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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: Gabriela on July 01, 2016, 03:22:45 AM
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Thanks to Fermi I realized I have to start a July thread. In the depths of summer :) here, Itea virginica at its best, also fragrant; another best follows in the fall when the foliage turns a deep red colour.
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Cirsium canum - I grow it for the foliage but was exciting to see the first flower buds this evening! Second year from seeds.
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My pictures were too large it seems - so, the little Roscoea tibetica that I discussed last year, started to flower this week (I think is tibetica but I'm open to other opinions). It will have few flowers, one after another, each lasting about two days.
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Sunshine all the way 8)
Delosperma cooperi 'Jewel of the Desert Ruby', second wave of flowering.
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Achillea ageratifolia ssp. serbica. I am very fond of it and very glad that is making a comeback. Unfortunately so are the chipmunks and no flowers.
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Gabriela, I like that Itea!
Does the Delpsperma take a Canadian winter? I also grow D.cooperi but it is usually shortlived.
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A few natives and naturalized species.
Dianthus deltoides. Native and common around here at our summer house.
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Sedum anglicum. Native but rare around here. Common at home.
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Sedum spurium (Phedimus spurius). Naturalized. Unfortunately banned now. Common here. Trifolium arvense, native to the left.
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Sedum brevifolium. I brought it back from Spain in 1972, now it is naturalized here.
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Albuca spiralis.................
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Salvia "Love and Wishes" is sensational at the moment..............
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Albuca spiralis.................
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did you take the curling iron to that one?
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cheers
fermi
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SRGC President David Rankin recently returned from a trip to China - these photos have been posted in social media by Kevock Garden Plants
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Corydalis pseudobarbicephala at Balang Shan
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Meconopsis pulchella at Balang Shan
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Meconopsis balangensis var balangensis
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Rather amazing - a white form of Meconopsis punicea!
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Beautiful images Maggi!
Gabriela, I like that Itea!
Does the Delpsperma take a Canadian winter? I also grow D.cooperi but it is usually shortlived.
Usually they do, in a full sun location & very good drainage, and good snow layer in the winter to keep them dry. Then, when they don't, they are easy to replace so it's never something to worry about ;)
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did you take the curling iron to that one?
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cheers
fermi
Kinda fun ain't it ;D
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Alstroemeria pelegrina -this is a weed in my old alpine house having escaped into the plunge. It can survive outside in a mild winter and is probably hardy if grown in a deep scree.
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Lychnis sieboldii -A Japanese perennial which prefers open woodland conditions and moist well-drained soil.
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Cremanthodium lineare
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I’ve been out to check on a few species and Lilium philadelphicum was in full flowering - one of the best I’ve seen in quite a few years!
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I found an additional location this year for our wild Lilium philadelphicum, as well.
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I found an additional location this year for our wild Lilium philadelphicum, as well.
Beautiful aren't they. Have you noticed very poor flowering in the last couple of years as well? Last year, in about the same location I could count on my fingers how many were in flower; this year, more than double!
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I’ve been out to check on a few species and Lilium philadelphicum was in full flowering - one of the best I’ve seen in quite a few years!
That is a lovely species!
Here's Alstroemeria isabella Fred Meyer................
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It came to me from another forum in May, got put into a large pot and about three weeks ago this flower stem emerged. It is now about a meter high and starting to spread to the edges of the pot already. A real gem in my eyes.............
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That's an interesting one - I was puzzled by it's resemblance to a Bomarea and went a-searching!
Found this
Alstromeria isabellana - Alstroemeria x bomarea 'Fred Meyer' http://plantlust.com/plants/alstroemeria-isabellana/ (http://plantlust.com/plants/alstroemeria-isabellana/)
Far Reaches Farm (http://www.farreachesfarm.com/Alstroemeria-isabellana-Bomarea-Fred-Meyer-p/p1070.htm) say of the plant : " We got this from Maggie at Western Hills some years ago and finally can offer this goody. She said this was a hybrid by noted California breeder Fred Meyer between the vining Bomarea and the non-vining Alstroemeria and we have sold it in the past as Alstroemeria x Bomarea 'Fred Meyer' and more recently as Bomarea "Fred Meyer". The great thing about putting a plant on the internet is that all sorts of smart people read about it and very nicely suggest the correct name. This is a surprisingly hardy Brazilian species and Fred Meyer collected in Brazil quite extensively."
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I’ve been out to check on a few species and Lilium philadelphicum was in full flowering - one of the best I’ve seen in quite a few years!
Beautiful Gabriela, you are so fortunate to have lilies growing wild.
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That's an interesting one - I was puzzled by it's resemblance to a Bomarea and went a-searching!
Found this
Alstromeria isabellana - Alstroemeria x bomarea 'Fred Meyer' http://plantlust.com/plants/alstroemeria-isabellana/ (http://plantlust.com/plants/alstroemeria-isabellana/)
Far Reaches Farm (http://www.farreachesfarm.com/Alstroemeria-isabellana-Bomarea-Fred-Meyer-p/p1070.htm) say of the plant : " We got this from Maggie at Western Hills some years ago and finally can offer this goody. She said this was a hybrid by noted California breeder Fred Meyer between the vining Bomarea and the non-vining Alstroemeria and we have sold it in the past as Alstroemeria x Bomarea 'Fred Meyer' and more recently as Bomarea "Fred Meyer". The great thing about putting a plant on the internet is that all sorts of smart people read about it and very nicely suggest the correct name. This is a surprisingly hardy Brazilian species and Fred Meyer collected in Brazil quite extensively."
I'm not sure that I'll be testing the hardiness this year but I am surprised by how rapidly it grows and has set about filling a much larger pot.
In contrast my Bomarea are painfully slow this season.
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Beautiful aren't they. Have you noticed very poor flowering in the last couple of years as well?
Actually, I haven't visited those particular areas in the past two years! I've been concentrating more on new adventure areas in Minnesota.
But several years back....
https://www.nargs.org/forum/western-minnesota-scientific-and-natural-areas?page=2 (https://www.nargs.org/forum/western-minnesota-scientific-and-natural-areas?page=2)
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Beautiful Gabriela, you are so fortunate to have lilies growing wild.
Not too many species Tristan and in the same colour, but I guess is better than none :D :)
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Actually, I haven't visited those particular areas in the past two years! I've been concentrating more on new adventure areas in Minnesota.
But several years back....
https://www.nargs.org/forum/western-minnesota-scientific-and-natural-areas?page=2 (https://www.nargs.org/forum/western-minnesota-scientific-and-natural-areas?page=2)
Nice region, and quite a few species that don't grow here although is the same habitat.
Castilleja coccinea was also looking good, some plants already with seeds; and now I know who eat them all last year!
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Due to the wet June many of my plants are looking good. Campanula latifolia img. 1010786. A self sown Linaria purpurea img. 1010787, it will have to come out before it seeds all over the scree. Lychnis flos-jovis img. 1010788. The original plant had a pink flower, over the years this has evolved with a white flower with a pink centre. Orchids doing well in a trough, img.1010789. Too tall but they are happy here.
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Eucalyptus gunnii, the cider gum in flower for the first time.
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First buds are showing already on Magnolia grandiflora 'Bracken's Brown Beauty', the Southern Bull Bay Magnolia. Soon be time for mint juleps in the fog.
john
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A friend in BC gave us divisions of this smart little groundcover Lonicera crassifolia. It looks too good to be winter hardy yet we find little information on it. Anyone tried it?
johnw
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A friend in BC gave us divisions of this smart little groundcover Lonicera crassifolia. It looks too good to be winter hardy yet we find little information on it. Anyone tried it?
johnw
Sweet thing, isn't it? Seems quite a few UK nurseries stock it- which bodes reasonably well. A French nursery says it's very hardy to below minus 12 degrees C. A Belgian nursery says it's "moderately hardy" ..... you'll have to take a chance I think!
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Salvia radula.............
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Salvia oxyphora...........
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A look inside Alstroemeria isabella "Fred Meyer".............
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Penstemon barbatus coccineus............
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Desfontainia spinosa.............
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Corallodiscus lanuginosus
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A friend in BC gave us divisions of this smart little groundcover Lonicera crassifolia. It looks too good to be winter hardy yet we find little information on it. Anyone tried it?
johnw
Are ou sure it isn't a Peperomia?
Just kidding ;D Interesting little thing. Never seen it before.
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Went for a little botanizing trip the other day. A lot to see but mostly the common ones.
Denmark next:
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Detail of the bedrock:
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Silene uniflora. Common everywhere on the beach.
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Eryngium maritimum. Very rare.
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Fumaria officinalis. Common on rocky beaches.
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This island was almost overgrown by shrubs but now the old pastures and meadows have been restored almost to their heydays when the sea pilots and their families lived here. Now it is only summer guests.
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Linaria vulgaris. As the name suggests, very common!
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Solanum dulcamara. Common both at the beach and inland.
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Ononis arvensis.
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Trifolium medium.
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Enjoying the sea air I can feel from your pictures, Trond!
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I have had Lonicera crassifolia growing in my rock garden for four years here in Central New York-USDA Zone 5
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Trond, your photo of bedrock looks like schist with a dyke of ?basalt.
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Enjoying the sea air I can feel from your pictures, Trond!
Maggi,
The air is very special with a lot of diferent odors. You have the smell of the salt sea itself, the decomposing algae, the flowers (especially ladies bedstraw) and seabirds. I love them all :)
Not to forget the fragrance of roses, lilies and other garden plants, and houses ;)
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Trond, your photo of bedrock looks like schist with a dyke of ?basalt.
Ian I think basalt is right but on a geology map they call the main rock for foliated gnesiss. The geology on these islands is very mixed though with a lot of different minerals.
More geology (and flora) from the same area:
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Trond, foliated granitic gneiss it is. I was getting mixed up in my old age.
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In the wilds of North Rhein-Westfallia, Paris quadrifolia.
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Trond,
Resting and trying to recover has given me a little time to catch up on some of the other threads.
I enjoy your photographs from Norway immensely! What a beautiful land in so many ways!
Now I will go rest some more.
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Clematis x durandii - I need to go into my brother's garden to see the best of the flowers. This is it from my side.
Cardiocrinum giganteum
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Clematis x durandii - I need to go into my brother's garden to see the best of the flowers. This is it from my side.
You could post the same pic on the lily thread too Roma :) What a stand of L. martagon, I don't think I have ever seen them that big. I've never had much joy with them, what is the secret?
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I have no idea why they do so well. I started with a few white ones and a few var. cattaniae grown from seed. I didn't get round to dead heading for a few years and finished up with all colours and too many bulbs.
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You could post the same pic on the lily thread too Roma :) What a stand of L. martagon, I don't think I have ever seen them that big. I've never had much joy with them, what is the secret?
I also never seen such 'agglomeration' of martagons, neither in the wild, not cultivated!
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More geology (and flora) from the same area:
Beautiful seaside landscapes Trond! I went leisurely through all the pictures tonight :) I often see the same lichen here on certain rocks, maybe it is associated with the granitic rock type (?).
Eryngium maritimum is a gem of a plant (my seeds didn't germinate unfortunately).
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Beautiful seaside landscapes Trond! I went leisurely through all the pictures tonight :) I often see the same lichen here on certain rocks, maybe it is associated with the granitic rock type (?).
Eryngium maritimum is a gem of a plant (my seeds didn't germinate unfortunately).
There is often a band of orange lichen associated with the sea shore (the zone just above the 'beach proper'). I don't think its terribly sensitive to rock type.
http://www.theseashore.org.uk/theseashore/speciespages/YellowOrangeLichen.html]
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http://www.lichens.lastdragon.org/Caloplaca_marina.html (http://www.lichens.lastdragon.org/Caloplaca_marina.html)
I love E. maritimum too but it's not easy to please. I think it needs a deep sandy soil and dislikes competition.
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Clematis x durandii - I need to go into my brother's garden to see the best of the flowers. This is it from my side.
Cardiocrinum giganteum
Not a bad sight from your side either!
I have given up Cardiocrinium. It is always completely eaten by slugs and snails :(
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Trond,
Resting and trying to recover has given me a little time to catch up on some of the other threads.
I enjoy your photographs from Norway immensely! What a beautiful land in so many ways!
Now I will go rest some more.
Hope you recover quickly although you get less time on the internet!
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Beautiful seaside landscapes Trond! I went leisurely through all the pictures tonight :) I often see the same lichen here on certain rocks, maybe it is associated with the granitic rock type (?).
Eryngium maritimum is a gem of a plant (my seeds didn't germinate unfortunately).
There is often a band of orange lichen associated with the sea shore (the zone just above the 'beach proper'). I don't think its terribly sensitive to rock type.
I love E. maritimum too but it's not easy to please. I think it needs a deep sandy soil and dislikes competition.
Although maybe the orange lichens is insensitive to rock type they seem to prefer some places - I think it is where birds usually place their droppings ;)
I have not had luck with seeds either :(
When I was a kid my father sometimes had to remove dry specimens of the Eryngium. Now it is very rare and I have never seen seed.
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We went for another boat trip Thursday. We got one shower but the rest of the day was fine. Farther inland they had rain and thunderstorms all the day!
One of the showier beach plants is Limonium vulgare, Sea Lavender. Strangely it is rare though although it grows very well at this site. It seems to prefer to be submerged by high tide.
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Another plant from the same kind of habitat is Trifolium fragiferum, Strawberry clover. It is similar to white clover but slightly smaller. The heads mature differently though!
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This plant, Kali turgidum (Salsola kali), prickly saltwort, prefer sandy shores manured with rotting seaweed. Some years it is all over the beach, some years it is almost absent.
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Viola tricolor usually flowers early in the summer but the drought and then the rain has created a second "spring". It is very abundant on the islets here.
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Also Vicia cracca grows at similar sites on the islets. Although "boring weed" they light up the landscape and blue flowered species are rare.
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This is really a weed in the garden but here among the rocks where it belongs it is nice. Sticky ragwort (Senecio viscosus).
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A little sweetie - Sagina nodosa (knotted pearlwort). Common on rather moist ground at the shore.
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Pilosella peleteriana on the contrary grows on rather dry sites. The showy flowers had closed for the day :-\
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A late flowering (or early!) Cochlearia officinalis (common scurvygrass) among the rocks at the shore.
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Found this 30m from my summer house. Had not noticed it before :o
Monotropa hypopitys
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I think part of growing big martagons is growing them in full (or almost full) sun. They are often thought of as shade plants, but that's only because they tolerate shade well. Some of the other martagon section lilies, like L. distichum, do want more more shade, at least in my experience.
Always appreciate the wild pics, Trond. Sagina nodosa is on the endangered list here in Minnesota.
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Hope you recover quickly although you get less time on the internet!
Hi Trond,
Thank you for sharing the latest set of photographs! :)
I have to admit that I am spending most of my time sleeping. Not a bad idea for me right now, as I am usually very active.
Sometimes I wake up long enough to look at the internet to enjoy the photographs.
We have a few Vicia species that are native to California. Here, some of the invasive, non native species can be quite attractive at times :-X
I very much like the Pilosella peletiana! The foliage is great, nice flowers must add to it even more. I even enjoyed the Violas. Despite the on and off heat they are even blooming in our garden - and still looking good.
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We went for another boat trip Thursday. We got one shower but the rest of the day was fine. Farther inland they had rain and thunderstorms all the day!
One of the showier beach plants is Limonium vulgare, Sea Lavender. Strangely it is rare though although it grows very well at this site. It seems to prefer to be submerged by high tide.
Interesting to see Limonium growing so close to the water Trond - beautiful plant, like all the others :) What trees are close by where Monotropa grows?
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Always appreciate the wild pics, Trond. Sagina nodosa is on the endangered list here in Minnesota.
Thanks Rick :) Sagina nodosa is common along the shores of the islands here but I have not seen it elsewhere. It is fortunately not endangered though.
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Hi Trond,
Thank you for sharing the latest set of photographs! :)
I have to admit that I am spending most of my time sleeping. Not a bad idea for me right now, as I am usually very active.
Sometimes I wake up long enough to look at the internet to enjoy the photographs.
We have a few Vicia species that are native to California. Here, some of the invasive, non native species can be quite attractive at times :-X
I very much like the Pilosella peletiana! The foliage is great, nice flowers must add to it even more. I even enjoyed the Violas. Despite the on and off heat they are even blooming in our garden - and still looking good.
You are welcome, Robert. It is vice versa ;)
Pilosella is an attractive plant. It is a few similar species in the genus and I like them all.
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Interesting to see Limonium growing so close to the water Trond - beautiful plant, like all the others :) What trees are close by where Monotropa grows?
It is 2 species Limonium here. This one is the showiest. Both grow close to the water, while L. vulgare seems to prefer muddy soil L. humile seems to prefer crevices in the rocks.
The trees where the Monotropa grows are pine (Pinus sylvestris) and oak (Quercus petraea). Juniper shrubs (Juniperus communis) and "blueberry" (Vaccinium myrtillus) grow there.
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Delphinium nudicaule
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I found these particularly attractive. A seedling in the garden, presumed A. davidii x A pectinatum ssp forrestii. It has a weeping habit, lime green bark, especially in Winter, yellower in Summer.
Giles, love the D. nudicale. Never had luck with them. I'm jealous. ;D
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Alstroemeria isabella has an interesting habit. When exposed to periods of bright sunlight or warmth the colour bleaches..............
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By the following morning the colour has returned...........
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Commelina coelestis "Alba".............
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Lantana camara survived an overnight low of -5°c when a pane of glass shattered in the greenhouse over the winter. It has survived and is back in bloom...............
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Salvia oxyphora (again as it is a favourite of mine).............
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Thanks to the drought, in Ontario the first colourful fruits are mixing in early between late summer flowers in the woodlands.
Desmodium nudiflorum, more delicate than D. canadense, always hard to take a decent picture of it.
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Actaea rubra
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Lilium michiganense, not a great flowering show like L. philadelphicum this year.
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The parasitic Conopholis americana (Orobanchaceae) - Cancer-root, showing the capsules. It is parasitic on Quercus species and it flowers in late May (see the second image). People would say they've seen something like 'pine cones' on the woodland floor and wonder what they were ;)
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The wild bergamot - Monarda fistulosa
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Epipactis helleborine just starting to flower
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Lysimachia ciliata, fringe loosestrife
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And the blue-bead lily - Clintonia borealis
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I have also enjoyed Tronds photos of wild plants in Norway. :)
What a strange and interesting plant is Conopholis americana!
Over here Actaea rubra is also full of red berries, I have to cut them before they fall, as I have already hundreds of self sown seedlings from it. But it is very pretty with red berries, it is like a second flowering.
Martagon lilies are over now, but Lilium canadense is now in full bloom. I planted also couple of years ago a red form of it, it is much shorter plant than the orange L.canadense. If red form always shorter?
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Delphinium nudicaule
Giles,
Like Jamie I am jealous :) Never had any luck with this!
I found these particularly attractive. A seedling in the garden, presumed A. davidii x A pectinatum ssp forrestii. It has a weeping habit, lime green bark, especially in Winter, yellower in Summer.
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Nice little maple, Jamie :)
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Gabriela,
nice plants! It is always interesting to see plants in their native habitat (I assume they are all native?).
The bear root (don't like the name cancer root) looks special. Do you collect seed ;)
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Alstroemeria isabella has an interesting habit. When exposed to periods of bright sunlight or warmth the colour bleaches..............
Meanie,
you always show a lot of choice plants :)
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Leena,
your martagon lilies are very pretty!
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I was interrupted last time so I try again to post these. My favorite islands ;)
View from Jomfruland to Stråholmen. The mainland "in the blue".
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The east part of Jomfruland named Kråka. Heavily grazed by cattle and geese (big flocks of the wild greylag goose gather here in summer). It rains inland but not out here.
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Cattle are kept to keep the vegetation down but in my opinion it is too many animals. The meadows looks more like lawns than fields of flower which they did many years ago when the farmers kept fewer animals.
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I see what you mean, Trond - the difference between the fields and the fenced area is clear to see.
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Trond,
Dido Maggi's words! I like the wildflowers. :)
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I have also enjoyed Tronds photos of wild plants in Norway. :)
What a strange and interesting plant is Conopholis americana!
Over here Actaea rubra is also full of red berries, I have to cut them before they fall, as I have already hundreds of self sown seedlings from it. But it is very pretty with red berries, it is like a second flowering.
Martagon lilies are over now, but Lilium canadense is now in full bloom. I planted also couple of years ago a red form of it, it is much shorter plant than the orange L.canadense. If red form always shorter?
Yes, Actaea spp. have very good germination after two periods of cold/winters, reason why actually not too many grow them from seeds. My favourite is A. pachypoda fo. rubrocarpa but it's not coloured yet.
That's a gorgeous red L. canadense!
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Gabriela,
nice plants! It is always interesting to see plants in their native habitat (I assume they are all native?).
The bear root (don't like the name cancer root) looks special. Do you collect seed ;)
All are native Trond, except the Epipactis, which is naturalized. Some say it's weedy, I cannot agree until I see it; maybe in warmer regions.
Conopholis is found and a sign of old, healthy forests; I also don't like the cancer-root name, it hasn't been found to affect the trees; it will form knobs on the roots, hence the name. In few US states is listed as threatened or rare, because the oaks are replaced by maples in many woods.
I will collect seeds of course; the seedlings are said to produce 'cones' only after 4 years :) The whole plant is edible (but better left for bears ;) and it's been used as medicinal by Native People (astringent and estrogen-like compounds, squaw-root is another common name).
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Roscoea x beesiana was irresistible this morning
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Maybe you tried too hard with the Delphinium nudicaule.
I treated it as though it was Summer bedding, sowing mid Feb in multipurpose compost with a bit of heat.
Pricked out when first true leaf.
Flowering after 5 months in a 9cm pot.
I've got a couple of dozen of them all the same/flowering now.
I did use a cultivated strain (Chiltern Seeds or Jelitto.. can't remember)(not wild collected).. maybe that helped.
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This is especially for tree lovers.
On a one night stay between John Massey's open garden day and Trentham Gardens we stayed at Haughton Hall, tucked away near Shifnal and Telford.
It dates back forever but this building is early 1700's. No garden to speak of but the trees in the parkland are magnificent. I'll give you a flavour. As we say in our house 'Whoever planted these hasn't got a headache'.
Brian thinks the oak may be a Turkey Oak. No idea about the second.
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The final 5.
The Monkey Puzzle had obviously had wonderful flowers.
The Lime was so full of flower that in the gentle breeze it was creating it's own snowstorm.
Sorry they were not labelled but I am a sucker for wonderful majestic trees.
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It's taken some six years, but at last we have a flower spike on Acanthus diosoridis var perringii, very small when it was bought so I'm not surprised as it is very slow growing, from North Africa and it is only about 35 cm tall. Will it now flower every hot summer - I hope so! We first saw it on a visit to Hampshire in a garden in Poole, obviously more suited to the hotter south!
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Acanthus mollis can root from the smallest piece of root, does the same apply to this species?
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Acanthus mollis can root from the smallest piece of root, does the same apply to this species?
I'll have to have a go :)
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I discovered this feature when trying to rid my garden of the species, in the end I resorted to a glycophosphate systemic weed killer.
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Well having tried to get rid of Acanthus in a border for nigh on 20 years I can understand that! That's why this one is pot grown ;D
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Nine big flowering spikes coming on Beschorneria septentrionalis. Hopefully we can cross the dwarf with the type and get seed after a year of non-flowering. Likely a banner year for Agapanthus 'Summer Skies' as spikes are just erupting.
johnw
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Meanie,
you always show a lot of choice plants :)
Strangely that is what I think of everyone else on this forum ;)
Anyway, a few more choice (hopefully) plants;
Aconitum volubile.................
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As you can see it is trying to compete with Eccromocarpus scaber. That is a bit of a tough ask as E.scaber is an absolutely prolific bloomer...........
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Digitalis laevigata.............
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Salvia coccinea.............
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Echeveria cante is not a plant for outdoors as it has a powdery bloom that gives it its ghostly appearance.................
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Echinopsis subnudentata............
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And finally my Lantana camara which survived an overnight low of -5°c last winter...............
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The final 5.
The Monkey Puzzle had obviously had wonderful flowers.
Shelagh, thank you for showing us these beautiful old majestic trees.
Is there any information about the age of this Monkey Puzzle? The cones
show, that this is a male plant. Attached are 2 pictures from the Wilhelma
Garden at Stuttgart of a female plant. The third picture shows our 25 year
old plant, still a baby, but to our amazement it formed for the first time 3
cones which showed clearly that we own a girl.
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A splendid Echeveria cante there meanie. That one would surely land a first ribbon.
I'm trying to coax along 2 temperamental E. laui....
johnw
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Crevice garden quiet at themoment with a few exceptions. Most of the daphnes are starting to rebloom despite heat, drought and humidity.
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Your Thalictrum kiusianum looks to be making a nice clump, Anne - it never seems to persist well here.
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Maggi, it's really spreading here. It's planted at the "last outcrop" as understory for hellebores. It's where I also tried to establish Erinus alpinus. It never seeded itself and never came back after blooming its head off.
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Maybe we just need to persevere! we had a bit of a job to get Erinus properly established too - we are hopeful now that we have more colours.... we'll see!
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Thuja orientalis 'Aurea Nana, Planted in1952 and 240cm high now.
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A view of our Sacramento, California garden.
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I can not keep my hands out of the dirt. Autumn vegetables sprouting now. I grow many small vegetables in tubs: Arugula, Japanese Turnips, Carrots, Beets, Pac Choi, Russian Red Kale, Curly Cress are a few of the items I have just started.
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In the ground we still have time for Green Beans, Beets, and Summer Squash. In the next few days I'll get Celery, Broccoli, Chinese Cabbage, and a few other Autumn items started.
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I boarder the vegetable beds and tubs with of ornamentals that I enjoy. This is Eriogonum umbellatum var. polyanthum grown from seed that I gathered in the Sierra Nevada. This seedling is especially nice and blooms over a long time period during the summer.
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This is a clone of Mimulus aurantiacus var. grandiflorum. This is a selection from a very nice plant found in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada.
I especially enjoy the two species pictured above for there ability to take our heat and still bloom and look great in the garden. We expect the next 7 to 10 days to be in the 38 to 40 C range. They will thrive in the heat.
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Hot weather does not mark the end of the garden season for us. There are plenty of species that enjoy or thrive in the 38 to 40 + C heat.
For whatever reason we have a number of Crocosmia species that thrive in our garden without becoming weedy. This is one, variety unknown with very large flowers.
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Delosperma and related species also thrive. This is Delosperma floribudum. It will bloom all summer into the autumn. Heat is not an issue with this species.
This is a small sampling of nice looking plants at this time. With good fortune I will be able to post more, although being out of town and working will make this a challenge at times. :)
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Robert, your Crocosmia looks very much like a variety we grow, 'Star of the East' which often has flowers well into September here in the (relatively) cool English Midlands; but yours might be a straight Crocosmia aurea (I don't know that I could distinguish SotE from C. aurea).
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Maybe we just need to persevere! we had a bit of a job to get Erinus properly established too - we are hopeful now that we have more colours.... we'll see!
And me thinking Erinus was indestructible. There are many dozens in my gravel drive after introducing it.
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And me thinking Erinus was indestructible. There are many dozens in my gravel drive after introducing it.
Good for you, Brian - I bet they look great!
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Robert, your Crocosmia looks very much like a variety we grow, 'Star of the East' which often has flowers well into September here in the (relatively) cool English Midlands; but yours might be a straight Crocosmia aurea (I don't know that I could distinguish SotE from C. aurea).
This is what we grow as 'Star of the East' (ed. but it's not) - upon opening and picked late on a friend's table. Came from Sean Hogan at Cistus Nursery. Never could decide if it was the true SOtE.
john
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Robert, your Crocosmia looks very much like a variety we grow, 'Star of the East' which often has flowers well into September here in the (relatively) cool English Midlands; but yours might be a straight Crocosmia aurea (I don't know that I could distinguish SotE from C. aurea).
Malcolm,
'Star of the East' may very well be the name of this Crocosmia. The name seems familiar in my foggy memory. I did go out and measure a flower - 70mm across! We have no other Crocosmia with a flower approaching this size. Thank you for the name suggestion. Maybe the flower size is another clue to its identity. The variety has clearly been around for awhile, it has been in the garden for at least the last 20 years.
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Crocosmia masonorum has large flowers and grows strongly.
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It took me about 6 years to bring these cormlets to bloom. A classic from yesteryear, L. lancifolium has lost none of its charm.
The next is my current favourite Hemerocallis seedling. Dark Crystal x Lola Branham
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Rudi thanks for your kind remarks. The most impressive Monkey Puzzles we have seen are at Castle Kennedy in Dumfries and Galloway. You enter the garden and then walk down a wonderful avenue absolutely dwarfed by these trees on either side. Makes you feel puny and small.
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This is what we grow as 'Star of the East' - upon opening and picked late on a friend's table. Came from Sean Hogan at Cistus Nursery. Never could decide if it was the true SOtE.
john
John, your plant is definitely NOT 'Star of the East', which has relatively few, large, orange flowers on a spike. SotE is also relatively tender here, just like its (putative) parent, C. aurea.
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25 July and Amaryllis belladonna is in full bloom. ??? This is about a month early based on their average peak blooming date. This year many species are extremely early based on their average bloom cycle.
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Heuchera micrantha - grown from wild seed from El Dorado County, California. In the wild some populations have very interesting and attractive foliage like this, that can be enjoy all year.
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Cassiope mertensiana grown from seed gathered in the Sierra Nevada. This one is ready to plant in a trough or planter. Seedling grown plants can adapt well to less than ideal climatic conditions.
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In flower in the garden today.
Codonopsis Grey-Wilsonii
Delphinium brunonianum
Two un-named Dierama, first one 3ft tall second one only 9 inches.
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And a few more,
Gypsophila aretioides caucasica
Mertensia maritima
Podophyllum Spotty Dotty caught the sun when it finally came out.
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Your Mertensia is really good, Mike -nice to see it like that. BUT - WOW - how wonderful is that clump of the 3ft. Dierama ?? Spectacular!
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Thanks Maggi, all the Dierama have been the best ever this year, but not sure why.
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Hello Mike, the cool wet spring seems to have encouraged plants to put on a lot of growth early on. Now the hot dry weather has meant that some plants have flowered and "gone over" quickly in some areas.
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A splendid Echeveria cante there meanie. That one would surely land a first ribbon.
I'm trying to coax along 2 temperamental E. laui....
johnw
Thank you John. I had an E.laui but it succumbed over the winter at the same temperature that E.cante seemed to take in its stride :-[
Canna x ehemanii is big, bold, brassy and screams look at me! I love it...............
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Eucomis bicolor............
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Salvia glutinosa.............
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Salvia "Wendys Wish".............
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Nicotiana glauca (Tree Nicotiana) was planted out last summer and having survived its first winter in the garden it is now in bloom..........
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Lobelia tupa..........
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A few plants flowering in the garden everything very lush with the monsoon rain recently, cheers Ian the Christie kind
Gladiolus flaniganii, Lilium lanciflorum var flaviflorum Daphne Eternal fragrance pale and dark forms
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Nicotiana glauca (Tree Nicotiana) was planted out last summer and having survived its first winter in the garden it is now in bloom..........
I am encouraged by your success and will certainly give it a go in the garden as it is taking the greenhouse over ;D
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Roscoea 'Kew Beauty'. I love Roscoeas because they manage to look exotic and difficult whilst actually being completely bomb proof.
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Pelargonium endlicherianum is doing well in poor rocky soil at the top of the rockery.
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Geranium 'Joy' is a riot. Sterile too, so it just flowers and flowers. Every year it dies back to almost nothing and looks stone dead, then explodes into a metre wide carpet of flower.
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Lobelia tupa. If only we had hummingbirds to match... I think there is something not quite right with this plant though, the leaves are rather distorted and the stems a bit wavy.
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Acer palmatum, purple form. I was shouting at the radio last week as the combined wisdom of the Gardeners' Question Time panel was telling some poor chap from Edinburgh not to even attempt growing this plant because his garden was rather windy. This one has been here for a decade of so now and while it won't win any prizes for growth rate, it is very happy despite having a clear view south-west towards the Irish Sea. At 300m altitude.
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That Geranium has a very good name Tristan ;) and you're right about Acer palmatum - so many myths about where and how to grow it.
Cirsium canum and a visitor - an Eastern swallowtail in very bad shape. I felt very sorry while taking pictures :-\
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Lovely Gabriela. I'm a big fan of thistles and knapweeds, and so are the bees and butterflies which is an added bonus. I grow C. canum too but no swallowtails here sadly.
That tiger swallowtail has been in the wars hasn't it? Still, it shows the effectiveness of eyespots.
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I am encouraged by your success and will certainly give it a go in the garden as it is taking the greenhouse over ;D
It's in a sheltered spot in a garden that saw a low of -5°c and it remained mostly in the green, losing only the larger leaves. So easy from seed that it's worth a punt.
Lobelia tupa. If only we had hummingbirds to match... I think there is something not quite right with this plant though, the leaves are rather distorted and the stems a bit wavy.
At the risk of teaching you how to suck eggs it does prefer to be grown on the drier side.
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Hello thanks for all the super pictures Gentian korolkowii in our garden today, cheers Ian the Christie kind
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My 9 year old laptop collapsed and I had the pleasure to buy a new one.
Attached are some pictures from last month:
Begonia sutherlandii from South Africa, not hardy, but the tuber just needs
a frost-free place during the cold season.
Collomia debilis v. larsenii
Campanula piperi x parry Sojourner, new to me, but looks quite promising
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Hello Rudi ,
Could you please suggest me a source for Begonia sutherlandii here in Germany ?
Thanks in advance
Hans
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Hello Hans,
No problem, it is a pleasure for me to help you.