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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: Leena on May 02, 2019, 10:25:26 AM
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Hellebores are at their best now here. Weather has turned cooler and finally last night there was a little rain (but more is needed).
Many plants are two weeks ahead of more normal spring because of unusually warm April.
Hacquetia epipactis is flowering now. I have one bigger clump and some years ago I got seeds from it and now have planted some more with other woodland plants. In the second picture its companions are Anemone nemorosa 'Hilda' and Jeffersonia dubia (flowering for the first time, grown from seeds), and in the third picture Hacquetia is with Anemone nemorosa 'Dee Day' (and unnamed white Corydalis solida).
In the fourth picture under the Hellebores there is a tiny Primula. I have got it in a plant swap about five years ago, and it just stays tiny, and doesn't spread. I don't even know what group of Primulas it belongs to. Any idea what it might be?
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All beautiful Leena.
Is your Hacquetia self-fertile? I must check mine more carefully for seeds.
The primula looks like 'Tomato Red'; very nice but not so vigorous here either.
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Ashley,
I think Hacquetia must be self fertile. I started out with just one plant and have several now. It likes to seed into a gravel path.
Leena,
Lovely selection of woodlanders!
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Thanks Ashley and Carolyn. :)
I started with only one plant, and in the beginning it didn't produce seeds, but then one year I got a good amount of seeds, sowed them and after two winters they germinated. I have only one bigger self sown seedling close to the mother plant, but today I noticed two smaller ones more. The reason why I don't have more self sown seedlings must be because there isn't bare soil near, it is so crowded with plants.
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Years ago I had asked Ian Young how does he manage to get so much ground cover . His reply to me was I was to tidy so from that day on I stopped weeding till the first day of May and it’s working. Still have a long way to go to get the effect that Maggi and Ian have but I am getting so many plants seeding themselves around now . Don’t have to buy so many plants now and don’t have to weed as much 😊
Angie 😊
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Very nice pictures Leena!
Despite the never ending rain and cold weather the Helleborus are also flowering here and it's exciting to see H. purpurascens grown from wild coll. seeds flowering :)
The Corydalis grow slow with vivid colours and another surprise - few of the C. cava 'Alba; flowered - thank you! I was waiting for a white one to add its genes to the garden mixture.
H. x ericsmithii 'Winter Moonbeam', the beautiful foliage was badly affected this winter
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Helleborus purpurascens (Carpathian Mts. coll.)
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Flowering in the woods, the true sign of spring in many parts of North America - Claytonia virginica, the spring beauty.
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Years ago I had asked Ian Young how does he manage to get so much ground cover . His reply to me was I was to tidy so from that day on I stopped weeding till the first day of May and it’s working. Still have a long way to go to get the effect that Maggi and Ian have but I am getting so many plants seeding themselves around now . Don’t have to buy so many plants now and don’t have to weed as much 😊
Angie 😊
By the look of the pictures you are getting there Angie!
Mu garden is relatively 'young' but I'm going in the same direction. I can already see Corydalis seedlings showing everywhere, few Stylophorum, Brunnera... It will take time but it is the only way to achieve a naturalistic look.
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Looking really good Angie - and I certainly don't mind having to bend my head 90o to view.
Flowering in the woods, the true sign of spring in many parts of North America - Claytonia virginica, the spring beauty.
Beautiful image Gabriela - I was just looking up Claytonia, have you ever tried eating it?
https://www.bbg.org/gardening/article/spring_beauty_tasty_tubers (https://www.bbg.org/gardening/article/spring_beauty_tasty_tubers)
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Absolutely beautiful photos Angie and others
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Just love the beautiful ground cover that Ian and Maggi have managed to achieve and getting older means it’s harder to bend down so much so ground cover is needed. Thanks folks .
Angie :)
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The primula looks like 'Tomato Red'; very nice but not so vigorous here either.
Ashley, you might be right. It has a look of Wand but red, and the reason why it hasn't spread may be that the place is too dry. Perhaps I should move it, because it has a very distinct colour, and in spring all even very bright colours are welcome. :)
Angie, you have lovely beds! I try for the same look, but I have still a way to go. Ian's Bulb Log is an inspiration to me.
The Corydalis grow slow with vivid colours and another surprise - few of the C. cava 'Alba; flowered - thank you! I was waiting for a white one to add its genes to the garden mixture.
Gabriela, I'm glad to see spring is also over there in spite of rain. I think many colours, especially in red Corydalis, are brighter in cool weather, hot temperatures seem to make their colours bleach out.
Hmm, my C.cava 'Alba' has distinctly yellowish flowers, not as white as in your picture..
Many years ago I sowed Claytonia virginica from Gardens North seeds. The original plants have died but they survive from self sown seedlings, not many but every year there are some flowering. Here it has sown itself among Polygonatum multiflorum and Geranium phaeum. My plant seems to have white flower than the ones in your picture, or the whiteness is a result of our warmer weather this year (not right now though, it is now +3C and cloudy)
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Two pictures from May 1st when it was sunny.
I have one seed grown Helleborus which has very dark foliage when the flowers are opening. Now it is turning more green, but it still looks good among yellowish Corydalis (C.marschalliana 'Crimea' and C.bracteata) with it's smallish dark red flowers. Actually flowers are close to the colour of Trillium chloropeatalum 'Rubrum' on the right in the first picture. I love the soft green of tree leaves when they are just coming out.
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Leena,
I have the same red hellebore. It is one of my favourites and came from the seed exchange a few years ago as "Ashwood hybrids". I also got a lovely plain yellow from the same packet. Real gems!
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Carolyn, you are right. Mine also originates from Ashwood seeds (second generation). :)
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Flowering in the woods, the true sign of spring in many parts of North America - Claytonia virginica, the spring beauty.
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I hope your seeds will germinate, i guess my winter is too warm to break dormancy
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Beautiful image Gabriela - I was just looking up Claytonia, have you ever tried eating it?
https://www.bbg.org/gardening/article/spring_beauty_tasty_tubers (https://www.bbg.org/gardening/article/spring_beauty_tasty_tubers)
I only tasted the leaves Gail. I know they are in demand by the edibles growers, I never have enough seeds ;)
It is an ephemeral in the true sense, one day will decide to go dormant and the next day is gone. The flowers open gradually so the seeds also mature in waves, it is a nightmare to collect them.
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Gabriela, I'm glad to see spring is also over there in spite of rain. I think many colours, especially in red Corydalis, are brighter in cool weather, hot temperatures seem to make their colours bleach out.
Hmm, my C.cava 'Alba' has distinctly yellowish flowers, not as white as in your picture..
Many years ago I sowed Claytonia virginica from Gardens North seeds. The original plants have died but they survive from self sown seedlings, not many but every year there are some flowering. Here it has sown itself among Polygonatum multiflorum and Geranium phaeum. My plant seems to have white flower than the ones in your picture, or the whiteness is a result of our warmer weather this year (not right now though, it is now +3C and cloudy)
The buds are creamy like you say Leena but then when opened they are like in the picture; not pure white but definitely not cream. It may be the cool weather?
Claytonia can have white or pink flowers and they are variable in size as well. I took the picture in a particularly beautiful, vigorous population.
I hope your seeds will germinate, i guess my winter is too warm to break dormancy
Claytonia germinates easily Yann after a warm/cold cycle and actually it doesn't needs a lot of cold. I once kept leftover seeds moist in the fridge and they started to germinate somewhere in January!
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From yesterday as well, a Helleborus grown from seeds that I like (with torquatus genes), I must take an overall picture.
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And first time flowering Pachyphragma macrophyllum., cheerful flowers but mostly I was amazed how nice the leaves remained late into the winter, especially that we had quite a few snow less periods.
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Really wonderful photos everyone, and I appreciate the informative dialog that goes with them.
Years ago I had asked Ian Young how does he manage to get so much ground cover . His reply to me was I was to tidy so from that day on I stopped weeding till the first day of May and it’s working. Still have a long way to go to get the effect that Maggi and Ian have but I am getting so many plants seeding themselves around now . Don’t have to buy so many plants now and don’t have to weed as much
Another devotee, here, although I discovered the "method" on my own. Because my gardens are relatively dry, I can use a couple species of Himalayan impatiens as my "cover weed" until I weed in June. They are so easy to pull, and then I find my various seedlings and put a new shallow layer of shredded leaves over the garden.
I have grown and tasted Claytonia sibirica, but couldn't keep the species going for more than a few years. Why I never though about eating our native C. virginica, I don't know! Went out and tried some leaves from my patch just now.... good texture, although not quite as crisp as leaf lettuce. Not bitter at all, actually very little taste, but very pleasant. Gosh, a 2 inch diameter tuber would be simply gigantic here. Perhaps because I am at its most north and west natural range, the largest I've ever seen is 3/4 inch.
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And here is Claytonia virginica
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And first time flowering Pachyphragma macrophyllum., cheerful flowers but mostly I was amazed how nice the leaves remained late into the winter, especially that we had quite a few snow less periods.
It is really nice and early! :) I guess it only germinates from fresh seeds, because I have tried it twice from seed ex dry seeds with no germination.
I have grown and tasted Claytonia sibirica, but couldn't keep the species going for more than a few years.
And in my garden (woodland beds, not in sun) it is a weed which I try to get rid of, but it comes back from seeds all the time.
It IS pretty and with bigger plants like Rodgersia or such it can be a good ground cover because it grows all season - maybe in warmer countries all year around - and prevents other weeds before Rodgersias come up (and it flowers prettily). But if I have in one place it will be all over.
Claytonia virginica is much better behaved plant, and I wish it would spread more.
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And in my garden (woodland beds, not in sun) it is a weed which I try to get rid of, but it comes back from seeds all the time.
It IS pretty and with bigger plants like Rodgersia or such it can be a good ground cover because it grows all season - maybe in warmer countries all year around - and prevents other weeds before Rodgersias come up (and it flowers prettily). But if I have in one place it will be all over.
Claytonia sibirica is also a weed here in one area in our woodland garden Leena.I originally allowed it to seed to be harvested as a food source for aviary birds however it has now started to encroach into the surrounding native bush so I've started pulling it out.
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Montia/claytonia sibirica used to grow on a small island next to the bridge in Killin, Perthshire.
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Gabriela: so i failed to germinate the seeds
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Nice pictures with the spring beauty Rick. Such a cute ephemeral. I didn't even open the link - does it say 2 inches bulb?
That's quite an exaggeration or a typo. I should ask one of my clients who grows it as edible but I really don't see it going to that size.
With the edimentals fashion I notice there is the tendency to 'romanticize' a bit the realiy. Same goes wit Amphicarpaea, people have expectations for big 'groundnuts' :)
Gabriela: so i failed to germinate the seeds
The seeds need to be sown relatively fresh or kept moist Yann.
If I manage to collect more this year, there will be no problem for you to try again.
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It is really nice and early! :) I guess it only germinates from fresh seeds, because I have tried it twice from seed ex dry seeds with no germination.
It may be true Leena. I only received few seeds years ago and only one germinated. I planted it in the garden fairly small and didn't expect it to survive. It is in a dry shade spot so one more quality.
If it sets seeds we can look into the problem :) Just that with so much rain and old weather there aren't too many bees and bumblebees around. I have a feeling there won't be much pollination for Corydalis either.
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Gentiana angustifolia 'Pirin'
Maureen
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So beautiful - you cannot beat a gentian for a fabulous "blue", can you?
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Exquisite saturation of color, Maureen! The clematis is pretty, too.
Gabriela, yes, the link about Claytonia virginica said: tubers half inch to 2 inches in diameter!
When I was a kid, I gathered Amphicarpaea bracteata "nuts", and it took forever to get a half cupful. (I spent a lot of time in the woods around my house.) But as I grew older and explored other areas, I did find the species grew more robustly elsewhere. But "nuts" were hardly any bigger, just more plentiful. Tastes very sweet with just a hint of nuttiness.
I can verify that Claytonia virginica seed is difficult to harvest. I've been putzing with methods, and the last thing I tried is to just gather some ripe podded stems, put them in a bowl and wait a day or so for the seed to eject. They do explode, so you need a loose cover so the seeds don't fly all over the table. LOL I am guessing that any seed that ejects after three days likely won't be viable. What do you think, Gabriela?
Perhaps my garden is too dry for sibirica's liking. But sometime, I will try again. My original seed came from Todd Boland in New Foundland, Canada. He says the seed isn't recalcitrant. I "winter sowed" dry seed at the end of February, and it came up fine.
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Lots happening in the Northern Hemisphere ! Our winter in northwestern Ontario has been too long and the last snow ( 8 inches plus ) was on Monday April 29th. Most of that has now gone and a few things are starting to move in the garden. For us our best show so far is Erythronium caucasicum (photo) The seed originally came from a forumist in Moscow. Following closely is Erythronium sibiricum which is about a week behind E. caucasicum.
-Rob
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Lots happening in the Northern Hemisphere ! Our winter in northwestern Ontario has been too long and the last snow ( 8 inches plus ) was on Monday April 29th. Most of that has now gone and a few things are starting to move in the garden. For us our best show so far is Erythronium caucasicum (photo) The seed originally came from a forumist in Moscow. Following closely is Erythronium sibiricum which is about a week behind E. caucasicum.
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You have some fantastic plants. I have Erythronium sibericum but every year they fight with Mother Nature to survive.
Rob I looked at your garden pictures for the first time. Breath taking!!!
I have some plants coming up slowly in the garden
The pulsatilla seedling -the colour is really lovely and I can't able to capture it with my camera.
1.Pulsatilla sp
2.Douglasia montana
3.Drabe dedeana
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4.Phlox pulvinata
5. Two Townsendias
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An Achillea, i collected seeds at 2530m just below the Skala summit in Olympos mountains. I guess it's Achillea erba-rotta subsp. olympica .
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An Achillea, i collected seeds at 2530m just below the Skala summit in Olympos mountains. I guess it's Achillea erba-rotta subsp. olympica .
An absolute dream... Yann. A beautiful subspecies, which I do not know yet. The flowers look very untypical for Achillea.
Many thanks for showing...also wonderfully set in scene.
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The scene was really better in the "mountains of Gods", the summit is one of the most difficult i experienced.
The normal way from Prinia need 2 days but i took the shortest road....
I had to secure my position and take photos with one hand. No need to say autofocus was on, no manual setting :)
Not far away the house the orchids are in buds, too cold now to open.
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Exquisite saturation of color, Maureen! The clematis is pretty, too.
Thank you Rick. The Clematis is C. tenuiloba columbiana 'Ylva'. I bought it in 2014 and while it has become a mini-thug (I'm not complaining) it has never had more than a couple of flowers until this year. I put this improvement down to last summer's unseasonably (for us) hot weather. I tried to post a pic. of it with the gentians, but the file size was too big, so I left it off. I then tried to post it separately and it said the file size was too big. This puzzled me because the combined file size of the unreduced gentian pics was 6.4MB and the Clematis unreduced is 3 MB, yet the system let me post the reduced pair of gentians, but not the single reduced Clematis. Am about to try again, and if it rejects it this time, I will post it as a thumb nail.
Maureen
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Gentiana angustifolia 'Pirin'
Maureen
Fantastic colour, nothing beats a blue gentian.
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Thank you Kris. If you saw anything in our garden you would like to try let me know. I should you seed of our Erythronium sibericum as it seems to flourish here in all the places we have planted it.
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Exquisite saturation of color, Maureen! The clematis is pretty, too.
Gabriela, yes, the link about Claytonia virginica said: tubers half inch to 2 inches in diameter!
When I was a kid, I gathered Amphicarpaea bracteata "nuts", and it took forever to get a half cupful. (I spent a lot of time in the woods around my house.) But as I grew older and explored other areas, I did find the species grew more robustly elsewhere. But "nuts" were hardly any bigger, just more plentiful. Tastes very sweet with just a hint of nuttiness.
I can verify that Claytonia virginica seed is difficult to harvest. I've been putzing with methods, and the last thing I tried is to just gather some ripe podded stems, put them in a bowl and wait a day or so for the seed to eject. They do explode, so you need a loose cover so the seeds don't fly all over the table. LOL I am guessing that any seed that ejects after three days likely won't be viable. What do you think, Gabriela?
Perhaps my garden is too dry for sibirica's liking. But sometime, I will try again. My original seed came from Todd Boland in New Foundland, Canada. He says the seed isn't recalcitrant. I "winter sowed" dry seed at the end of February, and it came up fine.
Re collecting Claytonia seeds Rick: because the capsules mature gradually and are really small, I try to compromise and take the whole stems just when they are about to go dormant. I place them in a paper lunch bag where indeed they will 'explode' but it's fine. They are not that recalcitrant, can stay dry for even a couple of weeks.
If I would have them in the garden and for small seeds quantity then of course I could collect few capsules one by one. Unfortunately I cannot keep up with the squirrels appetite.
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Very nice Erythronium Rob and Kris - your Douglasia looks wonderful. I should give it try sometimes.
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Flowering in the lawn now is the Cuckooflower (Cardamine pratensis). The English name for the flower is confusing for us, because we call Silene Dioica (red campion) day-cuckoo flower over here. And these last ones are also in full bloom now. To make it even more complicated, we also have the night-cuckoo flower (silene noctiflora). I need to check, but I think there are also loads of these flowering in the area. The only thing that I haven't seen or heard yet this year is a real cuckoo - the bird.
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A few more flowers from our garden.
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Dichelostemma multiflorum
These are from seed I gathered on Peavine Ridge, El Dorado County, California.
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Dichelostemma multiflrorum CU
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Triteleia bridgesii
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Penstemon purpusii from seed I gathered on Snow Mountain. This species is a real gem. I have many more seedlings coming on. For me it is preferable to grow a breeding population of a species, rather than a single specimen.
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I have been working on these Pansies on-and-off for years. I hope to continue to improve this strain.
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Our California native annual Collinsia tinctoria is slowly getting established in our garden.
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Eriogonum prattenianum var. prattenianum is a real gem. The silvery new growth is incredibly beautiful. The flowers are an added bonus.
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Very nice Robert.
Some from my garden.
Veronica austriaca 'Ionian Skies'
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Phlox 'Oxen Blood' (Ochsenblut)
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I know this is a Globularia but haven't clue which one.
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Armeria juniperifolia 'Bevan's Var.'
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Hi David,
I enjoyed your photograph of Penstemon 'Six Hills". 8)
Despite being buried, it appeared to have many fine characteristics. Do you know the parentage of this hybrid?
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I don’t know much about Penstemon ‘Six Hills’ Robert. I had always assumed that it was raised at an American nursery but having done a bit of research it could be that it was raised at the nursery of a very famous English plantsman Clarence Elliott (1881-1969) many years ago. His nursery was named Six Hills.
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Hi David,
8) Thank you for sharing what you do know about the variety.
By the way, do you, by any chance, grow Penstemon newberryi? If so, how do you rate its performance compared to "Six Hills"?
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By the way, do you, by any chance, grow Penstemon newberryi? If so, how do you rate its performance compared to "Six Hills"?
Hi Robert, unfortunately I don't have P. newberryi.
Earlier today I posted pics of two other Penstemon that I do have though. See Penstemon thread
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Anemone nemorosa 'Vestal' This has been in flower for ages and still looks fresh.
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Really lovely Maureen, I have this Anemone in my garden and I just think it brightens up the garden in a dull day.
Angie :)
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Some plants from yesterday.
Fritillaria grandiflora
Viola odorata 'Albiflora', Allium ursinum behind it.
Pulmonaria 'Silverado' flowers.
Wild Anemone nemorosa grows in my woodland beds by itself, it is strange how it thirves everywhere in my garden (and also A.nemorosa cultivars do well), but I have trouble with A.ranunculoides which barely stays alive.
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Great Things are preparing . . .
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Paeonia tenuifolia seems to love hot, dry summers :)
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Staphylea pinnata, the European bladdernut flowers for the first time all over. I grew it from seeds (nuts) and I hope to get some this years for the first time:
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A picture from the wild side from this part of the world. It's not every year that we see the trout lilies flowering like this.
Erythronium americanum
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Gabriela that would be something to see and with the dappled sunlight they look so pretty.
Angie :)
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Lovely picture Gabriela
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A picture from the wild side from this part of the world. It's not every year that we see the trout lilies flowering like this.
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An incredible sight, Gabriela! Erythronium americanum is reputed to be shy-flowering here.
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Good grief Gabriela, that's a sight.
We had maybe 4-6 flowers on our 20 sq. ft. clump over the years, quite rampant here.
john
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Hannelore, you P.tenuifolia seems to love it's place in your garden. :)
Gabriela, wow! What a sight!
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First flowers of Edraianthus vesovicii
Gerd
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After 9 years from planting first larger number of flowers from Wisteria floribunda 'Rosea'
Gerd
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A few things in flower today.
1 Erythronium dens-canis 'Moerheimii' maybe
2 Helleborus argutifolius MJH has been around for more than 30 years, self sows
3 Salix sp. cw Newfoundland'
4 Salix fargesii, we propagate it but interest is zero
5 Erythronium dens-canis 'White Splendour' maybe
IDs welcomed.
john
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Thanks to all. It was magic to witness it flowering in such profusion.
An incredible sight, Gabriela! Erythronium americanum is reputed to be shy-flowering here.
E. americanum is either flowering, either not :) This is my conclusion. Walking into the woods you can encounter both cases. There are large non-flowering populations, mainly on sites where propagation by stolons was predominant.
It may be genetic/ site related. I noticed that the best flowering populations grow in moist places.
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Philip MacDougall's cross of Paris polyphylla ssp. stenophylla x P. luguanensis. We have a half dozen, only one is plain green leafed, the rest have lovely markings. They're getting very big, the largest - the green one of course - about a meter tall with whopping big flowers.
Clearer photos of the big green one added.
john
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Philip MacDougall's cross of Paris polyphylla ssp. stenophylla x P. luguanensis. We have a half dozen, only one is plan green leafed, the rest have lovely markings. They're getting very big, the largest - the green one of course - about a meter tall with whopping big flowers.
john
8c, chilly & overcast
Oh my, big AND beautiful!!
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A very busy period and not often in the garden.
Pacific iris are so easy from seeds you can get a bouquet in less than 3 years.
The last photo is Asperula sintenisii, it took 4 years for it to sprout, a slow species than can dress up completely a rock.
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Thanks to all. It was magic to witness it flowering in such profusion.
E. americanum is either flowering, either not :) This is my conclusion. Walking into the woods you can encounter both cases. There are large non-flowering populations, mainly on sites where propagation by stolons was predominant.
It may be genetic/ site related. I noticed that the best flowering populations grow in moist places.
Thank You for Your informations, Gabriela! It´s always a great help to learn from people who know the plants from visits to their natural habitats!
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Update from today...
☆ Phacelia campanularia, San Bernadino Co., California
☆ Pyrethrum leontopodium, Kyrgyzstan
☆ again Geranium erianthum var. pallescens, Japan (open)
☆ Townsendia incana
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That Townsendia is gorgeous, and I love the Pyrethrum. Mine did not wake up from dormancy until two weeks ago and it still looks very tiny and compact. Does it grow outside?
Here's a shot from the wild, seen in the Berchtesgaden National Park two weeks ago: Gentiana verna.
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That Townsendia is gorgeous, and I love the Pyrethrum. Mine did not wake up from dormancy until two weeks ago and it still looks very tiny and compact. Does it grow outside?
Here's a shot from the wild, seen in the Berchtesgaden National Park two weeks ago: Gentiana verna.
A very beautiful picture Tom. Next time post it big size!
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That Townsendia is gorgeous, and I love the Pyrethrum. Mine did not wake up from dormancy until two weeks ago and it still looks very tiny and compact. Does it grow outside?
Here's a shot from the wild, seen in the Berchtesgaden National Park two weeks ago: Gentiana verna.
Servus Tom...
☆This Year is probably an "incana" year. I have seen photos from other gardeners who are friends of mine, which bloom even more abundantly.
My Townsendias, sown in winter 17/18, were invaded by aphids last autumn. A discreet chemical treatment was successful...so I am very grateful for every single flower.
☆ For me Pyrethrum leontopodium is also one of the absolute favourites from Asia. Especially the silvery hairy foliage turns me on. I have used five specimens with a permanent glass cover in the rock garden. Four of them survived. Even if I was advised against it, I am forced to experiment something...no alpine house. Unfortunately the photo was not very successful, because it was very windy.
Great photo from Ramsau...👍
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Before I forget...to everyone it concerns...
ALL THE BEST FOR MOTHER'S DAY
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A few shots from Ken's garden today
Paris quadrifolia oatch under a rhododendron
Jeffersonia dubia
Hepatica transsilvanica - I was quite taken by it.
Jasminum nudiflorum - rooted cutting from last year; shows you what kind of winter we had, I've never seen one put on a spring show, usually on & off the winter long.
john
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Alpines are sparse in the garden since I had my scree re-modelled but here are some which are in flower now.
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Silene acaulis.
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A small Draba which has come from somewhere, probably as seed with another plant.
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Hairy rock-rose, Helianthemum oelandicum.
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Mountain everlasting, Antennaria dioica. In the wild the flowers can be pink or white.
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Alpine catchfly, Lychnis alpina.
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Helonias bullata -a native of the Eastern USA known as the Swamp Pink.
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Hello Steve, someone has sent me a photo. of an orchid at the S,albufera reserve on Mallorca and asked what it is. I know nothing about foreign orchids and wondered if you had any suggestions. Mine are Orchis militaris, O, lodera and O. olbiensis.
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Hi Ian, could it possibly be Anacamptis (Orchis) coriophora?
It’s been many years since I’ve been to S’Albufera de Mallorca. I was far more interested in the birds than the orchids.
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Thanks Steve, I have a copy of Delforge but the photo. is not that great. I have never been abroad and am not conversant with species we do not have over here. Your orchid photos. are much better than mine.
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You need to travel Ian, you don’t know what your missing. ;)
Mallorca is a good start. Apart from the orchids, there are some nice walks, great scenery, a good range of butterflies/dragonflies and there are superb birding opportunities: Booted Eagle, Black Vulture, Eleonora’s Falcon, Hoopoe, Bee-eater, Crested Coot, Purple Swamphen, various egrets/herons ......the list goes on.
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Hello Steve, someone has sent me a photo. of an orchid at the S,albufera reserve on Mallorca and asked what it is. I know nothing about foreign orchids and wondered if you had any suggestions. Mine are Orchis militaris, O, lodera and O. olbiensis.
It may be of interest to Ian and others to know that Gerrit Eijkelenboom writes about all sorts of plants, including orchids, in these International Rock Gardener issues ....
Crete http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2013Jul261374832351IRG43July.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2013Jul261374832351IRG43July.pdf)
and http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Jul301438283975IRG-67.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Jul301438283975IRG-67.pdf)
Gran Canaria http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2019Feb211550781214IRG110.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2019Feb211550781214IRG110.pdf)
Rhodes http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2017May251495746846IRG89May2017.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2017May251495746846IRG89May2017.pdf)
Spain http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2016Sep291475167835IRG_81.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2016Sep291475167835IRG_81.pdf)
Sicily http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2016Dec291483029322IRG-84.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2016Dec291483029322IRG-84.pdf)
and http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2018May241527184409IRG_101_May_2018.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2018May241527184409IRG_101_May_2018.pdf)
Sardinia http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2018Jul261532613984IRG103-July2018.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2018Jul261532613984IRG103-July2018.pdf)
South America, reports from both Gerrit and Trond Hoy ... http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2014Aug241408891542IRG51March.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2014Aug241408891542IRG51March.pdf)
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Thanks Steve and Maggi. As for travelling, I have not discovered everything on the local site yet. Will keep looking though. I,m going to check some epiphytic plants I found in winter but think they may be no more than tree shoots on aspen.
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Flowering now in pots and in the garden.
1. Aquilegia and variegated Solomons Seal.
2. Cremnosedum Little Gem.
3. Erigeron scopulinus bought recently after seeing Bob Worsley's superb specimen.
4.Erigeron venustus, seed from Gothenburg Botanic.
5.Erodium.
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Continuing with6. Hypericum no name which is a pity as it is a wonderful flowerer and completely prostrate, perhaps someone can help give it a name.
7, Oxalis eneaphylla
8.The painted fern in a shady part of the garden.
9. My favourite Rhodo 'Peeping Tom'
10. Rosenia humilis.
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Finally for the moment.
11. The silver Sax border is coming into flower.
12. My tree Peony 'High Noon'.
13. A group of Tulip battalanii Bright Gem.
14. A not very good picture of our variegated Holly which is bursting with flower, trouble is they are so small you often miss them
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Just found two more.
Firstly I bought this pot of Anemone coronaria from the local garden centre, a lot of the pots were showing colour wonderful red and purple. I chose a pot that was just coming through hoping for red or purple. I got white, very disappointed then today when I went to take a picture there was a purple bud too. It must had heard me muttering.
Secondly a lovely Trollius europaeus called Lemon Supreme it's only 8 inches tall.
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Were you hoping for something more like this, Shelagh?
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AMETHYST, SPINEL, COLOURED DIAMOND AND DIAMOND 'ANEMONES' EARRINGS by MICHELE DELLA VALLE , circa 2007 sold by Christies!!
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Well Maggi Brian says if they are not more than 12/6d he'll buy me a pair ???
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In that case you'd better stick with the plants! Works for me!
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Shelagh, your unnamed Hypericum looks like H. cerastioides. It comes easily from seed.
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Campanula alpestris and Eriogonum umbellatum var.(?) are the only colour accents today.
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Brian and I have had this plant for about 5 years and it has never flowered. Brian spotted what he thought might be buds and a couple of days later these appeared. They are very very small but beautiful. Junellia thymeifolia.
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Brian and I have had this plant for about 5 years and it has never flowered. Brian spotted what he thought might be buds and a couple of days later these appeared. They are very very small but beautiful. Junellia thymeifolia.
Wow... what a beauty. Like most South Americans, the leaves are a feast for the eyes. My admiration and congratulations to the successful flowering. 👍
Cheers
Thomas
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I got this Townsendia last spring. Townsendia scabigera. Since I can't find any helpful information and pictures about this species on the internet, I'm at a loss whether it really is this species. ???
The foliage is slightly wider than with T. hookeri...but not as wide and floured as with my T. spatulata.
The flower has a conspicuous red coloration on the underside and a little pink in the visible area. Also the size of the flower differs somewhat from my other Townsendias. It is slightly thicker in the base.
If someone can give an exact ID here, I would be very grateful.
Cheers
Thomas
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Orchis militaris at its best this year, these ones are from Belgium not far away the garden of mister Luc Gilgemyn :+)
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Interesting beast there, Yann.
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First peony has started to flower here, P.mairei. P.obovata just opening it's buds this morning, in the picture, together with Anemone x lipsiensis, Tulipa sylvestris and Brunnera macrophylla.
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Sanguinaria canadensis 'Late Snow' is flowering right now, well after ordinary form of Sanguinaria. Last year when the beginning of May was hotter, the difference in flowering time was not so big, and even 'Late Snow' flowered almost the same time as others. This year there have been more cold nights.
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Nice Sanguinaria Leena.
Here we are onto Convallaria and I like one of my new ones - Fernwood Golden Slippers. When the flowers first open they are a definite primrose yellow.
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a few ones from this evening
Iris sambucina
Saxifraga vayredana
Globularia bellidifolia
an unknow Silene from China that set seeds everywhere ;D
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Primulas are flowering well. :)
Tulipa norwegica has multiplied also well, and the third picture is of an old very scented Narcissus poeticus I got from an old farmhouse nearby. It's origin is unknown, it has "always" grown there.
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Flowering now :)
Aethionema armenum ‘Warley Rose’
Anthyllis montana rubra
Globularia bellidifolia
Phlox adsurgens 'Wagon Wheel'
Phlox-caespitosa 'Zigenuerblut'
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those Phlox are great! how old is your G. bellidifolia?
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Chamaecytisus hirsutus-agg. from southwestern Macedonia (1850 m) is only a few centimetres high and is flowering for the first time.
Androsace studiosorum from northern India has a loose growth with long foothills.
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those Phlox are great! how old is your G. bellidifolia?
Hello Yann, The many Phlox varieties do put on a good show don’t they?
The G. bellidifolia is/was a small cutting I took about 3+ years ago from a much older plant which
succumbed to a black blight to its leaves, but the cuttings don’t appear to have inherited this defect . . . yet!
Two more pictures.
Rhododendron 'Blue Peter'
Veronica prostrata 'Spode Blue.'
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Very colourful John.
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Very colourful John.
Thank you David. ;D
Here are a few more for your perusal. . .
Dianthus 'Inshriach Dazzler'
Phlox 'Beauty of Ronsdorf'
Silene uniflora 'Rosea'
x Halimiocistus libanotis.
Weigela florida 'Alexandra'
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Claytonia virginica is still blooming in my yard in full force. I had a botanist friend over, and he said the entire plant is edible. Not a far fetched idea, given its many edible relatives. Not sure why only certain information sources mention this. Most, it seems, talk only about the tuber. So the group of us taste tested the plant parts (but not the tuber), and to me at least, they all pretty much taste the same, with a bit different textures. Now this is a more viable edible use, as just the leaves are too small and tedious to attempt to harvest, and digging enough tubers would take forever. Plus adds some color to a salad, as do violet or borage flowers.
With Claytonia virginica being the white blur in the background (and plants in the fore, Tulipa sysvestris are nice companions. The photo was taken at sunset, so the flowers of both are closed.
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Clematis integrifolia
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Rick - The Tulipa is positively exquisite.
john
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It's been chilly & raw here. Saturday it got to 19c, this photo of Magnolia 'Mazeppa' was take this morning at 10c. Very large flowers from robusta. The temperature has not risen, rain.
denudata x sargentiana v. robusta
john
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Crambe orientalis, a huge baby obtained from Kurt Vickery seeds sown in october 2014. No protection, in clay.
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Rick, T.sylvestris picture is beautiful!
I also like it, but it does increase with stolons quite a lot. It is still one of my favourites. :)
It's bulbs are small and I've never lost them to voles (so far).
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T. sylvestris is my favourite as well. I didn't post many pictures, May always seems to fly by, Magnolias, Primulas and all others flowering at once.
A few in no particular order.
My Tulipa sylvestris
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Iris lacustris first time to flower
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Trillium luteum
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And a dwarf Iris of today
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Holy crap! That Magnolia 'Mazeppa' is spectacular and super floriferous!
And the crambe has interesting foliage, too.
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I'm kinda surprised we have such a following for Tulipa sylvestris. I had the impression from literature that it was almost maligned. I am always watching for bulbs that do okay in shade.
This pic, taken at a fellow NARGS member's garden:
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Mine are actually her exact clone, the difference being the growing conditions - she has full sun, shaded by watered perennials in summer and in good rich soil, mine in comparatively heavy clay based, leaner soil, under a tulip tree.
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My Tulipa sylvestris. :)
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Blooming today at about 4,000 feet on Craig Mountain: Saxifraga mertensiana
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Sally
South of Lewiston, Idaho, USA
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Sorry, Maggi. I can't remember how to solve the sideways photo problem! I never seem to know when it will happen.
Sally
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No worries, Sally - fixed that for you. Had to rely on your message about "sideways " to be sure they were not growing out from a cliff!
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Some images of the garden today.
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Last two
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Garden looks an absolute treat Graham
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Thanks David.
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Certainly does - love the colour scheme!
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Thanks Maggi.
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Very nice... Graham. 👍
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Here are the two white Edraianthus from the Balkans...
Edraianthus tarae around the "little sister" Edraianthus niveus.
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Wow Graham that's a change from when you first moved in. Well done it looks terrific.
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Thanks Shelagh. It’s four years tomorrow since we moved here. I had no real idea what I was going to do and things have changed and developed over time even changing this year. Very satisfied with the result.
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Last week in our meadow garden: