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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: WimB on June 01, 2009, 11:36:48 AM
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I'll start the new thread for June:
Some pics taken today:
1) Allium sibthorpianum: flowering VERY close to the ground because a friend of mine put his foot on it >:( when it was just emerging
2) Arisaema concinnum: 1st year flowering
3) Arisaema intermedium: 1st year flowering
4) Asperula sintenisii
5) Fuchsia procumbens: my favorite fuchsia
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Wim,
is the Fuchsia procumbens outside ?
Allium sibhtorpianum very nice ;D
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Uli,
the fuchsia is in a pot and is placed indoors in winter. I've tried it once outside in a sheltered spot but it didn't survive the first winter.
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A few things flowering in my Pietermaritzburg garden at the moment:
i) A dwarf form of Haemanthus albiflos received from Cameron & Rhoda McMaster (African Bulbs)
(http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo161/calv208/Halbiflosdwarfcloseup.jpg)
(http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo161/calv208/Haemanthusalbiflosdwarf.jpg)
(http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo161/calv208/Haemanthusalbifloscomparison.jpg)
Comparison with 'normal size' albiflos
ii) A Delosperma sp I haven't tried to ID yet.
(http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo161/calv208/Delospermasp.jpg)
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And a few more from my Johannesburg garden:
i) Pelargonium tongaense
(http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo161/calv208/June2009012-1.jpg)
ii) Azalea cultivar
(http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo161/calv208/June2009043.jpg)
iii) Bergenia cordifolia
(http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo161/calv208/June2009031.jpg)
iv) Ribbon bush - Hypoestes aristata
(http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo161/calv208/June2009023.jpg)
(http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo161/calv208/June2009022.jpg)
v) Canary Creeper -Senecio tamoides
(http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo161/calv208/June2009019.jpg)
vi) Florists cyclamen
(http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo161/calv208/June2009061.jpg)
(http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo161/calv208/June2009059.jpg)
vii) Leucojum aestivum
(http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo161/calv208/June2009024.jpg)
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And finally:
Paphipedilum insigne
The first two photos were takem about a month ago with only one flower open.
(http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo161/calv208/DSCF0467.jpg)
(http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo161/calv208/DSCF0470.jpg)
The following were taken this weekend with all buds open.
(http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo161/calv208/June2009067.jpg)
(http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo161/calv208/June2009053.jpg)
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Wim,
I think Fuschia procumbens is a lovely plant - the large black berries are also very attractive later in the year. It doesn't survive outdoors here either.
Calvin,
What a glorious selection of fabulous flowers, many very exotic to us in the northern hemisphere. Great posting.
Paddy
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Around the garden yesterday and today.
Aesculus induta indica - a lovely little shrub, now covered in flowers.
Anemone aconitifolium - small but pretty flowers on a plant which travels freely about the garden
Aquilegia 'Arthur Guinness' - some extra shots, different views, for Paul Tyreman who is a fan of Guinness
Paddy
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Calvin,
I love that dwarf Haemanthus albiflos. I like that compact growing form and shorter flower stem. Excellent!
Paddy,
Should I admit here that I don't like any beer or guiness? I don't mind the flowering versions though. ;D
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Calvin,
that paphipedilum is a real stunner.
Paddy,
where did you find/buy that small Aesculus, it's really wonderfull!
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Wim,
I don't know exactly where I bought the aesculus but it was here in Ireland. There is a man in the midlands here whom I visit once in a while and he always has some unusual trees and shrubs which would never make it into mainstream garden centres but which are very worth seeking out. This plant is about 10 years old and still under 1 metre in height and showing no signs of growing to be much bigger. I really love it.
Paul, a beer once in a blue moon is enough for me also, a cider or two during the summer, maybe. Otherwise, a glass of wine with a meal or a drop of brandy for indigestion - I profess a terrible suffering from indigestion!
A few more from the garden today.
Paddy
Circium rivularis
Dactylorrhiza foliosa
Dietes, I think
Diphyllea cymosa flower
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Another few. Paddy
Geranium clarkii 'Kashmir Blue'
Geranium - a double blue, name lost.
Nectaroscordum siculum
Papaver orientalis 'Perry's White' - posted this yesterday also but it looked lovely in the light today.
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Finishing for today. Paddy
Phyteuma sp
Rogersia 'Irish Bronze'
Sambucus 'Guincho' - flowers just coming out now so elderflower cordial (pink) in about a week's time.
Silene - a double-flowered cultivar from a friend, no name
Thalictrum
Trollius europaeus
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Paddy,
Your Dietes is likely one of the Moraeas.... doesn't look quite right for huttonii, but similar. I think there are about 5 different species of that type, so it would be one of those. They are evergreen, have a single long leaf and then the lovely strong straight flower stems. They're good clumpers and seeders too. Very strong, drought hardy plants.
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Paddy,
I like it when it's too hot for you to garden (must be quite exceptional in Ireland ! :-\ ) - it results in lots of excellent pictures of plants I'm not all that familiar with ! ;)
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Thanks everyone, there's some stunning pictures in this thread!
Paddy - I think that lovely Geranium of yours is G. himalayense 'Plenum', if so it should be about 30cm tall and mat forming.
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Some flowers in our garden.
Daphne jasminea was suprisingly not damaged by the cold winter.
Daphne jasminea
Dianthus Eileen Lever
Dianthus plumarius Babi Lom
Stachys lavandulifolia 1
Stachys lavandulifolia 2
Verbascum x Letitia
Phlox Bill Baker
Dianthus haematocalyx ssp. pindicola
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Very nice plants Luit ! 8)
I love the small Dianthus' !!! They look gorgeous !
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Ah, the names of two plants brought back to memory for me - thank you very much.
Paul, it is Moorea huttonii - certainly that was the name with the seed.
And, the geranium is G. himalayense 'Plenum' - many thanks for the reminder, Arisaema.
Luit, I really wish my Verbascum x Letitia grew as yours does. Here, it simply hates our damp conditions and, while I grow it outside, I keep it covered all year round but it still has only made a very small plant after many years.
Luc, sunny and hot conditions again today but I think I have posted enough photographs for a while. Time to head to the sea for some swimming, I think.
Paddy
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Great prospect Paddy ! Have fun ! :D
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A couple of gesneriaceae in flower now.
It is supposed to be Ramond(i)a serbica (alba?) at the top and the bottom is of course Haberlea rhodopensis. Ramonda myconii (to the right of the picture ;D) is a week later.
Meconopsis quintuplinervia is now flowering.
The primula is one I have not planted knowingly. It could have arrived as a piggyback seedling with other or being a self sown cross.
Does anyone recognize it?
Göte
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Göte and Luit,
Lovely!
Paddy,
Glad to have helped with the name.
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A really great display of early June flowering in everyone's gardens in all climates, thanks :)
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Hi all I have been busy at Gardening Scotland and come home to so many super pictures some very unusual flowers great to see them thanks to everyone. I post several pictures of Cypripedium reginae and the Dark form of Lilium mackliniae plus Nomocharis saluenensis, cheers Ian the Christie kind.
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All stunning plants Ian ! Wonderful Nomocharis - and Lilium - and.... :o
Here's some from my garden :D
1) Campanula nitida - love the waxy flowers !
2) Campanula betulifolia
3) Edraianthus owerianus
4) Edraianthus pumilio
5) Edrainthus sutjeskae - funny name and new to me - nice big goblets !
6) Dianthus microlepis 'Rivendel' - much more flowers than in previous years :D
7) Dianthus 'Eileen Lever'
8- Dianthus 'Inschriach Dazzler' - another favourite
9) Minuartia caucasica - some 10 years old and producing it's first 2 flowers ever ! 8)
10) Lewisia x rediviva - I've posted it before but now in full bloom !!!
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Oooh, Lilium mackliniae, Nomocharis are just plants we can dream of here. Magnificent!
Luc, you have some gorgeous plants too in your garden. I love the D. Inschriach Dazzler, but could never keep it long here.
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Luc,
Lovely!
Ian,
Oh those Cypripediums and those gorgeous Lilium and Nomocharis. Wow!!
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Ian and Luc,
Great plants, super!
Paddy
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Some more flowers of this week
Dianthus plumarius Badenia
Gypsophila repens Knuddel
Penstemon Red Riding Hood
Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus
Hypericum olympicum Citrinum
Iris sibirica seedling
Molopospermum peloponnesiacum
Dianthus plumarius Munot
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Very nice, Luit. Love that last Dianthus, and that Hypericum olympicum Citrinum is going to be amazing once it is all open. I don't think I realised there were smaller types of Hypericum like that. Nice!! 8)
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Ian - That Lilium macklinae puts the pale one to shame, quite lovely. Glendoick was selling this dark one several years ago, do you know the original source of it?
johnw - just back from St. John's on a glorious summer night.
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Very nice selection Luit !
I'd never seen the 'citrinum' version of Hypericum olympicum !
Love the dwarf Dianthus' too - a nice splash of colour !
My D. 'Inschriach Dazzler' is in it's 3rd season - I'm keeping my fingers crossed... lost it on previous occasions too.
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Luc,
Is Your Edraianthus owerinianus from seed? How much takes it to flower? I have some seedlings from this year, they look rather leggy, and not too happy :-\ I keep all my seedlings in quite shade, under a tree, because our spring was hot like summer (32-35°C in May!). Maybe they (the Edraianthus seedlings) need more sun?
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Hello Katherine !
E. owerianus was a plant I bought 3 or 4 years ago.
E. pumilio self seeds around regularly here - I have occasionally potted up some of the seedlings and grew them on for a number of months (in semi shade) before planting them on. They seem to flower in their third year.
The seedlings may look a bit leggy now (so did mine), but once planted out in the open, they will rapidly regain their normal growing habit.
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Thank You so much, Luc!
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Luit,
A lovely selection. The hemerocallis lilioasphodelus, a species daylily, holds up well in comparison with the numerous cultivars now available - and it is the earliest to flower as well. It also has an elegance which many of the cultivars lack.
I have a plant of Molopospermum in the garden, great big spread of foliage, but no flower yet. I find it needs lots of water from now on.
Paddy
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Luit,
A lovely selection. The hemerocallis lilioasphodelus, a species daylily, holds up well in comparison with the numerous cultivars now available - and it is the earliest to flower as well. It also has an elegance which many of the cultivars lack.
I certainly agree with that Paddy. Some of the new cultivars are just awful and this is one of the most beautiful species
But Luit, This is the one I have as citrina. The one I have as lilioasphodelus (or flava) is shorter, darker and earlier. The pictures are first my "citrina" then my "flava"
Göte
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All stunning plants Ian ! Wonderful Nomocharis - and Lilium - and.... :o
Here's some from my garden :D
1) Campanula nitida - love the waxy flowers !
2) Campanula betulifolia
3) Edraianthus owerianus
4) Edraianthus pumilio
5) Edrainthus sutjeskai - funny name and new to me - nice big goblets !
6) Dianthus microlepis 'Rivendel' - much more flowers than in previous years :D
7) Dianthus 'Eileen Lever'
8- Dianthus 'Inschriach Dazzler' - another favourite
9) Minuartia caucasica - some 10 years old and producing it's first 2 flowers ever ! 8)
10) Lewisia x rediviva - I've posted it before but now in full bloom !!!
I quite agree, wonderful plants...those posted here, Luc are just fabulous - the two Campanula are perfection and how wonderful to enjoy the first flowering of Minuartia caucasica after a decade :)
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What a fabulous thread this is ... an eternal stroll around an ethereal domain.
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Luit,
A lovely selection. The hemerocallis lilioasphodelus, a species daylily, holds up well in comparison with the numerous cultivars now available - and it is the earliest to flower as well. It also has an elegance which many of the cultivars lack.
I certainly agree with that Paddy. Some of the new cultivars are just awful and this is one of the most beautiful species
But Luit, This is the one I have as citrina. The one I have as lilioasphodelus (or flava) is shorter, darker and earlier. The pictures are first my "citrina" then my "flava"
Göte
Göte, when my plant starts flowering I am always a little in doubt, because the young buds look a little brownish.
When it is open it is totally yellow. I think the one you have as citrina is the same as my plant.
Hem. citrina is something totally different, it comes from N. Korea and flowers in summer with big lemon yellow flowers
and it smells pleasant. I have it long time but never made a picture, will do so this summer (if I don't forget ;D).
I think that the one you have as H. lilioasphodelus is H. middendorffi, which flowers very early.
I bought my plant 3 years ago from a gardener who did not know what it was, so I have no references of being the true plant.
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Pictures taken today.
The two Dianthus shown; have their labels hidden under a 30 centimeter mat of foliage. I think they are named varieties, and if anyone would like to hazard a guess as to what they might be, it might kick-start my memory cells. :o
8)
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Lampwick,
A lovely selection. The potentilla, in particular, catches my eye. On the other hand I find phygelius a complete thug in the garden, wandering about underground to appear all over the place. I have pulled several cultivars from the garden and won't let them back in again.
Paddy
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So many wonderful plants and skillful growers here! :) Thank you all for showing!
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John, I cannot help with your Dianthus, though the pink one is a bit familiar to me.
But your Campanula is definitely not C. carpatica Blue Clips. It looks more like a C. portenschlagiana,
but to be sure a close-up of the leaf and a few flowers would be helpful.
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Davidia involucrata at Batsford Arboretum today. 8)
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But your Campanula is definitely not C. carpatica Blue Clips. It looks more like a C. portenschlagiana,
but to be sure a close-up of the leaf and a few flowers would be helpful.
Luit, I have to agree with you on this; I think it is indeed C. portenschlagiana!
I admired it in my daughter’s garden a few years ago and asked for a cutting and the name to go with it. She didn’t have the name but said she would take a few flowers and foliage to the garden manager at the B&Q garden center, from where she bought it (she worked at B&Q at the time and said the garden manager was very knowledgeable regarding plants). I did have my doubts at the time but never followed it up.
Here is a pot of sand Luit, with a few flowers and leaves stuck in.
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Lovely Davidia shots Giles.
I'm happy to report Davidia involucrata var. vilmoriniana has come through its first winter with flying colours in the southern planting. Even the tip bud is alive and vigorous. This variety seems significantly hardier than the straight species and the new cultivar 'Sonoma'.
I wonder how long before flowers. It is now approxiamately 1.6 metres tall.
johnw
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I'm glad you like it John.
The Batsford tree is claimed to be the biggest/oldest example in the UK.
The RHS Dictionary says it should 'flower' after 10 years.
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John, this is indeed Campanula portenschlagiana.
and said the garden manager was very knowledgeable regarding plants
I hope that this manager has made some homework since... ;D ;D ;D
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Giles,
An exceptional Davidia, very clear white bracts.
Paddy
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Saw my biggest ever Davidia at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden earlier this year...an amazing (and old) tree in full flower...
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That Davidia is amazing. Love the Campanula too, whichever it is. ;)
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When you start talking daylilies, Hemerocallis is my genus. Göte, your H. citrina may be a H. lilioasphodelus clone or hybrid. There are quite a few circulating under H. citrina, but most bloom too early, are not tall enough and do not have the typical branching and bud count. I have three different ones in the garden that bloom much too early and the flowers are too full. The second plant is most likely a clone of H. dumortieri, which has this rusty red bud colour, blooms extremely early in the season and has no scent. For the record, H. middendorfii has clustered buds of an orange tone.
The true H. citrina blooms in July for me, while the closely related H. altissima blooms about 2-3 weeks later. There is a third plant commonly listed as H. vespertina, which may be a hybrid between the two, although i think it is a discrete specie. All three are noctunal bloomers, strongly fragrant and quite tall with up to 50 flower buds per scape (some up to 100 buds). Of the first paragraph species, only H. lilioasphodelus is fragrant and all are diurnal bloomers. I'll try to dig-up some more fotos.
H. lilioaspodelus
unk citrina type hybrid
H. dumortieri
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Just so you know there are other colours than yellow, here are a few of my seedlings. The season has just started, so get ready for lots of Hems! 8)
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Jamie, the smaller size of your seedling photos is easier to see on screen......760 x 680 is good!
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Jamie,
You seem to have been bitten by the daylily bug. This flower seems to have a great following in the USA the number of new cultivars registered each year is apparently in the thousands. I like those with the dark purple colouring, as shown in your seedlings.
They are an excellent garden plant, trouble-free and multiplying with ease. I have made good use of them to fill up new areas of my garden.
Looking forward to more of your seedlings as the season progresses.
Paddy
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Luit and Regelian,
Thank you very much for your info. I really want to be sure what I have.
The early one has been in the family longer than I have been myself so the origin is unknown.
In the mid-fifties I saw one called citrina in the Garden exhibition in Hamburg and ordered one from a Swedish nursery some years later that was undoubtedly the same.
I will try to remember taking good photos when the time comes and hope that you can confirm the names then.
Both kinds are very good perennials here.
Göte
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I'm glad you like it John.
The Batsford tree is claimed to be the biggest/oldest example in the UK.
The RHS Dictionary says it should 'flower' after 10 years.
It is hardy enough to survive in a central town garden in mid-Sweden (Örebro) Hard winters the tips of the new shoots may be killed back a few centimeters. Our is now about 4 meters but still no sign of a flower. By the way, It seems to dislike drought. It flags easily.
Göte
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I thought Aquilegia fragrans was supposed to be plesantly scented, but my plant stinks of Tagetes..? :-X Seeds from Zanskar, India, 4000m.
Also below:
A Meconopsis species that reseeds a bit everywhere.
Dodecatheon dentatum
Geranium gymnandrum sorry, G. gymnocaulon
Polygonatum sp.
Paeonia hybrid
Paeonia anomala
Paeonia officinalis
Paeonia arietina 'Northern Glory'
A faded Trillium vaseyi
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Now you made me go out and sniff my A. fragrans :) and yes, you are right, it does remind me of Tagetes :-\
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Now you made me go out and sniff my A. fragrans :) and yes, you are right, it does remind me of Tagetes :-\
Glad it's not just my nose! I've seen it being described as both citrusy and honeysuckle-like (http://www.anniesannuals.com/plants/plant_display.asp?prodid=1340) - how they managed to smell that is beyond me ::)
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Lampwick,
A lovely selection. The potentilla, in particular, catches my eye. On the other hand I find phygelius a complete thug in the garden, wandering about underground to appear all over the place. I have pulled several cultivars from the garden and won't let them back in again.
Paddy
Paddy,
I haven’t yet had cause to regret planting Phygelius aequalis. It’s in a shady part of the garden, in the corner; against a north facing wall and a west facing high fence. It has a spread of just a bit over 1½ metres and hasn’t appeared to spread around much.
What I did have in that area before the Phygelius was Prunella………now THAT did become a pest! :o
8)
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a good year for fruit on the
Mandrago officinalis
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Arisaema,
I am very taken by that Dodecatheon dentatum. Lovely clump of it. Looks like quite a chunky plant too, unlike the few other Dodecs that I have seen in person? I rather like your seeding Mec too, and the species Paeonia. All good. ;D
Tony,
Fascinating to see the Mandrake. 8)
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I bought this Campanula last autumn as a cochlearifolia seedling. It is for shure NOT cochlearifolia, but what it is ??? To me looks like a white portenschlagiana...
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I think you're right Kata !
Here's some more from my garden :
1) The very common Camp. portenschlagiana can also look impressive when it reaches this size (due for a hard cutback ;D)
2) Dianthus grat. 'Badenia'
3) Dianthus 'India Star'
4) Dianthus monspessulanus (hope I've got it right.. :-\ )
5) Helianthemum lunulatum
6) Helichrysum aureum
7) Saponaria olivana
8. Saxifraga 'White Hills' - an excellent flowerer !
9) Silene alpestris contrasting with Delphinium tatsienense
10) Ground covering Ghypsofilia repens - Geranium "Max Frei" - Silene alpestris
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Luc,
wonderful. Every day surprised about the plants we see in this thread.
The Helianthemum lunulatum possible for a hot sunny place?
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Luc, it seems that we have the same taste for good, strong long living plant. (or the same sources.. ;D ;D )
Good to see that you have such a nice plant of Helianthemum lunulatum, probably origating from here :-\
I had it at least 20 years on the same spot, on a sunny raised bed. It's surprisingly hardy ( for Uli ! )
But a customer (from B.) ;) forced me to propagate it as much as possble, so I lost it now :'( and will have to
buy it again when offered.
I do have D. India Star from the same source as you, but my plant is red flowered.
I call it Evening Star which should be right, because I could find a picture some years ago. It's a Whetman variety.
Here a picture of my Dianthus Evening Star with on the left some flowers of India Star.
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What a fantastic display Luc!
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Salix candida in flower in St. John's, Newfoundland on Tuesday.
johnw
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What a fantastic display Luc!
Indeed. Luc's garden must look wonderful with such a display of healthy beauties. :)
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Thanks for the kind words everyone !
Uli,
H. lunelatum has been there for three years now - it's on the edge of a slightly raised bed and actually quite exposed to northern and eastern winds. Last winter we went down to -10°C and it survived well - so it proves to be quite hardy !
Luit,
Our tastes may be simmilar, but unfortunately they (the strong plants) are not always that "long living" with me... ::) Good thing for the nurseries... ;)
If I can be of any assistance with a rooted cutting of H. lunelatum, let me know, I can have a try and bring it back to the sheperds' stable ;D It's only a fairly small plant yet, so I couldn't take many... ::)
As to Dianthus - I guess I'd better change the label to "Evening star" then. They probably mixed them up at the nursery !
Thanks for sorting this out for me.
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The very common Camp. portenschlagiana can also look impressive when it reaches this size (due for a hard cutback )
It may be very common but I love this earth-hugging campanula and am thrilled to see it spreading in your garden Luc - each year I hope mine will increase but they do not survive the winter in the mountains here....may be I should cover them to insulate the plant before the frost/snow?
Your garden is always such an inspiration and I am going to try and find more varieties of dianthus - no specialist nurseries here which is so upsetting :'(
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It may be very common but I love this earth-hugging campanula and am thrilled to see it spreading in your garden Luc - each year I hope mine will increase but they do not survive the winter in the mountains here....may be I should cover them to insulate the plant before the frost/snow?
Your garden is always such an inspiration and I am going to try and find more varieties of dianthus - no specialist nurseries here which is so upsetting :'(
Hi Robin !
Thanks for the compliments ! :-*
I wouldn't know how to protect C. portenschlagiana against frost - it's bone hardy here .. ??? I have to keep an eye on it to prevent it from overgrowing just about anything.
As to finding Dianthus...
I only know of one Swiss alpine nursey, but it's a very good one - maybe you already know it - the famous "Sundermann nursery is in Lindau however, at the Bodensee - not exactly your neck of the woods.. ;D Maybe on a couple of days out ???
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Sorry Luc
Sündermann nursery is on the German side of the Bodensee ;D
Next weekend their is a plant market in the northwest. Will look for Helianthemum lunulatum.
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Robin,
a link for a nursery with some Dianthus species and cultivars
http://www.eschmannpflanzen.ch/index.php?option=com_jumi&fileid=4&Itemid=67
(Sorry in German)
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Thanks Luc and Uli for your advice and leads - I will spend a happy evening surfing dianthus and dream about the days out ::)
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Luc,
Super plants and pics. Good to see that you have such a large plant of Saponaria olivana.
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Another new seedling bloomed this morning. I didn't get to it until this evening, but it has a nice shape and pattern despite the cold weather.
Free Wheelin' x Venetian Baroque (?)
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Simply stunning, Jamie. Is the seedling of your own making?
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Re: e: Flowering Now - June 2009
« Reply #78 on: June 05, 2009, 08:52:01 PM »
Jamie,
Great result, a very nice flower. Well done!
RE: Cardiocrinum:
In flower here today, Cardiocrinum giganteum var yunnanense.
Paddy
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Thanks, Simon, and yes, it is of my own making. Getting the slight ruffling on the edge was what I was aiming for, which is difficult in the open form Hems. The gene pool is small for this type of breeding. Below are the parents.
Paddy, I love your Cardiocrinum! I have some seed from Kristl I hope to sprout and establish in the garden. I've tried bulbs before, but they always died after a year or two. I'm hoping that seed will be the answer. I'll let you know in say, 10 years! ;D
Free Wheelin'
Venetian Baroque
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My favourite Cardiocrinum Paddy, I have fond memories of seeing them at Bide-A-Wee garden in Northumberland, truly stunning.
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Another new seedling bloomed this morning. I didn't get to it until this evening, but it has a nice shape and pattern despite the cold weather.
Free Wheelin' x Venetian Baroque (?)
That is amazing. I have 'Yabbadabbadoo' and 'Bark at Me', but the flowers never look like they should do. :-[
Here's Sandy Leven's Chilean flame tree (Embothrium) and my Crinodendron hookeri.
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Thanks, Simon, and yes, it is of my own making. Getting the slight ruffling on the edge was what I was aiming for, which is difficult in the open form Hems. The gene pool is small for this type of breeding. Below are the parents.
Double congratulations, Jamie. A hybrid with the best qualities of its parents and a whole lot more of its own as well.
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Sorry Luc
Sündermann nursery is on the German side of the Bodensee ;D
Next weekend their is a plant market in the northwest. Will look for Helianthemum lunulatum.
Oops... I mixed up Eschman and Sundermann Uli - thanks for clearing that up !!
Paddy,
You're Cardiocrinum is awesome !!!
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Paddy,
I was just preparing a picture of my Cardiocrinum in flower to post here but mine is much more modest so I will leave it. Yours is really stunning.
Congratulations.
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Andre,
One cannot have too many cardiocrinum.
Paddy
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Luit,
Our tastes may be simmilar, but unfortunately they (the strong plants) are not always that "long living" with me... ::) Good thing for the nurseries... ;)
If I can be of any assistance with a rooted cutting of H. lunelatum, let me know, I can have a try and bring it back to the sheperds' stable ;D It's only a fairly small plant yet, so I couldn't take many... ::)
Luc, for the moment you don't have to bother. It is hardly to believe, but a small piece of my plant is still alive.
Yesterday I went searching on the place where it used to be. The bed is taken over now by Oxalis inops, Geranium sanguineum and a huge Daphne oleoides !
When I pulled enough Geranium away I was really surprised to find the Helianthemum lunulatum :D I had not seen it for years, so I thought it died.
Now I will try to pot it and it hopefully will survive.
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André , I hope you have a long case of paeony fever 8) One of the very best fevers to have!! :D
I'd love to see your Cardiocrinum, too.... never too many of those, as Paddy says.
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Just flowering
1 - 3 Jovellana punctata from South America - beautiful flowers but unfortunately
too much foliage in relation to the blossoms
4 + 5 Sisyrinchium roseum - which is a synonym of S. junceum (Olsynium junceum ) - raised from 2007 SRGC seeds
6 + 7 Senecio polyodon ssp. subglaber - from South Africa and hardy here
Gerd
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Lovely pics, Gerd, I'm amazed at what's proving hardy for you!
Re: the Olsynium, I have several seedlings labelled O. scirpoideum and O. junceum that proved perfectly hardy last winter, however they both have cylindrical "Juncus"-leaves - not flat ones like yours..?
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The one whose name I always forget, Mitraria coccinea.
Once tried crossing it with Ramonda and Jankaemonda. Pods set but no seed. Crazy people will try anything.
johnw
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This is a Ramond myconii I collected as a cutting at Montserrat in southern Spain in 1989. Last year it went wild and produced its first side rosette.
John I have not tried crossing it with any of the gesneriads its perhaps to old for that sort of excitement.
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A friend called this morning to see her Gloriosa in flower. Seems to be grabbing everything in sight with its tendrils.
Also a Meconopsis flower bigger than my hand, it was bought as M. grandis but Finn Haugli said it was a grandis hybrid when he saw it several years ago.
johnw
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Lovely pictures, the Cardiocrinums are amazing!
John;
Is the Mitraria hardy for you outside? The Mec hybrid is 'Lingholm', real grandis has glaucous seed pods.
Paddy;
Check last year's Lilium thread, there was a discussion there about various Cardiocrinum species.
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John;
Is the Mitraria hardy for you outside? The Mec hybrid is 'Lingholm', real grandis has glaucous seed pods.
I'm not sure but would doubt its hardiness. I have spares and intend to try it in the south this year planted as a ground cover.
re: the Meconopsis I am pretty certain she said she bought it as a seedling.
john
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re: the Meconopsis I am pretty certain she said she bought it as a seedling.
'Lingholm' is a seed strain, but not too variable.
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re: the Meconopsis I am pretty certain she said she bought it as a seedling.
'Lingholm' is a seed strain, but not too variable.
I will pass this along with thanks.
johnw
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There is so much in flower now.
Her is a few.
Geranium x Wageningen
A white Meconopsis
A blue on. A huge plant.
M. rudis
M. napaulensis
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Really, is there anything cuter than a baby Berneuxia?
johnw
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There is so much in flower now.
Her is a few.
Geranium x Wageningen
A white Meconopsis
A blue on. A huge plant.
M. rudis
M. napaulensis
Beautiful Meconopsis Anna Karin !! :D
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Fabulous photos of such very different Meconopsis, Anne Karin, you must be delighted with them - would love to see what else is in flower in your gorgeous garden :)
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Anne Karin, Wonderful plants, a great selection.
John W, looking forward to seeing it in flower, looks very promising.
Arisaema, I will chase up the previous discussion, many thanks.
Paddy
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Re cardiocrinum photographs from my garden posted earlier: I had some doubts of its correct name and have spent quite a while this evening searching for information.
At this stage I feel reasonably confident that it is Cardiocrinum cordatum var glehnii.
Cardiocrinum giganteum and C. gig. yunnanse both have white flowers and reach heights of 2metres or more. C. cordatum has (variously described) creamy/ivory/off-white/somewhat greenish petals while C. cordatum vay glehnii has petals which are clearly greenish. The maroon markings can vary from stripes along the centre of the petals to others which also have maroon spotting, in various amounts and patterns, at the tips of the petals. C. cordatum is also significantly smaller, say 1.2 metres on average. The stem of C. cordatum is also a very strong mahogany colour.
I have read back over postings on this topic from Lilies 2008, as suggested by Arisaema, and have read Jim McKinney's postings in other sites on the internet also and feel my conclusions above are sound. However, I would welcome comment.
Paddy
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Howdy All,
Thanks for the wonderful pics. I adore the flowers on that Mitraria. They just look so cute and fuzzy. And the Ramonda is superb!!
Anne,
I have to comment on your Meconopsis pics. Being as pics is about the closest I can come to Meconopsis I am really enjoying your pics. Special mention must go to that lovely white with it's little bee friend, but for pure photo admiration I have to comment on the M. napaulensis. The combination of the flower and buds etc with the flash is just beautiful. And of course I just adore everyone's blue Mecs that seem to be popping up everywhere on the forum at the moment. ;D
Thanks all.
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The one whose name I always forget, Mitraria coccinea.
Is anyone successfully growing Sarmienta repens or Asteranthera ovata? I have a dim memory of acquiring sarmienta many, many years ago; more recently, a pot of asteranthera turned up in a local garden center to my intense surprise. Not in either case having a clue about how to grow these hardy gesneriads, both failed quite quickly for me, and I've never had another chance at either.
Since my brush with asteranthera, I have found out that it is an epiphyte. I suspect that it would adapt to being potted in pure pumice, a method that is used by some growers of epiphytic greenhouse orchids. What the sarmienta might require for its happiness remains unknown.
Of these three "hardy" gesneriads, Mitraria coccinea has been with me for many years outside in a shaded bed. It doesn't get much water, but grows well enough, planted in under a large Daphne tangutica, and flowering modestly in summer. We had a pretty hard winter this past season, with two nights of serious cold, down to -7C and -11C on December 9 and 10, 2008 respectively, but the mitraria survived nicely. I suspect the shelter given by the daphne was the key to its survival.
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Love those Cardiocrinums- we are still waiting for ours to settle in here :(
Flowering just now in the main garden:
Collomia grandiflora
Collinsia heterophylla X tinctoria
Silene nutans
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I do love Collomia grandiflora Simon, but what a weed! I forgive it for being the most delectable colour 8) Ours are a way off flowering yet.
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We have grown Sarmienta on a dome of fleece covering a pile of compost from which it escaped into the sand plunge. I have also had it outside in a shady frame (no other frost protection) so it has a degree of hardiness. Asteranthera used to creep about my frost-free greenhouse and its sand plunge. I say "used" because while I was in hospital a vole ate it. The main requirements for both are shade and humidity. (Does anyone have a piece of Asterantera they can donate?, I would like to get it back) Both should be kept moist at all times.
Brian Wilson
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I do love Collomia grandiflora Simon, but what a weed! I forgive it for being the most delectable colour 8) Ours are a way off flowering yet.
It was more of a weed for us in England- here there are more herbivores willing to give it a go ;)
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Love those Cardiocrinums- we are still waiting for ours to settle in here :(
Flowering just now in the main garden:
Collomia grandiflora
Collinsia heterophylla X tinctoria
Silene nutans
...just realised that I think Silene nutans is what I saw in a clearing on a walk in the forest today - could it be Simon?
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Love those Cardiocrinums- we are still waiting for ours to settle in here :(
Flowering just now in the main garden:
Collomia grandiflora
Collinsia heterophylla X tinctoria
Silene nutans
...just realised that I think Silene nutans is what I saw in a clearing on a walk in the forest today - could it be Simon?
I've seen it in your part of the Alps growing in forest margins, Robin. :)
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Rodger,
Nice to know that Mitraria takes cold conditions. Might have to try to track some down to grow. Much easier if no need to fuss with it. Just love the fuzzy flowers. 8)
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Flowering now in the garden:
Carduus defloratus
Nepeta sibirica
Nepeta nuda 'Purple Cat'
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That was it then, Simon, another Silene to add to my recognised list - I love the bell-shaped one that grows prolifically here on the meadow/forest edge too...
Carduus defloratus (lovely cushion of colour)certainly has attracted a lovely butterfly ;) Imagine you have a lot of butterflies around in your garden?
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Simon,
You have some of THE most interesting plants to show us. The Carduus is yet another genus that I have never come across before. Between this, your assorted pea flowers and so many other wonderful things I am thinking I maybe should just move to your place! ;D
Thank you so much for showing us these fascinating plants. 8)
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Robin, yes this year has been a good one of butterflies- the Sweet William's in particular are attracting in a lot of Silver Washed Fritillaries.
Paul, visitors to the garden take great delight in telling me I have thistles growing in the beds ;)
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It sort of looks like an Echinops, so I guess the thistle comparison fits. At first glance it looked more like a Knautia relative, but on closer inspection after your thistle comment I can see the the leaves are much spikier. Excellent colour, and great to insect attraction by the look of it. It looks like only Carduus acaulis, C. acaulos, and C. arvensis are allowed into Australia unfortunately, otherwise I would ask you whether seed was available. ::) Unless one of those is a synonym for it? ???
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It sort of looks like an Echinops, so I guess the thistle comparison fits. At first glance it looked more like a Knautia relative, but on closer inspection after your thistle comment I can see the the leaves are much spikier. Excellent colour, and great to insect attraction by the look of it. It looks like only Carduus acaulis, C. acaulos, and C. arvensis are allowed into Australia unfortunately, otherwise I would ask you whether seed was available. ::) Unless one of those is a synonym for it? ???
Sorry Paul, it isn't a synonym for any of those thistles- but strange that they should let you have some of the 'weedier' ones and not others.
Some more Penstemons flowering now:
Penstemon euglaucus
Penstemon species (collected in a garden in Bayreuth, Germany)
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Simon,
Bummer. I guess no-one has paid to have that species evaluated. Hopefully someone in Aus already grows it anyway and is reading this..... maybe they can spare some seed or an offset? I really like the look of it and would love to grow it.
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Sorry Paul, I didn't realise you had to pay to have a species evaluated. How long have they been doing that? Having seed some of the 'weeds' you have over there not long enough I guess!
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Various references will be noted in these recent pages to "Cardiocrinums" : those posts concerned with cardiocrinum have been moved to Bulbs General in their own thread ,
see here: http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3673.0
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My last Cypripedium to flower ( C.reginae ) and Epipactis 'Sabine'.
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Tanks for the nice comments on my pictures.
Simon, dos your Penstemon smell? It my bee Penstemon azureus or Penstemon glaber v. alpinus. I got them both and I think it is the same.
To day some pictures from my garden.
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And some flowers ;)
Meconopsis betonicifolia Hensol Violet
Centaurea cheiranthifolia
Cypripedium Ulla Silkens
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... and a very beautiful garden it is too and in a wonderful setting.
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I do love Collomia grandiflora Simon, but what a weed! I forgive it for being the most delectable colour 8) Ours are a way off flowering yet.
It was more of a weed for us in England- here there are more herbivores willing to give it a go ;)
Simon+Brian,
Please let me know why Collomia is a weed. I grow it the first time and was so glad to to raise plants which will flower soon. Isn't it an annual?
Gerd
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Anne Karin, WHAT a beautiful garden you have! 8) 8)
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Anne Karin, what a stunning location for a stunning garden. Thanks for the ideas for the Penstemon id- I shall investigate further tomorrow!
Gerd, the Collomia is an annual for me and seeds itself freely, but it is easy to pull out from places you don't want it. I have to say for that colour there are few places I don't want it. ;)
Two tiny beauties (to me anyay) flowering today in troughs. Hopefully they will be happier when we complete our shady rock garden beds.
Gentiana syringae
Comastoma cyananthiflora
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Anne Karin, what a lovely garden you got...and what a magnificent view.
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A very beautiful garden ... from another supreme Scandinavian gardener.
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Gerd Collomia is lovely, but self seeds all over the place, as Simon says you just have to weekd it out from where it is not welcome. The colour is a wonderful soft apricot and most welcome.
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Wonderful garden Anne, and a stunning setting (from one who lives in a flat part of England!).
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Anne that is a stunning garden.
By the way is that a lake or a fjord?
Göte
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This is a Ramond myconii I collected as a cutting at Montserrat in southern Spain in 1989. Last year it went wild and produced its first side rosette.
I lived many months within viewing distance of Montserrat but at that time it was in the northeast - near Barcelona. :D
If you intend to go there again I can tell you where the really big ones grow.
Göte
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my wife your Physoplexis comosa
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Anne that is a stunning garden.
By the way is that a lake or a fjord?
Göte
It is a fjord. The "Hardangerfjord". About 100 km southeast of Bergen.
And yes it is a very nice place.
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Anne that is a stunning garden.
By the way is that a lake or a fjord?
Göte
It is a fjord. The "Hardangerfjord". About 100 km southeast of Bergen.
And yes it is a very nice place.
Garden looks wonderful Anne. What a setting 8)
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Anne Karin, that is a wonderful place to garden and it is so beautiful.
The colors of your plants are so much clearer than here in Holland, so far up north.
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my wife's Physoplexis comosa
Wolfgang, I see your wife has a fine collection. Thanks to you and to her for sharing with us. :)
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Anne,
Glorious garden. That blaze of the double orange poppies (I think that's what they are isn't it?) along with the Meconopsis and the Irises is wonderful. And that VIEW!!! :o :o :o Wow.
Thanks so much for showing us.
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So does anyone know whether Physoplexis would be possible to grow in my climate (-8'C or so absolute minimum in winter, 40'C or so max in summer)? I just love the flowers. Of course I may not be able to get it here of course. ::)
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Some plants pictured this weekend:
Euphorbia sarawschanica
Erigeron Rotes Meer
Laserpitium siler
Genista villarsii
Rodgersia pinnata Die Schöne
Helichrysum ex Sani Pass 1
Helichrysum ex Sani Pass 2
Rhodohypoxis bed
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Here a couple from today..
Caltha palustris var
Corydalis pseudobarbisepala
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Brian + Simon,
Thanks for the Collomia informations!
Gerd
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This is the natural home of Luit's Helichrysum species - Lesotho behind me and KZ-Natal straight ahead (...and down!). A short distance further down the pass such beauties as Gladiolus flanaganii, Eucomis schiffii and many other choice plants can be found on the steep slopes below.
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Rogan,
When the time comes I would love to see pics of the Eucomis schifii and some of the other beauties. 8)
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Some amazing pictures and very interesting plants here!
Anne K., I'm lost for words, your garden is just stunning!
Sinchets, I like those Gentianaceae, where did you find seeds of the Comastoma?
...and that blue Corydalis ;D
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Some great postings again !!!
Anna Karin
You're garden looks absolutely stunning... :o :o so colourful and well constructed ! The view isn't bad either... ::) ;D
Magnar,
Never seen or heard of your Corydalis but it's a beauty !!
Luit,
Wonderful selection - don't Rhodohypoxis look great in large quantities ???
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Thanks again everyone. :)
This spring/summer has been rather chilly and i think that has someting to doe whit the colors. They are brighter this year.
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Sinchets, I like those Gentianaceae, where did you find seeds of the Comastoma?
The Comastoma was from Mojmar Pavelka's seedlist in 2007.
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The Comastoma was from Mojmar Pavelka's seedlist in 2007.
Thanks, it's a really lovely one!
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Sedum dasyphyllum is beginning to flower in a Römertopf. ;D
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Flowering now in the garden:
Anthemis sancti-johannis
Allium rotundum (parent plant and seedling)
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Calvin, very nice compact form of Haemanthus albiflos !!
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This is the natural home of Luit's Helichrysum species - Lesotho behind me and KZ-Natal straight ahead (...and down!). A short distance further down the pass such beauties as Gladiolus flanaganii, Eucomis schiffii and many other choice plants can be found on the steep slopes below.
Thank you for showing the place Rogan! :D :D
Plants from this height seem to be hardy enough to grow outside here.
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This is a Ramond myconii I collected as a cutting at Montserrat in southern Spain in 1989. Last year it went wild and produced its first side rosette.
I lived many months within viewing distance of Montserrat but at that time it was in the northeast - near Barcelona. :D
If you intend to go there again I can tell you where the really big ones grow.
Göte
Gote
perhaps I thought it had slid downhill in the intervening years! I went again about three years ago in May and it was still quite near Barcelona in the northeast. There were huge clumps of the ramonda in flower at the time,
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Sinchets, I like those Gentianaceae, where did you find seeds of the Comastoma?
The Comastoma was from Mojmar Pavelka's seedlist in 2007.
Current seedlist here
http://www.pavelkaalpines.cz/
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Sedum dasyphyllum is beginning to flower in a Römertopf. ;D
Your Sedum dasyphyllum looks very happy brimming over in the terracotta container Katherine - I love the simple design, it's so effective and reminds me of Hans' Troughs :)
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my wife your Physoplexis comosa
What an intriguing looking plant collection belonging yo your wife, Wolfgang - I would like to know more about it please... and why the style of planting in a double pot, is it for humidity?
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To day some pictures from my garden.
Anne Karin, your garden is truly gorgeous, generous and romantic in your plantings and association - it feels as if you have painted it in that wonderful setting. Please keep us posted as the seasons change.
The steep banks give a sunken garden effect and shows off the poppies to perfection!
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Current seedlist here
http://www.pavelkaalpines.cz/
Thanks, David! It's still listed, so I've managed to overlook two years in a row :P
Katherine; love your crock pot!
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Stunningly beautiful garden, Anne Karin!
A few from the sub-arctic barrens...
1) A young Eremurus himalaicus, planted last year.
2) Cortusa matthioli.
3) Penstemon confertus, a native plant, this batch starting to bloom.
4) Lamium orvala.
5) A charming little (though mislabelled) Erigeron spp..
6) Valeriana montana.
7) Euphorbia griffithii 'Fireglow' - in bloom, though the foliage is still sparse (as is its habit).
8, 9) Silene x robotii 'Rollie's Favorite' (x2)
10) Dracocephalum nutans, from seed last year (I like this plant!), with Paeonia tenuifolia 'Plena' in background.
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Continuing...
1) Anemone canadensis - a very beautiful native, though shockingly invasive. (I didn't plant it - it just showed up, and as it was lovely and withstood the horrid conditions on the street-side outside the fence, I was too soft-hearted to get rid of it... it's now outlived its welcome. >:()
2) In case you thought it was safe to forget about pulsatillas for another year, Pulsatilla vulgaris is still putting out a few final blooms here, but is mostly in seed.
3) Phlox bifida cultivar.
4) Verbascum atroviolaceum. (Please excuse the dirt kicked up by the planting of a rose nearby... didn't notice it until now when it's too dark to reshoot!)
5) Phlox stolonifera... I'm delighted to report that the white specks are not snow... they're just petals from the chokecherry tree.
6) A lovely native whose identity I need to key out! I grew it from seed a few years ago... a Hedysarum, I think, possibly H. boreale...
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Every one a gem Lori.
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Lori,
Lovely selection of plants. I particularly like the anemone canadensis.
Paddy
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Lovely selection of natural looking flowering plants, Lori, the Verbascum atroviolaceum is the most gorgeous colour - they are extraordinary plants that are well worth looking at the florets close up and very statuesque - here they grow wild in the meadow reaching up making a real statement!
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Love the Dracocephalum, Lori. I have had it in England but it never set seed so i don't have it here. The Hedysarum is a gem too.
Flowering here on 2 roadside cuttings in the Stara Planina are:
On mudstone- Campanula lingulata- in the first pics looking like an Edraianthus from a distance, but growing taller and more in character on a woodland edge.
Limestone- Also Stachys recta and Salvia ringens
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Philip MacDougall was by last night and showed us two sensational plants. The first his Paris luquanensis and the second a spectacular Trillium at the Rhododendron Species Foundation in Federal Way, Wa. A pair of crackers.
He brought us some nice plants Podophyllum pleianthum x delavayi with chocolate (calm Maggi) new leaves, a dwarf blue-leafed Dicentra peregrina hybrid with red flowers, Hanabusaya asiatica from cw seeds Korea and Abies koreana Silver Show.
johnw
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Sounds like a vist to gladden MY heart, John!
Off now to find out what Hanabayusa asiatica might be ???
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Great plants, indeed, John
Paddy
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Off now to find out what Hanabayusa asiatica might be ???
I have reserved you a tiny seedling, Maggi ... if you want it?
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Philip MacDougall was by last night and showed us two sensational plants.
Oh my... :o
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Off now to find out what Hanabayusa asiatica might be ???
I have reserved you a tiny seedling, Maggi ... if you want it?
Cliff, I have no idea what it is.......for all I know, a tiny seedling could grow into a forest tree in six years! :-[ :o
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I'm still recovering from those pics above, but try googling Hanabusaya, it's a cute little woodland Campanulaceae.
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AHA! Now I'm with you! A sushi -eating harebell..... why didn't someone say in the first place ::)
Does the offer of a seedling still stand, Cliff? :)
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Naturally ... I will attempt to keep it alive until I can get it to you ... hopefully not sayonara! ;)
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Thanks Arisaema for Hanabusaya, I had it correct in my inventory but copied it incorrectly, as Maggi would say I have confused myself yet again - I warned her.
johnw
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Forgot to add on the pics of Salvia ringens and Stachys recta ::)
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Naturally ... I will attempt to keep it alive until I can get it to you ... hopefully not sayonara! ;)
Many thanks :-*
Thanks Arisaema for Hanabusaya, I had it correct in my inventory but copied it incorrectly, as Maggi would say I have confused myself yet again - I warned her.
johnw
If only I were not so easily confused along with you, John! :P It must be catching!
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John,
Both the Paris and the Trillium are stunning, but especially the Trillium. What a corker of a plant!! :o
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Blooming in the grasslands now...
1,2) Oxytropis sericea var. spicata
3) More Hedysarum boreale (I think), in the wild this time.
4) "Buffalo beans" (their bloom time supposedly indicates when the bison are fat from spring grazing and ready to hunt... or maybe this was just a tale told to children ???) - or golden beans, Thermopsis rhombifolia
5, 6) Unknown oxytropis - another one to try to key out!
7) Geum triflorum, starting to live up to its common name, prairie smoke.
8, 9) Lithospermum ruderale - big mature plants, with rather different form than the younger plants in my yard.
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Some more pictures from last weekend:
Lilium bulbiferum
Nectaroscordum siculum
Rhaphiolepis umbellata
Rhaphiolepis x delacourii
Hemerocallis Daily Bread 1
Hemerocallis Daily Bread
Stewartia rostrata 1
Stewartia rostrata 2
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Lori- love to be in the grasslands near you right now- an inspriation for what I am aiming for here in the top meadow. :P
Flowering now:
Linaria triornithophora
Lathyrus odoratus
Lathyrus chloranthus- both self sown 'weeds'
and for Gerd:
Collomia grandiflora- self sown in a border, but thinned out where needed
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Forgot to add on the pics of Salvia ringens and Stachys recta ::)
Simon, Salvia ringens is a wonderful colour - and the leaves are so different to any I've seen ::)
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Blooming in the grasslands now...
1,2) Oxytropis sericea var. spicata
3) More Hedysarum boreale (I think), in the wild this time.
4) "Buffalo beans" (their bloom time supposedly indicates when the bison are fat from spring grazing and ready to hunt... or maybe this was just a tale told to children ???) - or golden beans, Thermopsis rhombifolia
5, 6) Unknown oxytropis - another one to try to key out!
7) Geum triflorum, starting to live up to its common name, prairie smoke.
8, 9) Lithospermum ruderale - big mature plants, with rather different form than the younger plants in my yard.
Lori, it lovely to take a walk along the riverside with you discovering these fabulous wild plants the oxytropis is my favourite and the Geum triflorum is so delicate in its display and colour.
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Some more pictures from last weekend:
Lilium bulbiferum
Nectaroscordum siculum
Rhaphiolepis umbellata
Rhaphiolepis x delacourii
Hemerocallis Daily Bread 1
Hemerocallis Daily Bread
Stewartia rostrata 1
Stewartia rostrata 2
A great collection, Luit, although brief in flowering Hemerocallis are lovely plants - Daily Bread a great name, don't you think?
Would like to know more about Nectaroscordum which looks intriguing ::)
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Simon,
How big are the flowers on that Linaria? They look huge, particularly as I am assuming that is a bumble bee that is attempting to hide in the flower on the right?
Lori,
Your grasslands look like pea central by the look of it. Some beautiful pics in there!!
Thanks all.
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Simon, that Linaria triornithophora is super, I might give that one house room ;)
Our collomia grandiflora is now coming into flower, hooray ;D
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and for Gerd:
Collomia grandiflora- self sown in a border, but thinned out where needed
Thank you Simon. I can't decide what looks more beautiful - the Collomia or the landscape
in the background - what a scene!
Gerd
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Google is great!
Yesterday when passing a road near Osnabrück I noticed an unkown shrub which I photographed in order to send pics to SRGC 'Plant Identification'.
Before that I tried Google Images and in less than 1 minute I found the misterious hisbiscus-like plant: Philadelphus x lemoinei ' Belle Etoile '
isn't it a real Belle?
Gerd
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Lovely pix, everyone!
Gerd, that gorgeous philadelphus is making me long for a forum scent button! Delicious!!
And, when I look again at the photos... it is beside Lavender ..... more fragrance! Bliss!
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Paul, the Linaria are about 5cm from the front of the lip to the end of the spur. It self seeds around and runs underground, but it is very airy in growth and looks great growing through other plants.
Robin, the Salvia ringens leaves are very interesting- there are other species with similarly divided leaves. The large pendant flowers on this one had me thinking it was a Campanula, as we were passing in the car.
Flowering now:
Clarkia gracilis ssp tracyi - self sown in a path
Dianthus hybrids (based mainly on Dianthus x allwoodii) in gravel under the shade of a cherry tree
Teucrium hyrcanicum
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Wonderful pix everyone !
Simon, you keep amazing me with your incredible variation and diversity in your plants !! ::)
Luit,
I've never seen these Raphiolepis !!! They seem very nice little shrubs - nice things to have in a rock garden, flowering this late !
Anything in particular we should know about them ?
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I agrre on both counts. Every time I read this thread I see genera I didn't know existed-marvellous stuff.Any scent on the Rhaphiolepsis Luit?
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Silene alpestris
Eryngium bourgatii
Gladiolus caucasius
White Papaver orientale
And some thing.?
Geranium delavayi seedling.
And another
And a rose. Aïcha
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And some thing.?
A variegated, double Silene dioica? Lovely pics!
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And some thing.?
A variegated, double Silene dioica? Lovely pics!
Thank you.
I believe the Geranium delavayi seeds come from you.
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I've never seen these Raphiolepis !!! They seem very nice little shrubs - nice things to have in a rock garden, flowering this late !
Anything in particular we should know about them ?
Luc, the Rhaphiolepis is a shrub, which I saw several years ago in a friend’s garden on the island Texel, where it withstood the strong winds from the sea.
It seems to be fully hardy till -15 C. It might be too big for a small rock garden, but it is beautiful and yes David, it smells very good.
By coincidence I saw some weeks, after seeing it the first time, a plant without flowers in a bargain corner of a garden center and bought it,
because it was only 5 € :D :D
Last year I visited at this time of year a very famous tree nursery in Boskoop, and saw a pink flowered Rhaphiolepis with the name R. umbellata,
which was wrong of course.
So I asked for the senior chef who I knew personally and asked him about the naming.
He took me into his private voluminous library, where we found out that the name is Rhaphiolepis x delacouri.
He showed me his own plant next to the front door, which was growing there for more than 20 years and supplied every year propagation material.
The man told me that he had never before been thinking that the name was wrong.
Such things might happen, even with good gardeners with enormous plant knowledge…. ??? ::) ::)
It was there where I bought my pink flowered plant.
I do have one of the parents, pink flowered Rhaphiolepis indica too, but this is not such a good grower.
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Some violets - just in flower - or building seeds only
1. Viola pumila - a native species
2. Viola species from Yunnan - related to Viola biflora
3. Viola pusilla - an annual rosulate, originally from the Andes
4. - unfortunately here only building cleistogamous flowers (not open)
5. Viola pubescens var. pubescens - typical seed capsules
Gerd
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Some flowering plants from today - the first two growing inside
1. Alstroemeria patagonica Maxi (not as 'maxi' as expected)
2. Nesocodon mauritianus - Campanulaceae from Mauritius
3. Campanula cochlearifolia
4. + 5. Geranium cinereum - a white variety from the Pyrenees
6. Geranium dalmaticum
7. Thymus serpyllum 'Vellern' - a low growing form found by Bernd Wetzel
8. Lonicera tragophyllum
10. Lilium pomponium
Gerd
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A great collection, Luit, although brief in flowering Hemerocallis are lovely plants - Daily Bread a great name, don't you think?
Would like to know more about Nectaroscordum which looks intriguing ::)
Yes Robin, the name Daily Bread is right. This Hemerocallis flowers every day for a long time every year.
The Nectaroscordum was in a mixed package from a Mail Order business, which brought us somebody who works there and has no garden.
It not expensive though and I saw some better selections already at the Weekly Lisse Show, which will be offered in trade in future.
It grows like Allium.
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Gerd, the Nesocodon mauritianus is something very delicate. Never seen or heard of it.
And Lonicera tragophyllum is one to look out for. A real beauty!
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Gerd- you grow Lilium pomponium - wow :P
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Wow, everyone. So many wonderful things. The Nesocodon mauritianus look fantastic, and the wonderful Geranium delaveyi! :o
Simon,
That Linaria really is huge, if each flower is 5cm long. I'm used to seeing tiny flowers on Linaria. I just love it!!
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Well, the roses are well underway and the fragrance is quite intense. I won't bore you with them all, but this one I particularly like.
Alchymist (Kordes)
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really nice plants! :o
Here is, wishing to be an orchid, Calceolaria cana
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Magical flowers Gerd, I agree with Luit that
Nesocodon mauritianus is something very delicate
and the trumpet is so generous
I do adore scented flowers and so honeysuckles are high on my 'needs-must' list and the Lonicera tragophyllum is again very delicate and simple, is it high scented and what tree is it growing through?
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Oh Rafa. :o How glorious is that picture!!!!!! :o
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Well, the roses are well underway and the fragrance is quite intense. I won't bore you with them all, but this one I particularly like.
Alchymist (Kordes)
mmmmMMMMM I can smell your roses from here Jamie and your Alchymist rose is heavenly, thankyou :)
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Fantastic pictures, I'm also taken by both the Nesocodon and the Calceolaria. The rose actually one I was planning to buy, do wish we had that scent button Maggi mentioned... :D
Below:
Anemone obtusiloba(?)
Anemone pratti
Nomocharis aperta, yellow form
Phlox divaricata from Scottsville, Kentucky - compact, but not very fragrant.
Phyteuma hybrid, P. nigra x something
Swertia alpestris
...and the flower of the Polygonatum sp. posted earlier, it didn't read the key (as usual), but I think it's a pale P. kingianum.
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Arisaema ,
what an exciting and beautyful colour brake in your Nomocharis aperta - did not know there was a yellow form of it . Nomocharis grow very well here in my garden , so I would be
grateful for a few seeds should your plants ripen any and there are a few to spare ,
Otto.
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Arisaema,
I love the Phyteuma hybrid, but that Swertia alpestris is fascinating. Any chance of a close up picture of the flowers?
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Magical flowers Gerd, I agree with Luit that Nesocodon mauritianus is something very delicate
and the trumpet is so generous
I do adore scented flowers and so honeysuckles are high on my 'needs-must' list and the Lonicera tragophyllum is again very delicate and simple, is it high scented and what tree is it growing through?
Thank you alltogether for the kind remarks!
RR, The Lonicera is surprisingly scentless - so the colour has to act as a substitute. In my mind honeysuckles and scent is also always combined.
The tree is Kalopanax pictus (Araliaceae) from Japan. This species can reach about 20 m in its homeland and it seems mine tries to beat this - much too large for my small garden!
Gerd
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Bjørnar,
very beautiful plants.
I had never seen the yellow Nomocharis either or the white A. obtusiloba (I've seen the yellow and the blue one but never the white one).
Is Swertia alpestris the same as Swertia perennis ssp. alpestris?
Wim
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some recent pictures from the wild
gentiana-angustifolia.jpg
iris-pseudacorus.jpg
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p5090115. Viola cazorlensis
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Rafa,
Your last pictures shows the wonderful Viola cazorlensis. Thank you!
Where you it photograph?
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Rafa,
Your last pictures shows the wonderful Viola cazorlensis. Thank you!
Where you it photograph?
- and also just as well interesting: where did you discover the gentian?
Gerd
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Some pictures from my gardens :
This small form is a valuable plant, very floriferus and compact from the Kosovo.
Epipactis x Sabine is a hybrid of E.palustris and E.gigantea.
Haplocarpha nervosa is a new introduction from the Drakensberge of Lesotho,
H. ruepelli is more known in cultivation and origins from the Kilimandscharo region.
As in previous years this Iris lineolata from Aserbajdsan grows without any protection
in the open garden.
Allium insubricum.jpg
Daphne alpina small fom.jpg
Dragonfly.jpg
Epipactis x Sabine 1.jpg
Epipactis x Sabine 2.jpg
Haplocarpha nervosa.jpg
Haplocarpha rueppelii.jpg
Iris lineolata.jpg
Iris pseudacorus fl.pl..jpg
Jamesia americana.jpg
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Rafa,
The Viola cazorlensis is amazing. Never seen a Viola anything like that before! :o
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beautiful plants ruwesiss, specially to me Iris acutiloba lineolata.
I pictured that Viola cazorlensis precisely in Cazorla Natural Park, although there ar many other locations. Precisely, a Guard from the park arrived when I was taking pictures and talking about this botanic jewell, he told me there is also distributed in Italy and that surprised me.
About gentiana, I pictured it in Alava, when I was collecting seeds of Narcissus jacetanus subsp. jacetanus. The real colour was even more deep blue, a real gift to my sight!
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Stunning, Rafa. Simply stunning plant.
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Some wonderful plants pictured above, the Iris lineolata and Viola in particular!
Otto; sure, but you will have to remind me, possibly (probably) more than once as I'm half senile and a terrible procrastinator :-\
Paul; close up below :)
Wim; thanks! It is S. perennis ssp. alpestris, basically a shorter version with longer petals.
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That is just SO nice. Love the petal and stamen arrangement etc. Very, very nice plant. :o
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Thank you for the Gentiana information and of course for the superb violet pics!
Viola cazorlensis grows only in Spain. There are two related species in the Balkan area which are Viola kosaninii from Albania and Macedonia and Viola delphinantha from Greece with one station in Bulgaria (Ali-Botusch - near the Greece border).
An occurence of a fourth violet from this relationship in Italy would be a botanical sensation!
Gerd
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Is it just me but have we seen an extraordinary selection of plants over the past few days?
It just strikes me that members have shown some quite unusual and beautiful plants recently.
Enjoyed them all even if the number which were new to me caused some confusion/brain overload.
Paddy
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Paddy,
I can only echo your comment. This has turned into an absolutely amazing forum. Wonderful plants with the wonderful people the grow and share them. It really boosts the heart.
Maggi, thanks for making this all possible! :-* :-* :-*
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Paddy,
I can only echo your comment. This has turned into an absolutely amazing forum. Wonderful plants with the wonderful people the grow and share them. It really boosts the heart.
Maggi, thanks for making this all possible! :-* :-* :-*
I'll echo that too, so many outstandingly interesting plants in the garden and the wild and it's wonderful to see them side by side and reflect on their origins and diversity....thanks to each and everyone in the Forum and the hardworking people who make it all possible :)
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Enjoyed them all even if the number which were new to me caused some confusion/brain overload.
Paddy
Paddy - you could try this (though it doesn't seem to help with spelling).
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Took me a while to find the spelling mistake. ::) Obviously I need some as well. :o
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The first Kniphofia is opening. Just a seedling that poped up, but a nice colour combination. I used to have lots of seedlings, but have parred back to a handful. The rest are in other garden, brightening the late Spring.
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Nice red and white combo. :)
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I agree- a great colour combination.
Flowering here:
Salvia viscosa in closeup and also in a general shot across the main xeric bed with Verbascum and Eremurus behind.
Scabiosa cinerea- a happy memory plant, as its grandparent was won at an SRGC meeting in Aberdeen)
Antirrhinum hybrids. The original plants were grown from seed bougt as A.braun-blanquetii, but I wasn't sure if they were true. The plants started out yellow flowered, about 1m tall, shrubby and quite perennial. Over the next few years the bees brought in genes from elsewhere, and more colours appeared in the self sown seedlings. This was about 20 years ago so the plants in the picture are now several generations on from the first plants. I would be interested to know if anybody has ever seen or grown pure A.braun-blanquetii.
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Gerry,
I am certainly in need of some brain tonic though something stronger than Coca Cola would be far more welcome.
Paddy
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Common as muck, but quite pretty ...
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Starting a nursery Cliff ??? ;D
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Here in Spain we have many endemic snapdragons, this is Antirrhinum pertegasii
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and this is A. barrelieri, they are just starting to bloom.
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Starting a nursery Cliff ??? ;D
No Luit ... but I did visit one with my camera yesterday! ;D
It is difficult to start a nursery in an area 35 feet x 15 feet ... in fact it is difficult to swing a kitten. :D
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Took me a while to find the spelling mistake. ::) Obviously I need some as well. :o
Maybe you're fizzically exhausted Paul ;D
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Rafa, thanks for showing us these gems, the Viola cazorlensis is incredibly
floriferous.(I was proud about the 3 flowers at my cultivated plant). Viola
kosaninii is extremely rare in cultivation, I only know one person who
has this plant. A friend says, that he heard of a population of Viola delphinantha
in Bulgaria with flowers of the double size as the usual clones in the gardens.
Maybe we can see them in some time.
I agree with Gerd,that the existence of a 4 th.species of these beauties would
be a sensation.
Now some more pictures:
Prostanthera cuneata is a low shrub from Tasmania with fragrant flowers.
Trollius vaginatus is a gift from a friend,it origins from Tibet at 5000 m.
Nymphaea.jpg
Prostanthera cuneata.jpg
Saponaria x olivana.jpg
Saxifraga cochlearis minor.jpg
Sempervivum.jpg
Trollius vaginatus.jpg
Verbascum Letitia.jpg
Weldenia candida.jpg
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Tiny, but beautiful little linaria species in flower today ...
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Lovely, everyone. Thanks for sharing. Rafe, that Antirrhinum pertegasii is rather interesting, isn't it. Love the leaf and flower combination.
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The thread keeps going strong !!!
Each time I can't visit for a day or so the harvest of new pix is sumptuous !
Rafa,
The Violas from the wild are just stunning !!!! :o :o
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Days are passing fast and new flowers opening every day:
Anemone polyanthes from a Chadwell expedition
Primula reidii
Trollius hestoeyensis..
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Tiny, but beautiful little linaria species in flower today ...
A wonderful Macro (Supermacro) of your little linaria Cliff - I love the stripes - each flower is like a little purse :)
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Many thanks Robin ... the flower stem was about four inches tall (from N.A.R.G.S. seed) and for some strange reason all the colours are quite accurate apart from that gruesome fluorescent green.
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One of two things taken whilst the sun was shining ie before terrential thunderstorms! The papaver are in the front garden with the Collomia, if only they were rising through it! Also in the front is the kniphofia hirsuta, beginning to settle in nicely. Whilst in the back are these lovely bupleurum and a little section of the border which I am pleased with.
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1. Linum capitatum
2. Nymphaea 'Colorado'
3. Clematis alpina 'Willy'
4. Cortusa turkestanica
5. Geum x borisii
6. Aquilegia canadensis
7, 8, 9. Last of the tulips and daffodils for another year...
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Lori,
Beautiful, particularly that apricot Nymphaea and the Clematis. 8)
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Beautiful, particularly that apricot Nymphaea and the Clematis.
seconded! That apricot is just lovely 8)
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Flowering now and appearing from nowhere Papaver somniferum. This part of the garden of the garden has not been cultivated in at least 15 years, so it was a surprise when these started to grow.
Also Coreopsis lanceolata and an Erigeron, whose identity is lost in the mists of time.
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Simon,
How flat is the Erigeron? The flowers look identical to what I grow here as Erigeron glauca, but it is quite low growing an slowly spreading. Assuming of course that I have it under the correct name here. ::)
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Thanks, Paul. Erigeron glauca sounds good- it does make a thick, slowly spreading plant- from memory. At the moment it is about 30cm tall.
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One of two things taken whilst the sun was shining ie before terrential thunderstorms! The papaver are in the front garden with the Collomia, if only they were rising through it! Also in the front is the kniphofia hirsuta, beginning to settle in nicely. Whilst in the back are these lovely bupleurum and a little section of the border which I am pleased with.
Brian, your borders look wonderful and I just love the dark papaver - which is it by the way? Bupleurum is a plant I always wanted to grow and had the seed but never quite made it to see it in full splendour like yours, fabulous ;)
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Hmmm... I also have Erigeron glaucus (or so it was labelled!) and it's under 10cm...
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Lol, I guess I won't be relabelling that in a hurry then ;)
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Simon,
My glaucus (I bought it glauca, so didn't realise the ending was wrong) is nowhere near 30cm tall either. Definitely closer to the 10cm of Lori's. Depends of course on how much competition it has too though.... if growing through something it will always be taller, whereas mine is out in the open. Is that a factor with yours Simon?
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Thank you Robin, the poppy was bought years ago as Papaver somniferum 'Black Peony' and has crossed with others so there are single, double and fringed versions. There are always plenty of seeds ;D
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Some plants in flower here this week.
Interestingly that Simon showed the double form of Papaver somniferum.
I have the single form since I raised a bed with some darker soil for several perennials.
I let it seed every year and pull most of them out when small, but the colors improved
from dirty pink to some red ones this year..
This week I suddenly saw a double form in nice red color.
Papaver somniferum
Papaver somniferum dubbel 1
Papaver somniferum dubbel 2
Centaurea Pulchra Major 1
Centaurea Pulchra Major 2
Centaurea Pulchra Major 3
Erigeron Sommerneuschnee
Geranium Patricia
Hemerocallis Daily Bread
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Wonderful plants, all! So many things that are completely unknown to me!
1) One of our native geraniums, Geranium viscosissimum.
2) Penstemon fruticosus
3) Primula x auricula 'Gordon Douglas'
4) Silene maritima, starting to bloom, with phlox
5) Tiarella cordifolia - finally, some life in our very cold, slow-to-revive deep shade area!
6) Geranium phaeum 'Springtime'
7) Allium
8) Geranium cinereum 'Memories' with Alyssum wulfenianum
9) Rheum palmatum 'Tanguticum'
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Some plants in flower here this week.
Interestingly that Simon showed the double form of Papaver somniferum.
I have the single form since I raised a bed with some darker soil for several perennials.
I let it seed every year and pull most of them out when small, but the colors improved
from dirty pink to some red ones this year..
This week I suddenly saw a double form in nice red color.
Centaurea Pulchra Major 1
Lovely photos of Papaver and Centaurea in bud and opening, Luit - when I saw the Centaurea in bud I thought 'what an arty shot' ;D
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Wonderful shots Lori, Luit and everyone else ! :)
Luit,
How tall is the Erigeron 'Sommerneuschnee' ??
It looks very attractive.
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Lovely photos of Papaver and Centaurea in bud and opening, Luit - when I saw the Centaurea in bud I thought 'what an arty shot' ;D
That is what I thought too, Robin. It's in the Arty thread as well ;)
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Wonderful shots Lori, Luit and everyone else ! :)
Luit,
How tall is the Erigeron 'Sommerneuschnee' ??
It looks very attractive.
Luc, it's about 40 cm. and covers the place with flowers for a long time year after year.
You may find under different names in trade:
Sommerneuschnee (original name by Karl Foerster!)
Schneewittchen, different name for same plant.
Snowwhite, name translated by a British trader, who doesn't want to use original names, if not in English ::) ::) ::) ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Isn't that centaurea a stunner, but slow to increase much to my impatience! It also has such lovely foliage. Really super flowers Luit.
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LSnowwhite, name translated by a British trader, who doesn't want to use original names, if not in English ::) ::) ::) ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Luit, you know that we Islanders are sooooo good at languages! ;D
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Thank you Luit !
Definitely one to look out for !
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LSnowwhite, name translated by a British trader, who doesn't want to use original names, if not in English ::) ::) ::) ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Luit, you know that we Islanders are sooooo good at languages! ;D
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David, please don't apologize...
The bad thing is that Erigeron Sommerneuschnee was called Snowwhite in England and then came back to the continent again
under this name (Snowwhite) and was called Schneewittchen in Germany, because some clever plantsman there
thought he had a new plant ::) ::) ::) :-X
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Some photos from a garden walkabout this morning. They're not all rock garden plants, alas!
Allium accuminatum, a form selected for having more-robust-than-usual flower stems and slightly deeper-than-normal flower color.
Bellis rotundifolia caerulescens, a pale blue version of the common lawn daisy.
A mix of Homeria collina (yellow form), Scilla peruviana, and Convolvulus sabaticus. That blue grass head is from Elymus magellanica.
Hemerocallis 'Mongold', a double evergreen daylily introduced by Monrovia Gardens, the well-known California nursery. The evergreen daylilies have a reputation for being tender, but though Mongold doesn't like cold winters, it comes back faithfully. The picture really doesn't do it justice.
Iris latifolia 'Mont Blanc', one of the English irises. Iris latifolia has something of a reputation for being a little tricky to grow, but by sheer dumb luck I sited it in a spot it likes.
Lilium, martagon-type, possibly Mrs. R. O. Backhouse or Lilium × dalhansoni. These were seed grown.
Mandragora officinarum in full fruit. We had a hard winter and a long cold spring, but evidently it agreed with this mandrake.
Penstemon × mexicali 'Pikes Peak Purple', one of a series of hybrid penstemons bred in Colorado.
Rubus parviflorus, a double-flowered form found many years ago near Squamish, BC by Phyllis Munday, an avid mountaineer and alpine grower in Vancouver now deceased. This picture was taken when the flowers had largely faded, so don't give a good impression of the plant as a whole, but it's spectacular in full flower. Big beast, too. Mine is a good 2m or 3m across and about 2m high, thanks to constant ground moisture from a neighbor's leaky swimming pool on the other side of the fence. Edit: This plant should be referred to by the cultivar name 'Phyllis Munday'. There is another double thimbleberry found in California called 'Dr. Stasek'.
Finally, a "dwarf" form of Styrax japonica. Dwarf in that it tops out at about 4m or less height when mature, whereas the normal form of S. japonica gets considerably taller. This form has sweetly scented flowers, a property of S. japonica not often remarked on.
Edited to correct "Mandragora officinalis" to "Mandragora officinarum". Photo file name remains unchanged.
Edited to correct spelling of name from Mundy to Munday.
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To day some pictures from my garden.
i'm too far behind on this thread to comment on many individual posts--but they are all wonderful!
thanks to everyone for posting such a wealth of amazing plants and beautiful images!
this, however, i could not pass without comment--anne karin--wow! that is a fantastic garden in a beautiful place--ah for slopes like that!
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Some more plants flowering here:
Anthemis
Rodgersia pinnata Die Anmutige
Rodgersia pinnata Die Stolze
Rodgersia pinnata Superba
Azorella trifurcata 1
Azorella trifurcata 2
Rosa Abraham Darby 1
Rosa Abraham Darby 2
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Pictures taken today.......
Physoplexis comosa. This is growing in a hole in tufa and is now over 13 years old. It has always put on a decent show of flowers.
Calceolaria tenella. I have managed to keep this going for about 37 years; but only by regularly taking several small pieces each year from a healthy clump, and growing these in various shady, moist and peaty locations.
What invariably happens is what you see here! Just over three weeks ago this clump was healthy all over; then it started to die-off in the centre. If past years are anything to go by, it will eventually almost completely die-off. But before that happens, I will replant small pieces elsewhere. Some years I have managed to grow a clump four times as big as shown here, but that has eventually died – flowering itself do death no doubt. :'(
What are the experiences of others regarding this plant? ???
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C. tenella (update)
First picture. I have just carefully removed the dead patch in the centre of C. tenella and replaced with fresh composted bark. I did suspect that something nasty might be happening underground, (vine weevil perhaps?) but there was no sign of anything. ???
Second picture. This is what the plant looked like 17 days ago (1st. June) no dead patch! ::)
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To Calceolaria tenella:
I noticed some dying off only after winter. Otherwise this plant is surprisingly tough although it doesn't like too much drought. In autumn I too take some smaller pieces and keep them inside a greenhouse in order to protect from temperatures below zero.
Fine Physoplexis !
Gerd
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Very beautiful plants, thanks for sharing.
This is Erodium mansecavii from SRGC seed list.
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A gorgeous close-up Rafa !!
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Rafa,
Excellent photograph. I have always found it a bother to collect seed from this erodium but it does seed around gently. It flowers for a very long time which makes it a very worthwhile garden plant.
Paddy
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Now the first Rhodohypoxis are flowering
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I agree, Paddy. Erodium manescavi is always happy to help itself to as much of the garden as it can get. However, for a plant with such bright flowers and easy cultivation I am always forgiving. ;)
Flowering today some useful plants for dry areas:-
in the sun:
Salvia napifolia
and for dry shade:
Chrysanthemum corymbosum
Calamintha grandiflora
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my wife's Sempervivum collection 1
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Sempervivum 2
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Very very nice Sedum garden, I only grow Sempervivum vicentei and this not identified species. Im not sure if it is Sempervivum species...
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Sempervivum 2
beautiful semps, and great presentation :)
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Yes, a fantastic tapestry of sempervivums!
1) Nymphaea 'Marliacea Albida'
2) A miniscule Mitella nuda, in the acid bed.
3) First flower on a young Paeonia caucasica
4) Haberlea rhodopensis, looking about as good as they ever do for me (the foliage always burns in our low humidity winters, even in the last one when we had some snow cover)... still, it's amazing to me to have zone 3-hardy gesneriads!
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Rafa
The second pictures is a saxifraga.
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oh thank you Franz, I will try to identified the species.
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Here some more flowers from this week :
Rosa Westerland 1
Rosa Westerland 2
Salvia microphylla Hot Lips
Surfinia
Tanacetum corymbosum Festtafel
Tanacetum corymbosum Zauberstern
Trog
Tulipa tarda seed (from neigbour's field)
Rosa Carcassonne 1
Rosa Carcassonne 2
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Luit,
So does your neighbour collect the seed from the Tulip? That is a LOT of seed. :o And it would hybridise with all the otehr tulips around as well, wouldn't it?
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No Paul they will not for sure!
But if they are still in the soil when ripe, I will try to collect some and look what comes out.
The growers here started already to harvest the first tulips and hyacinths.
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So they are left there just because they didn't trim them after flowering, no other reason? I'm assuming that they are just in the garden, rather than being grown for the flower trade?
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Paul, as said before, these are just grown for the bulbs.
Most species tulips are never trimmed. It seems to have no effect on growing bigger or smaller bulbs.
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Ah, so the "keeping of seedpods results in smaller bulbs and less flowers" is just a fallacy then? So many "facts" we here just don't bear out once you investigate..... or else don't bear out in certain climates anyway. ;D Thanks for the info.
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Some plants that are flowering here now:
Allium cyaneum
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Allium olympicum (just got it this year): can someone tell me the difference with the second picture which is Allium sibthorpianum?
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Dianthus arpadianus (looks exactly like the wrongly named Dianthus erinaceaus I have and like Dianthus anatolicus,... ??? )
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Gladiolus imbricatus
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Primula capitata ssp. mooreana
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Lovely pics, the Gladiolus is a favourite, but for some reason it always looks ratty here :P
Some pics from the last week below:
Corydalis aff. shihmienensis - very fragrant, short lived but reliably self-seeding.
Geranium maculatum 'Elizabeth Ann'
Paeonia rockii hybrid
Paeonia delavayi
Aconitum septentrionale
Nomocharis saluenensis
Nomocharis species
Paeonia 'Buckeye Belle'
Lilium lophophorum
Stellera chamaejasme
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Dianthus arpadianus (looks exactly like the wrongly named Dianthus erinaceaus I have and like Dianthus anatolicus,... ??? )
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Wim- your Dianthus arpadianus looks like the one I have growing here- if that means anything. I have seen D.anatolicus in the wild in Turkey and it is quite different, as is D.erinaceus.
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Dianthus arpadianus (looks exactly like the wrongly named Dianthus erinaceaus I have and like Dianthus anatolicus,... ??? )
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Wim- your Dianthus arpadianus looks like the one I have growing here- if that means anything. I have seen D.anatolicus in the wild in Turkey and it is quite different, as is D.erinaceus.
Thanks Simon, I probably just have D. arpadianus twice...
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Ah, so the "keeping of seedpods results in smaller bulbs and less flowers" is just a fallacy then? So many "facts" we here just don't bear out once you investigate..... or else don't bear out in certain climates anyway. ;D Thanks for the info.
Think about it, Paul: a bulb setting seed will grow on longer, by about four to six weeks in some cases, than a bulb which is not doing so. Therefore the bulb gets that extra time to put goodness into next year's bulb as well as ripening the seed.....good result all round!
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Maggi,
I've always thought that myself, but that isn't how the books so often talk about it. ::)
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Just re-found this thread which went off my radar three weeks ago! :(
Luit, if you can, try D. 'Inchriach Dazzler' again but take some cuttings each year after it has flowered. None of the D. neglectus (pavonius)forms is very long lived but they can be kept going with regular propagation.
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Some pics from the last week below:
Corydalis aff. shihmienensis - very fragrant, short lived but reliably self-seeding.
Geranium maculatum 'Elizabeth Ann'
Paeonia rockii hybrid
Paeonia delavayi
Aconitum septentrionale
Nomocharis saluenensis
Nomocharis species
Paeonia 'Buckeye Belle'
Lilium lophophorum
Stellera chamaejasme
nice stuff--the cory is really choice, as is the lilium, and great together!
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John, is that Lil. mackliniae the same as the dark form of which you sent me seed? I do hope so. :D and I LOVE the flowers on the Salix. Such a varied genus, I wish many more smallish ones were available here.
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John, is that Lil. mackliniae the same as the dark form of which you sent me seed? I do hope so. :D and I LOVE the flowers on the Salix. Such a varied genus, I wish many more smallish ones were available here.
Lesley - The seed came from Finn Haugli in Tromso and was labelled good dark pink. Finn orders alot from Gelndoick and they appear to be the source of the dark form so I am assuming yes we may have lucked out and got the good one or at least op seed of it.
johnw.
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But, many plants will not flower the year following seed setting. Or for more than a season following profuse seed setting. And wild plants do not flower every year.
And, in the Netherlands commercial bulb producers trim flowers to avod them setting seed.
In the Netherlands they cut the flowers off for many reasons, and stopping seed is just one, I believe. Of course, they want to get the bulb foliage died down and the bulbs ready to harvest as soon as possible to prepare for their selling season.
It is true that in the wild many plants will not flower every year, that is why hybrids can be so useful in cultivation to enable plants which will flower reliably every year, such as in rhododendrons, for instance, where hybrids can m often flower very well every year without pause. Plants in cultivation are quite another matter: in captivity we can give extra food and water to a plant to support it while it makes seed ; this is something that some growers seem not to do. For herbaceous plants it is often not needed to have them seed , because vegetative propagation is an option, but when they do seed it is good to give them extra attention at this time to "keep their strength up".
Should anyone doubt that extra care and food is needed to a "mother" plant.... look at a poor animal which has borne and nursed a litter of young without proper nourishment.... the creature will be a scruffy wreck..... then compare an animal that has been given full and proper feeding .... a diffferent sight altogether..... the difference in condition in a plant after seeding may not be so obvious as in an animal, but it remains that both plant and beast will benefit from extra care and regain their previous state of health faster in that way. I do believe that it is possible more often than not to boost a plant during and after seeding to minimise weakness.
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I can only echo the others' comments Anne Karin, a superb and lovely garden in a magnificent setting. Every one of your plants looks so strong and healthy too. Thanks for sharing with us.
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Anne that is a stunning garden.
By the way is that a lake or a fjord?
Göte
It is a fjord. The "Hardangerfjord". About 100 km southeast of Bergen.
And yes it is a very nice place.
Presumably that's the origin of the embroidery?
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1) Incarvillea mairei var. grandiflora
2, 3) One of our native lupins, Lupinus sericeus. It has a very unusual habit for a lupin - it sends out yellow, lateral rhizomes to start new plants (rather like Hemerocallis fulva). (One would think this would be a noteable characteristic, but I only recall a single reference inferring anything about it.)
4) Paeonia peregrina 'Sunshine', opened today.
5) Geranium farreri.
6) Trollius pumilus.
7). Trollius x cultorum 'Cressida'.
8 ). First sempervivum in bloom, 'Excalibur', I think, with surprisingly large flowers.
9). Another native plant, Viola canadensis... it's somewhat spreading in the garden, and, oddly, prone to mildew later on.
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Philadelphus 'Belle etoile' is my most favourite of all. She is beautiful of course, but her scent is to diw for. I have been known to wake with the scent still in my nose, from DREAMING about it! :D
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9). Another native plant, Viola canadensis... it's somewhat spreading in the garden, and, oddly, prone to mildew later on.
Viola canadensis is in flower here too, and i have found many pinkish floewrs in the population where i photographed the pinkish flowers last year, so it must be a characteristic of those plants...
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2, 3) One of our native lupins, Lupinus sericeus. It has a very unusual habit for a lupin - it sends out yellow, lateral rhizomes to start new plants (rather like Hemerocallis fulva). (One would think this would be a noteable characteristic, but I only recall a single reference inferring anything about it.)
That is because taxonomists so often work from herbaria and have little experience of the plant in real life.
Göte
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Just re-found this thread which went off my radar three weeks ago! :(
Luit, if you can, try D. 'Inchriach Dazzler' again but take some cuttings each year after it has flowered. None of the D. neglectus (pavonius)forms is very long lived but they can be kept going with regular propagation.
That might be so Lesley, but I have some different views about that.
All my life my aim has been to produce (and sell) strong, healthy and long living plants.
During the last 5 years I have been planting numerous plants in the garden and on my raised beds. Many of them are plants which I wanted to test, now that I have the time to do so.
If a plant leaves me after one or two years, this plant will probably not like the place where I put it, so I consider if I have another place for it and if not, I don’t try again.
If I can keep such a short living plant alive in my garden only by taking every year some cuttings and produce a new plant, then this plant does not accord to my point of view.
There are many gardeners who don’t want to loose their plants at all costs and are proud to show their skills how many years they kept their plants going.
I definitely don’t belong to this category ;), which does not mean that I don’t respect different views.
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Well Luit, that's a very valid argument and in general, I too wouldn't bother to replace plants which consistently died or failed to thrive. But if one really likes a particular plant, it's reason enough to propagate. You are to be commended for selling strong, healthy, long-lived plants. A great pity this is not necessarily the policy of every plant seller.
I had a friend once who each year sold many young Lewisia cotyledon plants to a local garden centre. They resold them to people who just liked the colours and had little idea of how to grow them. My friend thought they were a great plant for him to sell because so many buyers lost them and returned for another, then or the following year. But after a couple of years people got the message and didn't bother any more.
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Flowering now a selection of Delphinium grandiflorum from different sources.
The first is 'pure' Delphinium grandiflorum (UME49 for Goteborg BG).
Second and third, the normal blue and the albinoe forms from the garden variety sold as Delphinium grandiflorum 'Amour'.
Fourth, one of my generation 'X' from plants and seeds I have bought as Dd chinense, tatsiense and even 'beesianum' from a variety of sources.
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some philadelphus and deutzia out at the moment. The bees are loving them.
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Lovely pictures Tony. Do you prune your Deutzias after they have flowered at all?
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David
I cut out all the shoots that have flowered on the deutzia,philadelphus and weigelia as soon as they finish flowering.This keeps them young and fresh.
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Many thanks Tony.
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some philadelphus and deutzia out at the moment. The bees are loving them.
Tony,
do you know the source of your Philadelphus delavayi var. calvescens ?
I ask because I got a plant five or six years ago from a friend only with the information from original habit in China. The flowers look the same you show in the picture. With the red sepals.
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some philadelphus and deutzia out at the moment. The bees are loving them.
Tony,
Deutzia 3 looks like D. longifolia 'Veitchii' or the new name on the continent Deutzia x hybrida 'Strawberry Fields'
http://www.baumschule-horstmann.de/shop/exec/product/729/11409/Erdbeerduft-Deutzie-Sternchenstrauch-Strawberry-Field.html
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Uli
my wife confirms number three is 'strawberry fields'
I purchased the Philadelphus delavayi var. calvescens some years ago from a local nursery as var purpurascens which was what I wanted. When it flowered it was wrong. I have not got enough room to keep itand I have given it to my neighbour who grows it in her garden next door.
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Some more flowers here this week.
The Erodium is looking very much like E. manescavii, but this one hardly sets seed.
It is flowering for a long time in summer and should be more offered.
Propagation by roots.
Erodium x hybridum 1
Erodium x hybridum 2
Anemone canadensis is a bit agressive but beautiful when flowering, as is
Camp. rapunculoides. We pull both out before selfseeding!!
Anemone canadensis
P6171849
Campanula rapunculoides
Trifolium rubens 1
Trifolium rubens 2
Anthyllis hermanniae
Daphne oleoides zaad
Lilium Lancini
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Anemone canadensis is a bit agressive but beautiful when flowering, as is
Camp. rapunculoides. We pull both out before selfseeding!!
Anemone canadensis
lots of nice flowers :)
fun to see the A canadensis in a european garden :) i will be going out to see if they are flowering around here soon...
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Some more flowers here this week.
The Erodium is looking very much like E. manescavii, but this one hardly sets seed.
It is flowering for a long time in summer and should be more offered.
Propagation by roots.
Erodium x hybridum 1
Erodium x hybridum 2
Anemone canadensis is a bit agressive but beautiful when flowering, as is
Camp. rapunculoides. We pull both out before selfseeding!!
Anemone canadensis
P6171849
Campanula rapunculoides
Trifolium rubens 1
Trifolium rubens 2
Anthyllis hermanniae
Daphne oleoides zaad
Lilium Lancini
It is quite amazing the advance, even in under a week, of being away from the garden at this time of year. Luit you have some lovely mature and relaxed plants and I love the way your Anemone canadensis hovers above the leaf and the fern is a perfect foil for Campanula rapunculoides.
In Scotland I have just visited Evelyn Steven's magical garden and she has created many wonderful planting effects that are quite stunningly beautiful in arrangement and effect of form and colour. I was blown away with the last of her Meconopsis in the late afternoon light and her use of light filtering through the tree canopy.
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Flowering now:
Allium caesium
Allium amethystinum (?)
and what I have always grown as Allium setifolium
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Flowering now:
Allium caesium
Allium amethystinum (?)
and what I have always grown as Allium setifolium
Simon,
I love the colour of that Allium caesium.
I've not flowered A. amethysinum before but that looks a lot like A. sphaerocephalum to me.
cheers
fermi
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Can anyone help identify this digitalis At first I thought it would be Digitalis lutea which selfseeds everywhere, but it is not. Thanks in advance for any hint.
Oleg
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In Scotland I have just visited Evelyn Steven's magical garden and she has created many wonderful planting effects that are quite stunningly beautiful in arrangement and effect of form and colour. I was blown away with the last of her Meconopsis in the late afternoon light and her use of light filtering through the tree canopy.
Robin, did you make pictures to show us?
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Can anyone help identify this digitalis At first I thought it would be Digitalis lutea which selfseeds everywhere, but it is not. Thanks in advance for any hint.
Oleg
Oleg, I had a hybrid which I took to be D.lutea x D.purpurea appear in my garden one year- it looked very much like D.lutea but the flowers had a purple flush. Is there any chance yours could be the cross D.purpurea x D.lutea.
Cheers Fermi, it's happy seeding around whatever it is :-)
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In Scotland I have just visited Evelyn Steven's magical garden and she has created many wonderful planting effects that are quite stunningly beautiful in arrangement and effect of form and colour. I was blown away with the last of her Meconopsis in the late afternoon light and her use of light filtering through the tree canopy.
Robin, did you make pictures to show us?
Luit, sadly although I took my camera I felt it was rather an intrusion to go around clicking photos, especially as she was so kind to spend time with us explaining everything.... sorry :'(
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Simon, I believe you are right, as both species selfseed freely in the garden. It's really something intermediate. Thank you.
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I once had a digitalis called D. purpurea heywoodii or 'Heywood' and this is similar in colouring, (though I realize it ISN'T 'Heywood.') It had rather furry flowers of creamy white, delicately flushed with pink and if in isolation, seeded true. But I lost it after a few years and subsequent sowings from other sources always turned out to be hybrids. It was very lbeautiful and I'd love to have it again.
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1) Doronicum pardalianches
2) white thyme and Lotus corniculatus 'Plenus'
3, 4) Incarvillea zhongdianensis
5) Boulevard planting, a triangle between the street and sidewalk, which used to be thirsty lawn and compacted soil, still jokingly refer to as "Palliser's Triangle".
6) Some form of Penstemon procerus, I suspect.
7) Saponaria ocymoides, doing its duty in the triangle.
8 ) More triangle-dwellers... Potentilla 'Yellow Gem', more thyme, Antennaria dioica.
(Hmmm, an "8" followed immediately by a bracket = smiley face with sunglasses... have to leave a space between the "8" and the bracket. 8))
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Lotus corniculatus grows abundantly in the wild here. But that plenus form I have never seen or heard of before. Very interesting. :)
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Lovely stuff there Lori.
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Lori,
Excellent pics. The Incarvillea zhongdianensis with the white throat is amazing. :o
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Wow Lori, all that on 40cm of rain a year! We are entering real summer here now and the garden is beginning to go dormant- i envy you your later start over there! :P
Flowering here:
Teucrium lamifolium
Scutellaria albida
Scutellaria altissima (the final flowers on a plant in a quiet corner).
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1) Doronicum pardalianches
2) white thyme and Lotus corniculatus 'Plenus'
3, 4) Incarvillea zhongdianensis
5) Boulevard planting, a triangle between the street and sidewalk, which used to be thirsty lawn and compacted soil, still jokingly refer to as "Palliser's Triangle".
6) Some form of Penstemon procerus, I suspect.
7) Saponaria ocymoides, doing its duty in the triangle.
8 ) More triangle-dwellers... Potentilla 'Yellow Gem', more thyme, Antennaria dioica.
lots of great stuff--nice combinations;
great boulevard planting--much nicer than half dead grass--or even live grass!
we should tell members from afar that Palliser's Triangle was the name give to an area in southern alberta that was deemed too arid for agriculture!!
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Alberta is certainly stealing the show at the moment on the forum. Great postings, Lori and Cohan.
Paddy
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I have some pictures to share with you here. We have finally got some nice weather with temperatures around 25C, after experiencing the coldest June in 50 years where I live.
1) Aquilegia barnebyi
2) Camassia quamash
3) Camassia quamash, with my thumb as comparison to the flower size
4) Campanula spicata- obtained from the wonderful SRGC seed ex
5) Centaurea triumfetti ssp cana is a small dainty plant, but it spreads quite aggresively
6) Centaurea triumfetti ssp cana
7) Cortusa sp ( probably matthioli ? ) collected in the Fan Mtns., Tajikistan likes a wet spot in the garden. It grew in the middle of a stream where I collected it.
8) Delosperma congestum is a bone hardy plant, which has survived -20C.
9) Heuchera pulchella took a long time to reach flowering where I first placed it, but in 2008 I put it in a place with more peat, and better moisture, and it seems to thrive much better here.
10) Inula rhizocephala was collected in Tajikistan, and died the first few times I tried it in the rock garden, but this past winter it survived, probably due to a clear plastic cover, which kept it dry but not out of light.
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Here are a few more:
1) Lilium buschianum or should it be L. concolor var buschianum ?
2) Onopordum boissieri - the star like bud
3) Penstemon triflorus- I was suspicious regarding this species hardiness hailing from the Lone Star State, but in it's third growing season it has started flowering, and the flowers are real nice I think ( as well as the long buds)
4) Penstemon triflorus
5) Silene aomorensis from some remote location in Japan
6) Silene compacta- it never turns as bright and intense pink here as when I saw it in Turkey.
7) But its compact flower heads are still very nice.
8) Trifolium trichocephalum- the flower heads are not quite as big as a hen's egg, but not far away.
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Super images everyone ... boy this is some forum! :D
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Very impressed with your meticulous information and lovely images, Paul ... I now feel SO inadequate! :D
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Paul, Great set of photographs. Excellent plants.
Paddy
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Luit,
So does your neighbour collect the seed from the Tulip? That is a LOT of seed. :o And it would hybridise with all the otehr tulips around as well, wouldn't it?
Paul, I talked a little with some 'bulb' people and they told me that Tulipa tarda never are trimmed ( for economic reasons, it is one of the cheapest tulips !)
and it does not have influence on flowering in the next year.
Tulipa tarda will not hybridise with other tulips. It is often tried to use for this, but there seem to be some barrier.
From seed they will flower in ca. three years and fall 100 % true.
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Luit,
Amazing that it won't hybridise at all. Quite fascinating to hear that. At least that way you don't have to worry about seed falling in the area, because you know that any resultant seedlings are true. Thanks for the extra info.
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Great plants and pictures Paul - nice selection ! 8)
Love the Campanula spicata !!
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Some more flowers this week.
Asclepias tuberosa
Cercis canadensis Forest Pansy
o.k. , no flowers but a beautiful colored shrub
Dianthus haematocalyx ssp. pindicola
Erigeron Sommerneuschnee
I showed a picture of the same group, made two weeks ago and could not resist to show again.
Geranium Jolly Bees
Geranium sanguineum Elke
Heliopsis helianthoides Gigantea
Lilium Lancini
Leucanthemum Sunny Side Up 1
Leucanthemum Sunny Side Up 2
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Luit,
Great to see the Asclepias tuberosa, a I bought over summer spring and I hope it does well for me this coming year and starts flowering. Gorgeous colour.
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Very nice show Luit !!
The Erigeron definitely deserved a second posting ! ;D
Curious to see how your Dianthus haematocalix ss pindicola is still in full flower in your garden. Mine finished 3 or 4 weeks ago already, it is in seed now. Oqbviously we are more to the South than you are... ::)
Thanks for posting !
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Luc, my plant flowered 4 weeks ago too, but was never full of flowers. Actually it started at the same time as D. Eileen Lever.
Dianthus haematocalyx ssp. pindicola is never such a spectacle, but as it seem to flower much longer it is a good garden plant though.
Paul, the Asclepias I grow mostly for nostalgic reasons. As a schoolboy I had to pick the seeds every day in summer holidays on an
enormous field. But I love the flowers anyhow.
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testing....testing....
This post marks my first attempt to post from our new computer, and the first I've posted from the new digital SLR. Anything might happen......
We got the Mac two weeks ago but as with all new technology in our house it has spent these two weeks being watched carefully like a new puppy in case it does the digital equivalent of a little 'message' on the carpet. so far so good. It always used to be that Susan was the technophobe around here but I've decided technophobia is contagious. Getting used to Mac OS and iPhoto is proving an education but I don't regret the decision to take the Mac route (thanks especially to Cliff for being Apple's best UK sales rep!).
Anyway - hopefully a few pictures taken today will now appear.
First up is my favourite UK native orchid Epipactis palustris. This clump moved house with us five years ago and spent a year in an orange plastic builders bucket. It has thrived again after planting out and has 80+ flower spikes this year. Beautiful flowers they are too.
Next is Gladiolus flanaganii. This has had previous mentions on the forum. This clump has now had 4 winters unprotected in this limestone crevice on the rock garden. The award write-up for it in the AGS bulletin a year or two back suggested that somebody somewhere must be trying this outside. I was and still am - the plants in pots are poor by comparison.
This little Tigridia was from exchange seed labeled as T. chiapensis. The flower fits the description but it is only 5cm high. What a lovely little thing - I'd love to grow more South American Irids.
This is my first successful attempt at overwintering Physoplexis comosa - I've tried it in frames and in the alpine house but I finally succeeded in a bit of tufa in a trough without any protection.
Finally another Southern hemisphere Irid - Diplarrhena moraea from Australia. Alleged to need a winter minimum of 10C in Innes' 'World of Iridaceae' this has been outside unprotected for two winters including the last one where we hit -8C. Not even the foliage was damaged. It came from Peter and Beryl Bland who have also had it outside for many years.
I really hope that entering the 21st century at home will allow me to visit here much more often. Lets see how this attempt works first!
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OK - it sort of worked. Two gladdies and no Physoplexis. Removed a gladdy and the Physoplexis is here...
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Welcome back Darren !!
The G. flanaganii seems to be liking the spot you've chosen for it !
Thanks for showing it outside !
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Superb Darren ... if you need any assistance then please don't hesitate to ask? It is a steep learning curve, but worth every moment of panic and stress. :D
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Darren,
The Diplarrhena grows outside at work too, so no problems with sub zero, although the area they are in there doesn't get to -8'C. No damage to them last winter either. The 10'C wintr minimum is definitely a dodgy "fact". ;D I just adore that Epipactis. What an amazing display of flowers. :o And that lovely Physoplexis. Thanks for making the effort to post your new pics from your new PC and new camera. Well worth the effort I would have to say! ;D
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Darren lovely photos, and welcome to the Mac family - as Cliff said don't hesitate to ask for any help, it's quite intuitive and a delight to use.
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A few other plants hopefully worthwile to show here:
Penstemon x mexicallii Red Rocks 1
Not long living but self seeding. Young seedlings are very hardy!
Penstemon x mexicallii Red Rocks 2
Phlox paniculata Danielle
Phlox paniculata Junior Bouquet
Silphium terebinthinaceum ( the flowers will reach ca. 3 m. in September/October)
Thymus Highland Cream
(I don't see much difference with Thymus Hartington Silver)
Veronicastrum virginicum
Lilium Red Twinkle 1
Lilium Red Twinkle 2
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Excellent images, Luit ... as usual. I am still fascinated by the huge greenhouses in the background of one of your shots - are they yours, are they in constant use and, if so, what do they protect? We are very nosey, we Brits? :D
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I have some pictures to share with you here. We have finally got some nice weather with temperatures around 25C, after experiencing the coldest June in 50 years where I live.
1) Aquilegia barnebyi
2) Camassia quamash
3) Camassia quamash, with my thumb as comparison to the flower size
4) Campanula spicata- obtained from the wonderful SRGC seed ex
5) Centaurea triumfetti ssp cana is a small dainty plant, but it spreads quite aggresively
6) Centaurea triumfetti ssp cana
7) Cortusa sp ( probably matthioli ? ) collected in the Fan Mtns., Tajikistan likes a wet spot in the garden. It grew in the middle of a stream where I collected it.
8) Delosperma congestum is a bone hardy plant, which has survived -20C.
9) Heuchera pulchella took a long time to reach flowering where I first placed it, but in 2008 I put it in a place with more peat, and better moisture, and it seems to thrive much better here.
10) Inula rhizocephala was collected in Tajikistan, and died the first few times I tried it in the rock garden, but this past winter it survived, probably due to a clear plastic cover, which kept it dry but not out of light.
some really great plants, paul--i esp like the form of the inula, and the colour of the aquilegia!
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This thread keeps producing great posts !!!
Thanks everyone.
Here's what's been flowering with me over the last few days/weeks :
1) Campanula incurva - plant
2) C. incurva - close up - huge flowers !
3) Adenophora confusa
4) A. confusa - close up
5) Eschscholzia californica - keeps seeding around here and there and provides some late colour in the garden
6) Onosma.... - lost the label - maybe somebody can help to complete ?
7) Phlox mesoleuca 'Mary Maslin'
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And it's Rhodohypoxis time !! 8)
1) Rh. baurii 'Dawn'
2) Rh. baurii 'Douglas'
3) Rh. b. 'Harlequin'
4) Rh. b. 'Tetra red'
5) Rh. b. 'Great Scot'
6) Rh. hebron farm 'Red Eye'
7) Rh. b. 'Margaret Rose'
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Nice plants Luc! I love the cleanness of the Campanula incurva flower.
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Nice plants, Luc. Can you tell me more about the Onosma please, mainly it's height?
Flowering here now:
Allium species - I have always grown this as A.lenkoranicum- but it doesn't look like some of the googled pics. maybe it could be Allium ledebourianum. Any ideas?
Allium cernuum (?)- I have never knowingly bought this species, but now have what lookslike a pale form of A.cernuum
Asclepias rubra
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Wow, Luc ... I haven't seen 'Mary Maslin' for a number of years. I'd forgotten how glorious it is. I wonder if any nurseries stock it in the U.K.? Lovely images sir!
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Thank you gents !
The onosma is abt 15 cm high Simon.
Cliff, I had been hoping to find one of these Mexican Phloxes for years but never did.
This season it was on Keith Lever's list !!
I wonder how and if I'm going to get it through our Winter ::)
It's planted in the garden in a South facing raised bed against a Wall ... so here's hoping.. :-\
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Oooh Luc, Phlox Mary Maslin. Must go back 25 ? years at least I've seen it here. It flowered 2 years but then I lost it :'( :'(
I remember it so good because I was visited by a famous German plants woman: Countess Helen von Zeppelin.
She made an appointment and told that she just had one hour for my nursery... ???
After three !!! hours with a short interval for a cup of tea she was still on her knees near a bed with many rarities. One of those was
Phlox Mary Maslin....
At that day she told me too that she was the importer (from USA) of the still grown and good Dianthus Pink Jewel.
Your Onosma could be O. nanum which is higher than O. stell. Alboroseum.
I remember having a discussion about Great Scott (Scot) with Maggi years ago. That was the time most of us called her Margaret... ;D
It was interesting reading after so many years:
http://www.srgc.org.uk/discus/messages/139/852.html (http://www.srgc.org.uk/discus/messages/139/852.html)
Just reading your post Luc. I would cover the Phlox in winter with a pane of glass. It dislikes wet, which we have enough in autumn/winter ;D ;D
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Luc, Luit beat me to it- I would suggest O.nana also from the height and flower colour.
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Luit
great to see the Mary Maslin,I did not know Keith Lever did it and I was there just a few weeks ago. Many years ago when the mexican phlox were popular I raised a lot of mixed colours from my own seed.
Last year I got seed from Alplains in the USA and they all have germinated and flowered in four months.They are all pink in various shades
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Luc,
I love those wonderful Rhodohypoxis. Glorious display. Never seen a Phlox like that orangey one. :o So striking. What sort of habit does it have? Just love the colour!!!!!! :o :o :o 8)
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Well Paul, it comes from Mexico. Think desert! :D
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Lesley,
Some of the Salvias come from down that region don't they, and love it here (the lobelia blue one with the silver foliage for example?). And Dahlias and Lobelia laxiflora thrives here too. Maybe the Phlox would like it here? ???
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Oh yes, but can you get it? ;D ;D ;D
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Well, there is that small hurdle! ::) I can still dream though. ;D
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Wow - I hadn't realised that Phlox Mary Maslin would stir such commotion on the Forum ;D
Glad it brings back some good memories to some (Luit ;) ) - and thanks for the link to the R. Great Scott discussion..
I hope I can keep it over Winter - Desert isn't exactly a correct way to describe Belgian Climate... ::) I think you would stand a better chance than me Paul.. Maybe it sets seed ?? ???
I'll post another picture of the whole plant when it's somewhat more in flower (I hope it's only starting.. :P )
Tony,
Are the ones you've sown last year still doing well ?? Do you keep them in the Alpine house ?
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Luc,
So what sort of habit DOES it have? Phlox is so variable from little groundcover things to things like stolonifera that can be absolute thugs, from a few inches to 3 feet tall etc. If it does set seed I would love to try it, and Yes the species is on the allowed list for Australia. ;D
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Paul,
By the looks of it it's quite vigorous - it has (in it's first year) slender stems of approx. 25-30 cm long - lying down - as such the aspect of the plant is only 10 cm high - the leaves are narrow and some 3 cm long - a little spikey also. You'll get a better idea when I post a picture of the whole plant .
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Thanks for the info, Luc. 8)
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Flowering here now:
Two colour forms of Knautia sylvatica collected as seed in the Pyrenees
A tall yellow Scabiosa ochroleuca
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Well Paul, it comes from Mexico. Think desert! :D
Mexico is a country of great climatic and floristic diversity, by no means all desert. Here are a couple of very informative books on the Mexican landscape:
"Mexico's Sierra Madre" by Donald Dale Jackson & Peter Wood, 1975, ISBN 7054 0169 3
"Mexico's Baja California" by William Weber Johnson, 1972, no ISBN
Both were published in the Time-Life series "The World's Wild Places" and neither should be at all rare or costly.
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Well Paul, it comes from Mexico. Think desert! :D
Mexico is a country of great climatic and floristic diversity, by no means all desert. Here are a couple of very informative books on the Mexican landscape:
i imagine lesley was rather joking anyway, but indeed tremendous diversity in both plants and habitats in mexico: from well watered areas including seasonally wet tropical forest, to dry forests, indeed deserts (and many semi to arid places, for sure!) to rather temperate forests etc etc..the country is quite mountainous in many parts, so there is a great deal of variation due to rainshadow effects--in a relatively short distance, i've passed through areas of near desert (xerophytic bromeliads, cactus, agave etc), climbed higher to reach deciduous then coniferous forest (or vice versa? forget now..) then come over the other side of the mountain to tropical forest, epiphytes growing on power lines etc......
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On my meadow slope in front of the chalet, a new flush of wild flowers enjoying the sun this morning - coppers and brown butterflies everywhere but flitting too quickly to catch - wonder where their pit stops are?
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Nice, Robin. I love the pink Malvaceae in the middle, and that lovely yellow one you posted first (I immediately thought Verbascum, but flower not quite right I think). Lovely!! So exotic to mention that they were in front of the "chalet". Coming from a limited snow country a chalet is most definitely VERY exotic. ;D
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Lovely alpine meadow flowers Robin.
When I was at a plant fair ten days ago I saw this Dahlia offered in pots... ;)
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Thanks for your comments, Paul, yes we are lucky to have so many beautiful wild flowers just on our doorstep! Photo one is indeed a Verbascum that is very tall - the earlier ones are smaller - to give you an idea here is another one not yet out that grows in the same spot every year. Fortunately this year I have been able to encourage 'no strimming' so we have enjoyed a succession of flowers and grasses! Next year I hope once the slope has reseeded it will be an even better display :)
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Lovely alpine meadow flowers Robin.
When I was at a plant fair ten days ago I saw this Dahlia offered in pots... ;)
My namesake looks lovely Luit - thanks for thinking of me - I really like the simple Dahlias :)
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Flowering here now:
Clematis vitalba on the main gate
Campanula carpatica- the first flower on a plant in the woodland area
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Lovely pictures, Robin! I wonder which verbascum that is? (I really like verbascums, an interest for which I pay dues, i. e. much weeding out of multitudes of verbascum seedlings!)
1) Wonderfully bizarre colouration on Canna 'TropiCanna'
2) Helenium hoopesii (a southerly Great Plains native), which should have been blooming a month ago, with Salvia pratensis.
3) A beautiful thug, Phalaris arundinacea 'Feesey's Form' (which I have confined within a cut-off pot)
4) Rosa primula... not the best show this year; in better shows, it forms cylinders of flowers around the stem - interesting that it's hardy here.
5) Salix x boydii, and Salix retusa.
6) Spiraea triloba
7) Rosa spinosissima
8 ) Echium russicum.
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I have been trying to record some of the Nepeta I have here- sorryfor the pic quality- small flowers and hard to focus :(
Firstly the ones I do know:
Nepeta laevigata
Nepeta heliotropifolia
Nepeta clarkei
Nepeta sibirica
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Can someone ID this Campanula plrease,It is from seed labeled as Carpatica blue clips.
1 Campanula flower?
2 Campanula plant ?
3 Campanula foliage ?
4 A little plant of Campanula sartorii
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Can someone ID this Campanula plrease,It is from seed labeled as Carpatica blue clips.
1 Campanula flower?
2 Campanula plant ?
3 Campanula foliage ?
4 A little plant of Campanula sartorii
Maybe Campanula alliariifolia or C.makaschvilii?
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Luc,
So what sort of habit DOES it have?
I like the 'Ragged Robin' dahlia too, perhaps because of that very "bad hair day" look it has. I have so many myself. :D
Paul, think Phyllis Diller on an even worse hair day. ;D
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From today:
Penstemon sp wild collected seeds from Utha. Received as P. opianthus, but in my opinion that cant ce correct. Any idea which penstemon it might be? Anyhow it's a fantastic sight at the moment.
Delphinium brunonianum,, ca 30 cm tall.
Castilleja rhexifolia.
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That's a lovely pale form of D.brunonianum, Magnar. Much paler than I have had before. A real shame it always transmutes in D.'tatsienense' :'(
Not sure about the Penstemon- maybe something like P.fruticosus. Though it is a stunner. Lori may have a better idea.
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Can't help you with the ID Magnar, but the Pentstemon looks fabulous... funny, but I had never associated Utah with Norway.. ;D
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Lovely pictures, Robin! I wonder which verbascum that is? (I really like verbascums, an interest for which I pay dues, i. e. much weeding out of multitudes of verbascum seedlings!)
1) Wonderfully bizarre colouration on Canna 'TropiCanna'
2) Helenium hoopesii (a southerly Great Plains native), which should have been blooming a month ago, with Salvia pratensis.
3) A beautiful thug, Phalaris arundinacea 'Feesey's Form' (which I have confined within a cut-off pot)
4) Rosa primula... not the best show this year; in better shows, it forms cylinders of flowers around the stem - interesting that it's hardy here.
5) Salix x boydii, and Salix retusa.
6) Spiraea triloba
7) Rosa spinosissima
8 ) Echium russicum.
Lori, I love the two Rosa's and would love to grow either one here but note that you say that Rosa primula is questionably hardy ::) Is the Rosa spinosissima?
The 'Thug' I used to grow backed by a yew hedge in dappled shade of a copper beech by the edge if a pond - each blade and head stood out perfectly and was very dramatic.
I'm afraid I have no knowledge of the wild Verbascum here and am struggling generally with identifying plants (No site detailed enough that I can find on the internet - however thought I could do the research and make a local site for other non natives here - lovely photos available from people visiting but no ID ::)) Still here is the whole Verbascum plant in case anyone has an idea of which one it is :) Much admiration for your HUGE knowledge of wild plants.
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Robin, it could be Verbascum phlomoides- or at least that would be a good place to start looking for pics online to compare it with ;)
We have a similar one here that grew unexpectedly in a bulb frame.- it is flowering just now.
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Robin, it could be Verbascum phlomoides- or at least that would be a good place to start looking for pics online to compare it with ;)
We have a similar one here that grew unexpectedly in a bulb frame.- it is flowering just now.
The flower looks rather different, though, Simon - with definite petals as in posting 380 photo 01 - what do you think? Thanks for helping to ID it :)
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Sorry, Robin- I didn't mean we have the same species, just that this one was flowering for me now. Mine is less wooly leaved than yours seems and you are right the petals overlap. Out of interest how big in diameter are the flowers on yours?
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Flowering now:
Incarvillea olgae (?) bought originally from a members' stand at and AGS show
Eryngium planum
3 Nepetas, of which I am not sure of names. They could be a mix of various ones I have had in the past, or hybrids of these. Sorry about the quality- but hopefully it is possible to see the lip shape etc..
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Lori, I love the two Rosa's and would love to grow either one here but note that you say that Rosa primula is questionably hardy Is the Rosa spinosissima?
Robin, with my comment about R. primula ("interesting that is is hardy here"), I just meant that this climate (chinooks, unreliable snow, very dry) is difficult on woody plants, and when trying something that is not commonly grown here, it is always a pleasant surprise to find that it can survive without winter damage. So, really, I think it is very hardy, as is R. spinosissima... I hope that's helpful, although I'm sure others here could advise better on how they may do in your conditions. :)
(Re. my "knowledge" about wild plants, thank you so much for the compliment, Robin, undeserved though it is! I'm trying to learn, slowly, painfully, at any rate. I'm chagrined to realize how little I know compared to the assemblage of experts here! Wow!)
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Here's Anomatheca laxa 'Joan Evans' (or maybe it's a Freesia these days?) that Chris Boulby sent me bulbils of probably in 2008. Do you remember Chris, the first lot you sent were crushed in the post and you sent me some more?
I have two pots and one of them I'm going to try outside in a south(ish) facing rock bed I'm making as I've so enjoyed the summer flowering rock beds that Simon and Luc and others have posted this year.
Sorry about the quality of picture two.
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Good on ya, David. You never know until you try. :)
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Lovely pictures everyone. It is wonderful that this forum attracts members from all over the world and we can share knowledge of our local plants with those trying to grow them as imports. On this note - thank you Paul for your comments on the Diplarrhena. Thanks also for the offers of help with the Mac.
I've had good germination of something alleged to be Dephinum brunonianum (exchange seed) this year Magnar. Even though it possibly won't be the real thing I hope it is as nice as your plant is.
Lori - Thanks for the Salix pictures. I love these little willowsw. This week's heatwave has scorched my S. herbacea badly but then it is a polar species really. It will probably recover. I'd like the monograph on the genus but it is probably full of the big trees which, whilst interesting, are impractical in a suburban garden! Bonsai perhaps?
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Lori, I love the two Rosa's and would love to grow either one here but note that you say that Rosa primula is questionably hardy Is the Rosa spinosissima?
Robin, with my comment about R. primula ("interesting that is is hardy here"), I just meant that this climate (chinooks, unreliable snow, very dry) is difficult on woody plants, and when trying something that is not commonly grown here, it is always a pleasant surprise to find that it can survive without winter damage. So, really, I think it is very hardy, as is R. spinosissima... I hope that's helpful, although I'm sure others here could advise better on how they may do in your conditions. :)
(Re. my "knowledge" about wild plants, thank you so much for the compliment, Robin, undeserved though it is! I'm trying to learn, slowly, painfully, at any rate. I'm chagrined to realize how little I know compared to the assemblage of experts here! Wow!)
Rosa spinosissima and its relaticves are very hardy and will take -30°C
The first pic is spinosissima v pimpinellifolia a low (less than 1 m) pink semi-double.
The best hybrid is an old Finnish one called 'Poppius' (exceeds 2m in my place)That is the one to the right.
The one to the left is 'Frühlingsduft' also very hardy.
Göte
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Sorry, Robin- I didn't mean we have the same species, just that this one was flowering for me now. Mine is less wooly leaved than yours seems and you are right the petals overlap. Out of interest how big in diameter are the flowers on yours?
About 5cm when open wide
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Darren.
I usually get plenty of seeds from Delphinium brunonianum. Will be most happy to send you some in the autumn.
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Rosa spinosissima and its relaticves are very hardy and will take -30°C
The first pic is spinosissima v pimpinellifolia a low (less than 1 m) pink semi-double.
The best hybrid is an old Finnish one called 'Poppius' (exceeds 2m in my place)That is the one to the right.
The one to the left is 'Frühlingsduft' also very hardy.
Göte
Gote, what wonderful Rosa - thanks so much for replying and showing photos of them in your place with information about hardiness - the R.pimpinellifolia is so pretty too and low growing is an asset for the spot I have in mind. Are they fragrant?
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Wonderful Roses Göte !! :o
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Maybe Campanula alliariifolia or C.makaschvilii?
Thanks Simon, It is Campanula alliariifolia.
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Sorry, Robin- I didn't mean we have the same species, just that this one was flowering for me now. Mine is less wooly leaved than yours seems and you are right the petals overlap. Out of interest how big in diameter are the flowers on yours?
About 5cm when open wide
I still think V.phlomoides fits best for you then. Maybe you have a form which holds its petals clearly separated.
Thanks Simon, It is Campanula alliariifolia.
My pleasure, Michael. It will probably get a bit too big for the place you have it, which is a shame.
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Thanks for pursuing this Simon - when I went to measure the flower it had relaxed after a sunny day and did look more like your flower 8)
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Here's Anomatheca laxa 'Joan Evans' (or maybe it's a Freesia these days?) that Chris Boulby sent me bulbils of probably in 2008. Do you remember Chris, the first lot you sent were crushed in the post and you sent me some more?
I have two pots and one of them I'm going to try outside in a south(ish) facing rock bed I'm making as I've so enjoyed the summer flowering rock beds that Simon and Luc and others have posted this year.
David,
They do fine outside here in my climate without any problems at all. The basic Freesia laxa keeps trying to seed about the place. I also still have a pure white I think, plus the rather lovely blue form. I think my 'Joan Evans' went to the great garden in the sky a few years ago as I haven't seen it flower in quite a few years now so I think it was one of the casualties of neglect while I was sick. I just love this species as it puts on a lovely display for absolutely NO care and attention. Enough neglect (particularly with watering in pots) and it will eventually decease, but you really have to work at it. ;D Definitely no problems though with our winters, even in small pots.
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Excellent images, Luit ... as usual. I am still fascinated by the huge greenhouses in the background of one of your shots - are they yours, are they in constant use and, if so, what do they protect? We are very nosey, we Brits? :D
Not only Brits are, Cliff ;D
and yes, these glasshouses (2500 m.) belong to our former nursery.
Looking at older pictures from inside gives a lot of memories of better times ;D ;D ;D
The costs of maintaining them, would be rather high for a pensioner ::) ::) ::) , but I still pay insurance for the building ::) ::) ::)
So the windows stay closed and they hide a lot of rubbish and I use the place only in the winter months to chop fire logs etc.
They are inside so hot in summer now, that I never go in there by day when the sun shines.
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Here is something you don't see every day, Montropa uniflora, a parasitic member of the Ericaceae. It grow on my sisters property on Cape Cod, along with Cypripedium acaule. There were different colour variants coming up as I departed, but I didn't have time to get shots. Mainly rose tones.
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Rosa spinosissima and its relaticves are very hardy and will take -30°C
The first pic is spinosissima v pimpinellifolia a low (less than 1 m) pink semi-double.
The best hybrid is an old Finnish one called 'Poppius' (exceeds 2m in my place)That is the one to the right.
The one to the left is 'Frühlingsduft' also very hardy.
Göte
Gote, what wonderful Rosa - thanks so much for replying and showing photos of them in your place with information about hardiness - the R.pimpinellifolia is so pretty too and low growing is an asset for the spot I have in mind. Are they fragrant?
Yes my rose collection (which is not big) was assembled from fragrant cultivars only.
Possibly hardy ones are also: 'Stanwell Perpetual' rugosa, rugosa alba, rugosa 'Hansa', rugosa 'Blanc Double de Coulbert'(spelling?). N.B. Not all rugosa hybrids are hardy. 'Agnes' is doubtful and Dr 'Eckner' is definitely not.
Göte
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Very nice monotropas. I wonder if anyone has succeeded in growing them. Here in Sweden they are assumed to be saprophytic rather than parasitic. Meaning possibly parasitic /symbiotic on some fungus (Russula). Here they (M. hypoptis) are quite rare and yellowish. A pink one is a real stunner. I assume it is M. unflora?
Cheers
Göte
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Your garden must smell wonderful in the evening, Gote :) (smile with a smell) I used to grow R Blanc de Coubert and it is a magnificent rose with generous flowers and beautiful stamens - perfect seen in filtered light and handsome foliage, not to forget magnificent hips in the autumn. thanks for all the Rosa suggestions in your post
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4) Rosa primula... not the best show this year; in better shows, it forms cylinders of flowers around the stem - interesting that it's hardy here.
5) Salix x boydii, and Salix retusa.
great stuff everyone!
lori, i esp like the R primula, i was looking at some similar at my mother's doctor's lace last week (not saying its the same, dont know the qualifiers) does this by any chance have black hips?
these willows are really nice..
i found what seemed to be a genuine variegated willow growing wild on the farm the other day, took a cutting, will see if it takes and remains variegated...first time i have seen a real sport of this type, as opposed to viral/insect damage...of course, i could be wrong..
simon--i guess you probably know the tricks-- put your hand on the same level as the flowers to focus, or a piece of neutral coloured paper, so the camera has a bigger area to focus on... i know sometimes the cameras seem to have their own agenda...lol
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Cohan, Rosa spinosissima is one that produces loads of black hips... perhaps it was that? It's not too uncommon here. (Actually, I don't even remember what colour the hips are on R. primula.... must pay attention this year!)
By the way, Rosa 'Agnes' is actually extremely hardy too - it's an old zone 2-3 standard. (Ours is in bloom now.) 'Hansa' is another extremely hardy one... if anything survives of old plantings on an abandoned farmstead, it will be an ancient 'Hansa'.
We haven't found our Rosa spinosissima ('Altaica' and v. repens, supposedly) to be extremely fragrant here... though I have read that they ought to be... there is some fragrance but they are far outdone by many others.
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simon--i guess you probably know the tricks-- put your hand on the same level as the flowers to focus, or a piece of neutral coloured paper, so the camera has a bigger area to focus on... i know sometimes the cameras seem to have their own agenda...lol
We think the camera has given in after it overheard mention of a pending upgrade ;)
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It would never have occurred to me to think of Monotropa as a member of Ericaceae! ??? :o
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It would never have occurred to me to think of Montropa as a member of Ericaceae! ??? :o
Nor I! I cannot figure out the connection.... more studying to be done..... but when it's cooler..... heatwave time in Aberdeen today!
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It would never have occurred to me to think of Montropa as a member of Ericaceae! ??? :o
Nor I! I cannot figure out the connection.... more studying to be done..... but when it's cooler..... heatwave time in Aberdeen today!
Threw me, too, but that's why I added that little tidbit! ;D ;D ;D
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Have you a reference Jamie? (Not that we'd THINK of disbelieving you ;D)
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I've seen it in its own family Monotropaceae, but this family together with Pyrolaceae is supposed to be evolved from Ericaceae. I seem to remember reading about Ericaceae interacting with vesicular- arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus to help gain nutrients in nutrient difficient soils. Which explains why they say that you should sow Erica seed in soil tht Ericas have already been growing in. I think the idea was that like orchids some plants within Ericaceae had become more dependent on fungus, or were using the fungus to obtain all of their nutrients from other plant hosts, and ultimately Pyrolaceae and Monotropaceae evolved.
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http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.2179/0008-7475(2004)069%3C0265%3AACAOMU%3E2.0.CO%3B2
lesley,
this article, which i have not completely read, is a cladistic study and notes in the title the inclusion in the Ericaceae. There are other general references on the Wikipedia.
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Crumbs, Jamie, that article is too scientific for my overheated brain. :-X I remember reading that these chorophyll lacking plants were connected in some way to the "erics"... a long time ago.... I think I must have shut the notion out of my head as being too hard to recognise!
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If your brain's overheated and can't cope Maggi, mine can't cope because it's temporarily frozen. I'll stick to cooking. :)
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I'm just thick ??? ::) :P :-X ;D ;D ;D
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Here is something you don't see every day, Montropa uniflora, a parasitic member of the Ericaceae. It grow on my sisters property on Cape Cod, along with Cypripedium acaule. There were different colour variants coming up as I departed, but I didn't have time to get shots. Mainly rose tones.
these are great! they occur sporadically in alberta, i havent seen any though; my flower book lists them in their own family Monotropaceae.
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Cohan, Rosa spinosissima is one that produces loads of black hips... perhaps it was that? It's not too uncommon here. (Actually, I don't even remember what colour the hips are on R. primula.... must pay attention this year!)
By the way, Rosa 'Agnes' is actually extremely hardy too - it's an old zone 2-3 standard. (Ours is in bloom now.) 'Hansa' is another extremely hardy one... if anything survives of old plantings on an abandoned farmstead, it will be an ancient 'Hansa'.
We haven't found our Rosa spinosissima ('Altaica' and v. repens, supposedly) to be extremely fragrant here... though I have read that they ought to be... there is some fragrance but they are far outdone by many others.
it could be about anything--i'm not very rose savvy--i just know its robust, covered in single white flowers and black hips later..i will probably snitch some cuttings and/or hips at some point..lol
we have several roses my mom has had here for years, but they are all pink...need some other colours..and of course selfsown wild roses are in full swing all over the yard and everywhere else..
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simon--i guess you probably know the tricks-- put your hand on the same level as the flowers to focus, or a piece of neutral coloured paper, so the camera has a bigger area to focus on... i know sometimes the cameras seem to have their own agenda...lol
We think the camera has given in after it overheard mention of a pending upgrade ;)
poor camera, give it a hug ;)
luckily cameras do more for less all the time...
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, Montropa uniflora, a parasitic member of the Ericaceae.
my flower book lists them in their own family Monotropaceae.
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should have read all the way through, i see thats been fully covered ;)
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http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.2179/0008-7475(2004)069%3C0265%3AACAOMU%3E2.0.CO%3B2
lesley,
this article, which i have not completely read, is a cladistic study and notes in the title the inclusion in the Ericaceae. There are other general references on the Wikipedia.
Well, I guess it had its own family for a while and now it's back in with its relatives. Modern times eh? Maybe it's the recession and government cutbacks. ;)
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Cohan, Rosa spinosissima is one that produces loads of black hips... perhaps it was that? It's not too uncommon here. (Actually, I don't even remember what colour the hips are on R. primula.... must pay attention this year!)
By the way, Rosa 'Agnes' is actually extremely hardy too - it's an old zone 2-3 standard. (Ours is in bloom now.) 'Hansa' is another extremely hardy one... if anything survives of old plantings on an abandoned farmstead, it will be an ancient 'Hansa'.
We haven't found our Rosa spinosissima ('Altaica' and v. repens, supposedly) to be extremely fragrant here... though I have read that they ought to be... there is some fragrance but they are far outdone by many others.
Well Agnes hardly survives here. It is definitely a bad doer compared with the others I have listed. I cannot recommend it based on my experience of having tried a couple of times.
Göte
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It's fascinating how local conditions/climate (presumably) make such differences!