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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: arilnut on March 01, 2018, 11:59:49 AM
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Blooming now.
Colchicum hungaricum
Crocus Herald
Eranthis Schwefelglanz
John B
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Galanthus "Emerald Hughes"
Merendera sobolifera
Sternbergia candida
John B
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Our Sacramento, California garden took a beating during the last half of February and the first few days of March. Now we will have one or two sunny days before the next round of stormy weather arrives.
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Some old established clumps of Crocus are looking good.
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Helleborus seedlings coming into bloom.
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Pseudomuscari auzureum
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Rhododendron scabrifolium ssp spiceferum
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The flower buds of Rhododendron moupinense x johnstoneanum survived the frosty nights.
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The Ipheion (Tristagma) took a beating in the wind and rain, but still look akay.
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Another flushed lavender Ipheion seedling.
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Romulea tortuosa
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Somehow the Erythronium multiscapideum held up okay. More will be blooming soon.
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The star of the show for me is Allium serra. The first of a batch of seedlings is coming into bloom now. What a gem!
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Interesting to learn that you have Crocus and Ipheion blooming in the same time. In my garden crocuses are among the first and Ipheion - the last to flower in spring. They must feel the cold of winter in different way.
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Interesting to learn that you have Crocus and Ipheion blooming in the same time. In my garden crocuses are among the first and Ipheion - the last to flower in spring. They must feel the cold of winter in different way.
Jacek,
The extremely abnormal weather in February created conditions where the "normal" blooming cycles of many species is completely out of synchronization. We had record, to near record, high temperatures during the first two weeks of February, followed by record, to near record, low temperatures for the remaining part of February. This is a highly unusual blooming pattern for us. The weather pattern, of coarse, is highly unusual too.
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A magnolia tree in front of my house today.
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A stunning Magnolia Tatsuo!!!
Perhaps Spring is not so very far away after all.
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It looks like we will have one more day of spring-like weather before some much needed rain and snow to the Sierra Nevada arrives. Today's high temperature was 71 F, 21.7 C and the low was 44 F, 6.7 C.
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Sisyrinchium bellum is blooming throughout the garden now. A few plants have been blooming for a month or more.
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Pulmonaria provides early season color.
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Another Helleborus seedling is blooming now.
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The first of the Iris macrosiphon in bloom. :)
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Moraea elegans in our garden yesterday.
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2 weeks ago we had frost and the leaves and buds of this Ranunculus calandrinioides
laid flat on the ground. To my surprise it recovered rather quick.
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wow! I'm surprised that such a frost did not damage the Ranunculus. Just luck, do you think, Rudi?
I would think the plant would usually stay underground until after the snow had gone - and be safer from such a frost. A good result for you, for sure.
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Some weeks ahead of my garden Robert.
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SRGC Subscription Secretary, Christine ( ChrisB in the forum) lives in Northumberland, where they have had quite bad weather - her garden was under a foot of snow and she feared the worst for so many plants which were in full flower - things have not turned out to be as bad as she thought - thank goodness! I posted a couple of pix from Christine in the "winter weather" thread - here are a few more ....
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More photos from Christine's garden after the snow ....
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Some weeks ahead of my garden Robert.
Hi David,
Our garden is still a bit bare, partly because there is still plenty of room to plant 8) , partly because the weather has been so extreme in both directions. At least we are getting some much needed rain and snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Severe drought conditions still exist, but hopefully we will get a "March Miracle". :)
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A few flowers that have survived our recent stormy weather.
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The first of the Camassia leichtlinii ssp. suksdorfii to open.
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Erysimum concinnum
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Heliophila coronopifolia. Slowly this easy-to-grow South African annual is getting established in our garden.
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A nice Geranium macrorrhizum seedling from the El Dorado County farm. It is a nice deep pink and may be a hybrid. The plant grew from a chance seedling in one of the garden beds. There were plenty of other Geraniums in the area for it to cross with.
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Robert,
You have some really nice spring flowers!
We still have very cold nights here and the soil is frozen solid but nice sun during daytime (it is not getting hot though!) bring forth the first flowers.
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You have spring already in Norway. :)
Today was sunny day with temperature just above zero, so spring is on it's way to also here, but very slowly. It is going to be colder again next week, but sun helps already so much that it can't be as cold as it was earlier.
This is one of my woodlandbeds today.
In the second picture the first sighting of a snowdrop this year! :) 'Richard Ayres', planted last August, is coming up through snow. :)
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You have spring already in Norway. :)
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Leena, it is only here at the coast. Just a few km inland they have more than 2m of snow!
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Trond,
The temperatures today were over 10 F below average. Despite the relative cold (we are having winter weather now - it was frosty last night) spring is progressing here in Northern California.
How deeply is the ground frozen? In the lower elevations of California, if it freezes deeply there is much plant damage, especially to many container grown plants.
Despite the cold, your early spring flowers look nice. Thank you for sharing. Spring is coming. :)
Leena,
I find the scenes of your late winter/early spring most delightful. Snow, in its many forms, can be very beautiful. I guess you could get tired of looking at the snow all winter, just like I get tired of the 40 C temperatures and bone dry weather at the end of our summertime.
There is much snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains now. It is a delight to visit the Sierra during the winter. I'll be checking on conditions soon.
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Robert, it is beautiful with snow :), and right now it is snowing more ::). I'm sure I couldn't cope with temperatures as high as 40C, even 30 C feels too hot.
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Leena,
We did get a bit of snow at the Sierra Nevada Foothill farm a few weeks ago. As you say, it is indeed very beautiful. :)
Today, we are having clear, but seasonally cold weather. More snow is forecast to arrive in the Sierra Nevada Mountains starting tomorrow. I'll be leaving behind the blooming plants in our Sacramento garden for a few days for the snow covered mountains. It is for work, not pleasure, but then I like what I do, so the time spent working outside in the snow will be quite pleasant.
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With a warm "Thank You!!!" to Johnny-SE, here is Hacquetia epipactis 'Thor' in the garden these days...
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This is Forsythia ovata - always 1 to 2 weeks earlier than the common cultivars
Gerd
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Very nice Gerd, what size does it grow to please?
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Today from Antalya, Turkey..
Almost whole plants as early bird for blooming.
For Aristolachia lovers..
A.parvifolia
A.lycica
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I like aristolochia - I think they look as plants from outer space!
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If Maggi said that liked it, means 'This is an order' to me :)
Here is more pictures..
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ikizzeki,
Thank you for sharing the exquisite Aristolochia photographs! The two species are quite interesting. In California, the larva of Pipevine Swallowtail Butterflies, Battus philenor, feed on Aristolochia californica our only California native Aristolochia species. Is there a similar situation in Turkey with your Aristolochia species?
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Hi Robert,
Sorry to say but I dont have any knowledge obout it. Exactly I dont know it..
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Very nice Gerd, what size does it grow to please?
Thank you, David - the size here is about 2 m (with some pruning). I guess the shrub is able to reach twice as much.
Gerd
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Hi Robert,
Sorry to say but I dont have any knowledge obout it. Exactly I dont know it..
8) Thank you for the answer! :) For me, no knowledge is better than no answer. :) :) I appreciate your time, and the Aristolochia photographs you shared were very interesting. Thank you again.
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If Maggi said that liked it, means 'This is an order' to me :)
Here is more pictures..
;D ;D ;)
The leaves are as interesting as the flowers - thanks for the extra pictures! :-*
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How deeply is the ground frozen? In the lower elevations of California, if it freezes deeply there is much plant damage, especially to many container grown plants.
Robert, I don't know! But it is more than 10cm but less than 20cm I guess. March has been very cold, the average is 2.4C below normal. Last night we got 10cm wet snow :(
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Covered by 10 cm of wet snow this morning but a lot of it has melted during the day.
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Now that it is officially "Spring", winter has decided to come back for a visit, the fourth Nor'easter in two weeks, with a possibility of a fifth storm early next week. Thankfully, there is always the sun room to brighten the mood. 'Miranda', our Nepenthes hybrid is doing very well, and it has been fascinating simply watching the traps form! Nepenthes x 'Miranda is a hybrid of x Mixta (northiana x maxima) x maxima, in case anyone is curious.
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Robert, I don't know! But it is more than 10cm but less than 20cm I guess. March has been very cold, the average is 2.4C below normal.
Trond,
For many northern regions having the ground freeze to a depth of 10-20 cm or more is nothing unusual. This seems like it might be a bit unusual for your part of Norway? Perhaps I am incorrect in my assessment. ???
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Trond,
For many northern regions having the ground freeze to a depth of 10-20 cm or more is nothing unusual. This seems like it might be a bit unusual for your part of Norway? Perhaps I am incorrect in my assessment. ???
Robert,
It is normal for most of Norway to have the ground frozen to several feet during winter. But here at the west coast this happens not every year and especially not for a prolonged period. This winter, especially the last month, we have had 4 periods of extreme cold air coming from NE. Once or twice during the winter is not uncommon, but several in row and late in the season, is.The average temperature for the last 30 days is 2.4C lower than normal (normal = average of 1960 to 1990 which was a cold period).
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Hi Trond,
Here in our part of California, temperatures are running 2.14 C below average in March. This is very close to the 2.4 C you are experiencing. Right now it is raining with snow just up the mountain. Warm spring weather will be arriving in a few days.
I am not sure how deeply the ground freezes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. This would be something very interesting to investigate.
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The garden wake up slowly, Pulsatilla halleri subsp slavica is slow to expend, this is my favorite one
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After some much appreciated stormy weather, the skies have now cleared and temperatures are rising.
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A nice mat-forming Potentilla species with attractive gray foliage.
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Tulipa clusiana opening with sunny skies.
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Tulipa clusiana chrysantha is another easy-to-grow Tulip.
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A pot full of Lomatium utriculatum seedlings showing a few flowers. :)
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Corydalis Beth Evans and C. malkensis are two that are worth a place in any garden, I think. Great early interest then dying back to leave room for something later!
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Spring weather has arrived to the Central Valley of Northern California. Temperatures have climbed to 80 - 83 F (26.7 - 28.3 C).
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I did a good seed increase of Eschscholzia caespitosa and scattered the seed in favorable sites about our Sacramento garden.
The first flowers of this California native annual have opened with many more to come. I was even pleased when some sprouted as volunteers in some of our caontainers.
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Eschscholzia lobbii 'Sundew'
I have several containers with Eschscholzia lobbii 'Sundew'. I hope to have plenty of seed to scatter around in the garden this autumn. It is a charming little annual that will easily reseed in the garden if given a good location.
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Another batch of Triteleia laxa seedlings have grown large enough to bloom. Our local populations have started to bloom too. In the Sierra Nevada Foothills where the farm is located Triteleia laxa and Dichelostemma capitatum bloom more or less at the same time (in a few more weeks), followed by Dichelostemma volubile, then finishing in late May to early June with Brodiaea elegans ssp. elegans.
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Tulipa clusiana 'Peppermint Stick' in our front yard.
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One more photograph of Siyrinchium bellum. Good forms like this one bloom for many weeks with many flowers. Common but well worth space in our garden. This species is tolerant of summer irrigation or can be 100% xeric.
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Pulsatilla vernalis -first flowers opening.
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Townsendia spathulata
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Cyclamen coum var. caucasicum propagated himself by selfsowing after many years so much that we have from the first single tuber planted in 1990 hundreds of them now. They grow quite happy even in a grass.
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Now flowering:
Draba ossetica
Draba ossetica Hybrid
Draba polytricha
Draba pygmaea
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More plants:
Dielsiocharis kotschyi
Helichrysum coralloides
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Fantastic pictures..Rudi. Of course, the beautiful Helichrysum coralloides is particularly impressive for me. How old is this specimen, and is it in the AlpinenHaus? My (smaller) plant is outside all year round and has survived this "winter" well. I'll take a picture of it tomorrow.
Thomas
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Helichrysum coralloides outdoors
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Rudi and Thomas
the plant looks gorgeous!!!
too bad I can't grow them in Saskatoon,Canada.
Kris
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8) Thank you for the answer! :) For me, no knowledge is better than no answer. :) :) I appreciate your time, and the Aristolochia photographs you shared were very interesting. Thank you again.
You are wellcome Robert..Unfortunately we mostly act as a weed for it, I do in my garden too. This year only I recognised it .Some how I have seen some around in my daffs ..
Sorry for answering lately.
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Dear Kris and Thomas, many thanks for your kind comments. Helichrysum coralloides was always one of
my favourite alpine plants. I tried several times to cultivate it in the open garden, but the plants did not like
the hot summers there. The plant at the photo is since about 10 years in the Alpine House, it grows very well,
but is not so compact as it could be. Thomas, I think that the conditions in your region are more suitable for
a succesful cultivation in the open garden. Good luck!
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Servus Rudi
I also like this Helichrysum coralloides very much. The alpine plants of New Zealand are my special obsession. Maybe the climatic conditions in my garden really are a little better...but I also have regular losses. This spring it hits me particularly hard...because I lost a copy of Leucogenes neglecta. I have one more. Wish me luck.
Thomas
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Here's something from the far north...Diapensia lapponica. In one specimen you can already see the discoloration of the foliage from red to green.
I hope I can keep this beautiful little plant for a long time. The boreal climate is not easy to copy...much light and cool ground.
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Good luck with Leucogenes neglecta and Diapensia lapponica.
Ich drück' dir die Daumen (Keep my fingers crossed).