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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: Maggi Young on June 01, 2018, 03:06:17 PM
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Start of June signals unseasonably warm and dry weather in Aberdeen - as we have had for some time now - most unusual and means lots of watering to be done. However, the most wonderful thing SRGC -wise for the start of June is the winning of the Premier Gold Medal from the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society at the Gardening Scotland Show !
Yay!! Well done that gallant band of volunteers for their tremendous hard work and phenomenal success!
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More pix and news from the GS show here : http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=15871.0 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=15871.0)
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Bravo to all involved. A great honour well deserved.
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June has started in hot and dry weather here but in my woodland bed in shade Meconopsis have started to flower. Pictures are from yesterday. This blue one flowers for the first time, it is grown from seed ex seeds Blue Fertile Group, and it is very blue and has big flowers (measured it was 11cm wide).
Yellow Meconopsis was grown from Trillium.no seeds from 2016 as M.integrifolia but I'm wondering if it is M.pseudointegrifolia?
Last picture is our native Trientalis europaea, which has planted itself next to seed grown small Rhododendron.
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Leena,that is a beautiful blue shade of Meconopsis. What kind of soil and type of environment it likes?. I heard that only acid soil is good for them.
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Yellow Meconopsis was grown from Trillium.no seeds from 2016 as M.integrifolia but I'm wondering if it is M.pseudointegrifolia?
Nice to see it in flower! All the M. integrifolia from 2016 are ssp. souliei, that's the only species growing in that part of N Sichuan. 16-081 would be the exception, but it was listed as a species - I still don't know exactly what it is :)
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Leena,that is a beautiful blue shade of Meconopsis. What kind of soil and type of environment it likes?. I heard that only acid soil is good for them.
Thank you Kirs. :) They grow in here in acid bed, pH about 5,5-6 I think, the same as I grow rhododendrons. It is moist shady place with plenty of leaf mold and rotted horse manure composted in peat added to the soil. I'm so happy that I have found a place where to grow Meconopsis!
Nice to see it in flower! All the M. integrifolia from 2016 are ssp. souliei, that's the only species growing in that part of N Sichuan. 16-081 would be the exception, but it was listed as a species - I still don't know exactly what it is :)
Thank you! I'm new to Meconopsis, and in the internet I saw different shape of flowers in M.integrifolia, so that is why I was confused. My plants were seeds BO-15-127.
It is a beautiful plant, and the flower is very big, you can't see it in the picture, but it is maybe 10cm across. :) I'm so happy to have it growing here, and I must try to collect seeds from it in case it dies after flowering. Some seedlings don't flower yet this year. I has gone through two very cold and bad winters here so it is also quite hardy.
Here is another picture from last night, the flower shines in late night sun. This morning there were two open flowers in it.
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My plants were seeds BO-15-127.
That's from the Zhegushan pass. M. integrifolia ssp. souliei is a much better plant than what grows further west, it does look a lot like M. pseudointegrifolia with the big, open flowers. They are monocarpic but usually sets tons of seeds, so I hope you'll get it established permanently.
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Hello Kris
Since I know how much you like this plant, I took two photos of Campanula zoysii (Favratia zoysii) for you today. The flowering has only just begun and many more flowers will follow. I hope for good pollination and enough seeds for you. 😊
Thomas
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Dursey Island, reached by cable car from the tip of the Beara peninsula, SW Ireland
Cerastium arvense
Armeria maritima
Pity I can't share the armeria's wonderful honey scent wafting in the warm breeze.
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Absolutely brilliant pictures...Ashley. What a gorgeous backdrop.👍
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Thanks Thomas, but the reality is far better - plants, butterflies & other insects like iridescent green tiger beetles, sea-birds, cetaceans 8)
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Lovely pictures Ashley, thanks for posting.
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Blandfordia punicea.
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Incarvillea zhongdianensis doing very well in large trough, think the cool damp weather this year suits this plant.
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Some of the flowers in bloom in the garden now.
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A dwarf rhododendron.
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Dactylorhizas.
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Olearia macrodonta.
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Corydalis.
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Globularia repens.
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Two days ago we were visited again by winter, temperatures plunged to at least -3C overnight, and now we are in yet another frost warning! The Magnolias in the garden look like sodden brown hankies, and some of the foliage on the Japanese maples has also burnt off. I covered some plants with fleece during the first frost, and have blanketed many more tonight. Cape Breton even had snow! At least we were spared the snow here in the southwestern corner of the province. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/cape-breton-snow-june-highlands-1.4694433 (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/cape-breton-snow-june-highlands-1.4694433)
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No one can recall a frost in June. Vineyards in the Annapolis Valley are devastated as are fruit and berry growers. We were very lucky and missed it though there was a bit of frost on the north side of the very highest roof tops at 5am Monday morning. The outer suburbs to ournorthwest got hit as well. It has been very chilly, wet and raw ever since but the sun shines this morning.
Hopefully the warm sunshine will curtail any rot and prompt new buds to burst forth. In a few weeks time those affected will hardly recall the mess.
I don't understand surrounded by ocean as we are how we could have such a frost when New Brunswick north of us had none.
johnw
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Well here we are sweltering in 70+ temperatures and Sedum dasyphyllum Lloyd Praeger has finally come out too late for the East Lancs Show. Also some Rhodohypoxis which Brian put out at the front for passers by to see.
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I have a very sore heel at the moment and gardening is out of the question but this morning I was able to hobble around the garden and do some pictures that I hope you enjoy.
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A selection of Campanula: No names, labels long lost.
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A couple more Campanula:-
Campanula portenschlagiana
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Campanula pulla scrambling through a small Daphne
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Some more:
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A nice selection David.
Some views of a trio of troughs with an assortment including Rhododendron 'Panda', Roscoe 'Penine Purple' Linnaea borealis, Allium insubricum (or narcissiflorum).
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Allium insubricum (or narcissiflorum)
I have one of these alliums. I have been reading up about how to ID them. The stems of narcissiflorum straighten out as the seeds form and are erect - insubricum does not do this. You should know which you have in a couple of weeks.
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Thanks Carolyn,
I will wait to see. I suspect it's insubricum.
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Such beautiful campanulas, David! Hope your heel heals quickly.
Sally
South of Lewiston, Idaho
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So many lovely flowers and garden scenes, everyone!
Ashley's seaside views are breathtaking, makes me wish to be there and just sit there.
David, you garden is so full of interesting and pretty flowers, I can't decide which I like the most.
Graham's combination of Linnea borealis and fern, just fantastic. I should also try to grow Linnea borealis in the garden, as it grows in wild here.
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Such beautiful campanulas, David! Hope your heel heals quickly.
Many thanks Sally.
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Some images of my back garden. Mainly laid to grass for Ralph (who is killing it patch by patch). The borders are fenced off to stop him running through them and destroying everything which he tried to on several occasions.
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A couple more
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Ornithogalum magnum is native to the Caucasus.
Came to me as Ornithogalum fimbriatum which I don't think it is.
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Heavenly scented Philadelphus and finally some decent flowers on my Roscoea cautleoides now that I placed the pot in a part of the garden where there are much less slugs & snails.
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Very nice combination of blue iris and Geranium x magnificum. That geranium is also starting to flower here right now, a week earlier than normally.
Here are some pictures from this week.
Geranium phaeum 'Album' with Dicentra spectabilis
Peony 'Red Charm'
Third picture is of an old heirloom variegata type iris found in Finland maybe 80 years ago.
In last picture there are two white Iris sibirica (or hybrids), in the right smaller flowering 'Butterfly Fountain' and in the left side some flowers of bigger flowering 'White Swirl'.
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A rather happy clump of Cypripedium reginae at a friend's garden. Ken is her gardener and he seems to have this orchid nicely satisfied. Buds coloured a day later - pic 1 yesterday, pic 2 just now.
john
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A couple of Caltha:
Caltha var. barthei
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Caltha species -possibly C. purpurea or a form of C. sinogracilis rubriflora
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Beautiful Caltha Steve. How hardy are they?
I have attached a picture taken yesterday from the garden.
Cypripedium parviflorum var. pubescens
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Thanks Kris. What a superb clump of pubescens!
Both Caltha are Winter-dormant dying back to resting buds. Barthei can become fairly large but the pink-flowered one remains rather compact. They have not been fully tested here though did survive prolonged freezing in pots over this last winter (-7C minimum). They are best kept on the dry side when dormant.
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Pictures taken today. . .
Dianthus 'Little Jock'
Eriogonum umbellatum (close up)
Geranium cinereum 'Ballerina'
Hypericum olympicum 'Citrinum'
Leptospermum scoparium ‘Red Damask’
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You've got more sun there than in Aberdeen! Love the Leptospermum scoparium 'Red Damask' - I don't think I've seen that around.
Doing well for you, though - seen here in your post from 2009 :
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=3510.msg95325#msg95325 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=3510.msg95325#msg95325)
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You've got more sun there than in Aberdeen! Love the Leptospermum scoparium 'Red Damask' - I don't think I've seen that around.
Doing well for you, though - seen here in your post from 2009 :
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=3510.msg95325#msg95325 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=3510.msg95325#msg95325)
Ah! Yes Maggi, I had completely forgotten about that 2009 post.
I lost that plant quite a few years ago, and the photo also!
The plant I have now is about 3 years old and was quite damaged this past winter.
I did my best to protect it with a “bandage” of fleece but a very strong wind blew (the neighbours) fence over and took the fleece to the corner in the garden.
The neighbours have since replaced 3 fence panels.
I just hope my Leptospermum wil survive this trauma. ???
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Oh, not the same plant then? May I ask where you got it, John?
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A couple more Campanula:-
David, your campanula photos have me wishing I could grow them better. Never mind names, they are all gorgeous. My garden is blue at the moment but unfortunately not campanulas, they won't put up with the lack
of water and either limp along or don't bloom. The blue here is supplied by Moltkia petraea. One exception here is
Campanula betulifolia, which seems to handle drought better than the rest of them. Loved all your pictures.
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A nice selection David.
Some views of a trio of troughs with an assortment including Rhododendron 'Panda', Roscoe 'Penine Purple' Linnaea borealis, Allium insubricum (or narcissiflorum)
Graham, your new garden is certainly coming along splendidly, congratulations.
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Oh, not the same plant then? May I ask where you got it, John?
Maggi,
My daughter bought it from Dobbies Garden Centre. They are about 6 miles from us, on the Watling Street. (A5 Road) https://www.dobbies.com/products/plants/shrubs/leptospermum-scoparium-red-damask/ (https://www.dobbies.com/products/plants/shrubs/leptospermum-scoparium-red-damask/)
https://www.dobbies.com/find-a-garden-centre/ (https://www.dobbies.com/find-a-garden-centre/)
Burncoose Nurseries also have it for £13.00
https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/plants.cfm?pl_id=2519&CFID=13536593&CFTOKEN=d8695e1f59fab5b6-29F2F1CA-D52E-6DBD-C1A0550AF49EC876 (https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/plants.cfm?pl_id=2519&CFID=13536593&CFTOKEN=d8695e1f59fab5b6-29F2F1CA-D52E-6DBD-C1A0550AF49EC876)
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Two representatives from the Sierra Nevada...recorded last weekend.
Digitalis obscura
Eryngium glaciale
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Two representatives from the Sierra Nevada...recorded last weekend.
Digitalis obscura
Digitalis obscura. . What a wonderful colour! It looks as if they have absorbed the colour from the surrounding rocks. :o
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I ADORE the blue caltha. I thought first it was a superior Anemone obtusiloba patula until I noticed the foliage. I didn't know there WAS a blue caltha. C. barthei is wonderful too.
Leptospermum 'Red Damask' must be one of the very oldest cultivated forms of the "manuka, " (of honey fame) and native to New Zealand of course. Certainly I've known it all my 75 yr life and my mother had a plant when I was a small child in Invercargill. I have it now but as with all the manukas, it tends to get a black rust after a while, while is ugly and many people won't grow it because of that. It can be controlled with a systemic fungicide and I think the wonderfully coloured double flowers (compared with the smaller, white wild forms) are worth the effort. Very nice to see it thriving in the UK.
I had some packets of Barnhaven seed arrive this week, just 3 days from France, yet others from other northern hemisphere sources have take up to a month! I believe all the world's postal systems have gone mad recently. Our own post offices are delivering only 3 days a week now, the excuse being that emails have so depleted the quantities of regular letters. But we don't know WHICH 3 days so the mail tends to arrive on random occasions, i suspect on those days when there is advertising or "junk" mail as well.
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Scottish primrose is flowering for the second time.
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David, your campanula photos have me wishing I could grow them better. Never mind names, they are all gorgeous. My garden is blue at the moment but unfortunately not campanulas, they won't put up with the lack
of water and either limp along or don't bloom. The blue here is supplied by Moltkia petraea. One exception here is
Campanula betulifolia, which seems to handle drought better than the rest of them. Loved all your pictures.
Thanks Anne. We haven't seen any pictures from your garden for what seems ages? :(
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Prometheum sempevivoides starts flowering...
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Since this spring I have a small group of Douglasia nivalis in the Alpinum. To my surprise I discovered a flower today. 😀
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In my garden it is now peony-time. :)
In more shady bed Primula sieboldii (from Barnhaven seeds) is wonderful and my favourite. it also flowers for quite a long time, longer than many peonies.
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Since this spring I have a small group of Douglasia nivalis in the Alpinum. To my surprise I discovered a flower today. 😀
Happy birthday, Thomas!!
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Happy birthday, Thomas!!
Thank you for the congratulations...dear Maggi. What a great honor for me..😊
Thomas
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Just a mere boy Thomas ;D A very Happy Birthday.
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Very pretty, but I don't think about 38cm high is really 'Compactum'
Linum flavum 'Compactum' (lots of 'ums' there!)
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In eastern Finland last week:
Maianthemum bifolium
Silene dioica
Vaccinium vitis-idaea
Viola canina (?)
close to midnight, Pyhäjärvi
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At Helsinki Botanic Gardens
Helenium hoopesii
Allium ochotense
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Paeonies were at their best.
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The roses (& much else) were wonderful too. Such a great place to visit 8)
Rosa beggeriana Group 'Pohjantähti' (North Star)
Rosa moyesii Group 'Nevada'
Incarvillea younghusbandii
Onoclea sensibilis
Viola cvs
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Wonderful photos, Ashley. Isn't it great what nature can do with "proper" seasons ?
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Very true Maggi. Like us, Finland had a very late spring this year. However May was unusually warm & dry, so now the season has caught up again or is even slightly ahead of normal.
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Lovely set of images Ashley.
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Thanks David. Really I'm just a 'point-and-shoot' merchant, but accidents sometimes happen ;) ;D
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This is a trio of troughs in a pyramid formation.
The first image is the north facing side and the second is facing south.
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This is gentiana clusii ssp. costed with a distorted flower. A funny thing
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Perhaps this should be in the terrestrial orchid thread, but this is Cypripedium montanum blooming now at 4800 feet (1463 meters) on a northeastern exposure on Craig Mountain, Nez Perce County, Idaho.
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Sally
South of Lewiston, Idaho
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Ashley, I hope you had a nice visit to Finland, and in the east it hasn't been so dry as here in the south west coast.
You captured the Finnish atmosphere, wild plants and lake really well. :)
Helsinki Botanical garden is a good place, and there is also another University Botanical garden (https://www.luomus.fi/en/kumpula-botanic-garden) in Helsinki in Kumpula, not so easily in the center of the city with more trees and such.
Here are some pictures from my garden this morning. It rained yesterday and all night and it was very needed rain, but now it is clear again.
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Lovely pictures, everyone. Here is my offering: Dactylorhiza 'Harold Esslemont' and Roscoea 'Harvington Royale'
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Oops! It has turned on its side again, even though I posted it as taken i.e. in portrait mode. Maggi, I know you helped before, but I am too stupid to understand how to avoid this.
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I too have the problem with photos posting sideways even though they appeared to be upright when I posted.
Sally
South of Lewiston, Idaho; Zone 5ish
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I'm happy to rotate photos as need be!
I'm looking forward to flowers soon on Roscoeas - only a few R. cautleoides out so far
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Thanks for correcting pic. Maggi. My Roscoea cautleiodes are done and dusted. T. tibetica past its best, R. humeana alba nearly out and R. 'Harvington Imperial' still to come.
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Campanula cochlearifolia 'Tubby'
Campanula poscharskyana 'Blue Gown'
Campanula x wockii 'Puck'.
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It was my great wish to have the real Androsace darvasica on one day. Probably all plants growed under this name are A. carnea var. briganthiaca. Two years ago I received to my great pleasure seeds of A. darvasica collected by Mojmir Pavelka in Alai Mts., Kirgizia. I was however quite disappointed from the eventual plant. It is on the first image which was taken on 1st May. I regarded it as A. robusta var. purpurea, not darvasica.
The plant however quite "changed" later. The same plant is on the second image from 9th June. Now it looks really as A. darvasica how it is depicted and described in The Genus Androsace, with the exception of flower colour. I hope that I have A. darvasica with probably exceptional flower colour.
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Helsinki Botanical garden is a good place, and there is also another University Botanical garden (https://www.luomus.fi/en/kumpula-botanic-garden) in Helsinki in Kumpula, not so easily in the center of the city with more trees and such.
Thank you Leena. I once lived not far away, in Koskela, but never visited :-[ so this will be for the next trip :D
Your garden is looking beautiful despite the lack of rain.
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It was my great wish to have the real Androsace darvasica on one day. Probably all plants growed under this name are A. carnea var. briganthiaca. Two years ago I received to my great pleasure seeds of A. darvasica collected by Mojmir Pavelka in Alai Mts., Kirgizia. I was however quite disappointed from the eventual plant. It is on the first image which was taken on 1st May. I regarded it as A. robusta var. purpurea, not darvasica.
The plant however quite "changed" later. The same plant is on the second image from 9th June. Now it looks really as A. darvasica how it is depicted and described in The Genus Androsace, with the exception of flower colour. I hope that I have A. darvasica with probably exceptional flower colour.
Zdenek, you are a lucky man with this fine plant. Best wishes for a further succesful cultivation.
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As usual, Rudi is correct! Good plant, Zdenek!
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Since this spring I have a small group of Douglasia nivalis in the Alpinum. To my surprise I discovered a flower today. 😀
Well done! Douglasia nivalis has several forms and they are all worthwhile. It also has staying power although I do grow mine in troughs.
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Four plants from this month:
Hypericum kazdaghense
Lilium pyrenaicum
Haplopappus glutinosus
Gentiana boissieri
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Hypericum kazdaghense from Western Turkey is in my opinion one of the best introductions
in the last years. The plant in leaves is not too atractive, but everybody wants it, when he
or she sees it in flowers.
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I can see why everyone who sees this (above) hypericum in flower would want it. I think Hypericum is a very under-rated genus and while some are weedy or seed about to excess, others are real gems like my favourite H. kelleri, grown from seed way back in the 80s I think and never once producing a seedling for me so that I have to take little cuttings or ease off small layers with a root. The plant is no more than 1cm high.
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Not quite sure where to place this.
Crinum surviving here on the NE coast of USA.
Live in the ground year round.
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Roscoea humeana 'alba'
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Stunning humeana alba.... it is very high on my wish list. Two species have germinated for me from this past year's seed exchange (humeana, and tibetica). Still waiting for Roscoea auriculata seeds to get moving!
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A few blooms from my garden -- hopefully these will inspire me to get a few more things done out there...
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Captain John Ingram, I think (an old moss rose -- you can see a bit of the moss on the top left bud that's opening.)
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Not sure what this rose is -- maybe 'Félicité et Perpétue'? Pink buds opening to small almost-white flowers, definitely an enthusiastic scrambler, and an odd scent, more like myrrh than sweet.
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Not sure which Eryngium this is, either -- they seed themselves in the gravel by the street and grow much better there than in their bed.
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Eucomis 'Freckles' is new to me this summer -- a hybrid of E. 'Leia' and E. vandermerwei, I hear? I'm watching that little pineapple-shaped bud with great anticipation!
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And this was a treat from yesterday's nursery trip -- Daphne x medfordensis 'Lawrence Crocker.' I haven't grown this one yet, but I hear great things!
It's fun to see all your beautiful blooms, too -- thank you for sharing!
Kelly
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Hi Kelly. Lawrence Crocker is a good one. Here is mine in 2016, bought in 2013 and was smaller than
yours is. It's about 2 foot diameter now.
John B
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How beautiful, John B! That gives me something to aspire to, for sure!
Kelly
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How does Hypericum kazdaghense and H. kelleri compare to H. yakusimense and H. pallens?
H. pallens
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I don't know your H. pallens at all Rick but it looks to be a very good one, a nice little shrublet. My H. kelleri is a totally flat mat, no higher then Mentha requienii, less than a centimetre in height. The flowers are about 1 centimetre across and while they open gold as you see, the buds are bright red. The roots get very woody which is why I think of it as a shrub rather than a perennial. I love it to bits. :D