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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: David Nicholson on June 01, 2020, 01:46:52 PM
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A couple of Campanulas that I've long since forgotten the names of:-
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Helianthemum 'Ben More'
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Penstemon serralatus, a little bit lighter on the picture than actually
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Today in my garden...
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Weldenia candida
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Physoplexis comosa
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Aubrieta Elsa Lancaster
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Weldenia candida
Physoplexis comosa
Aubrieta Elsa Lancaster
beautiful blooms!!!
Physoplexis comosa -I tried but no luck for me.
Two plants from my garden
1.Corydalis turtazinnonovii
2. Primula auricula
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Couldn't resist posting a friend's superb Gentiana acaulis and photograph. In the Annapolis Valley.
john
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Couldn't resist posting a friend's superb Gentiana acaulis and photograph. In the Annapolis Valley.
john
No wonder! It's superb - please pas on my congrats to your friend on this lovely plant!
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Glaudicidum palmatum var leucanthemum has been flowering already some time, this picture is from yesterday.
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Beautiful glaucidium Leena 8) I lost seedlings to slugs but must try again.
Bomarea salsilla flowering in the greenhouse is bulking up enough to try some in a sheltered corner of the garden. Another slug salad :P
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A couple of Campanulas that I've long since forgotten the names of:-
They seem to be getting on fine without names! I've had a couple of mainstream available low growing campanulas, but no long term success..
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Bomarea salsilla flowering in the greenhouse is bulking up enough to try some in a sheltered corner of the garden. Another slug salad :P
Really nice colour on that!
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Today in my garden...
Looks like summer there Pauli!
Weldenia candida
Physoplexis comosa
Aubrieta Elsa Lancaster
all looking good, Mike, but those Physo! :)
Couldn't resist posting a friend's superb Gentiana acaulis and photograph. In the Annapolis Valley.
john
glad you didn't, John!
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Some 'weeds' in my garden.
Verbascum epixanthinum x phoeniceum
I have left far too many of them in the paths but they are such magnificent plants I can't bear to compost them.
V. epixanthinum is in the picture to the left of the yellow lupin and is coming into flower. Supposed Dad is the little purple V. phoeniceum in the distance near the rhubarb.
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The Tulipa sprengeri are still spreading. I struggle more each year with the dead heading.
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A couple of Campanulas that I've long since forgotten the names of:-
My vote would go to Campanula garganica David - 2 color forms.
Some flowering plants here right now.
Asperula boisierii
Campanula topaliana
Eriogonum umbellatum
Eriogonum ovalifolium nivale
Kalmia latifolia f. myrtifolia 'Elf'
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Wonderful plants Pauli, Mike and the others !!! Brilliant.
Minuartia stellata in a fierce battle with its neighbours.
M. stellata flowering nicely this year.
Moltkia intermedia performing very well.
Penstemon procerus var. tolmiei
Rhodanthemum hosmariense 'Casablanca'
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Rhododendron lowndessii in prime shape this year.
Scutellaria pontica
Tarasa humilis from South America
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An absolutely stunning Rhododendron lowndesii there Luc! So rare and difficult to cultivate you're a Grand Master. Is it in a peat bed or what's the mix and siting?
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A tour de force of well-grown plants in your garden, Luc- many hanks for sharing here!
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Luc, your lowndesii is superb and grown to perfection!!!
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Thanks for the kind words Maggi, John and Steve. The R. lowndesii has been doing very well in it's spot. It's in fact in the peat bed in a mix of peat, my sandy/loam garden soil and volcanic bits and pieces. It's in the shade of the house and only gets an hour sun in late afternoon in mid-summer. As soon as temperatures rise above 22-23°, I water it every evening.
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Thanks for this advice Luc.
If I can track down a plant I will put this information to good use! ;)
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Callistemon Viridiflorus flowering for the first time. Sown about 4 year ago from Tasmanian seed. They have spend all their winters outside in a pot. I guess the roots have escaped through the drainage holes into the open soil.
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Some little photos from the garden of Galanthus specialists Wol and Sue Staimes at Glen Chantry
(see their latest snowdrop list here: http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=17887.0 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=17887.0) )
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Some 'weeds' in my garden.
Verbascum epixanthinum x phoeniceum
I have left far too many of them in the paths but they are such magnificent plants I can't bear to compost them.
V. epixanthinum is in the picture to the left of the yellow lupin and is coming into flower. Supposed Dad is the little purple V. phoeniceum in the distance near the rhubarb.
The Tulipa sprengeri are still spreading. I struggle more each year with the dead heading.
Great Verbascum!
I had seeds, then seedlings of sprengeri, years back, but I think I lost them waiting for a place to plant them out..
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Some little photos from the garden of Galanthus specialists Wol and Sue Staimes at Glen Chantry
(see their latest snowdrop list here: http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=17887.0 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=17887.0) )
not sure if it's a temporary glitch, but don't seem to be able to enlarge those photos..
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not sure if it's a temporary glitch, but don't seem to be able to enlarge those photos..
That's because they're "little" photos ! Wol's internet is playing up and he just managed to send these little images.
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Rhododendron lowndessii in prime shape this year.
Scutellaria pontica
Tarrassa humilis from South America
Tarassa! :)
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That's because they're "little" photos !
Well, that would explain it!...lol teasers!
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Four images from the last days:
Linum suffruticosum, the low clone which Zdenek Zvolanek called ´Spanish Sun´
Arenaria montana
Chrysanthemum tomentosum from higher elevations of Corsica
Silene hookeri, the real thing, not that usual Lychnis flos-jovis
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Four images from the last days:
Linum suffruticosum, the low clone which Zdenek Zvolanek called ´Spanish Sun´
Arenaria montana
Chrysanthemum tomentosum from higher elevations of Corsica
Silene hookeri, the real thing, not that usual Lychnis flos-jovis
Lots of good plant photos from you today, Zdenek! thank you!
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Four days of constant wind sucked all the moisture from the atmosphere and made the atmosphere dry..
Here are some plants from the garden.
1. Daphne cneorum
2. Androsace villosa
3. Gentiana verna bruised by the strong wind.
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Wonderful pictures everyone. I haven't visited for a couple of days and look what I've missed.
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Something i was looking for several years after seeing it in Georgia: Dianthus caucasicus.
I was able to swap seeds of this rare species.
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As Shelagh and Maggie said-- look at all the great plants :) I'm getting lots of photos taken, here, time to edit and post is another issue! A new lawn mower was necessary yesterday, as the old one was not starting, and the mowed areas were getting well out of control in places, leaving far too much shelter for the vast numbers of mosquitoes! They've been greatly encouraged by a later than recent years snow melt, and early onset of our summer rainy season!
Anemone time here-- Anemone blanda-- the bulbs planted a number of years ago were were mixed colours, the white have always been earlier, not sure if the blues are even coming up this year.. May 18
Anemone ranunculus is spreading nicely where originally planted, and in a few new spots I've tucked bits.. I like the red accents on new leaves, probably helped by chilly spring nights... May 27
Androsace carnea ssp halleri ex Vosges Mtns, Fr is looking good-- it blends well with the 3 self sown Draba seedlings, but those will have to be moved as they'll grow faster than the Andro! May 26
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The Tulipa sprengeri are still spreading. I struggle more each year with the dead heading.
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Lovely picture with the Tulipa sprengeri, Roma. I envisaged something like that when I bought the first bulbs 7-8 years ago, but my group is now down to two. With self-seeding clearly not going on I must collect seeds and sow in a pot.
Knud
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Flowering now are two Rowans, both seedlings from friends' trees. They bougth the seeds from Gothenburg botanical gardens in the early 1990's, and we got the seedlings around 2000. One we got as Sorbus cashmiriana, but it looks more like S. rosea as described in H. McAllisters book on Sorbus, with pinker flowers and especially fruit. The first picture below is in fact of a seedling from our original tree. The second picture is of an S. filipes, now in its twentieth year and still only about 1 meter (3 feet) tall and as wide. It flowered for the first time in our garden in 2017. Its fruit start off the same dark colour as the flower in the picture, and ligthens with age to a whitish pink with darker pink spots, as shown in the third picture (from 2017). The fruit of both species are somewhat larger than that of our regular rowan (S. aucuparia).
Knud
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Dodecatheon pulchellum flowering now
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Exciting flowers in the greenhouse.
Silene hookeri ssp. bolanderi grown from wild collected seed from Alplains. I have 4 survivors. I can't remember how many I started off with.
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Silene hookeri, also from Alplains. Only 3 germinated. I still have 3.
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Spectacular! slightly later flowering Silene serpentinicola. 4 Survivors all slightly different.
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A compact form originally from Cyril Lafong
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Pretty clump of Dodecatheon pulchellum, Kris. It is blooming in the mountains here:
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Also blooming is Calypso bulbosa
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Sally
South of Lewiston, Idaho
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Sorry, Maggi! I hope you are able to turn the photos....
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No problem, Sally!
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Flowering now are two Rowans, both seedlings from friends' trees.
Knud
Nice Sorbus! I have a few seedlings of different things, but have not yet had any flowers, other than the aucuparia which has been here for decades-- much pruned by moose, and seeds spread everywhere by birds... Non-orange fruits are my wish...
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Kris--Dodecatheon pulchellum is flowering in the wild here-- there's a farm I pass that gets a definite pink blush in the pasture by the road..
Roma-- lovely set of Silenes!
Sally-- nice dode--- and the Calypso in the second photo!
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Now flowering:
Arisaema candidissimum
Scilla peruviana
Calylophus lavandulifolius
Campanula betulifolia x troegerae
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If someone doesn't open this thread for a couple of days, then it is - WOW! All beautiful and even few garden masterpieces!
Despite the heat, we are still behind; Arisaema candidissimum is only having its 'nose' up here Rudi.
Clematis 'Miss Bateman'
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Nice Sorbus! I have a few seedlings of different things, but have not yet had any flowers, other than the aucuparia which has been here for decades-- much pruned by moose, and seeds spread everywhere by birds... Non-orange fruits are my wish...
Thanks, Cohan. I am afraid the only trait I can claim credit for are the trees' poor form, I kept them in pots too long before planting them out. Could that also be the reason why they took so long to bloom? About ten years for the Sorbus cashmiriana/rosea, and more than 17 years for the S. filipes.
The fruits are very nice, but their leaves and blooms are also very attractive, as are those of S. koehneana, blooming white now and with white fruit later. None of these three are touched by birds in our garden, I guess they simply haven't got 'FOOD' written on them for our birds. The fruit on the S. koehneana will hang on until Christmas if they haven't been blow off by some autumn gale. The S. aucuparia, on the other hand, got its name for a reason, apparently alluding to it being used as bait in bird traps. While many birds eat Rowan, here it is mainly associated with migrating flocks of Bohemian Waxwings, which spectacularly can strip a full tree quite quickly.
Knud
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It's my Australian week ;D
Eucalyptus Camaldulensis just started to flower. I noticed the flower buds already last year in early fall, but I had to wait until now to see the flowers - at some moment I even thought I had missed the flowering last year and that what I actually saw were seed capsules.
If the previous winter had been colder or harsher probably all flower buds would have been destroyed, but with a lowest minimum temperature of only -2 or -3°C last winter they survived very well. In previous much colder winters the trees were almost completely defoliated at the start of the spring.
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Thanks, Cohan. I am afraid the only trait I can claim credit for are the trees' poor form, I kept them in pots too long before planting them out. Could that also be the reason why they took so long to bloom? About ten years for the Sorbus cashmiriana/rosea, and more than 17 years for the S. filipes.
The fruits are very nice, but their leaves and blooms are also very attractive, as are those of S. koehneana, blooming white now and with white fruit later. None of these three are touched by birds in our garden, I guess they simply haven't got 'FOOD' written on them for our birds. The fruit on the S. koehneana will hang on until Christmas if they haven't been blow off by some autumn gale. The S. aucuparia, on the other hand, got its name for a reason, apparently alluding to it being used as bait in bird traps. While many birds eat Rowan, here it is mainly associated with migrating flocks of Bohemian Waxwings, which spectacularly can strip a full tree quite quickly.
Knud
Keeping things in pots too long is something I am familiar with...lol Interesting about the birds not eating them all.. There are no berries here that the birds do not eat, usually almost immediately for most types, but in good years it may take a little longer-- Symphoricarpos lasts a little longer, and rose hips survive through winter in small numbers.. I have a Sorbus cf wilsoniana, could in theory flower in the next few years, time will tell if berries are other than orange..
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Now flowering:
Arisaema candidissimum
Scilla peruviana
Calylophus lavandulifolius
Campanula betulifolia x troegerae
Nice bunch-- that Campanula is great!
Gabriela-- sweet white vignette.
Francois-- that is fun-- how big are your trees?
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Another plant with some emotional attachment for me: Arctostaphylos uva-ursi / Kinnikinnick / Bearberry -with a whole host of other common names across its vast circumboreal range. This plant is common in foothill and mountain places here in Alberta that I knew as a child, also into dryland habitats in the south of the province, and occasional in my immediate region, when it can have open enough sites to grow (tends to get outcompeted by grasses, forbs, shrubs, trees, here)-- when we moved to this property first in 1973, it grew on the embankments of our sewer lagoon, until other things outgrew it.
After moving back here in 2007, I collected (easily rooted) cuttings from a number of sites in the south and west on roadtrips, and eventually planted them in a couple of garden spots. They've done well (I'll need to start seriously chopping them back in at least one site, but cuttings will go to some wilder spots on the acreage) but had never flowered for me, something I was just mentioning to a friend (Trond Hoy) a couple of months ago, so I was surprised and pleased to see buds, then flowers on some of them, in the Native / Xeric Beds! I'd assumed the spots I have them were not open or sunny or exposed enough, but at least some now seem willing to flower :)
A bonus shot of Anemone ranunculoides showing nice colour just before flowering, and hosting a resting fly.. all shots still May 27
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1,2) Cardamine (Dentaria) glanduligera- another from a forum friend in Poland, this has been spreading gently for some years, but never making a big impact, as new shoots seemed to come up rather far apart. Still, attractive foliage and early pink flowers are appreciated. This year it seems to have started to make denser growth in a couple of spots, though still not easy to get good shots-- probably worse because the area all around needs weeding, so it's hard to get a good angle! May 13, 18
3)Cirsium drummondii - This plant has a bit of a story with me-- native thistle Cirsium drummondii. When I moved back here in 2007, and soon became responsible for mowing the property etc, there were some interesting thistle rosettes growing in one mowed spot on the acreage---basically a forest clearing, part sun, growing with natives like Campanula rotundifolia, Halenia deflexa, grasses and various agricultural weeds such as clover, etc. My mother was aware of it, but it was mowed so that rosettes survived but were never able to produce flowering stems.
Of course I was sure to mow around a plant in order to see what it was-- it put out a modest height (30-40cm) stem, with several large purple/pink flowers-- quite striking! I'd never seen any others around the area ( still haven't, other than a possible sighting from the car) so tried to find out what it was. I had no knowledge of the native Cirsium/ thistle species, but it didn't seem to quite match any, and someone suggested it really looked like the non-native (but uncommon around here) Bull Thistle/ Cirsium vulgaris. So, since it was not spreading (each plant is monocarpic-- dies after flowering, normally in the second year if they are not mowed! so they can only spread by seed, not root) I decided to just try to collect the seed to keep it from blowing around, but not exterminate. Good choice, since a couple of years later, I realised and had confirmed that it *is* in fact the native C. drummondii / Drummond's Thistle / Dwarf Thistle / Short-stemmed Thistle -- a wide ranging but uncommon species. I was thrilled, since it is a very beautiful plant, happy it was not a weed! So, now I still wanted to collect seed, but to share with friends rather than destroy-- and wouldn't you know it-- contrary to the big fluffy seed masses I had to contain before, now it seemed the birds had discovered the seed (rare to see birds eating wild seed on the acreage!) and some wet falls had let to some of the seed spoiling before ripening-- I've hardly been able to collect any since realising it was native :( However, the patch has expanded slightly, and there have been several plants in flower at once for a couple of years, may be more this year, and lots nice little purple rosettes. The one pictured has sown itself in the rock garden of my Eurasian / Mesic beds-- maybe 10-20 metres from where the plants grow.. It will probably flower this year. In this spot, the rosette has developed especially nicely, and is clear to see with no grass etc around it. I'll have to be sure some of the seed lands nearby... May 27
4)Pediocactus simpsonii-- I'd have to hunt for the exact seeding date, but I think I got the seed for this in the first months of 2010.. I probably didn't coddle the seedlings enough, and took a long time to decide on an inground planting spot, so I'm sure this could have come along faster, but here it is, at last, first flowering! If I'm looking at the right notes this seed was from Alplains, collected in North Park, Colorado. I'd still like to grow other forms, especially those with other spine forms-- white ones would be cool-- but I'm happy this has tight spination and a good pink flower. Tiny plant, the whole thing is only a few inches across. Flowers not fully open in this shot, but this is the best I caught between work days and rain days!
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Exciting flowers in the greenhouse.
Silene hookeri ssp. bolanderi grown from wild collected seed from Alplains. I have 4 survivors. I can't remember how many I started off with.
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Silene hookeri, also from Alplains. Only 3 germinated. I still have 3.
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Spectacular! slightly later flowering Silene serpentinicola. 4 Survivors all slightly different.
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A compact form originally from Cyril Lafong
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Wonderful results Roma !!! All favourites (and not easy) and you seem to have mastered them brilliantly !!
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From the other side of the world...Epacris petrophila
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Nice Thomas
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Three different shades on one plant... Linaria tristis from Spain... crazy... right?
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Something to brighten up the day, which is needed with all the rain and gray skies we've been having in the Pacific Northwest.
Hypericum olympicum 'Citrinum'
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two plants from my garden
Clematis hirsutissima
Anemone nemorosa vestel
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Three different shades on one plant... Linaria tristis from Spain... crazy... right?
That's the same individual plant? A lot of variability!
Claire-- nice colour on that Hypericum :)
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1. Helianthemum croceum has nice greyish leaves and large flowers. It's a tidier plant than the usual hybrids.
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2. Phlox pulvinata loved the spring sunshine.
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3. Asperula daphneola is a sun lover too.
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4. The Australian Wahlenbergia gloriosa is quite vigorous, forming a dense mat from underground runners. The flowers only open in warm weather.
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5. Geranium argenteum looks at its best in rainy weather, when the water-repellent leaves appear particularly silvery.
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Here are two more hypericums, both from seeds I collected in Betty Lowry's garden. Both like to seed around; the small-flowered one is in a scree and is a bit of a thug.
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Viola cornuta. I'm not sure how it came into my garden. It never bloomed much (I thought) until this year, when I put wire around the flower bed to keep out the rabbits. I now realize how much it has spread and needs to be controlled a bit. There is now a white form in bloom too. I never knew!
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4. The Australian Wahlenbergia gloriosa is quite vigorous, forming a dense mat from underground runners.
5. Geranium argenteum looks at its best in rainy weather, when the water-repellent leaves appear particularly silvery.
Great blue on the Wahlenbergia - and what's not to love about "diamond encrusted" plants?!!
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Claire...Gorgeous colors and shapes. Wonderful. 😍
Dianthus callizonus
Eriogonum heracleoides
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From the sunny side.
Sedum spathulifolium 'Cape Blanco'
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Polygala major
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Stachys lavandulifolia
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Dianthus petraeus
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Salvia nutans
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Great blue on the Wahlenbergia - and what's not to love about "diamond encrusted" plants?!!
The Wahlenbergia is also an insect magnet, especially bees and hover flies, and today I saw this jewel-like flower beetle on it, Oedemera nobilis.
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Some things flowering today.
1. Campanula choruhensis, from AGS seed 2016/2017.
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2. Delphinium kamaonense, from SRGC seed 2018/2019. It flowered the first year, this is the second flowering, a few months earlier.
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3. Dracocephalum nodulosum, an easy evergreen species for a dry sunny spot, with highly aromatic leaves.
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4. Cistus ocymoides 'Susan', more often called Halimium ocymoides 'Susan'. The flowers last only one day but new ones open every day for a few weeks.
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5. Salvia albimaculata, a Turkish species.
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Two "representatives" from the Greek Chelmos Mountains... Globularia stygia and Teucrium aroanium (whose flowers I find very interesting and bizarre)
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Andre- some nice selections, I esp like the Geranium argenteum and the beetle!
Claire- tricky to get a balance between plants that spread themselves pleasingly vs taking over...lol
Gabriela-- nice Sedum-- it hung on for me for a few years then faded away :(
Luc-- I agree-- very interesting flowers on the Teucrium :)
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Now that June is half over, with a huge backlog of photos already, I'm *nearly* finished with May ;)
1- Eriogonum ovalifolium var depressum looking nice in a bit of spring sun-- from May 05-- it is flowering now..
2-3-- some Hepatica nobilis from garden seed, from Trond, I think (I believe there is a solid argument to subsume this genus in Anemone, along with other groups like Pulsatilla-- the fact is that along the continuum of various characteristics within the larger genus, there is no clear demarcation between these genera and other related species.. but for now, for horticultural purposes, I'll hang on to these familiar names). I could swear one of these plants had deep pink flowers last year.....
4 Primula elatior-- this grew from one rather modest piece from a Polish friend, but has formed a nice clump over a few years, and has seedlings around it as well... I have some additional plants along moist areas of a rock garden that may be from scattered seeds of this (to be honest, I thought they were seedlings of some very different Primula and was bemused when they began flowering this year, I thought I'd had mis-labelled seed, but then thought perhaps they grew from seed i sowed in situ from this elatior, which is a happier possibility! (wondering about the other still, and hoping I may yet see some pink Primulas in my garden!).
I especially like the soft yellow-- I hardly scorn bright yellow flowers, but the soft, creamy ones are always especially pleasing to me! It flowers here together with Anemone nemorosa and ranunculoides, and is larger than those, forming some nice vignettes if planted near/together..
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Dierama trichorhizum
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Delphinium pavonaceum
It is a little squished in a cage to prevent varmints from eating it.
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Couple of pictures from woodland beds last week. Allium ursinum has spread all over the moist corner, but it goes well with other bigger plants and disappears later in the summer.
Primula sieboldii is flowering right now, I love them, especially the blue shades. Fritillaria camtschatcensis also likes this spot.
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nice flowers everyone!!!
Dodecatheon media album flowering now
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Sedum lanceolatum...from the Big Horn Mts. in Wyoming...1800 Meter (sown in 2018). Feels with his 3 centimeters in a crevice in my Alpinum visibly comfortable.
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I have been away some days, and when I returned I found my 20-some year old Ramonda myconi in full bloom. It has been in it current position since 2004, in a north-facing crack between two rocks, under airy, deciduous bushes; I do not think it sees any direct sun.
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From the sunny side.
Seems appropriate! Gabriela has new seeds on her list .... Click HERE (http://botanicallyinclined.org/erythronium-seeds-and-flowers/2020/?fbclid=IwAR2xn3rRyzO3TDVs-ydE0sGZWa1uJRtRsFxMgnDLbUdOjAOXto8uWxxr3OQ) and HERE (http://botanicallyinclined.org/botanyca-seed-list/) :)
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Bog Pimpernel, Anagallis tenella.
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Sedum lanceolatum...from the Big Horn Mts. in Wyoming...1800 Meter (sown in 2018). Feels with his 3 centimeters in a crevice in my Alpinum visibly comfortable.
A favourite--I've seen it in the wild occasionally, but not recently, haven't been to the right places..
Claire-- the Dierama is very sweet..
Kris-- nice Dode..
Leena-- interesting woodland beds..
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Cistus laurifolius gives a short presentation and
Thymus serpyllum - a low growing variety found decades ago at Vellern/Western Germany
Gerd
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1. Blackstonia perfoliata. This strange annual or biennual member of the Gentianaceae is a British native. I sprinkled the tiny seeds on bare soil in September 2019 and noticed germination by November. From April 2020 the seedlings started growing quite fast. Each plant has a single stem and the starry flowers only open in sunshine (edit: This is not quite true. It seems that the flowers close in the afternoon regardless of the weather and they will usually open in the morning, unless it is really wet and cold). In the wild it grows on calcareous soil but this does not appear to be a necessity in cultivation.
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2. Gentiana septemfida. I have bought this common species in the past as G. altaica and G. sikokiana and the plant here shown is from the SRGC seedlist 2017/2018, where it was listed as G. calycosa. This is the first flower, which opened today.
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3. Silene sieboldii, a Japanese woodlander also known as Lychnis sieboldii.
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4. Spiraea morrisonicola, a dwarf species from Taiwan. First flowering from seed, ex SRGC seedlist 2018/2019.
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I have a Sorbus cf wilsoniana, could in theory flower in the next few years, time will tell if berries are other than orange..
Cohan, I do not know the S. wilsoniana, but according to H. McAllister's book its close relative S. sargentiana has orange-red fruits, and both have 'brilliant autumn colouration', so even with the fruits gone you are in for a treat.
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Asperula gussonii
Probably white form of Scutellaria alpina
Convolvulus boissieri ssp. suendermannii
Calylophus lavandulifolius
Potentilla dickinsii
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Lovely plants Zdenek. I'm just trying to improve my selection of later flowering alpines so I shall be looking for some of these.
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Good deep colour on the Asperula gussonii, Zdenek.
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Papaver triniifolium
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Oenother acaulis - when I saw Zdenek's Calylophus lavandufolius I thought he'd beaten me to a picture of Oenothera but I see the leaves are completely different. Is it the same family?
Calylophus lavandulifolia is also called Oenothera lavandulifolia. In fact, the latter is the accepted name on the Plants of the World Online website (http://powo.science.kew.org/ (http://powo.science.kew.org/)).
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Leena-- interesting woodland beds..
Thank you. :)
Dodecatheon media album flowering now
That is really pretty, it lights up shade. :)
I sowed two Tulipa sprengeri from seed ex in 2014 and the one on the right flowered already last year, it was labeled T.sprengeri. The one on the left with two flowers is flowering now for the first time and it was T.sprengeri ex Kazakstan. It is slightly darker red, and bigger flowers but that maybe the bulbs are bigger or something like that. I really like these both! They are growing in too shade under a big hybrid peony, the peony is in the list to be moved. :)
Trillium luteum is still flowering. I noticed yesterday when I looked at older pictures that is has increased: in 2014 it had only two flower stems, now there are more. :) I have never gotten seeds from it, I don't know why.
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The one on the left with two flowers is flowering now for the first time and it was T.sprengeri ex Kazakstan.
That is hardly possible, since Tulipa sprengeri was originally described from Turkey and is presumed extinct in the wild.
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That is hardly possible, since Tulipa sprengeri was originally described from Turkey and is presumed extinct in the wild.
Hmm, it was in 2013/14 seed list number 4331 as such. I don't know any more about it. Maybe the person who donated the seeds was from Kazakhstan, but I don't think it would have been written down as ex then..
Anyway, I'm very happy about it because it is such beautiful and bright colour. :)
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Leena - If not too late it would be a good idea to cross the two Kazakstan sprengeris. Hope you can track down the donor and do a little interrogation. Not the first time an extinct plant was rediscovered!
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Hmm, it was in 2013/14 seed list number 4331 as such. I don't know any more about it. Maybe the person who donated the seeds was from Kazakhstan, but I don't think it would have been written down as ex then..
All I can say is that if it is T. sprengeri it cannot be from Kazakhstan and if it is from Kazakhstan it cannot be T. sprengeri. :)
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All I can say is that if it is T. sprengeri it cannot be from Kazakhstan and if it is from Kazakhstan it cannot be T. sprengeri. :)
All that is true, Andre, and I suspect there has been some mixup in the labelling - but the SRGC has members all over the world, including Kazakstan - and who is to say they do not grow T. sprengeri - I grow it in Aberdeen !! ;D
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A couple of troughs with three colour variations of Dactylorhiza.
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Interesting discussion on T. sprengeri, I did not know it is considered extinct in the wild. I agree Leena, they have such incredible colour, and beautiful form, probably my favourite tulip.
Blooming now, though not in our garden, is white clover. In the absence of busy little feet,this playing field, though mowed and kept for three months, turned white the last couple of weeks. That will end now, when playing is allowed again.
The beauty and the beast, both man-made. The beast is some oil production unit in for a makeover at a local shipyard, the clover-covered promontory is in fact a tunnel. Our island was connected to the mainland through a 12 km tunnel to the mainland; a lot of debris, and here you see the result. They seeded it with wildflowers, and just now it is dominated by white clover. I go for walks there, and on still mornings the smell of the clover is very nice.
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Leena - If not too late it would be a good idea to cross the two Kazakstan sprengeris. Hope you can track down the donor and do a little interrogation. Not the first time an extinct plant was rediscovered!
John, a very good idea :), but now too late. That picture was taken June 15th, and it's been very hot here and flowers of T.sprengeri are now going over. I'll try to remember that next year (and maybe move the other more orange seedling to another part of the garden).
I'm glad I posted that picture, because I didn't think that T.sprengeri was only found in Turkey (and not even there anymore). They are really nice tulips, and I hope to have more of them from seeds now that they have flowered. It would be interesting to hear more about the origin of these seeds, but anyway thank you who ever donated them. :)
Knud, they are also my favourites!
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I sowed two Tulipa sprengeri from seed ex in 2014 and the one on the right flowered already last year, it was labeled T.sprengeri. The one on the left with two flowers is flowering now for the first time and it was T.sprengeri ex Kazakstan. It is slightly darker red, and bigger flowers but that maybe the bulbs are bigger or something like that. I really like these both! They are growing in too shade under a big hybrid peony, the peony is in the list to be moved. :)
Trillium luteum is still flowering. I noticed yesterday when I looked at older pictures that is has increased: in 2014 it had only two flower stems, now there are more. :) I have never gotten seeds from it, I don't know why.
That's indeed a very nice Tulipa Leena. I've seen beautiful pictures on FB somewhere but don't remember anything else; the most undesirable trait of FB where you cannot search for anything showed in the past.
Trillium luteum looks the same here, it appears still in flower for very a long time which is very nice :) Almost no seeds or very few, usually.
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Olearia macrodonta.
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Erigeron mucronatus.
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Dropwort.
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Dactylorhiza fuchsii and D. praetermissa with dotted loosestrife behind.
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Geranium dalmaticum.
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Umbilicus rupestris.
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John, a very good idea :), but now too late. That picture was taken June 15th, and it's been very hot here and flowers of T.sprengeri are now going over. I'll try to remember that next year (and maybe move the other more orange seedling to another part of the garden).
That's great Leena. You never know the Seedex people may be able to tell you who the donor was and go from there.
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1. Kniphofia pauciflora. This South African species is critically endangered in the wild, with only one tiny population remaining near Durban (http://redlist.sanbi.org/species.php?species=2207-39 (http://redlist.sanbi.org/species.php?species=2207-39)). Fortunately it is easy to grow in cultivation, where it flowers from spring to autumn. It requires a sunny, fairly damp location.
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2. Lobelia chinensis. I include this as a warning, as it is a bit of a thug. It grows quite quickly, producing tangled masses of creeping and ascending stems that root fast and deep. Its main weakness is that it is barely hardy.
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3. Phlox alyssifolia subsp. abdita. Not the best of the western phloxes, in my opinion, and the flowers last only two days or so.
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4. Scutellaria suffrutescens 'Texas Rose'. This is a species from the mountains of Northeast Mexico, not from Texas, in spite of the cultivar name.
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5. Trollius farreri. I bought this as T. vaginatus but I suspect that the real T. vaginatus is not in cultivation.
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Lupin out the back, best for years
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Campanula spicata:
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Iris spuria
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This made me smile. An appreciative audience??
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2020/jun/22/barcelona-opera-reopens-with-performance-for-nearly-3000-potted-plants-video (https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2020/jun/22/barcelona-opera-reopens-with-performance-for-nearly-3000-potted-plants-video)
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Two Nomocharis are flowering now, photos from last week end.
This first one I have grown from seed ex as N.aperta. It is now flowering already the third year, and it has increased.
The second one is flowering for the first time and I got it from a friend as a small plant, and it is Nomocharis forrestii Trillium.no 14-118. Really pretty, they both are. :) I'm so happy I have succeeded with these plants. :)
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This made me smile. An appreciative audience??
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2020/jun/22/barcelona-opera-reopens-with-performance-for-nearly-3000-potted-plants-video (https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2020/jun/22/barcelona-opera-reopens-with-performance-for-nearly-3000-potted-plants-video)
I expect so - at least they weren't coughing or answering their phones!! ;)
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Isn't it grand to be alive with all this colour and diversity of form around us.
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Jeepers, I'm really behind, lots of good stuff! so a multi post reply in one...
1. Blackstonia perfoliata. This strange annual or biennual member of the Gentianaceae is a British native. I sprinkled the tiny seeds on bare soil in September 2019 and noticed germination by November. From April 2020 the seedlings started growing quite fast. Each plant has a single stem and the starry flowers only open in sunshine. In the wild it grows on calcareous soil but this does not appear to be a necessity in cultivation.
2. Gentiana septemfida. I have bought this common species in the past as G. altaica and G. sikokiana and the plant here shown is from the SRGC seedlist 2017/2018, where it was listed as G. calycosa. This is the first flower, which opened today.
3. Silene sieboldii, a Japanese woodlander also known as Lychnis sieboldii.
4. Spiraea morrisonicola, a dwarf species from Taiwan. First flowering from seed, ex SRGC seedlist 2018/2019.
Andre-- some great stuff there, congrats on the Blackstonia!
Knud-- re: Sorbus -I've seen something somewhere that gave me the idea the fruits could 'possibly' be pink, but I have no confidence in that-- esp as it is an 'cf' not a sure species wilsoniana.. Autumn colour is absolutely brilliant, already seen since the plants were tiny.
re:white clover-not hitting peak here yet, but this invasive European, planted for forage and probably lawns and widely spread on its own... along several other non-native clovers, they are very common here, the only plus--besides being popular with insects and good for grazing- is that they at least do not form exclusive stands, and native plants can grow among them... the scent is indeed sweet when they are en masse!
Zdenek-- I have a soft spot for Potentillas, that one is a treat!
Leena-- nice tulips, whatever the name-- the stories of how they end up labelled can be interesting in itself! moving a peony-- someone is ambitious ;)
Graham-- nice troughs- whole miniature landscapes
Gabriela-- for now I do not have to worry about Facebook's shortcomings-- there was some kind of problem with my account-- they never specified, and due to short pandemic staffing, they could not review, and now say it is too late, so no FB!
Ian-- Olearia macrodonta is interesting-- Asteraceae trees/shrubs is something I don't see here!
Rudy-- that's a nice Campanula!
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1-Androsace chamaejasme-- a reasonably common native in montane and higher zones west of here-- the tight foliage is one of its charms, it seems the spot in my garden is a bit too soft for that, which I would not have thought for the spot it is in... if it makes seed, I'll have to try to get some in a more exposed site; seed was from Lori
2-Androsace septentrionalis-- not one of the choice rock garden species with tight growth and large flowers, but the sprays of tiny flowers on this monocarpic native are charming nonetheless, and when the plants dry they go red, arguably their showiest phase, if you allow a patch of them to grow! I enjoy the tiny first year rosettes, also.. this one I introduced to my rock garden way back in my teen years, it survived in the overgrown garden for my decades away (probably seed bank) and re-emerged when I started rebuilding after 2007. Yes those are dandelions in the background-- here in agricultural country, where entire fields are yellow in late spring/early summer (now they are white with seed heads, and pink from the flowering stems!!) they will always be around, though I pull thousands annually, esp around smaller plants!
3-Erigeron compositus, pink flowered form, with a commercial Phlox subulata behind
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Leena-- nice tulips, whatever the name-- the stories of how they end up labelled can be interesting in itself! moving a peony-- someone is ambitious ;)
That peony is a hybrid grown from seeds and too close to another peony, so I was going to move it already last autumn but didn't get around to it. ::) It will go to my sisters this year. :)
Some more peonies from today, and second picture from another part of the garden which is more "wild", but I like this spot.
Aquilegia 'Ruby Port'.
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Lovely pics, Leena! The peonies are withered here, though ´Myrtle Gentry´was still in flower a few days ago behind the budding Veratrum album.
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Now that the veratrum is in flower, Veronica ´Sunny Border Blue´joins it.
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Hollyhocks are quite ordinary plants, but I like the subtle tints of this one.
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there was a time when every garden has some hollyhocks, but we hardly see them these days. I think because they are susceptible to various rusts etc. Yours is a very pretty colour, Mariette - I love that soft shade .
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Lovely pics, Leena! The peonies are withered here, though ´Myrtle Gentry´was still in flower a few days ago behind the budding Veratrum album.
Thank you Mariette :), your Veratrum and hollyhocks are also really nice.
My 'Myrtle Gentry' is soon opening it's flowers so we are not very much behind any more. It has been hot last week, +30C and very dry, but today weather cooled down, and it feels so nice when it is not so hot.
Here are some more peonies, the one in the foreground is 'Garden Lace' which in the beginning of flowering is pink, but it has now faded to almost white which I don't remember happening earlier. The white double on the left is 'Shirley Temple' and the one on the right nameless old peony.
Iris sibirica in the second picture is one I have grown from seeds, and it is very nice. It flowers now for the second time.
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there was a time when every garden has some hollyhocks, but we hardly see them these days. I think because they are susceptible to various rusts etc. Yours is a very pretty colour, Mariette - I love that soft shade .
I agree. Those hollyhocks are such a lovely colour Mariette, and with the darker veins in the petals.
Your garden looks beautiful as always Leena 8)
This Iris sibirica (now over) came from the seed exchange too and I really like it. The dark veins on Papaver orientale 'Patty's Plum' are nice too.
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From my summerhouse "garden". These Rhodohypoxis baurii have been grown here outside for 3 years now. I planted them outside as I was tired of bringing them inside during winter.
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I do grow several succulents here at my summerhouse because the climate is somewhat dryish. Sempevivums are among the favorites.
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Beautiful pictures from all!
Nice color on the Pattys Plum Ashley, a break from the usual orange/red varieties.
Good success with Rhodohypoxis Trond; we should always be more adventurous with the planting!
Few from the last weeks with warmer weather than usual; it is hard to believe July is only to begin this week.
Clematis integrifolia
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Chrysogonum virginianum 'Norman Singer', nice NA species good in the shade or sun, deserves more prize
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Roscoea cautleyoides (growing in the ground hence the late flowering for a cautleyoides)
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A beauty new to flower, Linum hypericifolium, slightly fragrant as well.
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Your garden looks beautiful as always Leena 8)
This Iris sibirica (now over) came from the seed exchange too and I really like it. The dark veins on Papaver orientale 'Patty's Plum' are nice too.
Thank you Ashley. :) Of course I don't take pictures of spots with ground elder, my enemy. ;D
'Patty's Plum' is very nice colour! I'm not so fond of Papavers but that is special.
Your iris also is really nice, with quite wide petals and dark colour. :)
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From my summerhouse "garden". These Rhodohypoxis baurii have been grown here outside for 3 years now. I planted them outside as I was tired of bringing them inside during winter.
Trond--I knew you were in the subtropics ;)
some, not all, of the Semps are flowering here now, too..
Gabriela-- opposite here, it has been cool and rather wet! Pouring at the moment, rain forecast nearly every day this week, high of 13 today, we might get a couple of 20's over the week...
That Chrysogonum is lovely-- yellow flowers are not scarce around here, but the foliage sets it off very well..
Mariette and Leena-- peonies still have only small buds here... (I only have a few old ones, they are always latish- mid July probably on average)
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I try to grow many seedlings of any species I sow, then plant out numerous individuals in various beds, to see what works... Of course I have fewer tags than plants, and not organised enough to make maps ;) The theory is that as the plants grow, the named ones will let me id the tagless, but there are occasional (?) confusions and surprises if the plants that thrive are not the ones that had tags!
Case in point a couple of Erysimum I sowed a few years ago, and in the spot I remembered planting them, nothing lived-- then plants flowered last year and this in spots I did not remember planting them, but which must be those Erysimums-- the name choices (the seed I sowed) are pulchellum and kotschyanum, but googling has not so far helped me decide which or both I have surviving... the larger plant is sadly a flea beetle magnet, but has held on better than a few other Brassicaceae they have eaten here :(
1- Erysimum sp Viola elegantula (or hybrid therof) and Rhodiola rosea behind, etc
2-Erysimum sp having a conversation with Erigeron compositus
Then there are suprises of other sorts-- this Silene flowered this year, and I can't find any record of my having sown anything like that-- all my known Silenes are very different, so I assume it must have been a stray seed with Alpestris or something... (slightly better photos of it at the blog link below, I didn't want to exactly repeate..)
3-Gypsophila repens with mystery Silene
4-Saponaria lutea with mystery Silene
For more blab and photos on the subjects, you can look here:
https://cohanmagazine.blogspot.com/2020/06/garden-surprises.html
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Some pictures from garden from the last two weeks .
Penstemon paysionorum
Campanula chamissonis
Cypripedium parviflorum
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Two plants for hot and dry places, insects love them
Ballota acetaulosa has small flowers, but I like the interesting habit
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Some pictures from garden from the last two weeks .
Cypripedium parviflorum
That's an impressive Cypripedium clump Kris!
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It's July 1, I know, and of course, Happy Day Canadians, but this Moltkia has bloomed nicely for most of June, so I post it here. I think it is an M. petrea, sowed many years ago from SRGC seed, but label gone with the birds. It spent until last year in a pot, and kept me wondering what this funny looking dwarf shrub was. I am glad I didn't throw it out as a weedling.
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Certainly wise to keep it till flowering - the blue flower looks wonderful!
This plant flowered already in June, too, but will flower for some more weeks to come.
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It was already in the garden when we bought the house 36 years ago, and I wonder how it found it´s way into this otherwise botanically utterly uninteresting spot. Vincetoxicum nigrum is certainly not at home in this part of the world.
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Trond--I knew you were in the subtropics ;)
some, not all, of the Semps are flowering here now, too..
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Cohan you are right! Or more accurate, you were right! June was the warmest June ever (that is 120 years) and the sea here at my summerhouse reached 22C before it plummeted to 15C yesterday after heavy rain (35mm during the night).
Semps and Sedums are in full flower. Here is S anglicum.
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Kris-- I have to agree with Gabriela-- nice Cyps! nice blue Penst too...
Rudy-- interesting plants, the Origanum looks as though it is in motion, the Ballota has interesting texture..
Knud-- just a regular day off for me, no special celebrations--lots of rain so I suppose that made it tricky for those trying for picnics or parties in this part of the country.... always good to be patient with unknown plants...lol
Mariette--interesting plant, the flowers look just like those of some tender succulent Asclepiads.
Trond-- how warm does the air have to be for the ocean to reach 22C? mostly cool and wet here.. there have been very few days this year when I have not needed a heater at least in the morning or later night... we had 2 days this month that reached 25 or more (28 or so once), and three nights over 9C (in Rocky anyway, probably similar here).
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Yes, Vincetoxicum nigrum is an interesting plant - though hailing from Southern Europe, it´s competely hardy not only here, but also in parts of Canada and USA, where it has become invasive. In my garden, I found only few self-sown seedlings over these many years.
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Trond-- how warm does the air have to be for the ocean to reach 22C? mostly cool and wet here.. there have been very few days this year when I have not needed a heater at least in the morning or later night... we had 2 days this month that reached 25 or more (28 or so once), and three nights over 9C (in Rocky anyway, probably similar here).
Cohan, when the sun is shining almost 20 hours/day, the day temperature is close to 30 and the night temperature is close to 20 for a couple weeks, then it doesn't take long before the surface water warms up to 20C or more. It is not the open ocean though and it is only the surface water (down to about 1m) that quickly warms up like this. When wind and rain come the warm layer disappear (mixes with the colder bottom water).
Here is a photograph showing the fjords here, rather small bodies of water that need to be heated! My summerhouse is down there, about in the middle of the pic 1/3 from the top.
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Found some nice herb-paris (Paris quadrifolia) today. Not all of them can count. The blue berries seem to be ripe soon.
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Cohan, many thanks for your comment. I love all species of Origanum, they are magnets
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Cohan, when the sun is shining almost 20 hours/day, the day temperature is close to 30 and the night temperature is close to 20 for a couple weeks, then it doesn't take long before the surface water warms up to 20C or more. It is not the open ocean though and it is only the surface water (down to about 1m) that quickly warms up like this. When wind and rain come the warm layer disappear (mixes with the colder bottom water).
Here is a photograph showing the fjords here, rather small bodies of water that need to be heated! My summerhouse is down there, about in the middle of the pic 1/3 from the top.
nice view-- we only had one day near 30... most of the time we have not got above low 20's and often below 20 daytime, nights are never anywhere near that warm... mid-teens nights only happen once or twice a year, at most.. we are a little over 16 hrs 40 mins of sun...
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Cohan, many thanks for your comment. I love all species of Origanum, they are magnets
for the insects.
I need to try some.. I'd like to try some fragrant Labiatae near some Brassicaceae that are bothered by flea beetles, supposed to discourage them, but need the right size species to try..
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Ajuga lupulina. This strange looking and beautiful Chinese bugle reminds me of a miniature Rheum nobile, but is much easier to grow! It is easy and undemanding for me in sandy well-drained soil in the rockery in full sun. The bracts should colour up a bit.
These came from ChineseAlpines - I will donate seed to the exchange if possible but unfortunately it does not usually set a great deal.
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Ajuga lupulina. This strange looking and beautiful Chinese bugle reminds me of a miniature Rheum nobile, but is much easier to grow! It is easy and undemanding for me in sandy well-drained soil in the rockery in full sun. The bracts should colour up a bit.
These came from ChineseAlpines - I will donate seed to the exchange if possible but unfortunately it does not usually set a great deal.
cool one! My first thought was that it reminds me of Castilleja...
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Still working on June photos :(
A couple of Actaeas, always lovely foliage, delicate flowers, the show will come later in berries..
1--Actaea rubra, the common local species, these popped up in an old overgrown bed from my youth, when I rebuilt after moving back, I moved them just a short distance..
2--Actaea pachypoda from Ontario, via Kristl
3--Aquilegia hybrid, from seed from Magnar of A ecalcarata, which gave some plants true to type, and several of these much larger, darker and spurred plants
4-- Castilleja, probably rhexifolia, seed from Jay in B.C., with Solidago multiradiata my own collection from the Alberta foothills
5--Mertensia paniculata, local species, common all over the acreage, has shown up in a number of beds from bits of root and/or seeding in, and I've left it where suitable.. these plants are at the edge of a xeric bed, and have been flowering for weeks, they are fine even in dry springs, but probably appreciating the extra moisture this year..
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Trying to finish June, I decided to make a few more posts here and there, and stuff a few extra photos on the blog...lol
1-2- Lonicera chamissoi-- a cute little shrubby honeysuckle-- it was forming a nice , small densely branched bush a few years back when something about winter or spring knocked it right back :( slowly returning.. the flowers are deeply coloured, but so tiny as not to be too showy-- I think showiest would be if you had really good berry year... June 11
3- Paederota bonarota -- getting better year by year June 15
4- Silenes-- a uniflora/maritima something, and the mystery pink, below that must have been from a stray seed in the mix of one of the former.. June 29
5- My latest Tulip ( I don't have any big ones) T batalinii cultivar/hybrid in front of Phlox subulata Snowflake June 15
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1-Rubus arcticus-- a lovely plant but I may regret having placed it in the garden near other things-- although it is a wetland plant in the wild here, it seems to have no problem climbing out of its little wet patch at the base of a rock ridge (with native Platanthera, Primula viallii etc) and spreading into the rocky areas around... serious action may yet have to be taken...lol
2-Sisyrinchium montanum-- another local native, but I did not have to plant this one in the garden, it found its own way in, and does quite nicely, with denser flowering than most of the wild plants achieve-- not quite so good this year, maybe it has been underweeded...
3- Waldsteinia- forgetting the species, have to ask Trond... still in a pot as I haven't figured out where a good place to set it free will be.. low, spreading things can be very hard to weed around, here, as there are a lot of low, spreading weeds!
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3- Waldsteinia- forgetting the species, have to ask Trond... still in a pot as I haven't figured out where a good place to set it free will be.. low, spreading things can be very hard to weed around, here, as there are a lot of low, spreading weeds!
Cohan,
It has to be W. terneata. At least that's what it is called what we get here!
It is weedy at home but not at my mountain cabin ;)
You have a nice collection! And early tulips together with summer plants.
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Cohan,
It has to be W. terneata. At least that's what it is called what we get here!
It is weedy at home but not at my mountain cabin ;)
You have a nice collection! And early tulips together with summer plants.
Thanks! batalinii is the latest of my tulips, flowering when the early spp are well into seed production; the earliest- urumiensis, or whatever it is, flowers with Crocus.