanted it late in the fall? for sure that in the process I broke some of the fine rhizomes).
Gabriela, you have already many beautiful flowers which are not yet here flowering (like uvularias), so perhaps also C.bushii is just late. Here it is not yet in flower, usually it flowers in the third week of May and from then on.
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An aril-bred, Pashtun Princess from Lawrence Ransom (France), plus some PCI seedlings doing their maiden bloom.
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The dark purple Iris is a real jewel :o
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Thanks Trond. They are nice but I can't abstain to notice, again, how poor is the flora here comparing with various regions of Europe or even other parts from N.America :-\
Your 'unknown' Corydalis is beautiful! I don't understand how C. buschii is flowering at your place; mine is only about 8 cm tall (maybe it won't flower this year since I transplanted it late in the fall? for sure that in the process I broke some of the fine rhizomes).
Well, I don't think the Norwegian native flora is any richer than yours but I agree that many places in both Europe and N. America are much richer.
C. buschii seems to do well now but I had to try it 3 different places before it really took off!
It seems to prefer growing among other early perennials in rather poor soil. (Too much light today ;) )
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Trond, here Anemones seem to flower at the same time as there. :) They are now at their best. Anemone nemorosa likes and thrives in my garden, but A.ranunculoides not so much. The ordinary kind lives but doesn't spread, and I have twice bought expensive Estonian double A.ranunculoides, and they are very slow to establish, the older one is now here three years old, and still no flower, and only one leaf. I think A.nemorosa is more my kind of anemone. :)
Here this double A. ranunculoides do very well. It often has 3 flowers to the stem. The flowers are a bit irregular and maybe not as showy as some of the Estonian strains. This spring the slugs have attacked the flowers :(
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The nemorosa seedlings are always doing well, especially the "blue" ones.
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A small tree, Salix magnifica prepare to flower.
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Lewsia tweedyi today in Jens Birck's Copenhagen garden. Where does he grow it? In a peat block of course....... :o
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Such a good plant when it decides to be happy! (Of course, ALL Jens B's plants are ecstatic!)
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I posted here Androsacea matildae #38 at the beginning of its flowering time. Now it looks like this
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Now that it has warmed up Vestia foetida is taking on its correct colour...............
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It is well and truly loaded this year............
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Gabriela, you have already many beautiful flowers which are not yet here flowering (like uvularias), so perhaps also C.bushii is just late. Here it is not yet in flower, usually it flowers in the third week of May and from then on.
You're right Leena. I had a moment of panic; even if it doesn't flower at least survived the move and the very wet winter. And there are other plants flowering in the garden :)
Stylophorum diphyllum
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Epimedium stellulatum - it is very hard to take a good picture of this one.
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Epimedium acuminatum
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Bird cherry, Prunus padus is now in full flower in the garden img. 1010338.
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We have this old cherry tree in the garden. Lovely flowers in groups like snowballs. And it is an extremely early variety. The pictures were taken a week ago. Normally, in 5 weeks from now we will have the first home-grown cherries.
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and a heirloom pear variety. Knows here as 'Jefkes' after the first name of the gardener who grew the initial tree. Wonderfull summer pear ripening towards end of August.
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and to continue with the current tree flowering splash, one of the many mayflowers nearby.
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while in the garden ... a lovely weed ;) celandine I think.
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If you really like Cheldonium you would probably love Stylophorum diphyllum
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Some Corydalis in flower in the garden.
Corydalis flexuosa 'Blue Dragon' ('Purple Leaf') has been in flower for the last three weeks.
Corydalis flexuosa x c. elata? 'Rainer Blue' has fantastic electric blue flowers. Seen here along with Trillium grandiflorum.
Corydalis flexuosa 'Blue Panda' has just begun to flower.
Corydalis curviflora 'Blue Heron' is a new purchase earlier this year, so plant still small.
My other blue corydalis not yet in flower.
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Francois, greater celendine was used to cure warts. The sap from a broken stem is dabbed onto the wart. The juice is also poisonous. It does remove warts.
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Lovely series of blue corydalis Bob.
I've just planted 'Blue Heron' too, but had to surround it with a wreath of dead briar stems to keep the rabbits away.
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Second year from seed, the Draba loiseleurii is first out to flower in the rock garden
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Epimedium 'Amber Queen', the first Aquilegia of the season and the Redbud just about to flower.
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A few plants in the garden, img. 1010365 R. williamsianum. R. yakushimanum. img.1010372. Silene acaulis. img. 1010367. Unknown crucifer with fleshy leaves which are hairy, plant is smaller than half an inch in height, not a UK species img. 1010368.
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Some more img.1010369 is spring cinquefoil. img. 1010380 is perennial cornflower. img. 1010370 is a dwarf Doronicum. img. 1010371 is Dryas octopetala.
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Unknown crucifer with fleshy leaves which are hairy, plant is smaller than half an inch in height, not a UK species img. 1010368.
Some kind of Draba perhaps?
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We went away from an advanced spring to a very early one up here in the mountains. The snow has just receded but most of the plants are still kept at bay by the cold nights.
Some like Gentiana purpurea has just started to show their spears.
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Noccaea caerulescens is in flower. It is possibly the earliest of all at this altitude. Most of them are pure white bur a few are pale pink.
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Another early one is Pulsatilla vernalis. I hope the hares don't eat them.
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I think so Trond but there are many I am not familiar with which are non-natives. Here are some more. Haberlea rhodopensis img. 1010373. Saxifraga nivalis grown from seed img. 1010383. Bloody cranesbill img. 1010386. Herb robert img 1010387.
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Some more, img.1010374 Cyclamen persicum. img. 1010384 is Sweet cicely, Myrrhis odorata, its leaves smell of aniseed when crushed. img. 1010389 is three cornered garlic, Allium triquetrum. It will take over the garden if left. img. 1010379, Dryopteris filix-mas, male fern. Just unrolling its fronds.
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I like ferns. At this time of the year their fresh green fronds are a sign of spring. Later on they seem a bit dull. Perhaps they should be more widely grown if there is a sheltered area in your garden. img.1010366 is Polystichum setiferum with its new fronds just un-furling. img.1010375 is Osmunda regalis, a rare plant of the local patch. img. 1010381 is Ceterach officinarum with new growth. img. 1010382 is Asplenium trichomanes, spreading about in the wall.
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Bog bean in a barrel img. 1010391.
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That's a fine Haberlea Ian.
The unripe seeds of sweet cicely are tasty - they have a fennel-like, nutty flavour.
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Sarracenias in the greenhouse.
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Darlingtonia californica
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A lovely series Ian.
Ferns are spectacular at this time of year, and under dull, damp skies a few days ago their pale greens seemed more vivid than ever. Bog bean is another plant I like very much, and reminds me of the uplands in summer.
Allium triquetrum is very common here and, as you say, very invasive in the garden. Nevertheless I think it's one of the most elegant alliums.
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Trillium volunteers at a friend's today. Wonder if you think these are hybrids?
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Some general views; a well-established herbaceous and shrub border, and a newish gravel garden.
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A few photographs from our Sacramento garden.
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Delphinium hansenii
This California dryland species has been fairly easy to cultivate in our garden. The plants pictured are container grown, however we have plants in the ground that will be blooming shortly that are thriving too. I keep the container plants "slightly moist" when dormant in the summer. There is some color variation in the species and I am attempting to make good selections within the species.
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Gilia capitata
A California native annual.
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Castilleja affinis ssp affinis
This species has been blooming in our garden for months now. It is a xeric species and has proven to be of easy culture in our California garden.
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Lilium parvum
This is from a batch of seedlings of the variety hollidayi (our El Dorado County California endemic). Most seedlings come true to type i.e. pink, however off type seedlings do appear. This is even true among the wild populations. There has been considerable mismanagement of some of the wild populations, however this is a different story that be told elsewhere.
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Lilium parvum is lovely.
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Corydalis hemidicentra flowering for the first time after 9 years. Seeds were collected by Vojtech Holubec back in 2007.
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Slightly off scene question, can any one assist me in locating contact details for Tom Mitchell who formerly owned Evolution Plants. if so please PM me.
Thx
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Slightly off scene question, can any one assist me in locating contact details for Tom Mitchell who formerly owned Evolution Plants. if so please PM me.
Thx
You can use tom.mitchell@evolution-plants.com I think. He has a blog site now - http://www.revolution-snowdrops.co.uk/ (http://www.revolution-snowdrops.co.uk/)
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Geir, that Corydalis hemidicentra is just extraordinary!
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Can't compete with the colours of Robert's garden or the rarity of Geir's Corydalis :)
The snow still covers much at 1100m altitude.
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'Krekebær' (Empetrum hermaphroditum berries) from last fall is still edible.
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Salix sp.
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Luzula pilosa. The flowers are small but nice. The female parts develop first.
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Trond,
I thoroughly enjoyed your photographs, especially the Luzula! 8)
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Trond,
I thoroughly enjoyed your photographs, especially the Luzula! 8)
Robert, it wasn't much else either ;D
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Acis nicaeensis
Ranunculus amplexicaulis
2 Lewisia hybrids
A new Calceolaria 'Walter Shrimpton'
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Arisaema kishidae
Convolvulus cneorum
Dodecatheon sp.
Phlox in tufa
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Nice plants there Philip.
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Water avens, Geum rivale, normal coloured flower img. 1010394. Water avens with a white flower that has appeared in a border img. 1010396. There are no other Geums in the garden that it could have hybridized with. A Cyprepedium in the garden, I think it is C. parviflorum img. 1010400.
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Spring squill, Scilla verna, in the scree img. 1010406. Scilla peruviana, Portuguese squill, waiting to be planted img. 1010408. Lithodora zahnii img. 1010407.
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The rockery in the front garden is settling in nicely and looking good at the moment.
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A few close-ups now.
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Viola 'Ivan'. Picked this up at Ashwood. Hopefully it will be reasonably perennial.
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Leucogenes leontopodium. Not quite open yet, but it still makes a lovely image. I rate this a lot higher than most of the actual Leontopodiums, and it's also soundly perennial and easy to grow.
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Asperula odorata (sweet woodruff). I really love this plant, even though it's a bit of a spreader. It's also great for jazzing up some apple juice - leave a sprig to infuse in the juice overnight and it gives it a lovely sweet aroma / flavour of hay (trust me, this is a good thing).
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The apple trees are fully in flower now. This is 'Egremont Russet'.
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..and this is 'Bardsey'.
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Rockery looking good Tristan
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The humble Laburnum is one of my favourites................
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The incredible new foliage of the dwarf Acer palmatum 'Japanese Princess' from Old Reo Nursery in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, here growing at a friends.
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A few willows today:
Salix uva-ursi perhaps.
Salix fargesii
Salix vestita, the last three. Is this one sold in the UK?
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Salix vestita, the last three. Is this one sold in the UK?
I can't see it in The Plant Finder John, but having said that TPF isn't much good for finding plants these days ::)
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Lathyrus transilvanicus.
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From the garden today Veronica austriaca 'Ionian Skies'
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Also from the garden today Penstemon davidsonii var. menziesii
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Nice pictures David.
April and May are probably the most colourful in our garden but because of the funny start to the year May has seen a bumper crop. Here are some of them.
The Anemone is a small plant but shows great promise. The Azalea (I know it's spelled incorrectly I always have trouble with this word) was a gift for our silver wedding 20 years ago and now stretches 4 feet across.
The Berberis featured in our article on dwarf shrubs and is simply superb this year. So is the Campanula, in a pot for the show bench.
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Epimediums make for good ground cover in a shady border.
This Erysimum has extended as it has opened and is now about 8 inches tall.
We had a pot of Gladiolus trystis that was doing very little and I think Brian must have scattered the compost on the front bed. This year we have had 7 or 8 stems, a nice surprise.
I was struggling to find a Hakenchloa. Cecelia Collar used to show a lovely one. I phoned Aberconwy, the lady who answered the phone said the nursery didn't have it but she did in her garden and she sent me a piece.
Gardeners are so generous. This lovely little Iris came from Clare and John Dowers front garden and seems to have settled in nicely.
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We saw some Leucocorynes at the Glasgow Show a few years ago sow I got Brian some. This one Andes has a lovely full flower, we also had L. spotlight on the bench this year.
This is the last of our big Lewisia cotyledon hybrids, the pots are getting too big and heavy.
Two Omphalodes, cappodocia and the rather special Starry Eyes. Also a small Phlox growing just outside the greenhouse.
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You don't realise quite how many Rhodo's you've got until they all burst into flower. But Percy Wiseman is always the star.
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Phylliopsis caerulea is pretty but not prolific. Can't say that about the Rhodanthemum Casablanca though, Brian mentioned it in his late colour article and here it is performing early in the season too.
I said gardeners were generous, this XRamberlea Inchgarth was given us as a small plant a few years ago by Dave Mountfort luckily it seems to like our cool frame.
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I'll just finish with a few Tulips.
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Oh, Shelagh- what a great selection of photos showing so many happy plants. Your wee tulips are certainly making super clumps - and they look so nice that way.
Too many goodies there for me to mention - the Ramberlea plant is a boskers... and others too...
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May lily, Maianthemum bifolium. Heavy rain here just now. img. 1010413.
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That's a real thug Ian, took Brian a season to rid a border of it and it looks so sweet.
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Beautiful stuff Shelagh.
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That's a real thug Ian, took Brian a season to rid a border of it and it looks so sweet.
So is our native one M. canadensis Shelagh. It's run through my rhodo beds - never planted it - and is a horror to pull, spray, hack. Runs 2m in a season and especially bad when under prostrate plants. Worse I think it's seeding.
However not nearly as bad as in southern Nova Scotia. It becomes so dense it actually starbves rhodos. Have a look, this is at a neighbour's and this is likely some weeks after the first annual spray. To my horror he'd have the gardener spray it with paraquat 4 times a year, defoliated it but nothing would stop it. The paraquat stopped him though.
john - +26c today, not ready for it.
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Great plant collection Shelagh. I particularly like the x Ramberlea :)
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Glaucidium palmatum are now flowering here, they are my favourites and although the white one is great, I also like the blue ones very much. They are now flowering for the first time, and I hope they make as big clump in time as the white one.
The third picture is one very nice Helleborus, flowering for the first time.
The fourth is Corydalis buschii.
And the last picture is Dodecatheon pulchellum which I received in swap from a kind forumist last autumn. Last winter was very hard here on many plants, but these survived well even they were newly planted. :)
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The Tulips caught my eye Leena are they Clusiana?
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So is our native one M. canadensis Shelagh. It's run through my rhodo beds - never planted it - and is a horror to pull, spray, hack. Runs 2m in a season and especially bad when under prostrate plants. Worse I think it's seeding.
However not nearly as bad as in southern Nova Scotia. It becomes so dense it actually starbves rhodos. Have a look, this is at a neighbour's and this is likely some weeks after the first annual spray. To my horror he'd have the gardener spray it with paraquat 4 times a year, defoliated it but nothing would stop it. The paraquat stopped him though.
john - +26c today, not ready for it.
Want to import some brown slugs (Arion vulgaris)? My patch of Maianthemum canadense was almost eradicated last year by the slugs. Managed to stop the slugs though - maybe I shouldn't? ;)
The may-lily has bounced back this year as I have better control of the slugs (so far).
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Summerly almost warm rain today - no wind!
A few plants in the 'wild' (that is untended) garden.
Geranium renardii:
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Discussed elsewhere in the forum. I was very proud when I managed to germinate 2 seeds of this one 25 years ago. Now I have it everywhere in the garden, but I still like it - in the spring. Not so much when it seeds around :-\
Meconopsis cambrica/Papaver cambricum:
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Ichtyoselmis macrantha spreads slowly in the woodland.
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Cardamine bulbifera spreads a lot in the woodland!
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Euphorbia griffithii? also spread around a little.
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This peony I rescued from an abandoned small garden in Oslo in 1973. It was only a little piece of root with one leaf left. I planted it in my parent's garden where it made a considerable clump in the following years. I brought one little piece with me when I moved. It has not increased that much here! I think it is Paeonia anomala but I am not sure. Any suggestions?
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Podophyllum aurantiocaule.
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A few Clematis for your enjoyment.
Dr. Ruppel-father of many loved picotees
Kacper- very large purple.
Cl. montana wilsoni- wonderfully scented and floriferous
Ooh La La - a new to me cultivar I added this Spring. Flowers are even softer than in fotos.
and Incarvillea delavayi poping up beteween the rocks. I love a volunteer!
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Trond,
your possibly correct with the Peonia ID. P. veitchii and P. anomola are very similar (for me indistinguishable) except the P. anomola has but one flower per stem, while P. veitchii tends to two to three per stem. Also, P. veitchii is considered chinese, while P. anomola is found across nothern Europe to Siberia.
Hope this helps.
j.
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The Tulips caught my eye Leena are they Clusiana?
Yes, they are T.clusiana var chrysantha, or that is the name they were sold at the garden center last autumn. They are really nice.
I noticed that you have also different cultivars of T.clusiana, they are lovely.
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This peony I rescued from an abandoned small garden in Oslo in 1973. It was only a little piece of root with one leaf left. I planted it in my parent's garden where it made a considerable clump in the following years. I brought one little piece with me when I moved. It has not increased that much here! I think it is Paeonia anomala but I am not sure. Any suggestions?
Trond we have discussed this quite a lot in previous years, the following might be helful.
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=3114.135 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=3114.135)
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Two plants from the garden today,
Tulipa sprengeri
Ramonda nathaliae alba
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First bloom on Solanum laciniatum today................
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Asphodeline lutea..............
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Despite having shown it before Vestia foetida is looking really good now.............
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This Vestia is fascinatingly beautifull, Meanie. Only thing I have that comes close is Iochroma! Not the same thing.
Also attached, two shots of Papaver bracteatum. Always earlier than P. oriental and, lets face it, the colour is pretty great.
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This Vestia is fascinatingly beautifull, Meanie. Only thing I have that comes close is Iochroma! Not the same thing.
They're both in the Solanaceae family. Best of all the Vestia is so far proving to be hardy here. Depending upon the source -5 to -10°c is quoted as its limit.
That's a nice Iochroma. I.australis (although I believe that has been reclassified) is the hardiest that I have or have grown. This year I'm looking forward to my I.fuchsioides seedling blooming.
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Mike- your Tulipa sprengeri display is lovely- one to rival that of Roma Fiddes up here!
I do sympathise about your Ramonda nathaliae alba - ;)
such a pity you can't grow one of a decent size!!!! ::) ::) :P ;D ;D
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Regelian your Incarvillea delavayi is very early ours have just started poking through in the rock garden. I have sown 2 new ones this year and look forward to seeing them flower in the future. The white version of I. delavayi called "Snowtop" and I. mairei var. multifoliata
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Shelagh,
best of luck with them. This one volunteer is the only Incarvillea I've 'managed' to grow! As I am creating two new rockery areas in the garden, I'm hoping to get ahold of seed with the next seed-ex.
By the way, love that collection of fotos you posted. Thanks!
Jamie
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Such an elegant tree, Nothofagus antarctica, so we are praying for a bumper crop of seed. A rarity in eastern North America aside from the mildest areas of coastal Nova Scotia and easternmost Newfoundland; the hot humid summers elsewhere will decimate it in a flash. Perfect weather for it today - dense fog and 8c.
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Lewisia tweedii today in the garden. We used to grow as many as we could manage but gradually our attention was diverted by other plants. A mistake.
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Wonderful Tulipa sprengeri group! And also Lewisia picture is lovely. :)
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It's been a long time since I posted on the forum.
Many flowers this spring (finally) on European lingonberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea subsp. vitis-idaea) and the smaller North American lingonberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea subsp. minus), here shown with a mining bee.
The latter I got from my friend Betty Ann Addison. Mine thrived, but hers faded away. It's so tiny and cute; I can't help but admire it every time I go outside. I wonder how often it's grown in gardens.
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Syringa 'Josee' purchased from Ashwood Nursery last year and settled in quite well here. It will grow 4-6 feet in height and will re-bloom until the first frosts. Said to be deer resistant too (but not a problem for me).
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Lewisia tweedii today in the garden. We used to grow as many as we could manage but gradually our attention was diverted by other plants. A mistake.
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Oh yes, that mistake has been made here too. :'(
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It's been a long time since I posted on the forum.
Many flowers this spring (finally) on European lingonberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea subsp. vitis-idaea) and the smaller North American lingonberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea subsp. minus), here shown with a mining bee.
The latter I got from my friend Betty Ann Addison. Mine thrived, but hers faded away. It's so tiny and cute; I can't help but admire it every time I go outside. I wonder how often it's grown in gardens.
Hi Gabriel - I know in the UK a lot of us who love "erics" - the ericaceae and the smaller types particularly
the smaller types, enjoy growing these little sweeties.
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A nice surprise in the vegetable garden where the common salsify is now flowering. Nice flowers, but they only open during the day.
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We see Salsify (Tragopogon porrifolius) growing in hedgerows quite often - but here it usually flowers a bit later in the summer .
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We see Salsify (Tragopogon porrifolius) growing in hedgerows quite often - but here it usually flowers a bit later in the summer .
Belgium is so much more to the South ;D
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Belgium is so much more to the South ;D
Almost in the tropics!! :D :D
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Meanie, looks as though West Oxon has warmed up a bit now ;D
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Meanie,
I have to agree with David, it appears things have finally warmed a bit for you.
.....and looking very good.
I am sooooo busy now. I wish that I had more time to follow along with this and other threads. Our Salvias have been blooming for months now (we are almost tropical here in the Sacramento Valley of California :D ). So far my garden photographs have been terrible and not worth posting. We get a lot of wind in the valley making photography difficult, at least for me. :)
Anyway, looking forward to more interesting plants from your garden!
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Campanula thessala. It usually flowers as a biennial but this one didn't flower last year so is bigger than I usually manage to grow it.
Tulipa 'Estella Rijnfeld'. It's been there a long time and still flowers occasionally. Not sure about the colour combination :-\
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Cracking Campanula, Roma
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Solomons seal in the "shrub garden." img. 1010421. I thought the tall pink flowers were Lychnis alpina when I planted them. They are L. viscaria. Although too tall for a "scree" the stems are thin and the rest of the scree can be seen through them. The stems are sticky, hence the name Sticky Catchfly. img. 1010419. I saw two plants of Paraquilegia at a show. Both were labelled P. grandiflora. The leaves were different, see img. 1010422 as an example. I wonder why the show plants were given the same name when there was a marked difference in leaf shape? Is P. grandiflora an "umbrella" name. Or would that be Gamp, before someone else suggests it, or perhaps brolly.
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A few photographs from our garden today.
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Collomia grandiflora looking grand. :)
This is the first season for me with this California native annual. I have been very impressed. They have been blooming for weeks now with many flowering stems. From the looks of the plants they could very well keep blooming well into the future. The weather has been cool. We shall see how they preform when the big heat arrives.
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West Coast native lilies.
They have been star preformers in our Sacramento, California garden for years now.
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Codonopsis
The seed was labeled as C. forrestii. Not sure about the species, however I am very pleased with them in the garden.
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Meanie,
I have to agree with David, it appears things have finally warmed a bit for you.
.....and looking very good.
I am sooooo busy now. I wish that I had more time to follow along with this and other threads. Our Salvias have been blooming for months now (we are almost tropical here in the Sacramento Valley of California :D ). So far my garden photographs have been terrible and not worth posting. We get a lot of wind in the valley making photography difficult, at least for me. :)
Anyway, looking forward to more interesting plants from your garden!
Meanie, looks as though West Oxon has warmed up a bit now ;D
It had. Today it is 9°c out as I type :o
The first Salvia should be out in the next week or so and it looks as if it will be S.gesneriiflora. It's a winter bloomer for Pete's sake and it has taken until June for it to feel like blooming!
My Echeveria on the other hand seem happy enoughj. E.setosa ssp minor was in the greenhouse over the winter and still spends the odd night in there if frost or wind threatens but it seems happy enough outdoors most of the time now.................
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I think that's what they call an architectural plant Meanie.
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I think that's what they call an architectural plant Meanie.
My tidy obsessive sister said nice but too messy!
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A couple of interesting Epimediums from PMcD's seed.
1-2 Epimedium 'The Giant' x maybe wushanense, very stout stalks and I'd not be surprised if these eventually soar well above 2m like 'The Giant'.
3-4 Epimedium wushanense or a hybrid if it. I like the red new growth but P. has some with exquisitely mottled, red & green, foliage.
johnw - +19c but fog rolling in and out & temps plummeting accordingly.
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Clematis 'Pink Champagne'.
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I planted one specimen of Potentilla erecta found everywhere and one very compact specimen I found near the sea just to compare the growth when grown under the same conditions.
The common form has very long internodes as expected but the other one has preserved its compact form. The leaves are a bit smaller also. If the last one keeps it dense form and develops the compact cushion-like shape it had where I found it I think it is garden worthy.
Dense form (well, much denser than the common one anyway)
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Normal form (with a Veronica)
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Edraianthus sp.
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Ranunculus parnassifolius
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before the thunders i took a walk in the garden with my old russian lens Helios 44
Dianthus erinaceus var alpinus, seeds collected in Anatolia
Dianthus deltoides
Anemone narcissiflora
Silene suksdorfii, a favorite one
Geum x 'Mai Tai'
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I planted one specimen of Potentilla erecta found everywhere and one very compact specimen I found near the sea just to compare the growth when grown under the same conditions.
The common form has very long internodes as expected but the other one has preserved its compact form. The leaves are a bit smaller also. If the last one keeps it dense form and develops the compact cushion-like shape it had where I found it I think it is garden worthy.
Trond,
I have found this true for some, but not all, variants here in California. The best and most compact forms of Eriogonum wrightii ssp subscaposum grow at the highest elevations. They have retained this habit even much lower elevations, such as at the farm. I am trying them at Sacramento garden to see how they perform here in the valley.
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Robert, Eriogonum wrightii ssp subscaposum was here in the garden for years and was one of my favorites, such a different kind of eriogonum. Grew it from seed and had a number of plants which were killed when the garden was hit by a tornado years ago (along with all the other gems in the garden!).
If you should ever have seed you can share please let me know.
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Just one image, a bit funny: P. sieboldii 'Late Snow' in full flower - today's temperature 28C, tomorrow 32C ??? The month of May in Ontario.
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Found this bicolor flowered Viola today. Its either Viola canina or V. riviniana, or perhaps a hybrid of the two?
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Robert, Eriogonum wrightii ssp subscaposum was here in the garden for years and was one of my favorites, such a different kind of eriogonum. Grew it from seed and had a number of plants which were killed when the garden was hit by a tornado years ago (along with all the other gems in the garden!).
If you should ever have seed you can share please let me know.
Anne,
The tight compact forms of Eriogonum wrightii ssp. subscaposum are wonderful plants. The tight, gray-green buns look great during the growing season (so far all the forms I grow look somewhat dead during the winter) and the spikes of late season white to soft pink flowers are nice when highlighted with the right companion plants or back drop.
There has been considerable seedling variation in the plants grown from other populations. They all have been larger in their habit of growth but still well within the limits of spp. subscaposum.
I would be wise for me not to make any promises, however the possibility of gathering seed of the "compact" form is very likely. The slightly larger forms are very commonly seen in our area. Gathering seed from them is even easier. I'll let you know what I come up with at the end of September.
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Robert, the form I grew was fairly compact but what struck me was the arching sprays of blooms, unlike other eriogonums I knew at the time.
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Eighteen months ago we took the plunge and got rid of the ugly leylandii hedge in the front garden. The only large plant left was a magnolia. Best thing we ever did.
It opened up the whole plot. A lorry load of gravel went across the parking and path areas.
Since we are in that part of the world, I have been going for the 'Beth chatto' dry garden look.
So there are euphorbia characias seedlings, escholzias, alliums, irises, rock roses and a few tulips for early colour. Plus my favourite grasses, stipa gigantea and tenuissima.
Everything is seedling itself around with abandon and I love it.
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Regards,
David
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Eighteen months ago we took the plunge and got rid of the ugly leylandii hedge in the front garden......................... So there are euphorbia characias seedlings, escholzias, alliums, irises, rock roses and a few tulips for early colour. Plus my favourite grasses, stipa gigantea and tenuissima.
Everything is seedling itself around with abandon and I love it.
David
Nice to see Asphodeline getting a look in! That rapidly fills a hole!
The first of my Salvia is in bloom and it is the winter blooming S.gesneriiflora..................
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David, what a wonderful effect! The colours are blazing, yet the setting brings them into a beautiful harmony. Have you thought of adding some of the fussier desert iris such as oncocyclus or regelia. They may well love it, especuially the regelia section. Paul Christian has quite a few this season.
J.
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Jamie,
Thanks, I already have a nice group of iris magnifica Alba in there, moved from a clump elsewhere in the garden. I would love an onco or two but they would not like our summer rain.
I will definitely add a couple of other forms of magnifica and maybe graeberiana,
David
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Few woodland species for the end of May:
Mitella diphylla
Medeola virginiana
Trientalis borealis and something more colourful - Cypripedium parviflorum
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Few woodland species for the end of May: Medeola virginiana
One of my absolute favourites. Native here too and very plentiful in my southern garden where it grows out in full sun, not that there is a lot of sun down there mind you. And nobody ever notices it.
john
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Given the very cool weather of late everything seems to be lasting forever, especially the perennials and woodlanders. Here are a few.
Paeonia mlokosewitschii, a good yellow form from Mosswood on Vancouver Island some 22 years ago.
Trillium chlorpetalum var. giganteum f. rubrum, value re-assessed as has been going strong for well over 2 weeks.
Anemonella 'Shoaf's Double'
Fritillaria camtschatcense
Podophyllum hexandrum, some like this one barely out of the ground whilst others are fully developed & about the flower.
Arisaema sikkokianum, the first patch to face the correct way.
johnw - 10c, very grey
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A couple of Salvia cultivars;
Nachtvlinder...............
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And Blue Note............
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Arisaema taiwanense is in bloom whilst the others have barely poked their noses out of the soil...............
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No pics came through?
But I see they have now, very strange?
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Dracunculus vulgaris, smells like rotting meat
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Dracunculus vulgaris, smells like rotting meat
Smelly - but very stylish plant!
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Was just outside and picked slugs. Made a good catch. A pity they're not as good as smoked salmon ;)
The sun went down while I was outside (22.35) so I decided to show this in stead of dead slugs.
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One of my absolute favourites. Native here too and very plentiful in my southern garden where it grows out in full sun, not that there is a lot of sun down there mind you. And nobody ever notices it.
john
I think that only stylish people are able to appreciate the Medeola ;) My plan is to have a patch of it under planted with Paris quadrifolia (which is in fruit here just when the Medeola flowers). They complement each other beautifully.
Forgot to compliment your A. sikkokianum -I wanted to buy a few this year but I decided to cut back on Arisaemas.
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Was just outside and picked slugs. Made a good catch. A pity they're not as good as smoked salmon ;)
The sun went down while I was outside (22.35) so I decided to show this in stead of dead slugs.
In the name of all reading through this thread, I thank you Trond for the choice of imagery; which btw it is splendid!
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In the name of all reading through this thread, I thank you Trond for the choice of imagery; which btw it is splendid!
Hear hear! :D
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Well, thank you Gabriela. I try to contribute my little share.
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I think that only stylish people are able to appreciate the Medeola ;) My plan is to have a patch of it under planted with Paris quadrifolia (which is in fruit here just when the Medeola flowers). They complement each other beautifully.
Why not try to cross the two, that has been in the back of my mind for awhile now.
What me stylish? I sit here after planting several hundred succulents thel day long, both pant knees have disintegrated, covered in dirt, shirt covered in white powder thanks to Kalanchoe thyrsiflora. Maybe Maggi's comment "stinky but stylish" is going in the correct direction. ;)
john
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Why not try to cross the two, that hjas been in the back of my mind for awhile now.
What me stylish? I sit here after planting several hundred succulents thel day long, both pant knees have disintegrated, covered in dirt, shirt covered in white powder thanks to Kalanchoe thyrsiflora. Maybe Maggi's comment "stinky but stylish" is going in the correct direction. ;)
john
This IS stylish in the gardener's world John :) You should see my hair in a humid day! Kidding, it's not about the exterior appearance, it comes from within. In fact, many well dress people are not stylish at all.
Crossing Medeola with Paris is a bold idea. I am afraid it would be far beyond my present capabilities but you should give it a try!
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Why cross them? To get a Medeola with upright flowers or a Paris with hanging ;D
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Why cross them? To get a Medeola with upright flowers or a Paris with hanging ;D
Trond
Someone asked why I crossed Mitraria x Ramonda, the answer because they were in flower near one another. To my surprise the cross set seed but something ate the pod just as it was ripening. Same friend just repeated the cross this Spring now I ask him the same question. ;).
john
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John,
I would do the same. I sometimes cross plants just to see wether it works, and if I get seed I hope for a novelty of some kind. Can't boast of much success though - so far ;)