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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: WimB on May 01, 2009, 06:15:22 PM
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I'll start May with some pictures of plants that are flowering in my garden today:
1) Armeria trojana
2) Dianthus microlepis
3) Houstonia caerulea
4) Pleione limprichtii
5) Primula japonica 'Miller's crimson'
6) Saxifraga pubescens 'Snowcap'
7) Trillium sessile recurvatum Thanks to Göte for the correct name
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Ranunculus cupreus - a surprising discovery!
Today I found some strange flowers in a shady part of my garden which arose from tiny procumbent fernlike leaves. Even these leaves puzzled me for a long time and at first I kept them for some kind of a new weed.
When the flowers appeared I remembered Ranunculus cupreus - ' cupreus ' for the color of the exterior of the petals.
At last the penny dropped. This buttercup arose at a place where I emptied a pot two years ago. Surprisingly this species from Crete survived two winters here, the last one much colder than usual.
Gerd
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Cracking pics Wim and Gerd, Gerd always great when a plant you wrote off appears and then exceeds expectations!
In the shade of the house my first Cypripedium to flower, C.macranthos.
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Wim, Gerd and Chris,
Great pics!! 8)
Congratulations Gerd on this Ranunculus doing a lazarus and coming back from the dead. And what a cutie it is too!! :o
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On the quick -
some pics from the Düsseldorf Botanic Garden - made yesterday
1. Paeonia x suffruticosa High Noon
2. Paeonia x suffruticosa Meikoho
3. Paeonia x suffruticosa - red ( no label found)
4. - 7. Paeonia rockii
8. Aesculus x carnea Baumannii
9. Illustration of pollination by bees
10. Cantua buxifolia - inside a large dome shaped greenhouse
Gerd
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Gerd,
That is a gloriously coloured dark rockii. I would so like to be growing one of that depth of colour. The shape and form is exquisite!! Great dark form of Cantua buxifolia..... mine is white with some pink striping, nothing like that good solid colour. Great pics as always, thanks!! :)
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Wonderfully coloured P. rockii, Gerd.
Paddy
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Thank you Paul + Paddy!
Paul, is Cantua buxifolia a difficult plant under your conditions?
I once tried cuttings and they were like a magnet for spidermites.
The whole plant without flowers isn't a beauty - do you agree?
Gerd
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Flowering now in the woodland garden- a medley of Viola:
Viola cornuta and V.cornuta alba with Viola tricolor 'nigra' and V.ticolor subalpina.
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They look nice together, Simon - I was wondering where to plant my Bowles Black seedlings ;)
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Anne the black violas like tricolor 'Bowles' Black' or 'Molly Sanderson' or our 'All Black' all look at their most attractive (I think) with something pale yellow or lemon coloured, like Erysimum pulchellum or pale Helianthemums etc.
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Finally we got some nice days here in the north too, the snow is melting fast and new flowers coming every day :)
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Magnar, nice pics. That Trollius is a real gem.
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They look nice together, Simon - I was wondering where to plant my Bowles Black seedlings ;)
I had the black V.tricolor and V.tricolor subalpina planted several feet away last year, and they made their own way there to join the Viola cornuta. The V.t. subalpina has already hybrised with V.schariensis on the rock garden, so I am interested to see what will happen next. ;)
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I had the black V.tricolor and V.tricolor subalpina planted several feet away last year, and they made their own way there to join the Viola cornuta. The V.t. subalpina has already hybrised with V.schariensis on the rock garden, so I am interested to see what will happen next. ;)
Simon, I believe there will happen a lot -
violets of the pansy type behave pretty promiscuously - just like Primula veris and its relatives. Please show the results - always interesting!
Gerd
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Love that small Trollius Magnar !
Great show everybody !
Here's some attracting the attention in my garden over the last few days :
1) Arenaria granatensis tetraquetra
2 and 3) Androsace sarmentosa watkinsii
4 and 5) Campanula chamissonis 'Major'
6) Campanula biebersteiniana - one of my favourites but somewhat nibbled by some beasty.. >:(
7) Delosperma congesta (shows the name is well chosen ; :D )
8 and 9) Dianthus 'Conwy star'
10) Dianthus 'White Hills'
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Salix x boydii yesterday.
johnw
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Some lovely sunny colours there, Luc.
Flowering today in the woodland garden:
Polemonium caeruleum and
Aquilegia flabellata pumila
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johnw, I've had a couple of Salix xboydii for nigh on 10 years now, but they never put out catkins. I wonder why? Are yours fertilized regularly?
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Lori - Mine has been in a trough for 22 years and never gets fertilized! Obviously it grows very slowly. It started flowering about 10 years ago.
There is a huge one in the Jardin de Métis on the Gaspé that must have been planted shortly after it was first discovered.
johnw
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Okay, so I'm not negligent then. ;D I will simply keep waiting, I guess!
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2 from me first Haberlea ferdinandi-cobugii this has been in this trough since I covered a fish box with Hyper Tufa,the other is Acantholimon cilicicum I think this name is right but it was put in the Greenhouse 6 years ago when it was built and has never been watered only picking water up from sand bench.
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Some lovely stuff here folks, it really makes me embarrassed about the state of my small rock garden which rarely gets the attention it needs. I must send Maureen on a course.
Luc are you sure that is really a pic of your Arenaria granatensis and not one of a green clothed range of mountains? Oh! forgot, you're in Belgium ;D
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Luc are you sure that is really a pic of your Arenaria granatensis and not one of a green clothed range of mountains? Oh! forgot, you're in Belgium ;D
I will not react to your geographical joke David... ;D that Arenaria however has been there for 15 odd years, measures about 60 cm and has totally overgrown the pieces of rock (imported !) in the vicitiny.
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..........and lovely it is too Luc as were the others you showed. I must do something about mine.
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Luc,
I congratulate to you to the enormous Arenaria. Super!
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For Gerd- 2 promiscuous Viola tricolor subalpina (hybrids?)
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Luc are you sure that is really a pic of your Arenaria granatensis and not one of a green clothed range of mountains? Oh! forgot, you're in Belgium ;D
I will not react to your geographical joke David... ;D that Arenaria however has been there for 15 odd years, measures about 60 cm and has totally overgrown the pieces of rock (imported !) in the vicitiny.I think it may be the other way around, i.e. Arenaria tetraquetra granatensis.
I think it may be the other way around, i.e. Arenaria tetraquetra granatensis. This is the plant Reginald Farrer reckoned you shouldn't say its name if you had false teeth. ;D
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Wow Luc, nice set of pics!
Thanks to everyone for their pics. 8)
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Luc, you grow your plants the way I try and like.
The Arenaria is stunning!!
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For Gerd- 2 promiscuous Viola tricolor subalpina (hybrids?)
Thank you Simon - that's just the start. Colours and shapes will increase when Viola arvensis joins the party! :)
Gerd
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John and Lori ,
I have a 40 year old Salix xboydii in my garden -about 60 cm tall - and in that 40 years I
have only seen catkins on 2 occasions .
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Thanks for the kind words everyone ! :D
Lesley, I don't have any false teeth (yet... ), but I do think I have the name in good order ??
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Luc, I'm afraid that Lesley is right in this case.
It should be Arenaria tetraquetra var. granatensis.
I thought that A. tetraquetra is a wild form and 'granatensis' a variety of this.
It might be possible that older gardeners like Lesley and me are not up to date with naming these days. ;D ;D ;D
As soon as you have a name right in your head there comes some botanist with a new name. ???
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Thanks for helping out Lesley and Luit ! :D
In my defence I can say that the label has been long overgrown... ;D ;)
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I'll start May with some pictures of plants that are flowering in my garden today:
7) Trillium sessile
Wim,
I am afraid this is not sessile. It is T recurvatum. the bent down sepals and the petioles give it away.
Below pics of sessile and recurvatum:
Göte
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I can show something at last. :) Spring is very late this year.
Corydalis solida form
(http://cs1680.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/92164489/x_c6eb1937.jpg)
Saxifraga "Excellent"
(http://cs1680.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/92164489/x_91aeea69.jpg)
Hepatica nobilis form
(http://cs1680.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/92164489/x_2dbfc6c7.jpg)
Erythronium caucasicum
(http://cs1680.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/92164489/x_76f455b0.jpg)
And many different crocuses
(http://cs1680.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/92164489/x_d1940929.jpg)
(http://cs1680.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/92164489/x_1b776ee6.jpg)
(http://cs1680.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/92164489/x_876765cb.jpg)
(http://cs1680.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/92164489/x_3e6e2a42.jpg)
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On the subject of Trilliums and relations.
Most Trilliums I have got have been mis-named. this I believe is T angustipetalum. One can see that the winter was mild followed by late severe frosts that damaged the leaf tips. the small one is a sessile self sown seedling.
I am very sure that this is T undulatum. Unfortunately someone had large parts of the leaves for dinner when they were emerging. I have never seen it grow taller than 20-25 cm even if it in good years has three flowers.
Paris hexaphylla arrived in my garden from Vladivostok via Gothenburg. I have never seen it anywhere else and it is perhaps no great beauty.
Another green one is mitella pauciflora (The spider is an option) This once comes originally from the Kibune river valley just north of Kyoto.
Göte
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I can show something at last. :) Spring is very late this year.
Olga, absolutely stunning photos which were well worth the wait :)
Hope that Spring livens up for you now!
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Thank you Robin! :)
Helleborus abchasicus
(http://cs1680.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/92164489/x_40cf09bc.jpg)
Corydalis solida form
(http://cs1680.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/92164489/x_5f6571b0.jpg)
Hepatica japonica
(http://cs1680.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/92164489/x_45d2a7b3.jpg)
Galanthus platyphyllus at the garden
(http://cs1680.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/92164489/x_daf0ae74.jpg)
Helleborus niger
(http://cs1680.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/92164489/x_4cc140cf.jpg)
Scilla mischenkoana
(http://cs1680.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/92164489/x_1824f970.jpg)
Crocuses :)
(http://cs1680.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/92164489/x_3159d48d.jpg)
Saxifraga "Marie Curie"
(http://cs1680.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/92164489/x_a3506c7c.jpg)
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gote
T. undulatum seems to be true. Mitella pauciflora is fantastic!
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Olga,
FANTASTIC photographs!!!
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John and Lori ,
I have a 40 year old Salix xboydii in my garden -about 60 cm tall - and in that 40 years I
have only seen catkins on 2 occasions .
Otto - This is its heaviest flowering and I have 7 catkins, it by no means showers itself in them here!
johnw
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gote
T. undulatum seems to be true. Mitella pauciflora is fantastic!
Thank you Olga, Your photos are even more fantastic. I can see that you grow things that grow well here also. The one I did not succeed with is the Hepatica japonica. They usually die on me
Göte
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Wonderful pictures Olga !
You're bringing back the early Spring feeling to us !! :D
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Beautiful pictures Olga.
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Gote and Olga - a pitty most if not all the shown plants will not be growable here :-\ - so I enjoy them in your fantastic pictures. :D
Here are two bulbous plants of the southern hemisphere are in flower:
Conanthera parvula (Chile) and Drosera menziesii ssp. menziesii (Australia)
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Lovely Hans. I do like Conanthera parvula (I'm trying C. campanulata from seed) if ever you have any spare seeds I would welcome a few please :-[
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Göte,
thanks for correcting me on the name of the Trillium. I got it a while back and I'm really no expert on Trilliums.
How do you grow your undulatum? Soil: peat??
Olga, very nice pictures, I like the crocusses especially.
Hans, I like the flower on that Drosera.
I've never tried to grow a tuberous Drosera, are they hard to grow?
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Do native Drosera have flowers like the one above? I would never have thought they would flower like that
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Mark,
The native (in Belgium) Drosera's (intermedia, rotundifolia and anglica) have much smaller white flowers.
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Hello Olga,
Thanks for your really good photographs, I especially liked the Hepatica.
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THanks, Wim
Two bluebells from me. The white and blue bracteate forms. The white form doesnt open and is more of a creamy green colour. The blue form cause a bit of a stir at our show. Mostly good but one bad.
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Wonderful to see T. undulatum on the Forum, and in cultivation. Well done Gote, as it seems to be the most difficult of all the species.
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And now, dragging everyone back in time again ( ;)), a few things in bloom here...
Self-sown Pulsatilla vulgaris (with our native Geum triflorum, in bud, in the background).
And same, in darker shades.
Hepatica nobilis 'Rubra Plena'
Narcissus 'Baby Moon' .... oops, 'Tete-a-tete'?
Corydalis solida
The first of the pulmonaria to bloom, Pulmonaria altaica - it has wonderfully hairy, silky leaves, that feel like a black labrador's ears!
Puschkinia
Scilla mischtshenkoana
Crocus are nearly done...
Hacquetia epipactus just starting to emerge and bloom - so cute!
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Olga , superb photos of lovely plants,
thank you from
Otto.
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Thanks for beaming us back in time every now and then Lori ! Keeps us young ! ;D ;D
Great pix !
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Lori nice to bring us back in time :D - here many plants started to go dormant. ::)
David - Conanthera parvula is flowering the second year for me - last year I did not get seed - hope this year will be different - if so you will ge some.
C. parvula is a much smaller species than C. campanulata - the plants are only about 5 cm in height - it has more importance because of my memories of chile than because of its beauty ;)
Wim - i just received this Drosera last year and do not have long experience in growing this species. They go completly dormant and need a dry summerrest - wet while growing. I have been told specially transition period from dormant to growing can be complicate.
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thanks for correcting me on the name of the Trillium. I got it a while back and I'm really no expert on Trilliums.
How do you grow your undulatum? Soil: peat??
You are welcome. Trillium names is a djungle with some that can be separated out and some swarms that probably do not deserve a generic name. Furthermore many are masquerading under the wrong name. Yours is one that can be recognized with some certainity.
I grow undulatum in sandy soil with high humus content. Old leaf mould and sphagnum peat added. The pH is low and will grow Ericaceae with no difficulty. However there is some indication that undulatum requires chilly nights and will not grow in a warm climate. Mid-Sweden is OK but West Sweden seems to be difficult. (Acc to Karl Zita) Belgium should be difficult if you are not on the top of the Ardennes.
Göte
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And now, dragging everyone back in time again ( ;)), a few things in bloom here...
Isn't that one of the joys of the Forum Lori?
Not only can we can spread out each season but we can enjoy it twice per year!
Lovely plants and pictures; thank you.
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That's an interesting Pulmonaria, Lori. Did you grow it from seed?
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Well, the season seems to get better every day with so many new pictures here on the forum. We are still very cold here in Northern Scotland and I never know how some plants can cope, I post a few pictures taken today, cheers Ian the Christie kind.
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Ian, the Mecanopsis are truly elegant looking. That royal colour aloft on such delecate stems. I've never managed to grow any, other than cambria, much to my dismay.
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A few days not looking this thread and so many beautiful plants shown here.
Thank you all!
Ian, looking at your so beautiful pictured Glaucidium, I hope I will sleep tonight.
Can only dream of such a beauty. 8)
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Superb Ian,
I am glad my snow bunting looks the same (except only 4 flowers :() It means that my name is right.
While I remember.
You sent me two Pteridiophyllum clones one that flowers and one that doesnot. The one that does not flower, now has buds after three years of leaves only.
Göte
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I do grow some plants which do not have green flowers.
Jeffersonia dubia (I refuse the P-word I cannot even remember it)
Isopyron thalictroides
Ranzania japonica. The Ranzanias did not like the strange weather we have had the flowers are smaller than normal.
And a photo from the town garden.
Göte
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What beautiful plants are being shown here by everyone!
Olga, your plants are lovely and your photographic skills are truly enviable!
Simon, no, I didn't grow Pulmonaria altaica from seed; I got it from Wrightman's Alpines last year, where the write-up says that it is an introducion by Josef Halda from Siberia... (or to be more grammatically correct, "an introduction from Siberia by Josef Halda"!)
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What beautiful plants are being shown here by everyone!
Olga, your plants are lovely and your photographic skills are truly enviable!
Simon, no, I didn't grow Pulmonaria altaica from seed; I got it from Wrightman's Alpines last year, where the write-up says that it is an introducion by Josef Halda from Siberia.
That's what I was wondering Lori- I had never heard of it, so I googled and found it as Josef Halda seed. I guess you couls rely on it being tough if it's Siberian ;)
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Great show again !!!
Ian, these Meconopsis are to die for !! :o Wonderful... wish I could grow them... :'(
Here's some colour from my garden today :
1 & 2 : Lewisia cotyledon hybrids - the second one almost overgrown... :-\
3) Haberlea rhodopensis
4) Oxalis adenophylla
5) Oxalis patagonica - lots more buds hiding in the foliage ready to open ! :D
6) Phlox seedling
7) Gladiolus carneus - flowering for the first time here at 40 cm high !
8) A colourfull little patch starring Anemone pavonina - Campanula chamissonis major and Hymenoxa acaulis ?? not sure about this last one.
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Lovely Luc, your rock garden must look absolutely beautiful at the moment.
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It was a nice weekend here though not without night frosts. Some of the many in flower now:
1. Pulsatilla montana
2. Jeffersonia dubia
3. Pulsatilla rosea (or vulgaris rosea?)
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Hi again, the super pictures just keep on being posted, Luc, I am interested in the picture of the second Lewisia looks like it is almost under a conifer yet flowering very well, cheers Ian the Christie kind.
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8) A colourfull little patch starring Anemone pavonina - Campanula chamissonis major and Hymenoxa acaulis ?? not sure about this last one.
Hymonoxis scaposa, Luc. ;)
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I guess you couls rely on it being tough if it's Siberian
I sometimes wonder if gardeners in Siberia are growing all of our native plants, as we seem to be growing a lot of theirs!
Yes, it should help, though I haven't found come upon a pulmonaria yet that was not hardy here - obviously, I'm not trying hard enough! ;D
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Pictures taken at 06:15 this morning. :-\
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I can show something at last. :) Spring is very late this year.
thanks to everyone for the pics---i'm very behind on the forum, besides spring being even later here than for olga--stunning shots, olga!
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And now, dragging everyone back in time again ( ;)), a few things in bloom here...
great to see, lori! more than anything, i cant wait till i have some spring gardens established...for now, i have to be satisfied with cacti flowering on my windowsill...lol
i have some C solida seeds on order from kristl, among other things;
have you found any good sources for species spring bulbs? i have seen whats listed on the alpine lists (choice stuff, but would cost a lot to make an impact that way!), and pacific rim and fraser's thimble farm;
i think rundlewood had a list, last time i tried their site it was unavailable, but it seems to load now.... i havent yet ordered from any of these people, hoping to get some stuff in this fall....
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Two very good looking Penstemon John ... even that early in the morning ! ;)
8) A colourfull little patch starring Anemone pavonina - Campanula chamissonis major and Hymenoxa acaulis ?? not sure about this last one.
Hymonoxis scaposa, Luc. ;)
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Thanks for helping me out on this one Luit !
Hi again, the super pictures just keep on being posted, Luc, I am interested in the picture of the second Lewisia looks like it is almost under a conifer yet flowering very well, cheers Ian the Christie kind.
It self seeded quite close to the conifer a number of years ago Ian...
and as I liked the colour when it first flowered I left it where it was...
if I want to keep it I shall have to move it this year I guess... :-
\Lovely Luc, your rock garden must look absolutely beautiful at the moment.
Thanks David - the garden is quite colourful at the moment, I'll try to post some more general pix one of these days.
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Great pictures from everyone! :D
The Ranzanias did not like the strange weather we have had the flowers are smaller than normal.
gote
As for me it is perfect! What kind of weather it does not like?
olegKon
Pulsatilla vulgaris rosea of course.
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Yesterday.
Scopolia
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Corydalis solida Transsilvanica
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Hepatica nobilis form
(http://cs1680.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/92164489/x_e3fe84fb.jpg)
Erythronium japonicum
(http://cs1680.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/92164489/x_414d3f56.jpg)
Helleborus caucasica
(http://cs1680.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/92164489/x_8a9d6d0f.jpg)
(http://cs1680.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/92164489/x_cbfb844e.jpg)
Scilla siberica Alba
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Jeffersonia dubia
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Hepatica transsilvanica Elison Spence
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Saxifrags in alpine garden
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Primula elatior hybrid
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Soldanella alpina
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Primula marginata
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Pulsatilla slavica
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Pulsatilla flavescens
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Saxifraga Kathleen
(http://cs1680.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/92164489/x_ef656610.jpg)
Saxifraga x columpoda
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Saxifraga stribrni
(http://cs1680.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/92164489/x_e3ed5aa7.jpg)
Probably Corydalis solida x C. bracteata
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Garden
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I can see that you grow things that grow well here also. The one I did not succeed with is the Hepatica japonica. They usually die on me
I can not say I have success with Hepatica japonica. :) It was it's first winter in my garden.
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Wonderful pictures Olga, I love those pulsatilla.
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Olga
Brilliant pictures of wonderful plants. Please keep on posting.
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Super images of a delightful range of plants, Olga ... I particularly like the Primula elatior hybrid. Many thanks for posting.
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Thank you! :) (http://forum.cofe.ru/images/smilies/shuffle.gif)
ranunculus
I like it to. It is of rare coffe color.
Brian
I have a big collection of pulsatillas but flavescens is my favorit. :)
Gunilla
Please keep on posting
Next week. :) Now I go to Czech.
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Wonderful photos, Olga, thank you. :-*
Hope you have a great trip to Czech.
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Olga, you show us your garden flowers with such skill and perfection that each is implanted in the minds eye and stays there to reflect on and wonder at until the next time...looking forward to it :)
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Do you think you are well and truly hooked on this site now, Robin? ;D ;D ;D
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Olga, thank you for the wonderful pictures!
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WOW!....What wonderful pictures from all you dedicated plant growers, I keep jotting down names to my “must have” list – this forum is addictive! Weather I will ever get or succeed with any of them is another matter. ::)
Just think; several years ago this forum as it is now would not have been possible without the birth of the digital camera! :o
The information and images here must certainly surpass any other similar forum or website, and there isn’t a publication which can rival the vast library of alpine pictures found here. Thanks to all of you! 8)
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John, the SRGC takes its remit to spread the word about alpine and rock garden plants pretty seriously, so the success of the forum is most satisfyling in that regard. Thanks for your kind words.
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Do you think you are well and truly hooked on this site now, Robin? ;D ;D ;D
I'd say: 'hook, line and sinker' Cliff ;D ;D ;D
Is there such a thing as an Alpinerockophile ???
Lots to learn but I would like to make the grade one day ::)
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Ian - Wonderful shots and superb plants. Can you tell me more about the Liliohyacintha and the species? I have never heard of it and it is a beauty we should be growing here.
johnw - rain and probably as cold as northern Scotland. +6c and the furnace is on.
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Just opening today in the garden Ornithogalum reverchonii. The leaves have been up all winter- including under snow- and are now looking a bit tatty.
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Hi, everyone, firstly like all forumists the pictures Olga posted are superb but so many plants poste here it is better than any Botanical Garden. The Liliohyacintha is very easy here and we have many bulbs plus a few white flowered as well. cheers Ian the Christie kind.
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Wonderful pictures from Olga but I really admire John's Penstemons as well. I used to grow a lot then gave up on almost all as they kept dying off, branch at a time and I couldn't see what was wrong or how to stop it but I'm trying a few again. I thought they were too dry but maybe they were too damp. They seem to do very well in the SW USA and in fact are native to those arid areas.
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You are right Lesley, Penstemon is a huge and attractive genus with representatives suitable for many different soil types and conditions as well as climates. I have quite a few on trial in the xeric garden and rock garden, as well as some in damper areas of the woodland garden.
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Ian, isn't your Liliohyacintha - Scilla liliohyacinthus?
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Ian, isn't your Liliohyacintha - Scilla liliohyacinthus?
Roma - I was baffled but found it under the Scilla you mentioned. The Pyrenean Squill.
johnw
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I was very happy to see a first bloom on my 3-year old seedlings of Iris zenaidae (having already been put in pots for my garden move).
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Superb pics from so many people in this topic, too many to mention all of them. Special mention MUST go to Olga's glorious pictures though, and that Glaucidium clump from Ian C. :o :o :o :o And some of Luc's treasures, and ........ ;)
Thanks for such delightful pictures everyone.
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Hi Roma, all, yes indeed that is what it is I forgot to post the proper name another senior moment perhaps. The bulb is a nice showy flower for the garden, cheers Ian the Christie kind.
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Hi again, I have just been out in the garden and it is very wet and cold just like a November day. I post a few pictures showing colour with meconopsis which are very purple due to this cold. The Meconopsis punicea perennial I have had since 2003 and it set good seed which Cyril has raised watch this space, cheers Ian the Christie kind
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Olga,
I grow this Helleborus as H. guttatus. It seems be the same as your H. caucasica. Any coment from you or anybody else?
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Another comment on some of the pictures from the last day.... a couple of wonderful things I have never heard of before.... Helleborus abchasicus and Scopolia. Both fantastic. And those wonderful Meconopsis from Ian. Absolutely wonderful.
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Flowers and foliage opening in the mountains today :)
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Well, I am out of superlatives.
Today was the first time I've seen this thread, the pics and plants are amazingly beautiful.
Thanks to everyone who has posted pics, I want everything! :D
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Two very good looking Penstemon John ... even that early in the morning ! ;)
Thanks Luc, I think the light is sometimes better in the early hours, before the sun comes up to give contrasting shadows. The photos aren’t very good using my daughters Samsung Digimax A5 camera – it’s not a SLR! I do miss the creativity you get with a SLR. My old one isn’t digital and I am hoping to invest in a decent camera system. I do like the look of the Nikon D90, but will have to wait towards the end of the year to get what I want, as I have been overspending lately on various items. My wife gives me that funny look – you know the one – the raised eyebrows, and pursed lips one! ::)
Wonderful pictures from Olga but I really admire John's Penstemons as well. I used to grow a lot then gave up on almost all as they kept dying off, branch at a time and I couldn't see what was wrong or how to stop it but I'm trying a few again. I thought they were too dry but maybe they were too damp. They seem to do very well in the SW USA and in fact are native to those arid areas.
Thanks Lesley, I also gave up on growing them some years ago, until I read somewhere that when you buy a penstemon and get it home, the first thing you do is take cuttings no mater how small the plant is!
The P. rupicola shown in this thread started off as a cutting about September 2007, taken from a 4 year old plant that had started to turn woody and brittle, as if it had been in a forest fire! I don’t think you can do anything except start again with a rooted cutting. Watering, feeding, cutting back and offering a sacrifice to the Gods won’t save it! :'(
The P. f. ‘Albus’ also started as a cutting taken September 2007 and was taken from the one shown on my website. The photo of the one on my website was taken about this time last year (2008). It now no longer exists; I dug it up just over a week ago, it put out a good show of flowers but only at the ends of some branches, it was very brittle and woody.
I would think that the two I have shown in this thread will be at their best this time next year. In 2011 they will be on the way out. :o
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The Meconopsis punicea perennial I have had since 2003 and it set good seed which Cyril has raised watch this space, cheers Ian the Christie kind
A truly perennial punice Fantastic!! That beats your beautiful pictures Are seedlings also perennial?
Göte
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The other good thing about Penstemons is that they come up like cress from old seed.
Flowering today in the woodland garden
Geum coccineum (from Goteborg Botanic Garden seed)
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Would love to see it in situ your woodland garden Simon - the colour is so vibrant - does the name Geum coccineum come from the word coccineous as in Scarlet do you think ? Or maybe taken from the lady bug Coccinellidae ?
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Be warned Simon and Robin ... it is a gorgeous colour, but it can also be a thug. It has taken over an area of my rock garden and, whilst it looks beautiful intermingled with brilliant yellow geums and pontentillas, it will have to go.
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Robin, I'll see if I can get a pic taken from a distance- it really is the kind of colour that stands out from a mile away! I have grown seed from several sources pretending to be Geum coccineum and they really pale in comparison to this one.
It is also in a place where it will need to be a thug to survive. It will be interesting to see if it mixes it's genes with the Geum rivale nearby ;)
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I forgot to look at the label so the little azalea must remain unnamed at the moment.
The Anemone is ranuncloides semiplena.
Not all like this combination but it is striking I think
Göte
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I forgot to look at the label so the little azalea must remain unnamed at the moment.
Not all like this combination but it is striking I think
Göte
Göte
The Rhododendron looks like the lepidote hybrid called April Rose. Nice combination.
johnw
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Göte,
I have the same idea as John. Rhododendron dauricum 'April Rose'. Flowers here in the area 3 weeks ago.
Uli
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Good advice about the penstemons and taking cuttings ASAP. I just have to accept that they have a limited lifespan and let them go when they're ready. They may be a little longer-lived from seed but it probably depends on the species. Anyway, they're such super plants, almost all of them, that they're worth another try. The large perennial types last forever it seems and I've had to cut back 'Garnet' and some others so I can still use the paths.
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Göte,
I have the same idea as John. Rhododendron dauricum 'April Rose'. Flowers here in the area 3 weeks ago.
Uli
Uli - April Rose is not a dauricum but a cross of [(carolinianum Album x mucronulatum Cornell Pink) x dauricum v album] F2 Do they make labels that long?. The hybridizer was Gustav Mehlquist (a real character he was). In full bloom in Halifax now.
Did you buy it labelled dauricum 'April Rose'? I have to say I get very confused with hybrids in German catalogues. I got very excited about all the new Rhododendron concatenans "selections" in Hachmann's catalogue only to find out the were all hybrids.
best
johnw
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Bearberry or kinnikinnik, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, in bud, and bristlecone pine... both native plants (Correction: bristlecone pine (Pinus aristata) is NOT native here... my mistake!) ... and some sort of a spring-blooming Brassicaceae (Thlaspi?) that I need to figure out!
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Wonderful little group Lori !!
Göte,
I do like the combination - great contrast !
About the Penstemon discussion - I've lost a few (lot) over the years as well, some quicker than others. Out here, I believe there's one golden rule to respect : good drainage, better drainage, the best drainage.... I mix at least 75 % gravel in the soil where I plant them.
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Pictures today.
The first shows what I have to put up with when photographing a plant! (This is for you Lesley) ;D
Here is Kai standing in front causing an obstruction. He looks completely innocent; but don’t be fooled, I am sure he does it on purpose. He often sits on a plant I am trying to take a picture of! :o
Obstruction removed - Paeonia mlokosewitschii. I have had this plant for over 35 years in this shady corner of the garden.
Phlox ‘Beauty of Ronsdorf’. This is one of my favourite phlox’s, the flowers are smaller than most and it also flowers later than most others – does anyone else grow this? :)
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Phlox 'Beauty of Ronsdorf' is a great plant...I grew it at The New York Botanical Garden and would have it again in an instant. There are several other small flowered phloxes that are so much nicer (in my mind at least) than the majority of subulatas...
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Must be great to have a friend like Kai to garden with you John regardless of the problems. My wife has always been anti pets of any description so I've never had a dog. I have threatened to swop her for one on more than one occasion though ;D
The Phlox family is so colourful and wonderful garden value. Some lovely pictures of them in the new Wisley Log this week too.
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my garden today
Ramonda myconii
Ramonda myconii 1
Ramonda nathaliae
Ramonda nathaliae 1
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Flowering here today:
1) Fritillaria camchatcensis
2) Primula reidii
3) Ramonda myconi
4) Sedum pilosum
5) Veronica oltensis
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my garden today
Wolfgang your garden looks wonderful. it seems to have so many interesting areas with different beds. Your first photo gives a really good impression of the layout of your rock gardens and I love the way you grow the Ramonda plants surrounded by cushions of sedum etc :)
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Flowering here today:
A really great collection from your garden today Wim - wish they were in mine! All of them are so different - my favourites are the Frit camchatcencis (where is it from?) and the Primula reidii
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lori--really great little vignette... i'm not that up on my local pines--does this one stay small? did you grow it from seed? i have some cones i gathered at kootenay plains --dont know the species... and no idea what to do with them yet...lol
wolfgang--i agree--thanks for the overview shot--its great to see plant portraits, but i also really like to see what people are doing in terms of design, larger combinations etc...
wim--nice stuff--esp like the sedum!
i can relate to kai's actions--i have a couple of cats that will follow me around, and of course if i am taking photos, they want to be at that centre of attention right in front of me! of course, their boredom threshold with what i am doing is probably much lower than kai's, so they soon wander off, and if they do sit on a plant, they are lighter!
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Images from the garden taken yesterday ...
Geum, gentian and primula ... contrived, of course, but quite pretty.
Clematis alpina
Salix reticulata
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I have the same idea as John. Rhododendron dauricum 'April Rose'. Flowers here in the area 3 weeks ago.
Uli - April Rose is not a dauricum but a cross of [(carolinianum Album x mucronulatum Cornell Pink) x dauricum v album] F2 Do they make labels that long?. The hybridizer was Gustav Mehlquist (a real character he was). In full bloom in Halifax now.
You are probably right I will look at the label in the weekend. I wanted to buy another mucronulatum since they are hardy here and the first and good looking This was the closest I could find in one of the biggest nurseries in Sweden. It is nice but not quite the same thing.
Anyone knows who sells mucronulatum??
Göte
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Speaking about Salix reticulata.
This is a (the) host for Pedicularis lapponica so now you know what to get next ;D
Göte
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Flowering here today:
A really great collection from your garden today Wim - wish they were in mine! All of them are so different - my favourites are the Frit camchatcencis (where is it from?) and the Primula reidii
Thanks Göte,
I bought the Frit last year from Rareplants.co.uk.
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Some pics made today
1. Wistaria sinensis beside the gate
2. + 3. An unknown Viola hybrid from the eastern US - note the coloration of
the leaves!
4. Trough
5. Viola spathulata planted in the trough
6. Viola striata - eastern US
7. Parthenocissus henryi (not hardy here)
8. + 9. Meconopsis cambrica Frances Perry - a lovely weed
10. Paeonia officinalis - Monte Baldo type
Gerd
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Anyone knows who sells mucronulatum??
Göte
Göte
I can send you tiny seedlings of the dwarf form called variously Rhododendron mucronulatum 'Cheju', mucronulatum v. chejuensis, mucronulatum v. ciliatum and correctly as mucronulatum v.taguetii. It is dwarf and purplish with a beautiful thick trunk 10cm in diameter though only 30cm high after 25 years. It seeds about my yard, in the troughs and various pots. Also have a pink tall mucronulatum of which I could send seed.
Just assessing some new dwarf pink ones with very red buds and one has opened a very clear pink. Still lusting for the dwarf white one selected in Japan.
johnw
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- and the rest
1. Aethionema schistosum
2. Leucanthemopsis pallida ssp. alpina - self seeding now (from Rafa)
3. Primula kisoana
4. Haberlea rhodopensis
5. + 6. Dodecatheon dentatum - very small!
Gerd
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Gerd, I can hardly believe there are so many treasures in the same garden I saw last year myself.
Your front door trough is really beautiful!
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i can relate to kai's actions--i have a couple of cats that will follow me around, and of course if i am taking photos, they want to be at that centre of attention right in front of me! of course, their boredom threshold with what i am doing is probably much lower than kai's, so they soon wander off, and if they do sit on a plant, they are lighter!
As a puppy Kai did destroy a few plants – not many, and not anything special, but he very quickly adapted to what he could and could not do. He never digs in the garden and only does his business on the gravel pathway, which is easy to see, avoid and dispose of. There are a lot of cats in the neighbourhood, and before we had Kai I would regularly dip my fingers in cat poo when weeding, as they cover it with soil. Yuck!! :o >:(
We just don’t get any cats in the garden now! If he does sit on a plant, it soon recovers, he just loves to be near me when I’m pottering in the garden, and I do love his company. He will often tell me he has found a frog or toad under a leafy plant by vigorously wagging his tail and making whimpering noises. ::)
Wolfgang......I do love those Ramondas ; especially the R. myconii with the pink shading to the flowers.
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John you are right with the 'April Rose'. But we put it too the Rh. dauricum Hybrids. As you mentioned we can it put to the Rh. carolianum Hybrids too. The problem in Germany is that this wonderful Hybrids of Rh. carolianum and Rh. dauricum are unknown to the nurseries, garden-center etc. They bloom to early and so only a handful of rhododendron collectors know more about this hybrids.
Göte we have a Rh. mucronulatum in cultivation. But as John mentioned it is possible that it is a subspecies or a cultivar.
When you are interested send me a mail. I will ask the headgardener for the rhododendrons what we cultivated as Rh. mucronulatum.
Uli
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A few in bloom at the moment.
Lewisia rediviva hybs.
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A few more.
Weldenia candida.
Tulbaghia violacea alba
Iris babadagica
Iris reichenbachii
Freesia laxa hyb
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Wolfgang Love those Ramondas
Michael is your Weldenia in a pot under cover ? Mine hasn't shown above ground yet :-\
Here is my Embothrium lanceolatum Norquinco Valley form now about 20ft tall. Pam thinks it is an awkward shaped thing and doesn't want it but she keeps quiet when it is flowering. I know it isn't an alpine but it is something that you just can't miss
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Uli - You are so right, these carolinianum, mucronulatum and dauricum hybrids are wonderful. They are staples in the trade here, they always bud heavily and usually set few seeds. There are at least 100 good ones here and very hard to choose a favourite.
johnw
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Beautiful on all counts, everyone. Michael, those Lewisias are just stunning!!!
Thanks all.
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Such varied and wonderful plants growing in all your gardens...thanks for brightening up my day! :)
Wolfgang your old stone trough with violas and ferns etc is really natural - a miniature snapshot - it's beautiful.
Cliff can we see more of your clematis alpina? Looking up in to the flower against the sky is a great shot.
Michael, your pink Freesia laxa with the maroon centre is a great combination and I like the simple form and your iris photos are very attractive.
Ian is that a copper beech behind your Embothrium lanceolatum? The copper leaf colour behind sets the orange flower off a treat.
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Hallo Michael,
Your Lewisien are a feast for the eyes.
Regard Wolfgang
Thank all for interest my Ramondas
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Such varied and wonderful plants growing in all your gardens...thanks for brightening up my day! :)
Cliff can we see more of your clematis alpina? Looking up in to the flower against the sky is a great shot.
Many thanks, Robin - the only other shots I took at the time are posted here ...
Clematis alpina
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Wolfgang,
the Ramondas are very special. Are they difficult to keep? I had only seen two before, in the Köln Flora, growing in deep shade on the side of a rock, in a crevice. How are they from seed? I may be able to get some from the Flora.
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Such varied and wonderful plants growing in all your gardens...thanks for brightening up my day! :)
Ian is that a copper beech behind your Embothrium lanceolatum? The copper leaf colour behind sets the orange flower off a treat.
Yes Robin it is my neighbours copper beech planted on the boundary and overhanging our property. Lovely in the summer and good leafmould
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Wolfgang,
the Ramondas are very special. Are they difficult to keep? I had only seen two before, in the Köln Flora, growing in deep shade on the side of a rock, in a crevice. How are they from seed? I may be able to get some from the Flora.
I don't know if this is any help, Jamie, but I had success by sowing fresh seed onto fine gravel with a well drained, but moist compost underneath. The seeds were watered into the compost and kept damp and slightly shaded. I have had no success with old seed. I had to leave the parent plants, which were quite mature, behind n England as I didn't dare fetch them bare-rooted (the requirement at the time) to Bulgaria. My mother still has them 2years later in troughs on her patio. She follows the 'Oh my god I've killed it' method of watering and waters when they look on the point of death. I was a bit kinder to them ;)
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Here is my Embothrium lanceolatum Norquinco Valley form now about 20ft tall. Pam thinks it is an awkward shaped thing and doesn't want it but she keeps quiet when it is flowering. I know it isn't an alpine but it is something that you just can't miss
Ian - Your Embothrium is a heart-stopper. Surely somewhere out there in the wild grows a form hardier than Norquinco that might grow in our climate.
johnw
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If the ever do John- put my name on the list!
Flowering today in the woodland garden:
Arum elongatum (?)
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Annuals in the rock garden- well sneaky little devils ;)
Gilia tricolor F2 from 'Twilight', much darker than previous generations, with an annual Silene behind.
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In case anyone was wondering how late things are here ( :o)...
Adonis vernalis
Jeffersonia dubia; the tag said "Ex. Dark Form"...? (And I would have sworn I also had J. diphylla, but it seems I have two J. dubia instead - how did that happen?!?)
Paeonia tenuifolia 'Plena' and
Paeonia officinalis 'Anemoniflora' (posted only because they look interesting!)
Vitaliana primuliflora v. cinerea
Androsace carnea 'Alba'
Cohan, I have to correct myself - bristlecone pine (Pinus aristata) is not native here (guess I was thinking of limber pine); it occurs at high elevations in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and gets to 15-20m but is very slow-growing here; it was bought, not grown from seed. Botanus is a decent source of fall bulbs though not for the more unusual species you will see on this forum... but one has to start somewhere! :)
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In case anyone was wondering how late things are here ( :o)...
[Cohan, I have to correct myself - bristlecone pine (Pinus aristata) is not native here (guess I was thinking of limber pine); it occurs at high elevations in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and gets to 15-20m but is very slow-growing here; it was bought, not grown from seed. Botanus is a decent source of fall bulbs though not for the more unusual species you will see on this forum... but one has to start somewhere! :)
tks, lori--thats about what i expected of the pine..
i will look for botanus, dont know it.... i actually want both things--the really exciting sort of species that i will probably buy in ones and threes (due to cost) and put in choice spots in the rock garden., and also look for in seed--i see those on beavercreek and similar fine lists; BUT i do also want some that i can buy in large numbers for more or less dedicated beds for some really satisfying spring display! i will even be willing to check places like walmart for the really cheap deals!
i guess maybe fraser's thimble farm is a middle ground? some hybrids, some species, and some good rates for multiples..
things are probably even later here--my pulsatilla are about ready to open flowers(the violet form, rubrum is still farther away!)-granted they have not been fully exposed since they are still in small pots and we have had cold nights....
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It which rich mass of flowers astonishingly is lets oneself be seen by the fine weather this year. The Zwergrhododendren is a blaze of color by the colors, my bog the Cypripedien, Trillium Ramondia and much more flourish in the shade areas. The rockery full of flowers as well is. Particularly the Edreianthus start now to flourish and it always starts with Edr.serpilifolius. She would like to let participate by a couple of pictures
Karl
Moor, 08.05.09 047
Moor, 08.05.09 051
Ramondia nathaliae, 08.05.09 033
Cyprip.calceolus, 08.05.09 040
Saracenia flavum, 08.05.09 053
Sax.paniculata, 08.05.09 030
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Additional photos of the rockery.
Karl
Dianthus microlepis 08.05.09 010
Edreianthus serpilifolius, 08.05.09 005
Edreianthus serpilifolius, 08.05.09 066
Erig.scopulinum, 08.05.09 016
Erigeron 08.05.09 015
Globularia cordifolia, 08.05.09 056
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Beautiful, Karl. What a display!
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Karl, I love the little creeping Erigeron, never seen or heard of it.
Does it self seed around, like many other small Erigeron?
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Luit, Erigeron scopulinum does not make any self seed with me, it wanders on only quite slowly and creeps over stones and through rock cracks. Growth within 5 years approx. 30 cm.
Increase by dividing.
Karl
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In case anyone was wondering how late things are here ( :o)...
... but fascinating how everything is in such a rush to flower- Adonis and Paeonia all at once :)
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Luit, Erigeron scopulinum does not make any self seed with me, it wanders on only quite slowly and creeps over stones and through rock cracks. Growth within 5 years approx. 30 cm.
Increase by dividing.
Karl
It's true, 'patience is a virtue' and judging by your wonderful plants in your rock garden Karl the rewards are so much sweeter ;)
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A few intersting plants in flower here today are Trillium luteum which we have just lifted from our peatwall and managed to split up and replanted in the upper woodland garden. The other plants that are looking stunning just now are Paris polyphylla alba which was collected in 1981 and is the original SBEC collection which each year does not disappoint the other collection from SBEC is P polyphylla var thibetica which grows to about 70cm and has a more open appearance to it then alba which is more compact. I have also stuck in P polyphylla var stenophylla which is one plant but is already about 90cm in height and the last which is one of my favorites is Paris japonica. Just for reference SBEC was the first expedition into china in 1981 which brought a lot of great material back.
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Some lovely plants John. Were you on the expedition? What a dream job to have!
Flowering today on the edge of the woodland garden:
Dianthus superbus rubicundus (Sajan Mountains, Siberia)
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Hi Simon no regretably not that time but my father was joint leader probably were i get this addiction from!!!
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My talented neighbor borrowed my Nikon Coolpix and took some shots around my garden last week. Obviously I am not getting the most from my camera, too complex for me perhaps.
Erythronium dens-canis (Japanese selection - name lost)
Shortia galacifolia
Hacquetia epipactis Thor
Shortia uniflora ex Danish seed
Podophyllum delavayi
Sarracenia hybrid
Shortia uniflora ex Danish seed
an easy puzzle
johnw
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What incredibly beautiful gardens (and individual plants) you all have - just stunning!
i will look for botanus, dont know it.... i actually want both things--the really exciting sort of species that i will probably buy in ones and threes (due to cost) and put in choice spots in the rock garden., and also look for in seed--i see those on beavercreek and similar fine lists; BUT i do also want some that i can buy in large numbers for more or less dedicated beds for some really satisfying spring display! i will even be willing to check places like walmart for the really cheap deals!
i guess maybe fraser's thimble farm is a middle ground? some hybrids, some species, and some good rates for multiples..
Cohan, Fraser's is not what I'd call a middle ground for anything... it's very expensive but is the only quick way to get some plants (short of international importation), though one often gets tiny, immature bulbs/corms/roots that still take a few years to bloom. We've planted countless hundreds of small bulbs (literally - we only counted and mapped the big bulbs ;D) and it still takes many, many years to get a "satisfying display" here (and sadly, I've never seen anything here like I see on these forums)... due to the climate and conditions, I suppose. So, start soon! ;)
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Leucojum longifolium AGCBC#95-1173 today.
johnw
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Our first shrub to bloom! Paxistima canbyi, on which the flowers are, however, stunningly insignificant, LOL! ;D It does make a nice low evergreen groundcover, in this dry area with unreliable snow cover. (Paxistima myrsinites makes it into the extreme southern Rockies - I haven't seen it there but it looks like an interesting plant.)
Corydalis nobilis
The Primula marginata are just starting to bloom here... here's a little 'Sheila Denby'.
Draba ventosa
Caltha leptosepala... a mere shadow of the wonderful drifts of these that we'll see later in the mountains! (Why do I bother?!? ???)
Chionodoxa, out in the dry clay of the front yard.
Draba aizoides (managing to bloom... the buds have suddenly become a favourite snack of the neighborhood jackrabbits in the last 2 years) and Saxifraga 'Riverslea'
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Viola, Johnw, Lori, some fab looking plants. ohnw, I love your small area views!
Flowering here today amongst other things;
Cypripedium fasciolatum - pouch is a little mal-formed, maybe it will fluff up!?
Oxalis brasiliensis
Podophyllum peltatum
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Flowering today: One of the Geum I bought as seed in my search for Geum coccineum. I am not sure if this is a Geum coccineum hybrid. Also the second generation of Lupinus microcarpus (?) sowing itself into hard to plant spots.
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My talented neighbor borrowed my Nikon Coolpix and took some shots around my garden last week. Obviously I am not getting the most from my camera, too complex for me perhaps.
Erythronium dens-canis (Japanese selection - name lost)
Shortia galacifolia
Hacquetia epipactis Thor
Shortia uniflora ex Danish seed
Podophyllum delavayi
Sarracenia hybrid
Shortia uniflora ex Danish seed
an easy puzzle
johnw
Really lovely shots I agree John, but a talented grower as well and some great looking plants...the Erythronium dens-canis is glorious :)
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What incredibly beautiful gardens (and individual plants) you all have - just stunning!
Cohan, Fraser's is not what I'd call a middle ground for anything... it's very expensive but is the only quick way to get some plants (short of international importation), though one often gets tiny, immature bulbs/corms/roots that still take a few years to bloom. We've planted countless hundreds of small bulbs (literally - we only counted and mapped the big bulbs ;D) and it still takes many, many years to get a "satisfying display" here (and sadly, I've never seen anything here like I see on these forums)... due to the climate and conditions, I suppose. So, start soon! ;)
i'll second lori's comment--great stuff--johnw--your friend took some lovely photos indeed of lovely plants! i've never heard of shortia...
lori--you are clearly ahead of us--not that there are any alpine gardens around here for me to compare to!
i know it will take some time to get any good displays of bulbs--thats why i will cheat with garden centre stuff--i could never afford it with things from alpine suppliers...lol... i still want those things, but as i say, i will be happy with tiny patches of them in the rock garden --at $5 for one tulip bulb etc...lol..
i might also do big pots that get overwintered in a shed or something to get some faster results...
this is also a reason why i will always garden indoors--our outdoor season is WAY too short to keep me happy all year! my one plus (also my curse) is that there is no such thing as bare ground here--so i will not be looking at acres of bare soil while i wait for plants to grow, rather i have to fight for every inch of planting area...lol..
also, being used to the growth rates of cacti and succulents (varying, but nothing like big garden stuff!) i'm pretty patient, or maybe rather distracted--my approach is to have so many things going that you have no time to obsess over an individual plant or spot that is growing slowly :)
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I just found the list of Erythroniums I purchased from Garden Imports or was given by Vera Peck with the year and not to say all are still with me.
Can anyone identify the pink one shown in my posting of my neighbor's photos?
Erythronium dens-canis 'Frans Hal' - Garden Imports 1994
Erythronium dens-canis 'Lilac Wonder' - Garden Imports 1994
Erythronium dens-canis 'Moerheimii' - Vera Peck ex a Czech nursery, 1997
Erythronium dens-canis 'Pink Perfection'- Garden Imports 1994
Erythronium dens-canis 'Rose Beauty'- Vera Peck ex a Czech nursery 1997
Erythronium dens-canis 'Snowflake'- Garden Imports 1994
Erythronium japonicum- Garden Imports 1994
johnw
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...Vera Peck...
I hope everyone will tolerate me drifting seriously off topic. Let me excuse myself by claiming that what's flowering now is my memory of a wonderful plantswoman.
Vera ran the seed exchange of the Alpine Garden Club of BC for many years and I was fortunate to be able to call her a friend. I remember sitting over breakfast with her at the 1983 Western Winter Study Weekend, held at Fort Worden, Port Townsend, Washington, USA, and listening to her describe the donations sent in by Faith Mackaness from Oregon: "Every seed looked like it was hand polished."
This inspired me to work harder than ever at preparing my own donations to the various exchanges, in the belief that if an elderly woman like Faith Mackaness could manage such a donation, so should a young whippersnapper like myself. I would like to believe that I succeeded.
In the early 1990s, Vera distributed various bulbs acquired through her contacts in Czechoslovakia. This was just as the Soviet Union and the system of eastern European satellites was disintegrating, so Czech gardens were full of treasures from all across Eurasia. That's where I got my start of Anemone caucasica, which remains with me to this day.
Vera lived and gardened high up on the North Shore of Vancouver, if I recall correctly on Skyline Drive (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=49.356523,-123.083611&spn=0.006206,0.014827&t=h&z=16). To the sorrow of everyone who knew her, she died several years ago.
A woman whose memory I honor.
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Pictures today.
The first shows what I have to put up with when photographing a plant! (This is for you Lesley) ;D
Here is Kai standing in front causing an obstruction. He looks completely innocent; but don’t be fooled, I am sure he does it on purpose. He often sits on a plant I am trying to take a picture of! :o
But he is so beautiful that he can only enhance the Paeonia. :) I wish my two were as happy to pose for me. Just get them right and my finger on the button, - off they go.
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Phlox 'Beauty of Ronsdorf' is a great plant...I grew it at The New York Botanical Garden and would have it again in an instant. There are several other small flowered phloxes that are so much nicer (in my mind at least) than the majority of subulatas...
It looks extremely like P. douglasii 'Stuart Boothman.'
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Hi Simon no regretably not that time but my father was joint leader probably were i get this addiction from!!!
By any chance, was your father Tony Mitchell? of CMW fame (Cheese, Mitchell, Watson), who collected in the late sixties in Turkey?
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In the early 1990s, Vera distributed various bulbs acquired through her contacts in Czechoslovakia. This was just as the Soviet Union and the system of eastern European satellites was disintegrating, so Czech gardens were full of treasures from all across Eurasia. That's where I got my start of Anemone caucasica, which remains with me to this day.
Vera lived and gardened high up on the North Shore of Vancouver, if I recall correctly on Skyline Drive. To the sorrow of everyone who knew her, she died several years ago.
A woman whose memory I honor.
Rodger - She was a gem of a person and fondest memories of her garden at 2875 Skyline Drive with all those rarities and her generosity. We had lengthy correspondence from the first time we met her in 1986 and always visited her when in North Vancouver despite her threatening German shepherd at the front gate.
One could never let Vera down - fatal disapproving glance - and so we packed seeds like mad to meet her deadline every year.
If you were her friend then you knew her incredibly dry humour which eluded many. At one Winter Study Weekend we were on an elevator at the Empress Hotel. At a stop a gentleman - known to all aboard - got on and someone from the meeting said to him are you going to the next study weekend? He said no I can't afford it and from the back of the car in her Czech accent "Vee know you drrrive Saaaaaaaab!" Everyone roared.
We miss her.
Roger, Vera never mentioned who the Czech nurseryman was and we didn't ask. I think later she said it was Vasak but now I think I may be mistaken. Maybe it was Janis via Vasak, she gave us a typed list every year with no nursery name atop.
johnw
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Schivereckia podolica
Anemone blanda
Draba acaulis
Tulipa tarda
Leibnitzia anandria - at one time, I thought these would be really fascinating, with the spring flowers and the different fall flowers... well, it's interesting but so far the spring flowers have been underwhelming, to put it mildly.
Polemonium confertum, buds developing.
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Luit, Erigeron scopulinum does not make any self seed with me, it wanders on only quite slowly and creeps over stones and through rock cracks. Growth within 5 years approx. 30 cm.
Increase by dividing.
Karl
Karl, thank you for the information. That sounds very interesting.
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I agree about the Leibnitzia, Lori. I grew it for a while, but it never really lived up to its description. More like a posh Coltsfoot. I'll stick with my dandelions ;)
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Hi Simon no regretably not that time but my father was joint leader probably were i get this addiction from!!!
By any chance, was your father Tony Mitchell? of CMW fame (Cheese, Mitchell, Watson), who collected in the late sixties in Turkey?
Hi lesley no it Bob Mitchell who built St Andrews Botanic Garden
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This is the first pulsatilla flower I have ever had, it is a seedling of P. Papageno ( well supposed to be) I grew from seed last year, the plant is so tiny I couldn't believe it had a bud.
I am absolutely thrilled!! ;D ;D ;D
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Helen, very pretty! 'Papageno' should have lacinated petals, so your seed did not appear to come true - very lovely P. vulgaris though.
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Well done with the Pulsatilla. What was the source? The 3 P.'Papageno' I have from seed are albino and have whole petals.
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Lori, do you think there's a chance the flower might change in its second year?
Simon, the seeds came from the ORGS seed exchange last year, have you posted pics of yours yet?
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Actually, if we assume (always dangerous) that the serrated floral parts are a recessive gene, then a selfing of the flower should bring it back into the F2 seedlings. I suspect the seed was an open pollinated 'Papageno', which means chances are good it was fertilized by a non-serrated form.
As far as such characteristic showing up in the next bloom season, I wouldn't hold my breath. Sometimes it does happen with certain mutations, such as doubling, but serration seems far fetched. Of course, prove me wrong! ;D ;D >:( ::)
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This is the first pulsatilla flower I have ever had, it is a seedling of P. Papageno ( well supposed to be) I grew from seed last year, the plant is so tiny I couldn't believe it had a bud.
I am absolutely thrilled!! ;D ;D ;D
congratulations! first year bloom is great, and encouraging, as i want to try more in this genus;i have exactly two now, which were bought locally looking a bit bedraggled in 4inch deep pots, where they remained; when i pulled them out of the hole i stuck them in this spring, they had signs of growth already, and soon, buds...so they seem very tough, vigorous and early...good enough for me!
i have a violet and red cultivar, red is not opening yet...here's the violet..
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Simon, the seeds came from the ORGS seed exchange last year, have you posted pics of yours yet?
Yes, I posted the pic a while ago- they are forming seeds now, which I will scatter in the gravel path. they always seem to germinate better for me this way.
Jamie, I wish I had your optimism. I am not sure mine ever were from 'Papageno'.
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Hi lesley no it Bob Mitchell who built St Andrews Botanic Garden
Thanks John. It was just that I knew Tony Mitchell slightly back in the late 60s, 70s, when he spent time in NZ, then went to Australia and finally, I think to South Africa. He seemed to vanish off the radar altogether since then. I don't think he enjoyed the "colonial" life much, too informal perhaps. I've often wondered where he was nowadays.
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Hi all, here are some Meconopsis pictures first is Mec. simplicifolia with seed pods showing in pic two the Mec. integrifolia three pics and Mec pseudo integrifolia. cheers Ian the Christie kind.
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Lovely images, Ian ... many thanks for posting.
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Wonderful pictures everyone. Thanks. Special mention has to go to those wonderful Paris pics from John, particularly polyphylla var thibetica and japonica. Both are just stunning!! 8)
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Hi Ian what a great plant of Mec pseudo integrifolia is it the Tianch lake form. We have a stunted flower spike of M superba just now. Look forward to seeing more of your Mecs
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Flowering today:
Papaver spicatum
Cytisus hybrid
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Wall to wall sunshine for two days so lots of things flowering at the moment. here are just a few of them.
Moraea aristata.
Iris filifolia latifolia.
iris Pacific coast hybs
Iris hylroid. from a forum member,thanks.
Oxalis eneaphylla Sheffield Swan
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A few more.
Gentiana verna angulosa
Sisyrinchium macrocarpum
Ranunculus parenassifolius
Primula poluneura
Moraea ?
Azalea in the shade garden
Campanula nitida blue form
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Our weather now is belated April-weather, after the hailstorm at sunday we have lots
of rain - too much for my taste. Some pictures from the last 2 weeks:
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Many lovely plants pictured today, my thanks for them all. I especially like the pale yellow form of Erigeron aureus.
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I think Gynandriris sisyrinchium is now Moraea?
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Beautiful plants Rudi !
I love the Haberlea rhodopensis virginalis ! Not one I've seen before.
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Lovely photos of flowering plants:
Michael, your photo of Ranunculus parnassifolius is heavenly - would love to grow it here...
Rudi, can you tell me more about your Podophyllum emodi, I really like it? Also why does the Arnebia pulchra have spots on some of the petals and not on others on the same plant?
Anthony, how tall is you beautiful blue G. sisyrinchium?
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Anthony, how tall is you beautiful blue sisyrinchium?
About 8 cm. The flowers opened late afternoon and were closed before dark (9.30ish).
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Anthony,
The Gynandriris flowers certainly don't last long, do they? Then again, they're not as bad as Zephyranthes minima, which for me here only seems to last a few hours at the most in late summer. I had it flower 3 summers before I ever managed to time it well enough to see a flower open. :o
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I am not sure if this wonderful link has been listed on the site before, but never mind, it is certainly worth mentioning again for newer members.
http://www.chilebosque.cl/index.html
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Just in flower - but you need a magnifier for detecting the blossoms -
This is Viola fusco-violacea - a rare Aussi violet - related to Viola hederacea
For comparison a flower of a ' normal ' violet of the pansy type - Viola palmensis
Gerd
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Just in flower - but you need a magnifier for detecting the blossoms -
This is Viola fusco-violacea - a rare Aussi violet - related to Viola hederacea
For comparison a flower of a ' normal ' violet of the pansy type - Viola palmensis
Gerd
interesting--its almost more like the cleistogamous flowers many violets have, rather than the showy ones..
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Pulsatillas are still flowering
1.Pulsatilla vulgaris gotlandica
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Sorry. Pics 2,3 are Pulsatilla flavescens
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Robin, Podophyllum emodi is now called P. hexandrum. It is very beautiful both in flower, foliage and fruit, a big, pendant squashy thing, tomato red. It germinates best from fresh seed but is generally easy in a cool, leafy soil but takes a few years to flower, in my experience. The seedlists usually have it.
The Arnebia has spots on some flowers and not on others because they appear as the flower ages (have I got that right? or do they start spotted and the spots disappear as the flowers age?) There is some Christian legend about them I think, something to do with fingerprints or ? Someone will know.
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Lesley,thanks for giving the comment to Robin and I agree with it. When the Arnebia
flowers open they are nicely dotted and after some days the dots vanish and the flowers are simply
yellow. I asked a chemist about this and she told me, that the dots are probably from anilin colours
which react with the oxygen in the air. In nature these plants grow in Eastern Turkey and the
Caucasus and are very garden worthy plants for full sun or light shade and flower reliable and profusely
(sometimes 2-3 times in the year). Seed raising is simple, but caution- plants are tap-rooted.
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Oleg,
Pulsatilla flavescens is a real beauty :o 8)
My Pulsatillas show already attractive seed heads.
Now it is Aquilegia time...
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Thank you, Armin. Fantastic Aquilegias. We have to wait for a couple of weeks for them to flower. Pulsatillas are as beautiful with seedheads as with flowers, aren't they. Only one is now with seeds - P. slavica. some just open their buds
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Oleg,
yes, Pulsatillas with seed heads are still attractive in a flower bed.
And, I like the Aquilegias, so many kinds, different colors and forms...
Both species are a real enrichment for every garden.
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Great pics everyone. That yellow Pulsatilla is glorious, but I just adore that teeny tiny Ausie Viola that I've never heard of before. Thanks Gerd!!
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Finally, after I saw Armin's Aquilegia chrysantha I got it!
This is the species, which seeds I received year after year when I ordered Aquilegia aurea - a famous columbine of Bulgarian origin.
I hope the unknown sender will take a look at this Forum!
Gerd
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Pulsatillas are still flowering
1.Pulsatilla vulgaris gotlandica
nice--i esp like the yellow..
who is carrying pulsatilla seed? i dont remember any on the lists i have looked at, but then, maybe i wasnt paying attention to the genus yet...
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Robin, Podophyllum emodi is now called P. hexandrum. It is very beautiful both in flower, foliage and fruit, a big, pendant squashy thing, tomato red. It germinates best from fresh seed but is generally easy in a cool, leafy soil but takes a few years to flower, in my experience. The seedlists usually have it.
The Arnebia has spots on some flowers and not on others because they appear as the flower ages (have I got that right? or do they start spotted and the spots disappear as the flowers age?) There is some Christian legend about them I think, something to do with fingerprints or ? Someone will know.
Thanks, Lesley, for your reply and all the information - it's great to have the beautiful and interesting, flower, foliage and fruit in a plant. I often look at how to prolong a plants interest in the garden with these qualities - stems can be wonderful too and how a plant displays itself viewed from different angles.
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Lesley,thanks for giving the comment to Robin and I agree with it. When the Arnebia
flowers open they are nicely dotted and after some days the dots vanish and the flowers are simply
yellow. I asked a chemist about this and she told me, that the dots are probably from anilin colours
which react with the oxygen in the air. In nature these plants grow in Eastern Turkey and the
Caucasus and are very garden worthy plants for full sun or light shade and flower reliable and profusely
(sometimes 2-3 times in the year). Seed raising is simple, but caution- plants are tap-rooted.
Rudi, thanks to you and Lesley for answering this interesting reaction of this pretty flower to losing it's spots! (No leopard then ;D)
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Flowering today a group of Allium hollandicum.
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Today’s pictures
Anthyllis montana ‘Rubra’.
Globularia nana.
8)
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Wow Lampwick, that Anthyllis looks pretty special. Not come across it before. Very nice.
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Wow Lampwick, that Anthyllis looks pretty special. Not come across it before. Very nice.
Paul, I can assure that this is a very easy, always flowering plant. I have it many years in a raised bed near the house,
very sunny and hot in summer.
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=376.msg11467#msg11467 (http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=376.msg11467#msg11467)
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Luit,
Never even heard of the Genus before. I just love the combination of those fuzzy grey leaves and the pink flowers. Probably attracted my eye more now than in 2007 as Robin's pic shows the leaves a bit more and so I could catch the contrast. I love it!
From your link....... It's interesting to see the pics in that post of your garden too. You do have some space, don't you. Great to see the shots showing the full garden beds. I'd imagine they've changed a bit by now though? Filled in a bit more? And Oh, that glasshouse in the background. :o
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Wow Lampwick, that Anthyllis looks pretty special. Not come across it before. Very nice.
Thanks Paul, :)
As Luit says, it’s an easy plant to grow in a hot sunny place. In the winter months it looks a sad thing, and I would think that some would dig it up and discard it (which is what my brother-in-law did, despite me telling him that it would appear again in the following spring) ???
I don’t give it any overhead protection during the winter months, and the plant you see must be approaching eight years old. It is native to the European Alps, from the Pyrenees to the Apennines.
You will rarely see it offered in many garden centers, but a search through specialist alpine nursery lists will yield positive results. I don’t see it very often in the many gardens I have visited; and this is a shame as it is a wonderful eye-catching plant and deserves to be seen more often!
Here is a close-up of foliage and flowers, which are unfortunately covered with fine misty droplets of rain.
8)
You can also see it here – third picture down. ;D
http://portraitsofalpineplants.com/Portraits%20of%20Alpine%20Plants.htm
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some pics from today :
Papaver 'Kleine Taenzerin' ( = little dancing girl) a breeding from Graefin Zeppelin nursery
Digitalis Mix
Iris pseudoacorus 'Berlin Tiger' + Aeonium black
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I really like the clse-up of the Anthyllis. It looks as if it's been iced. :) Though I know the name and now, what it looks like, I've never seen a plant. Does it set seed? That would be the only way we could introduce it. It is listed on our Biosecurity Index so someone must have had it at some time.
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Hans, for the Gentiana depressa seed I think now that I was mixing you up with Johannes Hoeller. :)
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Cohan, the seedlists of both the Scottish Rock Garden Club and Alpine Garden Society - no doubt the Nth American RGS and the British Columbia RGC as well - carry large selections of many pulsatilla species in all colours.
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Does anyone here in Aus have the Anthyllis and can spare a piece? I really like it, but have no idea whether it is here or not. Otherwise, as Lesley mentioned for NZ, the only way to get it is to try to get seed of it?
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As a point of note- Anthyllis montana from seed exchanges could end up being A.vulneraria. I should know I have been caught out twice. It is a nice species, but coarser than A.montana and with variable flower colour (yellow, red, orange or purple). Mojmir Pavelka (EuroSeeds) offered wild collected seed of both A.montana and A.aurea last year.
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Cohan, the seedlists of both the Scottish Rock Garden Club and Alpine Garden Society - no doubt the Nth American RGS and the British Columbia RGC as well - carry large selections of many pulsatilla species in all colours.
thanks, lesley--i'm not a 'real' member of anything at this point, since i left toronto (cactus and succulent club there); out here with no hope of ever attending any meetings, i havent got around to joining any groups (i know there are some not in person benefits--like seed lists ;)--so i havent seen any of these seedlists...lol
i assume these are offerings from member's gardens vs wild collections?
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Hans,
Love the Iris 'Berlin Tiger' deserves the name!
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Some pics form the later days:
Trollius laxus albiflorus 09
Pulsatilla alpina 09
Anemone nemorosa Green Fingers 09
Pulsatilla vernalis 09
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Yes Cohan, and you have to take the risk of not getting what you really thought you were getting- garden hybrids aside. ;) Though I must also add that some seed is true and worth obtaining.
I can send you some of my 'Pulsatilla ex Papageno' if you like- they are white P.vulgaris as far as I can see. :-\
Today in the woodland garden -Erigeron elatior
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More from the last week:
Ranunculus adoneus 09
Primula Johanna 09
Hepatica x kyrvinberg 09
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Yes Cohan, and you have to take the risk of not getting what you really thought you were getting- garden hybrids aside. ;) Though I must also add that some seed is true and worth obtaining.
I can send you some of my 'Pulsatilla ex Papageno' if you like- they are white P.vulgaris as far as I can see. :-\
Today in the woodland garden -Erigeron elatior
thanks, simon--yes, those are the conditions i would expect with such a listing--and probably some things listed you'd be hard pressed to find, elsewhere.. would be ok for me with pulsatillas, as i am just starting and neednt be too exclusive--lots of room for early spring blooms!
white P vulgaris would be nice, thanks :) i think both of my current plants are turning out to be standard violet flowered, vs one rubrum--which is actually fine with me--with only two plants, one colour is better! i'd rather drifts or patches than spots ;)
nice erigeron, btw;
i thought i had pictures of my tiny tiny erigeron from the low mountains/montane zone here--(possibly compositus, i will need to look at flower stem characters, i guess) but i find i didnt load those pics to the computer, yet;
it seemed so compressed this spring as to be nearly invisible-probably not much more --if not less! than a centimetre in height..now if has fluffed up/grown a bit, and i see around 5 buds on it--i collected it as a snippet in late summer 07, and it has just given me a flower or two at once til now; unfortunately, its not in fullest sun(i scarcely have any), so the flower stems are a touch longer than they could be, though the plant remains very compact..
are erigerons self fertile?
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Hans,
Love the Iris 'Berlin Tiger' deserves the name!
Hristo ,
Yes I like it much too -it is a german breeding from Tamberg (1988 )- it needs not wet.
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Wow Magnar - some great plants there !
The Ranunculus is new to me... and beautiful !
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Superb plants, beautifully captured, Magnar ... as usual. Do you EVER fail to get blooms? ;D
Ranunculus adoneus is the Snow Buttercup from Colorado - it is one of the plants at the top of my wish list (along with R. semiverticillatus and R. anemoneus) and I am so thrilled to see it being grown to perfection in northern Norway. Congratulations Magnar.
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Does anyone here in Aus have the Anthyllis and can spare a piece? I really like it, but have no idea whether it is here or not. Otherwise, as Lesley mentioned for NZ, the only way to get it is to try to get seed of it?
Hi Paul,can't help you out with that and Aqis only allow A vulneraria. bye Ray
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Magnar, thanks for the super pictures.
It seems Pulsatilla is slowly developing into a year-round flowering plant in this Forum ??? :-\ 8)
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From your link....... It's interesting to see the pics in that post of your garden too. You do have some space, don't you. Great to see the shots showing the full garden beds. I'd imagine they've changed a bit by now though? Filled in a bit more? And Oh, that glasshouse in the background. :o
Paul here are some pictures, how it looks two years later.
After I made the first pictures yesterday, I saw the lawn and edges needed a cut.
Early this morning it was done (not by me!) ;D, shown in the next two pictures.
Some plants are getting really big already, like Tanacetum haradjanii and Onosma alborosea.
Oh, and the glasshouses are not used anymore for plants etc. It's really a shame, but......
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A great Ranunculus, Magnar. Is it seed raised?
Cohan, yes I think you should get seeds from just one plant of Erigeron if there are insects around. I have a E.compositus- but I have had it so long and for so many generationsI am not sure how pure it is- the leaves and flowers look the same, but the plant is now much bigger- maybe 15cm.
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Luit,
Wow! All that space and so many wonderful treasures!! 8)
Magnar,
Fantastic plants. That Hepatica, those Pulsatilla, and the Anemone 'Green Fingers' all have great "Wow factor" to me. Excellent!!
Ray,
I hadn't even thought about checking the ICON database at this stage. Still hoping that it is already here, as there are quite a number of things already here that aren't on the ICON database.
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Smashing Green Fingers Magnar! I must get ours in the ground, the flowers are quite pitful as it is grown in a pot and I was not very impressed with it. Your shots certainly changed my mind, good to know it is a beauty.
johnw
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Cohan, NARGS offers both wild-collected and garden-raised seed in the seed exchange... the list is vast. I can't put my hand on my copy (nor download the list at the moment!) but there are usually ~5000 species/varieties of garden origin seeds, and a couple thousand species of wild-collected ones. One does have to be a member though. Lots of pulsatilla... from the excess seeds that were sent out to individual chapters after the exchange, I picked up 5 species. The ones I've started have been easy to germinate, presumably as long as the seeds are relatively fresh. (Deno implies that dry storage is fatal, eventually, however.)
Re. self-fertility of erigeron... Yes, most likely, since it's the norm and opposite is unusual...
It seems Pulsatilla is slowly developing into a year-round flowering plant in this Forum
Hmm, I've got some that are only developing buds right now!
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Vitaliana primuliflora v. cinerea
Corydalis nobilis
Veronica bombycina ssp. bolkardaghensis (x2)
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Superb plants, beautifully captured, Magnar ... as usual. Do you EVER fail to get blooms? ;D
Ranunculus adoneus is the Snow Buttercup from Colorado - it is one of the plants at the top of my wish list (along with R. semiverticillatus and R. anemoneus) and I am so thrilled to see it being grown to perfection in northern Norway. Congratulations Magnar.
Yes, I saw R. adoneus, lots of them, mixed with Caltha leptocephala, when we visted Colorado rocky mountains in 2000 :)
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A great Ranunculus, Magnar. Is it seed raised?
Yes it's grown from seeds, which I bought from Rocky Mountain Rare Plants 3 years ago.
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Smashing Green Fingers Magnar! I must get ours in the ground, the flowers are quite pitful as it is grown in a pot and I was not very impressed with it. Your shots certainly changed my mind, good to know it is a beauty.
johnw
It does very well in the open garden here, no problems at all. Growing bigger every year :)
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Lori,
What a wonderful Vitaliana.. and C. corydalis nobilis is about to flower here too. Very interesting to see Veronica bombycina, it's new to me, I have a lot of seedlings from this spring.
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Thanks Magnar, I have seedlings this year from Ron Ratko. Any idea how they cope with summer heat?
Lori, is the Veronica from EuroSeeds?
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Cohan, yes I think you should get seeds from just one plant of Erigeron if there are insects around. I have a E.compositus- but I have had it so long and for so many generationsI am not sure how pure it is- the leaves and flowers look the same, but the plant is now much bigger- maybe 15cm.
tks simon and lori for the erigeron reply..we also have local wild species, but none in the immediate vicinity, and not blooming as soon as this first flush presumably will...this plant has not very exciting white daisies, but the plant itself is very charming..
if i do see seed (oh--there are PLENTY of insects around!) you are welcome to some, simon..
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Cohan, NARGS offers both wild-collected and garden-raised seed in the seed exchange... the list is vast.
tks, lori--i suppose i should break down and join nargs..that just means less money for plants ;) plus i have long meant to join cactus and succulent society of america, haworthia society, etc etc...
magnar--some real beauties-- a good reminder i need to look at anemone, too!
luc--splendid garden--i like the idea of a structured perimeter with more naturalistic interior..
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Thanks Cohan- I have more Erigeron yet to flower here, mainly North American, you don't seem to have many 'duds' over there ;)
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Thanks, Magnar and Simon! The V. bombycina ssp. bolkardaghensis is from Wrightman's Alpines... got it in my spring order last year. It originates from Turkey, apparently.
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Luit,
Your raised beds are really beautiful and you have still so much empty place!
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Thanks Magnar, I have seedlings this year from Ron Ratko. Any idea how they cope with summer heat?
Lori, is the Veronica from EuroSeeds?
I'm not sure they will be happy in summer heat. Where I saw them in the mountains they were growing in north slopes where water from the melting snow further up was running among them.
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Here's some flowering for me :
1) Iris hookeri
2) Penstemon 'Six Hills'
3) Oxalis 'Ione Hecker'
4) Primula flaccida (Thanks Lesley !! :D )
5) Aquilegia 'Blueberry'
6-7-8-9 : All wonderful hybrids of Lewisia x rediviva - magic from Michael J. Campbell !! - and they're barely starting to flower Michael !! :D :D
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Thanks Cohan- I have more Erigeron yet to flower here, mainly North American, you don't seem to have many 'duds' over there ;)
Ah, what you need is a thicket of Gaultheria shallon, aka "salal". It's redeeming virtues are two: its foliage is cut and sold to the florist trade as "lemon leaves", and its berries make a very highly flavored jelly, like black currant, but moreso.
Otherwise, a rather nondescript suckering ericaceous shrub that under ideal conditions can form impenetrable thickets 10' high. "Ideal conditions" means up the coast from Vancouver at Aristazabel Island, where the annual rainfall is measured in the hundreds of inches.
Parhaps the reason you have a "no duds" attitude is that historically, North American plants were considered quite temperamental in cultivation. I speculate that given the perceived difficulty of growing them, no one bothered with any that weren't in the first rank.
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Try growing it here, Rodger, LOL! (I did, in my earlier, more naive, days!) Just goes to show, we always want what we can't (easily) have! :)
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Some pics form the later days:
Trollius laxus albiflorus 09
Pulsatilla alpina 09
Anemone nemorosa Green Fingers 09
Pulsatilla vernalis 09
Absolutely wonderful plants and photos, Magnar - which to choose specially? All of them! :)
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Townsendia leptotes... please don't tell me this is one of the monocarpic ones! :D
Polemonium confertum, developing buds...
Draba ventosa.
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First flower on my Aquilegia Viridiflora, am utterly charmed by the flower but can't detect any scent but the flower isn't fully open yet.
Maybe tomorrow.
I sowed the seed last spring and planted them out in the garden where they survived our horrible winter.
Plants are only tiny and the sawflies are around already grrrrrrrrr!!
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Thanks Magnar- that's one for the shade bed then.
Lori- i liked the look of the Veronica in your pics- so maybe seeds will be on my next Euroseeds order. Oh and I have seen T.leptodes listed as perennial ;)
Rodger- I meant Erigerons in particular. I am not sure how a shrub from your temperate rainforest would cope here in our dry summer heat.
Luc, Aquilegia ‘Blueberry’ looks good- and ideas as to its parentage?
Lovely Aquilegia viridiflora- I’ve never had any luck with it- so well done!
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How unusual Helen, do describe the scent when the flowers are fully open :)
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Helen, I found that the flowers really scented best in the late afternoon and evening ...but that was in Aberdeen weather ::) The flowers may need to be open fully for a day before the scent is noticeable... it is really delicious!
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Helen,
Isn't the Aquilegia a cutie! I used to have it years ago before I eventually lost it. Such unusual flowers. Was sold here in Aus at one point as A. 'Chocolate Soldiers', but haven't seen it available for years and years now. ::)
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Helen,
What a strong and handsome plant! I had this species too because I love the peculiar charme of the flowers - but my specimen were always somewhat weak.
Gerd
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Townsendia leptotes... please don't tell me this is one of the monocarpic ones! :D
Polemonium confertum, developing buds...
Draba ventosa.
these are very nice, lori--when we were talking about erigeron, i was thinking about townsendias too--they just seem a little showier, florally; this one has nice foliage too--i dont have any yet, but was looking at some on beavercreek's list..
draba is also really nice..
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Here's some flowering for me :
1) Iris hookeri
2) Penstemon 'Six Hills'
3) Oxalis 'Ione Hecker'
4) Primula flaccida (Thanks Lesley !! :D )
5) Aquilegia 'Blueberry'
6-7-8-9 : All wonderful hybrids of Lewisia x rediviva - magic from Michael J. Campbell !! - and they're barely starting to flower Michael !! :D :D
great set of blues and pinks, luc!
i keep looking at some lewisia hybrids ('little plum', i think) at a local place; i want to hold out for species, but this is the only lewisia available in the region, i;m sure...lol
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Ah, what you need is a thicket of Gaultheria shallon, aka "salal".
Nice plant that it is, unfortunately G. shallon is 'breaking out' in SW Ireland & on its way to becoming an aggressive weed. The same may happen or have happened in western Scotland, NZ & similar climates.
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Luc, Aquilegia ‘Blueberry’ looks good- and ideas as to its parentage?
The plant was a gift from a friend Simon - no idea of its parentage -it looks very much like the A. bertolonii (not in flower yet - picture later) I'm growing just a little darker blue.
If you're interested in seed, give me a shout.
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Simon, have you tried growing it since you have been in the mountains?
Robin, still no scent that I can detect. :(
Maggi, none as yet and rain forecast for the next few days.
Paul, it really is a cutie, I couldn't believe that the flowers are so tiny, not sure if it is supposed to be such a tiny plant? ???
Gerd, considering how small the plant is, the stems really do seem to be very strong,I will try and save seeds, these are the first of my aquilegias to flower so hopefully the seeds will be true.
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Paul, Anthyllis montana is on our Bio Index so I'll try for some next season from the source mentioned above. Enough for us both maybe? A. vulneraria is here already and seen around occasionally but only in its scarlet form.
I currently have some seeds germinating from Ron Ratko, 3 so far of 14 species. I DO, I DO, I DO hope that the white Trollius comes up. PLEASE!!!
Cohan, even if the seedlist pulsatilla seeds don't come exactly true, every one is a beauty. I find in the garden that seed from white does make white seedlings, likewise reds from red, purples from purple etc, IN GENERAL, and sometimes the DEPTH or shade of colour varies. Species like alpine, vernalis etc come true (vulgaris seems to keep to itself) and wild collected seed is usually pretty true. But hey, don't you enjoy a lucky dip? And it's worth growing on a whole batch to flowering because especially with white, you will get some thin-petalled plants with weak colour and some with thick texture and solid, clean colour.
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Ah, what you need is a thicket of Gaultheria shallon, aka "salal".
Nice plant that it is, unfortunately G. shallon is 'breaking out' in SW Ireland & on its way to becoming an aggressive weed. The same may happen or have happened in western Scotland, NZ & similar climates.
I LOST MINE ??? over a couple of very dry years!
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Anyone knows who sells mucronulatum??
Göte
Göte
I can send you tiny seedlings of the dwarf form called variously Rhododendron mucronulatum 'Cheju', mucronulatum v. chejuensis, mucronulatum v. ciliatum and correctly as mucronulatum v.taguetii. It is dwarf and purplish with a beautiful thick trunk 10cm in diameter though only 30cm high after 25 years. It seeds about my yard, in the troughs and various pots. Also have a pink tall mucronulatum of which I could send seed.
Just assessing some new dwarf pink ones with very red buds and one has opened a very clear pink. Still lusting for the dwarf white one selected in Japan.
johnw
[johnw , just came across this post- glad to have the correct name now for the dwarf form .
I imported a plant of it from Scotland some 35 years ago under the name Rh. mucronulatum ,dwarf form ,col. summit of Cheju Island , Korea , it is now about 35 cm tall and in autumn colour.
Also grow the tall purple-pink one and the clear pink ./quote]
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Otto,
So does yours seed around the yard too?
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Otto - There was also a named form from Warren Berg called Crater's edge that he collected on Cheju. The colour is a rosy purple which clashes with many other rhodos - halfway between R. keleticum and say R. pseudoyanthinum. I'm not very good at describing colours.
The leaves of your plant are quite different than mine, mine are more rounded with no narrow pointed leaves and so seedlings are generally easy to sort from the tall type.
I will try to take a shot of mine tomorrow but it is just going over.
BTW I have crossed my dwarf one with many other lepidote species; so far x leucaspis and x campylogynum Charopeum Group (now Scotian Bells) look good. Seems to be a good parent for hardiness but I would dearly love to have the dwarf white to cross with leucaspis.
johnw
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Cohan, even if the seedlist pulsatilla seeds don't come exactly true, every one is a beauty. I find in the garden that seed from white does make white seedlings, likewise reds from red, purples from purple etc, IN GENERAL, and sometimes the DEPTH or shade of colour varies. Species like alpine, vernalis etc come true (vulgaris seems to keep to itself) and wild collected seed is usually pretty true. But hey, don't you enjoy a lucky dip? And it's worth growing on a whole batch to flowering because especially with white, you will get some thin-petalled plants with weak colour and some with thick texture and solid, clean colour.
lesley,you're right, i actually wouldnt mind with pulsatillas-- they seem like a nice early season plant for here, so i'd be happy to have lots of them--the two i have are just from a local garden centre, so nothing special in provenance... i was just thinking in general of getting vague maybe hybrids from open pollinated seed of various things, not so much pulsatillas... good info that various species of pulsatilla remain more or less separate; also good tip to keep them all til flowering..
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Sorry- I only grew Aquilegia viridiflora in the UK.
Another of my Geum (not coccineum) in the woodland garden. It starts off yellow and turns red- anyone any ideas?
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Helen,
The Aquilegia was perhaps 20cm or so tall for me. hard to remember exactly now. Definitely diminutive though.
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Thanks Paul, I think mine would top out at 15cms, including the flower.
It will be interesting to see if they come back again next year.
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I had mine for a few years, but probably a milder climate here than yours. Then again, I think I lost mine during the summer, not the winter, so maybe the heat did it in rather than cold. Who knows?
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Otto - I am obviously no better at size than colour. About the size of my dwarf mucronulatum, I measured it today - height 32 inches (81.28cm) with a trunk 5 inches across (12.7cm). It's hard to tell where the trunk ends and root flare begins).
The big plant has not leafed out yet but you can see from the self-sown seedling that they are quite rounded. The leaves of your plant look more like my dwarf pink ones labelled var. ciliatum from Hokkaido. That name seems to be no longer valid and is only to be found in Davidian's book, the Volume Leipodtes. Probably mucronulatum dwarf form would do nicely for mine and yours.
Darn I see another seedling sprouting at the base of the Salix trunk in the seedling photo. They come up everywhere but the only the dwarf form seems to sprout in really gritty mixes, the peat blocks have both forms and intermediates.
johnw
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I'm getting a bit nervous about this dwarf mucronulatum and its deviousness. I found one sneaking into a Draba bryoides var. imbriata of all places!
Also a closer shot of the leaves Otto.
johnw
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The old reliable compact Salix reticulata collected wild in Newfoundland, growing in a trough and always looking so fresh in the Sprint time.
johnw
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Degenia velebitica, seedling planted into tufa in open and unheated alpine house.
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I love seeing Salix reticulata in the mountains here... (and all those other low-growing willows that I definitely can't identify! I sort of think, most of the time, that I can recognize S. reticulata... ???)
Lathyrus vernus 'Gracilis', and a couple of the usual broader-leaved form.
Euphorbia polychroma, very popular here, and spectacular in spring.
Narcissus 'Barrett Browning' - have been in bloom for some time now.
Trollius laxus, wonderful to see in the mountains here. (Must rescue these from under the bird feeder soon!)
Caltha palustris, another native, with Eritrichium canum var. canum, from seed this spring and blooming indoors under the lights in about 3 months from seed!
Paeonia tenuifolia 'Plena' - with burgeoning buds... also quite popular here.
Muscari azureum, or so it was said to be.
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I love seeing Salix reticulata in the mountains here... (and all those other low-growing willows that I definitely can't identify! I sort of think, most of the time, that I can recognize S. reticulata... ???)
you are really in full swing, lori! the trollius have been catching my eye in various photos, i know the name, but not much about them--are they shade plants? will have to look them up....
i agree about the willows...i have a couple of dwarf forms here, but no miniatures yet--one i collected decades ago somewhere in the rockies!! its about 3 feet tall here, and has not spread much (in my old overgrown rock garden!); and an arctic (blue fox?) my mom has planted--maybe about 4-5 feet tall... yesterday i made a garden centre purchase of a variegated cream and pink salix that is supposed to get 4x4 feet, so i am thinking a little willow area....
still will be watching for the miniatures ( i know beaver creek and wrightmans have some, will see if i order this year)
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The big plant has not leafed out yet but you can see from the self-sown seedling that they are quite rounded. The leaves of your plant look more like my dwarf pink ones labelled var. ciliatum from Hokkaido. That name seems to be no longer valid and is only to be found in Davidian's book, the Volume Leipodtes. Probably mucronulatum dwarf form would do nicely for mine and yours.
Darn I see another seedling sprouting at the base of the Salix trunk in the seedling photo. They come up everywhere but the only the dwarf form seems to sprout in really gritty mixes, the peat blocks have both forms and intermediates.
johnw
great little vignette with the seedling and the semps, sedum, etc..
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Barely starting, Cohan!
Trollius laxus grows in wet alpine meadows (alpine = above treeline, hence full sun), and blooms just after the snow melts - in this cool climate, though, it makes a pretty good plant for the border in humusy, well-drained soil, and has a long bloom through the summer (which is rather surprising).
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Barely starting, Cohan!
Trollius laxus grows in wet alpine meadows (alpine = above treeline, hence full sun), and blooms just after the snow melts - in this cool climate, though, it makes a pretty good plant for the border in humusy, well-drained soil, and has a long bloom through the summer (which is rather surprising).
thanks for the info :) i will have to look them up, more, and some anemones have caught my eye too..
that is ONE advantage we have--dont have to worry about stuff burning up in summer, much ;)
garden violas/pansies can go all summer here!
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Forgot this one... The earliest primroses are starting to bloom.
Primula x juliana 'Allure'.
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Lori, do you have possibly a picture of Eritrichium canum var. canum? I mean just this plant alone.
I've never seen this before.
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John,
Well you'll just have to harvest the seeds and send them over here so that they are no longer a pest to you. I wish I had that sort of pest here. :D ;D
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Luit,
Here is Eritrichium canum v. canum... or so I suppose. (Definitely a Boraginaceae! It seems to match the little I could find on the internet, but please advise if it is something else.) I got the seeds from the last NARGS seedex. The flower stalks are about 8" high. The flowers are actually a slightly deeper blue - you know, that problem that cameras have with blue. :) It is certainly not the cushion-type of eritrichium...
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Paul - I have a remnder in iCal for early October to seed you seeds of the dwarf mucronulatum.
johnw
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Mike, the Degenia is a knock-out!
Thanks, all, for such an enjoyable thread!
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Luit,
Here is Eritrichium canum v. canum... or so I suppose. (Definitely a Boraginaceae! It seems to match the little I could find on the internet, but please advise if it is something else.) I got the seeds from the last NARGS seedex. The flower stalks are about 8" high. The flowers are actually a slightly deeper blue - you know, that problem that cameras have with blue. :) It is certainly not the cushion-type of eritrichium...
Lori, it's clear to me now. This plant I know as E. rupestre, but during my lifetime so many names changed that I gave up to remember them all. ::)
But the blue is a very good substitute for most gardeners who cannot grow the difficult Eritrichium.
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Degenia velebitica, seedling planted into tufa in open and unheated alpine house.
The Degenia looks fabulous Mike ! :o
How old is the plant ??
Growing in tufa I would be led to believe that it takes some years to reach that size.
Mine (outside in the rock garden) don't seem to be long lived (2-3 years max).
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Luc
the degenia is now 2 years old from seed which was sown in April 2007. The seed came from Zagreb Botanic Garden and was sown straight away. Only 2 seedlings germinated and both have flowered and are about the same sized plants. One planted into tufa the other into the compost in between tufa. I am surprised the plant in tufa is not more compact.
Mike
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Thank you Mike !
It will be interesting to see if the one in Tufa is longer lived...
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Just from this morning
Clematis chiisanensis - a Korean relative of Clematis alpina
Gerd
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Just from this morning
Clematis chiisanensis - a Korean relative of Clematis alpina
Gerd
Wow, Gerd, that is a lovely relative...the soft creamy yellow with wine markings look particulary good against the blue sky.
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Lori, catching up with this thread is like opening Pandora's Box - the plants just keep coming to tantalize. You have some wonderful ones and Narcissus 'Barrett Browning' is absolutely beautiful in its setting against the pine and surrounded by fallen pine cones - I shall look out for it to plant in a similar situation here
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Just from this morning
Clematis chiisanensis - a Korean relative of Clematis alpina
Not a plant we grow , Gerd and I am fascinated to see those little "horns2 on the shoulders of the flower..... most interesting.
I do agree with all those who are enjoying this thread.... heck... ALL the threads..... always something new to see and much to learn, whether about the plants themselves ofr clever planting combinations etc..... thanks to you all!
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Love your Clematis too Gerd !
Quite special species !
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Very nice, Gerd. Creamy yellow with purple specklings? :o Wow. 8)
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John , thank you for the photos and details of your dwarf form of Rh. mucronulatum ,yours seems to be more freeflowering than mine - also I have yet to see a selfsown seedling ,
but I propagate it from cuttings and layers. the dwarf pink forms are not grown in Australia.
Salix reticulata is my favourite dwarf willow, but unfortunately during a heatwave a few years ago it gave up the ghost , and no one else in Australia grows it . May I ask you for a little fresh seed please - in case it sets seed-but I believe the seeds of all Salix are only viable for 7 -10 days at the most.
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Otto - I have to report that I have never seen a single catkin on this particular Salix reticulata, not for that matter on any of the others. If they ever do flower I will remember you.
The dwarf pink mucronulatum is not grown here either. I raised seed from a pink form that a friend in Hokkaido sent me and of about 15-20 only 4 are pink. I have tried to cross them to get seed but none set last year or the year before. They also have a smashing dwarf white one of which some day I may get seed.
johnw
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This lovely Heuchera seedling bloomed today. It has bronze and pewter spotted leaves and makes a really delightful plant. I just love it when something good pops up.
Love the Clematis chiisanesis. I grow a selection I picked up at Wisley garden centre that should pop any day now. This plant is great for letting it cascade over a rockery as the leaves are well space.
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Now, Jamie, that is a very nice Heuchera seelding indeed. I like the full flower spike... is it likely to be nice and short, too?
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Maggie,
I hate to disappoint, but the spikes are 60-70cm tall, but the foliage is pretty compact. I'll try to get a shot of the clump tomorrow.
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Gerd, I love your chiisanensis, the flowers look similar to the flower I had last year on a Koreana Fragrans seedling which I fiddled with so much taking pics that I broke it off before it was fully open.
Hopefully I will get more flowers this year.
Jamie, your heucera seedling flower is lovely, can you take a pic of the leaves?
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A beautiful and different clematis all right. Looks like it's setting nice seed too? :)
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Hi,
I can't beat Gerd's beautiful wild clematis.
Cultivar C. "Mrs. N. Thompson" welcoming guests to stand in front of the house.
My Roses starting to flower with "Prince Igor",an extraordinary brilliant orange in the beginning fading later to orange/pink.
Ameria, Asphodeline and Brimeura set nice color points in the garden, too.
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Love your Armeria shots Amin. I've no idea why they are ignored, or perhaps taken for granted, they put on such a good show.
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Chris,
sometimes simply things can make us happy! ;) :D
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A couple of things flowering at the moment
Meconopsis Slieve Donard
and Primula Reidii
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Some things in flower now
1.Bongardia chrisogonum
2.Anemonella thalictroides "Semidouble White"
3.Pulsatilla armena (received it with this name, any correction will be appreciated)
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Leontopodium alpina (Mallnitz), a very tiny L.
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Oleg,
The anemonella is outstanding. I never saw a double white before, beautiful.
Paddy
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A few more interesting plants flowering at Edinburgh. the Mec. Superba has not grown to it full size so i have only put in the flower. The Rheum alexandrae for us always flowers it head off and the Roscoea are just starting to flower I will post more when they start
Meconopsis superba 1
Rheum alexandrae
Roscoea cautleoides 2
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John, thank you for showing a close picture of Rheum alexandrae.
I remember having seen it for the first time of my life in flower 3 years ago at the RBGE.
But the nearest place to make a picture for visitors was at least 10 meters away :(
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John, thank you for showing a close picture of Rheum alexandrae.
I remember having seen it for the first time of my life in flower 3 years ago at the RBGE.
But the nearest place to make a picture for visitors was at least 10 meters away :(
we do have some privileges here which makes it easier to photograph plants but a great picture you took from so far away.
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John,
That is a brilliant of a Roscoea. Is that a named form? I thought cautleyoides was yellow, which is why I ask. It is a very nice colour, and what a stonker of a clump!! :o
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John,
That is a brilliant of a Roscoea. Is that a named form? I thought cautleyoides was yellow, which is why I ask. It is a very nice colour, and what a stonker of a clump!! :o
Paul you get the two colour forms growing in the wild together the yellow and the purple we do not have a clonal name for it but there are many clones out there with names. I will post the yellow form once it has a few more flowers on it
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a few things open at the moment
Ramonda serbica
Ramonda nathaliae
Thalictrum orientale a delicate plant
Thalictrum tuberosum a quite robust thing about 18 inches tall with flowers an inch across.
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John,
The Rheum alexandrae is fabulous, so seldom seen. I am amazed that your roscoea is already in flower. Here, the first shoots are just appearing above ground.
Paddy
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a few things open at the moment
Ramonda serbica
Ramonda nathaliae
Thalictrum orientale a delicate plant
Thalictrum tuberosum a quite robust thing about 18 inches tall with flowers an inch across.
Tony,
Your pictures are well suited to tell apart Ramonda serbica (blue anthers) and nathaliae- it's the first time I found a comparism. Thank you!
Gerd
Gerd
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Some SH beauties began to flower here
1. - 3. Pasithea coerulea from Chile
4. also from Chile (Volcan Llaima) - Fragaria chilensis - hardy here!
5. + 6. XRhodoxis 'Hebron Farm' - different colors - also hardy outside!
7. Cotula turbinata from the Table Mountain, South Africa
8. + 9. Cyrtanthus parviflorus, South Africa
Gerd
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4. also from Chile (Volcan Llaima) - Fragaria chilensis - hardy here!
"Chilensis" or "chiloensis"? Fragaria chiloensis is common all along the Pacfic coast from Chile to British Columbia, possibly even into Alaska. Named after the island of Chiloe in Chile.
It's becoming a weed in my garden.
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Two of the traditional games in Ireland are hurling and football. Hurling is a very fast game played with a fist sized leather ball (sliotar) while football is, well, football - not soccer though, all players handle the football. To the point: those who play hurling often refer to football as a sport for those with poor eyesight - need a big ball - my photographs tonight are of the bigger plants in the garden, some trees and shrubs which are in flower now.
Aesculus turbinata - grown from seed
Amelanchier alnifolia (alnifolius?) - grown from seed and a very promising shrub, upright in growth with good sized flowers
Cornus 'Eddie's White Wonder'
Cydonia oblonga
Paddy
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A few more along the same lines:
Halesia caroliniana - grown from seed
Magnolia 'Susan'
Malus floribunda
Staphylea pinnata - grown from seed
Paddy
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Two of the traditional games in Ireland are hurling and football. Hurling is a very fast game played with a fist sized leather ball (sliotar) while football is, well, football - not soccer though, all players handle the football. To the point: those who play hurling often refer to football as a sport for those with poor eyesight - need a big ball - my photographs tonight are of the bigger plants in the garden, some trees and shrubs which are in flower now.
Aesculus turbinata - grown from seed
Amelanchier alnifolia (alnifolius?) - grown from seed and a very promising shrub, upright in growth with good sized flowers
Cornus 'Eddie's White Wonder'
Cydonia oblonga
Paddy
i think what you call football is what we call rugby, perhaps...
in toronto there were splendid giant Aesculus, and there is a famous one i havent seen surviving decades in zone 3 edmonton..not sure of species--standard horse chestnut, probably not the same as yours...
nice to see the Amelanchier--we have wild ones all over the place, (and maybe a few my mom planted, not that you can tell the difference..) they arent in flower or leaf yet, but wont be too long... they could probably easily be kept pruned smallish, but naturally go rather tall and narrow--i think i took photos of some last year around 20 feet nice white flowers, though very short lived.. purple berries are delicious..(there are clones specially for fruit that stay smaller, dont sucker, larger fruit etc)--
also really nice, and a much rounder bush, is Prunus pennsylvanica, red berries not so good out of hand, but the birds devour them eagerly...
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Cohan,
Our 'football' is similar to rugby, I suppose.
I really like the amelanchier. It flowered last year but only sparsely while this year it is simply covered in flower. It is, as you have described, upright in habit appearing as though it will remain columnar in habit. I don't mind if it goes to twenty feet, would suit me fine, good to see it grow to its natural habit. I must watch for the berries and try them out - and keep a few to grow on some more plants.
Aesculus hippocast... (buckeye to you, horsechestnus to us!) makes a big tree here. I have an old tree in the garden about sixty feet high and in full flower now. I also grow some of the smaller verieties.
Paddy
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Paddy,
- a flowering shrub man!
Please keep on posting, I love them!
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How nice that our saskatoonberry, Amelanchier alnifolia, has made it to "the big time", LOL! Cohan, the cultivars that are sold ('Smokey', 'Pembina', etc.) are selections from the wild, chosen for fruit size or flavor, so it sure makes sense that they'd blend in with the wild ones pretty easily. :) Paddy, I hope you get enough fruit to make a pie some day... or, given the yield of one bush, at least a tart! The berries are very tasty.
Beautiful and most unusual (to me) thalictrums! (Before joining this forum, I had thought only T. delavayi, rochbrunianum, et al, were large-flowered... lovely to see more!)
Rheum alexandrae is wonderful too! (I've had R. australe?? (not near so interesting) for a while, from seed years ago, but never doing much... I guess I should treat it better. :o)
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A few more along the same lines:
Halesia caroliniana - grown from seed
Magnolia 'Susan'
Malus floribunda
Staphylea pinnata - grown from seed
Paddy
Paddy,
is the superb Malus floribunda in your garden?
Only knew them as littel plants around 1m high.
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4. also from Chile (Volcan Llaima) - Fragaria chilensis - hardy here!
"Chilensis" or "chiloensis"? Fragaria chiloensis is common all along the Pacfic coast from Chile to British Columbia, possibly even into Alaska. Named after the island of Chiloe in Chile.
It's becoming a weed in my garden.
Rodger,
You are right - it will be Fragaria chiloensis. The other name also exists but
I guess as a synonyme.
Gerd
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Cohan,
Our 'football' is similar to rugby, I suppose.
I really like the amelanchier. It flowered last year but only sparsely while this year it is simply covered in flower. It is, as you have described, upright in habit appearing as though it will remain columnar in habit. I don't mind if it goes to twenty feet, would suit me fine, good to see it grow to its natural habit. I must watch for the berries and try them out - and keep a few to grow on some more plants.
Aesculus hippocast... (buckeye to you, horsechestnus to us!) makes a big tree here. I have an old tree in the garden about sixty feet high and in full flower now. I also grow some of the smaller verieties.
Paddy
paddy, i'll try to get some pictures in of the Amelanchier--as lori said, its saskatoon berry to us, and in my opinion, superior to most blueberries, certainly the bloated watery commercial type.
i suspect fruit growers keep them pruned and to new growth, but old stems develop some great character--i will try to get some shots now while they are still mostly bare..
lori--whichever my mom planted were many years ago, so they have had time to blend in...lol, and the natives seed in all around our property..
paddy--the Aesculus dont normally grow around here, although there are a lot of people talking about that one in edmonton and trying to get some seed distributed from this hardy individual--i'd like to get my hands on some myself :)
smaller would be cool too, if hardy, i dont know much about them; buckeye may be an american name, i know them--little that i know them :) --as horse chestnuts also...
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A few plants in flower in the garden this morning.
Corydalis Wildside Blue.
Ranunculus constantinopolitanus Plena.
Podophyllum Spotty Dotty
Nectaroscordum siculum
and Scilla messeniaca from the Vyros gorge in Greece where it grows with Thalictrum orientale shown earlier by Tony.
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Picture taken today.
Scilla peruviana. Despite its specific name it doesn’t come from South America. I believe it originally arrived in Bristol on a ship called the “Peru” from the Mediterranean. It is shown here growing outside in a raised bed.
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My first flowers on this Meconopsis punicea on a plant that I believe to be perennial. I believe it may be a 5/6 hybrid of punicea. Ian Christie wrote an article on this and other mecs in the Rock Garden in Jan 2007 issue. It is a little less colourful that the biennial one but lovely and hopefully will flower more than once. The habit does seem to suggest this with new rosettes being formed now.
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Uli,
Yes, the Malus floribunda in the photograph is in our garden here. It was planted a little over 20 years ago and has made good growth in the meantime. We gave it space to grow to its natural shape. It is one of the few specimen trees in the garden. Usually I let trees and shrubs grow into each other in a more natural way.
It is probably our favourite tree though, to be honest, my favourite can change with the season and with what it in flower.
Cohan and Lori, I am delighted that I have a tree which will not only look good but which will give me something to eat as well. I am looking forward to the berries and will most certainly put them into a pie/tart.
Cohan, when the smaller chestnuts flower I will post photographs.
Paddy
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Ian I drool with envy that you can grow this in your garden :-\
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So many wonderful photos of flowers and shrubs to catch up on, I shall have to go over them again...and again....thanks everyone :)
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So many exciting flowers and nice photos.
My Paeonia delavayi is flowering for the first time.
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Be sure to sniff the scent of your P. delavayi flowers, Anne Karin, the fragrance is as lovely as the bloom. 8)
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Be sure to sniff the scent of your P. delavayi flowers, Anne Karin, the fragrance is as lovely as the bloom. 8)
I'll do so when it stops raining. ;D It's a bit wet her to day.
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Anne,
I was interested to see the colour of your P. delavayi as I have one which I grew from seed flowering here also at present. Obviously, some variation in colour occurs when this species is grown from seed. The two flowers you show are a little different, perhaps one is fading. The flowers on my plant were very dark.
Two shrubs from the garden, flowering at present.
Deutzia 'Alpine Magician'
Solanum crispum 'Glasnevin'
Paddy
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I forgot to tell. The second pitcure is a different plant. I am not sure if it is a delavayi. It can be a Paeonia ludlowii. I have lost the label.
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Paddy,
this Deutzia 'Alpine Magician' I find no words only :P :P :P :P
Belongs to which Deutzia species ? Question if this cultivar is hardy enough in my area?
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Uli,
This is a form of Deutzia pururascens. Seed was collected by Reginald Farrer in Burma and sent to the Botanic Gardens in Glasnevin, Dublin, where the resulting plants were grown on. Many years later, one of the Botanic Garden staff, Dr. Charles Nelson, noticed that one seedling was distinct and named it 'Alpine Magician'.
I don't like the general habit of the shrub, always looking a bit miserable but then it produces these lovely flowers. I must take cuttings and try it elsewhere in the garden and maybe it will grow better there.
Paddy
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I feel the same as Uli, Paddy, the CU looks magical and what a great story of it's journey to being named :P :P :P
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I've never seen a Deutzia with such a super flower colour.
Anne Karin.... it has been pouring with rain here since mid afternoon.... did you send your rain over here? ;)
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Re Deutzia 'Alpine Magician': unfortunately this plant has very restricted distribution and I don't know of it in commerce to date. Mine came from the Botanic Garden at Glasnevin, Dublin.
I really haven't appreciated it, I must admit, and must make an effort to propagate it and get it about.
Paddy
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Well Maggi and Anne, it's raining here too and has been, interspersed with snow and hail, all week. Pity me at 6am tomorrow, outside, setting up a market in the cold and dark and the forecast rain. Queensland and northern NSW in OZ are having bad floods so there seems to be rain everywhere. :'(
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Anne Karin.... it has been pouring with rain here since mid afternoon.... did you send your rain over here? ;)
I believe the rain is coming from west. ;) It start around that time her also.
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Hi folks here are a few photos taken in the garden to day (well a few a bit earlier this month). Guess they might bring back the "spring feeling", but that is how it is when the Vikings up north are allowed to join in...... ;D
First some Hepaticas
1 Hepatica nobilis 'Asarifolia' (this plant is collected in Norway and as the name indicate, no lobes but more like asarum leaves)
2 Hepatica nobilis 'Oe'(double fertil form with pollen)
3 Hepatica nobilis 'Flore Plena Alba' (collected in Sweden)
And now a couple of Callianthemums
4 Calliantehemum kernerianum
5 Callianthemum farrerii
Two favorite bulbs in spring
6 Colchicum szovitsii 'Tivi'
7 Tulipa regelii (no flower yet but the leaves are just stunning)
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A small mistake. Here are the Hepatica nobilis 'Asarifolia'
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A few more.......
1 Iberis pruttii
2 Soldanella carpatica
3 Primula sonchifolia
4 Iris sp. (collected Armenia, about 15 cm high.....any idea?)
5 Meconopsis quintuplinervia
6 Androsace helvetica
7 Androsace bisulca var. aureata
8 Miyakea integrifolia (just the amazing leaves an a flower bud)
9 Miyakea integrifolia
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Wow, I love that last pic, the glorious leaves on the tulips as well... and that stunning Soldanella!! :o
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A stunning selection Geir, especially the meconopsis and the callianthemums. Is C. farreri REALLY blue? And I love that last plant, so pulsatilla-like in the flowers, but quite different foliage, a real beauty.
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Yes Lesley, Callianthemum ferrarii is blue and in my opinion the "number one Callianthemum". And when it comes to Miyakea integrifolia, it could have been named by the synonym Pulastilla integrifolia. It is evergreen and seems to be quite close to Pulsatilla vernalis. I tried to crosspollinate those two species this year, so maybe will be a blue Pulsatilla vernalis in a couple of years.... ;D ;D
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Magnificent, Geir ... the myakea is absolutely glorious - it doesn't need to be crosspollinated (but the results could be interesting). :D
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I totally agree Cliff............so it's JUST FOR FUN 8)
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Geir, your flowers and foliage shots are a wonderful in sight in to your garden. Each one looks superb with great textures but I particularly love the Iris from Armenia and the wavy embossed tulip leaf, can't wait to see more delights from Norway :)
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Flowering now above Montreux are mountainsides dusted in white Narcissus poeticus. I had been waiting for the opportunity to see them as they only flower for about one month from May 7th - June 7th and people come from far and wide to experience walking close by. Mid May they are a their best at Les Avants and we took the funicular up to Son Loup to walk down past the meadows heavy with late afternoon scent. The views were magnificent and the low afternoon light filtered through each Narcissus head - poetry indeed.
The whole experience was unforgettable from elation to deflation when I lost my trusted camera at Montreux station and returned home empty handed but with visions in my mind. Unbelievably a kind soul handed my camera in - I was ecstatic, although the photos are definitely not as good as the vision 8)
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Narcissus poeticus everywhere...
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Fantastic images of Narcissus poeticus - my absolute favorite, a memory from childhood when it grew in our garden. The scent is what does it for me, carries me back to those halcyon days .... :)
I saw a lone garden escape N poeticus in a field near our campsite in N Norfolk a couple of weekends ago. Doubt I'll see any next week as we head off to Wales. To think we could have been to Les Avants ourselves if we had made our Swiss trip. Next year maybe!
Perhaps just as well we did not try to fit it in this year, just moved out of the house to allow the builder in for the messy bit of our developments. Work is still (just) on plan to be finished for Ruths 12th Birthday .... her own room again, at last!
In flower here is a chance seedling of Campanula thyrsoides which I have found tricky to raise in a pot. This one found its own place in my big raised bed. Picture will have to stay on the camera for a while, the removals men took my download cable :(
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Tony, so glad the Narcissus photos gave you a boost amongst all the building. Yes, you should see them another year - still a walk on the wild side without hordes of tourists during the week...we were almost the only ones late afternoon....
Our building has only just finished - what a relief - and the rockery, although dusty, is ready to shine at last ;D
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Some flowers from today:
1) Iris pseudacorus
2) Pyracantha coccinea
3) Rhododendron ???
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Robin,
Wonderful pictures of the wild Narcissus. Amazing amount of them. Even more wonderful to hear that some people will still hand in found items. Congratulations!
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Wow, wonderful plants, all!
It's narcissus time here...
N. 'Carlton', 'Missouri', etc....
Myosotis decumbens, starting to bloom.
Omphalodes verna, Mileum effusum 'Aureum', Rheum palmatum
Crambe maritima, looking very fungal!
Iris reticulata, various kinds in bloom now, with chionodoxa
Geum triflorum, a prairie native; this is as open as the flowers get! It's showier when the plumey seedheads develop, hence it's common name, prairie smoke.
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nice stuff as usual everyone!
geir---mayakea stunning! will have to look those up...
lori--the omphalodes is intriguing...; didnt realise G triflorum was so low growing, does it stay that way? we have geums every two feet here (one of the first colonisers of any reasonably moist/not parched spot) presumably G rivale and, at least one of the yellows...they are much taller (i see in royer and dickinson they mention 40cm high point for triflorum, starting point for the others)... it would be worthwhile to me to get triflorum seeing it shorter., esp if it were a small clone.....
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What an amazing Spring rush Lori, with plants flowering together that here would be separated by weeks or more.
Well worth the wait 8)
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Lori, a lovely feeling of new life in your Spring flower photos and I love the little Myosotis decumbens :)
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I always get the same feeling out of seeing the snowdrops start here. Not so much the autumn species, but the first of the elwesii etc, which start here in autumn and flower right on through the winter. Yes, it is only winter, but it feels like spring is already here. Just because here they don't wait for spring doesn't mean I can't still enjoy them. ;D
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A good early summer morning today in south east UK with bees enjoying the Cistus creticus.
Geir I too thought your Myakea photo was fabulous.
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Melvyn, should you not iron those petals before you take their photo? ::) ;D ;)
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A few more from the subarctic hinterlands...
As these are likely the only catkins I'm likely to see on my dwarf willows, I'd best post them! Salix cf. kurilensis.
And helping to make pulsatilla season into a year-round event, here's Pulsatilla campanella, now open (with seedlings of Lewisia rediviva to the left.)
Draba rigida
Polemonium confertum, native to the more southerly Rockies (Colorado, etc.) starting to bloom... I will repost later, in full bloom, as these are really lovely!
Schivereckia podolica
Narcissus 'Jetfire'
Primula veris elatior, starting to bloom.
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Melvyn, should you not iron those petals before you take their photo? ::) ;D ;)
I think maybe I should have tried Maggi, do you think its reminiscent of a certain royal wedding dress a few years ago?
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Melvyn, should you not iron those petals before you take their photo? ::) ;D ;)
I think maybe I should have tried Maggi, do you think its reminiscent of a certain royal wedding dress a few years ago?
Just a bit, Melvyn... was it you who neglected to iron that, as well?? :D ;D ;)
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A few more from the subarctic hinterlands...
As these are likely the only catkins I'm likely to see on my dwarf willows, I'd best post them! Salix cf. kurilensis.
And helping to make pulsatilla season into a year-round event, here's Pulsatilla campanella, now open (with seedlings of Lewisia rediviva to the left.)
Primula veris, starting to bloom.
Hello Lori,
your P. veris looks more like a Primula elatior. ;) :)
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Incredible spread of Narc poeticus. As good as the Milky Way on a perfectly clear night. :) I also love the Crambe maritima, one of my favourite plants which is always beautiful, from first pushing through the gound until its seeds mature. This year, and after the seeds have gone, mine is coming up in little spots up to a metre away.
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It does look like rather cool foliage on the Crambe, doesn't it? Is it one of the kale family? I think I've seen Lesley's pics of it before.... blue-grey crinkly foliage?
Lori,
I just adore that Pulsatilla campanella. So elegant!! :o Such a different form to the usual Pulsatillas (and I love the form of the others, this one is just different! ;D).
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You are absolutely right, Aruby - it is Primula elatior! (My mistake, and corrected above. Thank you!)
Gentiana verna, again.
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Paul, yes, Crambe maritima is a Brassicaceae and, apparently, "seakale", is a common name (and the leaves are edible)... native to the UK seacoast and elsewhere, I understand? It reminds me very much of broccoli, up until the blooming stage - I like it a lot (nonetheless... in case that wasn't clear ;)) The flowers smell deliciously like honey.
Here's another Crambe, this one looking more rhubarb-like, at this stage - the flowers are also honey-scented and borne in meter-wide spheres on 2m stalks... Crambe cordifolia - love it!
(As amazing at it must seem to many of you, many perennials are just emerging now, here!)
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Flowering today in the woodland garden:
Phyteuma spicatum
Polemonium pauciflorum
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As good as the Milky Way on a perfectly clear night. :)
Hi Lesley,
Here in the UK it is very difficult to see the Milky Way stretching across the night sky, even on the clearest nights; due to the intrusive glow of thousands of streetlights in town and cities. Perhaps up in Scottish Highlands it is more visible……..but from NZ it must be a wonderful sight! :)
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Simon,
that Polemonium is really sweet! I take it, it is quite a small plant.
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Jamie, it is maybe 30cm tall and more laxly flowered than P.caeruleum. Tough though and able to seed around gently.
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Just a few more pic's taken to day in the garden.
1 Arnebia pulchra
2 Arisaema triphyllum
3 Anemonella thalicroides (Some named selection.....label fade)
4 Saxifraga purpurascens
5 Saxifraga hypostoma
6 Gentiana oschtenica
7 Ranunculus seguieri
8 Ranunculus glacialis
9 Anemone rupicola
10 Eritrichium nanum (Tiny plant, but still..... ;))
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Polemonium pauciflorum is one of my favorite plants - a subtle beauty.
Terrific plants, gmoen!
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Some flowers from today
1.+2. Edraianthus pumilio - very persistent
3. Paeonia veitchii (var. woodwardii?)
4. - 6. Paris - not always quadrifolius but sometimes with 5 leaves, petals and sepals
Gerd
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...and a few more
1 Pyrethrum leontopodium
2 Primula maximowiczii
3 Primula maximowiczii (close)
4 Hymenoxis grandiflora
5 Clematis coulmbiana var tenuiloba
6 Iris sp. (another of the Armenia collection)
7 Lewisia longipetala
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Geir,
very beautiful plants. I like the P. maximowiczii and the Iris from Armenia especially, their colours are spectacular.
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Some plants in flower here today:
1) Androsace lactea
2) Maianthenum canadense
3) Phyteuma scheuzeri
4) Ranunculus alpestris
5) Ranunculus crenatus
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Lots of photographs from everyone today :D
A few Deutzias (Dootsia or Doytsia ?)
Deutzia 'Iris Alford'
Deutzia 'Magicien'
Deutzia 'Mont Rose'
Deutzia gracilis 'Nikko'
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A few jasmines:
Jasminum parkeri
Jasminum humile
Jasminum beesianum
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I vote for "Doytsia", Giles :D and I love your D. 'Mont Rose'.
Your Jasminum pix remind me that it is some time since I saw my little Jasminum parkeri...... I fear the wee soul has been swamped by something larger ...... or it may have been too cold a spot for it.... either way.... it's gone. :'(
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Just a few more pic's taken to day in the garden.
1 Arnebia pulchra
2 Arisaema triphyllum
3 Anemonella thalicroides (Some named selection.....label fade)
4 Saxifraga purpurascens
5 Saxifraga hypostoma
6 Gentiana oschtenica
7 Ranunculus seguieri
8 Ranunculus glacialis
9 Anemone rupicola
10 Eritrichium nanum (Tiny plant, but still..... ;))
these are alll really nice-- and for me, tiny is not a 'but' its a good feature itself :) also love the sax hypostoma
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Some plants in flower here today:
1) Androsace lactea
2) Maianthenum canadense
3) Phyteuma scheuzeri
4) Ranunculus alpestris
5) Ranunculus crenatus
these are all really choice!
fun to see the maianthemum--which grows wild all over the place here, and is a favourite--here it may just be emerging, if that... where is your plant from?
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...and a few more
1 Pyrethrum leontopodium
2 Primula maximowiczii
3 Primula maximowiczii (close)
4 Hymenoxis grandiflora
5 Clematis coulmbiana var tenuiloba
6 Iris sp. (another of the Armenia collection)
7 Lewisia longipetala
Geir, this group of plants in your rockery is really gorgeous - Pyrethrum leontopodium is stunning for leaf and flower and I think the Clematis coulmbiana var tenuiloba is such a delicate beauty - everything looks in perfect condition :)
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...and a few more
1 Pyrethrum leontopodium
2 Primula maximowiczii
3 Primula maximowiczii (close)
4 Hymenoxis grandiflora
5 Clematis coulmbiana var tenuiloba
6 Iris sp. (another of the Armenia collection)
7 Lewisia longipetala
I managed to raise some seedlings of Primula maximowiczii and I am looking forward to
the resulting flowering plants (hopefully) - what a color!
Gerd
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Some flowers from today
1.+2. Edraianthus pumilio - very persistent
3. Paeonia veitchii (var. woodwardii?)
4. - 6. Paris - not always quadrifolius but sometimes with 5 leaves, petals and sepals
Gerd
I would love to have a persitent plant like your Edraianthus pumilio, Gerd, it's a really intense colour and looks wonderful in the sunlight 8)
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A few jasmines:
Jasminum parkeri
Jasminum humile
Jasminum beesianum
Giles, your Jasmines look heavenly especially Jasminum beesianum - which is the most scented?
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J.humile, Robin. But some of the tender ones, are the best for fragrance.
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...and a few more
1 Pyrethrum leontopodium
2 Primula maximowiczii
3 Primula maximowiczii (close)
4 Hymenoxis grandiflora
5 Clematis coulmbiana var tenuiloba
6 Iris sp. (another of the Armenia collection)
7 Lewisia longipetala
Geir the pyrethum is lovely. Is it growing outdoors with you? I had this plant twice but have managed to kill it here :-\
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Geir, I love the Saxifraga purpurascens, never heard of!, the Clematis columbiana var tenuiloba,and the Primula max. of course.
Well, I like all, you showed a terriffic collection of beautiful alpines.
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Here in the UK it is very difficult to see the Milky Way stretching across the night sky, even on the clearest nights; due to the intrusive glow of thousands of streetlights in town and cities. Perhaps up in Scottish Highlands it is more visible……..but from NZ it must be a wonderful sight! :)
I live away from the cities nowadays and the sky on clear nights is a wondous thing. We see the Milky Way as a wide river of white, stars of all sizes and colours, satellites, the occasional comet, falling and shooting stars and of course the planets, at different times of the night. There's a place at the top of the South Island called Lake Rotoiti (ro-toe-ee-tee) where, on a clear, frosty night in mid winter, you can see literally dozens of shooting stars all shooting at once, seemingly into the surrounding forest and the lake, the reflections are so strong and clear. I've not heard of anything else like it. Truly fabulous.
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Your Jasminum pix remind me that it is some time since I saw my little Jasminum parkeri...... I fear the wee soul has been swamped by something larger ...... or it may have been too cold a spot for it.... either way.... it's gone. :'(
Maggi, I'd offer you seed but mine makes plenty, little black berries, then a few days later when I look again, they're all gone. They seem not ripe enough at first then it's too late. I'll keep trying though.
What a great selection of picture here today. Well done Geir, with the little eritrichium and I'm thrilled that my little Prim. maximowiczii are doing well, died down now to whitish, resting buds. Can't wait until those wonderful flowers appear. And a beautiful clematis too. Had seed a couple of times but no germination.
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Thanks for the info on Myosotis, Lesley - I will have to look up some of those that are native to N. Z. - they sound very interesting!
(Hmm, the beautiful photos and talk of Primula maximowiczii has made me realize how late spring is this year; from photos, I see mine was in bloom at this time last year, but will likely take another 2 (3?) weeks this year. :o)
Not much new today of any particular note... Epimediums are finally up, a couple of the earliest with their first flowers.
Pulmonaria vallarsae 'Margery Fish' (pictured) and others coming into bloom.
Narcissus 'Thalia'
Iris suaveolens
I managed to get rid of a couple of trays of seedlings at the local rock garden club's plant sale this weekend, and picked up a load of tufa for a new bed! :D
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Some plants in flower here today:
1) Androsace lactea
2) Maianthenum canadense
3) Phyteuma scheuzeri
4) Ranunculus alpestris
5) Ranunculus crenatus
these are all really choice!
fun to see the maianthemum--which grows wild all over the place here, and is a favourite--here it may just be emerging, if that... where is your plant from?
Thanks,
I bought the Maianthemum last year from Potterton's.
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fun to see the maianthemum--which grows wild all over the place here, and is a favourite--here it may just be emerging, if that... where is your plant from?
Thanks,
I bought the Maianthemum last year from Potterton's.
cool..i'll share some pics when ours are active ..slow spring here..
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fun to see the maianthemum--which grows wild all over the place here, and is a favourite--here it may just be emerging, if that... where is your plant from?
Thanks,
I bought the Maianthemum last year from Potterton's.
cool..i'll share some pics when ours are active ..slow spring here..
Nice, would like to see them 'en masse' in the wild
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Wow, I've been away for four days and it looks like it's going to be some hard work to catch up with all these posts... ;D
6 pages on flowering now alone... ::)
Thanks for these wonderful posts ... Wim, Lori, Gerd, Geir !
Geir, you don't post very often, but when you do it's well worth the wait... Wow ! :o
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The meadow grass in the garden is changing everyday with new wild flowers emerging in between the grasses swaying in the breeze....my all time favourite wild flower the Harebell is there once again welcoming as I go in and out of the door :) It's very difficult to photograph even in the morning light because of the contrast in the sunlight on the bell, as seen in the group shot, but here are my efforts to show you how much it means to me :)
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Geir the pyrethum is lovely. Is it growing outdoors with you? I had this plant twice but have managed to kill it here
Ian;
Yes i grow my Pyrethrum in the open garden, BUT it only works if I protect it with something against rain in late autumn and winter. In normal winters there are no rain, but snow. It seeds it self in the garvel around the plants, so if one plant dies there are more to come ;)
Geir, I love the Saxifraga purpurascens, never heard of!
Lvandelft;
I totally agree with you, the Saxifraga purpurascens is a very nice plant. This small member of the section Micranthes comes from the Kliuchevskaia Volcano in the Kamchatka peninsula, where it grows in volcanic ash and cold ravines, is not often seen in culture. To bad, because I find it long lived and quite easy to grow (even if I do not have volcanic ash and a cold ravine in my garden). The whole plant in the picture are about 15 cm across.
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Just a few more pic's taken to day in the garden.
3 Anemonella thalicroides (Some named selection.....label fade)
Gerd,
It looks like one I bought as 'Babe' from Peters.
You have a really beautifulo collection.
By the way, did you receive the lily bulbs OK Last year?
Göte
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Geir, I love the Saxifraga purpurascens, never heard of!
Lvandelft;
I totally agree with you, the Saxifraga purpurascens is a very nice plant. This small member of the section Micranthes comes from the Kliuchevskaia Volcano in the Kamchatka peninsula, where it grows in volcanic ash and cold ravines, is not often seen in culture. To bad, because I find it long lived and quite easy to grow (even if I do not have volcanic ash and a cold ravine in my garden). The whole plant in the picture are about 15 cm across.
Very interesting reading, Geir. I looked again at the picture and I presume you grow it not totally in full sun.
Am I right, when it grows with you in a spot called in German "absonnig" ( don't know an English word for this) ?
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Maianthemum canadense is, unfortunately, rather invasive... in the sense that, rather than forming a nice compact clump, it sends up shoots in an ever-expanding radius several inches out from the first plant. I am having to control their advance, now, after a few years. (This is one of my native plants that I did not plant; it showed up on its own. I suppose it was either in the soil with an Amelanchier alnifolia, probably grown on a local tree farm... or maybe it blew in on one of the howling gales we get, LOL!) Seeing it en masse is the wild really is the best thing!
Enjoying the wonderful plants!
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Some pretty foliage from Heuchera seedlings and a lovely maple hybrid; Acer conspicuum 'Silver Cardinal'.
A note on the genus Acer, although we tend to pronounce it ay-sir (which sounds like an unrefined greeting!), it is derived from the word 'akis', which means pointed, therfore it would be pronounced ah-ker. This should apply to the newer genus Acis, as well. Of course, the point is that we understand each other, but the etymology is interesting. And then there is the character Acis from Greek mythology, who was enamoured with the sea nymph Galatea, and, of course, has a tragic end.
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An interesting point, Jamie. I think the softer pronunciation will take a long time to fade in English gardening circles. Like the way Fuchsia is pronounced in English- rather than a hard German 'ch', or the lack of the 'K' on Kniphofia- or indeed the way Dahlia and Dalea are said. Dahlia must be named after someone called Dahl, and Dalea after someone called Dale... ???
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Anyway less chitter and more pics ;)
Flowering in the woodland garden:
Dianthus barbatus (from seed collected in the Pyrenees)
Aquilegia chrysantha (possibly a hybrid of this species)
Heuchera pulchella (from New Mexico)
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Three bulbs a flowering now in the open;
Camassia leichlinii leichlinii alba
Dichelostemma ida-maia
Dichelostemma ida-maia 'Pink Diamond'
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Jamie,
Whatever about pronounciations, I could not live with Acer conspicuum 'Silver Cardinal'. I'm afraid that leaf marking would not attract me at all; quite the opposite effect really.
Paddy
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It's very difficult to photograph even in the morning light because of the contrast in the sunlight on the bell, as seen in the group shot, but here are my efforts to show you how much it means to me :)
- you managed it perfectly - even the light makes the photo so attractive!
Is there anyone who is able to name the species?
Gerd
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Jamie,
Whatever about pronounciations, I could not live with Acer conspicuum 'Silver Cardinal'. I'm afraid that leaf marking would not attract me at all; quite the opposite effect really.
Paddy
Paddy, of course a matter of taste, but, then again, I have it against a blue wall, which makes it even wilder. My garden is not for the weak of heart. ;D ;D ;D
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Maianthemum canadense is, unfortunately, rather invasive... in the sense that, rather than forming a nice compact clump, it sends up shoots in an ever-expanding radius several inches out from the first plant. I am having to control their advance, now, after a few years. (This is one of my native plants that I did not plant; it showed up on its own. I suppose it was either in the soil with an Amelanchier alnifolia, probably grown on a local tree farm... or maybe it blew in on one of the howling gales we get, LOL!) Seeing it en masse is the wild really is the best thing!
Enjoying the wonderful plants!
i can imagine them, and many of the local natives--most of which seem to stoloniferous/rhizomatous/ creeping/sprawling etc--being problematic in a small garden..perhaps some of that bed edging stuff several inches or more below the surface could contain them? or a raised/isolated bed?
here vegetatively the maianthemum is nearly everywhere (except totally exposed spots), flowers in many places, but seeds rather little, the berries are pretty, but not often seen here(compared to the number of flowers)..
my feeling is that since this area tends to forest, and there is a cycle of increased competition, decreased sun for any open area, most plants here will grow in sun and flower more (even things like the maianthemum that dont need that much sun and may leaves look washed out, will flower more strongly if the trees over them are removed), then gradually flower less as they are overgrown by grass then woodies; but most will hang on, flowering less, or eventually not at all, but still spreading by rhizomes, creeping stems etc--so they can be present for that next opening in the forest caused by a tree/trees falling to take advantage of the temporary sun..
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Cohan, yes, I imagine a barrier would control the stolons that run a couple of inches under the ground. For now, I'll just continue to edge the bed and pull them out of the paths... in the longer term, I may consider replacing it with lower maintenance and showier plants, since I can always see them better in the wild anyway! Very true - I don't see many ripened seedpods on it in shady areas, same with Cornus canadensis, now that I think of it.
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That's interesting to me Lori. I have 7 Cornus canadensis from seed ready to plant out in the spring. So I need for them not to be too shady? I figured that if I plant the lot in a patch there should be a good chance of fruit, assuming they flower of course.
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Two pictures of plants flowering here.
A chance combination of seedlings from Campanula portenschlagiana Major and Hieracium villosum.
And Dicentra Burning Hearts, which I newly acquired.
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This picture is for Tony Lee, in response to a personal message. Maggi, is there any way to include a picture in a personal message?
Dammit, I just realized the pic I want is on a film print, not digital so I can't put it here. The relevant pic is in an AGS Bulletin Tony.
Dammit, can't find the right one.
I'll try to find the original photo print and take a digital pic of it. In the meantime..... If anyone has an up-to-date Index for the AGS Bulletin, could you look up Weldenia candida for me please? I wrote a note about it some years ago and now can't find it. I should be so excited about having been published in the Bulletin that I keep the issue by me at all times. Maybe I was at the beginning but.... I'm looking for the picture of the unearthed, cleaned root mass.
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Wow Luit, the red dicentra is a stunner! It looks like a bright red version of D. 'Ivory Hearts,' similar flower size, shape and similar foliage. Does it have D. peregrina in it?
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Lesley, I think Martin once sent me a pix in a personal message but I'lve never worked out how to do it myself :-\ :-[
I'll look for the journal link for you. Meantime, didn't Rob Graham have such a photo in the forum a while ago when he chopped up his Weldenia into masses of new ones?
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Mmmnnnn..... no pix in that thread, I remembered wrongly. http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=295.msg6698;topicseen#msg6698
but it did lead me to the piece by Lesley, in AGS bulletin June 1998 , pages 222 to 225.
I can take photos of the article tomorrow, Lesley, and send to Tony if he hasn't got the journal himself.
Edit : Have added pix of the article here.....
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Thanks Maggi, that would be great. Having cleaned out my spare bedroom/office/book/computer room, I can't find anything now.
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I know that difficulty, Lesley..... that's why I never tidy anything!
Will get photos tomorrow then, when the light is good.
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I had actually looked in that Bulletin but I was only looking in the Indeces and it's there only as "Difficult Alpines, 13" which does NOT say it all. :)
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I thought the buds on Shortia soldanelloides might have been fried last friday as we hit 30c but they made it through. By evening it was quite cool.
johnw
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Lesley, I planted Cornus canadensis in deep shade years ago, and I don't get many flowers on it. It's very common here, both in the mountains, and across the boreal forest... where I see it in sunnier clearings in nature, it seems the most floriferous and the "berries" seem most likely to develop fully, turning red.
Good heavens, has Dicentra "Burning Hearts' been released on the whole world at the same time? :) The garden centers here are full of it this spring! I bought one too, and it certainly does look like it has some D. peregrina in it... the way the thingies on the sides of the flower curl up like Pippi Longstocking's braids, (though the tag claims it to be D. formosa??)
Some from today:
Iris lutescens campbellii
Primula 'Jay Jay', starting to bloom.
Some promise for the future, Eremurus himalaicus...
Euphorbia polychroma 'Bonfire'
Viola adunca (x2) - another native plant that just showed up on its own... with a young Sisyrinchium montanum in the first photo - another native (at least I planted those at one time!)
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A brilliant combination in the campanula and the hieracium, Luit! Your dicentra looks a great deal happier than mine too... (Imagine soft, west coast-grown foliage subjected to frosts and low humidity... :-\ Oh well, it lives or dies.)
Johnw, the shortia is beautiful!
Please forgive this really dreadful picture... this little troll resisted all my efforts to focus a photo, and the light is fading here so I had to give up... but I'm delighted to see it! I grew Syneilesis palmata and S. aconitifolia from seed last year, and I'm pleased to see the first S. palmata up today!
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That's interesting to me Lori. I have 7 Cornus canadensis from seed ready to plant out in the spring. So I need for them not to be too shady? I figured that if I plant the lot in a patch there should be a good chance of fruit, assuming they flower of course.
this is another plant that grows everywhere here, except really out in the open... it is generally very floriferous, and certainly as a child i picked handfuls of berries--not that exciting to eat, but very available! i'll try to pay attention to where they are and arent flowering/fruiting this year (nothing yet, of course)..
logic though, would say they'd flower best in half shade, depending how your light relates to ours..let me look at last years photos...
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Cornus canadensis has definitely NOT been invasive in my place. I have two stalks this year and the plant is probably five years old.
One that IS invasive is Smilacina stellata. I is nice but I have to figure out how to contain it. S racemosa is, of course a better plant with a nice scent.
Another non-invasive is Diphylleia sinensis - a plant for space in the woodland. Blue berries follow.
Disporum hookerii is another woodlander with "quite charm".
Göte
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A brilliant combination in the campanula and the hieracium, Luit! Your dicentra looks a great deal happier than mine too... (Imagine soft, west coast-grown foliage subjected to frosts and low humidity... :-\ Oh well, it lives or dies.)
Lori, I was lucky to be at a nursery last week, where the Dicentra was grown in quantity, so I could take the best.
Have to leave it for a while in the pot because rooting was not optimal until now.
Afterwards I will plant it in a semi-shaded spot.
I believe that these Dicentra's are bred in Japan and that D. eximea and D. peregrina are involved.
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Gote, I haven't found Cornus canadensis to be invasive either.... quite hard to get established, actually.
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Göte
Another non-invasive is Diphylleia sinensis - a plant for space in the woodland. Blue berries follow.
I now grow Diphylleia cymosa having seen it in another garden and wonder how easy the berries are to germinate? I hope I will get some as it is a small plant.
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It's very difficult to photograph even in the morning light because of the contrast in the sunlight on the bell, as seen in the group shot, but here are my efforts to show you how much it means to me :)
- you managed it perfectly - even the light makes the photo so attractive!
Is there anyone who is able to name the species?
Gerd
Thanks for your encouragment, Gerd :) I think the species in my garden is Campanula rotundiflora ::)
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Brian,
I grow both Diphylleia here and they are wonderful...just now coming near to the end of their bloom period (with berries to follow). I grow them mainly for the foliage and can't speak to the germination question---YET...
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It's very difficult to photograph even in the morning light because of the contrast in the sunlight on the bell, as seen in the group shot, but here are my efforts to show you how much it means to me :)
- you managed it perfectly - even the light makes the photo so attractive!
Is there anyone who is able to name the species?
Gerd
Thanks for your encouragment, Gerd :) I think the species in my garden is Campanula rotundiflora ::)
I think you may have meant C. rotundifolia, Robin.... but I'm not so sure..... :-\
Only the basal leaves of C. rotundifolia are round, the stem leaves are rather narrow and spikey looking... those on your Harebell look to be more... well, leafshaped!! :D A contintental variant?
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Campanula rhomboidalis would possibly fit more??
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Thanks for your comments Maggi and ID Luit - yes I looked at the leaves again and they are as Maggi says more 'leafshaped!!' (long, oval, pointed) they are now looking a bit bedraggled after a thunderstorm so I'm glad I photographed them in prime condition ;D
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Some larger plants in flower today - Hemerocallis 'Brunette' with Geum 'Marmalade'. Silene fimbriata with Allium 'Purple Sensation', and more of the Allium along with the paler A. aflatunense and aquilegias. A new aquilegia to me which I am very pleased with - I like the faint whit picotee edge - A. rockii. Maianthemum bifolium (yes it can be invasive, but doesn't seem to be as bad as M. dilatatum or M. canadense ).
Nectaroscordum siculum at its best when just open, it can look tatty later even allowing for its 'fairy castle' seed heads. Lastly some self sown Dactylorrhizas amongst Limnanthes under my apple tree.
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Some pictures from me to.
Anemone patula
Bellevila romana
Paeonia obovata var. willmottiae x 2
Geranium farreri
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Some larger plants in flower today - Hemerocallis 'Brunette' with Geum 'Marmalade'. Silene fimbriata with Allium 'Purple Sensation', and more of the Allium along with the paler A. aflatunense and aquilegias. A new aquilegia to me which I am very pleased with - I like the faint whit picotee edge - A. rockii. Maianthemum bifolium (yes it can be invasive, but doesn't seem to be as bad as M. dilatatum or M. canadense ).
Nectaroscordum siculum at its best when just open, it can look tatty later even allowing for its 'fairy castle' seed heads. Lastly some self sown Dactylorrhizas amongst Limnanthes under my apple tree.
Anne your colour schemes and plantings are really lovely - the allium with the aquilegias is my favourite and could have been from Chelsea !
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Some pictures from me to.
Anemone patula
Bellevila romana
Paeonia obovata var. willmottiae x 2
Geranium farreri
Anne Karin, first of all your view from your garden looks like paradise! Secondly your Paeonia obovata photo is pure heaven :)
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The standard of photos and the plants shown in them in ALL the threads of the Forum are just getting better and better. :o There are so many super pix in so many different threads at the minute that I cannot cope with commenting on them all but I am really enjoying each and every one! 8) 8)
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Hi Brian, I find it easy to lift and split Diphyllea when dormant never germinated fruits, cheers Ian the Christie kind.
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I think the species in my garden is Campanula rotundiflora ::)
Or rotundifolia?
Sorry, I see Maggi has already commented on that. I still think rotundifolia which has a distribution almost circumpolar, so variation is to be expected. I find that it has round(ish) leaves on the non-flowering plant but as it developes and the flower stems begin to emerge, the foliage along the stems and emerging from the clump, is finer, narrower, more "leaf-shaped" as mentioned above. Then after flowering it is again a round-leaved pad. Many running campanulas do the same. Think of 'Mist Maiden' for instance and even C. arvatica.
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Nothing from the rock garden...
Rose blossom - 2 weeks earlier compared last year -
Neighbors sweet cherries :-* :P Hmm - delicious :)
P.S: Campanula rotundifolia ;)
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I grow both Diphylleia here and they are wonderful...just now coming near to the end of their bloom period (with berries to follow).
For stark contrast, here's the state of Diphylleia cymosa here... just up in the last 2 days! :o
I'm happy to see the first flower on Pulsatilla turczaninovii, from seed last year!
Lewisia longipetala, starting to bloom... the flowers are small, but it and Lewisia glandulosa proved to be amazingly floriferous last year (both just planted last spring).
Finally.... the barrenworts start to bloom - Epimedium x rubrum.
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Hi Brian, I find it easy to lift and split Diphyllea when dormant never germinated fruits, cheers Ian the Christie kind.
My sinensis is now flowering the third year and looks quite happy but it has no side shoot. I assume I should try to sow a couple of berries. A cymosa bougt in the fall 2008 has, however, several. It seems to be later - or perhaps it is not so well established.
Göte
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Thanks Ian, Carlo and Göte for your comments, I will keep my fingers crossed for berries. 8)
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From the garden this morning. Iris 'Broadleigh Rose' and Aquilegia 'Swallowtail' - lovely spurs.
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From the garden this morning. Iris 'Broadleigh Rose' and Aquilegia 'Swallowtail' - lovely spurs.
Absolutely lovely spurs and well named - it's a gorgeous colour too!
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It is certainly a beauty and the iris is lovely too, such a pretty rose colour, no purple. I wonder are the Broadleigh Pacific Coast irises propagated by division to remain true or they seed raised and so a strain of more or less similar colouring? Does anyone know? PC irises generally don't like division or much disturbance.
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Lesley,
this one I know; they are propogated by division. I have had a few Broadleighs in the garden, but, as you say, they resent being divided. One has established very well. As I understand, they are selected for this robust quality.
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Clematis flowering now. C. fremontii & hisutissima
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Those are soooo nice Mike. I love the little urn-shaped ones. :)
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Mike,
Both are gorgeous. I assume by the look of them that they're both herbaceous? Wonderful flowers on them.... thanks for showing us your treasures. ;D
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Some plants that are flowering in the garden today:
1) Echinocereus baileyi
2) Iris
3) Primula bulleyana
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Thanks Lesley.
Paul, they are herbaceous and are only 12-15 inches high.
Lewisia rediviva alba
Roscoea humeana
Oxalis Ione Hecker
have all flowered well this week.
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Mike,
The Clematis are that small? I didn't realise. Even better!!
Love that Lewisia, positively spectacular. So nice to see the Roscoea as well. Thanks for the pics.
Wim,
Isn't it cool when the cactus flower is so large that you can't even see the plant under it. ;D
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Pictures taken today.
Centaurium scilloides
Dianthus freynii
Diascia 'Blackthorn Apricot'
Leptospermum scoparium 'Red Damask'
Oxalis ‘Ione Hecker'
Saxifraga x burnatii
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John, what a lovely Centaurium scilloides. I could never keep it here.
The Dianthus freynii you showed must be some hybrid. I just have two little plants made this spring of
an at least 30 years old plant which just survived all those years on an old raised bed.
This is totally different from your plant. I've never seen the true one so big.
I found a scanned dia of the plant as I have here.
Dianthus freynii:
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Hello Luit,
Centaurium scilloides - I have had this little plant for very many years now, and it seeds about in my troughs and raised beds without ever becoming a nuisance. It often flowers into November some years, but it does need a hot scorching sunny day to persuade it to open its flowers.
Dianthus freynii – Yes, there is a distinct difference between our plants. Mine appears to have longer flowering stems and an open habit regarding the flowers. In the AGS Bulletin (Vol. 41, page 49) it says – “In June the leaves disappear beneath innumerable tiny pale pink flowers on very short stalks.” – nothing like my plant! :o
Perhaps some knowledgeable person could suggest what my plant might be please! ::)
Below is an overhead picture of it. It has been in this trough since the day I bought it; about 15 years ago.
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Not from my own garden but sent to me today from a friend in Maryland, USA. He took the photograph in a client's garden. Certainly one which we would like to have growing in the garden.
Mountain laurel or Kalmia latifolia
Paddy
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John,
your Dianthus looks like D. erinaceus but I'm not completely sure.
Paddy,
that mountain laurel is stunning.
Wim
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Forgot some other plants that are flowering here now:
1) Amorphophallus rivieri
2) Dianthus sp.
3) Hebe sp.
4) Rosa sp.
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Here is a selection of what is flowering just now
1. Albuca humilis - hardy here, even after last winter
2. Oxalis squamata - seems to be a little bit tender but some plants survived outside
3. Oxalis valdiviense - first flowers, from SRGC seeds sown mid January 2009
4. Rhodohypoxis deflexa - survived outside
5. Dianthus myrtinervius
6. + 7. Digitalis obscura - a Spanish foxglove
8. Dipcadi serotinum - originally from Spain, more or less hardy outside
9. Lilium martagon
10. Cornus kousa 'Satomi' - already shown otherwise here. I was told the breeder named
it after his daughter
Gerd
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John,
your Dianthus looks like D. erinaceus but I'm not completely sure.
Wim
Hi Wim,
I do grow D. erinaceus which has very prickly foliage with flowers on very short stems.
See here.
http://portraitsofalpineplants.com/Portraits%20of%20Alpine%20Plants/STA50024.jpg
My D. freynii (?) hasn’t got prickly foliage, and the smaller flowers are on long stems. :o
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I have just “surfed the internet”, putting D. freynii, D. glacialis and D. erinaceus in Google, which has resulted in many contradicting images which has been of no help whatsoever.
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Some pics from earlier this month:
Corydalis turtshaninovii (I think)
Anemonella 'Oscar Shoaf'
Lathyrus vernus 'Flaccidus'
Xanthorhiza simplicissima and Glaucidium palmatum var. leucanthum
Meconopsis cf. impedita
Omphalogramma vinciflorum
Primula tangutica x 2
Epimedium acuminatum
Anemonella thalictroides 'Green Hurricane'
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Hello Luit,
Dianthus freynii – Yes, there is a distinct difference between our plants. Mine appears to have longer flowering stems and an open habit regarding the flowers. In the AGS Bulletin (Vol. 41, page 49) it says – “In June the leaves disappear beneath innumerable tiny pale pink flowers on very short stalks.” – nothing like my plant! :o
Your Dianthus freynii is exactly the same as mine plant which is commonly grown here as D.f. but it sure is not. I have never seen the true D. freynii in spite of all my attempts but it must be very close to D. glacialis. The plant shown by Luit could be the true plant but the markings in the centre of flower seems me suspicious (also a hybrid?). In every case it is very nice.
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These from the last week:
Corydalis turtshaninovii 'Eric the Red'
Corydalis cashmiriana
Meconopsis x cookei 'Old Rose'
Meconopsis punicea
Meconopsis integrifolia x 2
Meconopsis quintuplinervia
Orchis mascula
Meconopsis lancifolia x 2
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Lampwick,
the plant shown on the URL you sent is not D. erinaceus. I attach here a picture of my true D. erinaceus.
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Hello Luit,
Dianthus freynii – Yes, there is a distinct difference between our plants. Mine appears to have longer flowering stems and an open habit regarding the flowers. In the AGS Bulletin (Vol. 41, page 49) it says – “In June the leaves disappear beneath innumerable tiny pale pink flowers on very short stalks.” – nothing like my plant! :o
Perhaps some knowledgeable person could suggest what my plant might be please! ::)
Below is an overhead picture of it. It has been in this trough since the day I bought it; about 15 years ago.
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John, I have been searching a little in books. I think that a plant, like I have, is pictured (black/white) in AGS XXXVIII PAGE 392.
It has the same markings in the centre.
I bought my plant in the 1970's in Switzerland from Max Frei, who was then one of the leading alpine nurseries in Europe.
The picture in AGS bulletin is of a plant shown in Birmingham 1970.
I am afraid that this plant is since long time out of trade. It is very slow growing.
I hope this is of help to you.
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Some stunning photos, everyone. Beautiful. The various Meconopsis are glorious, but Oh that Primula tangutica!! Dark, almost black.... so un-primula-like. Amazing. I think I have commented on this one when posted here previously... like no Primula I have ever seen before. :)
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Not from my own garden but sent to me today from a friend in Maryland, USA. He took the photograph in a client's garden. Certainly one which we would like to have growing in the garden.
Mountain laurel or Kalmia latifolia
Ah, an old friend indeed. I grew up in Maryland and my father dug a plant of K. latifolia which he then planted by our front door. The wild form (if my father's plant was typical) has a distinct rosy cast to the flowers which is missing in the posted photograph. Perhaps the specimen shown is one of the cultivars that have been developed.
I will say that though I see K. latifolia for sale in garden centres here, I refuse to buy one. First, they are always some selected color form and I simply prefer the chromatic simplicity of the wild form. Second, K. latifolia is native to an area with quite hot, humid summers and no amount of overhead watering can provide quite the right growing conditions. I've never seen a specimen here worth a second look.
Historically, "American plants" were notorious in England for difficulties experienced in growing them; one has to wonder if it was the climatic difference that caused the trouble.
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Thanks, Paul, the Primula is nicely fragrant as well, like peonies. (I should get some seeds if you want to try, just remind me in about a month.)
Gerd; loevly pics! I wanted to ask, what kind of soil do you give your Rhodohypoxis?
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Brian, your aquilegia's spurs are amazing, what colour is the clematis you have growing with it, is it an integrifolia?
Mike, your clematis are gorgeous, I am hoping to get a flower from my Scottii this season.
John, I love your Ione Hecker Oxalis.
Paddy, the mountain laurel is absolutely gorgeous.
Gerd, your cornus is delightful, I wish I could grow them here.
Arisaema, your Meconopsis x cookei 'Old Rose' is lovely, is it difficult to grow?
I also really like the Meconopsis integrifolia.
Thanks everyone for such terrific pics, way too many to comment on but they are all appreciated.
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Gerd; loevly pics! I wanted to ask, what kind of soil do you give your Rhodohypoxis?
Thank you! The Rhodohypoxis in the garden are growing in ordinary garden soil -
limefree in my region! They seem to be not very demanding concerning their requirements.
Gerd
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Gerd, your cornus is delightful, I wish I could grow them here.
Helen,
You can't grow C. kousa? I always thought of it as being one of the most hardy
flowering dogwoods.
Maybe I am wrong? ???
Gerd
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K. latifolia is native to an area with quite hot, humid summers and no amount of overhead watering can provide quite the right growing conditions. I've never seen a specimen here worth a second look.
The mountain laurels do well here in Nova Scotia where summers are cool and hot humid days rare. There are some venerable old specimens around town. One notable plant was planted in the late 1880's and is now 12 ft tall by 15 ft across. It flowers heavily every second year without any care whatsoever.
Kalmia latifolia takes along time to settle in here - about 5-7 years, sometimes longer. In the interim they can be badly burned, then suddenly they settle in and grow off without care. They are on the top of the menu for deer unfortunately. They abhor poor drainage and in this area prefer a drier site.
johnw - 2 lectures by Malcolm McGregor here in the last 6 days. Great one last night. Hard to keep up with him after 11 pm and a few pints, he goes a mile a minute.
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2 lectures by Malcolm McGregor here in the last 6 days. Great one last night. Hard to keep up with him after 11 pm and a few pints, he goes a mile a minute.
Sounds like you have the genuine Malcolm McGregor there all right..... needs little sleep, can talk ALL the legs off a table, never mind a donkey.....? Yup, that's the fella!! Give him my love!
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the genuine Malcolm McGregor can talk the legs off a table
Maggi: Well put. They say he is a bit groggy on the morning but comes round fast. The conversation takes many about faces, last night over beer with three other friends +MM: Kew's rock garden and why it should be destroyed, high school sex manuals for NS schools, best hot pastrami sandwiches in NYC, Meconopsis pseudointegrifolia, Malaysian cuisine, English lumber available after the Great Storm of 86 shipped to Canada, reconstructing the Victorian greenhouse at Dublin BG, the merits of Annapolis Valley white wine, the Family Ericaceae, whipped cream versus creme fraiche, Rheum nobile culture, Thai poetry, many more now forgotten and on departure a 15 minute conversation with our anthropologist waiter at the Wooden Monkey on skeletal remains found on the Island of Flores and how pelvic bones there would fit structurally into remains found by the Leakeys. Head-spinning. De-compressing at the moment.
johnw
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Dontcha just love him? One of the few folks I know who can out-talk me ....it's very refreshing! ::)
He should be a musician.... some sort of wind or brass instrument.... saxophone, maybe..... I'm sure he has mastered circular breathing. :-X
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A few things in bloom here...
Primula polyneura
Doronicum orientale
One of the first peonies in bloom here - an unknown seedling that came with a daylily years ago...
Dracocephalum nutans
Pulmonaria saccharata 'Dora Bielefeld'
Iris taurica
Polemonium pulcherrimum
Phlox subulata 'Emerald Blue'
Anemone nemorosa 'Vestal' - just thought this was an interesting shot!
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Dontcha just love him? One of the few folks I know who can out-talk me ....it's very refreshing! ::)
He should be a musiican.... some sort of wind or brass instrument.... saxophone, maybe..... I'm sure he has mastered circular breathing. :-X
Malcolm was lucky to see a large and secret native stand of Cypripedium arietinum at its peak of perfection while he was here. Something I have never seen.
johnw
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Lovely images everyone.
Arrived back from an incredible and enchanting week in Olu Deniz (Western Turkey) this morning (of which much more later) to find Lamiophlomis rotata in flower in a 26ctm plastic pot in the garden. A first flowering for me with this rare and beautiful plant.
Lamiophlomis rotata (Lamiaceae), a perennial medicinal herb, is endemic to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
Lamiophlomis rotata (Three images)
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The poppy is one of my own seedling, which I call 'Watermelon Tree', as it reblooms in late Summer with a branched scape of 6 or more flowers. The colour is great in any case. I am quite fond of these fleeting beauties and have a plant of Papaver bractescens that I simply cannot capture on film. The colour is too deep a blood red. It always comes out fuschia-red in fotos.
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Brian, your aquilegia's spurs are amazing, what colour is the clematis you have growing with it, is it an integrifolia?
No clematis in sight Helen, the aquilegia was bought at the East Anglian AGS show - one of Cecilia Collers plants.
Jamie that 'Watermelon' is an absolute delight.
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This is my absolute favourite poppy, heck, it is my only poppy so far, this is its third season.
It flowers the first year from seed.
Papaver anomalum `Album`
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Jamie, is it an orientale Hybrid? It is very nice.
Just seen and pictured about 20 older (and some newer) hybrids which are in the trade.
Your flower color is very special.
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Luit,
yes, it is an oriental. It sort of appeared in the garden a few years ago from stray seed. As I only have Papaver orientalis (seed raised plants in various colours) and P. bractescens, it should be from this group. I had a thing for poppies when i first laid-out the garden some 10 years ago and simply got some seed from the RHS seed exchange. Quite a few interesting plants have arisen over the years, but this is the only one that reblooms. I had a beautiful ruffled mauve, but it disappeared one Winter. Pity. Here a couple of others.
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Zdenek's D. erinaceus is certainly true, and D. myrtinervius as pictured above, is incorrect. I suspect the picture is of D. deltoides, in two colour forms.
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Wim, your Dianthus in Reply 484 could be the little double called 'Pink Jewel.'
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Below is an overhead picture of it. It has been in this trough since the day I bought it; about 15 years ago.
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This is quite like the little hybrid called (used to be called) 'La Bourbrille.' I think it's spelt differently now. Or perhaps 'Tiny Tim' or perhaps 'Neywood's Pink.'
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Wim, your Dianthus in Reply 484 could be the little double called 'Pink Jewel.'
Lesley, here is a picture of Dianthus plumarius Pink Jewel. I don't think it's Wim's plant.
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Hi all, a very quick pictuire taken this morning I am away back to gardening Scotland Lilium oxypetalum insigne White form cheers Ian the Christie kind
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Wim, your Dianthus in Reply 484 could be the little double called 'Pink Jewel.'
Lesley, here is a picture of Dianthus plumarius Pink Jewel. I don't think it's Wim's plant.
If Luit's pic is "Pink Jewel" than mine certainly isn't.
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I have this one as Dianthus erinaceus (first time flowering this year):
Can anyone tell me if that is right?
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Thanks, Gerd! I'm going to try them in a similar situation, granted your winters are probably drier than mine, but it's worth a shot.
Arisaema, your Meconopsis x cookei 'Old Rose' is lovely, is it difficult to grow?
Thanks, Helen! It's very easy here, far more tolerant than the big blue ones. Unfortunately it's more or less sterile, being a hybrid between punicea and quintuplinervia.
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Hi all, a very quick pictuire taken this morning I am away back to gardening Scotland Lilium oxypetalum insigne White form cheers Ian the Christie kind
Very nice lily, Ian.
I had never seen the white form of Insigne before
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Thanks, Gerd! I'm going to try them in a similar situation, granted your winters are probably drier than mine, but it's worth a shot.
I don't believe that our winters are dry - like you we have a substantial influence from the sea, which means a lot of shifting between thawing and freezing (and rain).
But because Rhodohypoxis are multiplying very fast - why not try a part inside for security and another outside.
Gerd
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Helen,
You can't grow C. kousa? I always thought of it as being one of the most hardy
flowering dogwoods.
Gerd
Gerd, from what I read C. kousa is hardy to zone 5/6 :(
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I have this one as Dianthus erinaceus (first time flowering this year):
Can anyone tell me if that is right?
Wim, this is the plant of D. erinaceus which I know is cultivated since long times in Europe.
I never saw the type which Zdenek showed here too, but it is very admirable.
I have my plant more than 25 years on an old, almost overgrown raised bed and it is always very
shy flowering.
As it is prickly, I presumed the name was o.k., but after seeing Zdenek's plant I'm rather... :-\
I know that our plant nowadays is grown and sold in Holland by a nursery who grows them with lots of fertilizer
and I think your plant originates from this nursery.
On my pictures you see the whole plant which is about 20 - 30 cm Ø. Since I keep it rather poor it is flowering better.
I made these pictures this morning:
Dianthus erinaceus
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I don't believe that our winters are dry - like you we have a substantial influence from the sea, which means a lot of shifting between thawing and freezing (and rain).
But because Rhodohypoxis are multiplying very fast - why not try a part inside for security and another outside.
Not dry, just drier; the average annual precipitation here is 1700mm, last year we had 1800mm. I'll take a chance and risk them all - too many pots already, so I won't notice if they're gone ;)
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Wim, this is the plant of D. erinaceus which I know is cultivated since long times in Europe.
I never saw the type which Zdenek showed here too, but it is very admirable.
I have my plant more than 25 years on an old, almost overgrown raised bed and it is always very
shy flowering.
As it is prickly, I presumed the name was o.k., but after seeing Zdenek's plant I'm rather... :-\
I know that our plant nowadays is grown and sold in Holland by a nursery who grows them with lots of fertilizer
and I think your plant originates from this nursery.
On my pictures you see the whole plant which is about 20 - 30 cm Ø. Since I keep it rather poor it is flowering better.
Thanks Luit,
I was sure my Dianthus was erinaceus also but it doesn't look like Zdenek's... ??? :-\
I bought my plant three years ago from a nursery in Belgium and planted it in a new trough where it might have gotten a bit too much compost, I think the soil is getting poorer now so that must be why it has flowered for the first time this year.
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This is a very long thread…..
http://www.srgc.org.uk/discus/messages/283/39997.html
……but do take a look at the 16th and 17th pictures from the bottom of this page.
They show Dianthus erinaceus; posted by Anthony Darby in October, 2006.
This is very much like my plant of D. erinaceus, (albeit mine is smaller!) the foliage and flowers are the same, and it is an extremely prickly plant. It is/was also the same as the plant on the AGS rock garden at Pershore some years ago. ;D
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Wim, to find if a dianthus IS erinaceus, the easiest test is to put your palm firmly on the cushion.... if the cushion is very prickly and you get a sore hand, it is likely to be erinaceus ! I have stabbed myself many times over the years with Dianthus erinaceus, it is VERY sharp and spiky!
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Here are the photos Lampwick referred to from the page from the Old Forum, for those who don't weant to spend a long and happy time looking through that page (I enjoyed it!)
Anthony Darby's Dianthus erinaceus
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Thanks for putting those pictures up Maggi. ;D
At the moment my Dianthus erinaceus is in bud; predominantly only on the left of the plant – I will try a post a picture next month when I hope it will be at its best! ::)
I have tried to show the foliage in these two pictures below.
I myself, am of the opinion that my plant IS D. erinaceus…….have I won anyone over? ;)
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All the Dianthus erinaceus that are pictured her look similar but never completely the same (except for Luit's, which is the same as mine). Maybe they are ssp.? Or (most likely) hybrids?
Anyhow: mine is prickly but not like a cactus and it hurts your hand only a bit when you press down on it. And the flowers are very tiny (0.3 - 0.7 cm (0.1 - 0.3 inch) diameter)
Below: Close-up of the leaves
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Here are the photos Lampwick referred to from the page from the Old Forum, for those who don't weant to spend a long and happy time looking through that page (I enjoyed it!)
Anthony Darby's Dianthus erinaceus
On the same page I found a picture from Fermi where he shows D. echidiformis (echiniformis?)
Fermi showed the same plant in 2007 and in 2008 again:
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=870.msg20293#msg20293 (http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=870.msg20293#msg20293)
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=2510.msg58832#msg58832 (http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=2510.msg58832#msg58832) (D. anatolicus)
It differs a little from my plant, so now I presume that we are growing not D. erinaceus, but a form of D. anatolicus.
This seem to grow in nature on a wide area and possibly by propagating from seed several forms occur.
I could not find anything about D. echiniformis.
I hope Fermi will confirm that his plant is not so prickly as D. erinaceus too, like our plant.
Finally a link, where I found something about these Dianthus, by a certain Rick Lambert from UK.:
http://hortiplex.gardenweb.com/plants/jour/p/02/gw1013402/page.html (http://hortiplex.gardenweb.com/plants/jour/p/02/gw1013402/page.html)
I think this is the same plant as we grow.
Does somebody know, who is Mr. Rick Lambert??
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Does somebody know, who is Mr. Rick Lambert??
An English alpine gardener, Luit, who used to be a forumist, at one time. :-\
He is an officer of the Androsace Group...
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Here are a few pics of my flowering plants.
Lewisia-rediviva-01
Dianthus-oschtenicus
Saponaria-Bressingham-Seedl
Helianthemum-alpestre
Edraianthus-pumilio
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Beautiful!
I see you are having sunshine, too, Franz!
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Magnificent, Franz ... both plants and photographs!
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Wonderful plants and pix Franz !
The Lew. rediviva :o :o :o :o
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Franz,
Isn't that Lewisia just divine!! :o
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Franz, Lovely plants, particularly the Edrianthus for me.
Paddy
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A few from around the garden.
Aquilegia 'Arthur Guinness'
Aquilegia 'Norah Barlow'
Beschorneria yuccoides
Clematis 'Mrs Cholmondelay'
Cornus controversa variegata
Paddy
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You're right Luit, Wim's isn't 'Pink Jewel.' At a quick, first glance, maybe, but not when I see the one in your link. I should have known better as I have had P J for many years and it is exactly like that in the link. I sometimes use the flowers to garnish my world famous pink pudding - boysenberry mousse.
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A few more. Paddy
Crataegus prunifolius
Crinodendron hookeri
Disporum smithii
Erodium manescavii
Geranium
Geranium
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Paddy,
What a striking pic of the Aquilegia!! Captured beautifully. Not seen that colour combination before. Truly beautiful.
I love all your other pics as well, particularly the Geraniums. 8)
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Franz' little gems are stunning. My offerings are a bit bigger.
Arisaema ciliatum var liubaense (I think)
An Astrantia hybrid seedling
Cypripedium parviflorum and Epimedium 'Amber Queen'
Phuopsis stylosa
Trollius 'Cheddar'
Vicia faba
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And to finish. Paddy
Geranium
Iris chrysographes 'Inchriach'
Iris cristata
Iris germanica
Oxalis 'Ione Heckler'
Papaver 'Fireball'
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Paul,
Are you sure that it isn't just the name which attracted you, named after the Arthus Guinness of Guinness (excellent Irish stout) fame?
It seems a reasonably long-lasting aquilegia as it has been in the garden for about 7 years. Seed later?
Anne, love the trollius in particular. And the Vicia favia? From the veg patch? We have been eating ours for the past two weeks.
Paddy
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Colourful display Paddy !!
Your picture of Ione Hecker is wonderful !!
Thanks for showing ! :D
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Thank you, Luc.
I have a few to finish off - great weather yesterday and today, too hot to work in the garden so I took out the camera for a while.
Paddy
Papaver orientalis 'Beauty of Livermere'
Papaver orientalis 'Pattie's Plum'
Ditto
Papaver orientalis 'Perry' White'
Rosa 'Canary Bird'
Trollius europaeus
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Anne,
It has eventually come back to me. I couldn't place your Phuopsis stylosa for several mintues - it spreads with ease and has an odd smell?
Paddy
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Zdenek's erinaceus IS, Wim's ISN'T and I'm in two minds about both Anthony's and John's. The foliage of D. erinaceus isn't just prickly or sharp, it is seriously dangerous if, for example, you put your hand on it. There is no "give" in the leaves and the pain is excruciating. They are as rigid and sharp as the most vicious of Aciphylla species. The flowers are thinner than in Anthony's, though there may be variation of course, among seedlings. The flowers on mine are like those of Zdenek's. I know mine is true because it was from the 1966 ACW collection, as seed. My subsequent plants have been cutting grown from that plant. For 20 years I had just one seed from the original plant but I've had some seed from the cutting grown ones. They are all identical. The original plant grew to 50cms in diameter but eventually died when I lifted it from the garden to move to Dunedin.
I haven't got a digital picture of it but will make sure I get one in the spring.
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So many beautiful plants to see here today.
Paddy, Irish stout or not, your Aquilegia 'Arthur Guinness' is simply stunning!
Here is a Trollius Alabaster
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Anne,
Love that Vicia. Excellent colour combination. Your other pics aren't bad either. ;)
Paddy,
The assorted Papaver are beautiful, but that Iris chrysographes is breathtaking. Never seen one like that before. :o Much darker Iris cristata than I have seen, too. All very nice.
Thanks for posting the pics everyone.
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my world famous pink pudding - boysenberry mousse.
Sounds very good, never heard of a boysenberry though
Zdenek's erinaceus IS, Wim's ISN'T and I'm in two minds about both Anthony's and John's. The foliage of D. erinaceus isn't just prickly or sharp, it is seriously dangerous if, for example, you put your hand on it. There is no "give" in the leaves and the pain is excruciating. They are as rigid and sharp as the most vicious of Aciphylla species.
Thanks Lesley, mine certainly has a softer character ;)
I'll try some to find some seeds of the real one in the exchanges this year.
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Wim,
I think that a boysenberry is a cross between a rasberry and a blackberry. Very nice fruit.
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Paul,
That Iris chrysographes is very nice indeed with petals which look like velvet. I am disappointed with the amount of gold marking on the petals though - can't have everything. I have another Iris chrysographes which I prefer and it is about to open.
Rodger,
I passed on your comments on Kalmia latifolia to my friend in Maryland and this was his reply:
"Paddy, this person is very insightful and his comments have given me another plant perspective; always a beneficial exercise. Thanks for sharing!
Kalmia latifolia, in its natural haunts has some heavy variation to flower color. That is where selective breeders and Kalmia experts such as Dick Jaynes have searched tirelessley for variations in flower colors (aberrations, perhaps) in native stands and through asexual propogation have successfully produced myriad Kalmia with different color variations, flower shapes, leaf shapes, disease resistance and growth habits.
Most of the native Kalmia I see are white - whitish pink. Even plants growing in close proximity can show marked color variation and some are quite pink. The buds are pink, then open to white.
They are really quite stunning in native thickets. These tight thickets are described by locals as "Laurel Hells" because they are impenetrable and will foil you if you are hunting or hiking. They prefer very rocky and dry areas, mostly wooded slopes under Oaks and Hickories on thin acidic soil types. I personally think that mycorhizal associations in the soil really help them survive the tough forest conditions. The deer browse them heavily and often the Laurel thickets are chewed to the point where there is no foliage below 4', as though an imaginary woodland chalk line has been snapped.
They also get Phytophthora root rot and debilitating leaf spot diseases that can render them quite unthrifty. They can be difficult to get established in the landscape as they resent coddling such as regular watering, over fertilization, amended soils and overly maintained sites. The overhead watering that Mr Whitlock mentions is a cause of huge problems here in greenhouse (sorry - glasshouse) and shadehouse production areas because it just spreads fungal spores and perpetuates the spread of the leaf spot diseases. Handwatering or drip irrigation is a must unless you like perpetual fungicide applications!
Thanks for sharing. PS - my Kalmia are just about full bloom here, along with Rhododendron maximum 'Roseum' - early summer blooming plants such as Spigelia, Huechera, Marshalia, Panax and Cotinus are in right now!
Talk soon,
Marty"
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Wim, I think Paul is right, boysenberry = raspberry x blackberry but the boysenberry is much larger than either, up to about 4cms long and 1.5 or even 2cms wide. Black when ripe and very luscious. :P
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Mmmmmm..... boysenberry ripple ice cream!! :) :)
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Paddy, you are right about the Vicia and Phuopsis, or as we call the latter - Phew!-opsis...
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Mmmmmm..... boysenberry ripple ice cream!! :) :)
Oh Yes!!
Some years ago when Inshriach Alpine Nursery was in its full glory - Jack Drake's day - Iris chrysographes 'Black Knight,' rubella and 'Inshriach Form' were listed regularly (seeds). 'Black Knight' had beautiful gold stitching on the falls, 'Inshriach Form' was a sold deep purple and rubella was a little shorter, and a deep red (boysenberry!!) colour. Now they all seem to be mixed forms of various colours and the form usually listed simply as "black" frequently has little or no gold stitching. All are lovely though, in my opinion.
Did Phew-opsis :) used to be called Crucianella? If so it's the plant which dismantled a rock wall in one of my gardens. Talk about thuggery! :o
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Wim, I think Paul is right, boysenberry = raspberry x blackberry but the boysenberry is much larger than either, up to about 4cms long and 1.5 or even 2cms wide. Black when ripe and very luscious. :P
Sounds very good. I'm going to see if I can find them anywhere...
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Ah, Paul T,
A man after my own heart. We grow lots of loganberries, tayberries, strawberries, blackcurrants, redcurrants here and ice-cream is the favourite use from them. Jam is a second choice and straight from the plant to the mouth for strawberries.
Lesley, you are perfectly correct re the phuopsis, a terrible thug, pretty but dangerous. Likewise re the Iris chrysographes 'Inchriach', a great dark colour but little markings. Pity!
Paddy
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Lesley,
I've tried chrysographes a couple of times but never been successful. I think one of these days I need to try it from seed and see if I am more successful that way.
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Ah, Paul T,
A man after my own heart. We grow lots of loganberries, tayberries, strawberries, blackcurrants, redcurrants here and ice-cream is the favourite use from them. Jam is a second choice and straight from the plant to the mouth for strawberries.
Paddy
Paddy, what a diet ;D
Mulberries are my all time favourite berry raw (for a quick fix of Vit C) or cooked with homemade icecream or sorbet but wild strawberries or blaeberries are incredible for bursts of flavour straight from the plant ;)
Blueberries belong to a well-travelled family, going back a long way in time and place. Perhaps, who knows, even to the Garden of Eden.
http://www.wildblueberries.net/bluehistory.html
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I haven't ever eaten a fresh mulberry :'( :'(
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I haven't ever eaten a fresh mulberry :'( :'(
Neither have I, Maggi. There seem to be a lot of berries I still have to taste. Maybe I should plant a berry-garden...
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There was a large mulberry tree in the grounds on the primary school I attended as a child. We ate the berries with great relish.
Here is Iris chrysographes grown from seed collected in China about 5 years back. This is the first flower of the year.
Iris chrysographes SOB form
Paddy
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Nice Iris, Paddy.... but it's June now.... ;)
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Paddy
Trollius europaeus
Are you sure this is Trollius europeus? It loooks like my Trollius yunnanensis.
The europeus that are wild here are less orange and with more ball shaped flowers.
See http://linnaeus.nrm.se/flora/di/ranuncula/troll/troleur.html
Göte
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Paddy,
Glorious Iris chrysographes. 8)
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Gote, You are perfectly correct - I have T. europaeus on one side of the garden and T. yunnanensis on the other. Old age!
Oh Maggi, of course I know it's June but this is in relation to previous postings of Iris chrysographes.
Paul, can you accept seed in the post. Let me know if so and I will tell she who deadheads absolutely everything to leave it alone.
Paddy
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Oh Maggi, of course I know it's June but this is in relation to previous postings of Iris chrysographes.
Paddy
So it was, Paddy.... I'd missed that point! Sorry.... heat stroke, surely, since I am too youthful for it to be caused by old age!! ::) ;D ;D
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Paddy,
My wife is in general afraid to touch anything in the garden in case it is something important. ;D There's a lot of things that never get deadheaded here as a result, because I never get to it. ::)
The Iris is on our accepted quarantine list so any seed would be gratefully accepted. Thank you!! 8)
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I haven't ever eaten a fresh mulberry :'( :'(
Well look for them and try them when you can. Red, white and black vars are all wonderful (the white isn't white of course, but a soft, pinky red). They're sweet but with a sharp tang as well and are very good. I buy them at my market but if you have a tree you are liable to have birds drop them, or their own droppings, leaving red splashes on the washing.
Paul, there's a perception among some people that because Iris chrysographes, and all in the Sibirica group, like moisture, they also like shade. Not so. Ideally they want sun in a moist spot. Not always easy to provide, but if one has a nice, open bed stream..... :D or failing that, good, humus-rich soil and watering through the growing period.
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I can understand your eating mulberries with great relish Paddy. I prefer cream or ice-cream myself even though relish IS great, especially tomato or cucumber.
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Lesley,
You relish comment is disturbing.... I had the same thought myself, although I wasn't quite as flattering regarding the qualities of relish. :P Surprisingly for me the thought didn't communicate itself to the keyboard. ;D
Thanks for the insight into the Iris. Any info like that is very useful. Mine probably suffered from not enough water I would guess.
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1.aquilegia 15 cm of an unnown variety
2.arisaema serratum
3.anemone urdensis
4.anemone multifida var.saxicola
5.triostemum pinnatifidum (flowers are not that conspicuous, but generally a nice thing)
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Paul, all my more lurid thoughts translate to the keyboard. I'm still working on a reply to Cliff's Wimbledon comment.
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Oleg,
That triostemum pinnatifidum IS unusual, isn't it.
Lesley,
I see. I'll await your response to Cliff with interest. ;D
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Oleg;
Is A. urdensis close to A. trifolia? Looks very nice!
ETA: The Aquilegia looks like A. flabellata 'Nana', it fairly common and tends to reseed in the most unlikely places.
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Some years ago I asked if someone could identify an unknown Anemone for me. Nobody did. I later found out that it was udensis. Unfortunately I seem to have lost it.
There are more photos on http://www.srgc.org.uk/discus/messages/139/22720.html?1144603450
Can you comment on how to grow it Oleg? If I can replace it I would like to do better.
Göte
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I am moving, with my relish, to the June thread.
Paddy
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Oleg;
Is A. urdensis close to A. trifolia? Looks very nice!
ETA: The Aquilegia looks like A. flabellata 'Nana', it fairly common and tends to reseed in the most unlikely places.
They are both from the group of A.nemorosa, but you can't mix them up. I find A. udensis (thank you Gote for correction) an easier plant in my garden. It comes from the Russian Far East, has a very thin far-reaching rhizome and is very attractive with a flower reaching 3.5 cm across. The plant in your picture, Gote, is really A. udensis. No special care is needed, everything which is suitable for A.nemorosa will do. It is not too agressive, but each soring I try to remove all the stems without flowers as still it spreads quicker than I'd like it to, though it doesn't create so dense a clump as A. nemorosa. I have never tried to grow it from seed (no need). If you are interested, let me know by PM, hope I'll collect some.
Paul, I cannot agree more about Triosteum pinnatifidum. Some funny things about the plant: this Chinese creature produces white berries and belongs to the honeysuckle family which I find difficult to believe.
Thanks for the Aquilegia identification, Gote.
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Sorry, I should thank Arisaema.
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Thank you Oleg,
The funny thing is that in my garden the local type of nemorosa is a weed in some places (because it mixes up the named varieties) but udensis was always very weak. Maybe I moved it in the wrong time?? Trifolia is no problem at all. The various nemorosa and ranuncloides varieties also grow well as does altaica. Only udensis is a bad doer.
Göte
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PS
Anemone udensis IS very charming it has a kind of fleeting grace.
Japanese 'aware' perhaps.
Göte
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a couple of late entries--
i'm still catching up on going through photos..these are from may..
a cherry in the yard--i forget which--nanking? they give nice sour berries that make great jellies etc, if you can beat the birds to them! we have several of these, planted by my mother and aunt some years ago...
Veronica repens
from a big (general) retailer's garden centre this spring, so too soon to know if/how it will do for me, but it has been making some nice flowers for quite a while...i had expected blue flowers, but white with blue lines is ok, i guess...lol
developing buds on, i think! thats what happens when you dont edit photos right away...
Sorbus sp
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Hi Cohan.
About the Veronica repens- it's a lovely little thing. I ahd some a long time ago in my mother's garden and she adored it- but it wasnever reliably hardy there-or maybe needed more care- so she lost it. Maybe you will need to collect seeds for next year in case you lose it.
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Veronica repens is hardy and carefree here... though who knows how it will do where you live, Cohan.
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I lost my V. repens too, but from it being overgrown by bigger neighbours. I was very fond of it though and will replace when I see another. Not around here lately. Mine was very palest blue, not white, what I would call ice blue. It did set seed because it turned up occasionally in a gravel path.
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thanks for the input on the veronical, lori, lesley and simon..i have two plants, one i stuck in the big pot i had semps in last year---only one of the three survived, but its doing very well, i added some other semps and sedum bits; so suvival of that one is definitely iffy...
another pot i will plant in the ground when i get a spot ready..i will check for seeds, its been blooming for some time already..
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For those that received my Shortia uniflora seed please note. Usually this Shortia sprouts within 2-3 weeks. However I surface sowed mine on the 17th of July in a plastic bag under lights and they just started sprouting in the past 2 weeks. So don't give up hope.
johnw