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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: olegKon on June 01, 2016, 03:12:24 PM
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1.Anemone tetrasepala
2.Silene suecica
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Very nice Oleg, I particularly like Anemone tetrasepala.
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Flowering for the first time in my garden
Moraea alticola
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Photos taken today. . .
Penstemon procurus 'Roy Davidson'
Potentilla atrosanguinea
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The common and native Veronica chamaedrys has planted itself in my small rockery. So far it has behaved itself so I have let it stay.
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The foreign Phyteuma nigrum or ovatum has appearing in my garden.
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Once I strived to establish Eomecon chionantha in the garden. Now I have more than I asked for but I like it ;)
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Eomecon chionantha - so pretty!
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Roscoea humeana alba
The first is a bought plant. The other is grown from seed.
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A lovely form Roma. Good opportunity for cross pollinating and SEED (for exchange, of course :)) I do like that soft green in the throat, very pretty.
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The common and native Veronica chamaedrys has planted itself in my small rockery. So far it has behaved itself so I have let it stay.
Once I strived to establish Eomecon chionantha in the garden. Now I have more than I asked for but I like it ;)
Another 'mekon' Trond? ;D I haven't clarified last time that I was referring to the Greek 'mekon' = opium poppy, but then used in the names for many poppy-like plants (like Hylomecon...)
Eomecon is beautiful but indeed beware of it in the 'wet' regions. If kept dry is not too bad.
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Roscoea humeana alba
The first is a bought plant. The other is grown from seed.
Very, very pretty! I will also look for it in the seedex - I would like to get a R. humeana for once.
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Blandfordia punicea, thanks Lesley Cox.
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I am sorry, I am not able to be in time. Here is several pictures from the second half of May:
Anemone narcissiflora
Calandrinia colchaguensis - the right thing at last
Calyptridium umbellatum in a sand bed
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... and two more:
Turkish Dianthus brevicaulis
White form of Edraianthus montenegrinus
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A few things from the garden today:-
A blue form of Phlox bifida. This has been in flower for nearly a month now, very good value for money.[attach=1]
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In the front garden Maureen has a giant Lupin, shown here with a patch of tall Alliums struggling through[attach=3]
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Eomecon chionantha - so pretty!
Yes, very pretty but dangerous :o The rhizomes spread like a coltsfoot's!
Another 'mekon' Trond? ;D I haven't clarified last time that I was referring to the Greek 'mekon' = opium poppy, but then used in the names for many poppy-like plants (like Hylomecon...)
Eomecon is beautiful but indeed beware of it in the 'wet' regions. If kept dry is not too bad.
Plenty of mecons here (no mekons though)! "Wet regions"? Have to bargain with the gods then. I have planted it on the driest place I have ;)
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Maureen's giant Lupin[attach=1]
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I have two different Campanulas, neither of which I have names for, and both came with unknown 'passengers' .
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David, your purple-leaved geranium looks like our native G, sessiliflorum in a form often called 'Nigrescens.' Pretty but will seed about so watch it. It also hybridizes with the Chatham Is G. ?(damn, can't remember its name right now, but pink and bluish leaves,) making nice plants with bronze leaves and pink flowers.
Michael, I'm thrilled to see your Blandfordia in bloom. I kept 5 seedlings the same size as the one (2) I sent, and everyone died in this last summer, too much summer wet I think. They didn't get as far as flowering.
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Yes, very pretty but dangerous :o The rhizomes spread like a coltsfoot's!
Plenty of mecons here (no mekons though)! "Wet regions"? Have to bargain with the gods then. I have planted it on the driest place I have ;)
Well, I didn't used the right word but it's surely more rainy than here. I like the Eomecon very much; grew it in a container in my former small patio garden and lost it after a record cold winter (along with many others). I understand other people are growing it 'containerized' on purpose, to avoid having it running through the garden.
A couple of late evening pictures: Papaver alpinum after watering and Primula alpicola var. violacea starting to flower.
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My Phyteuma nigrum is flowering too. Such a pretty plant, but short in flower. It does seed around but is never a nuisance.
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Geranium palmatum seems to be early this year.
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Aquilegia bertolonii, another plant that self-seeds gently around. I only have this and A. vulgaris in the garden to minimise the risk of hybrids.
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Enkianthus campanulatus is very popular with the bees.
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Here are couple of pictures from last week.
I don't have many big Rhododendrons (but perhaps 100 seedlings too young yet to flower, these are mostly from Finnish hybridizers).
'Pekka' is my biggest Rhodo, it is a Finnish cultivar (R.brachycarpum ssp tigerstedtii x R.smirnovii Seidel hybrid), and very hardy.
I planted it about 8 years ago and it is now about 1,8m high.
In the third picture there is Allium rosenorum, planted last autumn. I'm not very familiar with alliums, but I fell in love with this. It had quite slender leaves earlier in the spring and I like the flower now.
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I have not been as cautious as Tristan so I have Aquilegias of all colours except yellow ;D
i spotted this one among the others. The colour is not special but the flowers face upwards. (And the slugs like it, usually they don't.)
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I noticed only now that I posted last night in May thread, please Maggi can you move my pictures to June. :)
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I have not been as cautious as Tristan so I have Aquilegias of all colours except yellow ;D
My mother is a fan of Aquilegias and over the years planted various different plants, which have crossed and self-seeded. Now she has a strain of small-flowered, muddy-coloured plants. Hence my caution. Perhaps I am overdoing things but I prefer to keep things clean.
Out of interest has anybody found that Semiaquilegia and Aquilegia cross readily?
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I noticed only now that I posted last night in May thread, please Maggi can you move my pictures to June. :)
Done, Leena!
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I got this plant without a name a couple of years ago. Anybody recognize it?
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The first roses have started blooming. This is Rosa roxburghi normalis. The shrub is more than 3m high and wide so I show only one flower ;)
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This red Potentilla appeared suddenly as a "weed".
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Drymocallis (syn Potentilla) rupestris. It is a rare native but easily grown on dry sites.
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A few photographs from our Sacramento, California garden - yesterday 4, June. It was overcast and muggy all day. It was still in the mid-30's C , however it could have been much worse.
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Elymus multisetus.
Big Squirreltail is one of many California native perennial grasses. So far this species has been very satisfactory as an ornamental in our garden. I especially enjoy the inflorescence as it progresses to maturity. This transpires over several months. The species is xeric, however preforms well with some irrigation too. This is one of many native perennial bunch grasses that we are trialing.
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Eriogonum umbellatum var. polyanthum
This plant was grown from seed gathered in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. This seedling stood-out from among many other seedlings. It is still in bloom after two months of continuous bloom.
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One of a number of West Coast Lily Hybrids.
Some were L. pardalinum x occidentlae F1 hybrids. Others were L. pardalinum x parvum var. hollidayi F1, and L. pardalinum x kelloggii F1. Many have not persisted in the garden, however the remaining plants have been very strong growers and have provided an extended bloom period. Lilium pardalinum, as expected, is very dominant in the F1 generation.
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A couple of pots of Eriogonum marifolium (foreground) and E. incanum (rear). Both were grown from seed gathered in the Sierra Nevada. Both species are unisexual, the female plants producing the best flowers. The two species also intergrade (hybridize) in the wild as well as in the garden without controlled pollination. I find the hybrids to be interesting and worth growing.
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Eriophyllum lanatum var. achilleoides
A California native perennial. Very xeric, and well worth cultivation in the xeric garden. This plant has been in bloom for 6-8 weeks now and even the 35 C, plus or minor, is not bringing its bloom cycle to an end. There is a tremendous variety within the species even locally. Improved selections seem very worth while and is something that I am pursuing.
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Hemizonia cogesta ssp lutescens
A California native annual. I do not have many plants this year, however they look great this season. Last year the flowers were half the size. Last year's seedlings may have been hybrids with ssp. luzulifolia which has much smaller flowers (they are also white). I am growing both ssp. this year without any cross pollination protection. :'( Maybe it is not too late for me to do something to maintain purity if I gather the later seed, but then maybe I have some leftover seed in the refrigerator and will have more time to do control cross pollination next year. :)
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Corydalis sempervirens
These are growing in pots of various Erythronium species and hybrids. The progression is perfect they germinated and grew as the Erythroniums died back. I hope to repeat this combination in the open garden next year. The Corydalis will look good until after they bloom (about 1 July), then I will have to come up with other species to replace the Corydalis in the open garden scheme. Something for me to experiment with now. :)
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Deutzia calycosa -A form obtained from Glendoick (?wild Cox collection).
If truth be told I am a numpty gardener. Years ago I planted this stunning shrub in entirely the wrong position for it to flourish and be appreciated. Despite this and as a protest it puts on a beautiful display every year.
Can Deutzia be easily propagated from cuttings?
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Patersonia fragilis, from Tasmania.
A kind gift from Lesley C, growing here for a couple of years but not yet thriving.
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Deutzia calycosa
Can Deutzia be easily propagated from cuttings?
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Yes, I think I have done it with semi-ripe wood in mid summer. I certainly brought rooted cuttings when we moved house.
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I got this plant without a name a couple of years ago. Anybody recognize it?
Hoy
I think this is Veronica pyrolaeformis - certainly very similar to plants I have seen under that name.
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-A form obtained from Glendoick (?wild Cox collection).
Thank you so much Steve, we saw this at Glendoick a fortnight ago and I was stumped as to what it was. Now to find one!
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Really good to see these bright and cheerful plants as we had -4C this morning, a heavy frost for us but the day will be lovely when the sun comes above the horizon. There's not a cloud in the sky, hence the frost of course. We do our best for you in the north when our warm times come back. :D
The deutzia is a beauty. Don't really like the ones I've seen but this is something special. And I very much like the Veronica pyrolaeformis, something quite different for me. Thanks for the introduction Hoy and Jon.
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I asked Mr Google about the Veronica and he said only to look at the 2014 AGS Show at Wimborne, your own photos Jon. It is listed there as V. pyroliformis. I thought, yes, that's it but now not so sure as Hoy's leaves are quite deeply toothed, the Lever plant, not. Hard to tell from the flowers. Whatever, both are really nice plants.
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Delighted to see your Patersonia Ashley. You and Michael are both doing better with these Tasmanians than I am. No flowers on mine yet and I lost the Blandfordia altogether.
The east coast of Australia including Tasmania is suffering badly from weather events at present with homes washed into the sea and a number of people lost or drowned in flooding. We've had bad spots here from time to time but I feel so fortunate never to have had to cope with such appalling happenings in my life.
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Hi Lesley
I wrote the notes in 2014. It was exhibited (and was being sold by Aberconwy) as Veronica pyroliformis, but I have discovered subsequently that there is more support for Veronica pyrolaeformis, though neither seem to appear in the Kew Plantlist. The description in the AGS Encyclopaedia seems to cover both plants, and there is certainly some variation in the plants I have seen, though I don't have photos of one with leaves as notched as Hoy's. Here are two photos of a plant growing in a raised bed at Blackthorn Nursery, which is rather different from the form shown at Wimborne.
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Thanks Jon, for these two extra pictures, both better I think than the show plant which perhaps could be a little drawn, judging from these? Yes, pyrolaeformis should be correct since Pyrola has a feminine ending, like cortusaefolius in the Ranunculus of that name. I shouldn't be bothered since we don't have it here and won't be allowed it anyway but I felt it was lovely and wanted to know more.
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Whatever the name is, it's a really nice plant.
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Deutzia calycosa -A form obtained from Glendoick (?wild Cox collection).
If truth be told I am a numpty gardener. Years ago I planted this stunning shrub in entirely the wrong position for it to flourish and be appreciated. Despite this and as a protest it puts on a beautiful display every year.
Can Deutzia be easily propagated from cuttings?
Very beautiful Deutzia!
Most of them are easy from what we call here softwood cuttings; made somewhere in June with a quick dip in IBA; good rooting in about a month.
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Hoy
I think this is Veronica pyrolaeformis - certainly very similar to plants I have seen under that name.
Thanks Jon for the identification!
And thanks to Lesley also ;)
Think I will use the name Veronica pyrolaeformis until anybody says otherwise. Difficult to find information though.
It is the first time it flowers here, and I am not disappointed! I nearly lost it last year - all the new shoots were eaten by slugs so I am happy it survived.
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Ken was in Ontario for the weekend and came home with this bizarre little creature. My hosta mania abated years ago but must say this one could be an interesting addition to the garden since Puyas aren't hardy.....Hosta 'Curly Fries'. Likely the yellow colouring will be better in sun here.
johnw - 12c & fog horn blaring away.
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Think I will use the name Veronica pyrolaeformis until anybody says otherwise. Difficult to find information though.
It is the first time it flowers here, and I am not disappointed! I nearly lost it last year - all the new shoots were eaten by slugs so I am happy it survived.
It is not me saying otherwise Trond, but The Plant list and all the others - Veronica piroliformis Franch.
I also like it so I started to look around. Maybe you can keep the slugs away and it will make few seeds ;)
http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/tro-29207880 (http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/tro-29207880)
http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200021347 (http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200021347)
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It is not me saying otherwise Trond, but The Plant list and all the others - Veronica piroliformis Franch.
I also like it so I started to look around. Maybe you can keep the slugs away and it will make few seeds ;)
http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/tro-29207880 (http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/tro-29207880)
http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200021347 (http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200021347)
Thanks Gabriela. I accept that it is not you but everybody else that spell the name piroliformis ;)! I didn't find it when searching because I wrote pyrol... in stead of pirol...
I will try to save the plant and the seeds from slugs :)
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Delighted to see your Patersonia Ashley. You and Michael are both doing better with these Tasmanians than I am. No flowers on mine yet and I lost the Blandfordia altogether.
Thanks Lesley. The Blandfordia is slowly but surely coming along in the garden but won't flower this year. Unfortunately I lost the Coprosma moorei though :'(
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I had half a dozen seedling coprosmas in small pots up to last spring then lost the lot and I don't know why except perhaps crowded out by moss. However, I had planted out a single small plant in a raised bed and so far that is doing well and spreading. It had 5 fruit in the early autumn (they were violet instead of blue! Why?) but barely had I noticed them and was waiting for them to mature before collecting the seeds, than a bird took the lot one night or early morning. Not bunnies this time as I had wire netting over the place and it was undisturbed so it had to be a bird. I'll have electric lights, razor wire and armed guards round it from the spring ;D then maybe some seed to send.
One very happy thing though. I had lost altogether (about 3 years ago) my much loved Anagallis tenella 'Studland' which I imported in 1993 just before the clamp-down, bringing it home with me from the UK. I sold a few plants over time and when I contacted those people found they had lost it too. I had previously replaced mine from a friend, and she had subsequently replaced hers from me but the second time she'd lost hers as well - if you follow me. Totally gone, I thought, and not able to be replaced. (It is very sensitive to dry conditions and hot winds. So that was that. I still have the photos though.
Then a month ago I went to the Dunedin Bot. Garden annual plant sale. It is usually rhodos, native trees and shrubs and a selection of run-of-the-mill perennials and bedding plants. I bought a viola I had lost, an 'Ardross Gem' lookalike, then was leaving and saw quite a large pot among the shrubs. I knew instantly what it was, my precious Anagallis. I approached it carefully so no-one would realize that I had seen a real treasure and maybe grab first, then with it safely tucked under my arm, went to the pay bench. It was only $4 but I was so happy and excited I gave them my $10 note and told them to keep the change.
It has some young plants of that filthy little native cress in it, the one with the tap roots so will need repotting but I'll leave that until the frosts stop and in the meantime I can gloat happily. ;D Perhaps I'll sometime find again Viola 'Jackanapes,' another lost treasure from the same trip abroad.
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I like your 'Curly Fries' John. Very few really dwarf hostas here. 'Kabitan' and 'Blue Mouse Ears' and 'Dewdrop(s)' are about it. They're great little plants for round very small pools. :)
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Ranunculus acris 'Citrinus', and a bigger flowering plant, Iris 'Sibtosa Queen'
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Anagallis tenella is a lovely little thing isn't it Lesley? Funnily enough I came across some yesterday in flower on fieldwork - don't see it very often.
It's not an easy plant to grow in the garden as it needs wet low-nutrient conditions. I grow mine in a pan with Sarracenias where it does well and gives additional interest.
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I bought Salvia "Love and Wishes" a few weeks ago and it is now in bloom. Well worth breaking the seed only "rule" for.................
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Bulbine frutescens..............
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The Dracunculus vulgaris that I planted as a surprise when I did my parents garden for them. Typically it bloomed whilst they were away for a couple of weeks!
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I like your 'Curly Fries' John. Very few really dwarf hostas here. 'Kabitan' and 'Blue Mouse Ears' and 'Dewdrop(s)' are about it. They're great little plants for round very small pools. :)
Lesley - I don't think this hosta will be terribly dwarf, medium I'd guess. Perhaps someone on the forum with a good collection of very dwarf hostas might cross a few of the best and send you seed; not sure how dominant the dwarfism is or how rare variegation is in the progeny. There are certainly some very fine ones out there.
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Silene nutans in sunshine during the day...
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...and the same clump in the morning before the sun gets to it. This one is moth pollinated and the flowers curl up during the day.
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In the conservatory, the pitcher plants are really getting going.
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Sarracenia leucophylla, pink lip.
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S. flava var. ornata.
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A hybrid involving S. flava var. cuprea and S. alata.
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S. 'Lynda Butt'
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Not the best photo, but Anagallis tenella likes the same conditions so I grow it in pots with the Sarracenias.
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I acquired this one only recently. It is Sarracenia x moorei 'Leah Wilkerson' and is absolutely colossal, as you can see! Looking forward to when it clumps up.
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Thanks John, re the hostas. Mark S sent me some dwarf seed a few years ago, (quite a few) from variegated forms and though the seedlings were reasonably small, all except one were plain green. That didn't surprise me as I've grown seed from other variegated forms and had only plain plants. The one exception had a nice green edge to an otherwise white blade but over 2 or 3 years even that aged out and is quite green all over now. A few hostas are coming into the country by tissue culture so I'll enquire around.
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Tristan your Anagallis photo may be a little blurry but does show how well it can flower when happy. A north of Auckland friend had it at one stage, in a peat bog on his property and it was truly a sheet of clean pink, when it flowered. Mine was perhaps not quite as generous but always good, all the same. I'm thinking yours is the 'Studland' form too? In 1993 when I was last in England, I remember seeing it in turf on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne when Roger and I stayed there for a few days and walked over every inch of the island, I think. The flowers there though, were a pale shade that could be called "flesh" pink, almost into buff. A great thrill to see it all the same, in the wild. We went to Lindisfarne largely out of curiosity as our own property in NZ was (still is but not ours any more) called Lindisfarne. I think it was the part of England that I loved most of all, do different and quiet and free of tourists once the tide had come up and stopped them from crossing over. Most seemed to come over for just the few hours between tides.
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Leena, your Iris 'Sibtosa Queen' is a lovely plant. Do you know anything about it? The name suggests a hybrid between the setosa and sibirica series and there are many of those, usually listed as x Sibtosa. But it is unusual I think to see the cross with such large standards since I. setosa has virtually no standards at all. The red staining on the buds is very attractive and the plant has a really nice "stately" quality. :)
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Lovely Sarracenias Tristan - wouldn't you be able to grow them outside?
A couple of images in matching colours - Polygala paucifolia, from the woods; Allium oreophilum, from the garden.
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Leena, your Iris 'Sibtosa Queen' is a lovely plant. Do you know anything about it?
Lesley, it is a hybrid from Tamberg, Germany, https://tamberg.homepage.t-online.de/iris_offer.htm
Iris Sibtosa hybrid SIBTOSA QUEEN (Tamberg 2001)
On tall stems with two side branches this 3/4-1/4-Sibtosa-hybrid develops up to six flowers, showing initially a strong lavender-pink that later pales to a lavender hue. In contrast standards and styles are near white. The intensity and the contrast of colours are unusual for a Siberian hybrid. SIBTOSA QUEEN flowers during the first part of the main flowering period. The variety is vigorous and floriferous. In 2001 it won the trophy for the best spike of a beardless iris at the German iris show in Erfurt.
It is a very good iris at least in my garden, and flowers for quite a long time because of the sidebuds. I have also some other irises from Tamberg and most are very good and thrive here.
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Tristan your Anagallis photo may be a little blurry but does show how well it can flower when happy. A north of Auckland friend had it at one stage, in a peat bog on his property and it was truly a sheet of clean pink, when it flowered. Mine was perhaps not quite as generous but always good, all the same. I'm thinking yours is the 'Studland' form too?
It probably is Lesley. The wild forms tend to be a bit paler. I'll try any post a better photo when the flowers are opened.
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Lovely Sarracenias Tristan - wouldn't you be able to grow them outside?
Most of the better forms of S. flava and all of the leucophyllas are borderline hardy here Gabriela. Moreover, the growing season is a good deal shorter outdoors. I do tend to put them outside in good weather though as this gets better colour and allows them to feed!
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Two plants from the garden this morning,
Incarvillea younghusbandii & Roscoea humeana alba.
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Here are two that are very late this year;
Dipplarena moraea..................
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And my unknown Lewisia that I rescued from the "graveyard" of a local nursery a couple of years ago................
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Two plants from the garden this morning,
Incarvillea younghusbandii & Roscoea humeana alba.
Roscoea barely through the ground here ! I think R. humeana alba is one of the most beautiful plants - ever!
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I love the Saracenia!
I have a question about Hosta, not a point of any expertise for me. This is a foto of H.sieboldiana Francis Williams showing a gold-leafed sport. I seem to recall there being a named gold sport of FW. Anyone know? Recall?
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It is not only roadside plants here. I also have some in my garden ;)
Dodecathion dentatum/Primula latiloba.
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An Arisaema which I thought was ciliata but it is not. . . .
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Dactylorhiza incarnata(?)
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Anemone prattii. The bud was damaged, probably by a slug.
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One of the blue Corydalises. I have some big clumps but they are not in flower yet. This one is earlier but dwindle every year. Maybe it is too dry?
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A white Geranium.
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Roscoea cautleyoides(?)
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It is not only roadside plants here. I also have some in my garden ;)
Dodecathion dentatum/Primula latiloba.
An Arisaema which I thought was ciliata but it is not. . . .
What a cute white Dodecatheon! (OK, Primula...)
Your Arisaema looks like A. concinnum, but it is variable species, so more pictures would be necessary if you really want a label ;) Roscoea cautleyoides is always from the first ones to flower - all Arisaema and Roscoea are also starting to show up here :)
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Maggi, another roscoea has come into flower today.
Roscoea cautleyoides Early Purple & Physoplexis comosa.
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Verbascum Letitia photographed at Pottertons.
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Maggi wrote
"Roscoea barely through the ground here !"
Maggi they never seem to emerge here. :(
Cypripedium candidum below with two small seedlings, I think, as their leaf texture feels like that of the parents.
-Rob
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What a cute white Dodecatheon! (OK, Primula...)
Your Arisaema looks like A. concinnum, but it is variable species, so more pictures would be necessary if you really want a label ;) Roscoea cautleyoides is always from the first ones to flower - all Arisaema and Roscoea are also starting to show up here :)
I agree it does look like concinnum but my plant is small and spindly. I thought concinnum was bigger when starting to flower.
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Cypripedium candidum below with two small seedlings, I think, as their leaf texture feels like that of the parents.
-Rob
This is quite some Cypripedium clump!!!
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I agree it does look like concinnum but my plant is small and spindly. I thought concinnum was bigger when starting to flower.
I looked fast over the key and A. concinnum is supposed to have two leaves/stem so is out. But to properly go over the key, you would need to dissect the flower; not worth doing it.
Why is it cannot be an A. ciliatum?
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An email from Jens Birck in May and somehow I didn't realize there was an attachment until yesterday. It included a picture of his "little" clump of Narcissus cyclamineus. Where does he grow this lusty "little" clump you may well ask, in his peat bed, where else? I have never seen a stand quite like this one. Mouth fully agape. :o :o :o
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I looked fast over the key and A. concinnum is supposed to have two leaves/stem so is out. But to properly go over the key, you would need to dissect the flower; not worth doing it.
Why is it cannot be an A. ciliatum?
The name is not that important - I don' want to dissect the flower ;)
According to Pacific bulb Society's site ciliatum has cilia, mine has not (or I haven't seen any).
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http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/ArisaemaSpeciesOne (http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/ArisaemaSpeciesOne)
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An email from Jens Birck in May and somehow I didn't realize there was an attachment until yesterday. It included a picture of his "little" clump of Narcissus cyclamineus. Where does he grow this lusty "little" clump you may well ask, in his peat bed, where else? I have never seen a stand quite like this one. Mouth fully agape. :o :o :o
johnw
I am satisfied when I get 3 flowers at once ;D
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Trond,
it could be Arisaema concinnum, which has 7-11 leaflets when mature (less for seedings) or a related species. Many have not been described. It looks to be a member of section Sinarisaema. The spath barely reveals the spadix, which should be slightly bent foreward at the tip for A. concinnum and the bulb is stoloniferous. Also, A. ciliatum var liubanense lacks the hairs on the spath mouth margins. The spadix is well exert and typically touches the spath hood.
Hope it helps. Arisaema is not easy to identify precisely.
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An email from Jens Birck in May and somehow I didn't realize there was an attachment until yesterday. It included a picture of his "little" clump of Narcissus cyclamineus. Where does he grow this lusty "little" clump you may well ask, in his peat bed, where else? I have never seen a stand quite like this one. Mouth fully agape. :o :o :o
johnw
If you are ever in this part of the world (North Wales) you should visit Bodnant Garden John. They have much bigger clumps!
https://bodnantgarden.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/narcissus-cyclamineus.jpg (https://bodnantgarden.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/narcissus-cyclamineus.jpg)
Aberconwy Nursery also have a fine stand, though it's not on display to the public.
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Ah yes Tristan but does the Bodnant stand have as many flower stems per square centimetre? I've never seen it before with such a "host." Even Wordsworth would be impressed. I saw a cartoon once of an American couple visiting the Lake District in England and on viewing a small clump of daffodils at the base of a tree, was saying "Call that a host?" ;D
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As usual Lesley hits the nail on the head. I'ver seen modest drifts of cyclamineus in the Pacific Northwest and large ones in the UK (was there not a period in the 70's or 80's when many vanished?) but the number of flower heads in such a small stand at Jens' is absolutely remarkable; up to his usual wizardry.
john - +12c, cloudy & a long bout of rain coming.
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The name is not that important - I don' want to dissect the flower ;)
Of course not!!! I won't repeat what Regelian just said about A. ciliatum var. liubaense. When mine will flower I will post detail pictures.
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Trond,
it could be Arisaema concinnum, which has 7-11 leaflets when mature (less for seedings) or a related species. Many have not been described. It looks to be a member of section Sinarisaema. The spath barely reveals the spadix, which should be slightly bent foreward at the tip for A. concinnum and the bulb is stoloniferous. Also, A. ciliatum var liubanense lacks the hairs on the spath mouth margins. The spadix is well exert and typically touches the spath hood.
Hope it helps. Arisaema is not easy to identify precisely.
Thanks Jamie
It looks very similar to some pictures of concinnum on the net. And moreover it seems to be stoloniferous!
Of course not!!! I won't repeat what Regelian just said about A. ciliatum var. liubaense. When mine will flower I will post detail pictures.
The spadix of my plant is almost hidden.
I can't remember whether my plant was from seed or bought as a corm. I think it is from seed though.
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The first Dierama of the season. From Rachel Saunder's team (Silver Hill in SA) a hybrid.
I just love these plants.
And a waterlily, Gonnere.
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Summer without opium poppy is unheard of in my garden. Fortunately, they are never thugs.
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Very nice, Jamie. Here Buddleja alternifolia is a splendid floriferous arching shrub at this time of year.
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This Rhodohypoxis E.A. Bowles managed 2 thirds at the Southport and Bakewell shows. Having nothing else to do till the football came on again (HAHAHA joke) I deadheaded it this morning. I took off 724 flowers.
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724 flowers is rather a lot! How big is the pot?
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Lilium Akkusianum. Success at last. I obtained seeds some 6/7 years ago from Henry and Margaret Taylor. Germination took a year and I had about 6 seedlings. A couple of bad winters took their toll until I had only one left. This I planted out as I thought it would be more protected in the soil than in a pot. To my delight , it decided to flower, as the picture shows. The scent is delicious.
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Well done Tom, it looks very pretty.
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Lilium akkusianum is just stunning. Love the hairy bits ( that's the technical terminology I'm sure! )
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Is that why Ian is sporting a hairy chin ;D
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Brian tells me the pan is 32cm Maggi, so room to grow a bit more before the 36cm cut off point. It's by far the most impressive Rhodohypoxis we have.
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Is that why Ian is sporting a hairy chin ;D
;D ;D ;D
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Brian tells me the pan is 32cm Maggi, so room to grow a bit more before the 36cm cut off point. It's by far the most impressive Rhodohypoxis we have.
Wow! It is a super potful.
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Lilium Akkusianum. Success at last. I obtained seeds some 6/7 years ago from Henry and Margaret Taylor. Germination took a year and I had about 6 seedlings.
I sowed some seeds of this from this year's seed ex. Useful to know I'll need to wait for germination. There doesn't seem to be much information on this species (or I just couldn't find it)
What a super plant!
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Some pictures from Branklyn on Saturday
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Last 5.
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Lilium akkusianum seed germination is delayed hypogeal, according to Henry and Margaret Taylor.
Fabulously grown plant, Tom! What would you say the preferred soil pH is? And what do think did many of them in over winters: too cold? Wet? or?
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I got the seeds in October at a talk given by Henry and Margaret at the local SRGC branch in Ayr. Henry said that I could sow them immediately in a well drained compost.
I made up a compost from finely ground composted bark-(Melcourt in the UK) and a proprietary seed compost. I had seven seeds and by next April they had germinated--I kept them in the glasshouse for safe keeping until June and then they were put out on a bench.. The growth was about 2" and the leaves died back in late September. Back in the glasshouse for winter and growth started again in April although I had only 5 now. Same again in summer and back in again in winter. I knocked them out the pot in March and saw 5 very small bulbs, repotted and let them grow on.
Next winter was unusually cold with freezing rain and did not do them much good. Next years growth was poor.
The next winter was even wetter and colder and a couple more succumbed .
I was now left with two so I planted one in the garden and kept the other in a pot. The one in the pot had vanished this Spring.....not a trace...possibly eaten by a slug.
The one in the garden has flowered as you can see. Not very scientific but at least I got one .
I also got Lilium Mackliniae at the same time and I am awaiting these to flower also.
Also attached seed grown Nomocharis. Easy to germinate BUT favourite slug food !!!
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Love the hairy bits ( that's the technical terminology I'm sure! )
I'm not saying anything... nope.. nothing. Thinking but not saying. ;D
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I sowed some seeds of this from this year's seed ex. Useful to know I'll need to wait for germination. There doesn't seem to be much information on this species (or I just couldn't find it)
What a super plant!
The plant was only found in 1993 and described in 1998 in the AGS Bulletin 66 no. 3 page 378 -388
- I have a copy of the article but it is too large to post here - I will email it to anyone interested.
This link (http://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=A7x9Uk1jgF5XXzsAUjh3Bwx.;_ylu=X3oDMTByZWJ1c203BHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMgRjb2xvA2lyMgR2dGlkAw--/RV=2/RE=1465839843/RO=10/RU=http%3a%2f%2fwww.alpinegarden-ulster.org.uk%2fNewsletter%2fUlster%2520Group%2520Newsletter_2013.pdf/RK=0/RS=T3ylzUhCCRJxzolfYGXnNNWYNSw-)to an AGS Ireland newsletter has a brief mention from Margaret and Henry Taylor.
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Hoy-your Arisaema looks a lot like A. erubescens that I grew from NARGS seedEx several years ago.
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A few more Irises. The yellow one was grown from seed supposedly Iris Forrestii but I don't know.
The large one is "Japanese Iris cultivar" obtained from the Duchy of Cornwall nursery .
The group of blue irises are Siberica obtained from a cheap warehouse just marked Irises
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Always great to see our native Hudsonia ericoides in the wild and especially rare to see it in a garden. Yesterday at Jamie's in the Annapolis Valley.
johnw - overcast & 12c
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Last night at a friend's we saw this which we presume is a Meconopsis "Lingholm' seedling, a good deep colour. The Meconopsis are loving this cool damp weather and are lasting ages. In the same garden the relatively new & highly desirable Enkianthus campanulatus 'Showy Lanterns' as well as a pink Paeonia suffruticoa v. spontanea. Would someone kindly remind me of the new name for that one?
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Boring to most but to have a Paulownia tomentosa that flowers in the interior of Nova Scotia is quite a coup. Here is one in Kentville showing the progress made to date. Maddeningly difficult to photopragh against a blue or grey sky.
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Love the Enkianthus John, I'll look out for that one. E. campanulatus does well here but mine are a kind of muddy brown. The bees still love them though.
Beautiful Meconopsis. The flower is a very deep blue, but then this is quite variable in Mecs according to conditions. I wonder if it is 'Lingholm' - if it is you should get some seed.
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The plant was only found in 1993 and described in 1998 in the AGS Bulletin 66 no. 3 page 378 -388
- I have a copy of the article but it is too large to post here - I will email it to anyone interested.
This link (http://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=A7x9Uk1jgF5XXzsAUjh3Bwx.;_ylu=X3oDMTByZWJ1c203BHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMgRjb2xvA2lyMgR2dGlkAw--/RV=2/RE=1465839843/RO=10/RU=http%3a%2f%2fwww.alpinegarden-ulster.org.uk%2fNewsletter%2fUlster%2520Group%2520Newsletter_2013.pdf/RK=0/RS=T3ylzUhCCRJxzolfYGXnNNWYNSw-)to an AGS Ireland newsletter has a brief mention from Margaret and Henry Taylor.
Thank you, Maggi, most interesting articles.
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Boring to most but to have a Paulownia tomentosa that flowers in the interior of Nova Scotia is quite a coup. Here is one in Kentville showing the progress made to date. Maddeningly difficult to photopragh against a blue or grey sky.
john
This is a VICTORY! :)
I also like the Enkianthus.
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It sometimes happens that I accidentally tap the wrong key (more likely the edge of the next key) while writing a reply and the whole lot vanishes altogether and I can't find it, either by the back button at the top left of the screen or the minimize button at the top right. It has happened yet again and I'm trying to remember what I had typed into the Reply box.
Firstly, Tom, your yellow iris is pseudacorus, not forrestii. You'll find it enjoys a very damp or even boggy place but is just as good in a border-type position and not so vigorous.
Secondly, Maggi, thank you for the link to the Ulster Group's Newsletter, a wonderful publication for a local group. I enjoyed it all but especially the article by Kay McDowell about the Czech Conference. It took me right back there. I don't remember Kay though I do remember two Irish women arriving towards the end of the Conference. What a lot has slipped my memory. Someone from the Czech Republic this morning reminded me that I'd met her at the Conference but I couldn't remember that either. But her Facebook photo was very small. Maybe if it had been a little larger.....
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Yes, I thought it looked like a "Flag Iris" which grow profusely in our boggy coastal areas BUT I hoped I was wrong.
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Some general pictures of part of the front garden.
Mainly blue Aquilegias with a few Allium 'Purple Sensation' or seedlings and Verbascum phoeniceum. The pink one is a hybrid of phoeniceum and a yellow one.
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The best time for Physoplexis :)
K.
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Stunning! You seem to have improved on Mother Nature. I've never seen it this good in the wild.
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A seedling finally blooming, Arisaema consanguineum. Distinguished by the very long spath attenuation, typical of the species, along with the leaf attenuations. As a comparison a shot of Arisaema ciliatum var. liubaense, which may deserve species status.
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Stunning! You seem to have improved on Mother Nature. I've never seen it this good in the wild.
Anne, the lower plant is 23 years old :) and every year it has about 50 clumps of flowers.
K.
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Anne, the lower plant is 23 years old :) and every year it has about 50 clumps of flowers.
K.
Amazing to have such a difficult plant (at least for me) that long. That seems to be tufa in your picture. Is it planted in the tufa itself? Is it ever fertlized in any way that it keeps flowering so magnificently?
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I can't find a section named "Seed Heads Now" but thus will do. A Clematis seed head with a few leaves.
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Rodgersia, Olearia (macrodonta?), two Aquilgeia and Azara serrata. All at Pitmuies Garden. A lovely place and a mere £5 to get in.
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Probably a thread called "Seedheads" would be a good idea. They are often easier to identify than the actual seeds, and always interesting anyway, sometimes very beautiful like your clematis Fred.
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Amazing to have such a difficult plant (at least for me) that long. That seems to be tufa in your picture. Is it planted in the tufa itself? Is it ever fertlized in any way that it keeps flowering so magnificently?
The upper plant is self-seedling directly to tufa, however the mother plant (lower one) is growing in crevice between tufa and trough edge. I have many self-seedlings on tufa around, so I have a lot of material to spread this plant in rockery :). I never fertilize them.
K.
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Some eye catchers in the garden at te moment :
Convolvulus sundermanii
Verbascum x laetitia contrasts well with Oxalis triangularis purpureum
Good old Dianthus 'Eileen Lever' flowering it's heart out.
Iris goniocarpa from seed sown 5 years ago.
Minuartia stellata struggling with it's neighbours
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Still colorful here, but extremely dry with no rain in sight.
1. Potentilla davurica v mandschurica with Dracocephalum argunense
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The first of the Nomocharis is out today, Nomocharis aperta or a hybrid of it.
johnw
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Talinum ‘Zoe’
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Hoy-your Arisaema looks a lot like A. erubescens that I grew from NARGS seedEx several years ago.
I admit it does look a bit like your plant but not quite.
I have two almost similar plants. They look like this now: (A. consanguineum?)
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Always great to see our native Hudsonia ericoides in the wild and especially rare to see it in a garden. Yesterday at Jamie's in the Annapolis Valley.
johnw - overcast & 12c
Hudsonia was new to me. Seems it is hardy enough for my area!
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Boring to most but to have a Paulownia tomentosa that flowers in the interior of Nova Scotia is quite a coup. Here is one in Kentville showing the progress made to date. Maddeningly difficult to photopragh against a blue or grey sky.
john
I have tried it in my garden but it freezes down after a year ot two. Probably not the winter temperature but the lack of summer :-\
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A sample from my garden now:
The label says Ranunculus crenatus but the flower are a bit small?
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This Delosperma (?- label lost!) has survived for many years now. Its worst enemy is not the weather but the slugs.
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Not that attractive but a curiosity - an almost white dandelion from Mongolia. No label lost - it came with the name Taraxacum Mongolia!
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A rare native in one small area in the east part of Norway but not uncommon as a garden plant, Campanula barbata.
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and a few nameless Saxifraga:
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My humble rockery-
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Hoy I think your arisaema (above) is A. ciliatum, not consanguineum. Although it can be quite vigorous (some would say rampant or weedy) it is still my most favourite of all for its beautiful pin striped spathe, such an elegant thing. Usually it is seen or listed as A. ciliatum var. liubiense but what separates ciliatum from the variety and if they are all the variety, which some people seem to imply, what is the straight species like?. All I've seen (a lot) are exactly the same, so I call them all A. ciliatum.
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Thanks Lesley :)
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Hot it looks fantastics, you can see the roof from your house?
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and a few nameless Saxifraga:
My shed roof-
Fabulous Hoy !!
Here's some more flowers from my garden :
Globularia incanescens feeling at home on its tufa rock.
Rhodohypoxis baurii 'Picta'
Saponaria oleivana
Viola delphinanta x cazorlenzis flowering for months.
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Not only do SRGC members have wonderful gardens - their sheds are more interesting and beautiful than everyone else's too 8) 8) ;) ;D
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Just to join in the admiration of Trond's roof shed :)
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My shed roof-
Thats a great roof Trond!
Have you tried growing Dionysia on the roof . . . . on the inside? ;D
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Thats a great roof Trond!
Have you tried growing Dionysia on the roof . . . . on the inside? ;D
Too dark for Dionysia inside - and hard to come by in Norway anyway ::)
As you can see, too dark!
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Hot it looks fantastics, you can see the roof from your house?
Oh yes, Yann. This is from a 1st floor window:
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The northern part of the shed roof is covered by Actinidia kolomikta. I have a stepladder to reach the upper parts of the roof. I have several Saxifragas. They seem to like it here.
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Saxifraga longifolia and cotyledon
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Not very tidy ;)
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I grow several ferns. This is a native, Asplenium adianthum-nigrum.
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Not native but naturalized in my garden Luzula luzuloides.
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Nice under the trees in the woodland garden: Cardaria draba. It has a nice scent of honey.
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Aruncus aethusifolius
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The rhododendron gets new flowers in summer, an Epiphyllum on vacation.
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Another pot plant, Tulbaghia violacea from seed. Colour variation.
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Garden orchids have been very rarely offered in nurseries here. The few available are very expensive also. Last year I bought 3 plants on fall sale to reduced prices. One of them blooms soon. Looks like a Cypripedium reginae:
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I can't remember this one! Now it is 55cm tall and very floriferous. Looks a bit like Dachtylorhiza fuchsii.
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18th June and I have found my first cyclamen hederifolium in flower. Has autumn arrived?
We have had very dry, sunny weather since the start of May, then a thundery downpour this week, which seems to have confused the poor cyclamen. It's certainly the earliest I've seen it flower.
Sorry about this, Maggi, I know you are still waiting for summer up in Aberdeen....
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Rhodohypoxis 'Tetra Pink'
Verbascum 'Letitia'
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I love it when one plant grows inside another, like in one of your sax pictures Trond. Our raoulias and helichrysums do it too, on the high outcrops and screes and they look wonderful.
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Not my shed roof, but a fellow Minnesota Rock Garden Society member's.
They have one rule: no sedums or sempervivums!
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That's really beautiful Rick.Could your friend (or you) talk about the construction and planting please. does an "ordinary" roof have an extra strengthening and is there a waterproof course between the roof and the soil? How deep is the growing medium to start with. I imagine that as it matures, the older roots/dead leaves and blown in matter would help to provide an extra layer of compost deep enough for roots of the aquilegias etc. Does it need watering often and what other plants are in there. It llos like a natural environment, nothing contrived at all.
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Cosmos atrosanguineus.
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Canna paniculata is hardy enough to be planted out without any worries but reliably blooms before all the pampered species and cultivars.............
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Salvia "Amistad" on the other hand has certainly benefited from its winter and spring pampering under glass.............
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Zantedeschia elliottiana will be split next spring and I'll finally try some outdoors...............
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The South American Scarlet Season is here:
Philesia magellanica
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Asteranthera ovata
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Ourisia coccinea
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Tropaeolum speciosum
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I just wish I had some Hummingbirds to pollinate them!
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(A Tufted Coquette photographed in the gardens of the Asa Wright Centre, Trinidad.)
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The South American Scarlet Season is here:
Philesia magellanica
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Asteranthera ovata
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Ourisia coccinea
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Tropaeolum speciosum
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I just wish I had some Hummingbirds to pollinate them!
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(A Tufted Coquette photographed in the gardens of the Asa Wright Centre, Trinidad.)
Cracking photos and even better plants!
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Get out there with a paint brush, Steve! :D
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Chocolate doesn't come much darker then that Michael. 90% cocoa solids? ;D
Love those scarlets Steve. Since moving over 3 years ago now, I've had only 3 flowers on my Asteranthera and those all just within the last (winter) month. I adore this plant. It grows really well and flowered well in a tunnel with seed set but behaving badly here.
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Also very pleased to see the Canna Meanie, as I filched some seed from it in my daughter's warmer garden, back in February but not sure what it was. It was still in flower as well as having blue/black seeds. A few have germinated this week. If it's hardy with you it probably is with me. :)
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Regarding the shed roof garden, Leslie, it does need heavier construction to accommodate the extra weight (which would also include snow for us). The soil media is very simple: half Turface and half something else - I'll find out. Average yearly precipitation is about 24 inches. We have no cyclic monsoon or drought period, although droughts do happen. They don't do any regular watering of the roof. I would have them explain it all, but many years ago, they decided computers were not for them, and they've stuck with that decision - not even email!
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Viola 'Molly Sanderson'
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what a lovely Viola this is! Very nice, Michael.
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This is from seed of Dierama Guinevere, considered a D. pulcherrima cultivar, that come true from seed!
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Also very pleased to see the Canna Meanie, as I filched some seed from it in my daughter's warmer garden, back in February but not sure what it was. It was still in flower as well as having blue/black seeds. A few have germinated this week. If it's hardy with you it probably is with me. :)
If it's hardy here in the Cotswold it will be a walk in the park in Dunedin. Kind of the wrong time of year to be germinating them isn't it? Just keep them ticking over for the winter if you can.
Mine were sown mid January last year and they were in bloom by early June. By the end of last season the tubers had split a 20cm (ish) pot open! For the winter they were simply put into a bigger pot that I then dropped into the border. The other potful that I kept in a pot in the greenhouse are still a couple of weeks from blooming.
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Penstemon smallii..............
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Echinopsis subdenudata..........
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Digitalis silver fox has come into flower here.
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Thanks Meanie. I tend to sow seed when I get it or more accurately perhaps, when I get around to it so the Canna was sown in March after my February holiday but our summer went on and on this year so some things may have been confused, a state I find myself in more and more frequently of late.
Love 'Molly Sanderson.' We have a plant here absolutely identical which surfaced before MS and known, inevitably, as 'All Black,' (Wales lining up for another beating (was trying to think of a nicer word) on Saturday night.) But I haven't seen it about for a couple of years or more. One of those plants perhaps which we lose through carelessness and can't ever replace. Maybe someone still has it.
Does anyone recall a form of Digitalis purpurea called 'Heywoodii'? Another plant I used to have and loved it for its heavily white felted leaves and flowers of soft lemon yellow suffused lightly with pink at the edges. Unfortunately it was biennial or at least short-lived and the seedlings when they matured were all the progeny from a pollination by straight, purplish purpurea. Not the delicate colouring and not nearly such good foliage. Two batches of seed from a nursery were the same.
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Gentiana straminea
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From this month:
Antirrhinum glutinosum
Daphne oleoides
Dianthus alpinus - a selfseedling
Heuchera pulchella
Linum elegans - the real thing
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Rodgersia in flower here, I'm not too sure what species is as I have had it for years and the label has been lost, it's doing really well in this moist, shady spot in the front garden.
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Sometimes we overlook the obvious. Here is Vicia faba.................
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AKA the humble Broad Bean.............
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Loverly flowers on the broad bean, I remember them fron when I was a kid, I hated them. Is it the runner bean which is the climber with the red flowers?
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It is many years since I did grow broad bean but I remember the flowers ;)
A few Geraniums. of the common type but I like them nevertheless :)
Geranium macrorrhizum
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Don't remember the name of this hybrid!
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...nor this one
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Not a cranesbill but the promising buds of Anemopsis californica
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I know I've posted this before but I do love it and it's fully out now - Leucogenes leontopodium.
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Can't remember the name of this houseleek. They are handy for a poor dry spot though and architectural in a quiet way.
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Ornithogalum ponticum 'Sochi' from Janis. Very beautiful though perhaps a dark background would be better to appreciate the flowers.
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You can't have too many pictures of the Leucogenes Tristan. : ) If you hadn't said otherwise I would have assumed it was taken in its natural scree-like home. The setting is perfect. One of my favourite, perhaps the most, of our native alpines, and relatively easy though I lost a couple to dryness this last summer.
I was very excited by the first broad bean picture, such a super black and white flower, then went on to realize what it was. Yes, we do overlook some of the commonest and most obvious things until they're pointed out. I love broad beans and have so far planted two double rows at the (southern hemisphere) traditional time of Easter. Easter was quite early this year and maybe it was too soon as the first row is already 50 cms high and showing the beginnings of buds whereas winter is still just getting into its stride. So I hope they come through all right. The second row, sown two weeks later is a bit different, of a var called (here) 'Hughey's Crimson' and has flowers of a lovely deep crimson pink. In due course I'll photograph it for the Forum. I first saw it in flower last November at one of the Iris Soc Convention gardens and I think in that large and beautiful garden, full of all kinds of treasures, the broad bean caused the most excitement! The name came from the Blue Mountain Nursery business of Denis Huighes and his family who have rescued the bean from somewhere, not sure where, and grown it up to a commercial variety. I thought it was something new but a quick Google told me it was grown in Europe as long ago as 1750, so, as they say, nothing new under the sun. I'm told the beans taste very good.
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Leucogenes is a gem! How easy is it from seed?
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No idea I'm afraid Trond, but I can try sending you a piece if you like. It's easy from cuttings though a little slow to establish. Should be easy in Norway I would have thought.
Lesley, this was planted during construction of the rockery using the time honoured 'tear up a clump and jam the pieces into crevices' technique. It does give a very naturalistic look which I like. Living on a stony Welsh hillside I also have a more or less inexhaustible supply of rocks, stones and gravel of various sizes, which I like to make use of. The local slate pieces also come in handy for crevice gardens.
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Tristan, I'll PM you :)
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It is quite easy from seed Trond, much less so to find good seed. I crumble the dead flower heads each year and sow the lot, (fluffy stuff with no visible or identifiable seed) and maybe get a seedling if I'm lucky. This from my own plants. The quality may be better from wild plants but this is a North Island plant and I have never been in the N. I. mountains. Not sure how far south it extends. Cuttings are quite easy though. I do mine in gritty sand, or sand/pumice mixture.
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Loverly flowers on the broad bean, I remember them fron when I was a kid, I hated them. Is it the runner bean which is the climber with the red flowers?
How can you hate broad beans! It was one of the few veg that my Mum couldn't make a pigs ear of cooking!
Yes, the flowers of runner beans are predominantly red although not exclusively.
I was very excited by the first broad bean picture, such a super black and white flower, then went on to realize what it was. Yes, we do overlook some of the commonest and most obvious things until they're pointed out. I love broad beans and have so far planted two double rows at the (southern hemisphere) traditional time of Easter. Easter was quite early this year and maybe it was too soon as the first row is already 50 cms high and showing the beginnings of buds whereas winter is still just getting into its stride. So I hope they come through all right. The second row, sown two weeks later is a bit different, of a var called (here) 'Hughey's Crimson' and has flowers of a lovely deep crimson pink. In due course I'll photograph it for the Forum. I first saw it in flower last November at one of the Iris Soc Convention gardens and I think in that large and beautiful garden, full of all kinds of treasures, the broad bean caused the most excitement! The name came from the Blue Mountain Nursery business of Denis Huighes and his family who have rescued the bean from somewhere, not sure where, and grown it up to a commercial variety. I thought it was something new but a quick Google told me it was grown in Europe as long ago as 1750, so, as they say, nothing new under the sun. I'm told the beans taste very good.
Even if I didn't like the Broad Bean it is the sort of plant that appeals to my sense of the ornamental. It's high time that I tried a few other varieties so I'll look out for Hugheys or something similar.
As an aside, one night many years ago on the way back from the pub I decided to scrump a few from a field on the way home. T-shirt off and knotted as a bag and it was soon full. I soon tucked into them and they were vile! Turns out that the form grown as cattle feed are not good eaters at all!
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..... back for another few pints to get rid of the taste? ;D
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..... back for another few pints to get rid of the taste? ;D
Had it not been about half three in the morning I probably would have ;D
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Is it the runner bean which is the climber with the red flowers?
It will take an amazing bean to beat the old (but still the best of its kind) 'Scarlet Runner.' I could almost live on them through the summer, just add some 'Black Krim' tomatoes and a few leaves of lovage. :D
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It is quite easy from seed Trond, much less so to find good seed. I crumble the dead flower heads each year and sow the lot, (fluffy stuff with no visible or identifiable seed) and maybe get a seedling if I'm lucky. This from my own plants. The quality may be better from wild plants but this is a North Island plant and I have never been in the N. I. mountains. Not sure how far south it extends. Cuttings are quite easy though. I do mine in gritty sand, or sand/pumice mixture.
Thanks for the info Lesley. I hope I can eventually try both seeds and cuttings ;)
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Although quite easy to grow (I had broad beans at home for several years) it is no beans and not much else up here - I crossed the mountains yesterday and it is still much snow. Made a quick halt to stretch the legs.
The lake Ståvatn at the border between Hordaland and Telemark counties.
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The road to back home
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Salix sp
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Carex sp
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Cryptogamma crispa and Athyrium distenifolium
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Clematis 'Bijou' from the relatively new group of low growing Clematis varieties.
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Sedum glaucophyllum, the Appalachian stonecrop, grown in a part shaded location.
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In my so-called rock garden - Hieracium lanatum; I keep it as a pet :)
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Nice and furry Gabriela, does it sleep on the end of your bed? ;D
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Gabriela :Clematis 'Bijou' from the relatively new group of low growing Clematis varieties.
Gabriela - I know nothing of these plants - can you describe more of their habit /size? Looks interesting.
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Convolvulus cneorum. Or at least, it was... :-\
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But what a VERY cute destroyer! ;)
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Yes, that's Pippi. We sadly had to put our old lab/retriever cross Willow to sleep earlier this year - she was 15 and had cancer. Having a puppy is a bit of a shock to the system!
She's mostly good but we are going to have to accept some collateral damage in the garden for a bit I think.
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Nice and furry Gabriela, does it sleep on the end of your bed? ;D
:) I often think of going to sleep outside in the summertime Lesley, if not for the too many mosquitoes.... >:(
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Gabriela - I know nothing of these plants - can you describe more of their habit /size? Looks interesting.
I can only say what I read about them Maggi - I only bought it a couple of weeks ago (I was at the garden center to buy bags with soil actually :-\ It's a collection of compact plants, supposed to grow about 30 cm. Recommended mostly for containers, hanging baskets and, most important, advertised as being more heat tolerant.
I can already tell that I planted it in a bad location, need to wait for a cooler day to move it.
Days with above 30C temperatures and blasting sun, one after another in southern Ontario...
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Thanks Gabriela - "more heat tolerant" eh? Not that I think that will be a problem for them here- if I were to find them! ::)
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The lake Ståvatn at the border between Hordaland and Telemark counties.
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The road to back home
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If it wasn't for the ice I would be envious of your scenery!
An unknown Martagon (?) Lily...............
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Re. the various comments about broad beans. Those of you who claim to hate them are probably eating them when they are too well developed and gone 'floury'. Picked very young, they are delicious and the skins are not tough, or the inner flesh floury. TV chefs remove the skins, which to me is time consuming, a waste and not necessary if you pick them young enough. The best variety for flavour which we grow in our Museum garden is called 'Perla' and is available from Mr. Fothergill's, DT Brown and Kelways. My favourite meal is broad beans and crispy bacon. Cut the bacon into small squares, fry until crispy, and toss the cooked beans in them to coat them with the bacon fat. Yummy!
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Re. the various comments about broad beans. Those of you who claim to hate them are probably eating them when they are too well developed and gone 'floury'. Picked very young, they are delicious and the skins are not tough, or the inner flesh floury. TV chefs remove the skins, which to me is time consuming, a waste and not necessary if you pick them young enough. The best variety for flavour which we grow in our Museum garden is called 'Perla' and is available from Mr. Fothergill's, DT Brown and Kelways. My favourite meal is broad beans and crispy bacon. Cut the bacon into small squares, fry until crispy, and toss the cooked beans in them to coat them with the bacon fat. Yummy!
I cannot comment on varieties as mine are from saved seed with the linage going back to my father. But I can agree totally regarding the deliciousness of a good broad bean.
And the versatility. Pureed, a dash of good olive oil, a little garlic, grate some parmesan in and mix, then spread over some good toasted bread and grill. Add them to rice to go with your curry. Add to casseroles. Add to tomato based bean and chorizo stews. Or simply cooked to go with a traditional roast. Just plain yummy!
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And a wonderful risotto with fresh green peas, lightly cooked, some chives and parsley and a good dose of grated parmesan. :P
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Stop it, you lot >:(
you're making me hungry ;D
Our Broad beans (the Americans call them Fava Beans ... remember "Silence of the Lambs"?) are only a few inches tall - we won't be picking any pods for quite a while,
cheers
fermi
PS Pippi is very cute, Tristan, and there will be collateral damage ;D Is she also a Lab/retriever cross?
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Petunia exserta - photographed a few days before, looking much better than today after endless rain showers
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Pippi is very cute, Tristan, and there will be collateral damage ;D Is she also a Lab/retriever cross?
She's 3/4 poodle and 1/4 cocker spaniel Fermi, so a bit smaller. Non shedding which is handy. She is very cute and wants to be everyone's friend.
Actually the collateral damage has been limited so far, fingers crossed!
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Petunia exserta - photographed a few days before, looking much better than today after endless rain showers
Gerd
I couldn't resist sharing here this article from Robbie Blackhall-Miles - he writes of Petunia exserta, being grown from seed from Derry at Special Plants !! http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gardening-blog/2015/jul/30/petunia-exserta-a-flower-on-the-brink-of-extinction (http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gardening-blog/2015/jul/30/petunia-exserta-a-flower-on-the-brink-of-extinction)
In order to keep the species though, it may be necessary to grow it well away from other petunias- http://www.specialplants.net/shop/seeds/petunia_exserta/ (http://www.specialplants.net/shop/seeds/petunia_exserta/)
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A couple of Dactylorhiza from the garden today. D. fuchsii(?) Edinburgh form and D. fuchsii var okellyi, a gift from the now elusive John Finch.
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I'm not fooled - John thought that o'kellyi was a fancy new snowdrop!
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Loverly flowers on the broad bean, I remember them fron when I was a kid, I hated them. Is it the runner bean which is the climber with the red flowers?
I love broad beans ... and grow my own stock every the year. I have runner beans in white, red and all kinds of hybrids in between. I started with white & red, but the pollinating insects decided that I should have very own hybrid species. Even the colour and the spots on the beans get mixed.
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the pictures were taken about a week ago - one one of those rare sunny moments we had this month
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The lovely miniature tigridia chiapensis - grown from seeds of the SRGC seed exchange :) Natural habitat are wet meadows, so the current wet June with it's daily rain provision suits them perfectly.
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I'm not fooled - John thought that o'kellyi was a fancy new snowdrop!
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Before June is gone I wanted to post a few photos of our garden.
Polygonatum odoratum 'Fireworks' is a favourite but slow to bulk up.
Paeonia veitchii alba is seed grown. Out of the 5 seeds planted only one was white. The others were a very pale pink.
The Arisaema is consanguineum . We think. Seed came from the ACE collection.
After the first plants matured and produced seed I planted it in 12x12 inch flats. Germination was nearly 100%, and rather than planting each seedling individually, the flats were emptied out on the ground without disturbance. They prospered and proved to be fully hardy, surviving with little snow cover at -30C for 3 weeks or more.
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Tulipa sprengeri did not last long when the heavy rain came. Now botrytis has set in and it looks a mess.
Aquilegias ready for dead heading (job now done).
Martagon lilies poised to take over the display
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Androsace lanuginosa always looks a mess in winter and takes up too much space but when it flowers I can forgive it and it flowers for a long time.
The thymes on the other hand have a brief flowering period but the bees love them. These are self sown seedlings.
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I love broad beans ... and grow mhttp://www.srgc.net/forum/Smileys/classic/tongue.gify own stock every the year. I have runner beans in white, red and all kinds of hybrids in between. I started with white & red, but the pollinating insects decided that I should have very own hybrid species. Even the colour and the spots on the beans get mixed.
But that doesn't matter does it Francois, so long as they all taste good. :P :P
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Before June is gone I wanted to post a few photos of our garden.
The Arisaema is consanguineum . We think. Seed came from the ACE collection.
After the first plants matured and produced seed I planted it in 12x12 inch flats. Germination was nearly 100%, and rather than planting each seedling individually, the flats were emptied out on the ground without disturbance. They prospered and proved to be fully hardy, surviving with little snow cover at -30C for 3 weeks or more.
Love the way they look clump growing!
Have you tried 'breaking' the Polygonatum rhizome? I did it by chance with Polygonatum Spiral Staircase when I moved; I took it apart in 3-4 pieces, planted them in few pots and it started to multiply with the speed of light.
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Rob - What a magnificent stand of Arisaema! It would be great to hear which of the Arisaema spp. have proven hardy outdoors for you.
Wonder also if you have tried A. yamatense as here it is almost 4ft high? I have to wonder if this is not what Barrie Porteous was growing long ago on Georgian Bay and which at the time was thought to be tortuousum or even robust?
john - extremely dry.
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But that doesn't matter does it Francois, so long as they all taste good. :P :P
one of those vegetables with high ornamental value and the other way round too :)
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John W asked >> It would be great to hear which of the Arisaema spp. have proven hardy outdoors for you.<<
We have a Flickr album which brings together our arisaema photos over time.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/illingworth/albums/72157600052899390 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/illingworth/albums/72157600052899390)
When we first started with arisaemas we cheated quite a bit by growing the tubers in 5 inch square pots which were plunged early each season and lifted for storage after the first heavy frost. I drilled 16 holes 1 1/2 " in diameter in each pot to give the roots room to run once they were in the ground. When lifted in the fall for winter storage I slipped the mother pot into one of the same size without extra holes after the plants had first dried off. The pots were stored in a cool cellar room until the plants either woke up on their own in spring or there was enough residual warmth in our hoop house to trot out the trays. Eventually I became impatient with the routine, the time spent and the artifice and started trying a few plants directly outside in the open garden. The Ace plants were out there early and quickly proved their hardiness. There is another ACE plant in the garden similar to consanguineum with a light green spathe that can grow to 1 m. in height. It hasn't really done that well here over winter in the garden and I think there is one still out there. I have only two left in pots so maybe I should collect some seed and keep trying.
As for other plants A. flavum is hardy but does not emerge until after July 7th. We have two varieties; a small yellow flowered one and one that is taller and slender. I consider both to be weeds as they really seed about. Our native Arisaema triphyllum also seeds everywhere but is easier to manage and I like the variation in the spathe colouring that they give.
Arisaema tortuosum has not been hardy. Arisaema amurense robustum is hardy and grows well, seeding around but in the last few years the deer have taken a liking to them. A.fargesi has not been tested over winter yet as they have never produced seed. We get off sets but they take time to take hold and grow. Arisaema ringens is not hardy and sikokianum fades after a winter or two. I was totally surprised when Arisaema candidissimum wintered. It still hasn't emerged this year and I keep checking the spot hoping to be surprised again for the third time. Finally, I have some tubers of Arisaema urashima to grow on and will try to see if they overwinter once the tubers give me flowers and seed.
We have not tried A. yamatense.
John, you wrote >>I have to wonder if this is not what Barrie Porteous was growing long ago on Georgian Bay and which at the time was thought to be tortuousum or even robust?<<
Do you mean what we grow here as consanguineum? I may have sent seed of our plant to Ellen Hornig years back but I'm not certain. Our original seed all came directly from the ACE distribution with only a collection number as an ID.
Thank you Gabriela for the suggestion to bulk up the the polygonatum rhizome. I'm going to follow your lead.
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We have not tried A. yamatense. John, you wrote >>I have to wonder if this is not what Barrie Porteous was growing long ago on Georgian Bay and which at the time was thought to be tortuousum or even robust?<< Do you mean what we grow here as consanguineum?
Rob - Thanks for the great info. No I meant I wonder if yamatense is the big arisaema Barrie grew. It was very tall and green-flowered. In the autumn I'll send you a spare to try out there as it seems impervious to the weather.
johnw